US11632890B2
A display device includes a second transparent display panel overlapping the first transparent display panel and including a plurality of pixels. The display device further includes an elastic member pressing one side of the second transparent display panel. The display device further includes an adjustment member at the other side of the second transparent display panel and moving the second transparent display panel to left side or right side. Therefore, there is provided a display device capable of both of a transparent double-sided display and a general double-sided display.
US11632888B2
An RRAM structure includes a substrate. The substrate is divided into a memory cell region and a logic device region. A metal plug is disposed within the memory cell region. An RRAM is disposed on and contacts the metal plug. The RRAM includes a top electrode, a variable resistive layer, and a bottom electrode. The variable resistive layer is disposed between the top electrode and the bottom electrode. The variable resistive layer includes a first bottom surface. The bottom electrode includes a first top surface. The first bottom surface and the first top surface are coplanar. The first bottom surface only overlaps and contacts part of the first top surface.
US11632868B2
The present disclosure provides an adaptor, comprising an adapting bracket, an adapting member, and at least one locking component. The adapting bracket comprises a chute comprising two opposite sidewalls and a bottom wall. The bottom wall is disposed between the two sidewalls. The adapting member is disposed on the adapting bracket. The adapting member comprises an adapting interface and is in communicating with the chute. The at least one locking component is disposed in the adapting bracket. Each of the locking components comprises a locking member movably extending into the chute. When an electronic component is inserted in the chute, a mating interface of the electronic component is connected to the adapting interface, and the locking member is inserted into an engaging groove of the electronic component. By protecting the electronic component with the adapting bracket, it is possible to avoid damage to the electronic component from impacts.
US11632863B2
A display device includes a cover member which is at least partially bent, a panel member arranged along a surface of the cover member, where the panel member displays an image, and a support member arranged on another surface of the panel member different from the surface of the panel member on which the cover member is arranged.
US11632860B2
A power electronic assembly includes a board having metal layers laminated onto or between electrically insulating layers, and a power device embedded in the board. A first metal layer provides electrical contacts at a first side of the board. A second metal layer provides a thermal contact at a second side of the board. A third metal layer is positioned between the first metal layer and the power device and configured to distribute a load current switched by the power device. A fourth metal layer is positioned between the second metal layer and the power device and configured as a primary thermal conduction path for heat generated by the power device during switching of the load current. A first electrically insulating layer separates the fourth metal layer from the second metal layer so that the fourth metal layer is electrically isolated from but thermally connected to the second metal layer.
US11632846B2
A lighting system, including: light emitting elements; a reset switch operable in a first and second state; non-volatile reset memory configured to record the state of the reset switch when power is provided to the system; a wireless communication system; non-volatile communication memory configured to store default settings and configuration settings; a control system operable, in response to initial power provision to the control system, between: a configured mode when an instantaneous reset switch state matches the recorded state, the configured mode including: connecting the wireless communication system to a remote device based on the configuration settings, receiving instructions from the remote device, and controlling light emitting element operation based on the instructions; and a reset mode when the instantaneous reset switch state differs from the recorded state, the reset mode including: erasing the configuration settings from the communication memory and operating the system based on the default settings.
US11632841B1
A device may include a light-emitting diode (LED) array including a plurality of LEDs, a rectifier configured to supply an input voltage rectified from an AC voltage to the LED array, an LED driver configured to drain an LED driving current from the LED array, and a current distributor configured to sense a first current passing through at least one first LED from among the plurality of LEDs and supply a second current to at least one second LED from among the plurality of LEDs based on the first current.
US11632817B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and/or device for receiving a signal in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system. A station (STA) of the present disclosure may aggregate a plurality of links including a first link and a second link. The STA of the present disclosure may transmit a frame including first information related to a preferred link and second information related to whether signal sharing is possible in the plurality of links. Information transmitted by the STA of the present disclosure may be used to appropriately signal an operating band in the WLAN system supporting a plurality of links.
US11632801B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may identify that the UE is configured to use a two-step random access channel (RACH) procedure. The two-step RACH procedure may include an uplink request message and a downlink response. The UE may transmit the uplink request message as part of the two-step RACH procedure, and the uplink request message may include a preamble portion that is one of a set of predefined sequences and a payload portion that includes a physical uplink shared channel waveform. The UE may receive the downlink response as part of the two-step RACH procedure and in response to the uplink request message.
US11632795B2
Discloses are a method for a terminal for transmitting an uplink signal to a base station and an apparatus supporting the method in a licensed assisted access (LAA) system in which a base station or a terminal transmits listen-before-talk (LBT)-based signals. Specifically, disclosed are a method for a terminal transmitting an uplink signal by executing a particular LBT action and an apparatus supporting the method if the uplink signal is transmitted by the terminal by sharing a maximum channel occupancy time (MCOT) with a base station.
US11632786B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to channel access contention management in a shared radio frequency band are provided. A first wireless communication device communicates, with a second wireless communication device, a grant for communicating a first communication signal, the grant indicating a listen-before-talk (LBT) configuration. The first wireless communication device communicates, with the second wireless communication device, a LBT configuration modification after communicating the grant. The first wireless communication device communicates, with the second wireless communication device, the first communication signal based on the LBT configuration modification.
US11632780B2
The embodiments of the present application disclose a sidelink communication method, a terminal device and a network device. The method includes: determining, by a terminal device, a time frequency resource of a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) in a first time frequency unit; and receiving or transmitting, by the terminal device, the PSCCH on the time frequency resource. The method, the terminal device, and the network device in the embodiments of the present application help reducing the complexity of PSCCH detection by a terminal device at the receiving end.
US11632777B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a User Equipment (UE). In one embodiment, the method includes the UE receiving from a base station a first information indicating multiple sets of transmission occasions for a signal. The method also includes the UE receiving from the base station a second information indicating an association between a transmission occasion of the signal and a base station beam.
US11632776B2
Aspects described herein relate to receiving a timing adjustment (TA) command indicating to adjust timing for an uplink transmission in a time division, adjusting, by the UE and based on the TA command, the timing for the uplink transmission in the time division, and where the uplink transmission includes an overlapping portion that at least partially overlaps in time with a previous uplink transmission scheduled for transmission in a previous time division, due to the TA command, and a non-overlapping portion that does not at least partially overlap in time with the previous uplink transmission, refraining from transmitting the non-overlapping portion of the uplink transmission that is scheduled in the time division. Other aspects relate to transmitting the TA command and not receiving an overlapping uplink transmission.
US11632771B2
An apparatus configured to operate in a wireless communication network by generating and transmitting a first wireless signal using a resource element allocated to the apparatus is configured to receive a second wireless signal and to determine that the second wireless signal is to be forwarded within the wireless communication network. The apparatus is configured to transmit a third wireless signal based on the second wireless signal instead of the first wireless signal using the allocated resource element of the wireless communication network.
US11632770B2
In a communication system having a plurality of user equipment (UE) devices that are operating in a contention based mode for device-to-device (D2D) communication, each UE device transmits a preferred transmission indicator when a condition for preferred transmission is met at the UE device. If a UE device receives a preferred transmission indicator, the UE device delays transmission of a D2D scheduling assignment (SA) to contend for communication resources for D2D communication. The length of the delay can be based on a number of preferred transmission indicators that are received. The preferred transmission indicator is based on a buffer size in one example.
US11632766B2
A method can include selecting a channel from a network operating according to a first protocol (e.g., an IEEE 802.11ax channel). Designating at least one portion of the channel as a shared resource unit (RU) and another portion as a dedicated RU. When an associated device is communicating according to a different protocol (e.g., a Bluetooth standard), allocating frequencies of the shared RU for use by the associated device and allocating the dedicated RUs for use by the network operating according to the first protocol.
US11632759B2
Methods and apparatuses for uplink multi-beam operation. A method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a base station, an aperiodic reference signal (RS) trigger and, at a later time instant, an uplink (UL) beam indication. The method further includes decoding the aperiodic RS trigger and decoding the UL beam indication. The method includes determining, from the UL beam indication, a transmit spatial filter applied to a signal to be transmitted on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) or a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) and transmitting, to the base station, the signal on the PUSCH or the PUCCH. The transmit spatial filter corresponds to a reference RS. The UL beam indication includes a state of a transmit configuration associated with the reference RS.
US11632758B2
Wireless communications may comprise aperiodic transmission and reception. Control information may be associated with an aperiodic reference signal. A wireless device may be configured to use a first transmission control indicator (TCI) state of at least two TCI states to receive an aperiodic reference signal based on: a scheduling offset, and the aperiodic reference signal overlapping in time with a scheduled physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH).
US11632755B2
A communication device, method and computer program product support concurrently receiving an embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) profile and non-eSIM digital content from separate servers to enable service from a selected carrier. The communication device receives carrier destination data. The communication device requests download of the eSIM profile associated with a selected carrier from a subscription or carrier server based on the identified carrier destination. The communication device receives, via the network interface, digital content associated with the selected carrier and a configuration of the communication device from a configuration manager hosted on a configuration server. The digital content enables functionality via the selected carrier. The communication device installs the eSIM profile in the eSIM.
US11632753B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for indicating information and interpreting information. A method of indicating information includes: generating a resource allocation informing format which includes a first informing format indicating that each of reserve statuses in a physical resource block (PRB) resource allocation field is configured for indicating a resource allocation scheme, or a second informing format indicating that one or more of the reserve statuses in the PRB resource allocation field is configured for indicating an early termination of uplink transmission while each of remaining reserve statuses is configured for indicating the resource allocation scheme; and sending the resource allocation informing format to UE.
US11632749B2
A wireless device receives a sounding reference signal (SRS) request field and an ending symbol field for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). The SRS request field indicates an SRS is not transmitted in a last symbol of a subframe of an unlicensed cell. The ending symbol field indicates the PUSCH is not transmitted in the last symbol for a first listen before talk procedure to be performed during the last symbol. A packet is transmitted in the subframe via the PUSCH based on the ending symbol field.
US11632747B2
Various communication systems may benefit from an improved signaling protocol. For example, communication systems may benefit from an improved network support for a narrowband internet of things in a hosting long term evolution carrier. A method, in certain embodiments, includes shifting a frequency of a downlink long term evolution channel by a pre-determined amount. The shift causes a duplex distance between the downlink long term evolution channel and an uplink long term evolution channel to change. The method includes blanking at least one overlapping radio resource in at least one of the uplink long term evolution channel or an uplink narrowband internet of things channel. The uplink narrowband internet of things channel and the uplink long term evolution channel at least partially overlap. In addition, the method includes receiving data on the uplink narrowband internet of things channel and an additional uplink narrowband internet of things channel at a network entity from a user equipment.
US11632744B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive data or control signaling on one or more first sidelink channels on a set of sidelink carriers. The UE may receive data or control signaling on one or more second sidelink channels on the set of sidelink carriers. The UE may transmit hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback corresponding to the data or control signaling on the one or more first sidelink channels and the data or control signaling on the one or more second sidelink channels. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11632741B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for reducing a quantity of antenna elements for uplink transmission. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes determining a virtual power headroom (VPHR) associated with uplink transmission for each of a plurality of beams, selecting one or more beams of the plurality of beams for the uplink transmission based on the determination such that the VPHR associated with each of the one or more beams is at least equal to or greater than zero, and indicating a parameter associated with the one or more beams for selection of a beam to be used for the uplink transmission.
US11632739B1
Solutions for focused cellular network paging of a user equipment (UE) include: detecting, by a network, a network exit of the UE from a last known cell and an exit condition for the UE; determining, by the network, a network paging condition; based on at least the last known cell and the exit condition for the UE, determining, by the network, a set of priority paging cells; paging the UE with the set of priority paging cells; and based on at least failing to receive a response by paging the UE with the set of priority paging cells, paging the UE with a larger set of cells. In some examples, the network topology is also used for determining the set of priority paging cells. By starting with the set of priority paging cells, rather than wider global paging, fewer cells are used for paging, thereby saving network bandwidth.
US11632733B2
In one aspect, a radio device comprises: an analog front end (AFE) circuit to receive and process an incoming radio frequency (RF) signal comprising a packet; an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) coupled to the AFE circuit to receive and digitize the processed incoming RF signal into a digital signal; a detector coupled to the ADC to detect a carrier frequency offset (CFO) in the digital signal based at least in part on a preamble of the packet; and a controller coupled to the detector. The controller may generate a compensation value for the CFO based on the detected CFO and cause one or more components of the radio device to compensate for the CFO using the compensation value.
US11632732B2
A configuration to allow a base station to be synchronized with an application server to enable the base station to align uplink transmissions of a UE with downlink reception periods of the UE. The base station communicates with a UE using periodic uplink traffic bursts and periodic downlink traffic bursts. The base station selects a time offset to at least one of uplink traffic or downlink traffic to increase an overlap between the uplink traffic bursts and the downlink traffic bursts. The base station sends the time offset to an AF.
US11632729B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a first base station, a synchronization signal block (SSB) based at least in part on a determination that the SSB is included in a timing advance group (TAG) that includes a first subset of SSBs of a first set of SSBs associated with the first base station and a second subset of SSBs of a second set of SSBs associated with a second base station. The UE may communicate with the first base station based at least in part on the SSB. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11632728B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for indicating a sidelink configuration for synchronization signal transmission. For example, a user equipment (UE) may establish an access link with a base station or transmission/reception point. The UE may measure a plurality of beams of the access link or of a sidelink channel to generate a signal metric of the access link or of the sidelink channel. Based on the generated signal metric, the UE may identify a sidelink configuration for synchronization signal transmission within the sidelink channel. In some cases, the UE may transmit a synchronization signal via the sidelink channel based at least in part on the sidelink configuration.
US11632722B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for determining a time-frequency resource, a chip, and a computer program. The method includes: a terminal device acquires power-saving related configurations; the terminal device determines a time-frequency resource for receiving an energy-saving channel/signal according to the relationship between the power-saving related configurations or power-saving related configuration parameters and the time-frequency resource for the energy-saving channel/signal.
US11632721B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for wireless communication. The wireless communication apparatus comprises a baseband processor and a controller. The baseband processor is configured to generate state information about a channel of the wireless communication by processing a baseband signal. The controller is configured to activate a low power operation in a first channel state, where a channel quality is reduced compared to than a second channel state, based on the state information.
US11632719B2
Disclosed is a wireless communication terminal for performing communication wirelessly. The wireless communication terminal includes: a first wireless transceiver, which transmits/receives a signal through a first waveform; a second wireless receiver, which receives a signal through a second waveform different from the first waveform; and a processor. The processor receives, via the second wireless receiver, a first wake-up radio (WUR) frame from a base wireless communication terminal of a basic service set (BSS) to which the wireless communication terminal belongs, determines whether the wireless communication terminal is an intended recipient of the first WUR according to whether the BSS is one corresponding to a multiple BSS identifier (BSSID) set when an identifier field of the first WUR frame indicates a transmitter ID for identifying the base wireless communication terminal, and wakes up the first wireless transceiver based on the first WUR frame when the wireless communication terminal is the intended recipient of the first WUR frame.
US11632718B2
Disclosed is a wireless networking method having low power consumption and high interference resistance. Basic communication units comprise a base station and a node. The base station takes charge of network construction and management, and the node and the base station communicate with each other by using adaptive frequency hopping and time division multiple access technologies; a plurality of time slots are obtained by division for communication, the time slots are divided into transaction time slots and data time slots, and the transaction time slots take charge of broadcast information transmission, synchronous information transmission, and network access of the node; and the data time slots take charge of data interaction between the base station and the node. The method can achieve available low-power-consumption, large-capacity, high-reliability, and low-latency underlying wireless communication in a complex and congested wireless environment, and can operate in a 2.4 GHz frequency band to achieve worldwide availability.
US11632715B2
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a ME/UE. The ME/UE determines whether there is a closed access group (CAG) information list stored in a USIM utilized by the ME. The CAG information list includes an entry that specifying a public land mobile network (PLMN) ID and a CAG ID that in combination uniquely identify a CAG cell. When the CAG information list is detected: the ME/UE maintains the CAG information list for selecting the CAG cell for the ME to access; the ME/UE searches for the CAG cell according to the CAG information list.
US11632713B2
Disclosed is a network capability exposure method, which includes receiving a service request sent by a third-party device; determining a type of a network capability required according to the service request; determining a computing task matching the type of the network capability required; determining computing resources exposed by at least one physical device; obtaining a computing resource exposure result based on the computing task and the computing resources exposed by the at least one physical device; acquiring a network capability corresponding to the type of the network capability and the computing resource exposure result; and providing the network capability to the third-party device. Further, a network capability exposure device, a network capability exposure system and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are also disclosed.
US11632708B2
This document describes methods and systems for common search space configuration and system information acquisition. As part of the methods and systems, a base station wirelessly communicating with a user equipment that is in an engaged mode determines to configure a common search space through which the user equipment can receive a system information block that is other than a system information block type 1 or a master information block. The base station transmits a first message that includes a set of common search space configuration parameters for the user equipment to receive the other system information block. The base station transmits, in accordance with the set of common search space configuration parameters, a second message that includes the other system information block.
US11632693B2
Wireless communications are described for sidelink congestion control. Sidelink congestion control may be performed based on a processing capability of a wireless device and/or sidelink subcarrier spacing.
US11632691B1
A method and system to help facilitate communication between a user equipment device (UE) and an access node that is serving the UE, in a scenario where a bearer is configured for the UE, the bearer having a defined set of quality-of-service (QoS) requirements for communication of user-plane data on the bearer. When wireless coverage of the UE from the access node is threshold poor, the access node and a supporting core network could interwork to loosen the set of QoS requirements of the bearer in an effort to avoid loss of the bearer. And upon loosening of the set of QoS requirements, the access node could invoke Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) duplication for the communication between the UE and the access node on the bearer, to help improve quality of the communication between the UE and the access node in presence of the threshold poor wireless coverage.
US11632683B2
A communication network system and related devices and method of monitoring in a mobile radio communications network environment direct communications between first and second mobile communication devices to provide to the network an indication of link-quality of the direct communication, wherein the network is arranged to configure at least one of the mobile radio communication devices with a link-quality parameter reference value, the said at least one mobile radio communications device can report to the network if it determines, relative to the said reference value, that the link-quality of the direct communication is insufficient, and if required the network can subsequently control communication between the said first and second mobile radio communication devices responsive to the reporting the received from the said at least one mobile radio communications device, or the network can employ the reporting from the said at least one mobile radio communications device for network planning/optimization purposes.
US11632682B2
A method for monitoring plural apparatus includes an initialization procedure and a monitoring procedure. The initialization procedure includes determining subset(s) of secondary devices respectively for primary device(s), designating secondary device(s) as assistant device(s), establishing a network topology with respect to the primary and secondary devices, generating a set of routing parameters that corresponds to the network topology, and sending the set of routing parameters to the primary and secondary devices in order to construct a device network of the primary and secondary devices. The monitoring procedure includes receiving and transmitting working reports from the plural apparatus to a server-end device via the device network.
US11632669B2
An information processing method is provided. The method comprises: reporting UE policy information corresponding to at least one network identifier to a network side, wherein the at least one network identifier is a network identifier corresponding to part of UE policy information currently stored in the terminal device.
US11632668B2
A relay discovery may be performed by apparatuses acting as relay nodes sending first messages indicating existence of a relay capable node and user nodes monitoring the first messages. However, the relay nodes are configured to monitor broadcasted second messages, a second message being broadcasted by a user node that has determined it has a lack of sufficiency of link redundancy. The second message indicates a fast link discovery request for sidelink communications with service of quality requirements.
US11632665B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may provide a session request associated with establishing a proximity services (ProSe) session. The session request may include ProSe session specific information including information that indicates a ProSe service type associated with the ProSe session. The user equipment may receive a session establishment response after providing the session request. The session establishment response may include at least one of a ProSe session authorization indication associated with the UE, or ProSe policy information for the ProSe service type associated with the ProSe session. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11632664B2
An unmanned aerial system (UAS) detection device includes a sensor having programmed instructions to cause the sensor to scan energy in an electromagnetic spectrum; process the energy in the electromagnetic spectrum into bursts; determine whether the bursts are valid UAS bursts based on burst criteria; and correlate the bursts into a single signal.
US11632659B2
An indoor geolocation system for determining a location in three-dimensional space includes a plurality of base stations and a mobile device movable about an indoor environment in three dimensions. The mobile device detects electromagnetic signals in the indoor environment emitted by devices other than the base stations, and generates a signal profile based on the signals. The mobile device transmits the signal profile to one or more of the base stations, which forward the signal profile to a remote server. The system determines a location of the in three-dimensional space of the mobile device by comparing the signal profile to data regarding signal profiles at a plurality of locations in the indoor environment. The data regarding signal profiles in the indoor environment may have been captured by a detection device other than the mobile device at a time prior to the detection of the electromagnetic signals by the mobile device.
US11632658B1
A server of a fifth generation (5G) network can provide substantially real-time charges for a UE during fallback to another network. A Telephony Application Server (TAS) in an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) can identify Evolved Packet System Fallback (EPSFB) and report the EPSFB to a charging system to cause the charging system to generate accurate charges for user equipment communicating over the 5G network and the other network. The TAS can comprise logic to identify a change in P-Access-Network-Information associated with each network, and generate a call detail records for billing, or real-time communication via an online charging and/or offline charging for the served UE. Information (a user profile, call detail records, instance of EPSFB, etc.) associated with the TAS can be used to make network improvements that decrease instances of EPSFB and increase an amount of new radio services available to UEs.
US11632656B2
The present invention includes a system for providing a mobile-based crowdsourcing platform configured to provide an intuitive and semi-automated means of collecting and managing user-driven data by leveraging text messages. The crowdsourcing platform is configured to leverage a Short Message Service (SMS) communication system for generating and transmitting command text messages to mobile devices of users of the service. The command text messages essentially elicit or otherwise train/educate the user's mobile device to automatically transmit requested data back to the crowdsourcing platform, the requested data including the location or position of the user within a given environment.
US11632650B2
A method for communication between autonomous vehicles and personnel can include receiving a signal from a remote computing system, the signal based upon a position of an autonomous vehicle and a first position of a mobile device, wherein the signal identifies that the mobile device is located in a path of the autonomous vehicle, responsive to receipt of the signal from the remote computing system, stopping the autonomous vehicle, receiving an updated signal from the remote computing system, the updated signal based upon a second position of the mobile device, the second position effective to facilitate a determination that the mobile device is no longer within the path of the autonomous vehicle, and responsive to receiving the updated position of the mobile device, resuming operation of the autonomous vehicle along the path. An autonomous vehicle and non-transitory computer-readable medium is also provided.
US11632645B2
A method improves performance of a computer that provides binaural sound to a listener. A memory stores coordinate locations that follow a path of how the head of the listener moves. This path is retrieved in anticipation of subsequent head movements of the listener to improve computer performance of executing binaural sound.
US11632642B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method, comprising: receiving, by a media processor including a processor, spherical audiovisual media content from a content delivery network; rendering, by the media processor, video for a point of view in the spherical audiovisual media content at a display device coupled to the media processor; receiving, from a remote control device coupled to the media processor, a control signal panning the point of view, resulting in a new field of view; and generating, by the media processor, audio signals from the spherical audiovisual media content corresponding to the new field of view, wherein the audio signals are adapted to audio reproduction equipment coupled to the media processor. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11632632B2
Presented herein are techniques for adapting settings/operations of a remote microphone device associated with an auditory prosthesis based on a desired/preferred listening direction of a recipient of the auditory prosthesis. More specifically, an auditory prosthesis worn by a recipient and a remote microphone device, which are configured to wirelessly communicate with one another, are both positioned in the same spatial area. At least one of a recipient-specified (e.g., recipient-preferred) region of interest within the spatial area, or a recipient-specified listening direction, is determined. Based on a determined relative positioning (e.g., location and orientation) of the remote microphone device and the auditory prosthesis, operation of the remote microphone device is dynamically adapted so that the remote microphone device can focus on (e.g., have increased sensitivity to) sounds originating from the recipient-specified region of interest/listening direction.
US11632631B2
A loudspeaker (10) comprising a magnetic circuit (12), and a mobile assembly (14) along an axis (D) comprising: a rigid membrane (42) defining an external diameter (D3), a first reel holder (44) and a second reel holder (46), at least a first coil (22) and a second coil (24) located in a first air gap (18) and a second air gap (20) of the magnetic circuit respectively. The first coil holder and the second coil holder form a first junction (54) and a second junction (56) with the membrane, concentric and defining a first diameter (D1) and a second diameter (D2) greater than the first. The second diameter is: less than 97% of the external diameter, or greater than or equal to 97% of the external diameter, the first diameter being greater than 40% of the external diameter.
US11632630B2
A speaker assembly, and a display device including the same are provided. The speaker assembly according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a pair of magnets facing each other; a bobbin disposed between the pair of magnets and formed in a shape of a plate that extends long; a coil formed on at least one surface of the bobbin; a diaphragm fixed to one side of the bobbin, and extending in a direction intersecting a longitudinal direction of the bobbin; a frame disposed between the pair of magnets and the diaphragm; and a speaker edge disposed between the frame and the diaphragm, having one end fixed to the frame and the other end fixed to the diaphragm, and being convexly curved toward the bobbin.
US11632626B2
A method and a device encode N audio signals, from N microphones where N≥3. For each pair of the N audio signals an angle of incidence of direct sound is estimated. A-format direct sound signals are derived from the estimated angles of incidence by deriving from each estimated angle an A-format direct sound signal. Each A-format direct sound signal is a first-order virtual microphone signal, for example, a cardioids signal.
US11632623B2
A compact directional acoustic sensor having an improved signal-to-noise ratio is disclosed. The disclosed directional acoustic sensor includes a first sensing device configured to generate different output gains based on different input directions of external energy, and configured to generate at least one first output signal having a first polarity based on external energy received from an input direction; a second sensing device configured to generate different output gains based on different input directions of external energy, and configured to generate at least one second output signal having a second polarity, that is different than the first polarity, based on the external energy received from the input direction; and at least one signal processor configured to generate at least one final output signal based on the at least one first output signal and the at least one second output signal.
US11632619B2
The present disclosure discloses a loudspeaker apparatus. The loudspeaker apparatus may include an ear hook, a core housing, and a circuit housing. The ear hook may include a first plug end and a second plug end. The ear hook may be surrounded by a protective sleeve. The protective sleeve may be made of an elastic waterproof material. The core housing may be used for accommodating an earphone core. The core housing may be fixed to the first plug end and elastically abutted against the protective sleeve. The circuit housing may be used for accommodating a control circuit or a battery. The circuit housing may be fixed to the second plug end. The control circuit or the battery may drive the earphone core to vibrate. The vibration of the earphone core may generate a driving force to drive a housing panel of the core housing to vibrate. The driving force may be not parallel to a normal line of the housing panel. In the present disclosure, the core housing may elastically abut against the protective sleeve surrounding the ear hook to improve the overall waterproof effect of the loudspeaker apparatus and simplify the manufacturing and assemble process of the loudspeaker apparatus.
US11632618B1
An earphone module, including a housing, a circuit board, a feeding conductor, a first grounding conductor, and a second grounding conductor, is provided. The housing includes an insulating housing and a metal ring connected thereto. The metal ring serves as an antenna and includes a feeding end, a first ground end, a second ground end, and a slit that splits the metal ring. The slit is located between the feeding end and the first ground end. The second ground end is located between the feeding end and the slit. The circuit board is located in the insulating housing. A slot is formed between the circuit board and the metal ring. The feeding conductor is connected to the feeding end and the circuit board. The first grounding conductor is connected to the first ground end and the circuit board. The second grounding conductor is connected to the second ground end and the circuit board.
US11632617B2
A method, apparatus and device for synchronously playing audio are provided. The method includes: acquiring status information of a Bluetooth controller in the first audio playing device and Bluetooth time from the Bluetooth controller, and determining native Bluetooth time of the first audio playing device based on the status information and the Bluetooth time acquired from the Bluetooth controller; estimating, based on the native Bluetooth time of the first audio playing device and offset time of the native Bluetooth time of the first audio playing device relative to native Bluetooth time of a second audio playing device or native Bluetooth time of an audio providing device, absolute time of the second audio playing device or absolute time of the audio providing device; and playing an audio signal provided by the audio providing device synchronously with the second audio playing device based on the estimated absolute time.
US11632616B2
Wireless earphones comprising a first antenna module, at least one second antenna module, a radio frequency module, a sensing module, a speaker module and a processing module. The radio frequency module is used to receive or transmit radio frequency signals by the first antenna module or the second antenna module; the sensing module is used to sense a capacitance value of a first parasitic capacitance of the first antenna module and generate a corresponding first sensing signal and used to sense a capacitance value of a second parasitic capacitance of the second antenna module and generate a corresponding second sensing signal; the speaker module is used to play audio signals; and the processing module is used to generate a control signal according to the radio frequency signal, the first sensing signal or the second sensing signal to control the speaker module to play the audio signal corresponding to the control signal.
US11632609B1
A thin double-sided vibrating speaker includes a magnet member, a first vibration assembly and a second vibration assembly; the magnet member includes a main magnetic plate, a first magnetic path unit, a second magnetic path unit and side magnetic path units, the first magnetic path unit is disposed on one surface of the main magnetic plate, the second magnetic path unit is disposed on another surface of the main magnetic plate, the side magnetic path units are disposed on the main magnetic plate and correspond to two sides of the first magnetic path unit, the first vibration assembly is disposed on one surface of the magnet member, and the second vibration assembly is disposed on another surface of the magnet member. Accordingly, in addition to achieving the requirement of thinning, the thin double-sided vibrating speaker of the present disclosure also has the effect of vibration reduction and two-way sounding.
US11632602B2
Techniques are described for using multiple devices to automatically determine the acquisition location of an image from a camera device, such as within a building interior and by using data from the multiple devices (e.g., visual data from the camera device's image, and additional data captured by a separate mobile computing device in the same area as the camera device), and for subsequently using determined image acquisition location information in one or more further automated manners. The image may be a panorama image or of another type, and the determined acquisition location for such an image may be at least a location on the building's floor plan—in addition, the automated image acquisition location determination may be further performed without having or using information from any depth sensors or other distance-measuring devices about distances from an image's acquisition location to walls or other objects in the surrounding building.
US11632593B2
Systems and methods are provided for allowing a user to obtain a listing of points of interest and associated media content listings based on the user's current geographic location. The user's current geographic location may be determined using, for example, a GPS transceiver incorporated in the user's user access device. Information may then be communicated from a remote server to the user access device that identifies points of interest associated with the geographic location as well as media content listings associated with the points of interest.
US11632586B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for placing delivery information, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method includes: dividing a candidate video for placing the delivery information into a plurality of video frames; determining a plurality of key frames from the plurality of video frames based on a correlation degree of every two adjacent video frames; determining a target frame from the plurality of key frames based on existing conversion information corresponding to each of the plurality of key frames and sampling conversion information corresponding to the each of the plurality of key frames; and placing a delivery component corresponding to the target frame into the target delivery frame.
US11632585B2
A method of providing a menu for accessing media assets may include defining an media asset menu, defining an media asset menu item, the menu item including visibility criteria, adding the menu item to the defined menu, storing the defined menu, and distributing the stored menu to client devices over a network. A method of providing a menu for accessing media assets may include defining a new a menu for accessing media assets, loading a menu template from storage, the loaded menu template comprising a plurality of menu items, for each menu item among the plurality of menu items, determining if visibility criteria specified for the menu item are met, upon determining that the visibility criteria specified for the menu item are met, adding the menu item to the menu, otherwise excluding the menu item from the menu, and displaying the menu.
US11632573B2
A method of video decoding can include determining a prediction mode of a current coding unit (CU), and determining values of a transform unit (TU) coded block flag (CBF) of a Cb transform block, denoted tu_cbf_cb, and a TU CBF of a Cr transform block, denoted tu_cbf_cr, determining a context index, denoted ctxIdx, based on the prediction mode of the current CU and the values of the tu_cbf_cb, and the tu_cbf_cr, and performing an arithmetic decoding process according to a context model indicated by the ctxIdx to determine a bin of a joint Cb Cr residual (JCCR) flag indicating whether residual samples for both Cb and Cr chroma components of the current CU are coded as a single transform block.
US11632571B2
This application provides a media data processing method and apparatus. A media processing device receives a media stream. The media stream includes media data recorded at a plurality of viewpoints. The device obtains metadata information of the media stream. The metadata information includes viewpoint identification information of the viewpoints. The device displays media data of a first viewpoint based on the viewpoint identification information. The device also displays indications of other viewpoints when displaying the media data of the first viewpoint, so that a user of the device can switch to display media data of other viewpoints.
US11632569B2
Innovations in adaptive encoding for units of a video sequence can improve coding efficiency. For example, some of the innovations relate to encoding that includes adaptive switching of color spaces between units within a video sequence. Other innovations relate encoding that includes adaptive switching of color sampling rates between units within a video sequence. Still other innovations relate encoding that includes adaptive switching of bit depths between units within a video sequence.
US11632563B2
Techniques related to derivation of motion vectors of a first color component (e.g., chroma component) from motion vectors of a second color component (e.g., luma component) are described. A video coder (e.g., video encoder or video decoder), for a CU coded in affine mode with 4:4:4 color format, may determine a motion vector for each sub-block of the luma block, and determine a motion vector for each sub-block of the chroma block based only on the motion vector for each co-located (also called collocated) sub-block of the luma block. However, for another CU coded in affine mode but with a color format other than 4:4:4 (e.g., 4:2:2 or 4:2:0), the video coder may determine a motion vector for each sub-block of the chroma block based on an average of two or more motion vectors of sub-blocks of the luma block.
US11632556B2
An image decoding device including an intra prediction unit for, when a coding mode for a coding block is an intra coding mode, carrying out an intra-frame prediction process on each of processing blocks to generate a prediction image, each of the processing blocks being the coding block or a sub-block obtained by dividing the coding block, wherein, when an intra prediction parameter indicates a vertical prediction process and a size of the processing block is less than a predetermined size, the intra prediction unit performs a specific processing and when the intra prediction parameter indicates the vertical prediction process and the size of the processing block is greater than or equal to the predetermined size, the intra prediction unit performs a specific processing.
US11632555B2
A method includes receiving transform coefficients corresponding to a scaled video input signal, the scaled video input signal including a plurality of spatial layers that include a base layer. The method also includes determining a spatial rate factor based on a sample of frames from the scaled video input signal. The spatial rate factor defines a factor for bit rate allocation at each spatial layer of an encoded bit stream formed from the scaled video input signal. The spatial rate factor is represented by a difference between a rate of bits per transform coefficient of the base layer and an average rate of bits per transform coefficient. The method also includes reducing a distortion for the plurality of spatial layers by allocating a bit rate to each spatial layer based on the spatial rate factor and the sample of frames.
US11632553B2
Provided are a coding prediction method and apparatus and a computer storage medium. The method includes that; for a coding block of an intra prediction type, Motion Vector (MV) Predictors (MVPs) of at least two control points of the coding block are determined; affine motion model-based motion estimation is performed on the coding block based on the MVPs of the at least two control points to obtain a first coding parameter of the coding block, the first coding parameter indicating a group of coding parameters corresponding to a minimum Rate-Distortion Cost (RDcost) obtained by performing motion estimation on the coding block in a non-translation motion manner; and prediction coding is performed on the coding block based on the first coding parameter.
US11632552B2
A method and apparatus for coding a video, device and medium are provided. An implementation of the method include: determining a first video frame structure and a second video frame structure based on a pre-set threshold for a B-frame number; determining a target video frame structure based on the first video frame structure, the second video frame structure, and a pre-set condition; and coding video frames in a to-be-coded video frame sequence according to the target video frame structure.
US11632542B2
A method for decoding a video, according to the present invention, may comprise the steps of: generating an intra block copy (IBC) merge candidate list for a current block; selecting any one of IBC merge candidates included in the IBC merge candidate list; deriving a block vector of the current block on the basis of the selected IBC merge candidate; and obtaining a prediction sample of the current block on the basis of the block vector.
US11632541B2
Devices, systems and methods for digital video coding, which include sub-block based inter prediction methods, are described. An exemplary method for video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a current block of video and a bitstream representation of the video, a maximum number of candidates in a sub-block based merge candidate list and/or whether to add sub-block based temporal motion vector prediction (SbTMVP) candidates to the sub-block based merge candidate list based on whether temporal motion vector prediction (TMVP) is enabled for use during the conversion or whether a current picture referencing (CPR) coding mode is used for the conversion, and performing, based on the determining, the conversion.
US11632534B2
A sub stream auto sampling system includes an inspection unit and a sorter unit. The inspection unit includes a camera configured to capture an image of a sample, a light configured to illuminate a sample, a processor configured to process the captured image, and a memory configured to store the captured image. The sorter unit is configured to divert a sub stream of samples, from a main stream of samples, toward the inspection unit. The output of the inspection unit may be directed to the main stream of samples, or the output of the inspection unit may be directed to a collection unit. In addition to the inspection performed by the inspection unit, weighing of the sub stream of samples may also be performed by a weighing unit before the sub stream of samples are routed to the main stream of samples or the collection unit.
US11632522B2
The video recording system comprises a video recorder and one or more cameras which is specially designed to record video on the exterior and interior of a locomotive. The system is capable of withstanding the railroad environment, and has been designed to maximize safety and to minimize liability. The video recording system is capable of recording video on at least two drives (same video or different video on at least two drives) thereby creating redundancy in case one of the videos is unclear and/or damaged.
US11632519B2
A system enabling multiple screens sharing in an online meeting. The system comprises a first data processing system 102 comprising a first processor module 202 and a first digital client 214. The first processor module 202 causes the first digital client 214 to individually share at least a first screen 110 and a second screen 112. The system further comprises a second data processing system 104 comprising a second processor module 302 and a second digital client 314, the second processor module 302 causing the second digital client 314 to individually share at least a third screen 114 and a fourth screen 116. The first digital client 214 shares the first screen 110 and the second screen 112 while the second digital client 314 shares the third screen 114 and the fourth screen 116.
US11632516B2
Techniques are described for automated operations involving capturing and analyzing information from an interior of a house, building or other structure, for use in generating and providing a representation of that interior. Such techniques may include using a user's mobile device to capture visual data from multiple viewing locations (e.g., video captured while the mobile device is rotated for some or all of a full 360 degree rotation at each viewing location) within multiple rooms, capturing data linking the multiple viewing locations, analyzing each viewing location's visual data to create a panorama image from that viewing location, analyzing the linking data to determine relative positions/directions between at least some viewing locations, creating inter-panorama links in the panoramas to each of one or more other panoramas based on such determined positions/directions, and providing information to display multiple linked panorama images to represent the interior.
US11632512B2
An arithmetic logic unit (ALU) includes a front end latch stage coupled to latch Gray code (GC) outputs of a GC generator in response to a comparator output. A signal latch stage is coupled to latch outputs of the front end latch stage. A GC to binary stage is coupled to generate a binary representation of the GC outputs latched in the signal latch stage. First inputs of an adder stage are coupled to receive outputs of the GC to binary stage. Outputs of the adder stage are generated in response to the first inputs and second inputs of the adder stage. A pre-latch stage is coupled to latch outputs of the adder stage. A feedback latch stage is coupled to latch outputs of the pre-latch stage. The second inputs of the adder stage are coupled to receive outputs of the feedback latch stage.
US11632510B2
The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging device and an electronic device that can be provided with phase difference pixels with a lower degree of difficulty in manufacturing. Provided is a solid-state imaging device including a pixel array unit in which a plurality of pixels is two-dimensionally arrayed, in which the pixel array unit has an array pattern in which a plurality of pixel groups each including neighboring pixels of an identical color is regularly arrayed, and among the plurality of pixel groups arrayed in the array pattern, pixels configuring a light-shielded pixel group are shielded in an identical direction side from light, the light-shielded pixel group being a pixel group including pixels each being shielded in a part of a light incident side from the light. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a CMOS image sensor including pixels for phase difference detection.
US11632507B2
When imaging bright objects, a conventional detector array can saturate, making it difficult to produce an image with a dynamic range that equals the scene's dynamic range. Conversely, a digital focal plane array (DFPA) with one or more m-bit counters can produce an image whose dynamic range is greater than the native dynamic range. In one example, the DFPA acquires a first image over a relatively brief integration period at a relatively low gain setting. The DFPA then acquires a second image over longer integration period and/or a higher gain setting. During this second integration period, counters may roll over, possibly several times, to capture a residue modulus 2m of the number of counts (as opposed to the actual number of counts). A processor in or coupled to the DFPA generates a high-dynamic range image based on the first image and the residues modulus 2m.
US11632499B2
A multi-camera positioning and dispatching system includes a plurality of cameras and processing device. The cameras are disturbed over an indoor space having a plurality of areas; the cameras are corresponding to the areas and capture the images of the areas respectively. The processing device converts the pixel coordinates of the image of the camera corresponding to each area into the camera coordinates of the area, and converts the cameras coordinates of the area into the world coordinates of the area so as to integrate the images with one another and obtain a panoramic map, defined by a world coordinate system, of the indoor space. The processing device projects the working unit in the image captured by any one of the cameras to the panoramic map. The system can achieve positioning function via the panoramic map so as to optimize indoor environment management and save manpower.
US11632490B2
A camera module is provided with: an imaging element which is formed in a rectangular shape and has a plurality of pads provided to a back surface opposite from an imaging surface; a substrate where, on the same plane, a plurality of linear conductors are lined up in parallel and have an insulating coating in a rectangular shape such that the side of one end and the other end in the direction of extension of the conductors is shorter than one side of the imaging element, the conductors at the one end and the other end being exposed at a plate surface front and/or back; and a low-melting-point electroconductive material for connecting, to each of the pads, the conductors of the one end that are exposed due to one end surface of the substrate being abutted against the back surface.
US11632483B2
A management system for managing a data transmission destination comprises an accumulation unit configured to accumulate, when data transmission is performed, transmission information of the data transmission as collected data; a generation unit configured to generate training data including a pair of ground truth data containing transmission destination information, and input data containing an item other than the transmission destination information, from the collected data accumulated in the accumulation unit; a processing unit configured to generate, by machine learning, a learning model to be used to predict a transmission destination, by using the training data generated by the generation unit; and a providing unit configured to provide a prediction process using the learning model in response to a request.
US11632481B2
A scanner including a medium discharging apparatus includes a discharge tray including a first tray configured to receive a front end of a medium discharged by a discharge roller pair and allow placement of the medium therein, and a second tray that is located downstream of the first tray in a medium discharge direction and configured to allow placement of the medium therein, the discharge tray being configured to switch between a first posture in which the first tray and the second tray form a first angle α1, and a second posture in which the first tray and the second tray form a second angle α2 smaller than the first angle α1, without changing the posture of the first tray with respect to the discharge roller pair.
US11632471B2
An embodiment of the system for publishing events of a telephony application to a client includes a call router that generates events from the telephony application and an event router that manages the publication of events generated by the call router and that manages the subscription to events by clients. The system can be used with a telephony application that interfaces with a telephony device and an application server.
US11632465B2
A determination is made that a real-time communication session (e.g., a voice call) between a first agent terminal and a customer communication endpoint has been placed on hold by a first contact center agent. An estimated hold time for the real-time communication is determined, based on a rule, in response to determining that the real-time communication session has been placed on hold. It is determined that the estimated hold time for the real-time communication session has expired. In response to determining that the estimated hold time for the real-time communication session has expired, one or more actions occur. For example, the real-time communication session is automatically transferred to a second agent terminal.
US11632461B2
The present application describes providing an attestation level to a received communication. The attestation level may be used to communicate a level of security to a network or a called party that receives the communication. The attestation level associated with the communication may indicate to a destination network and/or recipient that the phone number associated with the communication is secure and/or the telephone number has not been spoofed.
US11632460B2
Embodiments described herein provide for performing a risk assessment using graph-derived features of a user interaction. A computer receives interaction information and infers information from the interaction based on information provided to the computer by a communication channel used in transmitting the interaction information. The computer may determine a claimed identity of the user associated with the user interaction. The computer may extract features from the inferred identity and claimed identity. The computer generates a graph representing the structural relationship between the communication channels and claimed identities associated with the inferred identity and claimed identity. The computer may extract additional features from the inferred identity and claimed identity using the graph. The computer may apply the features to a machine learning model to generate a risk score indicating the probability of a fraudulent interaction associated with the user interaction.
US11632459B2
The present disclosure provides a computer system, method, and computer-readable medium for a computer processor to detect, prevent and counter potentially fraudulent communications by proactively monitoring communications and performing multi-step analysis to detect fraudsters and alert communication recipients. The present disclosure may implement artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to identify fraudulent communications. The AI model may be trained by real world examples to become more efficient.
US11632457B1
Apparatus and methods concerning call routing are disclosed. In an example embodiment, a call alert message, indicative of the call answer options, is communicated from a data-communications server to the communication device, determined in response to receiving an incoming call for a communication device at the server. A selected option is received from the communication device. In response to the selected option indicating the first call answer option, the call is routed to the communication device as a call via a data network or in response to the selected option indicating the second call answer option, the call is routed to the communication device via a PSTN.
US11632451B2
The present disclosure provides a mobile terminal for minimizing waviness in a variable portion of a display. The mobile terminal may include: a first frame and a second frame configured to slide with respect to the first frame in a first direction or a second direction opposite to the first direction; a flexible display comprising a front surface, wherein an area of the front surface of the flexible display is configured to vary according to a sliding position of the second frame; a rivet rail formed at the second frame and longitudinally extending in the first direction; and a slide rivet coupled at an inner side of the flexible display and configured to move along the rivet rail as the second frame slides.
US11632443B2
One example may include a process that includes establishing a first transmission control protocol (TCP) connection between a client device and a server to form a virtual private network (VPN), permitting communication between the client device and the server on the first TCP connection, monitoring communication over the first TCP connection to identify one or more connection parameters, and establishing a second TCP connection between the client device and the server when the one or more connection parameters indicate a slowing of the first TCP connection below a threshold and below a previously measured connection rate.
US11632442B2
Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided that provide an interactive web-based alerts system. The system provides a combination of features including a mail application and a dashboard for reporting. Initially, automated emails sent from a plurality of sources are received and stored in a database. The automated emails are classified based on criteria including source, subject line, acknowledgement, and/or status. Using these classifications, various reports can be generated to provide insight into the alert quality and quantity. A dashboard interface displays the classified alerts and enables various interactions with the classified plurality of alerts. Based on the interactions, the dashboard interface is automatically updated, in real-time. In some embodiments, the interactions comprise causing an incident to be created for the alert, causing a category of the alert to be updated, or causing a shift report to be generated.
US11632438B2
A method for distributing network services for a network device through a multi-tenant network service. An identification parameter is associated with the device and is stored in a database by an orders management system after the device is ordered. The method includes establishing a network connection between a network device and a multi-tenant network service and, in response to establishing the network connection, obtaining device-associated identification parameter from the network device. The identification parameter is used to query the database for at least one record associated with the network device identifying a tenant of the multi-tenant network service in which the tenant corresponds to the device. The service maps the network device to the identified tenant of the multi-tenant network service and distributes network services based upon the mapping of the network device to the identified tenant.
US11632431B2
Techniques for policy-based connection provisioning using Domain Name System (DNS) requests are described herein. The techniques may include receiving policy data associated with one or more headend nodes that manage connections to computing resources. Additionally, the techniques may include receiving a DNS request from a client device to establish a connection between the client device and a first headend node of the one or more headend nodes. The DNS request may include an attribute associated with the client device. A provisioning service may determine that the connection should be established between the client device and the first headend node based at least in part on evaluating the attribute with respect to the policy data. Additionally, the techniques may include sending an internet protocol (IP) address, which is associated with the first headend node, to the client device to facilitate establishment of the connection.
US11632397B2
A method, computer program product, and system includes a processor(s) obtaining an authorization failure from a target application because an access request was denied based on insufficient permissions of a user. The processor(s) institutes a mock interface with a visual appearance of the target application. The mock interface displays predefined data and the target application displays dynamic data, from the server(s) executing the target application. The processor(s) obtains, via the mock interface, a request to change the permissions of the user to the target application, which includes a selection, by the user, through the mock interface, of one or more individual permissions displayed in the mock interface. The processor(s) automatically generates a customized security policy comprising the selection, where based on applying the customized security policy, repeating the access request results in authorized access to the target application.
US11632395B2
A method for detecting spoofed webpages includes: accessing an email; and scanning the email for links. The method also includes, in response to detecting a link in the email: accessing web content contained in a target webpage at the link; extracting target visual features from the web content; accessing a set of verified webpage templates, each verified webpage template in the set of verified webpage templates containing a set of verified features present in a verified webpage associated with a verified resource locator; identifying a particular verified webpage template, in the set of verified webpage templates, containing a particular set of verified features approximating the target visual features; characterizing a difference between the link and a particular verified resource locator associated with the particular verified webpage template; and, in response to the difference exceeding a threshold difference, flagging the email as malicious.
US11632394B1
A cloud-native global file system, in which one or more filers are associated with a volume of a versioned files system in a private, public or hybrid cloud object store, is augmented to include a rapid ransomware recovery service. Upon detecting a ransomware attack associated with one or more files or directories of the volume, read and write access to the volume is restricted. A recovery filer is then activated or designated in the cloud. A restore operation is then initiated at the recovery filter. Following completion of the restore operation, a new clean (healthy) snapshot of the volume is then created using the recovery filer For any filer other than the recovery filer, a determination is made whether the filer has completed a merge operation with respect to the new clean snapshot. If so, read and write access to the volume is re-enabled from that filer.
US11632387B2
The present disclosure describes systems and methods for using a template for a simulated phishing campaign, A database includes a plurality of templates for simulated phishing campaigns, each template of the plurality of templates identifying a list of a plurality of types of simulated phishing communications and at least a portion of content for the simulated phishing communications. A campaign controller selects a template from the plurality of templates for a simulated phishing campaign directed to a user of a plurality of users; and communicates, to one or more devices of the user a first type of simulated phishing communication of the plurality of types of simulated phishing communications with at least the portion of content identified by the template.
US11632386B2
A computerized method and system for predicting the probability of a cyberattack to a target entity, includes: collecting a plurality of predictive signals to a target entity for a specific cyberattack type; optionally, imputing a value for missing values of the collected signals; selecting a set of relevant non-redundant signals from the collected signals to create lagged signals; identifying from the lagged signals relevant data chunks to form a custom training set of signals; providing selected ground truth data related to the specific attack type for the target entity; training a forecasting model using the custom training set of signals together with the selected ground truth data related to the specific attack type for the target entity to generate a trained forecasting model; providing a second set of signals of the same type of signals as the custom training set of signals; and generating the probability of the specific attack type of interest against the target entity by inputting the second set of signals into the trained forecasting model.
US11632382B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a security operation. The security operation includes monitoring a plurality of electronically-observable actions of an entity, the plurality of electronically-observable actions of the entity corresponding to a respective plurality of events enacted by the entity, the monitoring comprising monitoring the plurality of electronically-observable actions via a protected endpoint; converting the plurality of electronically-observable actions of the entity to electronic information representing the plurality of actions of the entity; generating a representation of occurrences of a particular event from the plurality of events enacted by the entity; and performing an anomaly detection operation based upon the representation of occurrences of the particular event from the plurality of events enacted by the entity, the anomaly detection operation determining when the representation of occurrences of the particular event exceeds a predetermined threshold.
US11632363B2
Systems and methods are provided for authenticating image files when network connections should not or cannot be used to transfer image files. A user device application may capture an image at a user device, generate an image file, and generate a hash file based on the image file. Instead of sending the image file to an authentication server for authentication, the application may send the hash file. If desired, the application may transfer the image file when a desirable network connection is available. Any alteration to the image file in the meantime will result in a different hash file for the altered image file, thus allowing detection of altered image files. This approach offers decreases the amount of data that is required to be transmitted in low or undesirable signal conditions, while maintaining an ability to detect alterations to image files that may have been made in the meantime.
US11632354B2
A disclosed method is performed at a first boundary node bordering a BIER domain. The method includes receiving a message associated with a source and group for multicast from outside the BIER domain. The method further includes generating an encapsulated message based on the message, a metric, and a first proxy address of the first boundary node. The method also includes forwarding the encapsulated message through the BIER domain to at least one second boundary node bordering the BIER domain and connectable to the first boundary node. The first boundary node additionally triggers the at least one second boundary node to decapsulate the encapsulated message for forwarding out of the first domain and store a record including the source, the group, the metric representing the cost of the first boundary node to the source, and the first proxy address on the at least one second boundary node.
US11632351B2
A notification service may act as an intermediary between sources of text-based communications (e.g., message channels within a communication and collaboration platform) and the intended recipients of action items contained in messages posted to these sources. The notification service may store, for each action item, an instance of a universal actionable notification data structure specifying, among other things, response options for the action items, and may, for a specific user, aggregate action items intended for that user across multiple sources, aggregate and send notification messages generated from the respective instances of the universal actionable notification data structures to a central notification inbox accessible by the user, and upon receipt of a response from the user, generate and post a response message to the source from which the action item originated.
US11632347B2
Systems herein supply hero cards that display contextual information and actions based on backend systems. The information and actions are related to a trigger content item in an application that does not have access to the backend systems. A hero agent running a user device can communicate the trigger content to a hero server. The hero server can determine which connectors to backend systems relate to the user device, and then can retrieve result information from one or more of the backend systems. The result information populates the hero card, which the hero agent displays within the application. Action buttons on the hero card cause the hero agent to contact one or more of the backend systems to cause an action to take place there.
US11632345B1
Systems and methods to prevent or diminish message thread explosion are disclosed. Message data sent between members of a communal profile and/or between members of multiple communal profiles may be consolidated into a single message thread, which may be displayed on devices associated with the members associated with of the communal profile(s). Consolidation of the message data into a communal message thread may allow users to more intuitively view conversations between members of their communal profile and/or between members of their communal profile and other communal profiles without viewing individual message threads between members of the communal profile(s).
US11632340B1
Embodiments described herein provide a method for providing a compatible backplane operation mechanism for 2.5-gigabit Ethernet. A first input of data including a first sequence-ordered set in compliance with a first interface protocol is received from a medium access control (MAC) layer. The first input of data is encoded into four outputs of encoded data including a second sequence-ordered set in compliance with a second interface protocol. The first sequence-ordered set in a first form of a sequence code followed by three bytes of data is mapped to the second sequence-ordered set in a second form of consecutive units of the sequence code followed by an encoded data byte. The four parallel outputs of encoded data are serialized into a serial output. The serial output to a linking partner is transmitted on a physical layer of an Ethernet link at a speed specified in the second interface protocol.
US11632339B2
Resource provider specifications, characterizing computing resources of computing resource providers, are received. The reachability of each IP address included in the received specification is determined. An agent is deployed that is operable to determine the value of each of a set of metrics in the environment of the host at which the agent is deployed. The agent determines the value of each metric of the set of metrics in the environment of the relevant host, and communicates the determined values to one or more computing devices that validate whether the resources characterized by the communicated values are sufficient to provide the performance characterized by the received specification and that each ISP router complies with a predetermined policy. For each computing resource provider validated and determined to comprise an ISP router compliant with policy, the specified computing resources are added to a pool of resources for cloud computing.
US11632332B2
Some embodiments provide a method for a forwarding element that receives a packet. The method determines whether the packet matches any flow entries in a first cache that uses a first type of algorithm to identify matching flow entries for packets. When the packet does not match any flow entries in the first cache, the method determines whether the packet matches any flow entries in a second cache that uses a second, different type of algorithm to identify matching flow entries for packets. The method executes a set of actions specified by a flow entry matched by the packet in one of the first and second caches.
US11632331B2
A storage unit configured to store information regarding flow characteristics indicating whether a flow constituted by a packet is a flow having a tendency to have a large number of short packets or a flow having a tendency to have a large number of long packets in association with destination information of the packet, a determination unit configured to, in a case where an input port receives a packet, determine flow characteristics of a flow constituted by the packet on the basis of the storage unit, and an output unit configured to output the packet received by the input port to a packet transfer apparatus in a load state indicating that a load due to the flow of the flow characteristics is light among a plurality of packet transfer apparatuses according to the flow characteristics determined by the determination unit are provided.
US11632321B2
A lateral movement identification tool analyzes communications sent and received from a local host to identify potential instances of lateral movement. When the host-based lateral movement identification tool identifies a host to host connection, the tool processes one or more artificial intelligence algorithms to analyze information from local network resources including a directory service, a local network system such as a network basic input/output system, a domain name system, and event logs. The lateral movement identification tool correlates the aggregated information with identified host to host messaging and sends alerts when lateral movement is suspected. Alerts may be either presented locally or provided to a central console based on configuration information.
US11632315B1
Methods, systems, and devices for providing computer implemented services using managed systems are disclosed. To provide the computer implemented services, the managed systems may need to operate in a predetermined manner conducive to, for example, execution of applications that provide the computer implemented services. Similarly, the managed system may need access to certain hardware resources (e.g., and also software resources such as drivers, firmware, etc.) to provide the desired computer implemented services. To improve the likelihood of the computer implemented services being provided, the managed devices may be managed using a dynamic reporting model. The dynamic reporting model may facilitate reduction and increasing in computing resources used for reporting dynamically as the operation of the managed system change. The dynamic reporting model may be used to limit overhead for reporting.
US11632314B2
An information management method collects log information of one or more home electrical apparatuses corresponding to service providers. Display screen data is generated which indicates a status of the log information. The display screen data includes groups of information which each contain information on an apparatus, a service provider corresponding to the apparatus, and log information output from the apparatus. Provision of the log information of each group is individually selectable. The display screen data is provided via a network to a display terminal that performs access to a server device. Information is received from the display terminal, which indicates that selection on whether or not provision of the log information is performed. Provision of the log information is not performed on the selected group when a determination is made that refusal of provision of the log information on the selected group is performed.
US11632311B2
A provisioning server for automated provisioning and associated methods are disclosed. The provisioning server extracts data from a data transfer instruction for a data provider addition based on a matching data transfer instruction template, and parses the extracted data in accordance with the matching data transfer instruction template to identify an account identifier. Data transfer information for an identified data provider and an identified account identifier from a data provider database are determined. The data provider database comprises data provider information comprising data provider names for a plurality of data providers registered with the provisioning server. A data provider record is generated and stored in a data provider list of the account in an account database. The data provider record includes the identified data provider name, identified account identifier and the data transfer information.
US11632298B2
Configuration data associated with a router is converted. A selector tool identifies a first port of a first router having first data lines, and identifies a second port of a second router to receive the first data lines to be migrated from the first port. The first router and the second router use different, incompatible configuration data formats. A data transceiver captures first port configuration data associated with the first port of the first router, and a configuration data converter is to identify a type of interface associated with the captured first port configuration data and convert the captured first port configuration data from a first format compatible with the first router to a second format compatible with the second router based on the identified type of interface. A conversion file generator generates a configuration file containing the converted first port configuration data in the second format.
US11632287B1
Systems and methods for tracking and reporting the existence or absence of faults in a Network Element (NE) or node of a network, network domain, or Maintenance Domain (MD) are provided. A method, according to one implementation, includes a step of tracking the existence or absence of a plurality of faults in a NE within a network domain. Each of the plurality of faults is categorized in one of a plurality of priority levels. In response to a detection of one or more new faults in the NE or a rectification of one or more old faults in the NE, the method further includes the step of updating a fault indication variable that individually signifies the existence or absence of a fault at each of the priority levels.
US11632282B2
Provided is a synchronization method, which includes: a first device periodically sends a first PSS sequence and first PDSCH control information at frequency points F1 to FN in sequence, where the first PSS sequence and the first PDSCH control information are used for a second device to detect the first PSS sequence and detect the first PDSCH control information; the first device receives signals at frequency points f1 to fM in sequence and detects a second PSS sequence; when the second PSS sequence is detected, the first device obtains second half-frame synchronization information and detects second PDSCH control information according to the second half-frame synchronization information; and when the second PDSCH control information is detected, the first device obtains second frame synchronization information and enters a synchronization state. Also provided are a synchronization device, a synchronization system, and a computer-readable storage medium.
US11632279B2
One embodiment according to the present invention, with respect to a sounding method of user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, comprises the steps of: receiving configuration of one or more sounding reference signal (SRS) resource sets from a base station; receiving, from the base station, activation command information commanding the SRS transmission activation of a particular SRS resource set from among the one or more SRS resource sets; and transmitting, to the base station, the SRS corresponding to the particular SRS resource set, wherein the reference signal, for which a spatial relationship is assumed for each SRS resource included in the particular SRS resource set, can be determined on the basis of the activation command information.
US11632270B2
Device, methods and systems for aspects of channel estimation for orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation in wireless systems are described. In an aspect, a method for wireless communication may include receiving, using multiple receive antennas, from a number of user devices, non-orthogonal pilots wherein at least some transmissions of the non-orthogonal pilots from different user devices overlap in at least some time and frequency resources, estimating individual pilots from the number of user devices by computing a pilot separation filter for each antenna, and estimating the wireless channel at time and frequency resources used by the non-orthogonal pilots by filtering the receiving signal at the multiple receiver antennas.
US11632267B2
An encrypted tunnel is established between a virtual private network (VPN) server and a VPN user device. A request to establish a connection with a target device is received from the VPN user device. The request uses initial connection parameters. The connection the converted into a first connection between the VPN user device and the VPN server and a second connection between the VPN server and the target device. The first connection uses first connection parameters and the second connection uses second connection parameters. At least one parameter of the first connection parameters or of the second connection parameters is different from a corresponding parameter of the initial connection parameters. First network packets received from the VPN user device according to the first connection parameters are converted into second network packets according to the second connection parameters. The second network packets are transmitted to the target device.
US11632252B2
A physical access control (PAC) system configured to perform a two-factor authentication prior to granting access to a secure area. The PAC system includes an access point device configured to perform facial recognition on a person proximate to the access point device, and perform wireless handshake with a mobile device associated with the person prior to granting or denying entry to the secure area.
US11632248B2
The systems, methods and apparatuses described herein provide a computing device that is configured to attest itself to a communication partner. In one aspect, the computing device may comprise a communication port configured to receive an attestation request from the communication partner, and an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). The ASIC may be configured to receive the attestation request from the communication port. The attestation request may include a nonce generated at the communication partner. The ASIC may be further generate a verification value and send the verification value to the communication port to be transmitted back to the communication partner. The verification value may be a computation result of a predefined function taking the nonce as an initial value. In another aspect, the communication partner is configured to attest the computing device using speed of computation attestation.
US11632245B2
Techniques are described to generate a first security key when a user equipment operating in an inactive state initiates a data transmission or a procedure to resume network connection. The first security key is generated based on a second security key associated with a first network node and a counter value, and the first security key is associated with a second network node and is used to generate user plane security keys to transmit data to or to receive data from one or more network nodes.
US11632211B2
A positioning node determines a muting configuration used by one or more base stations for controlling muting of positioning reference signals. The positioning reference signals are transmitted at recurring positioning occasions from the one or more base stations to radio equipment in a wireless communication network. The muting configuration is determined from signaling received from the one or more base stations. The positioning node sends the muting configuration information as higher-layer signaling for receipt by the radio equipment receiving the positioning reference signals. The muting configuration information includes a muting occasion parameter indicating positioning occasions to which muting applies, and each of the positioning occasions comprise two or more consecutive subframes that repeat at a predetermined periodicity.
US11632194B2
A receiver and a method for receiving a radio communication is disclosed. The method includes receiving a burst encoded with a robust modulation coding scheme (MCS) as RX signals; generating, for each of the RX signals, a burst SNR, soft decision symbols and a packet; weighing, each of soft decision symbols with a respective burst SNR, to calculate soft combined symbols that are used to generate a Maximal-Ratio Combining (MRC) packet; and selecting, from the packets and the MRC packet, a CRC passed packet as an output. An adaptive dual burst transmitter is disclosed.
US11632190B2
A method, a device and a system of determining a transmission parameter of a data shared channel are provided. The method includes: receiving downlink control information including a field configured to determine a transmission parameter of a data shared channel; and determining the transmission parameter according to the field.
US11632186B2
Method and system for capturing signals in accordance with allocated resources. One method includes receiving, from a server by a network interface of a first communication device located in a cell, identification information of a second communication device located in the cell. The method further includes receiving, from a base station by the network interface of the first communication device, a resource allocation message destined for the second communication device. The resource allocation message indicates a resource allocation for the second communication device on an uplink channel of the base station. The method further includes decoding, by an electronic processor of the first communication device, the resource allocation message using the identification information of the second communication device. The method further includes capturing, by the network interface of the first communication device, signals based on the resource allocation for the second communication device.
US11632182B2
In the method, a first device receives a mixed signal including a target signal from a target device among a plurality of second devices and an interfering signal from the plurality of second devices. The first device determines a distribution characteristic of an amplitude of the mixed signal within an amplitude variation range, the distribution characteristic being associated with the target device and an interfering device generating the interfering signal. The first device determines the interfering device from the plurality of second devices based on the distribution characteristic. An interfering device in a communication system may be detected in real-time and accurately.
US11632181B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training and deploying machine-learned compact representations of radio frequency (RF) signals. One of the methods includes: determining a first RF signal to be compressed; using an encoder machine-learning network to process the first RF signal and generate a compressed signal; calculating a measure of compression in the compressed signal; using a decoder machine-learning network to process the compressed signal and generate a second RF signal that represents a reconstruction of the first RF signal; calculating a measure of distance between the second RF signal and the first RF signal; and updating at least one of the encoder machine-learning network or the decoder machine-learning network based on (i) the measure of distance between the second RF signal and the first RF signal, and (ii) the measure of compression in the compressed signal.
US11632176B2
Techniques for negotiating optical configuration parameters of transceivers are disclosed. In one example, a method may include outputting, by a first optical node to a second optical node, a negotiation request message that specifies a configuration parameter setting for optical transceivers, the setting comprising one of a speed, a forward error correction (FEC) scheme, a modulation type, a transmission power, a minimum central frequency, a maximum central frequency, a minimum input power, a maximum input power, or a signal-to-noise ratio threshold; receiving, by the first optical node from the second optical node, in response to the negotiation request message, a negotiation response message including an indication of support for the configuration parameter setting; and configuring, by the first optical node, in response to the indication of support, a configuration parameter of an optical transceiver for the first optical node with the configuration parameter setting for the configuration parameter.
US11632173B2
A system comprising: a plurality of first devices, each configured to transmit a low-frequency, LF, light signal comprising an identifier of the respective first device, and to transmit and/or receive a high-frequency, HF, light signal comprising data content; and a second device configured to receive a LF light signal from each of the first devices, and to transmit and/or receive a HF light signal from at least one first device, wherein the second device has an adaptable receiving and/or transmitting direction for respectively receiving and/or transmitting the HF light signal, and wherein the second device comprises a controller configured to: based on the identifiers encoded in the LF light signals, determine a position of the second device relative to the first devices and select a first device; and based on the determination, adapt the receiving and/or transmitting direction toward the selected first device.
US11632165B2
A beam failure detection method, an information configuration method, a terminal and a network device are provided, and the method includes: receiving configuration information used for beam failure detection; performing, according to the received configuration information, a preset operation on a timer and/or a counter for beam failure detection corresponding to a target beam; where the target beam is one of beams supported by the terminal, or a beam corresponding to a Bandwidth Part BWP supported by the terminal.
US11632156B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a receiving device, such as a receiving user equipment (UE) or vehicle, may provide channel state information (CSI) in which two or more parameters associated with the CSI are provided in a single joint indication. A transmitting device may transmit one or more reference signals and the receiving device may perform one or more measurements on the received reference signal(s). Based on the one or more measurements, the receiving device may determine one or more CSI parameters, such as a rank indicator, channel quality indicator, precoding matrix indicator, or combinations thereof, that may be provided to the transmitting device in a joint indication.
US11632155B2
A method of a UE transmitting a codebook based uplink signal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: transmitting capability information about UE capability that maintains differences between phase values applied to antenna ports for uplink signal transmission; receiving configuration information for determining a codebook subset related to the uplink signal transmission based on the capability information; receiving DCI for determining a precoding matrix applied to the uplink signal transmission; determining a precoding matrix to be applied for the uplink signal transmission, based on the DCI, from the codebook subset determined based on the configuration information; and transmitting the uplink signal, based on the determined precoding matrix, wherein, based on that the differences between phase values are maintained at some antenna ports, the codebook subset includes at least one specific precoding matrix applying different phase values to the antenna ports included in some or all of some antennas.
US11632142B1
A hybrid diode silicon on insulator front end module and related method are provided. The front end module includes a transmit branch that includes a transmit circuit and a receive branch that includes a receive circuit. The receive circuit includes a low noise amplifier, a pin diode including an anode and a cathode; and a switch. The anode of the pin diode is operatively connected to an antenna switch port and an input voltage source. The cathode of the pin diode is operatively connected to a cathode of the switch. Turning on the switch facilitates a drainage of residual electrical current at the pin diode.
US11632139B2
In mobile communications networks, requirements on signal distortion may be fulfilled at a lower bit rate, or alternatively quantization noise be reduced for a given bit rate, by including fractional exponent bits in a block floating point format. One or more fractional exponent bits may apply to all samples in the block. Alternatively, fractional bits may apply to sub-blocks within the block. The optimal number of fractional bits depends on the number of samples in the block.
US11632135B2
An example methods for interleaved BCH codes can include encoding a plurality of portions of data using a first generator polynomial to obtain a plurality of respective BCH codewords. The method can include encoding an additional BCH codeword based at least in part on a second plurality of portions of data and the plurality of BCH codewords using a second generator polynomial. The method can include outputting the plurality of respective BCH codewords and the additional BCH codeword.
US11632131B2
An error rate measuring apparatus includes: an operation unit that sets a codeword length, an FEC symbol length, and an FEC symbol error threshold in accordance with a communication standard of a device under test W; error counting means for counting FEC symbol error detected at one FEC symbol interval and an uncorrectable codeword; a display unit that identifies and displays bit string data according to presence or absence of the FEC symbol error in FEC symbol length units based on a counting result; and display control means for performing display control by setting one zone of a display area of identification display as one FEC symbol length, matching a zone length of a horizontal axis of the display area with one codeword length, and performing line feed in codeword length units.
US11632124B2
A device for processing digital signals is provided. The device comprises a digital signal source and a converter circuit having a current supply. The digital signal source outputs a codeword. The converter circuit receives the codeword from the digital signal source, receives a current at the current supply, and generates an output signal based on the codeword. The current is generated in accordance with the codeword.
US11632109B2
A strong and weak hybrid PUF circuit comprises N switch units and an arbiter. Each switch unit consists of two delay modules and two 2:1 multiplexers. The N switch units constitute two completely symmetrical delay paths. Each delay module consists of six stages of delay cells. During the operating process, a transmission signal selects a turn-on path of the corresponding 2:1 multiplexers according to activation signals; the switch units in the PUF circuit are in a valid state (if the delay modules are turned on) or in an invalid state (if the delay modules are not turned on) according to whether the delay modules are turned during the operating process; and the strong and weak hybrid PUF circuit can be flexibly configured to be of two different types (a strong PUF circuit and a weak PUF circuit) according to changes of the Hamming weight of input activation signals.
US11632108B2
Techniques are provided for fanning out a signal from a balun. In various aspects, the system can include a balun configured to receive a signal for transmission at an input and to provide a representation of the signal at an output, a plurality of pass gate circuits, each pass gate circuit configured to receive the representation of the signal at a first node, to receive a control signal at a second node to pass the representation of the signal to a third node when the control signal is in a first state, and to isolate the representation of the signal from the third node when the control signal is in a second state. The first state of the control signal can include a non-zero voltage, and the second state of the control signal can include the non-zero voltage with a polarity opposite the non-zero voltage of the first state.
US11632103B2
A high-speed voltage clamping circuit includes p-type field effect transistor (PFET) biasing circuit, an n-type field effect transistor (NFET) biasing circuit, and a field effect transistor (FET) clamp circuit. The PFET biasing circuit is configured to generate a PFET biasing voltage. The NFET biasing circuit is configured to generate a NFET biasing voltage. The FET clamp circuit is in signal communication with the PFET biasing circuit and the NFET biasing circuit. The PFET biasing circuit controls operation of the clamping circuit in response to a voltage overshoot event and the NFET biasing circuit controls operation of the clamping circuit in response to a voltage undershoot event.
US11632098B2
An example apparatus includes a polyphase transconductance-capacitor filter. The polyphase filter includes a DC bias voltage node, a plus in-phase filter unit, a minus in-phase filter unit, a plus quadrature-phase filter unit, and a minus quadrature-phase filter unit. Each filter unit respectively includes an input node, an output node, and a control node. The polyphase filter also includes a plus in-phase switch and a minus in-phase switch. The plus in-phase switch is coupled to the control node of the plus in-phase filter unit, the DC bias voltage node, and the input node of one or both of the plus quadrature-phase filter unit and the minus quadrature-phase filter unit. The minus in-phase switch is coupled to the control node of the minus in-phase filter unit, the DC bias voltage node, and the input node of one or both of the plus quadrature-phase filter unit and the minus quadrature-phase filter unit.
US11632097B2
A coupled resonator filter device is disclosed. The coupled resonator filter device includes a substrate with one or more acoustic reflector layers disposed over the substrate, a first lower electrode disposed over the one or more acoustic reflector layers, a first piezoelectric layer disposed over the first lower electrode, and a first upper electrode disposed over the first piezoelectric layer. The coupled resonator filter device further includes one or more acoustic coupling layers disposed over the first upper electrode, a second lower electrode disposed over the one or more acoustic coupling layers, a second piezoelectric layer disposed over the second lower electrode, a second upper electrode disposed over the second piezoelectric layer, and a first tuning capacitor having a first upper plate coupled to the first upper electrode and a first lower plate coupled to the first lower electrode.
US11632096B2
Acoustic resonator devices are disclosed. An acoustic resonator device includes a plurality of cells electrically connected in parallel. Each cell includes an interdigital transducer (IDT) on a piezoelectric plate, the IDT having at least 15 and not more than 35 interleaved fingers.
US11632090B1
A push-push frequency doubler based on complementary transistors is provided. The first differential amplifier circuit receives a differential input signal having an initial frequency, and amplifies the amplitude of the second harmonic of the differential input signal to obtain a first signal. The second differential amplifier circuit receives the differential input signal with the initial frequency and amplifies the amplitude of the second harmonic of the differential input signal to obtain the second signal. Where, the first signal and the second signal are a set of differential signals with the same amplitude and a phase difference of 180°. The output load circuit extracts the second harmonic signal in the first and second signal respectively to obtain and output a pair of differential output signal with first output frequency whose value is twice of the initial frequency. As a result, the frequency doubler with differential output signal is realized.
US11632074B2
A solar tracker system includes a torque tube, a solar panel assembly attached to the torque tube, a housing defining a chamber and a fluid passageway extending from the chamber, and an active lock connected to a seal configured to prevent a flow path of fluid while in a sealed state and allow the flow path of fluid in an unsealed state. The system further includes a controller in communication with the torque tube and the active lock. The controller is programmed to receive a command to place the solar panel assembly in a stowed position, instruct the torque tube to rotate the panel assembly to a stowed angle corresponding to the stowed position, monitor a current angle of the panel assembly, compare the current angle to the stowed angle, and instruct the seal to transition to the sealed state when the current angle is equal to the stowed angle.
US11632062B2
A gear includes at least one gear tooth and an electrode mounted to the at least one gear tooth along a contact face of the at least one gear tooth. A flowable dielectric material is positioned on the contact face of the at least one gear tooth. The dielectric material is structured to be movable along the contact face of the at least one gear tooth responsive to a gravity force.
US11632059B1
The present disclosure relates to a submodule topology circuit for a modular multilevel converter and a method for controlling same. The submodule topology comprises an inlet port and an outlet port, at least two half-bridge submodules, a plurality of first switching devices, a plurality of thyristors and a plurality of diodes, wherein the at least two half-bridges are connected in series and are provided between the inlet port and the outlet port, and each of the half-bridge submodules is provided with an input port, a first output port and a second output port.
US11632054B2
A primary controller configured for use in a power converter comprising a control circuit configured to determine a mode of operation of the power converter in response to a drive signal of a power switch. The control circuit further configured to generate a control signal in response to a signal representative of the mode of operation of the power converter, wherein the control signal represents a delay time to enable a turn on of the power switch after a turn off of a clamp switch. The control circuit further configured to generate a clamp drive signal to control the clamp switch. The primary controller further comprises a drive circuit configured to generate a drive signal to enable the power switch to transfer energy from an input of the power converter to an output of the power converter.
US11632053B2
An isolated switched-mode power converter converts power from an input source into power for an output load. A digital controller senses a secondary-side voltage, such as a rectified voltage, of the power converter. The secondary-side voltage is divided down using a high-impedance voltage divider. The resultant divided-down voltage is provided to a voltage sensor within the digital controller. The voltage sensor level shifts the provided voltage, and buffers the resulting level-shifted voltage. The buffered, level-shifted voltage is provided to a tracking analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for digitization. The buffered signal provided to the tracking ADC has a high current capability, such that the voltage input to the tracking ADC may quickly converge before the tracking ADC outputs a digital value for the sensed secondary-side voltage.
US11632050B2
Disclosed herein is a semiconductor device configured by packaging a semiconductor chip, including at least one terminal. The semiconductor chip includes a pad connected to the terminal, a voltage clamp unit, and a wiring disposed along an outer periphery of the semiconductor chip and between the voltage clamp unit and the pad. In a case in which the wiring has no broken wire portion, a terminal voltage generated at the terminal is clamped to a clamp voltage by the voltage clamp unit, and in a case in which the wiring has a broken wire portion, the terminal voltage reaches a predetermined voltage higher than the clamp voltage or a predetermined voltage lower than the clamp voltage.
US11632046B2
A power voltage generator includes a booster, a voltage sensor, a constant voltage controller and a constant current controller. The booster is configured to boost an input voltage to an output voltage based on an on-off operation of a switch. The voltage sensor is configured to generate a sensing voltage by sensing the output voltage. The constant voltage controller is configured to generate a first switching signal to control the switch by comparing the sensing voltage with a reference voltage. The constant current controller is configured to generate a gain based on a ratio of an electrode signal of the switch and a target signal by comparing the electrode signal of the switch with the target signal.
US11632045B2
Various embodiments relate to a current loop controller configured to control a boost converter, including: an amplifier configured to scale a measured current; a subtractor configured to subtract the scaled measured current from a desired current and to output an error signal; a controller including an integral part and a proportional part configured to produce a control signal based upon the difference signal and a gain value, wherein the gain value is based upon a measured value tps, wherein tps is the on-time plus the secondary time of the boost converter; and a switch signal generator configured to produce a gate signal based upon the control signal, wherein the gate signal controls the boost converter.
US11632038B2
A snubber apparatus includes N parallel charge paths, each of which has a positive-side capacitor, a first diode, and a negative-side capacitor sequentially connected in series between a positive-side terminal and a negative-side terminal, and that allows current to flow from the positive-side terminal's side to the negative-side terminal's side. The snubber apparatus includes N+1 parallel discharge paths, each of which has a second diode connected between the negative-side terminal or the negative-side capacitor in the k-th charge path of the N charge paths, and the positive-side capacitor in the (k+1)-th charge path of the N charge paths or the positive-side terminal, and that allows current to flow from the negative-side terminal's side to the positive-side terminal's side via at least one of the negative-side capacitor and the positive-side capacitor. At least one of the charge paths has a plurality of sections that are turned and adjacent to each other.
US11632033B2
A power supply circuit having a first capacitor, a transformer including a primary coil having a voltage of the first capacitor applied thereto, a secondary coil and an auxiliary coil, a second capacitor having a voltage from the auxiliary coil applied thereto, a transistor controlling an inductor current flowing through the primary coil, a control circuit outputting a first control signal when supply of the input voltage is unstopped, or is stopped yet a voltage of the second capacitor reaches a first level, and outputting a second control signal thereafter when the voltage of the second capacitor further reaches a second level, a first drive circuit outputting a first drive signal for switching control of the transistor in response to the first control signal, and a second drive circuit outputting a second drive signal for controlling on-resistance of the transistor to discharge the first capacitor, in response to the second control signal.
US11632013B2
A control device includes a first substrate provided with a chip electronic component; a second substrate having a surface provided with electronic components including a tall component taller than the chip electronic component, the surface of the second substrate facing a surface of the first substrate that is provided with the chip electronic component; and a heat sink disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The heat sink includes a component receiving portion and a heat dissipation portion, the component receiving portion being configured to receive the tall component, the heat dissipation portion being configured to perform heat exchange between the first substrate and the second substrate, and the component receiving portion and the heat dissipation portion being provided so as not to overlap with each other as viewed in a facing direction in which the first substrate and the second substrate face each other.
US11632012B2
A motor is provided with a bracket, a terminal provided at the bracket, and a frame. The bracket is fixed to the frame. The terminal is electrically connectable to an outside. The bracket is provided with an outer peripheral surface including an opening portion. A part of the terminal is arranged inside the opening portion.
US11632009B2
Embodiments of this application provide a busbar assembly, a motor, an electrical product, and a method for manufacturing a busbar assembly. The busbar assembly includes a busbar for conducting electricity and a busbar holder for supporting the busbar. The busbar extends in a circumferential direction, a height of the busbar in an axial direction is greater than a thickness in a radial direction, and the busbar holder is integrally molded with the busbar. The busbar includes a plurality of convex portions extending in the axial direction, and the convex portions are exposed from the busbar holder.
US11631987B2
Systems and methods for charging electric vehicles that define a charging schedule for an electric vehicle based on one or more charging preferences of an operator of the vehicle and based on at least one current value of a dynamic attribute of an electric charge provider. Such systems and methods may include a graphical user interface adapted to display a unitary vehicle charge indicator element having (i) a first portion indicative of an amount of charge residing in a battery of the electric vehicle, (ii) a second portion indicative of an uncharged capacity of the battery of the electric vehicle, and (iii) a third portion comprising a slider by which an amount of charge may be specified.
US11631986B2
It is an object of the invention to provide a method for efficiently charging a secondary battery. The method of the disclosure is a method for charging a secondary battery that includes step (A) for measuring an internal resistance of the secondary battery, and step (B) for increasing or decreasing the maximum charging voltage of the secondary battery in accordance with increase or decrease of the measured internal resistance.
US11631985B2
A device to be charged, a charging method, and a charging control circuit are provided. The device to be charged includes multiple cells coupled in series, a conversion circuit, a first charging channel, a second charging channel, and a communication control circuit. The conversion circuit is configured to receive input voltage from a power supply device, convert the input voltage into charging voltage for the multiple cells and into power supply voltage for a system of the device to be charged, charge the multiple cells according to the charging voltage, and supply power to the system of the device to be charged according to the power supply voltage.
US11631977B2
A method of operating a charging system may include connecting the charging system to a power grid with a plurality of phases, measuring a plurality of phase currents of the plurality of phases at a balance point, and transmitting a plurality of performance targets to a plurality of electrical consumers connected to one of a plurality of charging points of the charging system. The method may also include changing a performance target of the plurality of performance targets for each of the plurality of charging points individually for a predetermined test time interval and measuring a corresponding change of the plurality of phase currents at the balance point. The method may further include, based on the corresponding change of the plurality of phase currents, determining whether an electrical consumer charges with a significant current and whether the electrical consumer could charge with a higher current.
US11631972B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for protecting against and mitigating the effects of over-excitation of elements in electric power systems. In one embodiment, a system consistent with the present disclosure may comprise a point pair subsystem to receive a plurality of point pairs that define an over-excitation curve for a piece of monitored equipment. The system may receive a plurality of measurements corresponding to electrical conditions associated with the piece of monitored equipment. A logarithmic interpolation subsystem may determine a logarithmic interpolation corresponding to one of the plurality of measurements based on the plurality of point pairs. An over-excitation detection subsystem may detect an over-excitation condition based on the logarithmic interpolation, and a protective action subsystem may implement a protective action based on the over-excitation condition.
US11631971B2
A cable gland is provided which has an elongate body having an entrance end and a fitting end with a passage extending therebetween. A locating member having a flange which operatively abuts the entrance end of the body is provided. A clamping assembly is securable to the entrance end of the body through a coupler, and includes a tubular member having a clamping end and a free end with a bore extending between them. The clamping end provides a clamping surface complementary to the flange of the locating member such that cable armour can be secured between the clamping surface and the flange, both of which extend in a radial direction, generally normal to the axes of the passage and the bore.
US11631966B2
A beam combining device and method for a Bragg grating external-cavity laser module has a plurality of side by side light-emitting modules that use a Bragg grating to perform wavelength locking. Output light of the modules is incident to a beam combining element after passing through a focusing optical element for beam combining, and light subjected to beam combining is reflected partially and transmitted partially under the effect of a light splitting element. A part is incident into a dispersion element at a diffraction angle of the element. Parallel light is formed under the effect of a conversion optical element. Spots of the light beams of corresponding wavelengths of the light-emitting modules are formed on an image acquisition mechanism. Whether the wavelengths of the corresponding light-emitting modules are locked is determined by whether there is a deviation between preset spots and spots formed by the module on the acquisition mechanism.
US11631959B2
A light-emitting device includes: a base including a mount surface, and a lateral wall located around the mount surface, the lateral wall having a first upper surface and a second upper surface located at different heights from the mount surface; one or more light-emitting elements mounted on the mount surface of the base; a light-receiving element configured to receive a portion of light emitted from the one or more light-emitting elements; a first light-transmissive member bonded to the first upper surface and sealing a space in which the light-emitting elements are mounted; and a second light-transmissive member bonded to the second upper surface and supporting the light-receiving element.
US11631946B2
A plug-in structure has at least one set of male plugs and female plugs that are mated, wherein the male plug has a pin, and the female plug includes: a mounting base, which is provided with a mounting channel for inserting the pin; multiple sets of reeds, arranged in the mounting channel at intervals along the length direction of the mounting channel for clamping the pin. A lamp can be made with the plug-in structure. According to the plug-in structure and the lamp with the plug-in structure, the multi-stage reeds are arranged in the mounting channels to clamp the pins, so that the pins can be kept straight and flat and are not prone to deforming, the insertion and extraction force can be increased, and the assembly failure rate can be reduced.
US11631935B2
A multiple antenna system comprises at least two dipole-type radiators with first and second radiator elements, respectively, which are arranged at a distance from a reflector arrangement. A phase shifter arrangement with a phase shifter adjustment device is connected to the first and second radiator elements to adjust the phase relationships between the first radiator elements and between the second radiator elements. A decoupling arrangement is coupled to a decoupling adjustment device. The decoupling adjustment device is mechanically coupled to the phase shifter adjustment device, so that when the phase shifter adjustment device is moved, the decoupling arrangement: is changeable in its length, width and/or shape; or is changeable in its position, whereby the change of position is accelerated or only partially synchronized with the adjusting movement of the phase-shifting device; or is changeable in its position, wherein the decoupling arrangement is arranged within at least one of the radiators.
US11631926B2
A power tool including a battery pack interface configured to receive a battery pack. The battery pack interface includes one or more power terminals and one or more communication terminals. The power tool further includes a controller having an electronic processor. The controller is configured to receive, via the one or more communication terminals, a plurality of signals indicating a plurality of temperatures of the battery pack. The controller is further configured to determine, based on the signals, a battery pack type. The controller is further configured to control discharge of the battery pack based on the battery pack type.
US11631924B2
A bus bar includes a first heat absorber that is joined to an output terminal of a first battery, a second heat absorber that is joined to an output terminal of a second battery, and a main body that electrically connects the first heat absorber to the second heat absorber. The first heat absorber and the second heat absorber have a heat capacity larger than a heat capacity of the main body. The main body has a first connecting part that is electrically connected to the first heat absorber, a second connecting part that is electrically connected to the second heat absorber, and a displacement absorber that is disposed between the first connecting part and the second connecting part and deforms in response to a relative displacement of the first battery and the second battery.
US11631923B2
Provided is a battery having further improved charging/discharging efficiency. The battery comprises a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte layer provided between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The electrolyte layer includes a first electrolyte layer and a second electrolyte layer. The second electrolyte layer is provided between the first electrolyte layer and the negative electrode. The first electrolyte layer includes a first solid electrolyte material. The second electrolyte layer includes a second solid electrolyte material that is a material different from the first solid electrolyte material. The first solid electrolyte material includes Li, M, and X and does not include sulfur. M includes at least one selected from the group consisting of metalloid elements and metal elements other than Li. X is at least one selected from the group consisting of Cl, Br, and I. The reduction potential with regard to lithium of the second solid electrolyte material is lower than the reduction potential with regard to lithium of the first solid electrolyte material.
US11631899B2
Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a solid electrolyte using water as a solvent. The method includes dissolving a precursor in water to form a slurry, drying the slurry to form granules, pressing the granules to form a pressed solid body, and sintering the pressed solid body to manufacture a solid electrolyte.
US11631895B2
The present invention provides an energy device having excellent properties. Also provided is a nonaqueous electrolyte solution containing a compound represented by the following Formula (1), wherein R11, R12 and R13 each independently represent an organic group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms; and R11 and R12, R11 and R13, or R12 and R13 are optionally bound with each other to form a 5-membered ring or a 6-membered ring, with a proviso that a total number of carbon atoms of R11, R12 and R13 is 7 or less.
US11631892B2
The present invention is directed to aqueous solid polymer electrolytes that comprise a lithium salt and battery cells comprising the same. The present invention is also directed to methods of making the electrolytes and methods of using the electrolytes in batteries and other electrochemical technologies.
US11631890B2
In solid-state lithium-ion battery cells, electrolyte-infiltrated composite electrode includes an electrolyte component consisting of polymer matrix with ceramic nanoparticles embedded in the matrix to form networking structure of electrolyte. The networking structure establishes effective lithium-ion transport pathway in the electrode. Electrolyte-infiltrated composite electrode sheets and solid electrolyte membranes can be used in all solid-state lithium electrochemical pouch and coin cells. Solid-state lithium-ion battery is fabricated by: (a) providing an anode layer; (b) providing a cathode layer; (c) positioning a ceramic-polymer composite electrolyte membrane between the anode layer and the cathode layer to form a laminar battery assembly; (d) applying pressure to the laminar battery assembly; and (e) heating the laminar battery assembly. Pressure-aided co-curing strengthens the contacts between the electrodes and the solid electrolyte membrane thus creating stable electrode-membrane interfaces with fewer porous regions. Lithium electrochemical cells and batteries exhibit excellent rate performance and outstanding stability over wide temperature range.
US11631881B2
A battery material stacking device sequentially stacks sheet-like workpieces pertaining to a battery material at high speed. The battery material stacking device is provided with a conveyance mechanism configured to convey workpieces in a predetermined direction, a rotor arranged below the conveyance mechanism to rotate about a predetermined rotation shaft, a plurality of holding portions provided on a peripheral portion of the rotor to hold the workpieces, and a stacking table configured to stack the workpieces thereon. The plurality of holding portions is configured to hold one surface of each of the workpieces which is being conveyed with the other surface of each of the workpieces being held by the conveyance mechanism, then convey the workpieces in accordance with a rotation of the rotor while reversing the workpieces, and stack the workpieces on the stacking table with the other surface facing the stacking table.
US11631878B2
Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a solid oxide fuel cell including a multi-layered electrolyte layer using a calendering process. The method for manufacturing a solid oxide fuel cell is a continuous process, thus providing high productivity and maximizing facility investment and processing costs. In addition, the solid oxide fuel cell manufactured by the method includes an anode that is free of interfacial defects and has a uniform packing structure, thereby advantageously greatly improving the production yield and power density. In addition, the solid oxide fuel cell has excellent interfacial bonding strength between respective layers included therein, and includes a multi-layered electrolyte layer in which the secondary phase at the interface is suppressed and which has increased density, thereby advantageously providing excellent output characteristics and long-term stability even at an intermediate operating temperature.
US11631876B2
The present disclosure is directed to compositions and structures of supported metal catalysts for use in applications such as direct methanol fuel cells. Generally, implementations include supported metal catalysts that include Pt active sites that have been modified by addition or co-localization of a second metal such as Cu, Co, Ni, and/or other base metals to lower the inhibiting effect of strongly-adsorbed CO, an intermediate of methanol oxidation. An example aspect of the present disclosure includes catalyst compositions where the exterior metal sites in the supported catalyst include at least two metals: Pt and a competitive binder (e.g., a second metal).
US11631870B2
Introduced is an fuel cell power net including a fuel cell configured to generate power through a reaction between a fuel gas and an oxidizing gas, a power storage device configured to be charged with power generated by the fuel cell or discharged to supply power, a main line configured to electrically connect the fuel cell and the power storage device to each other; a main relay disposed on the main line so as to break or make an electrical connection between the fuel cell and the power storage device, a bypass line which is branched from the main line, bypasses the main relay, and is connected to the power storage device, a bypass relay disposed on the bypass line so as to break or make an electrical connection of the bypass line, and a controller configured to control the main relay or the bypass relay such that the power stored in the storage device is supplied to the fuel cell while the power generation of the fuel cell is stopped.
US11631865B2
The present invention relates to a transition metal nitride support, a method of manufacturing the same, a metal catalyst and a platinum-alloy catalyst including the transition metal nitride support, and manufacturing methods thereof. The manufactured transition metal support prevents corrosion of the support and aggregation of the platinum catalyst, thereby exhibiting high oxygen reduction catalytic activity. Also, strong metal-support interaction (SMSI) can be stabilized, thus improving the durability of the catalyst. The transition metal support includes large pores uniformly distributed therein, thereby increasing the amount of the catalyst supported and minimizing mass-transfer resistance in a membrane- electrode assembly, increasing the performance of a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell. The metal catalyst includes platinum particles loaded on the transition metal nitride support, thus exhibiting superior durability and activity. The manufactured platinum-alloy catalyst decreases the use of expensive platinum, thus generating economic benefits and improving the inherent oxygen reduction performance.
US11631862B2
The present disclosure relates to a secondary battery and an electrode plate. The electrode plate includes a current collector, an active material layer, a conductive structure, and a first protective layer. The current collector includes an insulating layer and a conductive layer disposed on the insulating layer. The conductive layer includes a main body portion and a protrusion portion. A surface of the main body portion facing away from the insulating layer is covered by the active material layer, while a surface of the protrusion portion facing away from the insulating layer is uncovered by the active material layer. The conductive structure is welded to the protrusion portion and thus a welded zone is formed. The first protective layer has elasticity, and is disposed on a side of the protrusion portion facing away from the insulating layer and is located between the welded zone and the active material layer.
US11631859B2
Disclosed are an anode material for lithium secondary batteries, the anode material including an Si-based anode active material and a film layer formed as a double self-assembled monolayer as the result of an amino trimethoxy silane (ATS) SAM precursor and a fluoro ethylene carbonate (FEC) SAM precursor being sequentially bonded to the surface of the Si-based anode active material, and method of manufacturing the same.
US11631858B2
A positive electrode material, a positive electrode, and a battery employing the same are provided. The positive electrode material includes an active particle and a modified layer covering the surface of the active particle. The modified layer is a reaction product of a composition. The composition includes an ionic conductive ceramic compound, an organic conductive compound, and a coupling agent. In the disclosure, the ionic conductive ceramic compound is 50-84 parts by weight, the organic conductive compound is 16-50 parts by weight, and the total weight of the ionic conductive ceramic compound and the organic conductive compound is 100 parts by weight. In the disclosure, the weight percentage of the coupling agent is from 0.05 wt % to 10 wt %, based on the total weight of the ionic conductive ceramic compound and the organic conductive compound.
US11631845B2
According to one embodiment, a secondary battery includes a positive electrode including first vacancies, a negative electrode including second vacancies, and an electrolyte. The electrolyte includes a gel polymer portion and a liquid portion, and the gel polymer portion has a gel-part ratio within a range of from 20% to 80%. At least a part of the electrolyte is held in the first vacancies and the second vacancies. A first ratio r1 of the liquid portion to the gel polymer portion in the first vacancies is within a range of 0.01≤r1≤10. A second ratio r2 of the liquid portion to the gel polymer portion in the second vacancies is within a range of 0.01≤r2≤10.
US11631842B2
Porous carbon particles, and a positive electrode active material and a lithium secondary battery including the same. This may improve the energy density of the lithium secondary battery by applying a porous electrode containing micropores and mesopores and having a uniform size distribution and shape as a positive electrode material.
US11631839B2
An electrode for a solid state battery is provided. The electrode active material layer of the electrode shows improved mechanical properties, such as elasticity or rigidity, of the electrode layer through the crosslinking of a binder resin. Thus, it is possible to inhibit or reduce the effect of swelling and/or shrinking of the electrode active material during charging/discharging. Therefore, the interfacial adhesion between the electrode active material layer and an electrolyte layer and the interfacial adhesion between the electrode active material layer and a current collector are maintained to a high level to provide a solid state battery having excellent cycle characteristics.
US11631830B2
A display apparatus including a display panel having a folding portion about which the display panel is configured to fold, a first lower film and a second lower film on one surface of the display panel, the first lower film and the second lower film being spaced apart from each other, at least one bump on the first lower film or the second lower film, and a first sub-layer on the first lower film, in which, when the display panel is folded, the folding portion is configured to fold so that a surface of the display panel located further from the first sub-layer is exposed and the first sub-layer faces another surface of the display panel located closer to the first sub-layer, and a height of the at least one bump is approximately less than or equal to a thickness of the first sub-layer.
US11631828B2
A foldable electronic device module includes: a glass-containing cover element having a thickness from about (25) μm to about (200) μm, an elastic modulus from about (20) to (140) GPa, and first and second primary surfaces; a stack comprising: (a) an interlayer having an elastic modulus from about (0.01) to (10) GPa and a thickness from about 50 to (200) μm, and (b) a flexible substrate having a thickness from about (100) to (200) μm; and a first adhesive joining the stack to the cover element, and comprising an elastic modulus from about (0.001) to (10) GPa and a thickness from about (5) to (25) μm. Further, the module comprises an impact resistance characterized by tensile stresses of less than about (4100) MPa and less than about (8300) MPa at the first and second primary surfaces of the cover element, respectively, upon an impact in a Pen Drop Test.
US11631817B2
ABSTRACT An organic electroluminescence device includes an anode, a cathode, and at least one organic layer provided between the anode and the cathode, in which the at least one organic layer contains a first compound represented by a formula (1) and a second compound represented by a formula (2). In the formula (1), A1 is a substituted or unsubstituted nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group having 5 to 24 ring atoms, and L1 is a single bond, a substituted or unsubstituted divalent aryl group having 6 to 24 ring carbon atoms or a substituted or unsubstituted divalent heterocyclic group having 5 to 24 ring atoms. In the formula (2), X1 is an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom.
US11631816B2
The present application relates to an electronic device having defined composition of the emitting layer. The application furthermore relates to the use of the device in displays or in lighting applications.
US11631810B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated chip. The integrated chip includes one or more lower interconnects arranged within a dielectric structure over a substrate. A bottom electrode is disposed over one of the one or more lower interconnects. The bottom electrode includes a first material having a first electronegativity. A data storage layer separates the bottom electrode from a top electrode. The bottom electrode is between the data storage layer and the substrate. A reactivity reducing layer includes a second material and has a second electronegativity that is greater than or equal to the first electronegativity. The second material contacts a lower surface of the bottom electrode that faces the substrate.
US11631809B2
In a method for using or forming a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure may include a resistive random access memory (RRAM) gate with a first electrode and a second electrode. The RRAM gate may also include a switching layer that includes a dielectric material having a switching layer k-value and a switching layer thermal conductivity. The RRAM gate may also include a complimentary switching (CS) mitigation layer with a material having a CS k-value that is lower than the switching layer k-value and a CS thermal conductivity that is higher than the switching layer thermal conductivity.
US11631805B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device includes the steps of providing a substrate having a memory region and a logic region, forming a memory stack structure on the memory region, forming a passivation layer covering a top surface and sidewalls of the memory stack structure, forming a first interlayer dielectric layer on the passivation layer, performing a post-polishing etching back process to remove a portion of the first interlayer dielectric layer and a portion of the passivation layer on the top surface of the memory stack structure, forming a second interlayer dielectric layer on the first interlayer dielectric layer and directly contacting the passivation layer, and forming an upper contact structure through the second interlayer dielectric layer and the passivation layer on the top surface of the memory stack structure to contact the memory stack structure.
US11631804B2
A perpendicular magnetization type three-terminal SOT-MRAM that does not need an external magnetic field is provided. A magnetoresistance effect element where a first magnetic layer/nonmagnetic spacer layer/recording layer are disposed in order, and the first magnetic layer and the nonmagnetic spacer layer are provided to a channel layer.
US11631802B2
A plurality of conductive via connections are fabricated on a substrate located at positions where MTJ devices are to be fabricated, wherein a width of each of the conductive via connections is smaller than or equivalent to a width of the MTJ devices. The conductive via connections are surrounded with a dielectric layer having a height sufficient to ensure that at the end of a main MTJ etch, an etch front remains in the dielectric layer surrounding the conductive via connections. Thereafter, a MTJ film stack is deposited on the plurality of conductive via connections surrounded by the dielectric layer. The MTJ film stack is etched using an ion beam etch process (IBE), etching through the MTJ film stack and into the dielectric layer surrounding the conductive via connections to form the MTJ devices wherein by etching into the dielectric layer, re-deposition on sidewalls of the MTJ devices is insulating.
US11631792B2
A light emitting device includes a Chip Scale Packaged (CSP) LED, the CSP LED including an LED chip that generates blue excitation light; and a photoluminescence layer that covers a light emitting face of the LED chip, wherein the photoluminescence layer comprises from 75 wt % to 100 wt % of a manganese-activated fluoride photoluminescence material of the total photoluminescence material content of the layer. The device/CSP LED can further include a further photoluminescence layer that covers the first photoluminescence and that includes a photoluminescence material that generates light with a peak emission wavelength from 500 nm to 650 nm.
US11631789B2
A light emitting device includes a base including a support having a support surface. A light emitting element includes a semiconductor layer and a sapphire substrate provided on the semiconductor layer opposite to the support surface. A reflecting film provided on the sapphire substrate. A light-transmissive covering member is provided on the support surface. A height of the light-transmissive covering member viewed in a direction in which a width of the light-transmissive covering member appears smallest is 0.5 times or less of the width of the light-transmissive covering member. A light reflecting layer is provided on a first region of the base such that a first reflectivity in the first region of the base being higher than a second reflectivity in a second region of the base, the second region overlapping with the light emitting element and being surrounded by the first region as viewed in the height direction.
US11631786B2
An LED array comprises a first mesa comprising a top surface, at least a first LED including a first p-type layer, a first n-type layer and a first color active region and a tunnel junction on the first LED, a second n-type layer on the tunnel junction, the second n-type layer comprising at least one n-type III-nitride layer with >10% Al mole fraction and at least one n-type III-nitride layer with <10% Al mole fraction. The LED array further comprises an adjacent mesa comprising a top surface, the first LED, a second LED including the second n-type layer, a second p-type layer and a second color active region. A first trench separates the first mesa and the adjacent mesa, cathode metallization in the first trench and in electrical contact with the first and the second color active regions of the adjacent mesa, and anode metallization contacts on the n-type layer of the first mesa and on the anode layer of the adjacent mesa. The devices and methods for their manufacture include a thin film transistor (TFT).
US11631781B2
A method of manufacturing display device is disclosed. A substrate includes a basal layer and metal contacts on the top surface. An insulation layer is disposed on the top surface and includes a first mounting surface and a bottom surface. Multiple grooves are formed on the insulation layer and each extends from the first mounting surface to the bottom surface. The grooves respectively correspond to the metal contacts and expose respective metal contacts. An electromagnetic force is provided with a direction from the basal layer toward the insulation layer. A droplet containing multiple micro components is provided on the first mounting surface. A configuration of an electrode of the micro component corresponds to a configuration of one of the grooves. The electrode is attracted to the corresponding groove by the electromagnetic force so as to electrically contact the metal contact.
US11631770B2
A semiconductor device structure and a method for forming a semiconductor device structure are provided. The semiconductor device structure includes multiple semiconductor nanostructures over a substrate and two epitaxial structures over the substrate. Each of the semiconductor nanostructures is between the epitaxial structures, and the epitaxial structures are p-type doped. The semiconductor device structure also includes a gate stack wrapping around the semiconductor nanostructures. The semiconductor device structure further includes a dielectric stressor structure between the gate stack and the substrate. The epitaxial structures extend exceeding a top surface of the dielectric stressor structure.
US11631766B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a gate structure, a source region, a drain region, a first oxide layer, a field plate, and a second oxide layer. The gate structure is disposed on the semiconductor substrate. The source region and the drain region are disposed in the semiconductor substrate and located at two opposite sides of the gate structure respectively. The first oxide layer includes a first portion disposed between the gate structure and the semiconductor substrate and a second portion disposed between the gate structure and the drain region. The field plate is partly disposed above the gate structure and partly disposed above the second portion of the first oxide layer. The second oxide layer includes a first portion disposed between the field plate and the gate structure and a second portion disposed between the field plate and the second portion of the first oxide layer.
US11631764B2
First and second p-type semiconductor regions (electric-field relaxation layers) are formed by ion implantation using a dummy gate and side wall films on both sides of the dummy gate as a mask. In this manner, it is possible to reduce a distance between the first p-type semiconductor region and a trench and a distance between the second p-type semiconductor region and the trench, and symmetry of the first and second p-type semiconductor regions with respect to the trench can be enhanced. As a result, semiconductor elements can be miniaturized, and on-resistance and an electric-field relaxation effect, which are in a trade-off relationship, can be balanced, so that characteristics of the semiconductor elements can be improved.
US11631760B2
Apparatus and circuits with dual polarization transistors and methods of fabricating the same are disclosed. In one example, a semiconductor structure is disclosed. The semiconductor structure includes: a substrate; an active layer that is formed over the substrate and comprises a first active portion having a first thickness and a second active portion having a second thickness; a first transistor comprising a first source region, a first drain region, and a first gate structure formed over the first active portion and between the first source region and the first drain region; and a second transistor comprising a second source region, a second drain region, and a second gate structure formed over the second active portion and between the second source region and the second drain region, wherein the first thickness is different from the second thickness.
US11631755B2
In a method of manufacturing a negative capacitance structure, a dielectric layer is formed over a substrate. A first metallic layer is formed over the dielectric layer. After the first metallic layer is formed, an annealing operation is performed, followed by a cooling operation. A second metallic layer is formed. After the cooling operation, the dielectric layer becomes a ferroelectric dielectric layer including an orthorhombic crystal phase.
US11631752B2
A semiconductor device include a substrate, a buffer layer formed on the substrate, a channel layer formed by an intrinsic polycrystalline silicon layer on the buffer layer, polycrystalline source and drain by non-intrinsic silicon formed on both sides of the polycrystalline silicon layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode formed on the polycrystalline source and the drain, a gate electrode corresponding to the channel layer, and an NiSi2 contact layer located between the source and the source electrode and between the drain and the drain electrode.
US11631739B2
A method for producing a transistor includes producing on a substrate provided with a semiconductor surface layer in which an active area can be formed, a gate block arranged on the active area. Lateral protection areas are formed against lateral faces of the gate block. Source and drain regions based on a metal material-semiconductor material compound are formed on either side of the gate and in the continuation of a portion located facing the gate block. Insulating spacers are formed on either side of the gate resting on the regions based on a metal material-semiconductor material compound.
US11631738B2
The present application discloses a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first semiconductor stack having a first threshold voltage and comprising a first insulating stack positioned on the substrate, a second semiconductor stack having a second threshold voltage and comprising a second insulating stack positioned on the substrate, and a third semiconductor stack having a third threshold voltage and comprising a third insulating stack positioned on the substrate. The first threshold voltage, the second threshold voltage, and the third threshold voltage are different from each other, a thickness of the first insulating stack is different from a thickness of the second insulating stack and a thickness of the third insulating stack, and the thickness of the second insulating stack is different from the thickness of the third insulating stack.
US11631727B2
A thin-film transistor substrate includes a semiconductor layer disposed on a substrate, a gate insulating layer disposed on the semiconductor layer, a first electrode that at least partly overlaps the semiconductor layer, wherein the gate insulating layer is disposed between the first electrode and the semiconductor layer, a plurality of thin-film layers disposed on the first electrode, and a second electrode that at least partly overlaps the first electrode, wherein the plurality of thin-film layers are disposed between the second electrode and the first electrode, wherein at least one of the plurality of thin-film layers includes amorphous silicon.
US11631720B2
Provided is a structure 1 including an infrared light photoelectric conversion element 300 including an infrared light photoelectric conversion layer including a photoelectric conversion material that has a maximum absorption wavelength in an infrared range and generates a charge depending on absorbed light in the infrared range; a visible light photoelectric conversion element 200 that absorbs a light beam having a wavelength in a visible range and generates a charge depending on absorbed light; and an optical filter 400 that blocks and transmits a light beam of a predetermined wavelength, in which the infrared light photoelectric conversion element 300, the visible light photoelectric conversion element 200, and the optical filter 400 are provided on the same optical path, and each of the infrared light photoelectric conversion element 300 and the visible light photoelectric conversion element 200 is provided on an emission side of light from the optical filter 400. Provided is further an optical sensor and an image display device, each of which including the structure 1.
US11631712B2
A photoelectric conversion device including an effective pixel region including a plurality of effective pixels and a peripheral region provided outside the effective pixel region, the photoelectric conversion device comprising: a wiring layer; an upper electrode; and a photoelectric conversion film provided extensively over the effective pixel region and the peripheral region, wherein each of the plurality of effective pixels includes a pixel electrode disposed between the wiring layer and the photoelectric conversion film in a depth direction, the peripheral region includes a conductive layer disposed between the wiring layer and the photoelectric conversion film in the depth direction, and the upper electrode and the conductive layer are at a same potential.
US11631710B2
Image sensors are provided. The image sensors may include a plurality of unit pixels and a color filter array on the plurality of unit pixels. The color filter array may include a color filter unit including four color filters that are arranged in a two-by-two array, and the color filter unit may include two yellow color filters, a cyan color filter, and one of a red color filter or a green color filter.
US11631704B2
An active matrix substrate includes a plurality of source bus lines and a plurality of gate bus lines and a plurality of oxide semiconductor TFTs that have a plurality of pixel TFTs, each of which is associated with one of the plurality of pixel regions, and a plurality of circuit TFTs constituting a peripheral circuit, in which each of oxide semiconductor TFTs has an oxide semiconductor layer and a gate electrode disposed on a channel region of the oxide semiconductor layer via a gate insulating layer, the plurality of oxide semiconductor TFTs have a plurality of first TFTs, a plurality of second TFTs, and/or a plurality of third TFTs, and the plurality of first TFTs have the plurality of pixel TFTs, and the plurality of second TFTs and/or the plurality of third TFTs have at least a portion of the plurality of circuit TFTs.
US11631701B2
A display device includes a display medium layer, an active component array layer, a support layer, and a first adhesive layer. The display medium layer has a light-emitting surface. The active component array layer is disposed on a side of the display medium layer away from the light-emitting surface. The support layer is disposed on a side of the active component array layer away from the display medium layer. The first adhesive layer is connected between the active component array layer and the support layer, in which the active component array layer is directly connected to the first adhesive layer. The first adhesive layer has a Young's modulus greater than 10 GPa.
US11631695B2
A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over a substrate. Each electrically conductive layer within a subset of the electrically conductive layers includes a respective first metal layer containing an elemental metal and a respective first metal silicide layer containing a metal silicide of the elemental metal. Memory openings vertically extend through the alternating stack. Memory opening fill structures located within the memory openings can include a respective memory film and a respective vertical semiconductor channel.
US11631670B2
A semiconductor device including a substrate; a first active pattern on the substrate and extending in a first direction, an upper portion of the first active pattern including a first channel pattern; first source/drain patterns in recesses in an upper portion of the first channel pattern; and a gate electrode on the first active pattern and extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, the gate electrode being on a top surface and on a side surface of the at least one first channel pattern, wherein each of the first source/drain patterns includes a first, second, and third semiconductor layer, which are sequentially provided in the recesses, each of the first channel pattern and the third semiconductor layers includes silicon-germanium (SiGe), and the first semiconductor layer has a germanium concentration higher than those of the first channel pattern and the second semiconductor layer.
US11631669B2
A parallel structure comprising source/drain and channel layers alternately stacked on a substrate, and gate stacks formed around peripheries of the channel layers. Each of the channel layers, the source/drain layers on upper and lower sides of the channel layer, and the gate stack formed around the channel layer, form a semiconductor device. In each semiconductor device, one of the source/drain layers is in contact with a first electrically-conductive channel disposed on an outer periphery of the active region, the other is in contact with a second electrically-conductive channel on the outer periphery of the active region, and the gate stack is in contact with a third electrically-conductive channel disposed on the outer periphery of the active region. The first electrically-conductive channel is common to the semiconductor devices, the second electrically-conductive channel is common to the semiconductor devices, and the third electronically-conductive channel is common to the semiconductor devices.
US11631665B2
Provided is a semiconductor device comprising a semiconductor substrate that includes a transistor region; an emitter electrode that is provided on the semiconductor substrate; a first dummy trench portion that is provided on the transistor region of the semiconductor substrate and includes a dummy conducting portion that is electrically connected to the emitter electrode; and a first contact portion that is a partial region of the transistor region, provided between an end portion of a long portion of the first dummy trench portion and an end portion of the semiconductor substrate, and electrically connects the emitter electrode and a semiconductor region with a first conductivity type provided in the transistor region.
US11631663B2
A control circuit applied in a specific element and including a first transistor and an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit is provided. The specific element has a III-V semiconductor material and includes a control electrode, a first electrode and a second electrode. The first transistor is coupled between the first electrode and the second electrode and has the III-V semiconductor material. The ESD protection circuit is coupled to the control electrode, the first transistor and the second electrode. In response to an ESD event, the ESD protection circuit provides a discharge path to release the ESD current from the control electrode to the second electrode.
US11631660B2
A semiconductor package according to the inventive concept includes a first semiconductor chip configured to include a first semiconductor device, a first semiconductor substrate, a plurality of through electrodes penetrating the first semiconductor substrate, and a plurality of first chip connection pads arranged on an upper surface of the first semiconductor substrate; a plurality of second semiconductor chips sequentially stacked on an upper surface of the first semiconductor chip and configured to each include a second semiconductor substrate, a second semiconductor device controlled by the first semiconductor chip, and a plurality of second chip connection pads arranged on an upper surface of the second semiconductor substrate; a plurality of bonding wires configured to connect the plurality of first chip connection pads to the plurality of second chip connection pads; and a plurality of external connection terminals arranged on a lower surface of the first semiconductor chip.
US11631654B2
A method includes bonding a first and a second package component on a top surface of a third package component, and dispensing a polymer. The polymer includes a first portion in a space between the first and the third package components, a second portion in a space between the second and the third package components, and a third portion in a gap between the first and the second package components. A curing step is then performed on the polymer. After the curing step, the third portion of the polymer is sawed to form a trench between the first and the second package components.
US11631653B2
An ultrasonic bonding apparatus includes an ultrasonic bonding machine having an ultrasonic tool for applying an ultrasonic wave to a bonding target member mounted on a fixed object fixed to a jig, while pressing a bonding member against the bonding target member; and a bonding inspection apparatus for inspecting a bonding quality of the bonding target member and the bonding member. The bonding inspection apparatus includes: a bonded-state measuring device for detecting a vibration in the jig or a housing of the ultrasonic bonding machine equipped with the jig, to thereby output a detection signal; and a bonded-state determination device for determining, in a bonding process for the bonding target member and the bonding member, a bonded state between the bonding target member and the bonding member on the basis of the detection signal outputted by the bonded-state measuring device.
US11631651B2
A semiconductor package includes a package substrate and a semiconductor chip mounted on the package substrate. The package substrate includes a signal bump land and an anchoring bump land, and the semiconductor chip includes a signal bump and an anchoring bump. The signal bump is bonded to the signal bump land, the anchoring bump is disposed to be adjacent to the anchoring bump land, and a bottom surface of the anchoring bump is located at a level which is lower than a top surface of the anchoring bump land with respect to a surface of the package substrate.
US11631648B2
The present disclosure relates to an integrated chip structure having a first copper pillar disposed over a metal pad of an interposer substrate. The first copper pillar has a sidewall defining a recess. A nickel layer is disposed over the first copper pillar and a solder layer is disposed over the first copper pillar and the nickel layer. The solder layer continuously extends from directly over the first copper pillar to within the recess. A second copper layer is disposed between the solder layer and a second substrate.
US11631647B2
In one embodiment, an integrated device package is disclosed. The integrated device package can comprise a carrier an a molding compound over a portion of an upper surface of the carrier. The integrated device package can comprise an integrated device die mounted to the carrier and at least partially embedded in the molding compound, the integrated device die comprising active circuitry. The integrated device package can comprise a stress compensation element mounted to the carrier and at least partially embedded in the molding compound, the stress compensation element spaced apart from the integrated device die, the stress compensation element comprising a dummy stress compensation element devoid of active circuitry. At least one of the stress compensation element and the integrated device die can be directly bonded to the carrier without an adhesive.
US11631646B2
A method for producing a plurality of chips each comprising an individualisation region, each chip comprising at least: a first and a second level of the electrical tracks, and an interconnections level comprising vias. The method includes producing on the dielectric layer covering the first level a mask having openings located in line with the electrical tracks and making the dielectric layer accessible. The method includes producing, in a region of the chip comprising the individualisation region, patterns conformed so that: first openings of the hard mask are not masked by the patterns, and second openings of the hard mask are masked by the patterns. The method includes producing via openings in the dielectric layer in line solely with the first openings. The method further includes filling in the via openings with an electrically conductive material, and producing the second level of the electrical tracks on the vias.
US11631636B2
The invention relates to a module (1) in which voltages greater than 1,000 V and currents greater than 100 A are applied via supply lines, with an electrically insulating carrier (2), with a connection means (3) which has a material thickness greater than 0.3 mm and is connected to the carrier (2) via a metallization area (4) which is delimited by a first end (23) and a second end (24), with electronic components (19, 20) which are connected to the connection means (3) as required, and with cooling means (14). In order that the power is supplied from the outside via the connection means (3) directly to the module and thus the bonding processes that are customary in the prior art are omitted and parasitic inductances on the power supply are avoided, the invention proposes that the connection means (3) protrudes beyond one end (23, 24) of the metallization area (4) at least at one point, is not fixed to the carrier (2) in this area (9) and has contact means (22).
US11631634B2
This disclosure relates to a leadless packaged semiconductor device including a top and a bottom opposing major surfaces and sidewalls extending between the top and bottom surfaces, the leadless packaged semiconductor device further includes a lead frame structure including an array of two or more lead frame sub-structures each having a semiconductor die arranged thereon, and terminals and a track extended across the bottom surface of the semiconductor device. The track provides a region for interconnecting the semiconductor die and terminals, and the track is filled by an insulating material to isolate the lead frame sub-structures.
US11631632B2
In a described example, an apparatus includes: a package substrate having a die mount portion and lead portions; at least one semiconductor device die over the die mount portion of the package substrate, the semiconductor device die having bond pads on an active surface facing away from the package substrate; electrical connections between at least one of the bond pads and one of the lead portions; a post interconnect over at least one of the bond pads, the post interconnect extending away from the active surface of the semiconductor device die; and a dielectric material covering a portion of the package substrate, the semiconductor device die, a portion of the post interconnect, and the electrical connections, forming a packaged semiconductor device, wherein the post interconnect extends through the dielectric material and had an end facing away from the semiconductor device die that is exposed from the dielectric material.
US11631624B2
Various semiconductor chip packages are disclosed. In one aspect, a semiconductor chip package is provided that includes a package substrate that has a first edge and a second edge opposite to the first edge. A semiconductor chip is mounted on the package substrate. A thermal interface material is positioned on the semiconductor chip. A lid is positioned over the thermal interface material. A spring biasing mechanism is included that is operable to bias the lid away from the package substrate so that the lid, when subjected to a compressive force, can translate toward the package substrate and impart a compressive force on the thermal interface material.
US11631611B2
Presented herein is a WLCSP intermediate structure and method forming the same, the method comprising forming a first redistribution layer (RDL) on a carrier, the first RDL having mounting pads disposed on the first RDL, and mounting interposer dies on a second side of the first RDL. A second RDL is formed over a second side of the interposer dies, the second RDL having a first side adjacent to the interposer dies, one or more lands disposed on the second RDL, at least one of the one or more lands in electrical contact with at least one of the interposer dies or at least one of the mounting pads. A molding compound is formed around the interposer dies and over a portion of the first RDL prior to the forming the second RDL and the second RDL is formed over at least a portion of the molding compound.
US11631604B2
The present disclosure provides a load port device, a gas gate and a gas-providing method. The load port device includes a gas-providing nozzle and the gas gate. The gas-providing nozzle is used for providing gas to a wafer container. The gas gate includes a plurality of gas inlet ports, a gas-providing port and a controller. Each gas inlet port connects to a gas source. The gas-providing port connects to the gas-providing nozzle. The controller is configured to: select one of the plurality of gas inlet ports; and connect the selected gas inlet port to the gas-providing port.
US11631597B2
A holding apparatus including a holding substrate having a first main face on one side in a thickness direction thereof, and a heat generation section which is disposed in the holding substrate and generates heat when energized. The heat generation section includes a plurality of first heating elements arrayed in a planar direction orthogonal to the thickness direction of the holding substrate, and a second heating element disposed on a side toward the first main face in the thickness direction with respect to the plurality of first heating elements. Any one of the plurality of first heating elements is electrically connected to the second heating element in series through a first via extending in the thickness direction within the holding substrate.
US11631588B2
A method of doping a substrate. The method may include providing a substrate in a process chamber. The substrate may include a semiconductor structure, and a dopant layer disposed on a surface of the semiconductor structure. The method may include maintaining the substrate at a first temperature for a first interval, the first temperature corresponding to a vaporization temperature of the dopant layer. The method may further include rapidly cooling the substrate to a second temperature, less than the first temperature, and heating the substrate from the second temperature to a third temperature, greater than the first temperature.
US11631579B2
An extreme ultraviolet light source apparatus includes a disc-shaped cathode rotating about an axis, a disc-shaped anode rotating about an axis, an energy beam irradiation device irradiating a plasma raw material on the cathode with an energy beam to vaporize the plasma raw material, a power supply for causing a discharge between the cathode and the anode for generating a plasma in the gap between the cathode and the anode to emit extreme ultraviolet light, and an irradiation position adjusting mechanism for adjusting a position at which the cathode is irradiated with the energy beam. The cathode, the anode, and the irradiation position adjusting mechanism are accommodated in a housing. A photography device is disposed outside the housing and is configured to photograph a visible-light image of a vicinity of the cathode and the anode, the vicinity including visible light emitted from the plasma.
US11631571B2
An apparatus for atomic scale processing is provided. The apparatus may include a reactor (100) and an inductively coupled plasma source (10). The reactor may have inner (154) and outer surfaces (152) such that a portion of the inner surfaces define an internal volume (156) of the reactor. The internal volume of the reactor may contain a fixture assembly (158) to support a substrate (118) wherein the partial pressure of each background impurity within the internal volume may be below 10−6 Torr to reduce the role of said impurities in surface reactions during atomic scale processing.
US11631561B2
Disclosed embodiments relate to an electrically controlled switch for high current switching operations and with different configurations of fixed terminal contacts that includes a switch body, a couple of moving contacts, a guide that drives the couple of moving contacts up to an abutting position, a housing groove running perimetric in the switch body, and at least one contact bar for connecting each of the moving contact to a respective fixed terminal contact of the switch, wherein the contact bar is hosted within the housing groove and has a free end projecting from the switch body to form the fixed terminal contact through a corresponding aperture of the switch body located on a same lateral side or on opposite lateral sides, or on the base support, respectively.
US11631560B2
A guiding pull ring member for guiding a unit top contact in a switch assembly into a mounting contact. The guide ring member includes a mounting ring defined in a first plane, a grasping ring coupled to one side of the mounting ring and being defined in a second plane perpendicular to the first plane, and a V-shaped guide piece coupled to the mounting ring at a side opposite from the grasping ring and extending perpendicular to the first plane. The guiding pull ring member has particular application for a solenoid operated vacuum interrupter recloser switch mounted to a utility pole.
US11631551B2
A novel electrode and associated method of manufacturing said novel electrode comprising a porous structure having absorbed polystyrene sulfonate (PSS), a self-assembled polypyrole (PPy) layer adjacent to the PSS absorbed porous structure, a self-assembled polyaniline (PANI) layer adjacent to the PPy layer, an electrochemically deposited PANI layer adjacent to the PPy layer and an electrochemically deposited PANI-molybdenum disulfide (PANI-MoS2) layer adjacent to the electrochemically deposited PANI layer. A supercapacitor and associated method of manufacturing a supercapacitor comprising a first novel electrode and a second novel electrode separated by a polyvinyl gel and a porous separator.
US11631546B2
A capacitor and a method for producing a capacitor are disclosed. In an embodiment, a capacitor includes a winding having a cathode foil, an anode foil, separators arranged therebetween and a projection region in which the cathode foil projects beyond the anode foil, wherein, in the projection region, a plurality of layers of the cathode foil are arranged to form a bundle and are directly electrically connected to one another.
US11631543B2
A multi-layer ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body and an external electrode, the ceramic body including a protective portion and a functional portion, the protective portion including an end surface facing in a first direction, circumferential surfaces connected to the end surface and extending in the first direction, and a ridge that includes a recess extending along the first direction and connects the circumferential surfaces, the functional portion being disposed inside the protective portion, the external electrode including a base film covering the end surface, an intermediate film formed on the base film, and a surface film formed on the intermediate film, the base film including a first covering portion formed on the end surface, second covering portions formed on the circumferential surfaces, and a third covering portion formed on the recess and spaced apart from at least one second covering portion, the intermediate film continuously covering the first, second, and third covering portions.
US11631534B2
A superconducting device includes a first superconducting wire configured to carry a first current in a superconducting state, and to generate thermal energy upon occurrence of a hot spot during conduction. The device includes a second superconducting wire, thermally coupled to and electrically isolated from the first superconducting wire. The second superconducting wire is configured to conduct a second current in a superconducting state below, but sufficiently near its critical surface to be quenched to a non-superconducting state upon conduction of the thermal energy from the first superconducting wire.
US11631533B2
A transformer includes a tank with an insulating fluid, a radiator for cooling the insulating fluid, and one or more sensors arranged to measure insulating fluid properties in a location where the insulating fluid has a lower temperature.
US11631531B2
A coil component is provided. The coil component includes a body having one surface and the other surface, opposing each other, and including a plurality of wall surfaces respectively connecting the one surface and the other surface, a coil portion embedded in the body, first and second external electrodes spaced apart from each other on one surface of the body, and respectively connected to the coil portion, a groove formed continuously along an edge of the other surface of the body, and a stress relieving portion disposed on the other surface of the body to fill at least a portion of the groove.
US11631524B2
In an exemplary embodiment, a coil component includes: an element body part 10 and a coil 30 of spiral shape constituted by multiple turn units 32 connected in a coil axial direction; wherein each turn unit 32 has, in a cross-sectional view in the width direction of the turn unit 32, a flat side 40 that extends in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the coil axis of the coil 30; and the point of intersection 48 between a figure line 42 corresponding to the longest part in a first direction, and a figure line 44 corresponding to the longest part in the second direction, with respect to the coil axis, is positioned on the figure line 42 within one-quarter of the figure line away from one end 50 on the side 40 or from the other end 52 opposing the side 40.
US11631517B2
An 8-shaped inductive coil device that includes a first and a second spiral coils and a connection segment structure is provided. The first spiral coil includes first metal segments and crossing connection segments disposed at a first and a second metal layers respectively and includes first connection terminals. The second spiral coil includes second connection terminals. The connection segment structure electrically couples the first and the second connection terminals. The first and the second spiral coils are disposed along an imaginary line passing through a central region of each of ranges surrounded by the first and the second spiral coils. The connection segment structure and the crossing connection segments electrically couple the part of the first metal segments substantially vertical to the imaginary line, and the connection segment structure and the crossing connection segments are disposed substantially on the imaginary line.
US11631515B2
A filter device includes a first filter including series resonators and parallel resonators, a first inductor connected in parallel between a first terminal and the first filter, a second inductor provided in series between the first filter and a second terminal, and a third inductor provided in series in a channel connecting the parallel resonator and ground, the third inductor is incorporated in a multilayer substrate, the first filter is mounted on a main surface of the multilayer substrate and incorporated in a filter chip, and the first inductor and the second inductor are chip inductors including coil conductors and are mounted on the main surface of the multilayer substrate beside the filter chip so as to be adjacent to each other and such that coil axes thereof are orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to each other.
US11631514B2
Disclosed is a superconducting magnet with improved thermal and electrical stabilities and a method for manufacturing the same. The superconducting magnet includes a bobbin disposed at a center of the superconducting magnet, a superconducting winding wound around an outer face of the bobbin, and an epoxy impregnated at an exterior of the superconducting winding, wherein the epoxy contains carbon nanotubes.
US11631511B2
A thermistor chip is provided, which includes a thermosensitive ceramic substrate, a surface electrode and a bottom electrode. The surface electrode and the bottom electrode are respectively arranged on the two surfaces of the thermosensitive ceramic substrate. The surface electrode is a silver layer. The bottom electrode consists of a silver layer, a titanium-tungsten alloy layer, a copper layer and a gold layer, laminating on the thermosensitive ceramic substrate in turn from inside to outside. A preparation method thereof is also provided. The thermistor chip can meet the requirements of both solder paste reflow soldering and wire bonding process simultaneously, and has the advantages of good bonding effect and high temperature resistance, high reliability and high stability.
US11631510B2
There is described an electrical isolator comprising a first fluid-carrying member and a second fluid-carrying member spaced apart from said first fluid-carrying member, a resistive, semi-conductive or non-conductive component located between and sealed against said first and second fluid-carrying member, wherein said resistive, semi-conductive or non-conductive component is adapted to convey fluid flowing from said first fluid-carrying member to said second fluid-carrying member, a reinforcing composite encircling said first fluid-carrying member, said second fluid-carrying member and said resistive, semi-conductive or non-conductive component, wherein said reinforcing composite is continuous and provides a conductive path between said first fluid-carrying member and said second fluid-carrying member, wherein said reinforcing composite comprises fibre and a resin mixture, and said resin mixture comprises resin and a conductive additive.
US11631492B2
A hospital support system includes a management monitor and an operation terminal functioning as a first controller that performs control for displaying a status management table in a state in which items corresponding to a series of predetermined multiple stages performed so as to correspond to a diseased animal at least while the diseased animal stays in a hospital from when the diseased animal arrives at the hospital to when payment is finished are arranged in a sequence of time on the management monitor and a second controller that performs control for displaying an icon indicating which stage of the multiple stages in the status management table is a stage being performed at a current point of time on the management monitor.
US11631483B2
A method for coordinating the manufacturing of an expanded cell therapy product for a patient may include receiving a cell order request to expand the cell therapy product for the patient; generating a patient-specific identifier or cell order identifier associated with the cell order request; and initiating a process to expand the cell therapy product from at least some of a solid tumor obtained from the patient. If acceptance parameters for the expansion cell therapy product do not meet certain acceptance criteria at a second time point subsequent to a first time point in the expansion process, it is determined whether re-performing the expansion of the cell therapy product using the cell expansion technique is possible from the first time point based on the acceptance parameters at the second time point. If such re-performing the expansion is possible, patient treatment events that use the expanded cell therapy product are rescheduled.
US11631464B2
A memory apparatus and a control method are provided. The memory apparatus includes a non-volatile memory array having plural memory groups, and the control method is applied to the non-volatile memory array. The memory groups jointly share a first well, and the control method is applied to the non-volatile memory array. A first memory group among the memory groups is erased according to a first erase command after the memory apparatus is power-on, and a first amount of the memory groups are recovered in a first erase-recover procedure after the first memory group is erased. A second memory group among the memory groups is erased according to a second erase command after the first erase-recover procedure, and a second amount of the memory groups are recovered in a second erase-recover procedure after the second memory group is erased. The first amount is greater than the second amount.
US11631460B2
Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods for performing a first stage of an operation of storing information in a first memory cell and a second memory cell, and performing a second stage of the operation after the first stage to determine whether each of the first and second memory cells reaches a target state. The first memory cell is included in a first memory cell string coupled to a data line through a first select transistor. The second memory cell is included in a second memory cell string coupled to the data line through a second select transistor.
US11631448B1
A memory device includes a memory cell array, an address manager and a refresh controller. The memory cell array includes a plurality of memory cells coupled to a plurality of word-lines. The address manager samples access addresses provided from a memory controller to generate sampling addresses and determines a capture address from among the access addresses, based on a time interval between refresh commands from the memory controller. The refresh controller refreshes target memory cells from among the plurality of memory cells based on one of a maximum access address from among the sampling address and the captured address.
US11631445B2
A semiconductor apparatus includes a memory controller and data storage configured to input and output data in synchronization with a clock signal provided from the memory controller. The data storage includes a memory cell array and a data output apparatus configure to output read data from the memory cell array by sensing a logic level of the read data during a low-level period of a first clock, which is an inverted signal of a divided clock of the clock signal, and a low-level period of a second clock, the second clock having a set to phase delay amount from the divided clock.
US11631441B2
A memory device supporting multi-address read operations improves throughput on a bi-directional serial port. The device includes a memory array and an input/output port having an input mode and an output mode. The input/output port has at least one signal line used alternately in both the input and output modes. A controller includes logic configured to execute a multi-address read operation in response to receiving a read command on the input/output port, the multi-address read operation including receiving a first address and a second address using the at least one signal line before outputting data.
US11631440B2
A sensing amplifier, coupled to at least one memory cell, includes an output terminal and a reference terminal, a multiplexer circuit, and a plurality of reference cells having equal value. An output terminal of the multiplexer circuit is coupled to the reference terminal of the sensing amplifier. Each of the reference cell is coupled to each input node of the multiplexer circuit. The multiplexer circuit is controlled by a control signal to select one of the reference cells as a selected reference cell to couple to the reference terminal of the sensing amplifier when each read operation to the at least one memory cell is performed. The plurality of reference cells are selected sequentially and repeatedly, and the one of the reference cells is selected for one read operation to the at least one memory cell.
US11631437B2
A memory module is provided including a plurality of semiconductor memory devices mounted on a circuit board. A control device is mounted on the circuit board and configured to receive a command signal, an address signal, and a clock signal and to provide the command signal, the address signal, and the clock signal to the plurality of semiconductor memory devices. A first group of the semiconductor memory devices is disposed between the control device and a first edge portion of the circuit board, and a second group of the semiconductor memory devices is disposed between the control device and a second edge portion of the circuit board. The control device is configured to transmit the address signal to the first group of the semiconductor memory devices and the second group of the semiconductor memory devices through a first transmission line and a second transmission line, respectively. The first transmission line and the second transmission line are physically symmetric with respect to an axis intersecting the control device.
US11631435B1
Media items captured by a media capture device may include and/or be associated with values of a clock-change identifier. The values of the clock-change identifier may be set based on when and how many times the time of the media capture device was changed. Based on a capture-time of a media item being incorrect, other media items with the same value of the clock-change identifier may be determined to be incorrect. Capture-times of the other media items may be corrected based on capture-time correction of the media item.
US11631434B2
Embodiments are directed to techniques for interacting with a hierarchical video segmentation. In some embodiments, the finest level of the hierarchical segmentation identifies the smallest interaction unit of a video—semantically defined video segments of unequal duration called clip atoms. Each level of the hierarchical segmentation clusters the clip atoms with a corresponding degree of granularity into a corresponding set of video segments. A presented video timeline is segmented based on one of the levels, and one or more segments are selected through interactions with the video timeline (e.g., clicks, drags), by performing a metadata search, or through selection of corresponding metadata segments from a metadata panel. Navigating to a different level of the hierarchy transforms the selection into corresponding coarser or finer video segments defined by the level. Any operation can be performed on selected video segments, including playing back, trimming, or editing.
US11631431B2
Apparatus and method for transferring data in a data storage system, such as but not limited to a hard disc drive (HDD). An optical link is provided between an analog front end (AFE) of a data storage device controller circuit (SOC) and a preamplifier/driver circuit (preamp) mounted to a rotary actuator to transfer an analog domain signal. A selected component is extracted from the signal using a modulation element such as a micro-resonance ring (MRR) or a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer Modulation (MZM) device. The extracted component is forwarded to a processing circuit to facilitate a transfer of data between a local memory and a non-volatile memory (NVM). The optical link includes a flexible portion in a flex circuit affixed to the rotary actuator and which supports the preamp. Multiplexed read, write, and power control signals are concurrently transmitted via the optical link. The link can concurrently service multiple head-disc assemblies (HDAs).
US11631424B1
The technology disclosed herein provides a method including determining an acceptable parameter rate for a dual reader storage device having dual readers, identifying one of the dual readers as the preferable reader, comparing an actual parameter rate of the storage device to the acceptable parameter rate of the storage device, and in response to determining that the actual parameter rate is below the acceptable parameter rate, operating the storage device using only the preferable reader. In one implementation, the parameter rate is bit-error rate (BER) of the dual readers.
US11631421B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described to increase a signal-to-noise ratio difference between a main channel and reference channel. The increased signal-to-noise ratio difference is accomplished with an adaptive threshold for a desired voice activity detector (DVAD) and shaping filters. The DVAD includes averaging an output signal of a reference microphone channel to provide an estimated average background noise level. A threshold value is selected from a plurality of threshold values based on the estimated average background noise level. The threshold value is used to detect desired voice activity on a main microphone channel.
US11631418B2
An audio encoder for providing an output signal using an input audio signal includes a patch generator, a comparator and an output interface. The patch generator generates at least one bandwidth extension high-frequency signal, wherein a bandwidth extension high-frequency signal includes a high-frequency band. The high-frequency band of the bandwidth extension high-frequency signal is based on a low frequency band of the input audio signal. A comparator calculates a plurality of comparison parameters. A comparison parameter is calculated based on a comparison of the input audio signal and a generated bandwidth extension high-frequency signal. Each comparison parameter of the plurality of comparison parameters is calculated based on a different offset frequency between the input audio signal and a generated bandwidth extension high-frequency signal. Further, the comparator determines a comparison parameter from the plurality of comparison parameters, wherein the determined comparison parameter fulfils a predefined criterion.
US11631416B1
Data-analysis-based processing is provided to validate audio content delivery via embedded inaudible sound signals. The processing obtains, by a validation system, an indication of detection of an inaudible sound signal embedded in an audio output of provided content initiated by a user on a user-device. The inaudible sound signal is inaudible to the user, and the audio output is from the user-device. Based on obtaining the indication of detection of the inaudible sound signal embedded in the audio output, the validation system validates that the audio output of the provided content is ON with respect to the user-device.
US11631410B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving a signal from each microphone of a plurality of microphones, thus defining a plurality of signals. One or more inter-microphone gain-based augmentations may be performed on the plurality of signals, thus defining one or more inter-microphone gain-augmented signals.
US11631408B2
The present disclosure provides a method for controlling data, a device for controlling data, an electronic equipment, and a storage medium. The method for controlling data includes receiving a first voice signal for a virtual object displayed on a first electronic device collected by the first electronic device; obtaining a first recognition result by parsing and recognizing the first voice signal; generating, based on the first recognition result, a control instruction for controlling the virtual object to perform an action corresponding to the control instruction; and sending the control instruction to the first electronic device and at least one second electronic device in the same virtual space. The disclosure is capable of controlling a process of the virtual object performing a live streaming interaction by using a voice interaction mode, thus reducing user operations and improving user experience.
US11631404B2
Audio distortion compensation methods to improve accuracy and efficiency of audio content identification are described. The method is also applicable to speech recognition. Methods to detect the interference from speakers and sources, and distortion to audio from environment and devices, are discussed. Additional methods to detect distortion to the content after performing search and correlation are illustrated. The causes of actual distortion at each client are measured and registered and learnt to generate rules for determining likely distortion and interference sources. The learnt rules are applied at the client, and likely distortions that are detected are compensated or heavily distorted sections are ignored at audio level or signature and feature level based on compute resources available. Further methods to subtract the likely distortions in the query at both audio level and after processing at signature and feature level are described.
US11631399B2
According to some embodiments, a machine learning model may include an input layer to receive an input signal as a series of frames representing handwriting data, speech data, audio data, and/or textual data. A plurality of time layers may be provided, and each time layer may comprise a uni-directional recurrent neural network processing block. A depth processing block may scan hidden states of the recurrent neural network processing block of each time layer, and the depth processing block may be associated with a first frame and receive context frame information of a sequence of one or more future frames relative to the first frame. An output layer may output a final classification as a classified posterior vector of the input signal. For example, the depth processing block may receive the context from information from an output of a time layer processing block or another depth processing block of the future frame.
US11631387B2
A drumstick is provided. The drumstick comprises a shaft. A plurality of sound initiating elements are disposed along the shaft. The sound initiating elements are adapted for initiating generation of sound associated with simultaneously activating a plurality of percussion surfaces of a percussion music instrument.
US11631379B2
A data authorization controlling and matching system includes a receiver, a plurality of display devices, and at least one transmitter. The receiver is used for receiving an image signal. The plurality of display devices are coupled to the receiver for displaying the image signal. The at least one transmitter is coupled to the receiver for outputting the image signal. After a member list saved in the receiver is configured, a data link between the receiver and the at least one transmitter is established. Hardware information of the at least one transmitter is saved in the receiver. The receiver automatically identifies the at least one transmitter according to the hardware information of the at least one transmitter. After the at least one transmitter is identified, the receiver sets authorization information of the at least one transmitter.
US11631365B2
A display device including: a first power line; a second power line; a data line; a first scan line; a second scan line; a light emitting element connected between the first power line and a first node; a first transistor connected between the first node and the second power line and including a gate electrode connected to a second node; a second transistor connected between the data line and the second node and including a gate electrode connected to the first scan line; and a fourth transistor connected between the first power line and the first node and including a gate electrode connected to the second scan line.
US11631364B2
An electroluminescent display device comprises a pixel including a plurality of subpixels; a plurality of power lines for providing a power voltage to the plurality of subpixels; a data line for providing data signals to the plurality of subpixels; a plurality of gate lines for providing gate signals to the plurality of subpixels; and a reference node line for connecting a plurality of reference nodes included in the plurality of subpixels, wherein each of the subpixels comprises a light emitting diode and a subpixel driving circuit for controlling light emission of the light emitting diode, and wherein the subpixel driving circuit provides a driving current without including a high potential voltage to the light emitting diode as a reference voltage that is applied from one of the plurality of power lines to the reference node included in the subpixel driving circuit, and some of the plurality of subpixels include a compensation transistor connected to the reference node receiving the reference voltage.
US11631363B2
An display driver and an operating method of the display driver are provided. The display driver includes a receiver comprising a bias current control circuit. The receiver receives image data. The bias current control circuit computes a data bit rate of the image data, and adjusting a bias current of the receiver according to the data bit rate. The operating method is adapted to the display driver.
US11631350B2
A rotating display, for creating a three-dimensional image, that includes a display panel configured to rotate about an axis and comprising a plurality of groups of light emitting elements, with each element being individually controllable and configured to display a plurality of pixels of the image, a processor to receive pixel data for the display panel and divide the data into a plurality of pixel data lines, each line comprising pixel data for only one of the groups of light emitting elements, a buffer to receive one or more of the data lines, for each group of light emitting elements, and a demultiplexer configured to receive a pixel data line and provide pixel data to each light emitting element according to a refresh rate of the display panel. The display panel is configured to rotate about the axis at a rate commensurate with the refresh rate of the display panel.
US11631338B2
Digital learning or tutoring systems as described herein embed, by a trained machine learning knowledge tracing engine, an array for learner interactions X into a static representation ej corresponding to a prior learner interaction xj and determine a contextualized interaction representation hj based on this. Digital tutoring systems described herein calculate, by a masked attention layer of the trained machine learning knowledge tracing engine, an attention weight Aij based on a time gap between two learner interactions with the system, and can calculate a contextualized interaction representation hj, wherein the contextualized interaction representation hj is proportional to the attention weight Aij. The systems can provide for display at the GUI a second question item based on the contextualized interaction representation hj, the second question item corresponding to a recommended learner recommendation.
US11631336B1
A method for coordinating multiplexed communications among multiple piloted assets enlisted to a common mission and multiple requestors includes defining a mission based on a mission request received from at least one requestor via a software application, receiving enrollment requests for multiple asset pilots, receiving indications of geolocations associated with the asset pilots, matching the geolocations to the mission, and sending invitations to mobile devices of the multiple asset pilots based on the matching. Upon receipt of indications of acceptance from the asset pilots, operating multiplexed communications among the asset pilots and the requestor. The multiplexing can include relaying a first mission-related data from mobile devices of the asset pilots to a mobile device of the requestor via a common communication channel, and relaying a second mission-related data from the mobile device of the requestor to the mobile devices of the asset pilot via the common communication channel.
US11631310B2
An electronic article surveillance (EAS) system and method of operating the system, including one or more processors and memory. The memory contains instructions to cause the processors to receive data from a first sensor indicating the presence of an electronic surveillance tag within a first predetermined space, receive data from a second sensor including tracking information that indicates a distance of the second sensor from a person in possession of the electronic surveillance tag within a second predetermined space, determine a speed and/or direction of movement of the person based on the data from the second sensor, and detect a theft event and execute an alarm routine based on the presence of the electronic surveillance tag within the first predetermined space and the speed and/or direction of movement of the person within the second predetermined space.
US11631308B2
In an optical fiber monitoring system which detects physical disturbance or other parameters such as temperature or strain of a fiber where a monitor signal is transmitted along the optical fiber and analyzed to detect changes which are indicative of an event, a method is provided for periodically checking proper operation of the optical fiber monitoring system. :A fiber disturbance actuator periodically causes a pattern of disturbances of a portion of the fiber at a predetermined location thereon where the disturbance is characteristic of the event to be monitored. The monitor signal is analyzed to detect the pattern of changes and in the event that expected changes are not detected, a warning is issued that the intrusion detection system is not properly operating.
US11631306B2
A method and a target monitoring system (TMS) to generate descriptive parameters of one or more target objects in a region are provided. The TMS dynamically receives first data comprising image data and/or audio data of the target objects in the region and second data comprising circumstantial information related to the first data from one or more sensors positioned in one or more spatial directions in the region over a network. The TMS filters the dynamically received first data and identifies the target objects in the region using image data extracted from the filtered data. The TMS generates descriptive parameters associated with each identified target object in the region using the filtered first data and the circumstantial information.
US11631302B2
Innovations in user interface (“UI”) features of an electronic gaming device, and in features of backend processing to implement the UI features, are presented. For example, control logic selects symbols to be displayed for dynamic symbols for reel strips used in the electronic gaming device. The symbols selected to be displayed for dynamic symbols differ between game types. An electronic gaming machine can be associated with different gameplay divisions, such as different wager levels. Different gameplay divisions can be associated with different states, such as being in a base game mode or a special event mode, or having different numbers of spins remaining in a special event mode. A user can switch between gameplay divisions, where a state is resumed when a user switches to a different gameplay division.
US11631300B2
A gaming device comprises a processor, a credit input device, a credit meter, a win meter, a bank meter, and a memory storing instructions, which when executed by the processor cause the processor to generate a game outcome, add any win amount resulting from the game outcome to the win meter to establish a win meter balance, upon a win amount added to the win meter satisfying the automatic bank condition, transfer the win meter balance to the bank meter, and upon a residual credit balance of the credit meter being below a desired wager amount corresponding to a desired player selection for a subsequent game after transfer of the win meter balance to the bank meter, conduct a random trial having a probability of success proportional to a ratio of the residual credit balance to the desired wager amount to determine whether to conduct the subsequent game using the desired player selection.
US11631295B2
A wireless network, mobile systems and methods for controlling access to lockers, strollers, wheel chairs and electronic convenience vehicles and other networked devices provided with machine-readable codes that are scanned by mobile phones and computing devices.
US11631290B2
A method includes receiving from a first detection system, a plurality of identity tokens, the plurality of identity tokens including different types of identity tokens, the first detection system having a plurality of different types of detection instruments, receiving from a second detection system, a number of identity tokens, the second detection system having a plurality of different types of detection instruments, using information from the first detection system and the second detection system, creating correlation information that correlates different types of identity tokens, using information from the first detection system and the second detection system, determining path likelihood for a plurality of moving objects passing through the first detection system and the second detection system, and updating the correlation information using the path likelihood for the plurality of moving objects.
US11631289B2
Methods and systems for capturing and processing audio data of a vehicle engine. In one aspect, a vehicle audio capture system includes a mobile device configured to capture vehicle engine sounds in an audio file and to associate tags identifying one or more vehicle conditions observed during audio capture and reflected in the audio file, and a server configured to process the audio file and expose an application programming interface (API) to provide access to the audio file to one or more data consumer devices. In some instances, a condition report server is configured to access the application programming interface to retrieve a version of the audio file and include data describing the audio file within a vehicle condition report. Additionally, tags may be added to the audio file based on detected engine conditions. Detection of engine conditions may be based on use of trained models.
US11631279B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for automatically cleaning a portion of an environment. One of the methods includes detecting movement of a person within a physical environment; determining that one or more threshold criteria for cleaning at least a portion of the physical environment are satisfied; detecting one or more areas of the physical environment with cleanliness levels that satisfy a threshold cleanliness level; determining that the portion of the physical environment for which the threshold criteria are satisfied likely was insufficiently cleaned; and in response to determining that the portion of the physical environment for which the threshold criteria are satisfied likely was insufficiently cleaned, sending an instruction to a device in the physical environment to cause the device to present a notification that identifies the portion of the physical environment that likely was insufficiently cleaned.
US11631275B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an image processing method and apparatus, a terminal, and a computer-readable storage medium, that are generally related to the field of computer technologies. The method can include obtaining a trained pixel classification model. The pixel classification model can be used for determining a classification identifier of each pixel in any image with the classification identifier including a head classification identifier. The head classification identifier can be used for indicating that a corresponding pixel is located in a head region. The method can further include classifying each pixel in the target image based on the pixel classification model to obtain a classification identifier of the pixel in the target image, and determining a head region in the target image according to pixels whose classification identifiers are a head classification identifier and editing the head region.
US11631271B2
A fingerprint sensor includes a sensor pixel arranged in a sensing area, including a pixel electrode coupled to a first node; a first transistor coupled between the first node and a first or second power line, the first transistor including a first gate electrode coupled to a first scan line and a second gate electrode opposite to the first gate electrode; a first capacitor coupled between the first node and a second scan line; a second transistor coupled between a readout line and the first power line, the second transistor including a first gate electrode coupled to the first node and a second gate electrode opposite to the first gate electrode; and a third transistor coupled between the second transistor and the first power line, the third transistor including a first gate electrode coupled to the second scan line and a second gate electrode opposite to the first gate electrode.
US11631269B1
Potentially fraudulent documents can be identified automatically and flagged for further review. Document fraud detection can include a number of fraud detection tests, where if the document fails any of the tests, the document can be flagged for further review. Various tests can be performed that seek to determine whether a document has been altered. In one instance, a financial instrument can be scanned and analyzed to identify one or more layers associated with the financial instrument from a scanned representation, and a check of transaction details can be triggered when the financial instrument is associated with multiple layers.
US11631265B2
Methods and systems for transforming at least a portion of a physical document into digital data. One method includes obtaining a first plurality of data items automatically extracted from a first physical document and a validated value for a data field. The method also includes automatically identifying a first linked data item included in the first plurality of data items that is linked to the validated value and setting a physical position included in a rule to the physical position of the first linked data item. In addition, the method includes obtaining a second plurality of data items automatically extracted from a second physical document and automatically identifying a candidate data item included in the second plurality of data items based on the rule. Furthermore, the method includes automatically populating a value for the data field for the second physical document based on the candidate data item.
US11631259B2
An adaptable climate control method for controlling a thermal climate within a confined space based on thermal and/or physiological features of one or more occupants of the confined space is provided. The method includes receiving thermal images of a plurality of target areas from the occupants, identifying a plurality of interesting points of the received thermal images, and isolating the interesting points to construct thermal maps of the target areas. Thermal features of the occupants are determined using the respective thermal maps and the thermal features are used to construct thermal feature vectors for the occupants. Physiological features from physiological sensors can also be added as elements of the thermal feature vectors to form integrated vectors. The thermal feature vectors and/or integrated vectors are classified using a classifiers and at least a portion of the thermal climate of the confined space is adjusted based on the classification of the vectors.
US11631257B2
According to an embodiment, a surroundings recognition device includes an acquirer configured to acquire first road information including a road boundary near a host vehicle from map information on the basis of position information of the host vehicle, a recognizer configured to recognize a road boundary near the host vehicle on the basis of an output of an external environment sensor, and a determiner configured to determine that a first road boundary matches a second road boundary when the second road boundary included in second road information that is a recognition result of the recognizer is within a road boundary determination area based on a position of the first road boundary included in the first road information acquired by the acquirer. The determiner sets a size of the road boundary determination area on the basis of a predetermined condition.
US11631253B2
Various techniques are provided for counting and/or tracking objects within a field of view of an imaging system, while excluding certain objects from the results. A monitoring system may count or track people identified in captured images while utilizing an employee identification system including a wireless signal receiver to identify and remove the employees from the result. The system includes algorithms for separating employee counts from customer counts, thereby offering enhanced tracking analytics.
US11631244B2
A method of evaluating one or more kernels of an ear of maize using digital imagery that includes acquiring a digital image of the one or more kernels of the ear of maize without the use of spatial reference points, processing the digital image to estimate at least one physical property of the one or more kernels of the ear of maize from the digital image, and evaluating the at least one kernel of maize using the estimate of the at least one physical property of the at least one kernel of maize. The method includes using one or more such digital images to estimate yield on a plant, management zone, field, county and country level.
US11631242B2
Selection of an evaluation index based upon statistical values of respective evaluation indices is disclosed. In one example, an information processing apparatus comprises an evaluation index unit that determines a plurality of evaluation indices on a basis of imaging data obtained by imaging a subject, wherein the evaluation indices are respectively based upon different wavelength component combinations of the imaging data. An evaluation value unit determines an evaluation value based on a statistical value of each of the evaluation indices, for each of the evaluation indices. A selection unit then determines a selected evaluation index from the evaluation indices on a basis of the evaluation values.
US11631237B1
Disclosed is an infrared thermal image classification and hot spot positioning method of a photovoltaic panel, comprising following steps: constructing a photovoltaic panel infrared thermal image data set, preprocessing the image data set, and dividing into a training set and a testing set according to a preset proportion; training an auxiliary generating countermeasure network based on the training set to obtain a trained generator and a trained discriminator, training an encoder by combining the image data in the training set with the generator, and fixing the parameters of a trained encoder; inputting the image data in the test set into a trained discriminator to obtain a photovoltaic image classification result; inputting images in the test set into the trained encoder, and then inputting the images into the generator for a reconstruction; comparing pixels of the input images with the reconstructed infrared thermal images, and positioning hot spots.
US11631233B2
Variation in received documents types and templates used for each document type poses challenge in developing a generic background noise removal approach for automatic text information extraction technique. Embodiments herein provide a method and a system for document classification and text information extraction. Time efficient and accurate text detection engine-based Region of Interest (ROI) technique is provided to accurately identify text region followed by a multi-layered neural network based architecture for enhanced classification accuracy to identify the type of document. A multistage image pre-processing approach is provided for efficient, effective, and accurate background noise removal from the classified document, which includes unsupervised clustering, identification, segmentation, masking, contour approximation, selective subtraction, and dynamic thresholding. Further, text information extraction is applied on the pre-processed image to determine co-relation between text information blocks and associate values with the labels for attributes to be extracted to extract final text.
US11631232B2
A chip recognition system in which a chip is configured to at least partially have a specific color indicative of a value of the chip includes: a recording device that uses a camera and records a state of the chip as an image; an image analysis device that subjects the image so recorded to image analysis and recognizes at least the specific color and a reference color that is present in the image and differs from the specific color; and a recognition device at least including an artificial intelligence device that uses a result of the image analysis by the image analysis device and specifies the specific color of the chip, wherein the artificial intelligence device of the recognition device has been subjected to teaching using, as training data, a plurality of images of the chip and the reference color irradiated with different illumination intensities.
US11631231B2
Image capture devices for monitoring parking at various geographic locations and systems for monitoring parking are described herein.
US11631226B2
Disclosed herein is a method of graphically presenting an indicating marker over a 3-D model of a tissue surface during a catheterization procedure, comprising determining a region over the 3-D model, deforming the indicating marker to congruently match a shape defined by the 3-D model across the region at a plurality of positions; and rendering the 3-D model into an image including the deformed indicating marker by generating an image of the 3-D model covered by said deformed indicating marker.
US11631221B2
A computer-implemented method of augmented reality includes capturing the video flux with a video camera, extracting, from the video flux, one or more 2D images each representing the real object, and obtaining a 3D model representing the real object. The method also includes determining a pose of the 3D model relative to the video flux, among candidate poses. The determining rewards a mutual information, for at least one 2D image and for each given candidate pose, which represents a mutual dependence between a virtual 2D rendering and the at least one 2D image. The method also includes augmenting the video flux based on the pose. This forms an improved solution of augmented reality for augmenting a video flux of a real scene including a real object.
US11631218B2
Techniques of compressing triangular mesh data involve generating a neighborhood table (i.e., a table) of fixed size that represents a neighborhood of a predicted vertex of a triangle within a triangular mesh for input into a machine-learning (ML) engine. For example, such a neighborhood table as input into a ML engine can output a prediction for a value (e.g., a position) of a vertex. The residual between the prediction and the actual value of the vertex is stored in an array. The data in the array representing the residuals may be compressed and transmitted over a network. Upon receipt by a computer, the array may be decompressed by the computer. Obtaining the actual value involves the receiving computer generating the same neighborhood table, inputting that neighborhood table into the same ML engine to produce the predicted value, and adding the predicted value to the residual from the decompressed file.
US11631215B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for graphics processing. The present disclosure can calculate a center-edge distance of a first pixel, the center-edge distance of the first pixel equal to a distance from a first pixel center to one or more edges of a first primitive. Additionally, the present disclosure can store the center-edge distance of the first pixel when the first primitive is visible in a scene. The present disclosure can also determine an amount of overlap between the first pixel and the first primitive. Further, the present disclosure can blend a color of the first pixel with a color of a second pixel based on at least one of the center-edge distance of the first pixel or the amount of overlap between the first pixel and the first primitive.
US11631214B2
A computer simulation object such as a chair is described by voice or photo input to render a 2D image. Machine learning may be used to convert voice input to the 2D image. The 2D image is converted to a 3D asset and the 3D asset or portions thereof are used in the computer simulation, such as a computer game, as the object such as a chair.
US11631213B2
Forming a 3D representation of an object using a portable electronic device with a camera. A sequence of image frames, captured with the camera may be processed to generate 3D information about the object. This 3D information may be used to present a visual representation of the object as real-time feedback to a user, indicating confidence of 3D information for regions of the object. Feedback may be a composite image based on surfaces in a 3D model derived from the 3D information given visual characteristics derived from the image frames. The 3D information may be used in a number of ways, including as an input to a 3D printer or an input, representing, in whole or in part, an avatar for a game or other purposes. To enable processing to be performed on a portable device, a portion of the image frames may be selected for processing with higher resolution.
US11631207B2
Vector object stylization techniques from raster objects are described that support editing of vector objects in a manner that maintains an underlying mathematical representation of object. A raster object, for instance, is generated from an edited version of an output of a vector object. This raster object, along with the vector object are received as inputs by a vector conversion system. These inputs are utilized by the vector conversion system to generate a stylized vector object having a visual appearance that mimics and simulates a visual appearance of the raster object. As a result, the stylized vector object provides a mathematical representation of the raster object.
US11631205B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that generate interactive visual shape representation of digital datasets. For example, the disclosed systems can generate an augmented nearest neighbor network graph from a sampled subset of digital data points using a nearest neighbor model and witness complex model. The disclosed system can further generate a landmark network graph based on the augmented nearest neighbor network graph utilizing a plurality of random walks. The disclosed systems can also generate a loop-augmented spanning network graph based on a partition of the landmark network graph by adding community edges between communities of landmark groups based on modularity and to complete community loops. Based on the loop-augmented spanning network graph, the disclosed systems can generate an interactive visual shape representation for display on a client device.
US11631203B2
Techniques to improve operation of an augmented reality device and/or system utilizing fiducial markers and/or color space conversions are provided. In various embodiments, a color space of an object is altered based on a movement of the object in relation to an environment. The environment may include two or more segments with a distinct environment color space in relation to one another. The object may transition from one of the two or more environment segments into the other one of the two or more segments. The alteration is based on the transition from the color space of the one of the two or more environment segments into the other one of the two or more environment segments.
US11631197B2
A system, including a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions to be executed by the processor to determine camera calibration parameters including camera focal distance, camera height and camera tilt based on a two-dimensional calibration pattern located parallel to and coincident with a ground plane determined by a roadway surface and determine object data including object location, object speed and object direction for one or more objects in a field of view of the video camera.
US11631191B2
In an aspect, a computer implemented method receives, for a volume within a building, a set of images captured from corresponding locations within the volume, each image taken at a corresponding location, and each image having data specifying the corresponding location from which the image was captured; receiving a three-dimensional point cloud of the volume; detects, using one or more computer vision processing techniques, items of interest within the images; for each item of interest in each image, determines, based on the point cloud and the data specifying the corresponding locations from which the images were captured, a coordinate for the item of interest, the coordinate specifying a location within the volume that corresponds to the item of interest in the image; and stores the data specifying each item of interest and, for each item of interest, its determined coordinate, in a data storage.
US11631186B2
Systems and methods for image recognition are provided. A style-transfer neural network is trained for each real image to obtain a trained style-transfer neural network. The texture or style features of the real images are transferred, via the trained style-transfer neural network, to a target image to generate styled images which are used for training an image-recognition machine learning model (e.g., a neural network). In some cases, the real images are clustered and representative style images are selected from the clusters.
US11631184B2
A system for inspecting features of an airframe, the system including a feature inspection device configured to measure an aspect of a first feature and a tracking subsystem configured to determine a position of the feature inspection device when the feature inspection device measures the aspect of the first feature. The system is configured to determine a position of the first feature on the airframe via the feature inspection device and the tracking subsystem, the determination of the position of the first feature being independent from the measurement of the aspect of the first feature.
US11631180B2
A method and apparatus for detecting a reflection are provided. The method includes acquiring an input image of an object, based on an activation of an infrared light source, acquiring a reference image of the object, based on a deactivation of the infrared light source, and extracting a reflection region from the input image, based on the input image and the reference image.
US11631175B2
A multi-label heat map generating system is operable to receive a plurality of medical scans and a corresponding plurality of medical labels that each correspond to one of a set of abnormality classes. A computer vision model is generated by training on the medical scans and the medical labels. Probability matrix data, which includes a set of image patch probability values that each indicate a probability that a corresponding one of the set of abnormality classes is present in each of a set of image patches, is generated by performing an inference function that utilizes the computer vision model on a new medical scan. Preliminary heat map visualization data can be generated for transmission to a client device based on the probability matrix data. Heat map visualization data can be generated via a post-processing of the preliminary heat map visualization data to mitigate heat map artifacts.
US11631169B2
Methods and systems for detecting defects on a specimen are provided. One system includes an inspection subsystem configured to generate images of a specimen and one or more computer subsystems configured for detecting defect candidates on the specimen. Detecting the defect candidates includes identifying a patterned feature in a test image included in the images generated of the specimen. Detecting the defect candidates also includes, for at least one pixel in the test image located within the patterned feature, determining a difference between a characteristic of the at least one pixel and the characteristic of other pixels in the test image located within a predetermined window of the at least one pixel. In addition, detecting the defect candidates includes detecting a defect candidate at the at least one pixel based on the determined difference.
US11631163B2
A method includes processing, using at least one processor of an electronic device, each of multiple images using a photometric augmentation engine, where the photometric augmentation engine performs one or more photometric augmentation operations. The method also includes applying, using the at least one processor, multiple layers of a convolutional neural network to each of the images, where each layer generates a corresponding feature map. The method further includes processing, using the at least one processor, at least one of the feature maps using at least one feature augmentation engine between consecutive layers of the multiple layers, where the at least one feature augmentation engine performs one or more feature augmentation operations.
US11631157B2
An image processing apparatus includes a display section that displays a background image and a processing target image on a display screen, a receiving section that receives an input position on the display screen input by user, and a processing section that processes editing to the processing target image based on a relationship between the input position and a position of the processing target image.
US11631155B2
Hyper-hemispherical images may be combined to generate a rectangular projection of a spherical image having an equatorial stitch line along of a line of lowest distortion in the two images. First and second circular images are received representing respective hyper-hemispherical fields of view. A video processing device may project each circular image to a respective rectangular image by mapping an outer edge of the circular image to a first edge of the rectangular image and mapping a center point of the circular image to a second edge of the first rectangular image. The rectangular images may be stitched together along the edges corresponding to the outer edge of the original circular image.
US11631154B2
A method, apparatus, device, and storage medium for transforming a hairstyle are provided. The method may include: determining a face bounding box according to information on face key points of acquired face image; constructing grids according to the face bounding box; deforming, by using an acquired target hairstyle function, edge lines of at least a part of the constructed grids, which comprises the hairstyle, to obtain a deformed grid curve; determining a deformed hairstyle in the face image according to the deformed grid curve.
US11631150B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing actions based on predicted precipitation accumulation. One of the methods includes receiving, from a camera, image data that depicts at least a portion of a property; determining, using the image data, a predicted current amount of precipitation that has accumulated at the property; receiving additional data that identifies characteristics of the property; determining one or more actions to remove at least some of the precipitation from the property using the predicted current amount of precipitation that has accumulated at the property, and the characteristics of the property; and performing the one or more actions to remove at least some of the precipitation from the property.
US11631149B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for collecting utility meter data are described. An example system may include a flow controller and a server. The flow controller is configured to communicate with a water meter for a property and connected to at least one water outlet of a plurality of water outlets. The server is coupled to one or more infrastructure databases and the flow controller. The server includes a non-transitory computer readable media and is configured to execute instructions stored on the non-transitory computer readable media. The instructions include receiving water usage data from the flow controller and transmitting the water usage data from the water meter for the property to a water utility company.
US11631135B2
Disclosed herein are automated trading engine embodiments that operate on market data and re-engineer trading logic to operate on computational resources that are capable of providing highly parallelized and pipelined processing operations to improve tick to trade latency. As an example, logic resources for the automated trading engine can implement canceling strategies to cancel quotes and/or orders on markets when defined conditions are met. For example, if new trades indicate that existing quotes and/or orders are no longer advantageous, the logic resources can act quickly to cancel those quotes and/or orders.
US11631116B1
A shopping method, comprising, at a real-world browsing environment, facilitating interaction between a shopper and a brand experience, and tracking the receipt of one or more orders to automatically execute delivery of one or more orders.
US11631112B2
A media management system that handles a plurality of agreement information and a plurality of promotional campaigns for a specified upcoming time-frame, receives input parameters for each of the plurality of agreement information that corresponds to an upfront inventory utilization type and commercial operator break (COB) inventory utilization type of a plurality of inventory utilization types. Reserve inventory units for each of the plurality of promotional campaigns are determined based on historical data of an amount of inventory units utilized previously under the promotion inventory utilization type for the specified upcoming time-frame. An initial allocation of inventory units for the promotion inventory utilization type is done based on the determined reserve inventory units. Inventory units from a defined amount of inventory units are dynamically allocated among each inventory utilization types of the plurality of inventory utilization types.
US11631106B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide mechanisms for selection of a user survey data object from a set of user data objects, and processing of survey engagement data associated with a selected user survey data object. The user survey data object selected is appropriate for providing associated with a particular user data object, and the survey engagement data received associated therewith enables programmatic selection and use of particular ranking model(s) for use in generating and providing an output ranked item data object set. Example embodiments utilize selected ranking model(s) of a set of ranking models to programmatically generate and output an output ranked item data object set for a particular user profile.
US11631093B2
Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to a flexible behavioral chain (“FBC”) framework for permission-based enterprise-focused blockchain applications. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a chain framework module (“CFM”) executed by a FBC system can receive a new block request to add a new block to an FBC. The new block request can be created by a trigger management module (“TMM”) executed by the FBC system in response to a trigger, such as a customer touchpoint, a customer engagement, a subscribed event, and/or a virtual event. In response to the new block request, the CFM can generate the new block. A customer value score derivation module (“CVSDM”) executed by the FBC system can determine a customer value score (“CVS”) for a customer. The CFM can incorporate the CVS into the new block. The CFM can connect the new block to the FBC.
US11631091B2
Computer-implemented systems and methods for determining the value of display space in a retail store are provided. These values of display space are determined based on measured traffic densities in the retail store. Traffic density is used as a metric for real-world customer activity and customer patterns in the retail store. To determine traffic density, measurements are obtained from one or more sensors in the retail store, where the measurements include spatial information pertaining to a region of the retail store. Traffic density can provide a quantitative, accurate and unbiased metric with which to determine a value associated with displaying products in a region of the retail store.
US11631084B2
Systems and methods are provided for blocking charges from a merchant to a payment account of a user. An exemplary system may include one or more memory devices storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform various operations. The operations may include receiving, from the user, a dispute request to dispute a charge to the payment account applied by the merchant. In response to the dispute request, the operations may include determining whether to block subsequent charges applied by the merchant to the payment account, based on a history of charging activities of the merchant. Responsive to a determination to block subsequent charges, the operations may include adding the merchant to a block-charge list associated with the payment account.
US11631082B2
This application relates to apparatus and methods for identifying fraudulent payment transfers. In some examples, a computing device determines payment transfer initiation features, and payment transfer reception features, based on previous payment transfer data. The computing device may train a machine learning fraud detection model with the payment transfer initiation features, and may train a machine learning fraud detection model with the payment transfer reception features. Once trained, the computing device may employ the machine learning fraud detection models to identify fraudulent payment transfers. For example, the computing device may determine whether a payment transfer is fraudulent when the payment transfer is initiated. Assuming the payment transfer is allowed, the computing device may determine whether the payment transfer is fraudulent when the payment is being received. In some examples, the computing device prevents completion of the purchase transaction if the payment transfer is determined to be fraudulent.
US11631079B2
A settlement system with higher security which replaces a settlement system using credit cards is provided. The settlement system has a user terminal, a settlement device, and a settlement terminal. First, a user ID, a password, and amount information identifying an amount are inputted in the settlement system (S912), and sent to the settlement device (S913). The settlement device performs credit determination (S922), generates temporary permission information if credit is possible (S923), and sends the temporary permission information to the user terminal (S924). The user terminal generates a one-time password (S915). The one-time password is inputted to the settlement terminal (S931). If the one-time password sent from the settlement terminal to the settlement device is identical to the one-time password created in the settlement device (S926), the settlement device allows a user's payment (S927).
US11631078B2
A computer-implemented method for anonymizing online transaction details may include performing a process to generate an identifier (ID) and reference address for a user, and receiving a request for transaction processing from an e-commerce server. The request may include first data including: information associated with a purchase of a product to be delivered to the user; the identifier; and the reference address. The method may further include: in response to the request, determining whether the ID and reference address are included in the request, and if so, obtaining the accurate address and shipping rate rules; applying, based on the first data and the accurate address, the shipping rate rules to determine accurate shipping rate cost information associated with delivering the product to the accurate address; performing an anonymizing process on the accurate information to obtain anonymous shipping rate information, and transmitting the anonymous shipping rate information to the e-commerce server.
US11631077B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for utilizing one or more decentralized applications to allow entities to interface with a blockchain for the purposes of conducting a resource transfer. Typically, the blockchain is a permissioned blockchain which may be accessed only by the entities involved in the resource transfer. The decentralized applications may communicate with the legacy systems within each entity through an application programming interface (API) such that the data stored on the legacy systems may be governed by the blockchain. This ensures the authenticity of the data stored on the legacy systems while preventing the possibility of disparate versions of data being created over time.
US11631076B1
A method for provisioning a payment account to a mobile wallet on a mobile device includes receiving, by a provider computing system, an encrypted network return address of the mobile wallet that uniquely identifies a network address of the mobile wallet when the encrypted network return address is decrypted from an initiating device, receiving, by the provider computing system, an encryption key configured to decrypt the encrypted network return address, wherein the encryption key is not provided to the initiating device, decrypting, by the provider computing system, the encrypted network return address using the encryption key, and provisioning, by the provider computing system, a payment token associated with the payment account to the mobile wallet based on the decrypted network return address received from the initiating device by transmitting the payment token to the mobile device without going through the initiating device.
US11631075B2
A multiple authentication and payment system and method using an embedded subscriber identification module (eSIM) are provided, in which one or more users integrate SIMs through software and perform SIM authentication and payment without physically changing SIMs when an eSIM is installed within a vehicle. The method includes detecting whether each smart device carried by at least one passenger contains a pre-registered eSIM and monitoring whether electronic payment occurs. When electronic payment occurs, a payment cost is determined for each passenger with respect to a payment cost of the electronic payment based on information regarding the pre-registered eSIM, and payment is performed according to the determined payment cost for each passenger.
US11631069B1
Transaction account holders are able to attach additional data to a transaction in concert with the transaction being initiated, prior to the merchant posting the transaction. Transaction account holders do not have to wait and/or opt for an external service provider to assist with the compiling and/or attaching of data at a later point in time (e.g., after the merchant posts the transaction). Transaction account holders may upload and access electronic receipts associated with a transaction authorization almost immediately after the sale and/or authorization of the transaction.
US11631068B1
Image processing techniques can be used to determine whether a person has installed an unauthorized device on or in a kiosk. For example, an image processing server can determine whether a person's hand(s) are engaging in abnormal behavior by obtaining recorded images of the person's hand(s) that extend towards the kiosk to perform an action, and by comparing the information in the recorded images with a set of previously known information about other persons' hands that are similarly extended towards the kiosk.
US11631063B2
A system and a method for creating a holistic, flexible, scalable, confidential, low-latency, high-volume, immutable distributed ledger for the financial services and other industries. The system allows a scalable blockchain solution with respect to accessible memory requirements of distributed ledgers or distributed databases with confidentiality in the shared records as well as accommodating low-latency, high-capacity transaction capabilities. The method includes a fundamental, generic, logical representation of financial services life-cycles transactions in terms of variable sets of four simple, sequential components. The optimal process generates a self-validating, variable n-dimensional, multi-hash-linked, interdependent distributed ledger that allows the individual network participants to recreate the ledger without having to refer to or confirm with other network participants.
US11631059B2
A maintenance management system is disclosed. The system includes a processing device, a plurality of components in communication with the processing device, each component having a location associated with the component and one or more sensors for capturing usage data associated with the component, and user devices in communication with the processing device. Usage data of components is communicated to the processing device. The processing device determines from the usage data whether any of the components requires maintenance. The location of each respective component requiring maintenance is communicated to at least one of the one or more user devices from the processing device.
US11631055B2
A method, computer system, and computer program product are provided for managing time record events. Time record events are collected for a number of users. Each time record event includes a geolocation of one of a number of users. The time record events and geolocations for each of the number of users are models via machine learning. A current geolocation for a given user is identified. A suggested event is predicted based on the current geolocation and a current time. The suggested event is pushed to the user.
US11631042B2
Systems and methods for assessing, tracking and improving security maturity of an organization are provided. Described is a system for assessing security maturity of an organization. The system receives a list of data sources located across multiple jurisdictions for the organization, collects data sources/data using custom rules from a plurality of data sources of the list of data sources, determine criticality score for each of the plurality of data sources, calculates data source coverage and asset collection coverage, determines use case coverage, and determines security maturity score using a maturity score model. The maturity score model is a logistic equation which is a function of the data source coverage, the asset collection coverage, the criticality score associated with each of the plurality of data sources, the use case coverage, asset coverage by each the plurality of data sources.
US11631036B2
According to an aspect of an embodiment, operations include controlling a user device to display a plurality of task-specific questions onto an electronic user interface (UI) of the user device. Each task-specific question corresponds to a check for presence of a bias in one of a sequence of development phases of a machine learning (ML) model. The operations further include receiving a first input comprising a plurality of user responses corresponding to the displayed plurality of task-specific questions and determining a set of biases associated with the ML model based on the received first input. The operations further include controlling the user device to display the determined set of biases and a set of plausible actions to mitigate an effect of the determined set of biases on the ML model.
US11631033B2
Methods related to a model training scheme performed on a computing device are described. The computing device may include a display module and a memory module storing multiple prediction models and item data that includes data of multiple items. Example methods may include displaying, on the display module, a first representation of at least one modality of one or more items among the multiple items; detecting an activity of a user of the computing device in response to displaying of the at least one modality of the one or more items to generate user activity log data; and evaluating at least one first prediction model of the multiple prediction models based on the user activity log data to generate an evaluation value of the at least one first prediction model. The at least one first prediction model may be related to a prediction of the one or more items.
US11631026B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are configured to train a machine learning model. The training can be based on a training set of embeddings of a first type and a training set of embeddings of a second type. The machine learning model can be trained to receive an embedding of a second type and to output a corresponding embedding of the first type. A given embedding of the second type can be provided as input to the machine learning model. An embedding of the first type can be obtained from the machine learning model. The embedding of the first type can correspond to the given embedding of the second type.
US11631022B2
Soil and groundwater contamination migration are forecasted according to instructions stored in a memory and executable by a processor to facilitate prompt and accurate remediation efforts. In embodiments, an environmental machine learning model is employed, and analysis and determination of contaminant plume distances, sources and destinations are made. A database stores raw environmental site data, from which relevant data can be extracted for a site of interest, and the environmental machine learning model can be trained on the extracted relevant data to predict the spatial and cross-section probability distribution of a contaminant plume at the site of interest.
US11631021B1
A method for identifying and ranking potentially privileged documents using a machine learning topic model may include receiving a set of documents. The method may also include, for each of two or more documents in the set of documents, extracting a set of spans from the document, generating, using a machine learning topic model, a set of topics and a subset of legal topics for the set of spans, generating a vector of probabilities for each span with a probability being assigned to each topic in the set of topics for the span, assigning a score to one or more spans in the set of spans by summing the probabilities in the vector that are assigned to a topic in the subset of legal topics, and assigning a score to the document. The method may further include ranking the two or more documents by their assigned scores.
US11631018B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to performing enhanced exception processing using cognitive automation tools. In some embodiments, a computing platform may receive interaction data identifying one or more actions performed by one or more users in resolving a plurality of exception items associated with an exception queue. Subsequently, the computing platform may train, using a learning engine, a machine learning model to resolve a first exception and a second exception of one or more exceptions based on the interaction data. Based on training the machine learning model, the computing platform may generate one or more configuration commands directing a processing module to implement the machine learning model to process additional exception items associated with the exception queue. The computing platform then may send the one or more configuration commands to the processing module.
US11631008B2
A system and method of creating electronic characters in one or more electronic formats, selectively customizing the characters, and presenting them via electronic channels in response to satisfaction of one or more programmable conditions is disclosed. The system enables entities to competitively bid to customize the personality and/or other attribute of a character. For example, a character may be presented via an electronic channel to an audience (e.g., one or more end users who view, listen to, or otherwise experience a character through an electronic channel). An entity may bid on altering that character's personality and/or other attribute. If the entity's bid is selected by the system (e.g., over other bids that also compete to alter one or more attributes of that character), the system customizes the character's personality and/or other attribute according to the winning bid's customization, and presents the customized character via the electronic channel to the audience.
US11631005B2
Various methods are provided for training and subsequently utilizing a convolutional neural network (CNN) to detect small pedestrians (e.g., pedestrians located away a large distance). One example method may comprise performing a first training stage in which a first CNN is trained to detect objects of a first size, the first CNN trained using a first set of images comprised of objects of the first size, and configured to output a first set of parameters, performing a second training stage in which a second CNN is trained using a second set of images, the second set of images comprising objects of a second size, and the first CNN is initialized with the first set of parameters and is re-trained using the second set of images, and determining parameters of the first CNN by minimizing error between the first CNN and the second CNN.
US11630993B2
An artificial neuron for a neuromorphic chip comprises a synapse with resistive memory representative of a synaptic weight. The artificial neuron comprises a read circuit, an integration circuit and a logic circuit interposed between the read circuit and the integration circuit. The read circuit is configured to impose on the synapse a read voltage independent of the membrane voltage and to provide an analogue value representative of the synaptic weight. The logic circuit is configured to generate from the analogue value a pulse having a duration. The integration circuit comprises an accumulator of synaptic weights at the terminals of which a membrane voltage is established and a comparator configured to emit a postsynaptic pulse if a threshold is exceeded by the membrane voltage. Moreover, it comprises a source of current controlled by the pulse to inject a current into the accumulator of synaptic weights during this duration.
US11630991B2
Embodiments relate to a neural processor that includes one or more neural engine circuits and planar engine circuits. The neural engine circuits can perform convolution operations of input data with one or more kernels to generate outputs. The planar engine circuit is coupled to the plurality of neural engine circuits. A planar engine circuit can be configured to multiple modes. In an elementwise mode, the planar engine circuit may combine two tensors by performing operations element by element. The planar engine circuit may support elementwise operation for two tensors that are in different sizes and ranks. The planar engine circuit may perform a broadcasting operation to duplicate one or more values across one or more channels to make a smaller tensor matching the size of the larger tensor.
US11630985B2
An image analysis method and an image analysis system are disclosed. The method may include extracting training graphic data including at least one first node corresponding to a plurality of histological features of a training tissue slide image, and at least one first edge defined by a relationship between the histological features The method may also include determining a parameter of a readout function by training a graph neural network (GNN) using the training graphic data and training output data corresponding to the training graphic data. The method may also include extracting inference graphic data including at least one second node corresponding to a plurality of histological features of an inference tissue slide image, and at least one second edge decided by a relationship between the histological features, The method may further include deriving inference output data by the readout function after inputting the inference graphic data to the GNN.
US11630983B2
A method for generating an executable program to run on a system of one or more processor chips each comprising a plurality of tiles. The method comprises: receiving a graph comprising a plurality of data nodes, compute vertices and directional edges, wherein the graph is received in a first graph format that does not specify which data nodes and vertices are allocated to which of the tiles; and generating an application programming interface, API, for converting the graph, to determine a tile-mapping allocating the data nodes and vertices amongst the tiles. The generating of the API comprises searching the graph to identify compute vertices which match any of a predetermined set of one or more compute vertex types. The API is then called to convert the graph to a second graph format that includes the tile-mapping, including the allocation by the assigned memory allocation functions.
US11630980B2
Discloses a combined ultra-wideband cross-polarized chipless RFID tag based on MFCC feature coding, which comprises a tag patch unit, a dielectric substrate and a grounding layer, wherein the tag patch unit comprises a barcode-type resonant unit and a double L-type resonant unit; the barcode-type resonant unit consists of five identical rectangular patches arranged in parallel and rotated counterclockwise; the double L-type resonant unit is formed by reversely combining two L-type patches composed of four identical rectangular patches; a transmitting antenna transmits horizontally polarized electromagnetic waves as interrogation signals, the scattered waves reflected by the tag are acquired by a receiving antenna, a receiver acquires the spectrum of the scattered waves to convert the spectrum into time domain signals by inverse Fourier transform, the response of the tag is extracted through a window, and MFCC features are extracted by pre-emphasis and short-time Fourier transform.
US11630975B1
A printing system is disclosed. The printing system includes at least one physical memory device to store calibration logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device to execute the calibration logic to perform uniformity compensation, including receiving print image measurement data corresponding to primary color markings and secondary color markings printed by pel forming elements, wherein each of the pel forming elements is associated with one of a plurality of primary colors, generating a first set of transfer functions based on the print image measurement data, wherein the first set of transfer functions includes a transfer function for each of the pel forming elements associated with a primary color, generating a second set of transfer functions based on the print image measurement data, wherein the second set of transfer functions includes transfer functions for each of the pel forming elements associated with a plurality of secondary colors, generating a set of inverse transfer functions for each of the pel forming elements based on the first set of transfer functions and the corresponding second set of transfer functions and generating a uniformity compensated halftone design based on the set of inverse transfer functions and a first halftone design.
US11630973B2
A computing device accesses a machine learning model trained on training data of first bonding operations (e.g., a ball and/or stitch bond). The first bonding operations comprise operations to bond a first set of multiple wires to a first set of surfaces. The machine learning model is trained by supervised learning. The device receives input data indicating process data generated from measurements of second bonding operations. The second bonding operations comprise operations to bond a second set of multiple wires to a second set of surfaces. The device weights the input data according to the machine learning model. The device generates an anomaly predictor indicating a risk for an anomaly occurrence in the second bonding operations based on weighting the input data according to the machine learning model. The device outputs the anomaly predictor to control the second bonding operations.
US11630972B2
An assembly change detection method based on attention mechanism, including: establishing a three-dimensional model of an assembly body, adding a tag to each part in the three-dimensional model, setting several assembly nodes, obtaining depth images of the three-dimensional model under each assembly node in different viewing angles, and obtaining a change tag image of a added part at each assembly node; selecting two depth images at front and back moments in different viewing angles as training samples; performing semantic fusion, feature extraction, attention mechanism processing and metric learning sequentially on the training samples, training a detection model, continuously selecting training samples to train the detection model, saving model parameters with optimal similarity during training, completing training; and obtaining depth images of successive assembly nodes during assembling the assembly body, inputting depth images into trained detection model, and outputting change image of added part of the assembly body during assembly.
US11630966B2
Barcode readers and methods for directing fields-of-view of imaging sensors of barcode readers are disclosed herein. An example barcode reader includes a housing, an imaging sensor positioned within the housing, and a transflective mirror positioned within the housing and in a path of a field-of-view of the imaging sensor. The transflective mirror reflects at least a first portion of the field-of-view of the imaging sensor in a first direction with the transflective mirror in a reflective state and allows the field-of-view of the imaging sensor to pass through and continue in a second direction, different than the first direction, with the transflective mirror in a transmissive state.
US11630963B2
A detecting system includes: a sensor (10) that includes an antenna unit (11) formed with a metal pattern, and a back surface reflector (13) that faces the antenna unit (11) via an isolation layer (12); and a reader (20) that transmits electromagnetic waves (Fa) to the sensor (10), receives reflected waves (Fr) from the sensor (10), and compares the reflection characteristics of the sensor (10) detected from the reflected waves (Fr) with the reflection characteristics of the sensor (10) stored in advance, to detect a state change in the sensor (10).
US11630962B1
This invention provides an aimer assembly for a vision system that is coaxial (on-axis) with the camera optical axis, thus providing an aligned aim point at a wide range of working distances. The aimer includes a projecting light element located aside the camera optical axis. The beam and received light from the imaged (illuminated) scene are selectively reflected or transmitted through a dichoric mirror assembly in a manner that permits the beam to be aligned with the optical axis and projected to the scene while only light from the scene is received by the sensor. The aimer beam and illuminator employ differing light wavelengths. In a further embodiment, an internal illuminator includes a plurality of light sources below the camera optical axis. Some of the light sources are covered by a prismatic structure for close distance, and other light sources are collimated, projecting over a longer distance.
US11630960B2
A method for classifying a digital asset, comprising: retrieving from a repository, according to an initial identifier, a digital asset; computing at least one asset score, each indicative of a degree of confidence that the digital asset has a respective offense classification selected from a plurality of offense classifications; subject to the at least one asset score being less than at least one threshold score: adding to a list of identifiers at least one identifier extracted from the digital asset; and in each of at least one iteration: retrieving from the repository at least one other digital asset, according to at least one selected identifier selected from the list of identifiers; computing a plurality of other asset scores, each associated with one other digital asset of the at least one other digital asset and indicative of another degree of confidence that the other digital asset has another respective offense classification.
US11630956B2
Techniques for automatically extracting data from documents using multiple deep learning models are provided. According to one set of embodiments, a computer system can receive a document in an electronic format and can segment, using an image segmentation deep learning model, the document into a plurality of segments, where each segment corresponds to a visually discrete portion of the document and is classified as being one of a plurality of types. The computer system can then, for each segment in the plurality of segments, retrieve text in the segment using optical character recognition (OCR) and extract data in the segment from the retrieved text using a named entity recognition (NER) deep learning model, where the retrieving and the extracting are performed in a manner that takes into account the segment's type.
US11630954B2
A keyword extraction method includes: extracting candidate words from an original document to form a first word set; acquiring a first association degree between each first word thereof and the original document, and determining a second word set according to the first association degree; for each second word in the second word set, inquiring, in a word association topology, at least one node word satisfying a condition of association with the second word and forming a third word set, the word association topology indicating an association relation among multiple node words in a predetermined field; and determining a union set of the second and third word sets, acquiring a second association degree between each candidate keyword in the union set and the original document, and selecting, according to the second association degree, at least one candidate keyword from the union set, to form a keyword set of the original document.
US11630953B2
Described herein are embodiments for end-to-end reinforcement learning based coreference resolution models to directly optimize coreference evaluation metrics. Embodiments of a reinforced policy gradient model are disclosed to incorporate reward associated with a sequence of coreference linking actions. Furthermore, maximum entropy regularization may be used for adequate exploration to prevent a model embodiment from prematurely converging to a bad local optimum. Experiments on datasets compared with state-of-the-art methods verified the effectiveness of embodiments.
US11630951B2
In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for determining a language of a text string are presented. A language detection model may be maintained. The language detection model may comprise identities and weights for initial and final consonants, identities and weights for prefixes and suffixes, and identities and weights for vowel sequences, where each identity is derived from a training corpus. The weights may correspond to a frequency of a text unit in the corpus. A text string may be received and a match score between the text string and the language of the language detection model may be determined. The match score may be based on initial and final consonant scores, prefix and suffix scores, and/or vowel sequence scores for each word in the text string. If the match score meets a threshold value a follow-up action associated with the language may be performed.
US11630946B2
A system and method for performing role-based user annotation of product documentation is disclosed. The system identifies first and second roles for first and second users, respectively; causes, based on the first role, a first user interface to display on a first client device to receive a first input associated with the default document from the first user; creates a first layer of annotation on the default document based on the first input; receives a request to access the document from the second user; determines, based on the first and second roles, whether to merge the first layer of annotation to the default document for generating an output document; causes a second user interface to display the output document on a second client device; and causes the first input and the output document to be applied for document performance analysis associated with one or more entities.
US11630928B2
System and method to build and score predictive model for numerical attributes are provided. The system includes a memory and a processing subsystem. The processing subsystem is configured to select one or more numerical variables from the plurality of data sets based on a plurality of parameters, to apply feature engineering and transformation on the one or more numerical variables, to perform time series forecasting on the one or more numerical variables based on the plurality of features extracted, to evaluate and select appropriate prediction technique based a regression technique based on a plurality of elements, to build a prediction model, to score the built prediction model based on the performed time series forecasting and an evaluated regression technique and to predict the built prediction model based on an obtained score. Further, the system uses the plurality of parameters and the prediction method to score and predict the prediction model.
US11630927B2
The present invention relates to a method and a system for processing building energy information. The method includes the following steps: inputting data of a building information model into building energy simulation software; automatically selecting a building category or manually selecting a building category from a group of building categories provided by the building energy simulation software; in response to the selected building category, inputting a plurality of parameters into a lookup table of the building energy simulation software in accordance with a database of the building energy simulation software; and generating an estimation of a building's energy consumption through a calculation by the building energy simulation software based on the parameters.
US11630925B2
A method of displaying content items, for example message items in a messaging application or service, is disclosed. The method comprises receiving encrypted content items in a chronological sequence; decrypting the content items; causing display of a display sequence, in order of the chronological sequence, of a respective place holder in place of each of the decrypted content items, and, in response to a user input, causing display of the respective content item in place of one or more of the place holders. Each place holder has an appearance of a scrambled version of the respective content item. The display sequence may be contiguous in received items or sent content items may be interleaved with received content items in the display sequence, in which case sent content items may be displayed with place holders in the same way as received items. A corresponding system and corresponding computer readable medium or media are also disclosed.
US11630908B2
Secure access to data within a communications platform is provided on a need-to-know basis. Inputs provided at the communication platform are intercepted and cognitively analyzed to determine context of the interaction and related data requirements. In response, data access rules are generated and/or retrieved and applied at an access gateway. As data requests as received from the called party from within the communications platform, the data access rules are applied to the request to determine if a match exists and, if so, data access rules-based access is provided to the data. In response to determining the context of the interaction, a context access token is generated and communicated to a virtual database assembler, which assembles a virtual database that only contains data responsive to the context of the interaction.
US11630906B2
In the embodiments described herein, partially encrypted print jobs are described which include unencrypted print job commands and encrypted print data objects. One embodiment comprises a print controller that includes a memory and at least one processor. The memory stores a print job comprising one or more print data objects, and print job commands that define data boundaries in the print job for the print data objects. The at least one processor processes the print job commands to identify the print data objects for the print job based on the data boundaries, encrypts the print data objects using a key while the print job commands remain unencrypted, generates a partially encrypted print job comprising the encrypted print data objects and the unencrypted print job commands, and provides the partially encrypted print job.
US11630905B2
A content management system for collecting files from one or more submitters in a collection folder. A collector, who generates the collection folder, can invite one or more submitters to submit one or more files to the collection folder in response to a public file request. The one or more submitters have limited rights to the collection folder. The limited rights can include uploading rights and prohibiting a submitter from viewing files that other submitters associated with the collection folder submitted. Thus, the collection folder is able to store files from the one or more submitters, but prevent them from viewing other's submissions.
US11630900B2
There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: a processor and memory; and instructions encoded within the memory to instruct the processor to: identify a scripted process for security analysis; hook application programming interface (API) calls of the scripted process to determine a plurality of pre-execution parameters and runtime parameters; assign individual scores to the pre-execution parameters and runtime parameters; compute a sum of the individual scores; compare the sum to a threshold; and detect malicious or suspicious activity if the sum is above the threshold.
US11630893B2
The present invention relates to an improved method of providing identification of a user or authentication of a user's identity. More particularly, the present invention relates to an improved method of providing identification of a user or authentication of a user's identity using conditional behavioural biometrics. The present invention seeks to provide an enhanced method of authenticating and/or identifying a user identity using conditional behavioural biometrics. According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of generating a user profile for use in identifying and/or authenticating a user on a device, the device equipped with one or more sensors, the method comprising: generating a set of data points from sensory data collected by the one or more sensors; clustering the set of data points to produce a set of data clusters; developing a first classifier for the data clusters, the first classifier being operable to assign a further data point derived from a further user interaction with the computing device to one of the data clusters; and developing one or more further classifiers for at least one of the data clusters, the further classifier operable to identify and/or authenticate a user identity based on the further data point.
US11630887B2
Methods and systems for using a challenge-response problem to deter malicious clients are described. A denial of a first login request for logging into an account by a computing device is detected. A second login request for logging into the account is received from the computing device. A reputation score for the second login request is determined based on the denial of the first login request. A number of terms for a challenge-response problem is set based on the determined reputation score. The challenge-response problem is configured to use the set number of terms and sent to the computing device. The second login request is authorized in response to verifying a second login credential and a solution to the challenge-response problem received from the computing device.
US11630882B2
Registered, first unregistered, and second unregistered encodings are generated for registered images of content, first unregistered images of the content, and second unregistered images of different content, respectively. First and second distance matrices having rows respectively corresponding to the first and second unregistered encodings are generated based on the registered encodings and the first and second unregistered encodings, respectively. A statistic is selected having a greatest difference between first and second distance vectors having values corresponding to the rows of the first and second distance matrices, respectively. Whether content of a new unregistered image corresponds to the content of the registered images is assessed by using the selected statistic.
US11630856B2
Point-of-Interest (POI) data is stored according to a first, POI library as a flat file in a database. An engine is positioned between the POI library and an interface. The interface is configured to interact with data structured in a hierarchical manner and stored according to a second library (e.g., a modeling interface utilizing folders). The engine functions to wrap a POI object taken from a table of the POI library, into an augmented object recognized and handled by the second library of the (hierarchical) interface. To accomplish this, the engine augments the POI table with an additional column that is to be indexed by the second library. In this manner, embodiments may impart additional, hierarchy-based functionality to existing POI handling schemes. Particular embodiments may impart enhanced security (e.g., permissions at the data object-level) to existing POI schemes that implement permissions only at the POI-level and/or at the application-level.
US11630855B2
In some implementations, a device may receive, from a data stream, a set of data points arranged in a dimensional data space. The device may compare the set of data points to identify one or more clusters using values of a distance parameter for data points included in the set of data points, wherein the values of distance parameter includes different values of the distance parameter for different data points. The device may transmit an indication of the one or more clusters to cause a device to display information associated with the one or more clusters. The device may receive, from the device, feedback information associated with at least one data point, wherein the feedback information indicates that at least one data point is associated with an error. The device may modify a value of the distance parameter associated with the at least one data point to a modified value.
US11630854B2
The present disclosure describes systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for utilizing hash partitions to determine local densities and distances among users (or among other represented data points) for clustering sparse data into segments. For instance, the disclosed systems can generate hash signatures for users in a sparse dataset and can map users to hash partitions based on the hash signatures. The disclosed systems can further determine local densities and separation distances for particular users (or other represented data points) within the hash partitions. Upon determining local densities and separation distances for datapoints from the dataset, the disclosed systems can select a segment (or cluster of data points) grouped according to a hierarchy of a clustering algorithm, such as a density-peaks-clustering algorithm.
US11630844B2
A method of syncing data across multiple systems includes: receiving a plurality of calendar events from a plurality of independent calendar systems that use different calendar system specific schemas; aggregating the calendar events at a unifying communication system; converting the calendar events from a calendar system specific schema to a unifying communication system specific schema; storing the plurality of calendar events in the unifying communication system specific schema; converting a calendar event received from a non-master calendar system to the master calendar system specific schema; and sending the converted calendar event to the master calendar system; wherein copies of the received calendar events that are formatted according to the calendar system specific schema of the master calendar system are stored with the master calendar system, and copies of the calendar events that are formatted according to the unifying communication system specific schema are stored with the unifying communication system.
US11630839B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for merging multiple point-in-time copies into a merged point-in-time copy. A repository maintains a full copy of the source data and point-in-time copies at point-in-times of the source data. Each of the point-in-time copies have change information indicating changed data in the source data that changed between the point-in-time of the point-in-time copy and a subsequent point-in-time and changed point-in-time data comprising data in the source data as of the point-in-time of the point-in-time copy indicated in the change information as changed. At least two selected of the point-in-time copies in the repository are merged into a merged point-in-time copy by: forming merged change information in the merged point-in-time copy indicating changed data indicated in change information for the selected point-in-time copies; and forming merged changed data in the merged point-in-time copy from the changed data in the selected point-in-time copies.
US11630837B2
A computer-implemented system and method for creating forecast charts. The computer-implemented system includes a computing device, processor, and memory. The processor is configured to connect data sources to a website application. The processors are configured to retrieve, by the website application, unstructured data from the plurality of data sources. The processors are configured to format unstructured data and convert the unstructured data into structured data. The processors are configured to transform, by the website application, the structured data into one or more forecast charts by performing computations by using transformation methods. The structured data is used on dashboard templates, and independent metric templates, wherein at least one of dashboard template is selected from the plurality of dashboard templates presented over a user interface of the computing device by a user. The processors are configured to train Machine Learning (ML) models on the structured data of the dashboard templates. The processors are configured to deploy the ML models on a server. The server is connected to an application programming interface (API). The ML models utilize a recursive multi-step forecasting and adjust a parameter of the recursive multi-step forecasting to fit the structured data. The ML models are used to provide prediction data based on structured data. The processors are configured to create a dashboard based on the dashboard template selected by the user. The API receives and returns the prediction data to the web application where the forecast charts are displayed based on the prediction data.
US11630836B2
A matched array technology system and method for displaying in a two-dimensional array the structured interaction between different parameters of an aircraft flight. Specific applications effectively support improved flight safety and greater fuel efficiency. Proxy values of flight metrics are defined and scaled so the axes of the array contain corresponding indicators resulting in a matched array and an embedded, unique alignment vector showing the relationships between different flight variables. The flight alignment system may be used with flight data that contain discontinuities and nonlinear reversions. Wherever values intersect, flight alignment system indicators can depict proximity to the alignment vector, as well as the direction and extent of adjustments to either or both selected flight metrics to achieve and maintain controlled flight.
US11630833B2
One embodiment provides a computer implemented method, including: receiving, from a user, a natural language query for data contained within at least one data repository; identifying at least one concept from the natural language query, wherein the at least one concept includes an entity and an intent; identifying a plurality of datasets satisfying the natural language query by querying the at least one data repository utilizing the at least one concept; ranking the dataset based on relevance to the query; generating an extract-transform-load script that extracts, transforms, and loads a dataset selected by the user from the plurality of datasets; and retrieving data included in the dataset utilizing the extract-transform-load script, wherein the retrieving includes returning the data to the user.
US11630828B2
In one implementation, a method for providing a user with an assessment of website quality includes receiving, at a computer system, identification of a website; retrieving, by the computer system, content that comprises the website; and automatically analyzing, by the computer system, the content. The method can further include determining, by the computer system, (i) a search engine optimization (SEO) sub-score for the website, (ii) an accessibility sub-score for the website, and (iii) a quality assurance score for the website based on the analysis of the content. The method can additionally include determining, by the computer system, a quality score for the website based on a combination of the SEO sub-score, the accessibility sub-score, and the quality assurance sub-score; and transmitting, by the computer system, the quality score to a client computing device for presentation in a user interface.
US11630821B2
A blockchain-based data processing method and apparatus, a device and a medium are provided, which are related to a blockchain technology. The method includes: acquiring a locally generated data processing transaction request; pre-executing the data processing transaction request, to determine a pre-execution result including write data; updating a data object in a local database according to the write data, and marking updated data of the data object as data with an unconfirmed state; encapsulating the pre-execution result into the request, and transmitting an encapsulated data processing transaction request to a blockchain network, to request other blockchain nodes to process it; and determining updated data associated with the encapsulated request as invalid data, in response to determining that the blockchain network refuses to execute it, or marking the updated data associated with the encapsulated request as data with a confirmed state, in response to determining that the blockchain network executes it.
US11630808B2
A method of applying proof of lottery to select block forgers in a blockchain, comprising performing the following at a certain one of a plurality of computing nodes connected to a blockchain network: (1) transmitting one or more of a plurality of participation transactions submitted by at least some of the plurality of computing nodes for participating in selection process conducted to select forgers from the plurality of computing nodes to forge blocks to be added to the blockchain; (2) determining a respective forger, during each selection process, by applying a selection function to an outcome of a hash function and a plurality of participation transactions extracted from a first subset of blocks preceding the respective block, the hash function is applied to a second subset of blocks preceding the respective block; and (3) forging the respective block in case the certain computing node is selected as the respective forger.
US11630802B2
A method and system for requesting information from a server are provided. The method may include sending, by a client to a server, an HTTP GET request to retrieve at least a portion of at least one derived data file, the at least one derived data file being dynamically generated by the server in response to the request using a data file virtualization policy and at least a portion of a data file. The data file virtualization policy and the data file may be stored in a storage accessible by the server, and the dynamic generation may comprise an aligned unbuffered direct read operation from the stored data file of a data size that is aligned to an integer multiple of the storage's block size. The at least the portion of the at least one derived data file may then be received by the client from the server.
US11630799B2
A hybrid electrical and optic system-on-chip (SOC) device configured for both electrical and optic communication includes a substrate, an electrical device configured for electrical communication arranged on the substrate, a photonics device configured for optic communication arranged on the substrate, and a self-test module arranged on the substrate. The self-test module is configured to receive a loop-back signal indicative of an optical signal output from the photonics device and calibrate the photonics device based on the loop-back signal.
US11630796B2
A serial peripheral interface (SPI) communication system includes a memory configured with a start register address and an end register address that define a register address range for a data operation; a chip select terminal configured to receive a chip select signal comprising an active and idle signal levels that define a plurality of chip select frames; a serial data input terminal configured to receive a master out, slave in (MOSI) signal, wherein the MOSI signal includes configuration information received in a first chip select frame of the data operation, wherein the configuration information includes an operation command bit indicating whether the data operation is a write operation or a read out operation and an auto-incrementation control bit indicating whether automatic register address incrementation across chip select frames is enabled or disabled; and a serial data output terminal configured to transmit a master in, slave out (MISO) signal.
US11630774B2
Techniques are disclosed for preventing overwriting of shared line segments. The techniques include sending a data unit from a first processor to second processor using an augmented hardware cache coherency protocol, the augmented hardware cache coherency protocol being augmented to maintain dirty bits information during an exchange of the data unit within a cache coherency domain. A size of the data unit is a fraction of a size of any shared line of a shared memory, and writing the data unit to a segment of a shared line of a shared memory includes using another protocol, without overwriting another segment of the shared line. The writing is based at least in part on the dirty bits information, and the other protocol does not support hardware coherency and maintains the dirty bits information.
US11630772B1
Disclosed is a system and method for use in a cache for suppressing modification of cache line. The system and method includes a processor and a memory operating cooperatively with a cache controller. The memory includes a coherence directory stored within a cache created to track at least one cache line in the cache via the cache controller. The processor instructs a cache controller to store a first data in a cache line in the cache. The cache controller tags the cache line based on the first data. The processor instructs the cache controller to store a second data in the cache line in the cache causing eviction of the first data from the cache line. The processor compares based on the tagging the first data and the second data and suppresses modification of the cache line based on the comparing of the first data and the second data.
US11630770B2
Disclosed herein includes a system, a method, and a device for reading and writing sparse data in a neural network accelerator. A plurality of slices can be established to access a memory having an access size of a data word. A first slice can be configured to access a first side of the data word in memory. Circuitry can access a mask identifying byte positions within the data word having non-zero values. The circuitry can modify the data word to have non-zero byte values stored starting at an end of the first side, and any zero byte values stored in a remainder of the data word. A determination can be made whether a number of non-zero byte values is less than or equal to a first access size of the first slice. The circuitry can write the modified data word to the memory via at least the first slice.
US11630769B2
A memory controller includes a buffer memory and a microprocessor. The buffer memory includes at least a first cache memory and a second cache memory. The microprocessor is configured to control access of a flash memory device. The microprocessor is configured to obtain a number of spare blocks of the flash memory device corresponding to a first operation period, determine a write speed compensation value, determine a target write speed according to the write speed compensation value and a balance speed, and determine a target garbage collection speed according to the target write speed. The microprocessor is further configured to perform one or more write operations in response to one or more write commands received from a host device in the first operation period according to the target write speed and perform at least one garbage collection operation according to the target garbage collection speed.
US11630766B2
A memory system includes a plurality of memory chips, including a first memory chip and a second memory chip, and a controller. The controller includes a first central processing unit (CPU) to process a request received from a host, and a plurality of second CPUs to respectively control operations of the plurality of memory chips through a plurality of channels. An importance table is stored in the controller and includes information about a data programming method for data stored in the memory system, the information about the data programming method corresponding to importance information of the data. The second CPUs are configured to program at least some of the data in both the first memory chip and the second memory chip, based on the importance table, so that at least some of the data is stored in both the first memory chip and the second memory chip as same data.
US11630760B2
Described are a system, method, and computer program product for operating dynamic shadow testing environments for machine-learning models. The method includes storing a testing policy including an identifier of a machine-learning model and an identifier of a transaction service. The method includes generating a shadow testing environment operating the transaction service using the machine-learning model. The method also includes receiving, at a transaction service provider system, a transaction authorization request including transaction data of a transaction associated with a payment device. The method further includes identifying the machine-learning model associated with the transaction based on a parameter of the transaction data. The method further includes determining, based on the identifier of the machine-learning model, the testing policy and the shadow testing environment. The method further includes replicating the transaction data in the shadow testing environment as input for testing the transaction service using the machine-learning model.
US11630757B1
Various implementations of the invention develop executable code for an embedded system, including a microcontroller and a device. Some implementations of the invention comprise a microcontroller development tool configured to operate on a general purpose computer. In some implementations, the development tool comprises: 1) a virtual microcontroller configured to operate within the development tool in a manner substantially identical to an operation of the microcontroller of the embedded system, wherein the virtual microcontroller operates within the development tool using op codes native to that of the microcontroller, the virtual microcontroller further configured to receive inputs from and provide outputs to the device of the embedded system, 2) an expanded memory beyond a memory available to the microcontroller, the expanded memory available to the virtual microcontroller and configured to store op codes or data for the virtual microcontroller to assist with development of executable code, and 3) a microcontroller programmer configured to transfer executable code to a memory of the microcontroller, wherein the executable code is developed within the development tool; and a microcontroller coupler configured to couple the development tool to the embedded system.
US11630748B2
Methods and systems for operating internal systems of a vehicle are provided. Aspects include providing a field programmable gate array (FPGA), the FPGA including a communication channel port, wherein the communication channel port is operable to connect to one or more systems through a communication channel, and wherein the FPGA is configured to operate in one or more control modes, receiving a communication channel input to the communication channel port of the FPGA, based at least in part on the communication channel input, determining a control mode from the one or more control modes, and operating the FPGA in the control mode, wherein the control mode is associated with one system of the one or more systems.
US11630740B2
A system and method to create a plurality of hyperscaler accounts having predefined access rights to an object store of a database service in a cloud environment; store hyperscaler credentials specifying access rights to the object store corresponding to the predefined access rights of the hyperscaler accounts in a secure credential store, the hyperscaler credentials providing access to the object store for a specified backup function; map each of a plurality of different backup service component processes to one of the hyperscaler credentials, each of the plurality of backup service component processes operative independent of each other and having a specific backup service functionality; receive a request to execute one of the plurality of different backup service component processes; and authenticate access rights of the backup service component process included in the request based on the mapping.
US11630739B2
A system according to certain aspects may include a client computing device including: a database application configured to output a database file in a primary storage device(s), the database application outputting the database file as a series of application-level blocks; and a data agent configured to divide the database file into a plurality of first blocks having a first granularity larger than a second granularity of the application-level blocks such that each of the first blocks spans a plurality of the application-level blocks. The system may include a secondary storage controller computer(s) configured to: in response to instructions to create a secondary copy of the database file: copy the plurality of first blocks to a secondary storage device(s) to create a secondary copy of the database file; and create a table that provides a mapping between the copied plurality of first blocks and corresponding locations on the secondary storage device(s).
US11630734B2
A scale-out storage system includes a plurality of computer nodes each of which has a memory and a processor, and a storage apparatus. The computer nodes have one or more redundancy groups each of which is a group for metadata protection. Each of the one or more redundancy groups includes two or more of the computer nodes including a primary node being a primary computer node and a secondary node being a secondary computer node, and a failover is performed from the primary node to the secondary node. The memory of the primary node has stored therein metadata related to the redundancy group and to be accessed for control. The metadata is redundantly stored in the memory of the primary node and the memory of the secondary node.
US11630733B2
Techniques are provided for persistent memory file system reconciliation. As part of the persistent memory file system reconciliation, high level file system metadata associated with a persistent memory file system of persistent memory is reconciled. Client access to the persistent memory file system is inaccessible until reconciliation of the high level file system metadata has completed. A first scanner is executed to traverse pages of the persistent memory in order to fix local inconsistencies associated with the pages. A local inconsistency of a first set of metadata or data of a page is fixed using a second set of metadata or data of the page. The first scanner is executed asynchronously in parallel with processing client I/O directed to the persistent memory file system.
US11630732B2
A method of updating firmware in a chip in a stable and effective manner receives firmware outputted by a controller. The received firmware is burned into the chip. A voltage level of a controlling signal outputted by a controlling pin of the chip is latched to a certain level based on a latching signal at a first voltage level outputted by the controller. The storage medium is refreshed for making the burned firmware effective based on refresh instruction outputted by the controller. The latching signal at a second voltage level for unlatching the voltage level of the controlling signal is outputted by the controller if operations of the chip are stable. An updating operation of the chip by the method does not interrupt other operations being executed by the chip. A firmware updating apparatus and a computer readable storage medium applying the method are also disclosed.
US11630731B2
In various embodiments, a method for page cache management is described. The method can include: identifying a storage device fault associated with a fault-resilient storage device; determining that a first region associated with the fault-resilient storage device comprises an inaccessible space and that a second region associated with the fault-resilient storage device comprises an accessible space; identifying a read command at the second storage device for the data and determine, based on the read command, first data requested by a read operation from a local memory of the second storage device; determining, based on the read command, second data requested by the read operation from the second region; retrieving the second data from the second region; and scheduling a transmission of the second data from the fault-resilient storage device to the second storage device.
US11630729B2
This disclosure describes techniques that include implementing network-efficient data durability or data reliability coding on a network. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes generating a plurality of data fragments from a set of data to enable reconstruction of the set of data from a subset of the plurality of data fragments; storing, across a plurality of nodes in a network, the plurality of data fragments, wherein storing the plurality of data fragments includes storing the first fragment at a first node and the second fragment at a second node; and generating, by the first node, a plurality of secondary fragments derived from the first fragment to enable reconstruction of the first fragment from a subset of the plurality of secondary fragments; and storing the plurality of secondary fragments from the first fragment across a plurality of storage devices included within the first node.
US11630723B2
Transferring data between memories may include reading data associated with a memory transfer transaction from a first memory, determining whether a bypass indication associated with the memory transfer transaction is asserted, and transferring the data from the first memory to a second memory. The transferring may include bypassing the first-processing if the bypass indication is asserted. The transferring may further include bypassing second-processing the data if the bypass indication is asserted. Following bypassing the second-processing, the data may be stored in the second memory.
US11630718B2
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for using user equipment data clusters and spatial temporal graphs of abnormalities for root cause analysis. User equipment data can be obtained from a cellular network. A filter having a threshold can be applied to the user equipment data to obtain a records. A determination is made whether the threshold is to be adaptively adjusted. If a determination is made that the threshold is not to be adjusted, the records can be added to a record set. The records in the subset of records can be correlated based on a key to obtain a filtered and correlated version of the record set, a spatial temporal graph of abnormalities associated with the cellular network can be generated based on the filtered and correlated version of the record set, and a root cause of a failure can be determined based on the spatial temporal graph of abnormalities.
US11630708B2
An example method facilitates collaborative participation in a process-based software application. The example method includes employing a process cloud integrated with a social network and document cloud to enable social network conversation-based collaboration during running of processes of the process-based software application. Hence, by integrating a social network with a process cloud, collaboration mechanisms can be created when a process starts. Process designers, i.e., process-based application designers or developers, may configure permissions for the various tasks in a process so that task participants can see some messages in the conversation but not all. As tasks are initiated and completed, automated messages may be posted to the conversation.
US11630706B2
Systems and techniques for adaptive limited-duration edge resource management are described herein. Available capacity may be calculated for a resource for a node of the edge computing network based on workloads executing on the node. Available set-aside resources may be determined based on the available capacity. A service request may be received from an application executing on the edge computing node. A priority category may be determined for the service request. Set-aside resources from the available set-aside resources may be assigned to a workload associated with the service request based on the priority category.
US11630699B2
An electronic device and storage medium for process scheduling are provided. The electronic device includes a memory and at least one processor, wherein the memory stores instructions to enable the at least one processor to execute a host operating system (OS) and at least one virtual machine, and wherein the host OS is configured to receive information for at least one process from the virtual machine, allocate at least one core to the virtual machine based on the information for the at least one process, and provide, to the virtual machine, information related to allocation of the at least one core. Other various embodiments are possible as well.
US11630698B2
This disclosure describes methods, devices, systems, and procedures in a computing system for capturing a configuration state of an operating system executing on a central processing unit (CPU), and offloading memory management tasks, based on the configuration state, to a resource management unit such as a system-on-a-chip (SoC). The resource management unit identifies a status of a resource requiring memory swapping based on the captured configuration state of the operating system. The resource management unit then swaps the memory to alleviate the CPU from processing the swap thereby improving overall computing system performance.
US11630695B1
Dynamic reassignment of search processes into workload pools includes receiving a search query to search at least one data store, assigning the search query to a first workload pool, and executing the search query using a first hardware resource in the first workload pool, the first hardware resource corresponding to a first portion of a hardware device. Dynamic reassignment further includes receiving, while executing the search query, an update command to move the search query to a second workload pool, moving, while executing the search query, the search query to the second workload pool; and continuing execution of the search query using a second hardware resource in the second workload pool. The second hardware resource corresponds to a second portion of the hardware device.
US11630692B2
Techniques are disclosed for efficient utilization worker threads in a workflow-as-a-service (WFaaS) environment. A client device may request a workflow for execution by the client device. The client device may receive the requested workflow and initialize a set of worker threads to execute the workflow and a set of heartbeater threads to monitor the set of worker threads. Upon receiving an indication of a processing delay, the client device may capture the state of the workflow, suspend execution of the workflow, and store the workflow in a temporary queue. While the processing delay persists, the client device may use the set of worker threads to execute other tasks. When the processing delay terminates, the client device may resume execution of the workflow.
US11630680B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product for modifying a user interface in a web browsing session is described. During a learning session with a first user, a user model is created. The user model includes associating user movement of the first user with a set of user focus types. During the web browsing session with the first user, the system determines that a first user focus of the set of user focus types in the user model is appropriate to modify a web application user interface to present a priority user interface element in the user interface. The web application user interface is modified according to the first user focus.
US11630668B1
A processor including a pointer storage that stores pointer descriptors each including addressing information, an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) configured to execute an instruction which includes operand indexes each identifying a corresponding pointer descriptor, multiple address generation units (AGUs), each configured to translate addressing information from a corresponding pointer descriptors into memory addresses for accessing corresponding operands stored in a memory, and a smart cache. The smart cache includes a cache storage, and uses the memory addresses from the AGUs to retrieve and store operands from the memory into the cache storage, and to provide the stored operands to the ALU when executing the instruction. The smart cache replaces a register file used by a conventional processor for retrieving and storing operand information. The pointer operands include post-update capability that reduces instruction fetches. Wasted memory cycles associated with cache speculation are avoided.
US11630663B2
Aspects of the invention include determining, by a processor, a code segment of a computer code, analyzing the code segment to determine one or more other code segments associated with the code segment, determining a set of subject matter experts (SMEs) associated with the code segment and the one or more other code segments, obtaining SME data for each SME in the set of SMEs, wherein the SME data comprises a set of attributes associated with the SME, generating, by the processor, a graphical representation of the set of attributes for each SME in the set of SMEs, transforming the graphical representations into an eigenvectors and eigenvalues, and ranking the SMEs based on their associated eigenvectors and eigenvalues.
US11630648B2
An application development environment generates applications from declarative specification for the application. The declarative specification describes one or more object types and references to objects of each object type. The application development environment generates instructions (or code) from the declarative specification to generate an initial version of the application. The application development environment iteratively builds the application based on user interactions that modify the declarative specification. The application development environment modifies the instructions for the application to match the modified declarative specification. The final version of the application may be deployed on a production system.
US11630643B2
Provided is a specification document creation system including a first computer and a second computer, wherein the first computer is configured to generate, based on configuration information, display data for displaying a first display item, which is determined by the configuration information, of a BIOS on a display device, the configuration information indicating a hardware configuration of the first computer, and analyze the display data to generate first information including the first display item included in the display data, and the second computer is configured to analyze a source code of the BIOS to generate second information including a second display item, which is determined independently of the hardware configuration of the first computer, of the BIOS, and create a specification document for the BIOS in which the first display item included in the first information and the second display item included in the second information are described.
US11630639B2
An electronic device and method are disclosed. The electronic device may include a display, a sensor module, a processor, and a memory operatively connected to the processor. The memory stores one or more instructions that, when executed, cause the processor implements the method, including: setting an initial value by obtaining inertial information including position information, tilt information, or movement information of the electronic device, distance information between the electronic device and a user, and angle information of a face of the user, through the sensor module, determining a first virtual coordinate system mapped onto a screen of the display, based on the initial value, displaying a cursor at a position on the screen that corresponds to coordinates of one of within the first virtual coordinate system, detecting a change in the distance information, the angle information, or the inertial information through the sensor module after setting the initial value, and correcting a second virtual coordinate system changed from the first virtual coordinate system, based on an amount of change in the first virtual coordinate system such that the second virtual coordinate system is mapped onto the screen.
US11630638B2
A boat includes a dash positioned proximate a windshield at a first non-zero angle. A speaker is mounted under a top surface of the dash at a second non-zero angle. The speaker is positioned to direct sound emanating from the speaker through an opening in the dash and the windshield is configured to reflect the sound emanating from the speaker as reflected sound in an aft direction. The boat may also include an enclosure having a reflective surface positioned within a cavity formed between the deck and hull of the boat. A speaker, mounted within the enclosure, and the reflective surface are configured to reflect sound emanating from the speaker off of the reflective surface and through an opening of the enclosure.
US11630628B2
When a screen to be displayed on a touch panel display includes no visual content for appreciation, such as a movie, the screen is displayed at a position closer to the user, at which the user can naturally manipulate the screen. When the screen includes a handwritten input acceptance box, the screen is placed at an upper position so that a handwriting input operation by the user is eased. When the screen includes visual content for appreciation, the screen is displayed at a position slightly distant from the user so as to be suitable for viewing the visual content for appreciation. The position suitable for appreciation is set according to the display size and resolution of the visual content, included in the screen, for appreciation.
US11630625B2
A print control server that controls printing via an SNS includes a display controller that causes, when a printer registration request is received from an account of a user of the SNS, an SNS server that manages the SNS to display, on a terminal device operated by the user, an input screen on which an e-mail address that uniquely identifies a printer is entered, an acquisition unit that acquires the e-mail address entered on the input screen, and a registration unit that refers to a database which specifies, in advance, a correspondence relationship with an e-mail address with respect to a plurality of printers and that registers, when the e-mail address acquired by the acquisition unit matches any e-mail address specified in the database, the account in association with the printer identified by the e-mail address acquired by the acquisition unit.
US11630622B2
An information processing apparatus includes at least one processor and at least one memory coupled to the at least one processor and storing instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor and the at least one memory to act as a display unit configured to display, on a plurality of pages of an operation screen, a plurality of display objects for giving instructions to perform processing, and an acquisition unit configured to acquire use histories of the plurality of display objects. A number of display objects to be displayed on a single page of the operation screen among the plurality of display objects is determined based on at least the acquired use histories.
US11630618B2
A method for correcting an error in image printing, the method includes receiving a reference digital image (RDI). Based on a predefined selection criterion, one or more regions in the RDI that are suitable for use as anchor features for sensing the error, are automatically selected. A digital image (DI) acquired from a printed image of the RDI, is received and the one or more regions are automatically identified in the DI. Based on the anchor features of the DI, the error is automatically estimated in the printed image. A correction that, when applied to the DI, compensates for the estimated error, is calculated. The estimated error is corrected in a subsequent digital image (SDI) to be printed, and the SDI having the corrected error, is printed.
US11630617B2
An information processing apparatus capable of providing address information of a line desired by a user. The information processing apparatus causes the user to select a line corresponding to the address information to be set in the near field wireless communication information, and sets the address information of the selected line in the near field wireless communication information, so as to transmit the near field wireless communication information, in which the address information of the line desired by the user is set, by near field wireless communication.
US11630610B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a receiving unit that receives print setting for a Web page from an operator; a requesting unit that requests data on the Web page by transmitting terminal information set on the basis of the print setting to a Web server that provides the data on the Web page; and a generation unit that generates print data on the basis of the data on the Web page obtained from the Web server in response to a request from the requesting unit.
US11630606B2
A method includes receiving, by a processing device, an indication that a host system is to become idle for a first period of time, identifying, by the processing device based on the first period of time, a background operation at a memory sub-system, and causing, by the processing device, execution of the background operation at the memory sub-system during the first period of time.
US11630592B2
A method and apparatus for a database management architecture on an SSD. A list of tables is stored in the SSD, and records of a table are stored across multiple FIMs of the SSD such that a group of records may be read in parallel by concurrently reading from multiple FIMs. The records of the table are stored on jumboblocks, organized in an unordered fashion as a linked list. New records are added to the end of the linked list. Records having gaps resulting from data modification or bad portions of an NVM die are re-organized via garbage collection when the gap memory size reaches about 20% of table memory size.
US11630589B1
Aspects of the innovations herein are consistent with a storage system for storing variable sized objects. According to certain implementations, the storage system may be a transaction-based system that uses variable sized objects to store data, and/or may be implemented using data stores, such as arrays disks arranged in ranks. In some exemplary implementations, each rank may include multiple stripes, each stripe may be read and written as a convenient unit for maximum performance, and/or a rank manager may be provided to dynamically configure the ranks. In certain implementations, the storage system may include a stripe space table that contains entries describing the amount of space used in each stripe. Further, an object map may provide entries for each object in the storage system describing the location, the length and/or version of the object.
US11630583B2
A machine-implemented method for managing a flash storage system includes determining a projected life value for each of a plurality of flash memory devices in the flash storage system, wherein the projected life value for at least one of the plurality of flash memory devices is higher than the projected life value of at least another one of the plurality of flash memory devices. The method also includes determining operating parameters for each of the plurality of flash memory devices based on the respective projected life values for the plurality of flash memory devices. The method also includes configuring the plurality of flash memory devices based on the determined operating parameters.
US11630581B2
An apparatus comprises at least one processing device that is configured to control delivery of input-output operations from a host device to a storage system over selected ones of a plurality of paths through a network. The at least one processing device is further configured to detect a reduction in performance of one or more of the input-output operations over one or more paths of the plurality of paths, to identify a physical initiator component corresponding to the one or more paths, and to notify the storage system about the reduction in performance and the identified physical initiator component. The at least one processing device is also configured to receive a notification from the storage system indicating one or more virtual initiator instances of a plurality of virtual initiator instances corresponding to the identified physical initiator component, and to deactivate the one or more virtual initiator instances.
US11630580B2
A method of a flash controller to be coupled between a flash memory device and a host device is provided. The flash memory device has a plurality of blocks each having a plurality of pages, and the method comprises: receiving a trim/erase/unmap command from the host device; obtaining a storage space, which is to be erased, from the trim/erase/unmap command; comparing a space size of the storage space with a threshold to determine whether the space size is larger than the threshold; and resetting valid page counts of the plurality of blocks of the flash memory device when the space size is larger than the threshold.
US11630578B2
An electronic system includes: a key value storage device, configured to transfer user data, the key value storage device including: a non-volatile memory array accessed by a key value address, an interface circuit, coupled to the non-volatile memory array, configured to receive a key value transfer command, a volatile memory, coupled to the interface circuit and the non-volatile memory array, configured to reduce a number of copies of the user data in the non-volatile memory array, and a device processor, coupled to the interface circuit, configured to manage the non-volatile memory array, the volatile memory, and the interface circuit by a key value index tree, including a key value translation block, to access the user data.
US11630575B2
What is disclosed is a system for randomization of one or more display parameters for a keypad displayed on a touchscreen of a mobile device, said system comprising a randomization subsystem to randomly select one or more variables related to at least one of said one or more display parameters, said one or more display parameters comprising a location of the keypad relative to said edge of said touchscreen; a size of said keypad; one or more sizes of one or more buttons within said keypad, and one or more positions of one or more groups of the one or more buttons within said keypad.
US11630574B2
Disclosed is an electronic device including a display, a memory, and a processor. The processor is configured to identify a first region set for the electronic device, to identify a second region associated with a first object output to the display, to determine whether the first region is different from the second region, to identify a first meaning of which a second object output to the display is used in the first region and a second meaning of which the second object is used in the second region when the second region is different from the first region, to determine whether the first meaning is different from the second meaning, and to provide a notification that the first meaning is different from the second meaning, through the display when the first meaning is different from the second meaning. Other various embodiments as understood from the specification are also possible.
US11630573B1
A hover touch device with sensory feedback includes: a capacitive touch panel, and a touch driver chip which drives the capacitive touch panel to generate and output a sensing information; based on the sensing information, an embedded system determines whether a conducting object is inside an effective region. The embedded system calculates spatial coordinates of the conductive object, and outputs the spatial coordinates to a graphical user interface, so that the graphical user interface displays a position feedback image on a display device based on the spatial coordinates of the conductive object as a visual feedback. After the embedded system recognizes a hovering gesture event, a speaker generates a hovering gesture event feedback sound as an auditory feedback. The embedded system also makes the speaker broadcast a warning sound when a user's finger contacts the capacitive touch panel.
US11630571B2
A graphic display method and apparatus are provided. In the graphic display method, a terminal may detect a touch operation on a screen when there is a to-be-processed event; obtain touch point coordinates of the touch operation; display, in a position indicated by the touch point coordinates, a touch graphic used to indicate the touch operation, and display, on the screen based on the touch point coordinates, an operation indication graphic corresponding to the to-be-processed event. The touch graphic and the operation indication graphic are displayed on the screen to enable a user to see a current to-be-processed event in a more intuitive and vivid manner, thereby reducing a misoperation rate of a touch operation and improving operation experience of the user.
US11630568B2
The invention concerns device for a digital writing instrument the device comprising a substrate with a transparent or translucent layer and a pattern layer on the transparent layer. The pattern comprising an active area made with photoluminescent material and an inactive area made with non photoluminescent material. The photoluminescent material comprises a successive alternate of a first layer and a second layer generating photoluminescent structure at the interface of said first layer and said second layer, the pattern layer comprises a series of N points distributed in a plan (X,Y), either said N-points define the active area whereas the inactive area is defined by the area between said N points. The N-points defines the inactive area whereas the active area is defined by the area between said N points. The invention also relates to a method for determining a position, a method for manufacturing, a system and a stylus.
US11630554B2
In a synchronization system that synchronizes files from multiple computing devices, the present invention provides a method for (1) displaying files from multiple computing devices in a multi-view user interface and (2) enabling content and file operations to be performed on such files through the user interface. The multi-view interface includes a file-system view and one or more media-specific views. In the file-system view files are organized in the same way in which they are organized on the devices on which they are stored. In the file-system view, users can perform file operations on files. In the media-specific view files are organized by media category. In one embodiment of the media-specific view, files are organized by metadata that relates to the files content. In the media-specific view, users can perform content operations on the files.
US11630551B1
Smart keychain devices, systems, and methods are disclosed. An example apparatus can include a device body having a round shape with a thickness less than about 10 millimeters (mm) and a diameter less than about 80 mm. The device body can include a graphical user interface and a processing circuitry coupled to a memory. The processing circuitry can be configured to send, using a first communication connection, a first request to a computing device. The processing circuitry can be further configured to determine that a response from the computing device is absent using the first communication connection. The processing circuitry can be further configured to send, using a second communication connection, a second request to the computing device. The processing circuitry can be further configured to receive the response from the computing device, and establish a connection between the device and the computing device.
US11630548B2
A method for controlling a mouse pointer on at least two displays is provided. A virtual display layout defines a mutual relative positioning of display areas relating to the at least two displays. The method comprises creating the virtual display area and tracking a position of the mouse pointer within it. Upon the mouse pointer being positioned within an area of any of the display areas, the mouse pointer is displayed. Upon the mouse pointer being positioned outside the area of any of the display areas, but within the virtual display area, a first marker is displayed on a side border of the display in a direction the mouse pointer is positioned within the virtual display area, and a second marker is displayed on at least one other side border of another display in a direction the mouse pointer is positioned within the virtual display area.
US11630547B2
A conductive member for a touch panel has a first electrode formed on a substrate and extending in parallel to a first direction, in which the first electrode is electrically connected to a plurality of first mesh cells constituted by a fine metal wire, the fine metal wire is not parallel or perpendicular with respect to a first direction, the first electrode has at least one auxiliary fine metal wire that extends in a first direction, intersects the fine metal wire, is electrically connected to the fine metal wire, and is not parallel to the fine metal wire, and an electrode width Wa of the first electrode in a second direction orthogonal to a first direction and a first mesh pitch P1 of the first mesh cell in a second direction satisfy Wa≤2.5P1.
US11630546B2
A display device, includes: a base substrate; a display element layer on the base substrate, the display element layer including a driving electrode; an insulation layer on the display element layer, the insulation layer defining an active region and a peripheral region adjacent to the active region; an input sensing layer on the insulation layer, the input sensing layer including a sensing electrode that overlaps the active region and a compensation electrode that overlaps the peripheral region, the sensing electrode and the driving electrode forming a parasitic capacitor; and a detection control circuit electrically connected through an output node to the sensing electrode and the compensation electrode, wherein the detection control circuit is configured to control a capacitance of the parasitic capacitor using a first offset capacitor, the first offset capacitor being formed by the compensation electrode.
US11630544B2
A touch panel, a display panel, and a display unit achieving prevention of erroneous detection caused by external noise. The touch panel includes: a plurality of detection scan electrodes extending in a first direction and a plurality of detection electrodes facing the plurality of detection scan electrodes and extending in a second direction which intersects the first direction. A ratio of fringe capacitance to total capacitance between one or more selected detection scan electrodes and a first detection electrode is different from a ratio of fringe capacitance to total capacitance between the one or more selected detection scan electrodes and a second detection electrode. The one or more selected detection scan electrodes are selected, in a desired unit, from the plurality of detection scan electrodes, to be supplied with a selection pulse, and each of the first and the second detection electrodes is selected from the plurality of detection electrodes.
US11630535B2
A touch display device and a display panel uniformly distributing capacitances between the touch lines and the touch electrodes are provided. The device includes a display panel in which a plurality of X-touch electrodes are electrically connected to form a X-touch electrode line and a plurality of X-touch electrode lines arranged in parallel to receive a plurality of touch driving signals, and a plurality of Y-touch electrode lines to transmit a plurality of touch sensing signals, and a touch driving circuit. A plurality of X-touch lines transmit the touch driving signals connect together the plurality of X-touch electrodes constituting a same X-touch electrode line through a plurality of contact holes. Distances between at least one Y-touch electrode line and the plurality of contact holes through which the plurality of X-touch lines are electrically connected to the X-touch electrodes adjacent to the at least one Y-touch electrode line are uniform.
US11630531B2
A nanopaper and a fabricating method thereof, a method of graphic processing and an electronic device are provided. The nanopaper includes: a transparent substrate, wherein the transparent substrate includes a micro-nano-fiber; a plurality of pressure sensing units, wherein the pressure sensing units are located on one side of the transparent substrate, and resistances of the pressure sensing units are able to vary with deformation of the transparent substrate; and a plurality of leads, wherein the plurality of leads are connected to the pressure sensing units, and are configured to be able to separately output a sensing signal of each of the plurality of pressure sensing units.
US11630528B2
Discussed are a display panel which can be applied to a touch display device by changing a design of a conductive layer to electrically connect a plurality of pads to a plurality of common electrodes, and a display device and a touch display panel device thereof.
US11630524B1
A wireless input output apparatus is disclosed. The wireless input output apparatus includes a first housing mechanically coupled to the wireless input output apparatus panel. The first housing is configured to house a plurality of input keys. Each of the plurality of input keys corresponds to one of a character, a letter, a number, a function, and a command. The wireless input output apparatus also includes a second housing mechanically coupled adjacent to the first housing and over the wireless input output apparatus panel. The second housing is configured to house a capacitive touch screen display for rendering visual information. The wireless input output apparatus may be tethered to computer, phone, laptop, tablet, and the like without interrupting workflow when receiving calls, texts, “DMs”, emails and the like.
US11630521B2
Various embodiments relate to an electronic device for supporting a finger pinch interaction using a return loss of a radio frequency signal and an operating method thereof. The electronic device is configured to measure a return loss of an antenna while radiating a radio frequency signal through the antenna and to detect whether a thumb and a finger touch each other within a predetermined distance from the antenna based on the measured return loss. Accordingly, there can be provided an interaction for the touch between the thumb and the finger.
US11630515B1
A ferrule is configured to optically coupled to electronics for detect signals from a head of a user. The ferrule has optical properties to guide light between the electronics and a head of a user. The ferrule comprises a base portion having a cavity to enclose an optical element, a middle portion configured to guide light to or from the optical element, and a tip portion to interface with the head of the user.
US11630512B2
In each trial, brain electrical activity at multiple points of a target person is measured. An acquirer of a determination device acquires response matrices for n trials under a first condition and response matrices form trials under a second condition. An analyzer performs canonical correlation analysis on the acquired response matrices to obtain first canonical variable time series. A distance calculator calculates a distance between the trials from the obtained first canonical variable time series to obtain a distance matrix. A determiner obtains a possibility that the n trials and the m trials are classified into two different clusters from the distance matrix and determines whether the first condition and the second condition are substantially different. It is possible to provide to a single target person a first content in n trials and a second content in m trials so as to determine a difference in interest of the single target person. It is possible to provide the same content to a first subject who is the target person in n trials and to a second subject who is the target person in m trials so as to determine whether the two are different or the same.
US11630505B2
An interactive energy effect system that includes one or more sensors configured to generate a signal indicative of a position of a user-associated object in the system. The interactive energy effect system also includes a system controller that receives the signal and generates a first and second set of instructions based on the signal. The system controller transmits the first instructions to an energy emission system to cause the energy emission system to reposition and activate an energy emitter. Additionally, the system controller transmits the second instructions to a multi-layer display system to cause the multi-layer display system to move towards or away from the user-associated object.
US11630499B2
Methods and systems for managing power for a Power over Ethernet (PoE) device are disclosed herein. The method may include obtaining, by a supervisor, power information from a plurality of power supply units (PSUs) to obtain total consumed power; obtaining, by the supervisor, a total system power capacity value associated with the plurality of PSUs; and calculating, by the supervisor, a total available PoE power value using the total consumed power and the total system power capacity value; and making a first determination, by the supervisor, using the total available PoE power value and a PoE power table, whether a powered device should stop receiving power.
US11630497B2
In one embodiment, a method includes applying Forward Error Correction (FEC) to data at power sourcing equipment, transmitting the data and pulse power over a wire pair to a powered device, identifying data transmitted during power transitions between a pulse power on time and a pulse power off time in the pulse power at the powered device, and applying FEC decoding to at least a portion of the data based on said identified power transitions.
US11630495B2
A display apparatus and a method for controlling the same are provided. The display apparatus includes a display unit, a light sensor, a cooling fan, and a controller. The light sensor is configured to detect an ambient light and generate a brightness value indicating brightness of the ambient light. The cooling fan is configured to generating a fluid flow in the display apparatus. The controller is configured to monitor the brightness value per a time period and control a rotational speed of the cooling fan based on the brightness value.
US11630469B2
A control system controls a fluid distribution system that includes consumer branches arranged in parallel. Each consumer branch includes a consumer element (31) consuming fluid and/or thermal energy, a regulating device (9) receiving a control value regulating a flow of fluid and/or thermal energy through the consumer branch, and a sensor (11) providing a measured value of the consumer branch. The control system includes a saturation calculation module (21) providing a saturation value, for each operational consumer branch, indicative of the saturation degree of the associated consumer branch, and a saturation compensation module (23) receiving the saturation values and altering a reference value. The altered reference value is based on an initial reference value and the saturation values from all consumer branches. The consumer branch regulating device, of each operational consumer branch, is controllable based on the altered reference value and the measured value of the associated consumer branch.
US11630460B2
A robotic vehicle for moving above ground while fabricating a subsurface polymer layer to protect an underground structure is provided. The robotic vehicle includes: a body; a rotational member that contacts the ground and moves the body over the ground; a ripper assembly having a proximal end that moves with the body, and a distal end that moves underground at a fabrication depth in response to the movement of the proximal end while fabricating the polymer layer; a ground penetrating radar (GPR) that locates and measures a depth of the underground structure below the ground; and a computerized control system that controls the rotational member, the distal end of the ripper assembly, and the GPR to move the body over the located underground structure while tracking the location of the underground structure and fabricating the polymer layer at the fabrication depth and above the measured depth of the underground structure.
US11630450B2
A quality control device that controls quality of a product manufactured through a plurality of processes, includes a prediction model generation unit that generates a prediction model to predict quality of a product with respect to unknown process data by performing learning using known process data obtained from the plurality of processes and a measured value of quality of the product with respect to the known process data as learning data; a quality prediction unit that derives a predictive value of quality of each of a plurality of products, which are manufactured after the prediction model is generated, on the basis of the prediction model using process data of the plurality of products as input data; and an inspection target decision unit that decides the product for which the predictive value having the smallest margin with respect to a preset standard is obtained as an inspection target, among the plurality of predictive values of quality obtained by the quality prediction unit.
US11630448B2
A system includes an article supply location, wherein the article supply location includes a plurality of articles to be sorted, first and second transport vehicles, each having a first position in which an article is stowed about the vehicle and a second position in which the article is deposited into a proximal container. And a control system. The control system is configured to receive an order for a plurality of disparate articles, determine one destination container of a plurality of destination containers to direct the transport vehicle to deposit a selected article, direct the first transport vehicle to transport a selected article to the destination container and deposit the article by manipulation of the first transport vehicle from the first position to the second position for deposit of the selected article in the destination container.
US11630444B2
In an approach to AI empowered factory automation using an industrial IoT, responsive to receiving a new production task, production requirements are input into an AI engine. Equipment and software containers are selected based on the AI model. An orchestration service is created, where the orchestration service collaborates the equipment and the software containers.
US11630441B2
An automated system includes transducers, at least one computing device, and at least one automated apparatus. The transducer(s) is/are driven and sensed using drive-sense circuit(s). A drives and senses drive and sense a transducer via a single line, generates a digital signal representative of a sensed analog feature to which the transducer is exposed, and transmits the digital signal to the computing device. The computing device receives digital signals from at least some of drive-sense circuits and process them in accordance with the automation process to produce an automated process command. The automated apparatus executes a portion of an automated process based on the automated process command.
US11630440B2
A wire disconnection prediction device includes: a data acquisition part configured to acquire data relating to machining of a workpiece in a state where a wire is not disconnected during machining of the workpiece by a wire electric discharge machine; a preprocessing part configured to create, machining condition data of a condition relating to a machining condition commanded in machining of the workpiece, machining member data relating to a member used in the machining, and machining state data during machining of the workpiece, as state data indicating a state of the machining; and a learning part configured to generate, based on the state data created by the preprocessing part, a learning model indicating correlation between the state data and the state where the wire of the wire electric discharge machine is not disconnected.
US11630435B2
Tool wear monitoring is critical for quality and precision of manufacturing of parts in the machining industry. Existing tool wear monitoring and prediction methods are sensor based, costly and pose challenge in ease of implementation. Embodiments herein provide method and system for monitoring tool wear to estimate Remaining Useful Life (RUL) of a tool in machining is disclosed. The method provides a tool wear model, which combines tool wear physics with data fitting, capture practical considerations of a machining system, which makes the tool wear prediction and estimated RUL more stable, reliable and robust. Further, provides cost effective and practical solution. The disclosed physics based tool wear model for RUL estimation captures privilege of physics of tool wear and easily accessible data from CNC machine to monitor and predict tool wear and RUL of the tool in real-time.
US11630432B1
A tool path generation method for a bidirectional cutting edge tool, comprising: first obtaining a driving line and an auxiliary driving line of a contour, and discretizing the driving line to obtain tool position driving points; obtaining a tool axis vector according to a rule plane of the driving points and the auxiliary driving line; and then, calculating a tool position point according to geometric dimensions of the tool so as to obtain a tool path of a machining contour of the bidirectional cutting edge tool. The problems of fiber delamination and fluffing, burr generation, and the like of the contour of a machined part can be avoided, and the machining quality of a contour surface is improved, and the low-cost machining of parts can be efficiently achieved.
US11630430B2
A latchup immune microcontroller system with a power supply and a filter designed to eliminate external risks of triggering a latchup of a microcontroller caused by the power supply; a clock circuit with a clock frequency and a layout for eliminating external risks of triggering a latchup of the microcontroller caused by a high-frequency clock signal; a reset circuit that uses an optical triggering mechanism acting as a common power supply and an isolated power supply, the power detection circuit and a discharge circuit react in chain in time, avoid risks of triggering latchups of the microcontroller caused by reset signals; an interrupt with a high priority level and the discharge circuit react in chain in time to enhance data security, and output terminals are turned off in sequence to remove external causes of latchup. An application method of an I/O port to eliminate triggers of latchup of the microcontroller.
US11630429B2
A method of operating a power grid includes: generating, by a power management system of the power grid, an intermediate resource allocation schedule that provides a tentative schedule of resource allocation for power grid resources operating within the power grid; determining, by the power management system, whether the intermediate resource allocation schedule is feasible by checking whether the intermediate resource allocation schedule satisfies coupling constraints of a power grid resource allocation profile of the power grid indicative of an operation of the power grid constrained by power grid operational information; and in response to determining that the intermediate resource allocation schedule is infeasible, repairing, by the power management system, the intermediate resource allocation schedule to generate a feasible resource allocation schedule, where the repairing comprises determining whether a first dispatch solution obtained by solving a dispatch problem with fixed integer decisions from the intermediate resource allocation schedule is feasible.
US11630419B2
A device for producing an edge-lit-hologram having a light source, in particular a laser light source, for generating a light beam, optical splitter for splitting the light beam generated by the light source into an object beam and a reference beam, imprinter for imprinting computer-generated information pertaining to the edge-lit-hologram to the object, optics for overlapping the object beam and the reference beam on or in a photosensitive recording medium for imprinting the edge-lit-hologram, where the optics include at least one transparent body through which the reference beam enters the photosensitive recording medium during operation of the device. The at least one transparent body shaped and disposed in the device such that the reference beam enters the body at an angle of less than 10° to the normal on the surface of the body or enters the body perpendicular to the surface of the body.
US11630414B2
The developing cartridge includes a casing, a developing roller, and a first inclined surface. The first inclined surface is positioned at an outer surface of one end portion of the casing in the second direction. The first inclined surface is fixed to the casing and is inclined relative to the first direction. The first inclined surface is movable in the first direction relative to the photosensitive drum between a first position and a second position together with the casing and the developing roller in a state where the developing cartridge 1 is attached to a drum cartridge. In a state where the first inclined surface is at the first position, the developing roller is in contact with the photosensitive drum. In a state where the first inclined surface is at the second position, the developing roller is in separation from the photosensitive drum.
US11630410B2
A sheet processing apparatus includes a puncher, a first sensor positioned upstream of the puncher in the conveyance direction, a second sensor positioned upstream of the first detection position in the conveyance direction, a drive source configured to drive the puncher, a controller configured to control the drive source. The controller executes a control mode including a first process of controlling a rotation speed of the puncher on a basis of a detection result of the second sensor and a second process of controlling the rotation speed of the puncher on a basis of a detection result of the first sensor. In the control mode, the controller does not stop rotation of the puncher in a period between the punching process on the preceding sheet and a punching process on the succeeding sheet.
US11630405B1
An image forming apparatus, temperature control method, and temperature control device are provided. The apparatus includes the device, which acquires a first temperature difference between a temperature estimation value of a fixer, which is obtained by simulating a member temperature of a temperature control target serving as a heat capacitor-resistor circuit at an initial stage of operation of the fixer, and a detected temperature detected by a temperature sensor, and acquires a second temperature difference between a temperature estimation value of the fixer, which is obtained during an operation after the first temperature difference is acquired, and a detected temperature. The device calculates a difference between the first temperature difference and the second temperature difference, determines that the detected temperature is abnormal in response to the difference being equal to or greater than a threshold value, and performs temperature control for correcting a target temperature of the member temperature.
US11630404B2
A conductive roller includes a support member, an elastic layer disposed on an outer peripheral surface of the support member, and a surface layer disposed on an outer peripheral surface of the elastic layer. The elastic layer includes a cylindrical elastic foam and a conductive covering layer covering an exposed surface of the elastic foam and has a volume resistance value of 105Ω or less at an applied voltage of 10 V. The elastic foam has a conductive particle content of 1% by mass or less based on the total mass of the elastic foam.
US11630403B2
An image forming apparatus is capable of being attached with a toner supply container. The toner supply container stores a toner that is to be supplied to a developing portion. An attachment location of the toner supply container is below a light scanning portion in a vertical direction.
US11630402B2
A particle conveying device includes a storage portion that stores pressure sensitive adhesive particles that contain at least a binder resin, have a pressure-induced phase transition property, and have a sulfur content in a range of 0.1 mass % or more and 0.5 mass % or less relative to the entire pressure sensitive adhesive particles as measured by X-ray fluorescence; and a conveying member that is disposed in the storage portion and rotates about a shaft that extends in one direction inside the storage portion to thereby convey the pressure sensitive adhesive particles in a direction along the shaft inside the storage portion.
US11630381B2
An excitation light intensity control system, including a lighting part, an imaging part and a control part. The lighting part includes a light source; the imaging part includes a light modulator and a color conversion element; the excitation light emitted from the light source is imported to the light modulator for modulation; the modulated excitation light excites the color conversion element to produce multicolor excited light; the lighting part further includes a light recycling system used for recoupling part of the excitation light emitted from the light modulator to be incident to the light modulator; the control part includes a controller used for receiving original image data and controlling the intensity of the excitation light emitted from the light modulator and/or the light source.
US11630375B2
A flash housing for photographic purposes can include a flash forming element arranged to generate a flash light, a lens element arranged to let at least part of the generated flash out of the flash housing so as to obtain a flash light, and a fastening element for attachment of a flash light shaping tool on top of the lens element. The fastening element can be arranged at least partly along a border of the lens element for magnetic engagement with a corresponding fastening element at the flash light shaping tool.
US11630374B2
An equipment mounting system and assembly for rapid mounting and supporting of a fixture mount and a fixture or other equipment, such as motion picture production fixtures and other similar equipment, to a mount support base without fasteners. The equipment mounting assembly can comprise one or more fixture mounts having a base plate and a fixture coupling extending from the base plate, the one or more fixture mounts being operable with an equipment mounting system comprising a mount support base having an upper surface, and a retention system operable to selectively and releasably and interchangeably capture and secure one or more fixture mounts to the mount support base. The retention system can comprise a position keep system capable of applying a biasing force to a captured fixture mount. The equipment mounting assembly and the retention system can be configured to accommodate fixture mounts of different sizes or types.
US11630361B2
A display device including: a substrate; a first thin film transistor of polysilicon semiconductor, a second thin film transistor of oxide semiconductor; a first light shading film opposing to the polysilicon semiconductor, and a second light shading film opposing to the oxide semiconductor; a first insulating film, a second insulating film which is constituted from plural insulating films, and a third insulating film superposed in this order; a first through hole penetrating the second insulating film and not penetrating the first insulating film and the third insulating film; a second through hole penetrating the first insulating film and the third insulating film; the first light shading film connects with a first conductive component, a part of the first conductive component exists on the third insulating film, through the second through hole.
US11630359B2
The present disclosure provides a display substrate and a display device. The display substrate includes a common electrode. The common electrode includes an electrode unit array. The electrode unit array includes a plurality of electrode units. Each of the electrode units corresponds to two adjacent sub-pixels. Each of the electrode units includes a boundary electrode line and an inner region defined by the boundary electrode line. The inner region includes a first region and a second region. The first region includes a plurality of first strip electrode lines having a same longitudinal direction. Two adjacent first strip electrode lines are not connected inside the first region. The second region includes a plurality of second strip electrode lines having a same longitudinal direction. Two adjacent second strip electrode lines are not connected inside the second region.
US11630358B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate having a first surface, a second surface, and a first side surface, a second substrate having a second side surface and being opposed to the first surface, a light source provided along the second side surface, a wiring substrate opposed to the second surface, a first adhesive layer bonding the second surface to the wiring substrate, and a flexible wiring substrate electrically connecting the first substrate with the wiring substrate. The first substrate includes an extending portion that includes the first side surface and extends further than the second side surface, the flexible wiring substrate is mount on the extending portion.
US11630352B2
A wavelength-tunable etalon includes a pair of substrates, each comprising a reflection layer, an electrode, and an alignment layer on opposing surfaces of the pair of substrates; a first seal line configured to seal liquid crystal between the pair of substrates; and a second seal line configured to divide a space in which the liquid crystal is sealed into a main liquid crystal accommodating space configured to pass laser and a sub-liquid crystal accommodating space provided external of the main liquid crystal accommodating space. The first seal line comprises a sub inlet configured to fluidly communicate the main liquid crystal accommodating space with the sub-liquid crystal accommodating space.
US11630348B2
A backlight module and a display device are disclosed. The backlight module includes: a back plate (1); a middle frame (3) disposed on the back plate (1); a light-emitting substrate (2) disposed on the back plate (1) and in the middle frame (3), the light-emitting substrate (2) including a first light-emitting area (203) and a second light-emitting area (204) surrounding the first light-emitting area (203), and the second light-emitting area (204) being close to an edge of the light-emitting substrate (2); a light compensation structure (100) close to the edge of the light-emitting substrate (2), the light compensation structure (100) including one or more light conversion materials. The backlight module and the display device can improve the display effect.
US11630344B2
Provided is a light-emitting device that makes it possible to emit, with high efficiency, light having higher uniformity. The light-emitting device includes a light source, a wavelength conversion unit, and a wall member. The light source is disposed on a substrate. The wavelength conversion unit includes a wavelength conversion member and a transparent member that contains the wavelength conversion member therein. The wavelength conversion member is disposed to face the light source in a thickness direction and converts first wavelength light from the light source to second wavelength light. The wall member is provided on a substrate and surrounds the light source in a plane that is orthogonal to the thickness direction. A region occupied by the wavelength conversion member is wider than a region surrounded by the wall member, and entirety overlaps with the region surrounded by the wall member in the thickness direction.
US11630338B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel, a third transparent substrate, a light-emitting element, and a modulation element. The display panel includes a first transparent substrate, a second transparent substrate, a first liquid crystal layer of a polymer dispersed type held. The third transparent substrate has a first end portion. The light-emitting element is opposed to the first end portion. The modulation element includes a fourth transparent substrate and a fifth transparent substrate disposed between the light-emitting element and the first end portion, a second liquid crystal layer, and control electrodes for applying voltage to the second liquid crystal layer.
US11630333B2
Display panel and display device are provided. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels and a blocking metal wire. The pixel includes a display unit and a control unit driving the display unit. The display unit at least includes a heating element and a phase change material layer. The heating element includes a first connecting terminal and a second connecting terminal. The control unit includes a first signal terminal and a second signal terminal. The control unit includes at least one diode, which includes a diode semiconductor layer including a first electrode contact region, a second electrode contact region and a connecting region. The blocking metal wire covers the connecting region and is insulated from the connecting region. The blocking metal wire is electrically connected to each of the first signal terminal and the first signal source or to each of the second connecting terminal and the second signal source.
US11630332B2
Magnetic Bluetooth eyeglasses are revealed. A Bluetooth circuit module is mounted in a mounting space of a temple and provided with a built-in Bluetooth unit connected to mobile devices. The Bluetooth circuit module further includes a microphone, a speaker, a touch switch, and a power connection base. The temple is connected to a power supply device by magnetic attraction between first and second magnetic members while the power supply device is in contact with the power connection base of the Bluetooth circuit module. Thereby users are not bothered by wires while in use and the eyeglasses are more convenient to use. Moreover, the eyeglasses can still be used during charging process. Users only need to replace the power supply device with a new one already charged instead of taking off the whole eyeglasses. The eyeglasses which prevent moisture infiltration provide longer service life.
US11630316B1
A method, system, apparatus, and/or device to determine a condition of a user using a miniaturized collimator. The method, system, apparatus, and/or device may include: a carbon nanotube structure comprising a microtube that includes a set of aligned carbon nanotubes infiltrated by carbon and a through-channel, the carbon nanotube structure having a defined height to through-channel width aspect ratio, where: the defined height to through-channel width aspect ratio is based on a defined collimation to diffraction ratio; the set of aligned carbon nanotubes infiltrated by carbon is configured to absorb a first portion of light that travels through the through-channel at a first angle and impinges a side of a first through-channel portion; and the set of aligned carbon nanotubes infiltrated by the carbon is configured to allow a second portion of the light that enters the through-channel at a second angle to pass through the through-channel.
US11630314B2
An example wearable display system can be capable of determining a user interface (UI) event with respect to a virtual UI device (e.g., a button) and a pointer (e.g., a finger or a stylus) using a neural network. The wearable display system can render a representation of the UI device onto an image of the pointer captured when the virtual UI device is shown to the user and the user uses the pointer to interact with the virtual UI device. The representation of the UI device can include concentric shapes (or shapes with similar or the same centers of gravity) of high contrast. The neural network can be trained using training images with representations of virtual UI devices and pointers.
US11630306B2
A spectacle lens for smartglasses can include at least one light source arrangement at the edge of the spectacle lens that emits coherent light, or at least one region at the edge of the spectacle lens for coupling in light from a light source arrangement that emits coherent light, or at least one light source arrangement that is embedded in the spectacle lens. A transparent or partly transparent display can provided to the spectacle lens such that coherent light emanating from the light source arrangement emits coherent light passing through the display or is reflected by the display. The wavefront of the coherent light is modulable in terms of its amplitude and/or its phase by an actuation of the display. A deformation device for deforming the wavefront of the coherent light before or after the modulation by the display can also be provided.
US11630297B2
Described herein are embodiments of fiber scanning systems and methods of scanning optical fibers. The disclosed systems and methods advantageously provide an improvement to the scanning range, the oscillation amplitude, and/or the maximum pointing angle for an optical fiber in a fiber scanning system by inducing a buckling of a portion of the optical fiber.
US11630296B2
The present invention is an optical assembly featuring an architecture which allows adjustment of both objective lenses and the electronic sensing assemblies in the optical assembly. Electrical connections in the housings of the various subassemblies allow focusing adjustment by rotational and/or translational movement for increased adjustability.
US11630292B2
An optical scanning microscope includes an illumination system having a light source portion emanating from a light source, first and second polarizing beam splitters, and first and second optical channels disposed between the beam splitters. The light source portion is configured to emit a first illumination light beam comprising light of a first main polarization direction and of a second main polarization direction. The first beam splitter is configured to guide the light primarily into the first and channels, respectively. The second beam splitter is configured to form a second illumination light beam from light of the first and second main polarization directions from the first channel and second channels, respectively. The first and second channels are configured to emit the light of the first and second main polarization directions from the first and second channels, respectively, so as to have different types of convergence.
US11630291B2
A method of fabricating an optical assembly includes providing a first mold having a first curved mold surface; placing a substantially flat reflective polarizer; on the first curved mold surface and applying at least one of pressure and heat to at least partially conform the reflective polarizer to the first curved mold surface; providing a second mold comprising a second mold surface, the first and second mold surfaces defining a mold cavity therebetween; substantially filling the mold cavity with a flowable material having a temperature greater than a glass transition temperature of the reflective polarizer; and solidifying the flowable material to form a solid optical element bonded to the reflective polarizer. A maximum variation of an orientation of a pass polarization state across the bonded reflective polarizer is within about 3 degrees of a maximum variation of the orientation of the pass polarization state across the substantially flat reflective polarizer.
US11630289B2
An image capturing lens system includes three lens groups including five lens elements. The three lens groups are, in order from an object side to an image side: first, second and third lens groups. The five lens elements are, in order from the object side to the image side: first, second, third, fourth and fifth lens elements. The first lens element has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element has negative refractive power. At least one lens element has an inflection point. A focal length of the image capturing lens system is varied by changing axial distances between the three lens groups in a zooming process. The image capturing lens system has a long-focal-length end and a short-focal-length end. The second lens group is moved relative to the first lens group along an optical axis in the zooming process.
US11630278B2
A cabinet unit for use in an optical fiber distribution system may include a housing having a cavity, a plurality of extension portions contained within the housing, each extension portion being adapted to support an adapter for receiving cables aligned lengthwise with the extension portion, and a support structure formed on an inner surface of the housing, each extension portion being mounted to the housing by the support structure and extends away from the inner surface of the housing. The plurality of extension portions may be hingedly coupled to the support structure. A clearance between two adjacent extension portions of a given support bar may be configured to be adjusted by rotating the adjacent extension portions along their respective hinged connections.
US11630263B2
The present disclosure describes fusion spliced cable assemblies. An assembly may include a first and a second fiber optic cable, where an end of at least a first optical fiber from the first fiber optic cable is fusion spliced together with an end of at least a second optical fiber from the second fiber optic cable, the first optical fiber having a first length of prepared fiber extending from the spliced end of the first optical fiber to a transition point of the first optical fiber, the second optical fiber having a second length of prepared fiber extending from the spliced end of the second optical fiber to a transition point of the second optical fiber, where the transition point of the first optical fiber is a distance from the transition point of the second optical fiber, and where a total length of prepared fiber is the sum of the first length of prepared fiber for the first optical fiber and the second length of prepared fiber for the second optical fiber; a support configured to engage at least a portion of the total length of prepared fiber such that the distance between the transition points of each optical fiber is less than the total length of prepared fiber of the first and second optical fibers; and a transition housing coupled to the first and second fiber optic cables and surrounding the support. Fusion spliced cable assembly breakout kits are also provided.
US11630261B2
One embodiment described herein provides a co-packaged optics (CPO) switch assembly. The CPO switch assembly includes a switch integrated circuit (IC) chip and a number of optical modules coupled to the switch IC chip. The switch IC chip and the optical modules are co-packaged within a same physical enclosure. The switch IC chip includes a switch logic and a digital signal processing (DSP) unit, and a respective optical module comprises: a photonic integrated chip (PIC), a first amplifier module, and a second amplifier module.
US11630244B2
A coated article is described herein that may comprise a substrate and an optical coating. The substrate may have a major surface comprising a first portion and a second portion. A first direction that is normal to the first portion of the major surface may not be equal to a second direction that is normal to the second portion of the major surface. The optical coating may be disposed on at least the first portion and the second portion of the major surface. The coated article may exhibit at the first portion of the substrate and at the second portion of the substrate hardness of about 8 GPa or greater at an indentation depth of about 50 nm or greater as measured on the anti-reflective surface by a Berkovich Indenter Hardness Test.
US11630236B2
An automated method for managing weather related energy usage in a physical structure having and address using preexisting smart meters, preexisting weather stations and preexisting energy portals and with a dynamic energy model connected to a network.
