US11672219B2
A novel canola variety designated G00087 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a canola plant that comprise crossing canola variety G00087 with another canola plant. Methods for producing a canola plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into G00087 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the canola seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid canola seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the canola variety G00087 or a locus conversion of G00087 with another canola variety.
US11672217B2
A new and distinct lettuce variety NUN 06574 LTL is disclosed as well as seeds and plants and heads or leaves thereof. NUN 06574 LTL is a mini romaine lettuce variety, comprising resistance Downy Mildew (Bremia lactucae) Isolates Bl:1-37EU, Nasonovia ribisnigri Biotype Nr:0, Fusarium oxyporum sp. lactucae Race 1 HR, Fusarium oxysporum sp. lactucae Race 4 IR, and Lettuce Necrotic Stunt Virus (LNSV).
US11672213B2
A hydroponic system is provided. The system includes a grow assembly. The grow assembly includes a body including at least one aperture, and a porous layer. The system may include a support to support the grow assembly. The system includes a fluid table that may be disposed underneath the body. The system includes a fluid reservoir that may be disposed underneath the fluid table. The system may include a fluid pump in fluid communication with the fluid reservoir. The system includes a fluid riser in fluid communication with the fluid reservoir and the fluid table. A method for utilising a hydroponic system is also provided.
US11672209B2
The present disclosure relates to a module and system for indoor farming. In some embodiments, an indoor farming module includes a container compartment divided into a grow zone and a control zone, wherein a grow zone comprises a chassis with a plurality of horizontal and vertical frame members configured to support a plurality of carts each carrying a tray with a plurality of plants and wherein the control zone includes an air blowing unit integrated so as to direct air between a drop ceiling and a structural ceiling of the indoor farming module and an air conditioning unit configured to condition an atmosphere in the grow zone by producing cool dry air that is blown into a plenum space located between the drop ceiling and a structural ceiling.
US11672206B2
A baler including a needle yoke driven via a needle coupling device including a connection member pivotally mounted around a fixed pivot axis for swinging around the fixed pivot axis. The swinging corresponds to movement of the needle yoke. The connection member is cooperative with the needle yoke by (i) a shearbolt adapted to transfer a force from the connection member to the needle yoke during a forward movement and (ii) by a protrusion, formed at one of the connection member and the needle yoke, to abut against the other one of the connection member and the needle yoke during a backward movement of the needle yoke.
US11672204B2
An agricultural implement having a main chassis member having a support structure with support arms connected to the support structure for movement between a working position and a transport position, the support arms being provided with operating elements remote from the support structure, the support structure defining a working width between the operating elements and the main chassis member, and the support arms being adjustable in the working position between a length corresponding to minimum working width and a length greater than the minimum working width. In the transport position a distance between the operating elements and the main chassis member is less than the minimum working width. In a headland position the support arms are adjustable such that a distance between the operating elements and the main chassis member is less than the minimum working width.
US11672194B2
A detection system detects malfunctions in an autonomous farming vehicle during an autonomous routine using one or more models and data from sensors coupled to the autonomous farming vehicle. The models may include machine-learned models trained on the sensor data and configured to identify objects indicative of an operational or malfunctioning component within a tilling assembly such as a tilling shank or sweep. Additionally, a machine-learned model may be trained on sensor data to detect whether debris has plugged the tilling assembly of the autonomous farming vehicle. In response to detecting a malfunction or a plug, the detection system may modify the autonomous routine (e.g., pausing operation) or provide information for the malfunction to be addressed (e.g., the likely location of a malfunctioning sweep that has detached from the tilling assembly).
US11672192B2
An EMF detecting safety shovel has electromagnetic field (EMF) detection circuitry operably coupled to a blade thereof for measuring changes in EMF over time (AC fields) which may be used by spotters during excavation work for detection of subsurface power supply cables. The safety shovel may be further configured for classifying different types of subsurface power cables wherein the EMF detector circuit may be configured for discriminating between low and high voltage subsurface power cables when the edge of the blade is within a certain distance thereof, and the EMF detector circuit may be adjusted to adjust the distance for use with differing conduit diameters. The EMF detector circuit may also employ bandpass filtering to discriminate between single and three phase power supplies. In this way, the present safety shovel may provide indication of the presence of subsurface power supply cables and also the type thereof.
US11678594B2
According to one embodiment, the semiconductor storage device includes a first wiring extending in a first direction, a second wiring extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, a first semiconductor device extending in a third direction intersecting the first direction and the second direction, connected to the first wiring and the second wiring, and including a first selector layer and a first variable resistance layer, a first insulator extending in the second and third directions and adjacent to the first semiconductor device in the first direction, and a second insulator extending in the second and third directions and including an air gap disposed between the first semiconductor device and the first insulator.
US11678592B2
The present disclosure is directed to a method for the formation of resistive random-access memory (RRAM) structures with a low profile between or within metallization layers. For example, the method includes forming, on a substrate, a first metallization layer with conductive structures and a first dielectric layer abutting sidewall surfaces of the conductive structures; etching a portion of the first dielectric layer to expose a portion of the sidewall surfaces of the conductive structures; depositing a memory stack on the first metallization layer, the exposed portion of the sidewall surfaces, and a top surface of the conductive structures; patterning the memory stack to form a memory structure that covers the exposed portion of the sidewall surfaces and the top surface of the conductive structures; depositing a second dielectric layer to encapsulate the memory stack; and forming a second metallization layer on the second dielectric layer.
US11678582B2
An apparatus includes a dielectric tile array including a plurality of dielectric tiles; and a plurality of electroactive (EA) material blocks configured to expand or contract in response to being actuated by the application of an actuation voltage.
US11678575B2
An organic light emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the organic layer including an emission layer, wherein the organic layer includes a first compound, a second compound, a third compound, and a fourth compound, and the first compound to the fourth compound satisfy Equations 1 to 8: E1,LUMO≥E2,LUMO+0.15 electron volts (eV) Equation 1 E1,HOMO≥E2,HOMO+0.15 eV Equation 2 E1,T1≥E4,T1 Equation 3 E2,T1≥E4,T1 Equation 4 E3,T1≥E4,T1 Equation 5 E3,LUMO≥E2,LUMO+0.1 eV Equation 6 −5.6 eV≥E3,HOMO Equation 7 Egap1≥Egap3. Equation 8
US11678574B2
Provided is a compound of Chemical Formula 1: HAr-L1-L2-Ar1 Chemical Formula 1 wherein: HAr is a group of the following Chemical Formula A-1 or A-2; L1 and L2 are the same as or different from each other, and each independently is a direct bond, a substituted or unsubstituted monocyclic or polycyclic arylene group, or a substituted or unsubstituted monocyclic or polycyclic heteroarylene group; and Ar1 is a substituted or unsubstituted monocyclic or polycyclic aryl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted monocyclic or polycyclic heteroaryl group; wherein: R1 to R3 are the same as or different from each other, and each independently is a substituted or unsubstituted linear or branched alkyl group; and is a site bonding to L1 of Chemical Formula 1, and an organic light emitting device comprising the same.
US11678557B2
A display substrate has a display area and a non-display area. The non-display area includes a dummy pixel area located in a periphery of the display area. The display substrate includes a substrate; a first pixel defining layer disposed on the substrate and located in the display area, the first pixel defining layer having a plurality of first openings; and a second pixel defining layer disposed on the substrate and located in the dummy pixel area, the second pixel defining layer having a plurality of second openings. A capacity of a second opening is greater than a capacity of a first opening, and an open area of a second opening is less than or equal to an open area of a first opening.
US11678555B2
A display device includes: a first display area including a first pixel area; a second display area including a second pixel area and a transmissive area adjacent to the second pixel area; a first pixel in the first pixel area; a second pixel in the second pixel area; and a dummy pixel in the transmissive area, wherein the dummy pixel includes a light emission portion emitting light on both sides.
US11678549B2
An OLED display device includes a substrate, a first protection layer substrate, conductive lines extending substantially in a first direction, a second protection layer, a first electrode overlapping at least a part of the conductive lines, a pixel defining layer including an opening exposing at least a part of the first electrode, an organic light emission layer, and a second electrode. The opening is divided into a first polygon and a second polygon with respect to an imaginary straight line that passes through the opening at a maximum length in the first direction. A planar area of the first polygon is different from a planar area of the second polygon.
US11678548B2
A display device is disclosed. The display device includes: a substrate including a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel; a first electrode in each of the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel; a third electrode in each of the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel; a second electrode between the first electrode and the third electrode; a first light-emitting layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the first light-emitting layer emits light of a first color; a second light-emitting layer between the second electrode and the third electrode, wherein the second light-emitting layer is configured to emit mixed light of second and third colors; and a color filter including a first color filter corresponding to the first sub-pixel and a second color filter corresponding to the second sub-pixel, wherein the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel each are configured to emit light of three colors.
US11678543B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a display panel. The display panel includes a flexible substrate, wherein a first opening is provided at a bottom of the flexible substrate; a first inorganic layer; a first thin film transistor and a second thin film transistor, wherein the first thin film transistor includes a silicon semiconductor layer, and the second thin film transistor includes a metal oxide semiconductor layer and a second inorganic layer, wherein the second inorganic layer is provided with a second opening, and the second opening at least partially overlaps the first opening.
US11678536B2
A display device includes: a substrate; a driving voltage line and a data line that are on the substrate; a semiconductor layer that includes a first electrode, a channel, and a second electrode of a driving transistor, the driving transistor being connected to the driving voltage line; a gate electrode of the driving transistor overlapping the channel; a lower storage electrode extending from the gate electrode; and an upper storage electrode overlapping the lower storage electrode, wherein the semiconductor layer further includes a first electrode, a channel, and a second electrode of a switching transistor, the switching electrode being connected between the lower storage electrode and the data line, the upper storage electrode does not overlap the channel of the driving transistor, the lower storage electrode includes a first portion and a second portion that are at opposite sides of the gate electrode.
US11678526B2
A display device includes a lower substrate and an upper substrate opposite the lower substrate; a lower electrode on the lower substrate; a bank insulating layer on the lower substrate, the bank insulating layer covering an edge of the lower electrode; a light-emitting layer on a surface of the lower electrode exposed by the bank insulating layer; an upper electrode on the light-emitting layer; a reflective pattern on the upper substrate, the reflective pattern overlapping with the bank insulating layer; and a half-mirror layer on a surface of the upper substrate exposed by the reflective pattern.
US11678525B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a display substrate comprising a plurality of first banks distributed in a first direction and a plurality of second banks distributed in a second direction. Two adjacent first banks define a group of sub-pixel units of the display substrate, and two adjacent second banks define one sub-pixel unit. The first bank has a height greater than a height of the second bank. Embodiments of the present application also disclose a manufacturing method of a display substrate and a display device.
US11678522B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus including: a substrate; a pixel electrode located on the substrate; a pixel-defining film covering an end portion of the pixel electrode; an intermediate layer located on the pixel electrode and including an emission layer; a counter electrode located on the intermediate layer; a passivation layer located on the counter electrode and including a cover portion covering a top surface of the counter electrode and a protrusion extending from an end portion of the cover portion away from the substrate; and an encapsulation member covering the passivation layer.
US11678520B2
A display apparatus is provided by the present invention, the display apparatus includes a first thin film transistor (TFT) disposed in a first pixel region and including a first semiconductor layer and a first gate electrode, where the semiconductor layer includes first source and drain regions; a second TFT disposed in a second pixel region adjacent the first pixel region and including a second semiconductor layer and a second gate electrode, where the second semiconductor layer includes a second source and drain regions; a first pixel electrode disposed in the first pixel region and including a first region where a first light-emitting layer is disposed and a second region extending from the first region and disposed on a first via hole; and a second pixel electrode disposed in the second pixel region and including a third region where a second light-emitting layer is disposed and a fourth region extending from the third region and disposed on a second via hole.
US11678514B2
The present disclosure provides an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display panel and a display panel which include a display region, a binding region, and a bending region. A metal trace inside the bending regions generates a tensile stress region and a compressive stress region. A plurality of through holes are disposed on the metal trace. A distribution density of the through holes corresponding to the tensile stress region is different from distribution density of the through holes corresponding to the compressive stress region. It may relieve the stress, reduce the problems such as failure and bad products, reduce the bending angle to be smaller, and achieve narrower borders.
US11678510B2
The present disclosure is related to a display panel. The display panel may include a display substrate, a plurality of light emitting units on the display substrate, and a first organic layer covering the plurality of light emitting units. A surface of the first organic layer opposite from the light emitting units may include a plurality of raised portions and a plurality of recessed portions. The first organic layer may be directly in contact with the plurality of light emitting units.
US11678507B2
A display apparatus is discussed, which comprises a substrate including a display area and a non-display area, an inorganic layer provided on the substrate, an organic layer provided on the inorganic layer, a light emitting diode provided in the display area of the substrate and including a first electrode, a light emitting layer and a second electrode, and a ground line provided on the organic layer and provided in at least a portion of the non-display area, wherein the ground line and the second electrode are electrically connected with each other, and the ground line includes at least one concave portion and at least one convex portion, which are arranged to adjoin each other.
US11678495B2
The disclosure belongs to the technical field of microelectronic devices and memories, and discloses a three-dimensional stacked phase change memory and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method includes: preparing a multilayer structure in which horizontal electrode layers and insulating layers are alternately stacked, then performing etching to form trenches and separated three-dimensional strip electrodes, next filling the trenches with an insulating medium, and then forming small holes at the boundary region between the three-dimensional strip electrodes and the insulating medium, thereafter sequentially depositing a phase change material on the walls of the small holes, and filling the small holes with an electrode material to prepare vertical electrodes, so as to obtain a three-dimensional stacked phase change memory stacked in multiple layers. By improving the overall process of the preparation method, the disclosure realizes the establishment of a three-dimensional phase change memory array by using a vertical electrode structure.
US11678493B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes an Nth metal layer in a memory region and a periphery region, the periphery region spanning a wider area than the memory region, a plurality of magnetic tunneling junctions (MTJs) over the Nth metal layer, the plurality of MTJs having at least one of mixed pitches and mixed sizes, a top electrode via over each of the plurality of MTJs; and an (N+M)th metal layer over the plurality of MTJs. A method for manufacturing the semiconductor structure is also disclosed.
US11678491B2
An integrated circuit (IC) includes a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) substrate comprising a handle substrate, an insulator layer over the handle substrate, and a semiconductor device layer over the insulator layer. A logic device includes a logic gate arranged over the semiconductor device layer. The logic gate is arranged within a high κ dielectric layer. A memory cell includes a control gate and a select gate laterally adjacent to one another and arranged over the semiconductor device layer. A charge-trapping layer underlies the control gate.
US11678489B2
A three-dimensional flash memory device including a lower and upper word line stack; a cell channel structure; and a dummy channel structure, wherein the cell channel structure includes a lower cell channel structure; an upper cell channel structure; and a cell channel enlarged portion between the lower and upper cell channel structures and having a width greater than that of the lower cell channel structure, wherein the dummy channel structure includes a lower dummy channel structure; an upper dummy channel structure; and a dummy channel enlarged portion between the lower and upper dummy channel structures, the dummy channel enlarged portion having a width greater than that of the lower dummy channel structure, wherein a difference between the width of the dummy channel enlarged portion and the lower dummy channel structure is greater than a difference between the width of the cell channel enlarged portion and the lower cell channel structure.
US11678485B2
A vertical memory device, including: a substrate including a cell array region and an extension region; gate electrodes stacked on each other with a plurality of levels, wherein each of the gate electrodes includes a pad, and wherein the pads disposed on the gate electrodes form at least one staircase structure on the extension region of the substrate; a channel extending in a first direction on the cell array region of the substrate through at least one of the gate electrodes; and dummy gate electrode groups disposed on the extension region of the substrate, wherein the dummy gate electrode groups includes dummy gate electrodes, wherein each of the dummy gate electrodes are spaced apart from a corresponding gate electrode among the gate electrodes stacked at a same level, wherein the dummy gate electrode groups are spaced apart from each other in a second direction.
US11678472B2
A signal transmission cable includes a signal line, an insulation layer covering the signal line, and a shield layer covering the insulation layer. A first oxygen amount A1 on an outer peripheral surface of the insulation layer is 1.2 times or greater than a second oxygen amount A2 inside the insulation layer, or a contact angle on the outer peripheral surface the insulation layer is 130° or less, or an adhesion-wetting surface energy on the outer peripheral surface the insulation layer is 27 mJ/m2 or greater, or a first amount of a hydroxy group on the outer peripheral surface of the insulation layer is greater than a second amount of a hydroxy group inside the insulation layer.
US11678471B2
An electromagnetic magnetic shielding material is used deflect electronic and electromagnetic radiation away from an electronic device. In this manner, the electromagnetic shielding material deflects the electronic and electromagnetic radiation from a user of the device to protect the user from any electronic and electromagnetic radiation produced by the electronic device. Additionally, because the electronic and electromagnetic radiation is deflected away from the user, rather than absorbed, a user is able to safely use the electronic device with less or no exposure to electronic and electromagnetic radiation.
US11678465B2
In some embodiments, an apparatus comprises an integrated circuit module comprising two layers of thermal interface material, a printed circuit assembly disposed between the two layers of thermal interface material and comprising a plurality of integrated circuits disposed on both sides of a circuit board, wherein at least one of the integrated circuits is thermally coupled with one of the layers of thermal interface material, and two heat spreaders adapted to removably retain one another, and when retaining one another to enclose and become thermally coupled with the two layers of thermal interface material; and a printed circuit board having a connector disposed thereon, wherein a connector edge of the printed circuit assembly is disposed within the connector. In other embodiments, a frame is adapted to retain the two heat spreaders.
US11678463B2
A fanless cooling system for particularly fail-safe and efficient cooling of electronic modular systems in vehicles, more particularly in rail vehicles, includes a preferably frame-shaped rack or assembly carrier for holding at least one module or assembly, more particularly a processor module having high-performance multi-core processors. A heat transport body can be mounted in a heat-transferring manner on a part or component of the module. The rack has at least one heat distribution body, to which the heat transport body can be fastened in a heat-transferring manner, preferably detachably, when the module having the part coupled to the heat transfer body is held in the rack. At least one heat tube is connected to the heat distribution body in a heat-transferring manner. An electronic modular system with a fanless cooling system is also provided.
US11678457B1
A module is retained in a slot of an electronics chassis. A clearance space is provided for receiving the module in a slot of the electronics chassis by controlling an internal pressure of a bellows. The bellows forms a part of a retainer that is disposed on an elongated rail extending along a length of the slot. The bellows defines an internal bellows capsule which contains a fluid. Once the module has been inserted in the slot, the module is secured with the retainer by further controlling the internal pressure of the bellows to exert a force on the module.
US11678456B1
A hardware assembly for installation in a slide-type mounting rail of an electronic equipment enclosure includes a spring retainer and a hardware component received at least partially within the spring retainer. The spring retainer has a rear wall and a deflectable spring arm extending in a forward direction from each end of the rear wall. Each spring arm includes a distal end that extends inward toward the distal end of the other spring arm. The hardware component includes a generally oblong head and a plurality of cam bosses arranged at a front-facing side thereof. Each spring arm engages and is partially deflected outward by a respective one of the cam bosses, thereby clamping the hardware component within the spring retainer. Upon receipt of the hardware component within a T-slot channel of the slide-type mounting rail, the generally oblong head is rotatable relative to the spring retainer to position the generally oblong head transversely within the T-slot channel, thereby obstructing the hardware component and the spring retainer from inadvertent removal.
US11678452B2
A cover window is provided, and more particularly, a flexible glass-based cover window for a flexible display is provided, the cover window including: a folding part slimmed by corresponding to a folding area of the display, and a boundary part provided on opposite ends of the folding part, the boundary part having a thickness gradually becoming larger from the folding part and continuing to a plane area of the cover window, wherein inclination of the boundary part is 1 to 10° relative to the folding part.
US11678450B2
A coupling assembly includes: a screw rod; a holder mounted on the screw rod; a shaft sleeve set and a connection rod set. The shaft sleeve set includes: a first shaft sleeve embedded in the holder; and a second shaft sleeve fitted over the screw rod at an outer side and slidable on the screw rod. The connection rod set includes: a first connection rod having an end fixedly coupled to the first shaft sleeve; and a second connection rod having an end fixedly coupled to the second shaft sleeve, the second connection rod and the first connection rod crossing and being coupled at a junction. The first connection rod and the second connection rod cross to form an angle.
US11678446B2
A display device may include a display panel, a first back cover disposed on a rear surface of the display panel, at least one flexible film which is electrically connected to one end of the display panel and is bent toward a rear surface of the first back cover or a front surface of the display panel, and a printed circuit board which is electrically connected to the at least one flexible film and disposed on the rear surface of the first back cover or the at least one flexible film. The printed circuit board overlaps one end of the display panel. Accordingly, one end of the display panel in which the pad area which is vulnerable to the stress is disposed and the printed circuit board are maintained to be flat, to minimize the damage of the display device.
US11678445B2
A housing of an electronic device includes a substrate defining an external surface and internal surface of the housing, at least one sidewall extending from the substrate, and abrasion-resistant members at least partly embedded in the substrate and extending beyond the external surface. The abrasion-resistant members may be formed from metal or ceramic. The substrate comprises a moldable matrix. The abrasion-resistant members are harder than the moldable matrix.
US11678442B2
A voice-activated electronic device including a first portion with a first internal surface having a first attachment structure, and a second portion with a second internal surface having a second attachment structure. The first and second internal surfaces have compatible shapes that permit the first and second portions to be moved from a separated position to a joined position, where when the first portion and the second portion are in the joined position the first and second internal surfaces form a nested arrangement. The first and second attachment structures form a secure but separable connection to one another when the first and second portions are in the joined position. The first and second portions are configured to be joined securely and separated through manual human manipulation of one or both of the first portion and the second portion to move the first and second portions between separated and joined positions.
US11678439B2
A circuit board includes a substrate, a plurality of contacts disposed on a surface of the substrate, and a solder mask. The contacts have a plurality of plating regions and a metal layer on the plating regions, and the plating regions have at least two different sizes. The solder mask covers the surface of the substrate and covers edges of the plating regions, in which topmost surfaces of the contacts are below a top surface of the solder mask, and a gap between the topmost surfaces of the contacts and the top surface of the solder mask is larger than 0 μm and is smaller than 5 μm.
US11678436B2
Disclosed are compositions, devices, systems and fabrication methods for stretchable composite materials and stretchable electronics devices. In some aspects, an elastic composite material for a stretchable electronics device includes a first material having a particular electrical, mechanical or optical property; and a multi-block copolymer configured to form a hyperelastic binder that creates contact between the first material and the multi-block copolymer, in which the elastic composite material is structured to stretch at least 500% in at least one direction of the material and to exhibit the particular electrical, mechanical or optical property imparted from the first material. In some aspects, the stretchable electronics device includes a stretchable battery, biofuel cell, sensor, supercapacitor or other device able to be mounted to skin, clothing or other surface of a user or object.
US11678428B2
A method of assembling an electrode by securing together an emitter of the electrode inside an emitter holder while at the same time securing together the emitter holder inside a distal end of a tubular body of the electrode. According to one implementation the securing together includes simultaneously applying a proximally directed force to the emitter and a distally directed force to the emitter holder to cause a bulging of the emitter inside the emitter holder and a bulging of the emitter holder inside the distal end of the tubular body.
US11678426B2
A commissioning system and method that applies a design configuration, representative of a building automation and control system, to a mesh network of network-capable devices. A cloud-based server system works in concert with an installing device, such as a smartphone or tablet, to apply the relevant configuration of scenarios and spaces, as defined in the design configuration during a design phase, to each mesh node in the mesh network. The commissioning system first transforms the defined scenarios and spaces, which essentially represent a logical configuration of the building automation and control system, into a network-centric configuration. Then, the system decomposes the network-centric configuration into a physical configuration of each mesh node, resulting in a set of parameters for each mesh node. The commissioning system then transmits the set of parameters, including one or more group addresses, to the applicable mesh node, for each affected mesh node in the network
US11678421B2
A decorative light string is provided that includes a plurality of light emitting diode (LED) illumination assemblies electrically connected in series and a stabilizing current or voltage circuit. Each of the plurality of LED illumination assemblies includes an LED. The stabilizing current or voltage circuit is electrically connected in series with the plurality of LED illumination assemblies. The stabilizing current or voltage circuit is configured to receive input power from an input power source and configured to supply a stabilized current or voltage to the plurality of LED illumination assemblies that provides a stable supply even with input power source fluctuations. Power fluctuations from an input power source can prevent the decorative light string from maintaining a desired brightness and desired LED life unless the voltage or current to the LED illumination assemblies is stabilized.
US11678416B2
A load control device for regulating an average magnitude of a load current conducted through an electrical load may operate in different modes. The load control device may comprise a control circuit configured to activate an inverter circuit during an active state period and deactivate the inverter circuit during an inactive state period. In one mode, the control circuit may adjust the average magnitude of the load current by adjusting the inactive state period while keeping the active state period constant. In another mode, the control circuit may adjust the average magnitude of the load current by adjusting the active state period while keeping the inactive state period constant. In yet another mode, the control circuit may keep a duty cycle of the inverter circuit constant and regulate the average magnitude of the load current by adjusting a target load current conducted through the electrical load.
US11678412B1
A system and method for monitoring consumption of graphite electrodes during the operation of an electric arc furnace (EAF) uses machine vision cameras operatively communicating with a computer processor. The system can determine, track, manage, and optimize the consumption of the graphite electrodes in real time. Electrode consumption is determined for each EAF heat by measuring the length and tip diameter of the electrode. The length and tip diameter are used to determine the electrode consumption amount using a consumption model. Measured hydraulic pressure within the EAF correlating with a known electrode weight can also be used to determine electrode consumption and correlated with the model calculation. Butt loss can also be determined based on the machine vision measured lengths of the electrode and/or based on the hydraulic pressure. The calculated electrode consumption amounts are also stored in a database and correlated to other measured EAF parameters for multiple EAFs.
US11678409B2
A removable heater assembly for an aerosol-generating device is provided, the removable heater assembly being configured to heat a tobacco plug and including an electrical heater, a data storage device, and data stored on the data storage device, the data including calibration data for the electrical heater. An aerosol-generating device is also provided, including the removable heater assembly, a housing defining a cavity configured to removably receive the removable heater assembly and an aerosol-generating article, a power supply, and a controller configured to receive data from the data storage device of the removable heater assembly and to control a supply of electrical power from the power supply to the electrical heater of the removable heater assembly based on the received data.
US11678401B2
A transmission timing information sending method, a transmission timing information receiving method, and an apparatus are provided. The method includes: configuring, by a base station, higher layer signaling, where the higher layer signaling includes at least one transmission timing set used to indicate a transmission timing value, and each of the at least one transmission timing set includes at least one transmission timing value; sending, by the base station, the higher layer signaling to a terminal; determining, by the base station, downlink control information (DCI), where the DCI is used to instruct the terminal to determine a transmission timing value in the at least one transmission timing set, and the determined transmission timing value is a slot that the terminal is instructed to use when sending feedback information; and sending, by the base station, the DCI to the terminal.
US11678388B2
According to certain embodiments, a method for allocating TEIDs by a CU-CP of a network node includes receiving, from a CU-UP, at least one uplink TEID (UL TEID) associated with a DRB. The at least one UL TEID is sent to a distributed unit (DU). At least one downlink TEID (DL TEID) associated with the DRB is received from the DU. The at least one DL TEID associated with the DRB is then sent to the CU-UP.
US11678382B2
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for concurrent link setup and downlink data retrieval, e.g., for high efficiency WLAN. An access point (AP) may send a trigger element that allocates a resource for pre-association transmissions with the AP. The trigger element may allocate the resource for random access and/or deterministic access. The AP may receive, from an unassociated STA, a first frame via one or more resource units (RUs) allocated in the trigger element. The AP may determine a pre-association identifier (PID) that identifies the unassociated STA. The AP may send the PID to the unassociated STA, for example, in the trigger element or in the multi-STA ACK. The AP may send a second frame associated with a multi-user (MU) transmission that includes the PID. The AP may send a trigger frame that includes the PID.
US11678378B2
A base station transmits a paging message carrying a contention-free early-data transmission indication to a user equipment, and transmits a random access response message carrying early downlink data to the user equipment in response to a random access request message transmitted by the user equipment in a random access procedure. A base station transmits a paging message carrying a contention-based early-data transmission indication to the user equipment, and transmits an RRC response message carrying early downlink data to the user equipment in response to an RRC request message transmitted by the user equipment in a random access procedure. In a random access procedure, user equipment generates and transmits a scheduling request message to a base station after receiving early downlink data transmitted by the base station, and transmits uplink data corresponding to the early downlink data to the base station according to an uplink grant transmitted by the base station.
US11678373B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for multiplexing channel state information (CSI) reports in scenarios involving multiple transmit-receive points (TRPs). In one aspect, a user equipment (UE) may receive at least one configuration that identifies a resource for multiplexing CSI reports that have a potential to collide in a slot. The UE may receive the at least one configuration from either, or both, of a first TRP or a second TRP. The UE may transmit at least one of a first set of CSI reports to the first TRP or a second set of CSI reports to the second TRP, multiplexed in the resource, according to the at least one configuration.
US11678372B1
A system and method for collision avoidance within nodes of an Automatic Link Exchange (ALE) network establishes a handshake between transmitting and receiving nodes for a linked call over an assigned frequency band. The transmitting and receiving nodes mutually determine transmission and reception sub-channel vectors within the assigned frequency band, e.g., for calling and response. Before the linked call commences, and when other scanning stations of the ALE network dwell on the assigned frequency band, the transmitting and receiving nodes transmit collision avoidance protocol data units (PDU) identifying the nodes, the transmission and reception sub-channel vectors, and the duration of the linked call such that scanning nodes may prevent interference with the linked call by avoiding transmission over the identified sub-channels.
US11678371B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive a configuration indicating a resource pool and a channel occupancy control parameter for configured grant sidelink communications, select one or more resources from the resource pool based at least in part on the channel occupancy control parameter, and transmit a configured grant sidelink communication using the one or more resources from the resource pool. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11678366B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a resource scheduling method, an access network device, and user equipment, to reduce a quantity of times of applying for an uplink resource by using a random access process, reduce additional signaling overheads brought to the user equipment, and reduce power consumption of the user equipment. The method part in the embodiments of this application includes: determining, by an access network device, a target time interval in which user equipment monitors a downlink control channel; and sending, by the access network device, uplink resource scheduling information to the user equipment by using the downlink control channel in the target time interval.
US11678364B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a first slot format configuration for a first cell associated with a first radio access technology (RAT) and a first radio frequency spectrum band that conflicts with a second slot format configuration for a second cell associated with a second RAT and a second radio frequency spectrum band during at least a portion of a transmission time interval (TTI). The UE may determine that the first cell has a priority over the second cell, based on the configured slot formats or based on the radio frequency bands, and may drop a communication on the second cell based on the identified priority. The UE may then communicate during at least a portion of the TTI on the first cell while the UE drops a communication on the second cell.
US11678362B2
Method of resource selection where a selection window with a total number of resources is set. The method includes setting a sensing window and monitoring slots by decoding a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) and measuring a reference signal received power (RSRP), setting a threshold, excluding any restricted resources from the total number of resources, excluding any occupied resources from the total number of resources, and determining if an initial number of remaining resources is greater than or equal to an initial percentage of the total number of resources.
US11678359B2
A network device transmits a communication indicating a location of the first UE, wherein the first UE is in proximity to a second UE. Further, the network device transmits data in a subframe or time slot, wherein the first UE transmits the data in the subframe or time slot and a second UE receives in the same subframe or time slot, based on the first UE and the second UE being in proximity.
US11678354B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, configuration information including multiple transmission configuration indication (TCI) states associated with a control resource set (CORESET). The UE may receive, from the base station, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a region associated with the CORESET, wherein the PDCCH includes at least one control channel element (CCE). The UE may perform blind decoding for multiple configured PDCCH candidates based at least in part on a resource element group (REG) bundle included in the at least one CCE, wherein the multiple configured PDCCH candidates are associated with one or more of the multiple TC states associated with the CORESET. Accordingly, the UE may identify the PDCCH transmitted by the base station based at least in part on the blind decoding.
US11678347B2
A method may be provided. One or more packets from a client may be received, in a block based modulation environment, at one or more switchable antennas of an access point. The access point may have a plurality of switchable antennas. Each switchable antenna may have an antenna state. The plurality of switchable antennas may be switched among such that at least five of the antenna states are sampled. Angle of arrival of the client may be calculated based on the at least five of the antenna states.
US11678345B2
A method for performing wireless communication by a first apparatus is proposed. The method may comprise the steps of: receiving a configured grant (CG) from a base station, wherein the CG includes information about a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource associated with a sidelink; on the basis of the CG, transmitting a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) to a second apparatus; on the basis of the CG, transmitting, to the second apparatus, a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) associated with the PSCCH, wherein SL hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback is disabled; and on the basis of a retransmission associated with the PSSCH, having not been requested, transmitting an acknowledgement (ACK) to the base station via the PUCCH resource.
US11678341B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for wireless communication of an apparatus, e.g., a UE and/or a base station. The apparatus may receive, from a base station, an indication of a plurality of transmission schedules for at least one of a plurality of PUSCHs or a plurality of PDSCHs, the indication including a time gap prior to a transmission of each of the plurality of PUSCHs or each of the plurality of PDSCHs. The apparatus may also receive, from the base station, DCI identifying at least one transmission schedule for at least one PUSCH of the plurality of PUSCHs or at least one PDSCH of the plurality of PDSCHs. Further, the apparatus may transmit, to the base station, the at least one PUSCH or receive, from the base station, the at least one PDSCH based on the at least one transmission schedule in the received DCI.
US11678340B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, in one or more downlink resources, a timing advance command in downlink control information; and implement the timing advance command after an action time period commencing from receipt of the timing advance command elapses. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11678334B2
According to one configuration, a system includes user equipment in communication with a wireless base station. The user equipment receives resource allocation information facilitating communication of wireless communications in a network environment. The user equipment is operable to: produce a first configured grant communication to include: i) first information specifying attributes (such as a first selected identifier value) of the first configured grant communication, and ii) second information specifying attributes (such as a second selected identifier value) of a second (buffered) configured grant communication to be communicated from the user equipment to the wireless base station after communication of the first configured grant communication to the wireless base station. The user equipment communicates the first configured grant communication to the wireless base station and then follows up with communication of the second configured grant communication to the wireless base station.
US11678333B2
Enhancement for bandwidth part (BWP) is disclosed. A base station configures a plurality of BWPs, and activate multiple BWPs for downlink and multiple BWPs for uplink from the plurality of the configured BWPs at a given time. Downlink control information (DCI) that includes BWP activation information can be transmitted on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) to a user equipment (UE). The BWP activation information includes a link direction, a schedule of the one or more multiple BWPs for downlink and multiple BWPs for uplink, numerologies, reserved sub-band information, tracking reference signal configuration, or any combination thereof. Correspondingly, a UE receives DCI on a PDCCH that includes BWP activation information, and determines activation of multiple BWPs for downlink and multiple BWPs for uplink at a given time based on the received DCI and its capabilities. Associated enhancement for PDCCH and PDSCH scheduling and LBT procedures are also disclosed.
US11678331B2
A method and an apparatus for supporting multiple frequency assignments in a wireless communication system are provided. An operating method of a Mobile Station (MS) for supporting multicarrier transmission in a wireless communication system includes negotiating a multicarrier operation with a Base Station (BS) during a network entry procedure, when supporting a multicarrier operation mode with the BS, sending a first control message comprising information of every multicarrier configuration supported by the MS, to the BS, receiving a second control message comprising index information of one or more carriers assigned for the multicarrier operation from the BS, and searching for configuration information of carriers corresponding to indexes of the one or more carriers assigned from the BS for the multicarrier operation.
US11678327B2
Wireless devices may communicate with each other via a sidelink. Sidelink capability information may be sent and/or used to determine configuration parameters for sidelink communications between wireless devices.
US11678324B2
Disclosed herein a system, a method and a device for dynamic scheduling between a head wearable display and a console is provided. The head wearable display can initiate, at a first time instance, a first downlink transmission to the console. The head wearable display can dynamically indicate, to the console, an end of the first downlink transmission, at a second time instance when transfer of data of the first downlink transmission is complete. The head wearable display can dynamically cause, relative to the second time instance, the console to begin an uplink transmission. The head wearable display can receive an indication to dynamically start a second downlink transmission, at a third time instance when transfer of data of the uplink transmission is complete.
US11678322B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for transmitting a Scheduling Request (SR) and a storage medium. The method includes: before sending an SR to a base station through a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH), determining a preset parameter for generating an SR sequence based on the SR and a PUCCH format for sending the SR, the preset parameter corresponding to a transmission manner of the SR and the PUCCH format, the transmission manner of the SR including that a first SR is transmitted, a second SR is transmitted and both the first SR and the second SR are transmitted simultaneously, and the first SR and the second SR being different types of SRs; generating the SR sequence based on the preset parameter; and sending the SR sequence to the base station. Accordingly, the terminal can transmit two types of SRs simultaneously without additionally increasing the SR resource.
US11678321B2
The WTRU may determine that one or more data units correspond to a flow of such data units. The WTRU may perform such determination as a function of one or more matching rule(s). Flow-based processing may be enabled in the layer 2/layer 1 chain by per-packet determination using one or more rules, for example by routing through the applicable processing functions and/or using the applicable configuration and/or mapping to the applicable uplink physical layer functions and/or resources. One or more functions such as scheduling request, buffer status reporting, HARQ processing, and/or radio link failure and recovery may be controlled based on the policy associated with the flow corresponding to the data being processed.
US11678318B2
A method and apparatus may be used to support coordinated and cooperative sectorized transmissions. Power control and clear channel assessment for sectorized transmissions may be used, along with sectorized beacon and associated procedures. Transmissions in a network may be protected by a first access point (AP) sending an omni-directional transmission and a beamformed or sectorized transmission to a station (STA), an overlapping basic service set (OBSS) confirming a spatially orthogonal (SO) condition based on the omni-directional transmission, and a second AP monitoring the omni-directional transmission and confirming the SO condition. The STA may be configured to receive a request-to-send (RTS) frame indicating data is available for transmission, and transmit a cooperative sectorized (CS) clear-to-send (CTS) frame indicating an ability for multiple AP reception.
US11678317B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, via multiple UE receive beams, one or more reference signals transmitted over a wideband, the wideband including one or more subbands. The UE may transmit a report based at least in part on one or more measurements of the one or more subbands. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11678313B2
A base station requires one or more channels in an unlicensed frequency band for a predetermined time interval and schedules one or more user equipment for uplink transmission on the one or more channels during the predetermined time interval. User equipment transmits, over a licensed frequency band, a request for resources for uplink transmission in an unlicensed frequency band. The user equipment receives scheduling information indicating a first portion of a predetermined time interval that is allocated to the first user equipment for uplink transmission on one or more channels in the unlicensed frequency band.
US11678305B2
The disclosure provides a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station for wireless communication. The UE receives first information, and transmits a first radio signal using a first antenna port group; the first information is used for indicating a first offset set, and the first offset set includes K1 first-type offset(s); time domain resources occupied by the first radio signal start from a first time, a time interval between the first time and a second time is equal to a target offset; the UE selects the target offset from the K1 first-type offset(s) autonomously. The disclosure establishes a relationship between the first offset set and the first antenna port group, thus improving opportunities of beamforming based grant-free data transmission on unlicensed spectrum and reducing probability of collision, thereby improving spectrum efficiency and overall performances of the system.
US11678296B1
A backend network controller, such as a gateway, pushes “hint” instructions to nodes with instructions on planned reactions to asynchronous events so that the nodes are capable of reacting to hinted events before being instructed by the network controller to do so. Thereafter, when a sensor node senses and reports an event to the network controller or otherwise, one or more nodes having received a hint corresponding to the event may recognize the occurrence of the event in response to the reporting message and then react to the event before receiving a command from the network controller to do so. Thus, the nodes are capable of reacting to events faster than would otherwise be possible relying only on commands from the network controller.
US11678293B2
A mobile device supports positioning with positioning reference signals (PRS) on multiple beam by dividing the PRS processing into two separate modes, an acquisition mode and a tracking mode. In acquisition mode, the mobile device performs a fast scan of all of the beams from a base station transmitting PRS using less than the full set of resources for the PRS, i.e., less than the full bandwidth and/or less than the full number of repetitions of the PRS. The mobile device may select the best beams to use for positioning, e.g., based on signal strength metric. In tracking mode, the mobile device tracks the PRS from only the selected beams using the full set of resources for the PRS. The mobile device may return to acquisition mode after a predetermined number of positioning occasions or if the selected beams are no longer valid due to movement or change in conditions.
US11678277B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an information sending method, including: determining, by a base station, first information indicating a first carrier frequency offset, where the first carrier frequency offset is a carrier frequency offset between an actual cell carrier center frequency and a cell carrier center frequency that is obtained by a terminal; and sending, by the base station, the first information to the terminal, where the first information is used to obtain the actual cell carrier center frequency. According to the technical solutions provided in the embodiments of the present invention, quality of communication between the terminal and the base station is effectively improved.
US11678274B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for adjusting Radio Link Monitoring (RLM), Radio Link Failure (RLF) detection, RLF recovery, and/or connection establishment failure detection for wireless devices (16) in a cellular communications network (10) depending on mode of operation. In one embodiment, a node (14, 16) in the cellular communications network (10) determines whether a wireless device (16) (e.g., a Machine Type Communication (MTC) device) is to operate in a long range extension mode of operation or a normal mode of operation. The node (14, 16) then applies different values for at least one parameter depending on whether the wireless device (16) is to operate in the long range extension mode or the normal mode. The at least one parameter includes one or more RLM parameters, one or more RLF detection parameters, and/or one or more RLF recovery parameters. In doing so, signaling overhead and energy consumption within the wireless device (16) when operating in the long range extension mode is substantially reduced.
US11678262B2
A method at a sensor module within a sensor system for communicating with a gateway, the method including storing a timing profile for communications with the gateway; waking a radio core of the sensor module at a threshold time prior to a beacon signal being expected from the gateway; sampling a channel for the beacon signal at the radio core; if the beacon signal is detected: waking a processor on the sensor module; exchanging communication with the gateway; and powering down the processor and radio core upon completion of the exchanging communication.
US11678260B2
A system and method for D2D discovery is provided. In an embodiment the method includes sending, by a base station, first parameters to a first User Equipment (UE) indicating a set of discovery resources in a discovery cycle, wherein the discovery cycle comprises a plurality of subframes; and sending, by the base station, second parameters to the first UE indicating a first probability for transmitting a first discovery signal to a second UE on a subframe of the plurality of subframes so that the first UE is capable of transmitting the first discovery signal to a second UE in the discovery cycle according to the first parameters when a random number between 0 and 1, selected by the first UE, is equal or larger than the first probability.
US11678247B2
A protocol for use in wireless mesh networks uses helper nodes to improve data flow in the network. The protocol is compatible with traditional mesh network routing algorithms. Techniques, systems, devices, and circuits for implementing the protocol are described.
US11678233B2
An information processing apparatus comprises a communication unit configured to communicate with an external device through a mobile communication network, and comprises: a throughput measuring unit; a throughput predicting unit configured to predict a future communication throughput; a communication rate controller; a band information acquiring unit; a communication environment information storage unit by associating; and a detection unit configured to detect at least one of a handover execution and a communication band switching, wherein if the detection unit has detected at least one of a handover execution and a communication band switching, the communication rate controller switches from controlling the communication rate based on a future communication throughput predicted by the throughput predicting unit to controlling the communication rate based on band information acquired by the communication environment information storage unit and the band information acquiring unit.
US11678231B2
Example embodiments presented herein are directed towards a wireless device and core network node, as well as corresponding methods therein, for managing a data flow between a network access type 1 and a network access type 2. According to some examples, access type 1 may be a 3GPP access and access type 2 may be a non-3GPP access. The wireless device is connectable to both the networks of access types 1 and 2.
US11678224B2
A host device establishes a wireless communication link with a client device, and implements a wired communication standard on the link to transfer a first data stream. To increase data throughput while complying with the standard, the host device replaces synchronizing information in a packet to be sent during a first synchronizing frame with configuration information indicating that packet exchange data of a second data stream is to be sent or received during a second synchronizing frame. The host device sends or receives the packet exchange data of the second data stream to or from the client device during the second synchronizing frame via the wireless communication link. The host device may send or receive the packet exchange data of the second data stream during delays or idle periods between sending and/or receiving packets of the first data stream via the wireless communication link according to the wired communication standard.
US11678223B2
A configuration to enable a UE to discard a TPC command for the MCG if there is an overlapping SCG transmission. The apparatus determines that a first PUSCH transmission to an SCG is scheduled to be at least partially concurrent in time with a second PUSCH transmission to a MCG. The apparatus determines whether to receive a TPC command associated with the transmission of the second PUSCH. The apparatus determines whether to discard the TPC command based on when the TPC command is received.
US11678219B2
A method for transmitting data from a population of devices to a relay station travelling with respect to one another. For transmitting the data to the relay station, each device includes at least one transmission slot resulting from a channel access method and a transmission window within which the relay station is to travel. The relay station is to broadcast an instruction to the population of devices before the data transmission, and, upon receiving the instruction, at least part of the population of devices is to set a modified transmission slot.
US11678218B2
Systems and methods of deferring a transmission of a message are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a method by a wireless device (105, 200, 300a-b, 600) comprises determining (1001) whether a timer (106, 205) associated with deferring a transmission (107) of a message (113) on a certain uplink or downlink logical channel is configured and not running for that certain uplink or downlink logical channel. Further, the method includes transmitting (1011), to a network node (101), the message on that certain uplink or downlink logical channel responsive to determining that the timer is configured and not running for that certain uplink or downlink logical channel.
US11678211B2
In an aspect, a wireless node (e.g., UE, gNB) performs a partial measurement of a measurement type (e.g., RSTD, Rx-Tx, etc.) of a reference signal for positioning (RS-P) resource (e.g., PRS, SRS) that includes multiple symbols, the partial measurement being measured across a subset of the multiple symbols. The wireless node transmits a measurement report that includes an indication of the first partial measurement. The communications device receives the measurement report, and determines whether a spoofing attack is associated with the RS-P based at least in part upon the measurement report.
US11678200B2
Systems and methods to identify whether user traffic is generated indoors (e.g., from within a building) or outdoors for a variety of applications, including improving capacity planning, identifying new products offerings, troubleshooting/planning, competitive analysis, planning optimum locations of capacity planning solution deployment, traffic offload analysis, etc. are disclosed. The method receives and aggregates data from a variety of sources, including customer geolocation data, network data, street/building maps, indoor/outdoor classification of traffic, etc. to generate demand density maps that depict network traffic usage patterns at a building level. The method can then use the demand density maps to identify hotspots, evaluate in-building coverage, and select and rank optimum solutions and/or locations for capacity improvement solutions deployment. As a result, a telecommunications service provider is able to efficiently and economically identify targeted solutions and locations to expand capacity of cell sites and improve customer experiences.
US11678192B2
The present disclosure may be related to a pre-5G or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4G communication system such as LTE. A method, for a UE in a network comprising the UE and an AMF entity, is disclosed. The method comprises: identifying that the UE in idle mode, has an emergency protocol data unit (PDU) session, transmitting, to the AMF, a control plane service request (CPSR) message comprising data of a first type, receiving, from the AMF, a security mode command message indicating that an integrity check related to the CPSR message has failed, in response to receiving the security mode command message, identifying whether the CPSR message comprises the data of the first type including data of a second type, or the CPSR message comprises the data of the first type excluding the data of the second type, and transmitting the CPSR message excluding the data of the first type except the data of the second type.
US11678179B2
A communication apparatus connectable to a communication network notifies the presence of the communication apparatus using a communication channel assigned to the communication apparatus, then sets one communication channel different from the assigned communication channel of those available in the communication network, and searches for a communication partner apparatus which functions as a providing apparatus that provides communication parameters using the set communication channel. The communication apparatus repetitively executes the notification processing and the search processing, and changes a communication channel used in the search processing every time the repetition is executed one or a plurality of number of times.
US11678175B2
A method of changing a MAC address of a WLAN affiliated STA of a multi-link device (MLD) and related system, device and non-transitory machine-readable storage medium. A new MAC address is generated for an affiliated non-AP STA of a non-AP MLD. A request to change the MAC address of the affiliated non-AP STA to the new MAC address is sent from the non-AP MLD to an AP MLD. An acknowledgement that the new MAC address for the affiliated non-AP STA of the non-AP MLD has been successfully applied by the AP MLD is received by the non-AP MLD from the AP MLD. The MAC address for the affiliated non-AP STA of the non-AP MLD is changed to the new MAC address in response to the acknowledgment.
US11678174B2
A user terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a transmitting section that transmits capability information indicating a first number being equal to or greater than 1; a receiving section that receives configuration information indicating a second number being equal to or greater than 1 and being equal to or less than the first number; and a control section that performs a report of a measurement value of the second number being obtained by measurement of a reference signal associated with a beam. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, the number of beams to be reported can be determined appropriately.
US11678172B2
Techniques for on-device enrollment of a secondary wireless device in an add-on cellular plan include receiving, at the secondary wireless device, cellular plan information for a cellular plan of a primary wireless device associated with the secondary wireless device. Based on the cellular plan information, the secondary wireless device displays an option to add the secondary wireless device to the cellular plan of the primary wireless device. A selection of the option to add the secondary wireless device to the cellular plan of the primary wireless device is received, and a request is transmitted to the primary wireless device for enrollment information for enrolling the secondary wireless device in an add-on plan of the cellular plan. The enrollment information, which includes a list of available add-on plans for the secondary wireless device or information associated with a provider of the cellular plan, is received at the secondary wireless device.
US11678166B2
Systems and methods are provided for checking many users in to a location using a Bluetooth® low energy (BLE) beacon. The provided systems and methods may allow a BLE beacon to facilitate a check in with a remote server that processes check ins and then disconnect from the device used to check in. The device may be assigned a unique identifier that may be broadcast from the device during the check in so that the BLE beacon can quickly scan for the identifier and connect with the device based on the identifier to provide content and other information to the device.
US11678160B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting an expiration of a subscription associated with a communication device, wherein the subscription is for services of a mobile network, and enabling an interim profile that provides the communication device with limited connectivity over the mobile network, wherein the limited connectivity facilitates communication with a subscription manager node of the mobile network. Various embodiments can include communicating with the subscription manager node to establish an active subscription for services of the mobile network and enabling an operational profile comprising subscription information associated with the active subscription. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11678148B2
A lift device having an implement, a prime mover configured to drive the implement, and a connectivity module communicably coupled with the lift device. The connectivity module is configured to receive an input relating to a status of the lift device, and provide an indication representing the status of the lift device.
US11678145B2
Disclosed are techniques for wireless positioning. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) performs one or more positioning measurements of positioning reference signals (PRS) transmitted by at least one set of transmission-reception points (TRPs) of one or more sets of TRPs, wherein each set of TRPs of the one or more sets of TRPs satisfies a dilution of precision (DOP) threshold, and reports the one or more positioning measurements or location information derived from the one or more positioning measurements.
US11678143B2
A communication management resource receives notification of an incoming communication (such as from a calling party) directed to a mobile communication device in a wireless network environment. In response to receiving the notification, the communication management resource predicts a current location of the mobile communication device based on a prior history of tracking the mobile communication device and a time of receiving the call alert. The communication management resource initiates wireless transmission of the call alert in a wireless signal from a first wireless base station at the predicted current location.
US11678142B1
A computing device establishes communication with a financial institution communication device, and receives an instruction for a user to perform an action to authenticate the user. The action includes providing user-provided data indicative of a location. The computing device determines first location information based on the user-provided data. The computing device also determines second location information using a location sensor. The computing device authenticates the used based on determining that the first location information correlates to the second location information.
US11678139B2
Provided is a traveling direction determination device that determines, using an acceleration sensor that generates acceleration signals indicating acceleration in three axial directions together with a direction of the acceleration, a traveling direction of a moving object mounted with the acceleration sensor, the traveling direction determination device comprising a determination unit that executes a first determination process in which the determination unit selects, using the acceleration signals, any of the three axes as a gravity axis, the gravity axis being closest to an actual gravity direction of the moving object to determine a gravity direction of the moving object and a second determination process in which the determination unit selects either of the two axes excluding the axis selected as the gravity axis, as a travel axis, the travel axis being closest to an actual traveling direction of the moving object based on moving average values of the acceleration signals to determine the traveling direction of the moving object.
US11678132B2
Embodiments relate generally to hearing protection devices which incorporate a calibration mode which allows the user to perform a calibration test to determine an individualized hearing threshold. Embodiments of the device may also comprise a normal mode to prevent input signals greater than the individualized hearing threshold from being transmitted to the user's ear canal. In addition, embodiments may comprise a normal mode configured to limit input signals to less than or equal to a standard industry threshold in the case no calibration test has been completed by the user. This may increase user comfort and prevent hearing damage.
US11678125B2
One implementation of a sensing method includes: correlating a receive signal with a waveform template to obtain a correlation signal in which echoes would be represented as peaks; and varying the waveform template based on time elapsed from a measurement start time.
US11678122B2
A speaker comprises an electroacoustic transducer diaphragm which is mounted between or suspended from multiple suspension pins or suspension components. The suspension pins or suspension components provide mechanical support and acoustic isolation to the diaphragm.
US11678120B2
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques are presented to reduce noise in audio. In at least one embodiment, one or more neural networks are used to determine a noise signal in one or more speech signals.
US11678117B2
A method of processing an audio signal is disclosed. According to embodiments of the method, magnitude response information of a prototype filter is determined. The magnitude response information includes a plurality of gain values, at least one of which includes a first gain corresponding to a first frequency. The magnitude response information of the prototype filter is stored. The magnitude response information of the prototype filter at the first frequency is retrieved. Gains are computed for a plurality of control frequencies based on the retrieved magnitude response information of the prototype filter at the first frequency, and the computed gains are applied to the audio signal.
US11678114B2
Provided is a sound collection loudspeaker apparatus that makes it possible to intuitively distinguish which talker is talking, and improve the comfort of conversations, when performing in-vehicle conversation and conversations with people outside of a vehicle. The sound collection loudspeaker apparatus is installed in a vehicle. Two or more sound collection and amplification positions are assumed to be present inside the vehicle. The apparatus includes: a transfer function multiplying unit that, from a transfer function for transfer from a desired sound source position where a sound image of an enhanced signal is localized to both ears of a target person located at the sound collection and amplification position, and a transfer function for transfer from one or more speakers installed for playing back sound at the sound collection and amplification position to the ears, applies a filter for localizing a sound image at the sound source position to an enhanced signal, and outputs the enhanced signal that has been filtered to the speaker. The enhanced signal is a signal in which a target sound emitted from the sound collection and amplification position has been enhanced from a signal collected by the one or more microphones.
US11678111B1
A machine learning model can determine output frequency response at different directions relative to a target audio output format, based on input including frequency response at directions relative to microphones of a capture device. A spatial filter determined based on the output frequency responses is applied to one or more of the microphone signals to map the spatial information from the microphone signals to the target audio output.
US11678110B2
An electronic apparatus includes a housing having a sound receiving hole that guides a sound outside the housing into the housing, a substrate that is disposed in the housing and on which a microphone is mounted, an elastic member that is disposed so as to fill a gap between the substrate and an inner wall of the housing excluding a portion of the inner wall that is located around the sound receiving hole and so as to form a space between the substrate and the portion of the inner wall of the housing, which is located around the sound receiving hole, and a first member that is disposed so as to partially occupy the space.
US11678107B2
The present disclosure provides a speaker including a frame, a vibration system, and a magnetic circuit system, wherein the vibration system includes a first vibration diaphragm and a second vibration diaphragm which are fixed to two opposite sides of the frame, the magnetic circuit system includes a bobbin, a magnet fixed in the bobbin and spaced from an inner wall of the bobbin, a first pole plate fixed on one side of the magnet close to the first vibration diaphragm, a second pole plate fixed to one side of the magnet close to the second vibration diaphragm, and a third pole plate fixed outside the bobbin and spaced from an outer wall of the bobbin. The first voice coil assembly and the second voice coil assembly move inside and outside in a staggered manner, which saves a Z-directional space of the speaker and achieves higher magnetic field efficiency.
US11678106B2
This application relates to earbuds configured with one or more biometric sensors. At least one of the biometric sensors is configured to be pressed up against a portion of the tragus for making biometric measurements. In some embodiments, the housing of the earbud can be symmetric so that the earbud can be worn interchangeably in either a left or a right ear of a user. In such an embodiment, the earbud can include a sensor and circuitry configured to determine and alter operation of the earbud in accordance to which ear the earbud is determined to be sitting in.
US11678103B2
Embodiments relate to an audio system configured to provide enhancement of low audio frequencies. The audio system includes a tissue transducer and a speaker coupled to the tissue transducer. The tissue transducer is configured to be coupled to a tissue of a user (e.g., pinna of a user's ear). The speaker includes a diaphragm having a first surface and a second surface that is opposite the first surface. The first surface is configured to generate a first set of airborne acoustic pressure waves, and the second surface is configured to generate a backpressure. The tissue transducer is driven by the backpressure to vibrate the tissue to form a second set of acoustic pressure waves. The first set of airborne acoustic pressure waves and the second set of acoustic pressure waves together form audio content that is presented to the user.
US11678101B2
One or more accelerometers embedded with an earbud and/or a set of earphones are able to sense a moving pace of a user. Based on a moving pace of the user, a signal is sent to a remotely connected electronic device. The electronic device is able to separately increase and decrease a beat or rhythm of the audio from the electronic device based on a pace of the user. In some embodiments, an audio alert is sent to the user to inform the user of pace and whether the user has increased or decreased their pace. Additionally, in some embodiments, a program stored on the electronic device is used to compare the user's current progress and/or speed based on past runs and workouts.
US11678099B2
Disclosed is a hearing device configured to be worn in an ear of a user. The hearing device is configured to provide an audio signal to the user. The hearing device comprises a circuit assembly. The circuit assembly comprises a printed circuit board assembly. The printed circuit board assembly comprises: a first circuit board; a second circuit board; a third circuit board interconnected with the first circuit board and the second circuit board; and a fourth circuit board. The circuit assembly comprises a battery, wherein the printed circuit board assembly is folded about the battery.
US11678098B2
The present disclosure provides an acoustic output apparatus including one or more status sensors, at least one low-frequency acoustic driver, at least one high-frequency acoustic driver, at least two first sound guiding holes, and at least two second sound guiding holes. The status sensors may detect status information of a user. The low-frequency acoustic driver may generate at least one first sound, a frequency of which is within a first frequency range. The high-frequency acoustic driver may generate at least one second sound, a frequency of which is within a second frequency range including at least one frequency exceeding the first frequency range. The first and second sound guiding holes may output the first and second spatial sound, respectively. The first and second sound may be generated based on the status information, and may simulate a target sound coming from at least one virtual direction with respect to the user.
US11678093B2
A network interface card (NIC) and a method for stablishing a connection between virtual machines of a network. The NIC includes: a programmable switching ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit), a central processing unit (CPU), multiple Ethernet controllers, and multiple on-board transceivers functioning as external ports. The switching ASIC functions as a switch that manipulates data traffic within the NIC including by switching the data traffic between and among the CPU, the Ethernet controllers, and the on-board transceivers. The method includes: installing rules that route a Synchronize (SYN) packet from a source virtual machine (VM) through a software engine, appending a signed cookie to the SYN packet; verifying that a policy represented by the signed cookie appended to the SYN packet matches a policy of a destination VM; and returning the SYN packet to the source VM which establishes a connection between the source VM and the destination VM.
US11678061B2
An image pickup apparatus capable of suppressing occurrence of a delay in an exposure control when the exposure control is performed by selectively changing an exposure condition among a plurality of exposure conditions. In a transition period from when the exposure control for changing a first exposure condition according to a target exposure at a time of image pickup of the subject is started until the exposure reaches the target exposure, another exposure condition other than the first exposure condition is changed so that an exposure changing speed of the first exposure condition is compensated for. When the exposure is changeable based on a program diagram and when the first exposure condition is changed, control is provided so that a second exposure condition to be changed immediately after changing the first exposure condition is used to compensate for the exposure changing speed of the first exposure condition.
US11678055B2
An imaging support device includes a detection portion that, by operating a revolution mechanism that causes an imaging apparatus including a variable magnification mechanism to revolve, detects a subject image position of a target subject image showing a target subject in a captured image obtained by capturing an imaging region including the target subject by the imaging apparatus, and a control portion that perform a registration control of setting the subject image position detected by the detection portion to a specific position in the captured image for a captured image obtained by imaging performed by the imaging apparatus in accordance with changing of magnification to a telephoto side by the variable magnification mechanism.
US11678054B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for image signal processing. For example, method may include determining a sequence of orientation estimates based on sensor data from one or more motion sensors. The method may include receiving an image from the image sensor. The method may include filtering the sensor data with a pass band matching an operation bandwidth to the sequence of orientation estimates to obtain filtered data. The method may include invoking an electronic image stabilization module to correct the image based on the filtered data to obtain a stabilized image. The method may include storing, displaying, or transmitting an output image based on the stabilized image.
US11678053B2
Visual content is captured by an image capture device during a capture duration. The image capture devices experiences change in position during the capture duration. The trajectory of the image capture device is smoothed based on a look ahead of the trajectory. A punchout of the visual content is determined based on the smoothed trajectory. The punchout of the visual content is used to generate stabilized visual content.
US11678047B2
An electronic device according to various embodiments includes a camera, a memory, a display, and a processor. The processor is configured to: based on an input for executing a camera application being received, identify first images shot within a region of a set range from a location of the electronic device from among a plurality of images, based on location information of the plurality of images stored in the memory or an external electronic device; select at least one second image from the first images, based on a priority of each of the first images; and, while displaying a preview image obtained through the camera on the display, display a visual object including a thumbnail image corresponding to the at least one second image on the display by overlaying the visual object on the preview image.
US11678043B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to a sensor module. In some aspects, a sensor module may include a collar configured to be attached to a camera module for a user device. The collar may include a first opening that is configured to align with an aperture of a camera of the camera module, and a second opening. The sensor module may include a sensor embedded in the collar. The sensor may be aligned with the second opening of the collar. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11678035B2
An imaging system that is translucent can be achieved by placing an image sensor (204) at one of more edges or periphery of a translucent window (202). A small fraction of light from the outside scene scatters off imperfections (218) in the translucent window (202) and reach the peripheral image sensor (204). Based on appropriate calibration of the response of point sources (206) from the outside scene, the full scene can be reconstructed computationally from the peripherally scattered light (210, 212). The technique can be extended to color, multi-spectral, light-field, 3D, and polarization selective imaging. Applications can include surveillance, imaging for autonomous agents, microscopy, etc.
US11678034B2
A dual camera module including a hyperspectral camera module, an apparatus including the same, and a method of operating the apparatus are provided. The dual camera module includes a hyperspectral camera module configured to provide a hyperspectral image of a subject; and an RGB camera module configured to provide an image of the subject, and obtain an RGB correction value applied to correction of the hyperspectral image.
US11678032B2
A capture setting for one or more image capture devices may be determined. The capture setting may define one or more aspects of operation for the image capture device(s). The aspect(s) of operation for the image capture device(s) may include one or more aspects of operation for a processor of the image capture device(s), an image sensor of the image capture device(s), and/or an optical element of the image capture device(s). A machine-readable optical code may be generated based on the capture setting and/or other information. The machine-readable optical code may convey the capture setting for the image capture device(s) such that a first image capture device capturing a first image including the machine-readable optical code may: (1) identify the machine-readable optical code within the first image; (2) determine the capture setting conveyed by the machine-readable optical code; and (3) operate in accordance with the capture setting.
US11678027B2
One or more devices, systems, methods, may implement one or more techniques to provide sporting event content to a consumer. One or more techniques may identify a sporting event content from a remote storage location, perhaps based on a received audio feed and/or a video feed. The audio feed and/or the video feed may be time coded. The sporting event content may be received via a stream. The sporting event content stream may be time aligned based at least on the time code. An audio content of the sporting event content stream may be provided to a consumer who may have requested the sporting event content via a speaker device. A video content of the sporting event content stream may be provided to the consumer via a display device.
US11678026B1
A system for construing a content presentation is disclosed. According to one embodiment, the system includes Input/Output (I/O) circuitry to receive an indicated location, and memory to store scheduling information that includes a location information and date information associated with the location information. A processor identifies at least one media segment for inclusion into a customized media programming stream based on (a) comparing the indicated location to the location information from the scheduling information; and (b) comparing the current date to the associated date information from the scheduling information. Further, the processer assembles a customized media programming stream by adding the at least one identified media segment to the customized media programming stream. The I/O circuitry transmits the customized media programming stream for presentation on a user device.
US11678016B1
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for real-time enablement of over-the-top media service applications. An embodiment operates by receiving a device identifier from a customer device including a disabled third-party over-the-top (OTT) application, determining a verification status of the customer device based on the device identifier, determining a customer identifier associated with the customer device, and determining an entitlement status based on the customer identifier. The embodiment further operates by assigning a vendor-issued identifier to the customer identifier, generating a third-party token based on the verification status and the entitlement status, and sending the third-party token to the customer device and a third-party service associated with the disabled third-party OTT application. In some embodiments, the customer device and the third-party service may perform a handshake using the third-party token to enable the disabled OTT third-party application on the customer device.
US11678014B2
Creative intent input describing emotion expectations and narrative information relating to media content is received. Expected physiologically observable states relating to the media content are generated based on the creative intent input. An audiovisual content signal with the media content and media metadata comprising the physiologically observable states is provided to a playback apparatus. The audiovisual content signal causes the playback device to use physiological monitoring signals to determine, with respect to a viewer, assessed physiologically observable states relating to the media content and generate, based on the expected physiologically observable states and the assessed physiologically observable states, modified media content to be rendered to the viewer.
US11678009B2
A client receives streaming data according to Moving Picture Experts Group-Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) standard. The client includes a transmitter which transmits a Media Presentation Description (MPD) request or a segment request to a server, and a receiver which receives an MPD specified in the MPD request and a segment specified in the segment request. The MPD request contains information requesting transmission of an initialization segment by a push. The receiver receives the initialization segment transmitted by the push.
US11678004B2
A server receives, from a first display device of a first user, first content data, first sensor data, and a request for assistance identifying a context of the first display device. The server identifies a second display device of a second user based on the context of the first display device. The server receives second content data and second sensor data from the second display device. The first content data is synchronized with the second content data based on the first and second sensor data. Playback parameters are formed based on the context of the first display device. An enhanced playback session is generated using the synchronized first and second content data in response to determining that the first sensor data meet the playback parameters. The enhanced playback session is communicated to the first display device.
US11677990B2
The embodiments disclose a method including capturing video footage of a youth sports event using at least one video camera with a mobile application installed, transmitting to at least one network server with internet and WI-FI connectivity mobile application multi-camera live-streaming video camera captured game footage, recording on at least one database coupled to the network server at least one video camera mobile application multi-camera live-streaming video camera captured game footage, using at least one network computer coupled to at least one network server configured for processing and displaying multi-camera live-streaming video camera captured game footage for live video streaming game broadcast on a plurality of subscribed viewer digital devices, and mixing advertising into the processed multi-camera live-streaming video camera captured game footage broadcast using the at least one network computer.
US11677983B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for improved entropy encoding and decoding. An apparatus includes a video encoder (200) for encoding at least a block in a picture by transforming a residue of the block to obtain transform coefficients, quantizing the transform coefficients to obtain quantized transform coefficients, and entropy coding the quantized transform coefficients. The quantized transform coefficients are encoded using a flag to indicate that a current one of the quantized transform coefficients being processed is a last non-zero coefficient for the block having a value greater than or equal to a specified value.
US11677979B2
A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for video coding. Video data including one or more views is received. A composite depth image and a composite texture image corresponding to the one or more views are generated based on the received video data. The video data is decoded based on the generated composite depth image and composite texture image.
US11677976B2
Different implementations are described, particularly implementations for video encoding and decoding using motion compensation with bi-prediction are presented. The encoding method comprises for a picture, obtaining a first predictor for a block of the picture using a first reference picture; obtaining a second predictor for said block of the picture using a second reference picture; using the first predictor and the second predictor for forming a third predictor for the block in bi-prediction inter prediction, wherein the third predictor is obtained as a weighted average of the first predictor and the second predictor; and wherein a weight used in the weighed prediction depend on the position of the sample in the block. Others embodiments are presented for implementing block triangle partition prediction, for implementing block partition prediction using multiple patterns and for corresponding motion compensation in decoding method.
US11677969B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and an apparatus including processing circuitry that decodes coded information of a coding block (CB) in a picture from a coded video bitstream. The coded information indicates a width W and a height H of the CB. The processing circuitry partitions the CB into sub-processing units (SPUs) having a width being a minimum one of W and K and a height being a minimum one of H and K. At least one of the width W and the height H is larger than a processing data unit size K. The processing circuitry determines a partitioning structure to partition the SPUs based on the width, the height, and a maximum transform unit (TU) size M. At least one of the width and the height is larger than M. The processing circuitry partitions each of the SPUs into TUs of M×M based on the partitioning structure.
US11677963B2
Methods and systems are provided for image processing. A plurality of correlation parameters representing degrees of correlation between two or more images of a plurality of images may be produced. An optimized correlation dependency graph may be produced according to the plurality of correlation parameters. The plurality of images may then be delta encoded according to the optimized correlation dependency graph. For example, the optimized correlation dependency graph may be used for performing a correlation encoding operation. The plurality of correlation parameters may be produced, for example, in accordance with one or more correlation metrics associated with the correlation encoding operation.
US11677960B2
The data processing method and system provided in the present specification may use a first transfer function to perform an encoding spectrum-adjustment on an original frame in original data when compressing the original data, so that the amplitude of the intermediate-frequency to high-frequency region in the original frame may be smoothly reduced, thereby reducing the data information in the original frame and improve the encoding efficiency. Thus, the compressed data volume is reduced. When the method and system are employed to decompress a compressed frame, a second transfer function may be used to perform a decoding spectrum-adjustment on the compressed frame, where the second transfer function corresponds to the first transfer function, so as to restore the data in the compressed frame and obtain a decompressed frame. The method and system may improve data compression efficiency and transmission efficiency.
US11677958B2
A video decoding method performed by a video decoding device according to the present document comprises the steps of: parsing a flag pertaining to a weighted prediction from a bitstream; parsing the syntax of a prediction weighted table from the bitstream based on the flag; performing a weighted prediction for the current block in the current picture based on the prediction weighted table syntax to generate prediction samples for the current block; generating residual samples based on residual information acquired from the bitstream; and generating reconstructed samples for the current block based on the prediction samples and the residual samples, wherein the prediction weighted table syntax can be parsed from the picture header of the bitstream based on the value of the flag being 1, and can be parsed from the slice header of the bitstream based on the value of the flag being 0.
US11677955B2
A method by which a decoding device decodes an image, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: receiving a bitstream including residual information about a current block; decoding syntax elements for the current block included in the residual information; deriving conversion coefficients for the current block on the basis of the decoded syntax elements; deriving residual samples for the current block on the basis of the conversion coefficients; and generating a restoration picture on the basis of the residual samples.
US11677953B2
Devices, systems and methods for palette mode coding are described. An exemplary method for video processing includes performing a conversion between a block of a video region of a video and a bitstream representation of the video. The bitstream representation is processed according to a first format rule that specifies whether a first indication of usage of a palette mode is signaled for the block and a second format rule that specifies a position of the first indication relative to a second indication of usage of a prediction mode for the block.
US11677945B2
A method of partitioning in video coding for JVET, comprising representing a JVET coding tree unit as a root node in a quadtree plus binary tree (QTBT structure that can have quadtree or binary partitioning of the root node and quadtree or binary trees branching from each of the leaf nodes. The partitioning at any depth can use asymmetric binary partitioning to split a child node represented by a leaf node into two child coding units of unequal size, representing the two child coding units as leaf nodes in a binary tree branching from the parent leaf node and coding the child coding units represented by final leaf nodes of the binary tree with JVET. Disclosed is a generalized method of partitioning a block, either square or rectangular, which leads to more flexible block sizes with possible higher coding efficiency.
US11677940B2
The present invention relates to an image encoding/decoding method. The image decoding method includes splitting a coding tree unit (CTU) into at least one coding unit (CU) according to a block splitting structure and performing CU-based decoding, in which the block partition structure is configured such that at least one of binary tree splitting and ternary tree splitting is performed after quadtree splitting is performed.
US11677932B2
An image processing device for performing a data decompression is provided. The image processing device includes a decoder circuit having a plurality of stages for decompressing compressed image data of a plurality of pixels. The decoder circuit is configured to divide the pixels into a plurality of groups. The first stage performs prediction compensation on the compressed image data of a first pixel of the first group at a first time to generate first prediction data, and performs the prediction compensation on the compressed image data of a second pixel of the first group at a second time using the first prediction data. The second stage performs the prediction compensation on the compressed image data of a first pixel of the second group at the second time using the first prediction data, to generate second prediction data.
US11677926B1
Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for decoding an image. A method includes receiving a bitstream obtained by encoding the image; dividing a first coding block into a plurality of second coding blocks; generating a prediction block of a second coding block based on syntax information obtained from the bitstream; and reconstructing the second coding block based on the prediction block and a residual block of the second coding block, the residual block being obtained by performing a dequantization and an inverse-transform on quantized transform coefficients from the bitstream. The first coding block has a recursive division structure. The first coding block is divided based on at least one of a quad tree division, a binary tree division or a triple tree division.
US11677914B2
A light-source device includes an excitation light source, an optical member, and a wavelength converter. The excitation light source is configured to emit first color light. The optical member has a reflecting surface configured to reflect the first color light emitted from the excitation light source. The wavelength converter includes a wavelength conversion member on which the first color light reflected by the optical member is incident. The wavelength conversion member is configured to convert at least part of the first color light into second color light having a wavelength different from a wavelength of the first color light and emit the second color light. A center of the first color light on the reflecting surface of the optical member does not intersect with a light flux of the first color light emitted from the wavelength converter.
US11677912B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus a drone for installing sensors. A method includes determining to emulate a view of a camera at a particular location with a drone, deploying the drone to the particular location, obtaining an image captured by a drone, and emulating the view of the camera with the image.
US11677911B2
A display apparatus according to the present invention is to be fixed on a head of a user, and includes: an image sensor configured to be capable of changing focal distance; a display configured to display, as a display range, a part of an image which is captured by the image sensor; an orientation detector configured to detect an orientation of the display apparatus; and at least one memory and at least one processor which function as a control unit configured to control a position of the display range based on a change of the orientation detected by the orientation detector, and the focal distance.
US11677904B2
A report evaluation method of a report evaluation device may include receiving a report from at least one client terminal, determining a category of the received report, identifying a learning model corresponding to the category, evaluating a reliability of the report through the learning model, and generating and outputting information on the reliability.
US11677902B2
Provided is a data processing system. The system includes a data source, a data receiver, a plurality of source code data frame buffer regions, a data processing module and a state register. The data source is configured to generate a data frame, the data receiver is configured to receive the data frame, and write the data frame into one of a plurality of data frame buffer regions, each of the plurality of source code data frame buffer regions is configured to store a data frame to be processed, the data processing module is configured to perform subsequent processing on data and the state register is configured to store a state of the system and states of the plurality of source code data frame buffer regions.
US11677898B2
According to various embodiments, an electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display, a RGB sensor including a plurality of first pixels, a dynamic vision sensor including a plurality of second pixels, and a processor electrically connected with the display, the RGB sensor, and the dynamic vision sensor. The processor may be configured to detect a first signal to request to capture an image, obtain a first image including a first object using the RGB sensor, based on the detection of the first signal, identify at least one edge of the first object corresponding to at least one second image obtained during a first period specified by a time of detecting the first signal, among a plurality of second images obtained using the dynamic vision sensor, generate a synthesized image in which an effect related to the at least one edge of the first object is applied to the first image, and control the display to display the synthesized image.
US11677894B2
An information processing apparatus connected to an image forming unit that forms an image based on image data and a reading unit that reads an image as image data is provided. The apparatus acquires a pixel count of image data formed by pixels; encodes the at least one color component and the pixel count to be multiplexed on the image data; outputs the image data to the image forming unit; restores the multiplexed at least one color component and the multiplexed pixel count from the image data read by the reading unit; and replaces the pixels of the pixel count of a color component corresponding to the at least one color component included in the image data and restored from the image data.
US11677893B2
A lighting device (23) irradiates a web under conveyance with light. The lighting device includes a light source (43), and an irradiation port (61) configured to open linearly in a widthwise direction of the web at an end portion facing the web. The irradiation port (61) is formed between first and second parallel portions (62b, 63b) where a first plate member (62) and a second plate member (63) parallelly face each other. The web under conveyance is irradiated with linear light. It is possible to provide a lighting device capable of irradiating only an inspection region of a sheet or a web with light.
US11677886B2
An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit, an information acquiring unit, a setting unit, and a controller. The communication unit communicatively connects with a terminal device having a sensor. The information acquiring unit acquires information detected by the sensor from the terminal device communicatively connected via the communication unit. The setting unit sets a preferential terminal device to be preferentially connected with the communication unit. The controller performs control to connect with the preferential terminal device preferentially over a terminal device that is not a preferential terminal device within a capacity range of the communication unit.
US11677884B2
An image reading apparatus includes a feed roller configured to feed a document, a transport roller disposed downstream of the feed roller and configured to transport the document downstream; a transport motor being a drive source of the transport roller; a reading unit disposed downstream of the transport roller and configured to read the document; and a control unit configured to control the reading unit and the transport motor, wherein the control unit is configured to obtain information on a document type and an inclination detection reference value for an inclination of image data set in accordance with the document type and obtained from the reading unit, and when the inclination of the image data exceeds the inclination detection reference value in accordance with the document type, the control unit stops the transport motor.
US11677881B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems for the process-efficient generation of data records for data communications involving groups or aggregates of user equipment (UE), such as IoT devices, are described. In one illustrative example, for each one of a plurality of UEs associated with a group or aggregation identifier (ID), a request which includes data indicative of a network resource usage event of the UE is received and the data are stored in association with the group or aggregation ID. In response to identifying a predetermined condition, the data indicative of the network resource usage events associated with the group or aggregation ID are aggregated, and a request for generating a data record based on the aggregated data is sent to a data function for generating the data record. The generated data record (e.g. a CDR) may be stored for subsequent retrieval for reporting, analysis, network/communications management, or billing.
US11677877B2
A device receives, from a user device, a communication associated with a support issue encountered by a user of the user device and assigns the communication to a position in a support queue based on when the communication is received, wherein the support queue includes data identifying positions of other communications received from other users, and data identifying when the other communications were received. The device processes data identifying the communication and historical communication data describing prior communications associated with the user, with a model, to determine an average time spent on hold by the user for the prior communications. The device modifies the position of the communication in the support queue based on the average time and performs one or more actions based on modifying the position of the communication in the support queue.
US11677875B2
Disclosed implementations use automated transcription and intent detection and an AI model to evaluate interactions between an agent and a customer within a call center environment. The evaluation flow used for manual evaluations is leveraged so that the evaluators can correct the AI evaluations when appropriate. Based on such corrections, the AI model can be retrained to accommodate specifics of the business and center—resulting in more confidence in the AI model over time.
US11677870B1
Methods and systems for multiple channel authentication are described. In one embodiment, a request for an interaction is initiated from within a mobile application. The request may include authentication information and contextual information relating to a current exchange between the mobile application and an organization. The user may be authenticated with the authentication information and the request may be routed to a representative based on the contextual information to continue the exchange.
US11677866B2
A packet processing technique can include receiving a packet, and parsing the packet based on a protocol field to generate a parse result vector. The parse result vector is used to select between forwarding the packet to a virtual machine executing on a host processing integrated circuit, forwarding the packet to a physical media access controller, multicasting the packet to multiple virtual machines executing on the host processing integrated circuit, and sending the packet to a hypervisor.
US11677865B2
A transmitting apparatus, a receiving apparatus, and a method of signal processing are provided. The transmitting apparatus includes at least one processor configured to implement: a packet generator which generates a packet including a header and a payload, based on an input stream; and a signal processor which signal-processes the generated packet. The header includes a base header, and the base header includes various fields indicating at least one of a packet type, and a value indicating that the packet transmits one single complete input packet, a segment of an input packet, or a plurality of input packets. The fields included in the base header may also indicate presence of an additional header and a substream identifier.
US11677864B2
A computer-implemented method comprising: (i) defining a new ethertype to be used in communicating PIDs (process identification codes), with the new ethertype being assigned a new ethertype code; (ii) determining a selected abstraction layer from a plurality of abstraction layers to be used in communicating PIDs; and (iii) making a plurality of network communications among and between computers of a networked computers system, with each communication, with the making of each given communication including: (a) inserting the new ethertype code and a PID of a process causing the given communication to occur into a data structure, and (b) communicating the data structure between computers of the networked computers system at the selected abstraction layer.
US11677862B1
A computer-implemented method is provided, comprising causing access to be provided, to a client computer, to code that causes the client computer to operate in accordance with a protocol that is separate from TCP, in order to establish a protocol connection with another server computer, by: receiving a packet, detecting an idle time period parameter field in the packet, identifying metadata in the idle time period parameter field for an idle time period, where, after the idle time period is detected, the second protocol connection is deemed inactive, and creating or modifying, by the client computer and based on the metadata, a timeout attribute associated with the second protocol connection.
US11677861B2
A computer-implemented method for interoperable data exchange between a first real-world entity and a second real-world entity with both real-world entities connected to a same communication network, the first and second real-world entities having first and second digital representations, respectively, each digital representation being a virtual entity replicating data, structure, and functions associated with any one of the real-world entities, the first and the second digital representations having different formats, the method, executed by at least one computing device of the second real-world entity, including: receiving a request for data of the second digital representation to be provided to the first digital representation; evaluating a set of predefined mapping strategies with each mapping strategy being associated with a target model template, by determining a mapping similarity measure for each mapping strategy based on similarities in a structure and semantics of respective data models of the first and second digital representations.
US11677860B2
This application discloses a decentralization processing method, which are applied to a microservice system. A first communication proxy in the microservice system receives a first microservice request sent by a first microservice application, the first communication proxy determines, based on a target control plane rule, a microservice access address corresponding to the first microservice request, and sends the first microservice request to the second communication proxy having the microservice access address, where the second communication proxy is used to forward the first microservice request to the second microservice application. The first communication proxy can send the microservice request to the corresponding second communication proxy, and a control plane does not need to route the microservice request, so that traffic for routing the microservice request by the control plane is effectively reduced, and impact of a burst of microservice requests on the control plane is effectively avoided.
US11677854B2
The described technology is directed towards repurposing expired cached data when no unexpired data is available. Cached, unexpired data is used in response to a request when such data exists. If such data does not exist, e.g., at a front-end data service, then an attempt to obtain the requested data from another (e.g., back-end data service) is made. If the attempt is unsuccessful, and expired cached data exists, the expired cached data is returned in response to the request, e.g., instead of returning an error. A back-end data service may similarly return expired cached data when the back-end data service is unable to obtain unexpired requested data elsewhere. An emergency mode may be entered in which data, whether expired or not, is returned from a cache when such data exists, such as when an attempt to obtain the data elsewhere is known in advance to be futile.
US11677852B2
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for migrating persistences of a plurality of source applications to a target environment. A migration tool may access a first source table and a second source table. The migration tool may generate mapping data relating the first source table and the second source table to a unified table, the mapping data relating a first field of the first source table to a first column of the unified table, the mapping data also relating a first field of the second source table to the first column of the unified table. The migration tool may migrate migration data from the first source table and the second source table to the unified table at a database management system executing at the target environment using the mapping data.
US11677846B1
A tracking system is provided that tracks user browsing activity while maintaining user privacy. It is determined whether a cookie is stored in local storage of a client device. If the cookie is not stored: a tracking identification (ID) is generated; the tracking ID, a cookie rotation timestamp, and a failed request counter in a generated cookie is stored; and the generated cookie is copied and attached to a transmitted event. If the cookie is stored: it is determined whether a time indicated by a stored cookie rotation timestamp is in the past; if the time is in the past, a flag requesting a new cookie value is set for a transmitted event; and if the time is not in the past, the stored cookie is copied and attached to a transmitted event.
US11677843B2
A sending and receiving unit receives the unique information of a plurality of communication host apparatuses that is obtained when a client apparatus searches for a connection destination before and after a movement of the client apparatus, a storage unit stores therein identification information of content that is sent to the client apparatus according to a state of the client apparatus, in association with the state, and a control unit specifies the state of the client apparatus on the basis of the unique information received by the sending and receiving unit, the unique information being obtained before and after the movement, and specifies first or second content depending on whether the client apparatus is an in overlapping area covered by communication host apparatuses with reference to the storage unit and sends the specified content to the client apparatus.
US11677838B2
The embodiments of the present application disclose an acquisition method, apparatus, device and storage medium for applet data, relating to the technical field of the IoT, which are specifically implemented by: establishing a network connection with a data server according to an interface address of the data server corresponding to the applet when a trigger operation for starting the applet is detected; sending a data request message to the data server directly through the pre-established network connection after the applet is started, and receiving, from the data server, a data response message that contains requested data. Therefore, excessive time consumption caused by failing to pre-establish network connection before the first data request is sent can be avoided, and the acquisition efficiency of applet data can be improved.
US11677827B2
Content categories are identified based on content provided by a server associated with an enterprise content management system. Using the relationship database, a content category is identified based on content associated with a client associated with a user, the content associated with the client associated with the user including content accessed by the user. A document associated with the content category is identified. A message is sent from the server to the client associated with the user to suggest to the user the document associated with the content category.
US11677800B2
An electronic device, while providing a first playlist for playback by a media device, maintains a play queue for a first user that is initially populated with a list of media content items to be played by the media device, the initially populated list of media content items including media content items distinct from the first playlist and selected by the first user and media content items from the first playlist. The electronic device receives a request to change playback from the first playlist to a second playlist different from the first playlist. In response to the request to change the playback from the first playlist to the second playlist, the electronic device maintains, in the play queue, the media content items selected by the first user while changing playback from the first playlist to the second playlist.
US11677797B2
In various embodiments, a subsequence-based encoding application generates a convex hull of subsequence encode points based on multiple encoding points and a first subsequence included in a set of subsequences that are associated with a media title. The subsequence-based encoding application then generates a first encode list that includes multiple subsequence encode points based on the first convex hull. Notably, each subsequence encode point included in the first encode list is associated with a different subsequence. The subsequence-based encoding application selects a first subsequence encode point included in the first encode list based on a first variability constraint that is associated with a media metric. The subsequence-based encoding application then replaces the first subsequence encode point included in the first encode list with a second subsequence encode point to generate a second encode list. Finally, the subsequence-based encoding application generates an encoded media sequence based on the second encode list.
US11677795B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for improved content delivery are described herein. During delivery of content to one or more user devices of a content distribution network (CDN), a content session may be created for each user device. During each content session, each user device may send one or more upstream communications, such as heartbeat signals and bitrate requests, to the CDN. A monitoring module of the CDN may aggregate the upstream communications into session data. The monitoring module may use the session data to determine an impairment associated with content delivery to the one or more user devices.
US11677791B1
A computer-implemented method is executed using a threat assessment server that is communicatively coupled via one or more networks to one or more different cloud computing service providers and comprises receiving first input data specifying a first cloud service account that is associated with two or more cloud computing instances and/or two or more cloud storage instances, the cloud computing instances or cloud storage instances being hosted at a first cloud computing service provider, the first cloud service account being from among one or more different cloud service accounts that are associated with the one or more different cloud computing service providers each hosting respective cloud computing instances and/or cloud storage instances; receiving second input data specifying an entry point identifier of a particular cloud resource from among the two or more cloud computing instances and/or two or more cloud storage instances; using a plurality of first network calls from the threat assessment server to the first cloud computing service provider, accessing an Identity and Access Management (IAM) role that is associated with the particular cloud resource and accessing one or more policies that are attached to the IAM role, the one or more policies specifying one or more other resources and one or more actions that are allowable with the one or more other resources; based on the one or more other resources and the one or more actions, digitally creating and storing a first entry in a list of affected resources that is stored in main memory of the threat assessment server; recursively executing a plurality of second network calls to access one or more other IAM roles and one or more other policies of the one or more other resources, and updating the list to create one or more second entries based on one or more service control policies that are associated with the first cloud service account; inspecting one or more networking rules defined in the first cloud service account to determine if network traffic is possible between a first resource and a second resource specified in the list of affected resources, and based on the inspection, digitally creating and storing a second list of source resources, destination resources, protocols and ports on which network traffic is possible; joining the first list and the second list and de-duplicating entries to create and store a joined list; based on the list, executing one or more updates to the networking rules to change access to one or more vulnerable resources in the joined list, and deploying the updates using one or more calls from the threat assessment server to cloud service tools of the cloud service provider.
US11677782B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to identifying potentially malicious messages and generating instream alerts based on real-time message monitoring. A computing platform may monitor a plurality of messages received by a messaging server associated with an operator. Subsequently, the computing platform may detect that a message of the plurality of messages is potentially malicious. In response to detecting that the message of the plurality of messages is potentially malicious, the computing platform may execute one or more protection actions. In executing the one or more protection actions, the computing platform may generate an alert message comprising information indicating that the message of the plurality of messages is potentially malicious. Then, the computing platform may send the alert message to the messaging server, which may cause the messaging server to deliver the alert message to a computing device associated with an intended recipient of the message.
US11677779B2
A security module for a CAN node includes a RXD input interface for receiving data from a CAN bus, TXD output interface for transmitting data to the CAN bus, and a RXD output interface for providing data to a local controller. The security module is configured to receive a CAN frame from the CAN bus. The CAN frame includes a CAN message. The security module is also configured to compare an identifier of the received CAN frame with at least one identifier associated with the local controller; and upon detection of a match between the identifier of the received CAN frame and the at least one identifier associated with the local controller: pass the CAN message to the local controller via the RXD output interface; decouple the local controller from the CAN bus; and invalidate the CAN message on the CAN bus via the TXD output interface.
US11677774B2
Techniques, methods and/or apparatuses are disclosed that enable facilitation of remediation of one or more vulnerabilities detected in a web application. Through the disclosed techniques, methods and/or apparatuses, users will be able to navigate to respective web pages of the detected vulnerabilities and snap directly to the vulnerabilities within the webpages. This allows the users to immediately know the location of the vulnerability, and inline feedback can be provided on the issue, including description, severity, solution and plugin outputs.
US11677768B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to automatic improved network architecture generation. In this regard, embodiments may process data representing a network architecture to generate an improved network architecture that resolves one or more vulnerabilities associated with the network architecture. In this regard, embodiments such as apparatuses, methods, and computer program products, are provided to identify a network architecture comprising a networked device set, determine cybersecurity threat set associated with the network architecture, identify an improved network configuration data set based on the cybersecurity threat set and the network device architecture, wherein each recommended sub network configuration of the improved network configuration data set decreases a threat likelihood associated with at least one determined cybersecurity threat from the cybersecurity threat set, generate an improved network architecture based on the network architecture and the improved network configuration data set, and output the improved network architecture.
US11677762B2
A method, computing device and system are disclosed for evaluating security of virtual infrastructures of tenants in a cloud environment. At least one security metric may be calculated for virtual infrastructures of a tenant based on information associated with at least one virtual resource of the first tenant and at least one interaction of the at least one virtual resource of the first tenant with at least one virtual resource of at least one other tenant in a multi-tenant virtualized infrastructure. At least one security parameter may be evaluated for the first tenant based at least in part on at least one of the at least one calculated security metric for monitoring a security level of the first tenant relative to the at least one other tenant in the multi-tenant virtualized infrastructure.
US11677761B2
Systems and methods for detecting security threats using application execution and connection lineage tracing with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, detecting suspicious activity in a network includes receiving at a collector server a first activity data including a first set of attributes, combining a first set of context information with the activity data to generate a first activity record, comparing the first activity record to a set of baseline signatures, incrementing a count of a first matching baseline signature when the first activity record has the same values for all attributes, receiving from a second activity data including a third set of attributes, combining a second set of context information with the second activity data to generate a second activity record, and generating an alert when the attributes of the second activity record differ from all baseline signatures.
US11677760B2
Techniques and mechanisms are disclosed for configuring actions to be performed by a network security application in response to the detection of potential security incidents, and for causing a network security application to report on the performance of those actions. For example, users may use such a network security application to configure one or more “modular alerts.” As used herein, a modular alert generally represents a component of a network security application which enables users to specify security modular alert actions to be performed in response to the detection of defined triggering conditions, and which further enables tracking information related to the performance of modular alert actions and reporting on the performance of those actions.
US11677757B2
A method for identifying malicious encrypted network traffic associated with a malware software component communicating via a network, the method including, for the malware, a portion of network traffic including a plurality of contiguous bytes occurring at a predefined offset in a network communication of the malware; extracting the defined portion of network traffic for each of a plurality of disparate encrypted network connections for the malware; training an autoencoder based on each extracted portion of network traffic, wherein the autoencoder includes: a set of input units each for representing information from a byte of an extracted portion; output units each for storing an output of the autoencoder; and a set of hidden units smaller in number than the set of input units and each interconnecting all input and all output units with weighted interconnections, such that the autoencoder is trainable to provide an approximated reconstruction of values of the input units at the output units; selecting a set of one or more offsets in the definition of a portion of network traffic as candidate locations for communication of an initialization vector for encryption of the network traffic, the selection being based on weights of interconnections in the autoencoder; and identifying malicious network traffic based on an identification of an initialization vector in the network traffic at one of the candidate locations.
US11677752B2
The present invention relates to a method of remotely configuring access to at least one home automation device (D) that is part of a home-automation installation (Su), the home automation installation comprising at least one home automation device (D) and at least one central control unit (U), and the method being performed by a first remote access service (Svc1) carried out by a management unit (Sv) and comprising the following steps: receiving (ECfSvc12) an information message (MIn) relating to the presence of the home automation device (D) from a central control unit (U) to which the device (D) is linked; determining (ECfSvc13) a second service (Svc2) associated with the type of home automation device (D) for which remote access must be configured with corresponding access rules; configuring (ECfSvc110) an access rights reference system in order to accept at least one control command (MCa) from the second service (Svc2) or transmitting monitoring data (MSa) to the second service (Svc2) on behalf of the home automation device (D). The invention also relates to a control and monitoring method.
US11677748B2
The service layer may leverage the access network infrastructure so that applications on a device may bootstrap with a machine-to-machine server without requiring provisioning beyond what is already required by the access network.
US11677744B2
A user authentication system includes a main body device and an authentication device. The main body device has an authentication code transmission requesting unit, a verification unit, and an unlocking unit. The authentication code transmission requesting unit generates an authentication code transmission request including a first value, and transmits the authentication code transmission request to the authentication device. The authentication device generates an authentication code in response to the first value in the authentication code transmission request, and transmits the authentication code to the main body device. The verification unit determines that authentication is successful if the authentication code is received from the authentication device. When the verification unit determines that the authentication is successful, the unlocking unit enables a predetermined functionality.
US11677734B2
A computer-implemented system and method for pool-based identity authentication for service access without use of stored credentials is disclosed. The method in an example embodiment includes providing provisioning information for storage in a provisioning repository; receiving a service request from a service consumer, the service request including requestor identifying information; generating an authentication request to send to an authentication authority, the authentication request including requestor identifying information; receiving validation of an authenticated service request from the authentication authority; and providing the requested service to the service consumer.
US11677732B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to contextual authentication across different applications based on user communications. In some embodiments, a user is preauthenticated to certain actions on a second application based on the user's communication via a first application. The user's communication via a first application provides contextual information that may be used to preauthenticate a request to perform an action on the second application. Contextual information may include the user's communication itself, communications characteristics that are determined from the user's communications, or both. In some embodiments, the degree of preauthentication progressively increases or decreases with the degree of use on the first application; that is, the user is preauthenticated to greater or fewer portions of an authentication procedure, to perform greater or fewer actions, or to perform actions more or less critical to security, as additional information regarding the user's communication on the first application becomes available. In some embodiments, preauthentication may be revoked as additional contextual information becomes available on the first application.
US11677731B2
Systems and techniques for an adaptive authentication system are described herein. In an example, an adaptive authentication system is adapted to receive a request at a first entity from a second entity for secure data of a user, where the second entity is remote from the first entity. The adaptive authentication system may be further adapted to transmit a prompt to a user device associated with the user for authentication of the user and authentication of the request. The adaptive authentication system may be further adapted to receive a response to the prompt and authenticate the user and the request based on the response. The adaptive authentication system may be further adapted to transmit the secure data of the user to the second entity.
US11677712B2
A system for distributed domain name address resolution, including top-level domain name address resolution, and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the system, a blockchain stores distributed domain names with respective Internet Protocol address information. A smart contract, which defines shared logic to execute operations on the blockchain, runs on the blockchain. With respect to distributed domain names, the system may perform read operations to identify the Internet Protocol address information, create operations to create a new distributed domain name with respective Internet Protocol address information, delete operations to remove a distributed domain name, and update operations to update the mapping between a distributed domain name and the respective Internet Protocol address information.
US11677709B2
Methods and systems are enclosed herein for automatically managing email communication between a group of users and a group of target prospects. A sequence of outbound emails is automatically sent on behalf of a user to a prospect. Based upon the prospect's inbound replies (or lack thereof) the system will perform preconfigured actions, such as stopping automated communications and deferring to the user for manual action.
US11677691B2
In various embodiments, a mentor application automatically obtains assistance with software applications. The mentor application generates a computer-generated help request associated with a first user of a software application. Based on the computer-generated help request and a set of user contexts associated with a set of users, the mentor application computes match scores. Each match score predicts how suitable a particular user is for servicing the computer-generated help request. Based on the match scores, the mentor application transmits at least one help request notification to at least one user included in the set of users to determine a second user to service the computer-generated help request. The mentor application then establishes a computer connection between the first user and the second user through which an interactive help session between the first user and the second user is held.
US11677688B2
Apparatuses (e.g., systems and devices) and methods to view otherwise hidden connectivity of networking devices. An electronic device such as a network device connected to a variety of different devices, may be observed through a real-time image onto which information about the connectivity and/or connections may be display to show identity, connectivity state and other information associated with ports of the network device(s). These methods may be implemented on a mobile device used to capture images of the network device and present an overlay of virtual objects on the captured images to a user in real time. The virtual objects may dynamically move or change shape in real time depending on the movement of the mobile device. One or more filtering techniques may be used to stabilize the virtual objects with respect to the captured images.
US11677683B2
A system and method for managing bandwidth of an upstream communications channel in a communications system.
US11677681B1
Systems and methods for allocating computing resources within a distributed computing system are disclosed. Computing resources such as CPUs, GPUs, network cards, and memory are allocated to jobs submitted to the system by a scheduler. System configuration and interconnectivity information is gathered by a mapper and used to create a graph. Resource allocation is optimized based on one or more quality of service (QoS) levels determined for the job. Job performance characterization, affinity models, computer resource power consumption, and policies may also be used to optimize the allocation of computing resources.
US11677675B2
Path MTU determination in Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) tunnel is presented. A source network device transmits, to a destination network device that is a second endpoint of the GRE tunnel, multiple GRE encapsulated packets that include multiple inner packets respectively, where each inner packet has an inner header used to deliver that inner packet to the source network device and a different payload, and where each of these GRE encapsulated packets has a different size. The source network device receives a first portion of the inner packets from the destination network device and does not receive a second portion of the inner packets. The source network device determines a path MTU to the destination network device based on the size of the GRE encapsulated packet with a largest size for which a corresponding inner packet is received at the source network device from the destination network device.
US11677674B2
Method and computing devices for enforcing packet order based on packet marking. Upon occurrence of a link failure, a first device reallocates traffic initially forwarded through the failed link to an alternative link and marks the reallocated traffic with a first flag. Upon recovery of the failed link, the reallocated traffic is forwarded again through the recovered link and marked with a second flag different from the first flag. A second device calculates a reference inter-packet time for received traffic marked with the first flag. For received traffic marked with the second flag, the second device calculates a current inter-packet time. The current inter-packet time is compared with the reference inter-packet time, to determine if the traffic marked with the second flag shall be forwarded immediately or if the forwarding shall be delayed.
US11677673B1
A system for managing traffic between servers, the system may include first tier switches that are coupled to the servers; second tier switches that are coupled to the first tier switches and to third tier switches; and controllers. Wherein each first tier switch comprises first queues. Wherein each second tier switch comprises second queues. The controllers are configured to control a traffic between the first tier switches and the second tier switches attributed to the traffic between the servers, (a) on, at least, a queue granularity; (b) while controlling some first queues to provide buffer extension to some second queues, and (c) while controlling some second queues to provide buffer extension to some first queues.
US11677670B2
A method for determining a sending period of a packet in a deterministic network and an apparatus are disclosed. The method includes: receiving a first packet; determining a first period, where the first period is a sending period of the first packet; determining timestamp information of the first packet based on the first period, where the timestamp information is used to indicate a time difference between a first time and a second time, the first time is a time at which the first packet starts to be sent in the first period, and the second time is a start time of the first period; encapsulating the timestamp information into the first packet to obtain a second packet; and sending the second packet.
US11677665B2
A computer-implemented method and a transport manager system operate to reduce network congestion by detecting one or more data flows in a network, determining, using a candidate flow detection threshold, whether a data flow of the one or more data flows is a candidate flow, the candidate flow detection threshold being based on one or more characteristics of the one or more data flows, and in response to determining that the data flow is the candidate flow, managing the data flow. A consumption rate, a duration, a number of bytes communicated, a throughput, or aggregated characteristics of the one or more data flows may be used to determine the candidate flow detection threshold.
US11677658B2
Various example embodiments for supporting rerouting of packets in communication networks are presented. Various example embodiments for supporting rerouting of packets in communication networks may be configured to support rerouting of packets based on common node protection. Various example embodiments for supporting rerouting of packets based on common node protection may be configured to support rerouting of source routed packets in packet switched networks. Various example embodiments for supporting rerouting of packets based on common node protection may be configured to support rerouting of source routed packets based on segment routing (SR). Various example embodiments for supporting rerouting of packets based on common node protection may be configured to support rerouting of source routed packets based on SR-Traffic Engineering (SR-TE). Various example embodiments for supporting rerouting of packets based on common node protection may be configured to support fast rerouting (FRR) of source routed packets based on SR-TE.
US11677652B2
A port adaptation method applied to a network device including a port adaptation apparatus includes probing whether the first port and the second port are connected to power sourcing equipment, and maintaining or switching one of the first port and the second port that is connected to power sourcing equipment as, or to, a powered state, and a state of the other port as, or to, a powering state.
US11677644B2
A device may receive information associated with a service chain to be implemented in association with a flow. The information associated with the service chain may include a source network address associated with the flow, a destination network address associated with the flow, a set of protocols associated with the flow, and a set of network services, of the service chain, to be implemented in association with the flow. The device may implement the service chain in association with the flow. The device may receive network traffic information associated with the flow based on implementing the service chain in association with the flow. The device may modify the service chain based on the network traffic information associated with the flow to permit a modified service chain to be implemented in association with the flow.
US11677630B2
Techniques are described for managing devices using multiple virtual personal area networks (VPANs). A border router can receive a first request to join a network from a first device. The first device may be assigned to a first virtual personal area network (VPAN), which has an associated first group temporal key (GTK). The first GTK can be distributed to the first virtual device. The border router can also receive a second request to join a network from a second device. The second device may be assigned to a second VPAN, which has an associated second GTK. The second GTK can be distributed to the second virtual device.
US11677628B2
Topology discovery between compute nodes and interconnect switches including creating, on an interconnect switch, a virtual topology discovery device for a first port, wherein the interconnect switch is coupled to a compute node via the first port, and wherein the virtual topology discovery device comprises a port identifier for the first port; mapping the virtual topology discovery device to the first port; receiving an inventory request from the compute node via the first port; routing the inventory request to the virtual topology discovery device for the first port; and sending, from the virtual topology discovery device for the first port, the port identifier to the compute node.
US11677625B2
A framework for joint computation, caching, and request forwarding in data-centric computing-based networks comprises a virtual control plane, which operates on request counters for computations and data, and an actual plane, which handles computation requests, data requests, data objects and computation results in the physical network. A throughput optimal policy, implemented in the virtual plane, provides a basis for adaptive and distributed computation, caching, and request forwarding in the actual plane. The framework provides superior performance in terms of request satisfaction delay as compared with several baseline policies over multiple network topologies.
US11677621B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a data center monitoring and management operation. The data center monitoring and management operation includes: identifying a plurality of assets within a data center; monitoring usage of the plurality of assets within the data center; generating data center asset profile data based upon the monitoring; identifying a plurality of asset configurations related to the asset profile data; ranking the plurality of asset configurations based upon the data center asset profile data; and, generating a recommended asset configuration recommendation based upon the ranking.
US11677616B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method use of a controller with a software application container orchestration system, which is adapted to provide safe and efficient replacement of nodes in a containerized environment. A node replacement controller drives the process of node replacement, and indirectly and asynchronously interacts, through metadata, with an implementation-specific node processor, and application-specific health controller, to discover nodes that should be processed, determine when the application workload is in a stable state, declare those nodes as ready to be processed, and determine when those nodes have finished processing. The node replacement controller can be implemented once for a given type of container orchestration system, and then applied to other container orchestration implementations (vendors) and workload types using that container orchestration system.
US11677614B2
A method, apparatus and system for providing stateful service function paths with redundancy are provided. Multiple instances of a service function path are included, each with at least one instance of a stateful service function. The redundant stateful service functions transmit messages between one another to so that the current state is synchronized. Upon failure of a service function in a first instance of the service function path, packets are redirected to a backup associated with the failed service function located in another instance of the service function path. Once processed by the backup service function, the redirected packets may be routed back to the first instance of the service function path.
US11677610B2
A bidirectional out-of-band management (OOBM) dongle comprises a serial port for receiving console traffic from a console port of a managed switch and an Ethernet port for receiving management port traffic from a management port of the managed switch. In operation, the OOBM dongle multiplexes, via an optional adapter, the console traffic and the management port traffic and generates Ethernet traffic that is then communicated, via an OOBM port on the dongle, to an OOBM switch port of an OOBM switch that acts as a power sourcing device for the OOBM dongle.
US11677609B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a non-linearity model associated with one or more downlink communications. The UE may receive the one or more downlink communications based at least in part on the non-linearity model. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11677605B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for generating and decoding orthogonal frequency division (OFDM) waveforms with peak reduction tones (PRTs) designed to reduce PAPR. By generating PRT tones with a machine learning (e.g., neural network) based encoder and mapping some of the PRT tones to subcarriers used for physical channels or signals, PAPR may be reduced while efficiently using system resources.
US11677604B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems for reducing Peak Average Power Ratio (PAPR) in signal transmissions are described. In one example aspect, a wireless communication method includes determining, for an input sequence, an output sequence corresponding to an output of a convolutional modulation between a plurality of values and an intermediate sequence. The intermediate sequence is generated by inserting a set of coefficients between coefficients of the input sequence. Each non-zero coefficient of the set of coefficients is inserted between a first adjacent coefficient and a second adjacent coefficient. Each non-zero coefficient has a power that is between a first power of the first adjacent coefficient and a second power of the second adjacent coefficient and a phase value between a first phase value of the first adjacent coefficient and a second phase value of the second adjacent coefficient. The method also includes generating a waveform using the output sequence.
US11677595B2
A physical layer transceiver, for connecting a host device to a wireline channel medium that is divided into a total number of link segments, includes a host interface for coupling to a host device, a line interface for coupling to the wireline channel medium, and feed-forward equalization (FFE) circuitry operatively coupled to the line interface to add back, into a signal, components that were scattered in time. Respective individual filter segments are selectably configurable, by adjustment of respective delay lines, to correspond to respective individual link segments. The FFE circuitry also includes control circuitry configured to detect a signal energy peak in at least one particular link segment and, upon detection of the signal energy peak in the particular link segment, configure a respective one of the respective individual filter segments, by adjustment of a respective delay line, to correspond to the respective particular link segment.
US11677593B1
Various embodiments provide for a data sampler with built-in decision feedback equalization (DFE) and offset cancellation. For some embodiments, two or more data samplers described herein can be used to implement a data signal receiver circuit, which can use those two or more data samplers to facilitate half-rate or quarter-rate data sampling.
US11677576B2
Systems and methods for establishing relationships between building automation system components and controlling building automation system components. Data for a building automation system components may be received from the building automation system components and one or more models may be applied to the received data to determine types of the building automation system components and relationships between building automation system components. Once the types of building automation system components have been determined or identified, uniform names may be applied to the building automation system components. The received data may include, among other data, naming data and telemetry data from the building automation system components.
US11677574B1
One example method of operation may include identifying one or more errors of a code set executing at a test site, initiating a conference session with one or more devices assigned to manage the test site, receiving one or more modified portions of the code set from the one or more devices, executing the one or more modified portions of the code set to initiate a communication to the test site, and when the modified portions of the code set are free from errors, cancelling the conference session.
US11677573B2
A contactless PoE connection system and a contactless PoE connector for use in the connection system, in which the contactless PoE connector has a first contactless interface configured for bidirectional data transfer, a second contactless interface configured for unidirectional power transfer, and a third interface to which a first Ethernet line can be connected. The third interface is configured to receive data and power, which are to be transferred jointly via the Ethernet line. Furthermore, a data and power splitting device are connected to the first, second, and third interfaces, which splitting device is configured for splitting power and data as applied to the third interface and for selectively supplying data to the first contactless interface and for selectively supplying power to the second contactless interface.
US11677567B2
A computing device may receive a file previously uploaded by another device, and may validate the received file using data including a first value encrypted based on a document (e.g., a digital certificate or identification certificate) of the uploading device. The computing device may determine the validity of the certificate based on a certificate of a remote computing device to which the file was uploaded, and may decrypt the first value using a key of the certificate of the uploading device. The computing device may determine a second value for the received file and may determine validity of the received file based on a match of the first value and the second value.
US11677563B2
Distributed ledger-based networks (DLNs) employ self-executing codes, also known as smart contracts, to manage interactions occurring on the networks, which may result in the generation of a massive amount of DLN state data representing the interactions and participants thereof. The instant disclosure discloses systems, apparatus and methods that allow interactions to occur on the DLNs without modification to stored data, thereby improving the storage capabilities of the networks.
US11677560B2
Disclosed are methods for utilizing a memory device as a security token. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request to perform an operation; transmitting a nonce to a memory device; receiving a second nonce from the memory device, the second nonce encrypted using a private key of the memory device; verifying the second nonce using a public key of the device, held by the host system; and executing the operation upon successfully verifying the second nonce.
US11677551B2
One example method includes receiving clear text data at a storage system, generating, at the storage system, a clear text data encryption key, requesting a key management system to encrypt the clear text data encryption key with a master key to create an encrypted data encryption key, and the requesting is performed by the storage system, receiving, at the storage system, the encrypted data encryption key from the key management system, encrypting, at the storage system, the clear text data with the clear text data encryption key to create encrypted data, and storing, together, the encrypted data and the encrypted data encryption key.
US11677548B2
A system is provided for distribution of device key sets over a network in a protected software environment (PSE). In the system, a client device includes a connection interface for receiving a crypto hardware (CH) token belonging to a user, untrusted software, a quoting enclave, and a PSE for generating a provisioning request for a device key set. An attestation proxy server (APS) receives the provisioning message using a first network connection, and transmits the provisioning message to an online provisioning server (OPS) using a second network connection. The OPS constructs a provisioning response and an encrypted device key set, and delivers the provisioning response to the untrusted software using the first and second network connections. The PSE decrypts the encrypted device key set to obtain the device key set, re-encrypts the device key set with a local chip-specific key, and stores the re-encrypted device key set.
US11677535B2
This document describes systems and techniques directed at concurrent communication in multiple time-division duplex (TDD) bands. As new industry standards (e.g., the Fifth Generation New Radio (5G NR) standard) are being implemented, more TDD bands are becoming available for wireless communications. Generally, manufacturers will add additional antenna systems for each TDD band, but this method may become costly and need extra space, which is already limited, within the user device In various aspects, the concurrent communication system includes a radio frequency (RF) modem module configured to operate on multiple TDD bands, which may include bands that are located near each other on the RF spectrum. The concurrent communication system further includes transceiver circuitry with at least one transmission chain and at least four reception chains. The architecture of this system offers an efficient and inexpensive way to communicate on at least two TDD bands concurrently with reduced hardware cost.
US11677532B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for configuring bandwidth parts. One method includes: receiving a first bandwidth part configuration for a first downlink bandwidth part and a second bandwidth part configuration for a second downlink bandwidth part; receiving an indication to receive downlink signals and channels in the first downlink bandwidth part; identifying a control resource set and a corresponding search space for a type of physical downlink control channel common search space within a bandwidth of the first downlink bandwidth part from the second bandwidth part configuration; monitoring physical downlink control channel candidates on the control resource set; and receiving a physical downlink control channel on the control resource set, wherein the physical downlink control channel includes downlink control information associated with the type of physical downlink control channel common search space.
US11677531B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some examples, a wireless communications system may support group channel quality indicator (CQI) reporting. For example, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, signaling indicating a group of component carriers (CCs) and one or more subbands within the group of CCs. The UE may receive one or more reference signals within the one or more subbands and determine a group CQI index corresponding to the group of CCs based at least in part on the one or more reference signals. The UE may then transmit a report to the base station indicating the group CQI index and the base station may determine a CQI index for each of the one or more subbands based on the group CQI index.
US11677523B2
The present disclosure discloses an information feedback method, an apparatus and a storage medium. The method includes: receiving, by a first terminal, N groups of reference signals sent by a second terminal, N being a positive integer, where transmission resources of the reference signals of different groups are in a pattern of time division; selecting, by the first terminal, a target reference signal based on the received N groups of reference signals; and sending, by the first terminal, index information of the target reference signal to the second terminal, where the index information is carried in a feedback channel.
US11677519B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to sidelink communications in a shared radio frequency band are provided. A first user equipment (UE) receives, from a base station (BS), a configuration for frequency-interlaced resources in a shared radio frequency band for sidelink communication between the first UE and a second UE. The first UE communicates, with the second UE, the sidelink communication using the frequency-interlaced resources.
US11677518B2
A receiver is configured to detect a plurality of signals on a plurality of subbands over a communication channel that operates on a shared or an unlicensed spectrum. Additionally, the receiver is configured to perform joint correlation over a time domain and a frequency domain of each successive signal of the plurality of signals. Moreover, the receiver is configured to determine a sequence based on the joint correlation. Additionally, the receiver is configured to decode transmission information from the sequence.
US11677517B2
A communication method of the present disclosure comprises transmitting a sounding frame comprising a training signal; and receiving a first feedback frame from a communication partner device, the first feedback frame comprising first beamforming feedback information, wherein the first feedback frame is transmitted together with at least one second feedback frame by multiuser transmission.
US11677515B2
A communication device (101) transmits data by switching types of data to be transmitted by a unit of a time slot. A data transmission unit (6) transmits transmission data during a time slot corresponding to a type of the transmission data. Further, the data transmission unit (6) decides a retransmission time for performing a retransmission of the transmission data based on a time when a transmission of the transmission data has been completed.
US11677502B2
A transmitter for transmitting data to communications devices via a wireless access. The transmitter including modulator circuitry configured to receive modulation symbols of a segment and to rotate each modulation symbol by an angle dependent on a choice of modulation scheme, and receive each of the segments of rotated modulation symbols and for each segment to separate real and imaginary components of the rotated modulation symbols for the segment and to interleave the real components of the rotated modulation symbols of the segment differently to the imaginary components of the rotated modulation symbols of the segment. The circuitry also is configured to recombine the real and imaginary interleaved components of the rotated modulation symbols of each segment and to form from the real and imaginary components modulation cells.
US11677493B2
A communication system for providing predictive adaptive coding and modulation (ACM) during transmission between terminals is provided. One or more receiving terminals are adapted for detecting changes in a transmission rate and automatically adapting its demodulation to the changes. A transmitting terminal is adapted for transmitting data to the one or more receiving terminals using predictive ACM by selecting channel parameters from a lookup table without receiving channel parameters over a return link from the one or more receiving terminals. The channel parameters may be at least one of a channel symbol rate, a code type, and a frequency.
US11677486B2
A network device may receive a timing control packet from a first client device. The network device may determine that the network device is in a synchronized state relative to a network grandmaster clock. The network device may modify a first field of a header of the timing control packet to indicate that the network device is in a synchronized state. The network device may modify a second field of the header of the timing control packet to indicate a time at which the network device received the timing control packet from the first client device. The network device may forward, via the network, the timing control packet toward a second client device.
US11677485B2
In certain aspects, the present disclosure is related to devices, methods, systems and/or computer-readable media for use in an isochronous media network in which media devices connected to a network employ one or more synchronization signal to regulate or facilitate the transmission of media signals through the network. In certain aspects, the present disclosure is also related to devices, methods, systems and/or computer-readable media for use in a larger unified, or substantially unified, isochronous network created from aggregating local isochronous media networks in which media devices connected to a network employ a one or more synchronisation signal distributed from a local master clock to regulate or facilitate the transmission of media signals.
US11677483B2
A method and an apparatus for receiving broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, the apparatus comprises a receiver to receive the broadcast signals, a demodulator to demodulate the received broadcast signals by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) scheme, a frame parser to parse a signal frame from the demodulated broadcast signals, wherein the signal frame includes service data corresponding to each of a plurality of physical paths, a time deinterleaver to time deinterleave service data in each physical path by a TI (Time Interleaving) block, wherein the time deinterleaver further performs inserting at least one virtual FEC block into at least one TI block of the service data, wherein each TI block includes a variable number of FEC blocks of the service data, wherein a number of the at least one virtual FEC block is defined based on a maximum number of FEC blocks of a TI block and a decoder to decode the time deinterleaved service data.
US11677473B2
Hybrid wire-fiber data networks that include wire-fiber transceivers protected against environmental interferences. In some embodiments, a hybrid-wire-fiber data network of this disclosure provides a fiber-optic link between portions of one or more wired networks. In some embodiments, a hybrid wire-fiber data network of this disclosure includes a fiber-optic link that relies only on message-priority arbitration performed on wired portions of one or more wired networks. In some embodiments, a wire-fiber transceiver of this disclosure includes electromagnetic environment (EME) protective circuitry for one or both of input power and input signals. In some embodiments, a wire-fiber transceiver of this disclosure is configured for use with a controlled area network media-access protocol (CAN) and/or a derivative of CAN. Various data communication and other methods are also disclosed in addition to hybrid wire-fiber data networks and components thereof.
US11677459B2
An enhanced L-band Digital Aeronautical Communications System (LDACS) may include LDACS ground stations, and LDACS airborne stations configured to communicate with the LDACS ground stations. The enhanced LDACS may also include a Cloud-based network controller configured to allocate LDACS resources to the LDACS ground stations and the LDACS airborne stations based upon a number of LDACS airborne stations, respective flight paths of each LDACS airborne station, a respective type of each LDACS airborne station, and historical data on communication use for each LDACS airborne station.
US11677458B2
Methods and apparatuses for controlling radio resources of radio units in air-to-ground mobile communications systems that include at least an aircraft carrying a transceiver station and a ground basestation, apt to communicate with each other. The radio units are provided with beamforming and/or massive MEM antenna systems, and are controlled by the apparatuses using control data. The apparatuses are configured to receive flight data related to the aircraft, estimate a timed trajectory and a required data rate, as a function of the flight data. Then the apparatuses determine a sequence of control data for said antenna systems to form radio beams and/or connectivity spots directed towards said transceiver station, respectively to the ground basestation, while the allocated data rate is at least equal to the required data rate. The sequence of control data is then provided to respective antenna systems.
US11677454B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure relate to beam management procedures in wireless communications systems. Some implementations of the present disclosure more specifically provide techniques for reporting measurements for proposed beams (such as beams predicted to be the best beams for communications to and from a UE and a network entity) and other beams detected by the UE. The techniques may be used, for example, to identify mismatches between a proposed set of beams and actual best beams for communications to and from a UE and a network entity and allow for the retraining of machine learning models used to identify the proposed set of beams for communications to and from a UE and a network entity.
US11677450B2
A system, in a programmable active reflector (AR) device associated with a first radio frequency (RF) device and a second RF device, receives a request and associated metadata from the second RF device via a first antenna array. Based on the received request and associated metadata, one or more antenna control signals are received from the first RF device. The programmable AR device is dynamically selected and controlled by the first RF device based on a set of criteria. A controlled plurality of RF signals is transmitted, via a second antenna array, to the second RF device within a transmission range of the programmable AR device based on the associated metadata. The controlled plurality of RF signals are cancelled at the second RF device based on the associated metadata.
US11677445B2
An electronic apparatus includes transmitter circuitry configured to transmit a first association request frame to a first electronic apparatus; and receiver circuitry configured to receive a first association response frame corresponding to the first association request frame from the first electronic apparatus, and to receive a second association request frame from the first electronic apparatus.
US11677441B2
A power line communication system (200) comprising a first node (202) and a second node (204). The first node (202) comprises a second-node-connection-terminal (206); a first-node-transmission-module (208) that provides a first-node-output-signal (210) to the second-node-connection-terminal (206); and modulates the voltage level of the first-node-output-signal based on first-node-transmission-data. The second node (204) comprises a second-node-input-voltage-terminal (214) that is connected to the second-node-connection-terminal (206) of the first node (202) in order to receive the first-node-output-voltage-signal (210). The second node (204) is configured to use the first-node-output-voltage-signal (218) as a supply voltage. The second node (204) also includes a second-node-transmission-module (216) that: provides a second-node-current-signal (218) to the second-node-input-voltage-terminal (214) for transmission to the second-node-connection-terminal (206) of the first node (202); and modulates the current level of the second-node-current-signal (218) based on second-node-transmission-data. The second node (204) also includes a second-node-reception-module (222) that is configured to process the voltage level of the received first-node-output-signal (210) in order to demodulate the first-node-transmission-data. The first node (202) further comprises a first-node-reception-module (226) that processes the current level of the second-node-current-signal (218) received from the second node (204) at the second-node-connection-terminal (206) in order to demodulate the second-node-transmission-data.
US11677440B2
Method and system are provided for power path identification in a power distribution system. The method transmits a data signal through a power line infrastructure including adding an identifier value at multiple points of the infrastructure to the data signal to form a concatenated path identifier formed of the identifier values. The method reads the path identifier at a reading point of the infrastructure to obtain power path information to or from the reading point in the power line infrastructure. A system may include a plurality of path identification devices each provided at a connection point of the power distribution system to transmit connection point identifiers to form a concatenated path identifier with identifier values of other connection points.
US11677424B1
A method, system, and apparatus for applying dithering to waveforms in a transmitter such as a Bluetooth transmitter. A current waveform corresponding to a current bit of a bitstream is received where the current waveform has a nominal frequency deviation defined by a value of the current bit. Based on the determination that the current waveform and an immediately previous bit of the bitstream are associated with different bit values, a first dithered signal is output which is defined by a first frequency offset pseudorandomly selected from a first set of frequency offsets. A subsequent waveform to the current waveform is received corresponding to a subsequent bit of the bitstream. Based on the subsequent bit and the current bit being associated with bits of the same value, a second dithered signal is output which is defined by a second frequency offset pseudorandomly selected from a second set of frequency offsets.
US11677421B2
A bit interleaver, a bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) device and a bit interleaving method are disclosed herein. The bit interleaver includes a first memory, a processor, and a second memory. The first memory stores a low-density parity check (LDPC) codeword having a length of 64800 and a code rate of 7/15. The processor generates an interleaved codeword by interleaving the LDPC codeword on a bit group basis. The size of the bit group corresponds to a parallel factor of the LDPC codeword. The second memory provides the interleaved codeword to a modulator for quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) modulation.
US11677405B2
A plurality of Phase Locked Loops, PLL (12, 14), are distributed across an Integrated Circuit, each receiving a common reference signal (A). A local phase error (B) of each PLL (12, 14) is connected to a phase error averaging circuit (16), which calculates an average phase error (C), and distributes it back to each PLL (12, 14). In each PLL (12, 14), two loop filters (20, 22) with different bandwidths are deployed. A lower bandwidth, high DC gain, common mode loop operates on the average phase error, and forces the PLL outputs (H) to track the phase of the common reference signal. A high bandwidth, difference mode loop operates on the difference between the local phase error (B) and the average phase error (C) to suppress phase differences between PLL outputs, minimizing interaction between them. The reference noise contribution at the output is controlled by the common mode loop, which can have a low bandwidth. The reference noise contribution and oscillator interaction suppression are thus independently controlled.
US11677396B2
Hybrid power switching stages and driver circuits are disclosed. An example semiconductor power switching device comprises a high-side switch and a low-side switch connected in a half-bridge configuration, wherein the high-side switch comprises a GaN power transistor and the low-side switch comprises a Si MOSFET. The Si—GaN hybrid switching stage provides enhanced performance, e.g. reduced switching losses, in a cost-effective solution which takes advantage of characteristics of power switching devices comprising both GaN power transistors and Si MOSFETs. Also disclosed is a gate driver for the Si—GaN hybrid switching stage, and a semiconductor power switching stage comprising the gate driver and a Si—GaN hybrid power switching device having a half-bridge or full-bridge switching topology.
US11677373B2
The present invention includes a method of making a RF impedance matching device in a photo definable glass ceramic substrate. A ground plane may be used to adjacent to or below the RF Transmission Line in order to prevent parasitic electronic signals, RF signals, differential voltage build up and floating grounds from disrupting and degrading the performance of isolated electronic devices by the fabrication of electrical isolation and ground plane structures on a photo-definable glass substrate.
US11677367B2
A power amplifier circuit includes a power splitter, a first amplifier configured to output a first amplified signal from a first output terminal, and a second amplifier configured to output a second amplified signal from a second output terminal. The power amplifier circuit further includes a first termination circuit connected between the first output terminal and the second output terminal, a first transmission line, a second transmission line, a second termination circuit connected between another end of the first transmission line and another end of the second transmission line, and a power combiner.
US11677362B2
RF transistor amplifiers are provided that include a submount and an RF transistor amplifier die that is mounted on top of the submount. A multi-layer encapsulation is formed that at least partially covers the RF transistor amplifier die. The multi-layer encapsulation includes a first dielectric layer and a first conductive layer, where the first dielectric layer is between a top surface of the RF transistor amplifier die and the first conductive layer.
US11677354B2
Circuits and processes for locking a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) at a high frequency signal are described. A circuit may include an adjustable current converter (ACC), coupled at an input terminal to a power source, operable to output a control signal (VC) at an output terminal. A first switch may be coupled to the ACC and to the VCO. The VCO, when in an “ON” state, receives the control signal and outputs a high frequency signal (VHF). A digital filter may be coupled to the VCO and operable to receive the VHF. Based on the VHF, the digital filter generates a data signal having a data value. The circuit may also include a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) operable to receive the data signal and, based on the data value, output an adjustment signal to the ACC. The ACC may adjust the control signal based on the adjustment signal received from the DAC.
US11677338B2
A circuit for generating electrical energy is disclosed. The circuit uses a pulse generator in combination with a conductor. Waste heat can be converted to usable energy due to a cooling effect of the circuit on the conductor. A resultant energy applied to a load is larger than the energy supplied by the pulse generator due to the absorption of external energy by the conductor.
US11677334B2
The present invention discloses a modular intelligent combined wind power converter and a control method thereof. The modular intelligent combined wind power converter comprises separate bridge arm power units, wherein a plurality of the bridge arm power units are connected in parallel to form a high-capacity bridge arm power module, three bridge arm power modules form a three-phase full-controlled bridge power module, and the three-phase full-controlled bridge power module comprises an electric reactor, a capacitor, a fuse and a circuit breaker to form a basic converter module, and the basic converter module forms a high-capacity wind power converter through a modular intelligent combination method.
US11677311B2
In a method for operating a controllable converter with an intermediate circuit capacitor, the control behavior can be improved by transmitting, depending on an intermediate circuit voltage applied to the intermediate circuit capacitor, an additional power component via the controllable converter such that the electric current that is generated by the controllable converter for the additional power component counteracts an oscillation of the intermediate circuit voltage. The additional power component is transmitted by the controllable converter to a connected motor as a pulsating additional torque. Also described is a controllable converter with a control unit for carrying out a method, wherein the controllable converter has semiconductors that can be switched off, and an intermediate circuit capacitor designed as a film-type capacitor.
US11677310B2
A power converting apparatus includes a diode bridge that converts first AC power supplied from a power supply into DC power, a main circuit capacitor that smooths the DC power, one or more capacitors that reduces a noise component included in the first AC power, and a path switch. The path switch switches a charging path for the main circuit capacitor so that current output from the AC power supply flows into the main circuit capacitor via the capacitor(s) from when supply of the first AC power starts until a voltage of the main circuit capacitor reaches a predetermined voltage, and that the current output from the AC power supply flows into the main circuit capacitor without bypassing the capacitor(s) after the voltage of the main circuit capacitor reaches the predetermined voltage.
US11677294B2
A power unit structure for a vehicle includes a motor disposed in a power unit room of the vehicle and configured to transmit a driving force to drive wheels of the vehicle, an electric power converter disposed in the power unit room of the vehicle, and an electric power distributor disposed in the power unit room of the vehicle. The electric power converter is configured to convert supplied electric power into electric power to be supplied to the motor and is disposed on an upper side of the motor. The electric power distributor is configured to distribute electric power supplied from a power supply to the electric power converter and is disposed at a position where at least a part of the electric power distributor overlaps the electric power converter in an up-down direction of the vehicle when viewed from a vehicle front-rear direction or a vehicle width direction.
US11677293B2
An internal combustion engine to electric motor conversion system for a work machine is provided. The electric motor conversion system is sized to substantially conform to a footprint of the internal combustion engine on the work machine. The electric motor conversion system includes an electric motor, a power distribution unit and a connecting bracket. The electric motor is configured for direct mounting on a frame of the work machine. The power distribution unit is separate from and positioned atop the electric motor. The power distribution unit controls operation of the electric motor. The connecting bracket is separate from the electric motor and power distribution unit. The connecting bracket includes a base, first attachment elements extending from a lower surface of the base for attachment to the electric motor, and second attachment elements extending from an upper surface of the base for attachment to the power distribution unit.
US11677292B2
Systems are provided for an electric motor housing. In one example, a system comprising a phase connection enclosure comprising a bus bar assembly sealed between a motor lead and a plurality of phase cable connections. The phase connection enclosure is integrally arranged within a cooling jacket of the electric motor housing.
US11677276B2
There are provided a method and a device for feeding electric power to a vehicle, etc. installed with a solar photovoltaic power generation panel employing a multi-junction solar cell in a non-contact manner by irradiating light to the solar photovoltaic power generation panel. In the method, light containing a wavelength component absorbed by each of all solar cell layers laminated in a multi-junction solar cell of the vehicle, etc. is projected from a light-projecting device to the light receiving surface of the multi-junction solar cell; and electric power generated by the irradiation of light from the multi-junction solar cell is taken out. The device includes structures for emitting light containing a wavelength component absorbed by each solar cell layer laminated in the multi-junction solar cell, and for irradiating the light to a light receiving surface of the multi-junction solar cell.
US11677269B2
Hybrid energy harvesting devices that harvest vibrational energy over a broad frequency spectrum using several different energy harvesting mechanisms that are operable over different frequency ranges. In one embodiment, a device uses an inductive current generator to convert vibrational energy at lower frequencies to electrical energy, and also uses one or more piezoelectric charge generators to convert vibrational energy at higher frequencies to electrical energy. The electrical energy produced by these different mechanisms is provided to a controller which processes the input energy and generates an output which is applied to an energy store such as a battery. The energy stored in the battery can then be drawn by a wireless sensor or other device. The energy harvesting device may have the same form factor as a conventional battery to allow installation in battery-powered equipment without modification.
US11677268B2
An intelligent electronic device (IED) includes memory and a processor operatively coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to establish, over a communication network of a power system, a connection association (CA) with a receiving device using a MACsec Key Agreement (MKA). The processor is configured to automatically send an announce message indicating a set of enabled application protocols on the IED to the receiving device.
US11677259B2
Various embodiments described herein use a set of capacitor sets (e.g., capacitor banks) in a power backup architecture for a memory sub-system, where each capacitor set can be individually checked for a health condition (e.g., in parallel) to determine their respective health after the memory sub-system has completed a boot process. In response to determining that at least one capacitor set has failed the health condition (or a certain number of capacitor sets have failed the health condition), the memory sub-system can perform certain operations prior to primary power loss to the memory sub-system (e.g., preemptively performs a data backup process to ensure data integrity) and can adjust the operational mode of the memory sub-system (e.g., switch it from read-write mode to read-only mode).
US11677255B1
A wireless power transmitter can include a coil, an inverter coupled to the coil, and control circuitry coupled to the inverter that, responsive to receiving a burst request pulse from a wireless power receiver, initiates inverter operation, driving the coil and powering the receiver. The control circuitry can operate inverter switches so bandwidth of the wireless power transfer signal falls within a specified range by: (a) extending a minimum on time of the switches, (b) modifying pulse width modulation (PWM) drive signals supplied to the switches to shape a coil current burst envelope, and/or (c) modifying PWM signal amplitude supplied to the switches. Modifying the PWM drive signals can include using a symmetrical PWM scheme in which the positive and negative pulses are symmetrical in width on a cycle-by-cycle basis or using a complementary PWM scheme in which the positive and negative pulse widths are complementary on a cycle-by-cycle basis.
US11677253B2
A monitoring device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information regarding whether a learning model is in a first mode or in a second mode, the learning model configured to detect a state of an energy storage device; and a change unit configured to change an operation of a balancer circuit from a predetermined state in a case where the learning model is in the first mode, the balancer circuit configured to balance a voltage of the energy storage device.
US11677247B2
A method for regulating a decentralized energy generating system with a plurality of inverters (IN) is disclosed. The method includes receiving at the PPC a detected active power, reactive power and voltage amplitude at a grid connection point (PCC) of the energy generating system; and regulating, in a normal operating mode of the energy generating system, the reactive power and the active power to target values stipulated by a grid operator by virtue of the central control unit (PPC) dividing the stipulated target values into individual target stipulations for the plurality of inverters (IN) and communicating individual target stipulations to the inverters (IN). The method further includes selectively changing to a special operating mode of the energy generating system if particular criteria are present at the grid connection point (PCC) in a stipulated time interval. In the special operating mode, the central control unit (PPC) effects a reduction of the active power provided at the grid connection point (PCC) compared to the stipulated target values.
US11677246B2
A power management method comprises a step A of specifying a charging power supply used for charging of a storage battery apparatus, a step B of monitoring a storage capacity of the storage battery apparatus, and a step C of limiting, until the storage capacity becomes a predetermined threshold or less, the charging of the storage battery apparatus which uses a second charging power supply different from a first charging power supply when the charging power supply is the first charging power supply.
US11677243B2
A method for operating an appliance on a power grid operated by a utility is described. The method includes receiving, at a server associated with the utility, information indicating whether a person is present in a proximity of the appliance, determining, by the server, an operational state of the appliance based on whether the person is present in the proximity of the appliance, and transmitting to the appliance, via a communication link associated with the power grid, control information related to the operational state to control operation of the appliance. Related methods, devices and systems are described.
US11677237B2
A gate driver integrated circuit includes a high-side region that operates in a first voltage domain according to a first pair of supply terminals that include a first lower supply terminal and a first higher supply terminal; a low-side region that operates in a second voltage domain according to a second pair of supply terminals; at least one termination region that electrically isolates the high-side region from the low-side region; a first electrostatic device arranged in the high-side region and connected to the first pair of supply terminals; a second electrostatic device arranged in the low-side region and connected to the second pair of supply terminals; and a third electrostatic device connected to a lower supply terminal of the first pair of supply terminals and is coupled in series with the first electrostatic device.
US11677236B2
A device for discharging a capacitor includes a resistive component having a resistance value selectable from among at least three resistance values. The device is configured to be connected in parallel with the capacitor. A circuit operates to select the resistance value of the resistive component.
US11677235B2
A device, system and method protects from overvoltages. A power control device includes a component (310) configured to be powered according to a duty cycle. The power control device includes a controller (330) configured to determine the duty cycle that places the component on or off. The power control device includes a comparator (335) configured to determine when the duty cycle is off and an overvoltage is being experienced by the component. When the duty cycle is off and the overvoltage is being experienced by the component, the comparator selects a circuit pathway (345, 350) including a clamping device (350).
US11677232B2
A circuit protection system is provided herein that minimizes the disconnection time of a circuit while protecting other electrical components. Some configurations comprise a set of parallel circuit interruption devices, each connected in series with respective fuses. A control device sets a state of the circuit interruption device based on a current of the circuit. Under certain current loads, the circuit is interrupted without causing a fuse to blow. Under other current loads, the circuit is interrupted by having one or more fuses blow.
US11677230B2
An apparatus includes a magnetometer-based current sensor (e.g., a Hall-effect or fluxgate-based current sensor) configured to sense a magnetic field generated by a current in at least one conductor connecting a motor drive output to a motor and to responsively produce a first current sense signal and a magnetometer-based voltage sensor (e.g., a Hall-effect or fluxgate-based voltage sensor) configured to sense a magnetic field generated in response to a voltage of the at least one conductor and to responsively produce a first voltage sense signal. The apparatus further includes a signal conversion circuit configured to receive the first current sense signal and the first voltage sense signal and to generate a second current sense input and a second voltage sense input for provision to a current sense input and a voltage sense input, respectively, of a motor protection relay that protects the motor.
US11677215B2
Structures for response shaping in frequency and time domain, include an optical response shaper and/or a modulator device with multiple injection. The device comprises a resonator having an enclosed geometric structure, for example a ring or racetrack structure, at least two injecting optical waveguides approaching the resonator to define at least two coupling regions between the resonator and the injecting waveguides, and may define at least two Free Spectral Range states. One or both of the coupling regions has a coupling coefficient selected for a predetermined frequency or time response, and the coupling coefficient or other device parameters may be variable, in some case in real time to render the response programmably variable.
US11677214B2
The present disclosure relates to a diode laser having reduced beam divergence. Some implementations reduce a beam divergence in the far field by means of a deliberate modulation of the real refractive index of the diode laser. An area of the diode laser (e.g., the injection zone), may be structured with different materials having different refractive indices. In some implementations, the modulation of the refractive index makes it possible to excite a supermode, the field of which has the same phase (in-phase mode) under the contacts. Light, which propagates under the areas of a lower refractive index, obtains a phase shift of π after passing through the index-guiding trenches. Consequently, the in-phase mode is supported and the formation of the out-of-phase mode is prevented. Consequently, the laser field can, in this way, be stabilized even at high powers such that only a central beam lobe remains in the far field.
US11677213B1
A monolithically integrated optical device. The device has a gallium and nitrogen containing substrate member having a surface region configured on either a non-polar or semi-polar orientation. The device also has a first waveguide structure configured in a first direction overlying a first portion of the surface region. The device also has a second waveguide structure integrally configured with the first waveguide structure. The first direction is substantially perpendicular to the second direction.
US11677210B2
A semiconductor laser module that includes a package accommodating therein a plurality of optical components, includes: a semiconductor laser device that emits laser light toward one end side in the package; an optical fiber having an incident end of the laser light on another end side in the package, the another end being in an opposite direction of an emission direction in which the semiconductor laser device emits the laser light; and a turn-back unit that turns back the laser light toward the another end side in the package, the another end being in the opposite direction of the emission direction in which the semiconductor laser device emits the laser light, and outputs the laser light to the incident end of the optical fiber.
US11677208B2
An optical amplification device includes a first Raman amplifier outputs a first excitation light to a transmission line in a same direction as a signal light, and a second Raman amplifier outputs a second excitation light to the transmission line in an opposite direction to the signal light. The first Raman amplifier includes a first detector detects a first power of a first transmitted light transmitted through a first optical filter. The second Raman amplifier includes a second detector detects second power of a second transmitted light transmitted through a second optical filter. The first Raman amplifier stops output of the first excitation light when the first power is higher than a threshold. The second Raman amplifier stops output of the second excitation light when the second power is reduced from power of the first excitation light transmitted through the second optical filter.
US11677207B2
A fiber optic ring laser, and non-transitory computer readable medium for using a fiber optic ring laser are disclosed. The disclosed fiber optic ring laser includes a semiconductor booster optical amplifier (BOA), as a gain medium; a Fiber Fabry Perot Tunable Filter (FFP-TF), as a wavelength selection element; an optical isolator (ISO) to insure unidirectional operation of the fiber optic ring laser; and a polarization controller (PC) for attaining an optimized polarization state in order to achieve a stable-generated output in terms of output power and wavelength, wherein the BOA, the FFP-TF, the ISO and the PC are coupled to form a ring configuration that implements a continuously tunable booster amplifier-based fiber ring laser.
US11677206B2
Embodiments of the microwave amplification system are described. In an embodiment, a microwave amplification system includes a microwave amplifier that contains a paramagnetic material with an impurity. The impurity has a plurality of nuclear spin and electron spin-based energy levels. The system includes an input to receive a pumping signal which is transmitted to the microwave amplifier to cause a population inversion in the impurity and excite it to one of the nuclear spin and electron spin-based energy levels. The system further includes another input to receive an input signal to be amplified by the microwave amplifier, the input signal having a lower power than the pumping signal. Once transmitted to the microwave amplifier, the input signal is amplified by the excited state of the impurity in the microwave amplifier thereby generating an amplified signal.
US11677205B2
An inter-device cabling movement system includes a base and a plurality of cable attachment devices that extend from the base in a port identification sequence. Each of the plurality of cable attachment devices includes a cable engagement element that is configured to engage a respective cable, and a cable securing element that is configured to secure the cable engagement element to the respective cable. The cable engagement elements and cable securing elements may be utilized to secure each cable attachment device to respective cables connected to first ports on a first device so that those respective cables may be disconnected from the first pots on the first device and reconnected to second ports on a second device based on the port identification sequence.
US11677204B2
A wire termination apparatus for terminating an electrical terminal to a wire or cable include an upper tooling member which is movable between an open position and a closed position. A lower tooling member is attached to a base member of a frame of the wire termination apparatus. A process analyzer determines if a crimped terminal is properly crimped to a wire or cable. If the process analyzer determines that the terminal has not been properly crimped to the wire cable, the removal of the defectively crimped terminal and wire or cable from the wire termination apparatus is prevented until a code or key is entered.
US11677203B2
A compression die configured to crimp a composite core is disclosed. The compression die includes an outer body having a tool engaging surface, and an inner body coupled to the outer body. The inner body has a crimping area, wherein the crimping area of the inner body includes ten planar surfaces. The ten planar surfaces are positioned at an angle with respect to an adjacent planar surface such that the combination of the ten planar surfaces form a decagon shaped channel. Crimping is performed by the compression die by inserting the composite core into an encasing connector, which is then inserted into the decagon shaped channel of the compression die. A radial force towards the center of the decagon shaped channel is applied until an outer circumference of the encasing connector containing the composite core fully engages a surface area of each of the ten planar surfaces.
US11677193B2
A power strip assembly for facilitating electrical devices plugged into a power strip to be individually turned on and off includes a power strip that is longitudinally elongated and a plurality of banks of female electrical outlets integrated into the power strip. A plurality of power switches is each movably coupled to the power strip. Each of the power switches is in electrical communication with a respective one of the banks of female electrical outlets for turning the respective banks of female electrical outlets on and off. In this way the plurality of power switches can turn off respective electrical devices plugged into the power strip while leaving respective electrical devices plugged into the power strip turned on.
US11677183B2
A power transfer system includes a port panel assembly including a port panel, a locating pocket formed in the port panel, locking ports arranged in the locating pocket, and terminal assemblies attached to a rear side of the locating pocket and having conductive terminals, and a power transfer assembly having a transfer housing with access ports and terminal retainers, latches housed in the transfer housing to engage the locking ports, a spring arranged between the latches and pressing the latches to protrude outwardly from the transfer housing through the access ports, and connection members arranged in the terminal retainer and adapted be connected to an electric device. When the power transfer assembly is inserted into the port panel assembly, tip portions of the latches are inserted into the locking ports to be secured to the port panel assembly, and the connection members contact the conductive terminals of the port panel.
US11677182B2
A cable connector relates to a field of cable connecting technology. The cable connector includes a main body assembly including an insulating main body and conductive main bodies, a first clamping assembly, and a second clamping assembly. The conductive main bodies are disposed on the insulating main body. Two ends of each of the conductive main bodies extend outwards from bottom portions of the first accommodating groove and the second accommodating groove. The two ends of each of the conductive main bodies are sharp structures. The first clamping assembly includes a first clamping piece movably disposed up and down in the first accommodating groove and a first operating piece disposed on the insulating main body. The second clamping assembly includes a second clamping piece movably disposed up and down in the second accommodating groove and a second operating piece disposed on the insulating main body.
US11677179B2
A sealable FFC connector includes a housing, a plurality of contacts, a sealing member, and an actuator. The housing includes a slot configured to receive a mating component. The contacts are held in the housing and are configured to be in electrical contact with the mating component when the mating component is in a mated position in the slot. The sealing member includes at least a portion supported by the housing. The actuator is coupled to the housing and is movable from an opened position, in which the mating component may be inserted in the slot, to a closed position, in which a biasing force is applied on the sealing member such that, when the mating component is in the mated position in the slot, the sealing member provides a seal to prevent moisture and debris from entering the slot.
US11677176B2
Provided is a connector capable of allowing a counter connector to be properly fitted with the connector. The connector of the invention includes a frame provided with an opening and is capable of allowing a counter connector to be fitted in an inside of the frame through the opening, and the frame includes a lateral wall that extends in a fitting direction and that surrounds the counter connector being fitted with the connector, and a guide portion that is provided at an end portion of the lateral wall on an opening side where the opening is situated in the fitting direction and that guides the counter connector to an inside of the frame. The lateral wall is continuous over an entire circumference of the frame, and the guide portion is provided at the end portion of the lateral wall on the opening side over the entire circumference of the frame.
US11677151B2
One example discloses a near-field device, including: a near-field magnetic antenna, including a coil, configured to receive or transmit near-field magnetic signals; a near-field electric antenna configured to receive or transmit near-field electric signals; and a set of electrical components, electrically coupled to the near-field magnetic antenna and the near-field electric antenna; wherein at least one of: the coil of the near-field magnetic antenna, or a conductive surface of the near-field electric antenna, forms a boundary around the set of electrical components.
US11677141B2
Base station antennas, and components for base station antennas, such as reflectors, feeder components, frames, and column components. A base station antenna may include a reflector; a first radiator located at the front side of the reflector; mutually parallel first and second ground plates extending backward from the reflector and basically perpendicular to the reflector; and a first conductor strip extending between the first and second ground plates and configured to feed power to the first radiator. The first conductor strip and the first and second ground plates may be configured as a first stripline transmission line. The reflector and the first and second ground plates may be configured as one piece so that the reflector is grounded via the first and second ground plates without soldering.
US11677137B2
An electronic device is provided, including a housing, a first slot, a second slot, and a circuit board. The first and second slots are formed on the housing and spaced apart from each other. The circuit board is disposed in the housing and includes a first antenna structure and a second antenna structure. The first antenna structure has a Z-shaped conductive body, and the second antenna structure includes a microstrip portion and a base portion. The base portion is electrically connected to the conductive body, and the microstrip portion is spaced apart from the base portion.
US11677129B2
A microwave circulator including an integrated circuit having a number of ports and a respective ring segment coupled to each port to allow microwave frequency signals to be transferred between the port and the respective ring segment. The circulator includes multiple respective ring segments arranged to define multiple parallel circulator rings and at least one superconducting tunnel junction interconnecting each pair of adjacent ring segments and/or a plurality of superconducting tunnel junctions interconnecting each pair of adjacent ring segments to form a circulator ring. The ring segments are configured so that when a bias is applied to the tunnel junctions, signals undergo a phase shift as they traverse the tunnel junctions between ring segments, thereby propagating signals to an adjacent port in a propagation direction.
US11677125B2
The present disclosure relates to a battery cell to alleviate the problem of impurities falling into an electrode assembly. Wherein, the battery cell includes: an electrode assembly including a tab and a cell body, wherein the tab is connected to the cell body; a cover plate assembly including an electrode terminal and a cover plate, wherein the electrode terminal is disposed on the cover plate; a connecting sheet connected between the tab and the electrode terminal, the connecting sheet includes a first connecting portion and a second connecting portion, wherein the first connecting portion is connected to the tab, and the second connecting portion is connected to the electrode terminal; an insulating pallet disposed between the cell body and the connecting sheet; and an insulation member disposed between the insulating pallet and the second connecting portion.
US11677121B2
The disclosure relates to a technical field of batteries, and in particular, relates to a battery pack. The battery pack includes a box body, a beam, a battery apparatus, and an electrical support base. The beam is disposed in the box body. The battery apparatus is disposed in the box body, and an electrical conductor is disposed on the battery apparatus. The electrical support base is disposed on the beam. The electrical conductor extends from the battery apparatus to the electrical support base and is connected to the electrical support base.
US11677118B2
A battery cell module configured to be at least partially located within a housing of a battery pack. The battery cell module includes a frame. The frame includes a first frame half and a second frame half. The first frame half and the second frame half define a battery cell compartment for receiving a battery cell. The first frame half includes a first end wall and a wedge member affixed to the first end wall. The wedge member includes a first wedge portion and a second wedge portion. The first wedge portion and the second wedge portion define a post opening. The second frame half includes a second end wall and a post affixed to the second end wall at a first end of the post. The post is configured to be inserted into the post opening of the wedge member.
US11677113B2
A battery pack assembly (1) comprising two holding frames (3), wherein the two holding frames (3) hold a plurality of cells (2) between them, each cell (2) being held longitudinally between the two holding frames (3), wherein two or more of the plurality of cells (2) are connected by a conductive means (7), and wherein the two holding frames (3) are reversibly held together by a fastening means (10), wherein the fastening means (10) cause terminals of the cells (2) to be urged against the conductive means (7) and removal or loosening of the fastening means (10) enables the cells (2) to be freed from the assembly (1), at least one holding frame (3) comprising one or more elastomeric protrusions (6) and wherein the conductive means (7) are positioned such that parts of them lie between one or more elastomeric protrusions (6) and one or more cell terminals, such that the urging of the frames (3) together by the fastening means (10) causes the conductive means (7) to be urged into contact by the elastomeric protrusions (6) with said one or more terminals.
US11677108B2
A film-covered battery includes a coverage case having a film covering material and a power generation element contained in the coverage case. The coverage case has a first sealing part that guides a terminal and a second sealing part that does not guide a terminal. The second sealing part is formed on at least one face (face F) with a maximum area among exterior faces of the power generation element. The assembled battery has a third sealing part being a part of the second sealing part and overlapping the power generation element. In the assembled battery, a heat dissipation plate is placed on the face F where the third sealing part is formed. A projection area of the third sealing part and the heat dissipation plate on the face F occupies 40% or more of the face F.
US11677107B2
A temperature control device for individual battery cells (2) assembled to form a module (1), having a base body (3) which, for the purpose of circumferentially enclosing the battery cells (2), comprises two opposing sealing elements (4, 5) having passage openings (6) located opposite one another in pairs with respect to a respective joining axis, and which base body (3) forms a flow channel extending transversely to the joining axes for a temperature control fluid is described. In order to design a temperature control device of the type described above in such a way that, with less manufacturing effort, an increased tightness of the device is achieved at the same time, even at higher flow rates of the temperature control fluid, it is proposed that the sealing elements (4, 5) are two moulded parts which are identical to one another and which are aligned point-symmetrically with respect to one another and connected to one another and which sealing elements (4, 5) form via a respective bearing surface (7) the base body (3), wherein a receiving groove (9) having a seal compensation region (8) adjoins the bearing surface (7) on the inside of the base body (3).
US11677106B2
A battery pack including a left battery module including a plurality of cells; a left heat transfer frame adjacent to a right side of the left battery module; a cooling member adjacent to the left heat transfer frame; a right heat transfer frame adjacent to a right side of the cooling member; a right battery module including a plurality of cells disposed adjacent to a right side of the right heat transfer frame; a lower plate and an upper cover respective disposed below and above the left battery module, the left heat transfer frame, the cooling member, the right heat transfer frame, and the right battery module; and wherein the upper cover comprises an over-pressing prevention protrusion disposed at a position corresponding to each of the left heat transfer frame, the cooling member, and the right heat transfer frame.
US11677092B2
Provided is an assembly method using an assembly tool used when a component is assembled to each of a plurality of connection ports to provided at an upper surface of a fuel-cell stack and communicating with a plurality of communication holes. The assembly tool includes a base portion positioned on the upper surface of the fuel-cell stack and a plurality of covering portions covering the plurality of connection ports. Each of the plurality of covering portions is, relative to the base portion, provided movably between a covering position for covering a corresponding one of the connection ports and a non-covering position accessible to a corresponding one of the connection ports.
US11677086B2
According to an embodiment, a control system includes a fuel cell configured to generate electric power using an anode and a cathode, a power storage device capable of storing the electric power generated by the fuel cell, auxiliary equipment to which the electric power is able to be supplied, and a controller configured to control operations of the fuel cell and the auxiliary equipment. The controller performs control so that the electric power is consumed by the auxiliary equipment in accordance with a power storage state of the power storage device at the time of power generation of the fuel cell and adjusts one or both of a timing and a degree at which electric power to be consumed by the auxiliary equipment is limited on the basis of temperature information associated with the auxiliary equipment.
US11677082B2
Various embodiments are directed to an electrochemical cell having a non-homogeneous anode. The electrochemical cell includes a container, a cathode forming a hollow cylinder within the container, an anode positioned within the hollow cylinder of the cathode, and a separator between the cathode and the anode. The anode comprises at least two concentric anode portions, defined by different anode characteristics. For example, the two anode portions may contain different surfactant types, which provides the two anode portions with different charge transfer resistance characteristics. By lowering the charge transfer resistance of a portion of an anode located proximate the current collector of the cell (and away from the separator) relative to an anode portion located adjacent the separator, improved cell discharge performance may be obtained.
US11677081B2
A membrane electrode assembly includes a polyelectrolyte membrane having a first surface and a second surface facing away from the first surface; a fuel-electrode-side electrocatalyst layer bonded to the first surface and containing a first catalytic material, a first electrically conductive carrier, and a first polyelectrolyte, the first electrically conductive carrier carrying the first catalytic material; and an oxygen-electrode-side electrocatalyst layer bonded to the second surface and containing a second catalytic material, a second electrically conductive carrier, a second polyelectrolyte, and a fibrous material, the second electrically conductive carrier carrying the second catalytic material. The membrane electrode assembly contains voids, the voids including pores each having a size in a range of 3 nm or more and 5.5 μm or less.
US11677079B2
An electrode for a lithium secondary battery, which may be applied to the lithium secondary battery to increase cycling performance and efficiency of the battery, and a manufacturing method thereof. When the electrode for the lithium secondary battery of the present invention is applied to the lithium secondary battery, uniform deposition and stripping of lithium metals occur throughout the surface of the electrode when charging/discharging the battery, thereby inhibiting uneven growth of lithium dendrites and improving cycle and efficiency characteristics of the battery. Further, the electrode for the lithium secondary battery of the present invention exhibits remarkably high flexibility, as compared with existing electrodes including a metal current collector and an active material layer, thereby improving processability during manufacture of the electrode and assembling the battery.
US11677075B2
Provided is a cathode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery in which the secondary particles constituting the powder have a high breaking strength and a good coatability, and a method for manufacturing same. The cathode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery includes a primary particle of a lithium composite compound; and secondary particles formed by an aggregation of primary particles, wherein a ratio between an average particle size of the primary particles and an average particle size of the secondary particles is 0.006 or more and 0.25 or less, an amount of lithium carbonate is 0.4% by mass or less, and a breaking strength of the secondary particles is 30 MPa or more.
US11677066B2
To provide an anode material configured to increase the reversible capacity of lithium ion secondary batteries, and a method for producing the anode material. The anode material is an anode material for lithium ion secondary batteries, comprising a P element and a C element and being in an amorphous state.
US11677059B2
A light-emitting device package includes a lead frame, a light-emitting device chip, a molding structure, and a plurality of slots. The lead frame includes a first lead and a second lead including metal and spaced apart from each other. The light-emitting device chip is mounted on a first area of the lead frame, which includes a part of the first lead and a part of the second lead. The molding structure includes an outer barrier surrounding an outside of the lead frame and an inner barrier. The plurality of slots are formed in each of the first lead and the second lead. The inner barrier divides the lead from into the first area and a second area. The inner barrier fills between the first lead in the second lead. The second area is located outside of the first area. The plurality of slots are filled by the molding structure.
US11677056B2
A display apparatus including a panel substrate, a TFT panel part including a plurality of connection electrodes disposed on an upper surface of the panel substrate, and a light emitting diode part disposed on the TFT panel part and including a plurality of light emitting modules adjacent to each other, in which each of the light emitting modules includes a plurality of pixels, each of the pixels includes three sub-pixels, and the three sub-pixels include blue light emitting diodes, green light emitting diodes, and red light emitting diodes.
US11677055B2
A light emitting device includes at least one light emitting and connecting unit that includes an epitaxial layer structure and a metallic connecting layer structure, and an insulating substrate that has a main substrate body and first and second contact members. The connecting layer structure interconnects the epitaxial layer structure and the main substrate body, and is completely plane at least right under the epitaxial layer structure. The contact members extend from a first surface to a second surface on the main substrate body, and are disposed outside an imaginary projection of the epitaxial layer structure on the main substrate body. The first contact member is electrically connected with the connecting layer structure. Alight emitting apparatus including the device is also disclosed.
US11677049B2
An optoelectronic device, including: light-emitting sources, each light-emitting source being capable of emitting a first radiation at a first wavelength; photoluminescent blocks distributed into first photo-luminescent blocks capable of converting by optical pumping the first radiation into a second radiation at a second wavelength and second photoluminescent blocks capable of converting by optical pumping the first radiation into a third radiation at a third wavelength; and for each photoluminescent block, an optical coupler including a first photonic crystal at least partially surrounding the photoluminescent block and covering, with the photo-luminescent block, one of the light-emitting sources next to the photoluminescent block, the optical coupler being capable of modifying the propagation direction of rays of the first radiation emitted by the light-emitting source to redirect the rays towards the photoluminescent block.
US11677030B2
A thin-film transistor substrate includes: an active layer on a substrate, the active layer including: a first semiconductor material layer; a conductor layer on the first semiconductor material layer, and including a metal element; and a second semiconductor material layer on the conductor layer; a gate insulating layer on the active layer; and a gate electrode on the gate insulating layer, and at least partially overlapping with the active layer.
US11677024B2
A method for manufacturing first and second transistors on a semiconductor substrate includes: depositing an interface layer on the semiconductor substrate; depositing a gate insulator layer on the interface layer; depositing a first ferroelectric layer on the gate insulator layer over a first region for the first transistor; depositing a metal gate layer on the gate insulator layer over a second region for the second transistor and on the first ferroelectric layer over the first region for the first transistor; and patterning the metal gate layer, first ferroelectric layer, gate insulator layer and interface layer to form a first gate stack for the first transistor which includes the metal gate layer, first ferroelectric layer, gate insulator layer and interface layer and a second gate stack for the second transistor which includes the metal gate layer, gate insulator layer and interface layer.
US11677021B2
A semiconductor device, the device comprising: a first silicon layer comprising first single crystal silicon; an isolation layer disposed over said first silicon layer; a first metal layer disposed over said isolation layer; a second metal layer disposed over said first metal layer; a first level comprising a plurality of transistors, said first level disposed over said second metal layer, wherein said isolation layer comprises an oxide to oxide bond surface, wherein said plurality of transistors comprise a second single crystal silicon region; and a plurality of capacitors, wherein said plurality of capacitors comprise functioning as a decoupling capacitor to mitigate power supply noise.
US11677017B2
Disclosed herein are quantum dot devices, as well as related computing devices and methods. For example, in some embodiments, a quantum dot device may include a (111) silicon substrate, a (111) germanium quantum well layer above the substrate, and a plurality of gates above the quantum well layer. In some embodiments, a quantum dot device may include a silicon substrate, an insulating material above the silicon substrate, a quantum well layer above the insulating material, and a plurality of gates above the quantum well layer.
US11677015B2
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a fin structure having a channel region protruding from an isolation insulating layer disposed over a semiconductor substrate is formed, a cleaning operation is performed, and an epitaxial semiconductor layer is formed over the channel region. The cleaning operation and the forming the epitaxial semiconductor layer are performed in a same chamber without breaking vacuum.
US11677010B2
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a fin structure, in which first semiconductor layers and second semiconductor layers are alternately stacked, is formed. A sacrificial gate structure is formed over the fin structure. A source/drain region of the fin structure, which is not covered by the sacrificial gate structure, is etched, thereby forming a source/drain space. The first semiconductor layers are laterally etched through the source/drain space. An inner spacer made of a dielectric material is formed on an end of each of the etched first semiconductor layers. A source/drain epitaxial layer is formed in the source/drain space to cover the inner spacer. A lateral end of each of the first semiconductor layers has a V-shape cross section after the first semiconductor layers are laterally etched.
US11677006B2
According to one embodiment, a nitride crystal includes first, second, and third nitride crystal regions. The third nitride crystal region includes Al, and is provided between the first and second nitride crystal regions. A third oxygen concentration in the third nitride crystal region is greater than a first oxygen concentration in the first nitride crystal region and greater than a second oxygen concentration in the second nitride crystal region. A third carbon concentration in the third nitride crystal region is greater than a first carbon concentration in the first nitride crystal region and greater than a second carbon concentration in the second nitride crystal region. A <0001> direction of the first nitride crystal region is one of a first orientation from the second nitride crystal region toward the first nitride crystal region or a second orientation from the first nitride crystal region toward the second nitride crystal region.
US11677004B2
Various strained channel transistors are disclosed herein. An exemplary semiconductor device includes a substrate and a fin structure disposed over the substrate. The fin structure includes a first epitaxial layer disposed on the substrate, a second epitaxial layer disposed on the first epitaxial layer, and a third epitaxial layer disposed on the second epitaxial layer. The second epitaxial layer includes a relaxed transversal stress component and a longitudinal compressive stress component, and the third epitaxial layer has uni-axial strain. A gate structure is disposed on a channel region of the fin structure, such that the gate structure interposes a source region and a drain region of the fin structure.
US11677003B2
A nanowire device of the present description may be produced with the incorporation of at least one hardmask during the fabrication of at least one nanowire transistor in order to assist in protecting an uppermost channel nanowire from damage that may result from fabrication processes, such as those used in a replacement metal gate process and/or the nanowire release process. The use of at least one hardmask may result in a substantially damage free uppermost channel nanowire in a multi-stacked nanowire transistor, which may improve the uniformity of the channel nanowires and the reliability of the overall multi-stacked nanowire transistor.
US11676999B2
An electronic device includes a dielectric layer including crystal grains having aligned crystal orientations the dielectric layer may be between a substrate and a gate electrode. The dielectric layer may be between isolated first and second electrodes. A method of manufacturing an electronic device may include preparing a substrate having a channel layer, forming the dielectric layer on the channel layer, and forming a gate electrode on the dielectric layer.
US11676990B2
To improve color reproduction areas in a display device having light-emitting elements. A display region has a plurality of picture elements. Each picture element includes: first and second pixels each including a light-emitting element which has a chromaticity whose x-coordinate in a CIE-XY chromaticity diagram is 0.50 or more; third and fourth pixels each including a light-emitting element which has a chromaticity whose y-coordinate in the diagram is 0.55 or more; and fifth and sixth pixels each including a light-emitting element which has a chromaticity whose x-coordinate and y-coordinate in the diagram are 0.20 or less and 0.25 or less, respectively. The light-emitting elements in the first and second pixels have different emission spectrums from each other; the light-emitting elements in the third and fourth pixels have different emission spectrums from each other; and the light-emitting elements in the fifth and sixth pixels have different emission spectrums from each other.
US11676989B2
Provided is a display device including a display layer which includes an active area and a peripheral area adjacent to the active area, a biometric information sensing layer disposed below the display layer and including a sensor, and an optical pattern layer disposed on an optical pattern plane between the biometric information sensing layer and the display layer and including a light blocking part and a transmission part having higher light transmittance than the light blocking part, wherein an upper surface of the light blocking part is concave, and recessed away from the optical pattern plane.
US11676988B2
An image sensor is disclosed. The image sensor includes a first pixel of a first color arranged alternately with a pixel of a second color in a first direction of a pixel array, a second pixel of the first color arranged alternately with a pixel of a third color in the first direction in a row different from that of the first pixel of the first color, an isolation layer formed to surround the first pixel in the pixel array and structured to have a first depth, and an isolation layer formed to surround the second pixel in the pixel array and structured to have a second depth different from the first depth. One of the first and second pixels of the first color, and each of the pixels of the second color and the third color are configured to selectively receive different colors of light, respectively.
US11676985B2
A back side illuminated image sensor includes a pixel formed by three doped photosensitive regions that are superposed vertically in a semiconductor substrate. Each photosensitive region is laterally framed by a respective vertical annular gate. The vertical annular gates are biased by a control circuit during an integration phase so as to generate an electrostatic potential comprising potential wells in the central portion of the volume of each doped photosensitive region and a potential barrier at each interface between two neighboring doped photosensitive regions.
US11676984B2
The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging device capable of further decreasing reflectivity, a method of manufacturing the same, and an electronic device. The solid-state imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate on which a photoelectric converting unit is formed for each of a plurality of pixels, and an antireflection structure provided on a light incident surface side from which light is incident on the semiconductor substrate in which a plurality of types of projections of different heights is formed. The antireflection structure is formed by performing processing of digging a light incident surface of the semiconductor substrate in a plurality of stages with different processing conditions. The antireflection structure is the structure in which a second projection lower than a first projection is formed between the first projections of predetermined height. The present technology may be applied to a CMOS image sensor, for example.
US11676976B2
A PIN photodetector includes an n-type semiconductor layer, an n-type semiconductor cap layer, a first plurality of p-type regions located within the n-type semiconductor cap layer and separated from one another by a distance d1, and an absorber layer located between the n-type semiconductor layer and the n-type semiconductor cap layer including the first plurality of p-type regions. The plurality of p-type regions are electrically connected to one another to provide an electrical response to light incident to the PIN photodetector.
US11676972B2
A display device includes a first transistor. The first transistor includes an oxide semiconductor layer, a first gate electrode facing the oxide semiconductor layer and a gate insulating layer between the oxide semiconductor layer and the first gate electrode. The first gate electrode has hydrogen storage properties.
US11676969B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a semiconductor wafer. The semiconductor wafer comprises a handle wafer. A first oxide layer is disposed over the handle wafer. A device layer is disposed over the first oxide layer. A second oxide layer is disposed between the first oxide layer and the device layer, wherein the first oxide layer has a first etch rate for an etch process and the second oxide layer has a second etch rate for the etch process, and wherein the second etch rate is greater than the first etch rate.
US11676967B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor device comprising a substrate, a plurality of active patterns that protrude from the substrate, a device isolation layer between the active patterns, and a passivation layer that covers a top surface of the device isolation layer and exposes upper portions of the active patterns. The device isolation layer includes a plurality of first isolation parts adjacent to facing sidewalls of the active patterns, and a second isolation part between the first isolation parts. A top surface of the second isolation part is located at a lower level than that of top surfaces of the first isolation parts.
US11676964B2
An integrated circuit (IC) device includes: a fin-type active area protruding from a substrate and extending in a first horizontal direction; a first nanosheet disposed above an upper surface of the fin-type active area with a first separation space therebetween; a second nanosheet disposed above the first nanosheet with a second separation space therebetween; a gate line extending on the substrate in a second horizontal direction intersecting the first horizontal direction, at least a portion of the gate line being disposed in the second separation space; and a bottom insulation structure disposed in the first separation space.
US11676963B2
An integrated circuit device includes a fin-type active region protruding from a substrate and extending in a first direction, a plurality of semiconductor patterns disposed apart from an upper surface of the fin-type active region, the plurality of semiconductor patterns each including a channel region; a gate electrode surrounding the plurality of semiconductor patterns, extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and including a main gate electrode, which is disposed on an uppermost semiconductor pattern of the plurality of semiconductor patterns and extends in the second direction, and a sub-gate electrode disposed between the plurality of semiconductor patterns; a spacer structure disposed on both sidewalls of the main gate electrode; and a source/drain region connected to the plurality of semiconductor patterns, disposed at both sides of the gate electrode, and contacting a bottom surface of the spacer structure.
US11676961B2
A semiconductor device includes a resistor having a resistor body including polysilicon, with fluorine in the polysilicon. The resistor body has a laterally alternating distribution of silicon grain sizes. The semiconductor device further includes an MOS transistor having a gate including polysilicon with fluorine. The fluorine in the gate has a higher average concentration than the fluorine in the resistor body. The semiconductor device may be formed by forming a gate/resistor layer including polysilicon. A fluorine implant mask is formed over the gate/resistor layer, exposing the gate/resistor layer in an area for the gate and over implant segments in an area for the resistor body. The implant segments do not cover the entire area for the resistor body. Fluorine is implanted into the gate/resistor layer where exposed by the fluorine implant mask. The gate/resistor layer is patterned to form the gate and the resistor body.
US11676953B2
A display module and system applications including a display module are described. The display module may include a display substrate including a front surface, a back surface, and a display area on the front surface. A plurality of interconnects extend through the display substrate from the front surface to the back surface. An array of light emitting diodes (LEDs) are in the display area and electrically connected with the plurality of interconnects, and one or more driver circuits are on the back surface of the display substrate. Exemplary system applications include wearable, rollable, and foldable displays.
US11676951B2
In a described example, an apparatus includes: a first mold compound partially covering a thermal pad that extends through a pre-molded package substrate formed of a first mold compound, a portion of the thermal pad exposed on a die side surface of the pre-molded package substrate, the pre-molded package substrate having a recess on the die side surface, with an exposed portion of the thermal pad and a portion of the first mold compound in a die mounting area in the recess; a semiconductor die mounted to the thermal pad and another semiconductor die mounted to the mold compound in the die mounting area; wire bonds coupling bond pads on the semiconductor dies to traces on the pre-molded package substrate; and a second mold compound over the die side surface of the pre-molded package substrate and covering the wire bonds, the semiconductor dies, the recess, and a portion of the traces.
US11676950B2
An apparatus is provided which comprises: a plurality of plated through holes; a material with magnetic properties adjacent to the plurality of plated through holes; and one or more conductors orthogonal to a length of the plurality of plated through holes, the one or more conductors to couple one plated through hole of the plurality with another plated through hole of the plurality such that an inductor is formed.
US11676935B2
A bonding method is capable of realizing high bonding strength and connection reliability even at a connection part in a high temperature area by means of simple operation low temperature bonding. The method includes a first step wherein, on at least one of the bonded surfaces of two materials to be bonded having a smooth surface, a thin film of noble metal with a volume diffusion coefficient greater than that of the base metal of the material to be bonded is formed using an atomic layer deposition method at a vacuum of 1.0 Pa or higher, a second step wherein a laminate is formed by overlapping the two materials to be bonded so that the bonded surfaces of the two materials are connected through the thin film, and a third step wherein the two materials to be bonded are bonded by holding the laminate at a predetermined temperature.
US11676933B2
An arrangement for joining two joining members includes a first part having a support surface, a first carrier element configured to carry at least one foil, a transportation unit configured to arrange the first carrier element such that the foil is arranged above the support surface in a vertical direction, and a second part configured to exert pressure to a joining stack, when the joining stack is arranged on the support surface. The joining stack includes a first joining member arranged on the support surface, a second joining member, and an electrically conductive connection layer arranged between the joining members. When pressure is exerted on the joining stack, the foil is arranged between the second part and the joining stack and is pressed onto the joining stack and the joining stack is pressed onto the first part, compressing the connection layer and forming a bond between the joining members.
US11676932B2
Semiconductor devices having interconnect structures with narrowed portions configured to mitigate thermomechanical stresses, and associated systems and methods, are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a semiconductor package includes a semiconductor die and a pillar structure coupled to the semiconductor die. The pillar structure can include an end portion away from the semiconductor die, the end portion having a first cross-sectional area. The pillar structure can further include a narrowed portion between the end portion and the semiconductor die, the narrowed portion having a second cross-sectional area less than the first-cross-sectional area of the end portion. A bond material can be coupled to the end portion of the pillar structure.
US11676927B2
Provided is a semiconductor package device including a lower redistribution substrate including a first redistribution pattern, the first redistribution pattern including a first interconnection portion and a first via portion provided on the first interconnection portion, a semiconductor chip disposed on the lower redistribution substrate, the semiconductor chip including a chip pad facing the lower redistribution substrate, an upper redistribution substrate vertically spaced apart from the lower redistribution substrate, the upper redistribution substrate including a second redistribution pattern, a vertical conductive structure disposed between the lower redistribution substrate and the upper redistribution substrate and disposed at a side of the semiconductor chip, a third redistribution pattern disposed between the lower redistribution substrate and the vertical conductive structure, and an encapsulant disposed on the semiconductor chip, the vertical conductive structure, and the third redistribution pattern, wherein the first via portion is in contact with the third redistribution pattern, and wherein a level of a bottom surface of the vertical conductive structure is higher than a level of a bottom surface of the chip pad.
US11676923B2
Semiconductor packages may include a first semiconductor chip including a first through-electrode and a first upper connection pad and on an upper surface of the first semiconductor chip, a second semiconductor chip on the first semiconductor chip and including a second lower connection pad on a lower surface of the second semiconductor chip, a connection bump between the first and second semiconductor chips and connected to the first upper connection pad and the second lower connection pad, a first insulating layer between the first and second semiconductor chips and surrounding the first upper connection pad, the connection bump, and the second lower connection pad, and a second insulating layer between the first semiconductor chip and the first insulating layer and extending on the upper surface of the first semiconductor chip, a side surface of the first upper connection pad, and a portion of a side surface of the connection bump.
US11676916B2
A package structure and a formation method of a package structure are provided. The package structure includes a circuit substrate and a die package bonded to the circuit substrate through bonding structures. The package structure also includes a warpage-control element attached to the circuit substrate. The warpage-control element has a protruding portion extending into the circuit substrate. The warpage-control element has height larger than that of the die package.
US11676914B2
A semiconductor substrate may include a plurality of semiconductor chips and a protection pattern. The semiconductor chips may be divided by two scribe lanes intersecting each other. Corners of the semiconductor chips may be disposed at the intersection of the two scribe lanes. The protection pattern may be arranged at the intersection of the scribe lanes to surround the corners of the semiconductor chips. Thus, the corners of the semiconductor chips may be protected by the protection pattern form colliding with each other in a following grinding process.
US11676913B2
A semiconductor package includes a substrate. A first semiconductor chip is disposed on the substrate and is electrically connected to the substrate. The first semiconductor chip comprises a first sidewall extending in a first direction, a second sidewall extending in a second direction that crosses the first direction, and a third sidewall disposed between the first sidewall and the second sidewall and configured to connect the first sidewall and the second sidewall. The third sidewall has a curved surface shape. A second semiconductor chip is disposed on the first semiconductor chip and is electrically connected to the first semiconductor chip.
US11676910B2
Two conductive reference layers are embedded in a semiconductor package substrate. The embedded reference layers facilitate low electromagnetic noise coupling between adjacent signals for semiconductor device package.
US11676906B2
A chip package includes a redistribution layer, at least one first semiconductor chip, an integrated fan-out package, and an insulating encapsulation. The at least one first semiconductor chip and the integrated fan-out package are electrically connected to the redistribution layer, wherein the at least one first semiconductor chip and the integrated fan-out package are located on a surface of the redistribution layer and electrically communicated to each other through the redistribution layer, and wherein the integrated fan-out package includes at least one second semiconductor chip. The insulating encapsulation encapsulates the at least one first semiconductor chip and the integrated fan-out package.
US11676901B2
A semiconductor device includes a lower wafer including a first substrate, a first dielectric layer that is defined on the first substrate, and a first wiring line that is defined in the first dielectric layer; an upper wafer including a second substrate, an isolation layer that is defined in an upper surface of the second substrate, a second dielectric layer, bonded to an upper surface of the first dielectric layer, that covers a lower surface of the second substrate and that includes at least one portion defined in the lower surface of the second substrate below and in contact with the isolation layer, and a third dielectric layer that is defined on the upper surface of the second substrate, and a second wiring line that is defined on the third dielectric layer; and a through via passing through, under the second wiring line, the third dielectric layer, the isolation layer, the second dielectric layer under the isolation layer and the first dielectric layer, and coupling the second wiring line and the first wiring line.
US11676899B2
Embedded packaging for high voltage, high temperature operation of power semiconductor devices is disclosed, wherein a semiconductor die is embedded in a dielectric body comprising a dielectric polymer composition characterized by a conductivity transition temperature Tc, a first activation energy EaLow for conduction in a temperature range below Tc, and a second activation energy EaHigh for conduction in a temperature range above Tc. A test methodology is disclosed for selecting a dielectric epoxy composition having values of Tc, EaLow, and EaHigh that provide a conduction value below a required reliability threshold, e.g. ≤5×10−13 S/cm, for a specified operating voltage and temperature. For example, the power semiconductor device comprises a GaN HEMT rated for operation at ≥100V wherein the package body is formed from a laminated dielectric epoxy composition for operation at >150 C, wherein Tc is ≥75 C, EaLow is ≤0.2 eV and EaHigh is ≤1 eV, for improved reliability for high voltage, high temperature operation.
US11676887B2
A semiconductor package may include a redistribution substrate having a first surface and a second surface, opposite to each other, a semiconductor chip on the first surface of the redistribution substrate, and a solder pattern on the second surface of the redistribution substrate. The redistribution substrate may include an under-bump pattern coupled to the solder pattern, a first redistribution pattern on the under-bump pattern, the first redistribution pattern including a first via portion and a first wire portion, and a first seed pattern between the under-bump pattern and the first redistribution pattern and on a side surface of the first via portion and a bottom surface of the first wire portion. A bottom surface of the first seed pattern may be at a level lower than a top surface of the under-bump pattern.
US11676884B2
A coupling device provides galvanic isolation using a leadframe that is configured to support two integrated circuit chips in a coplanar manner. Each chip contains an inductive coupling coil. The lead frame includes a set of bond pads for attaching bond wires to couple to the two integrated circuit chips. Two separated die attach pads support the two chips. Each die attach pad is configured to support one of the two integrated circuit chips with a plurality of cantilevered fingers.
US11676883B2
An Integrated Circuit (IC) assembly, comprising an IC package coupled to a substrate, and a subassembly comprising a thermal interface layer. The thermal interface layer comprises a phase change material (PCM) over the IC package. At least one thermoelectric cooling (TEC) apparatus is thermally coupled to the thermal interface layer.
US11676880B2
An integrated circuit has a substrate and an interconnect region disposed on the substrate. The interconnect region includes a plurality of interconnect levels. Each interconnect level includes interconnects in dielectric material. The integrated circuit includes a thermal via in the interconnect region. The thermal via extends vertically in at least one of the interconnect levels in the interconnect region. The thermal via includes a cohered nanoparticle film in which adjacent nanoparticles are cohered to each other. The thermal via has a thermal conductivity higher than dielectric material touching the thermal via. The cohered nanoparticle film is formed by a method which includes an additive process.
US11676873B2
Semiconductor packages having a sealant bridge between an integrated heat spreader and a package substrate are described. In an embodiment, a semiconductor package includes a sealant bridge anchoring the integrated heat spreader to the package substrate at locations within an overhang gap laterally between a semiconductor die and a sidewall of the integrated heat spreader. The sealant bridge extends between a top wall of the integrated heat spreader and a die side component, such as a functional electronic component or a non-functional component, or a satellite chip on the package substrate. The sealant bridge modulates warpage or stress in thermal interface material joints to reduce thermal degradation of the semiconductor package.
US11676868B2
Techniques described herein enable respective (different) types of metal silicide layers to be formed for p-type source/drain regions and n-type source/drain regions in a selective manner. For example, a p-type metal silicide layer may be selectively formed over a p-type source/drain region (e.g., such that the p-type metal silicide layer is not formed over the n-type source/drain region) and an n-type metal silicide layer may be formed over the n-type source/drain region (which may be selective or non-selective). This provides a low Schottky barrier height between the p-type metal silicide layer and the p-type source/drain region, as well as a low Schottky barrier height between the n-type metal silicide layer and the n-type source/drain region. This reduces the contact resistance for both p-type source/drain regions and n-type source/drain regions.
US11676866B2
A method for forming a semiconductor arrangement comprises forming a first fin in a semiconductor layer. A first gate dielectric layer includes a first high-k material is formed over the first fin. A first sacrificial gate electrode is formed over the first fin. A dielectric layer is formed adjacent the first sacrificial gate electrode and over the first fin. The first sacrificial gate electrode is removed to define a first gate cavity in the dielectric layer. A second gate dielectric layer including a second dielectric material different than the first high-k material is formed over the first gate dielectric layer in the first gate cavity. A first gate electrode is formed in the first gate cavity over the second gate dielectric layer.
US11676863B2
Implementations of a method for aligning a semiconductor wafer for singulation may include: providing a semiconductor wafer having a first side and a second side. The first side of the wafer may include a plurality of die and the plurality of die may be separated by streets. The semiconductor wafer may include an edge ring around a perimeter of the wafer on the second side of the wafer. The wafer may also include a metal layer on the second side of the wafer. The metal layer may substantially cover the edge ring. The method may include grinding the edge ring to create an edge exclusion area and aligning the semiconductor wafer with a saw using a camera positioned in the edge exclusion area on the second side of the wafer. Aligning the wafer may include using three or more alignment features included in the edge exclusion area.
US11676848B2
A method of aligning micro light emitting elements includes supplying the plurality of micro light emitting elements on a substrate including a plurality of grooves having different shapes, the plurality of micro light emitting elements being configured to be inserted exclusively and respectively into the plurality of grooves; respectively inserting the plurality of micro light emitting elements into the plurality of grooves; and aligning the plurality of micro light emitting elements, wherein at least one groove of the plurality of grooves has a shape that is different from a shape of a respective micro light emitting element inserted into the at least one groove.
US11676836B2
A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor chip including bitlines, wordlines, common source line, first bonding pads, second bonding pads, third bonding pads and memory cells, the memory cells being electrically connected to the bitlines, the wordlines, and the common source line, the first bonding pads being electrically connected to the bitlines, the second bonding pads being electrically connected to the wordlines, and the third bonding pads being electrically connected to the common source line; a second semiconductor chip including fourth bonding pads, fifth bonding pads, sixth bonding pads and an input/output circuit, the fourth bonding pads being electrically connected to the first bonding pads, the fifth bonding pads being electrically connected to the second bonding pads, the sixth bonding pads being electrically connected to the third bonding pads and the input/output circuit being configured to write data to the memory cells via the fourth bonding pads and the fifth bonding pads; a sensing line extending along an edge portion of the first semiconductor chip, an edge portion of the second semiconductor chip, or the edge portion of the first semiconductor chip and the edge portion of the second semiconductor chip; and a detecting circuit in the second semiconductor chip, the detecting circuit being configured to detect defects from the first semiconductor chip, the second semiconductor chip, or both the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip using the sensing line.
US11676835B2
A method includes: supplying a processing liquid to a center position of a substrate surface; shifting a supply position of the processing liquid from the center position to a first eccentric position; holding the supply position of the processing liquid at the first eccentric position and supplying a substitute liquid to a second eccentric position; shifting the supply position of the processing liquid in a direction away from the center position, and shifting a supply position of the substitute liquid to the center position; and supplying the processing liquid to the first eccentric position at a first flow rate, and reducing the flow rate of the processing liquid to a second flow rate after the supply position of the processing liquid starts to be shifted from the first eccentric position in the direction and until the supply position of the substitute liquid reaches the center position.
US11676834B2
In substrate processing, by supplying a first processing liquid onto an upper surface 91 of a substrate 9 held in a horizontal state, a liquid film 81 of the first processing liquid which entirely covers the upper surface 91 is formed. Further, by heating the substrate 9, a vapor layer 82 of the first processing liquid is formed between the upper surface 91 and the liquid film 81 of the first processing liquid on the upper surface 91. Then, by supplying a second processing liquid onto the upper surface 91 of the substrate 9, the liquid film 81 of the first processing liquid is removed from the upper surface 91. It is thereby possible to appropriately remove extraneous matters 89 from the upper surface 91 of the substrate 9, which are taken in the liquid film 81 of the first processing liquid as the vapor layer 82 is formed.
US11676832B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for fabricating semiconductor packages, and more particularly, for forming features in semiconductor packages by laser ablation. In one embodiment, the laser systems and methods described herein can be utilized to pattern a substrate to be utilized as a package frame for a semiconductor package having one or more interconnections formed therethrough and/or one or more semiconductor dies disposed therein. The laser systems described herein can produce tunable laser beams for forming features in a substrate or other package structure. Specifically, frequency, pulse width, pulse shape, and pulse energy of laser beams are tunable based on desired sizes of patterned features and on the material in which the patterned features are formed. The adjustability of the laser beams enables rapid and accurate formation of features in semiconductor substrates and packages with controlled depth and topography.
US11676817B2
A method of forming a device includes forming a hard mask layer over an underlying layer of a substrate, forming an anti-reflective coating layer over the hard mask layer, forming a patterned resist layer over the anti-reflective coating layer, and forming a mandrel including the anti-reflective coating layer by patterning the anti-reflective coating layer using the patterned resist layer as an etch mask. The method includes forming a sidewall spacer on the mandrel including the anti-reflective coating layer, forming a freestanding spacer on the hard mask layer by removing the mandrel from the anti-reflective coating layer, and using the freestanding spacer as an etch mask, patterning the underlying layer of the substrate.
US11676816B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming first sacrificial patterns on a lower structure, forming first remaining mask layers having a “U” shape between the first sacrificial patterns to be in contact with the first sacrificial patterns, forming first remaining mask patterns by pattering the first remaining mask layers, each of the first remaining mask patterns including a horizontal portion, parallel to an upper surface of the lower structure, and a vertical portion, perpendicular to the upper surface of the lower structure, forming second mask patterns spaced apart from the vertical portions of the first remaining mask patterns, removing the first sacrificial patterns remaining after forming the second mask patterns, and forming first mask patterns by etching the horizontal portions of the first remaining mask patterns.
US11676815B2
A patterning method includes the following steps. A mask layer is formed on a material layer. A first hole is formed in the mask layer by a first photolithography process. A first mask pattern is formed in the first hole. A second hole is formed in the mask layer by a second photolithography process. A first spacer is formed on an inner wall of the second hole. A second mask pattern is formed in the second hole after the step of forming the first spacer. The first spacer surrounds the second mask pattern in the second hole. The mask layer and the first spacer are removed. The pattern of the first mask pattern and the second mask pattern are transferred to the material layer by an etching process.
US11676805B2
The invention generally relates to systems and methods for performing multiple precursor, neutral loss and product ion scans in a single ion trap. In certain aspects, the invention provides systems including a mass spectrometer having a single ion trap, and a central processing unit (CPU), and storage coupled to the CPU for storing instructions that when executed by the CPU cause the system to apply at least one of the following ion scans to a single ion population in the single ion trap: multiple precursor ion scans, a plurality of segmented neutral loss scans, or multiple simultaneous neutral loss scans.
US11676800B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes a substrate stage on which a substrate is disposed, a first radio-frequency power supply configured to supply first radio-frequency power having a first frequency to the substrate stage, an impedance converter configured to convert an impedance on a load side seen from the first radio-frequency power supply into a set impedance, a second radio-frequency power supply configured to supply second radio-frequency power having a second frequency lower than the first frequency to the substrate stage, and a controller configured to control the set impedance of the impedance converter, and the controller sets the set impedance according to a substrate processing.
US11676796B2
A charged particle beam device including: a charged particle beam source which emits a charged particle beam; a blanking device which has an electrostatic deflector that deflects and blocks the charged particle beam; an irradiation optical system which irradiates a specimen with the charged particle beam; and a control unit which controls the electrostatic deflector, the control unit performing processing of: acquiring a target value of a dose of the charged particle beam for the specimen; setting a ratio A/B of a time A during which the charged particle beam is not blocked to a unit time B (where A≠B, A≠0), based on the target value; and operating the electrostatic deflector based on the ratio.
US11676794B2
We describe a super-resolution optical microscopy technique in which a sample is located on or adjacent to the planar surface of an aplanatic solid immersion lens and placed in a cryogenic environment.
US11676784B2
A vacuum interrupter includes at least one insulating body, a fixed contact, a fixed contact flange, a moving contact having a longitudinal axis of the moving contact, a moving contact flange, a moving contact bearing, and a bellows. The fixed contact is stationarily disposed in the fixed contact flange, the moving contact is moveably guided in the moving contact bearing and the moving contact is moveably secured to the moving contact flange by the bellows. The bellows is secured to the moving contact flange by a first bellows end and the bellows is secured to the moving contact by a second bellows end. An increased pressure resistance of the vacuum interrupter against ambient pressures over 1 bar is achieved by a sleeve which is secured to the moving contact against movements along the longitudinal axis of the moving contact, and which is guided through the moving contact bearing.
US11676783B2
A press-type input device includes a first pressing member, a second pressing member, a base, and a holding member. The first pressing member has a pressure receiving surface and a first axis and is tiltable around the first axis. The second pressing member has a second axis and is tiltable around the second axis. The base includes a detection unit configured to detect a tilt of the second pressing member. The holding member is configured to hold, together with the base, the first pressing member and the second pressing member. A location of at least one of the first axis or the second axis is variable in accordance with a pushed location on the pressure receiving surface. When viewed in a direction vertical to the pressure receiving surface, the second axis and the detection unit do not overlap each other.
US11676769B2
Provided herein is a capacitor and method of forming a capacitor. The capacitor comprises an anode with an anode wire extending from the anode. A dielectric is on the anode and a conductive polymer is on the dielectric. The anode comprises at least one face comprising a surface area wherein at least 60% of the surface area is a land and no more than 40% of the surface area comprises perturbations.
US11676765B2
A ceramic electronic device includes a multilayer structure having a parallelepiped shape in which a first dielectric layer of which a main component is ceramic, a first internal electrode layer, a second dielectric layer of which a main component is ceramic, and a second internal electrode layer are stacked in this order, the first internal electrode layer being exposed to a first end face of the parallelepiped shape, the second internal electrode layer being exposed to a second end face of the parallelepiped shape, wherein in the multilayer structure, a conductive layer is provided on a side of the first end face, at a same level in a stacking direction as the second internal electrode, the conductive layer being spaced from the second internal electrode layer. A length of a gap between the second internal electrode layer and the conductive layer is 30 μm or less.
US11676758B2
A magnetic device comprising a magnetic body, a coil disposed in the magnetic body and at least one thermal conductive layer, wherein a first portion of the at least one thermal conductive layer encapsulates at least one portion of the coil and a second portion of the at least one thermal conductive layer is exposed from the magnetic body, wherein the at least one thermal conductive layer forms a continuous thermal conductive path from the coil to the outside of the magnetic body for dissipating heat generated from the coil.
US11676746B2
A method of making a heater includes an aluminum nitride base having equal to or less than 1% impurities, particularly one embodiment having none of polybrominated biphenyl, polybrominated diphenyl ether, hexabromocyclododecane, polyvinyl chloride, chlorinated paraffin, phthalate, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, lead, and mercury. The base is fired in a heating unit before any layering. Thereafter, on a topside and backside of the base a conductor layer is layered and allowed to settle and dry before firing. Next, a resistive layer is layered on the base from a resistor paste such that the resistive layer connects to the conductor layer on the topside. The resistor paste is allowed to settle and dry and then the base with the conductor and resistor layers is fired. At least four layers of glass are layered next over the resistive layer, each instance thereof including layering a glass, drying the glass and firing.
US11676742B2
A chip resistor with a reduced thickness is provided. The chip resistor includes an insulating substrate, a resistor embedded in the substrate, a first electrode electrically connected to the resistor, and a second electrode electrically connected to the resistor. The first electrode and the second electrode are spaced apart from each other in a lateral direction that is perpendicular to the thickness direction of the substrate.
US11676740B2
Aggregated, submarine cable system information is securely stored, accessed and managed. Security is assured through the use of multi-factor authentication that is compliant with National Institutes of Standards And Technology and US. Government Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation requirements. Further, real-time audit logs are generated as end-users access controlled unclassified information.
US11676730B2
A risk-based patient monitoring system for critical care patients combines data from multiple sources to assess the current and the future risks to the patient, thereby enabling providers to review a current patient risk profile and to continuously track a clinical trajectory. A physiology observer module in the system utilizes multiple measurements to estimate Probability Density Functions (PDF) of a number of Internal State Variables (ISVs) that describe components of the physiology relevant to the patient treatment and condition. A clinical trajectory interpreter module in the system utilizes the estimated PDFs of ISVs to identify under which probable patient states the patient can be currently categorized and assign a probability value that the patient will be in each of the identified states. The combination of patient states and their probabilities is defined as the clinical risk to the patient.
US11676721B2
A system for viewing at a client device a series of three-dimensional virtual views over the Internet of a volume visualization dataset contained on centralized databases employs a transmitter for securely sending volume visualization dataset from a remote location to the centralized database, more than one central data storage medium containing the volume visualization dataset, and a plurality of servers in communication with the centralized databases to create virtual views based on client requests. A resource manager load balances the servers, a security device controls communications between the client device and server and the resource manager and central storage medium. Physically secured sites house the components. A web application accepts at the remote location user requests for a virtual view of the volume visualization dataset, transmits the request to the servers, receives the resulting virtual view from the servers, and displays the resulting virtual view to the remote user.
US11676719B2
An example method includes identifying training data indicating features of a sample population and clinical outcomes of the sample population. The clinical outcomes are associated with a heterogeneous condition. The method further includes generating decision trees in a Random Forest (RF) based on the training data, each one of the decision trees being configured to divide the sample population into multiple categories based on the features of the sample population. In response to generating the decision trees, a proximity matrix comprising multiple entries is generated using the RF. One of the entries indicates a proportion of the decision trees that categorize a first individual among the sample population and a second individual among the sample population into the same categories among the multiple categories. The method further includes identifying subgroups of the heterogeneous condition by detecting communities of the proximity matrix.
US11676707B2
A method at a computing device for classifying elements within an input, the method including breaking the input into a plurality of patches; for each patch: creating a vector output; applying a characterization map to select a classification bin from a plurality of classification bins; and utilizing the selected classification bin to classify the vector output to create a classified output; and compiling the classified output from each patch.
US11676706B2
The present invention relates to a medical image processing apparatus and a medical image processing method for a medical navigation device, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method for processing an image provided when using the medical navigation device. To this end, the present invention provides a medical image processing apparatus for a medical navigation device, including: a position tracking unit configured to obtain position information of the medical navigation device within an object; a memory configured to store medical image data generated based on a medical image of the object; and a processor configured to set a region of interest (ROI) based on position information of the medical navigation device in reference to the medical image data, and generate partial medical image data corresponding to the ROI, and a medical image processing method using the same.
US11676704B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for determining at least one geographic region of a plurality of geographic regions, at least one data variable, and/or at least one health variable, estimating a current prevalence of a data variable in a geographic region of the plurality of geographic regions, determining a trend in a relationship between the data variable and the geographic region at a current time, determining a second trend in the relationship between the data variable and the geographic region at at least one prior point in time, determining if the trend in the relationship is irregular within a predetermined threshold with respect to the second trend from the at least one prior point in time, and, upon determining that the trend in the relationship is irregular within a predetermined threshold, generating an alert.
US11676693B2
A device includes a reservoir for holding an article that has thereon and a dispenser for dispensing the articles from the reservoir. A deactivation mechanism may deactivate medicament held within the reservoir.
US11676687B2
Systems and methods are provided for tracking the provenance of genetic material using blockchain-based technologies. Immutable records of transactions associated with the genetic material are generated. These records can be utilized to create an audit trail for the genetic material.
US11676686B2
Methods and computer apparatuses are disclosed for processing genomic data in at least partially automated workflows of modules. A method comprises: specifying a source from which nucleic acid sequence(s) are to be obtained; selecting module(s) for processing data, including at least one module for processing the one or more nucleic acid sequences; presenting, in a graphical user interface, graphical components representing the source and the module(s) as nodes within a workspace; receiving, via the graphical user interface, inputs arranging the source and the module(s) as a workflow comprising a series of nodes, the series indicating, for each particular module, that output from one of the source or another particular module is to be input into the particular module; generating an output for the workflow based upon the nucleic acid sequence(s) by processing each module in an order indicated by the series.
US11676683B2
Techniques for securely encoding, communicating, and comparing genomic information using probabilistic data structures are provided. In some embodiments, genomic information in a secure computing environment may be encoded and/or anonymized by building a probabilistic data structure that represents sub-strings of the genomic information as members of a set; the probabilistic data structure may then be securely transmitted outside the secure computing environment. In some embodiments, a probabilistic data structure representing sub-strings of sensitive genomic information as members of a set may be received in an unsecure computing environment and may be queried to generate output data indicating whether reference sub-strings are probable members of the set. In some embodiments, querying the probabilistic data structure, and other techniques of analyzing the probabilistic data structure, may be used to determine whether the sensitive genomic information corresponds to an organism associated with the reference genomic information.
US11676673B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes: first and second select transistors; first and second select gate lines; first and second interconnects; first and second memory cell transistors; and first and second word lines. In a write operation, after execution of a verify operation, in a period in which the second select transistor is ON, a voltage of the first word line changes from a first voltage to a second voltage and a voltage of the second word line changes from a third voltage applied in the verify operation to a fourth voltage, and after the voltage of the first word line changes to the second voltage and the voltage of the second word line changes to the fourth voltage, a voltage of the second select gate line changes from a fifth voltage to a sixth voltage.
US11676668B2
Memories having a first pool of memory cells having a first storage density and a second pool of memory cells having a second storage density greater than the first storage density, and a controller configured to cause the memory to determine whether a value of an indication of available power of a power supply for the memory is less than a threshold, and in response to determining that the value of the indication of available power is less than the threshold, increase a size of the first pool of memory cells, limit programming of data received by the memory to the first pool of memory cells, and cease movement of data from the first pool of memory cells to the second pool of memory cells, as well as apparatus including similar memories.
US11676656B2
Various implementations described herein are related to a device having memory circuitry with bitlines coupled to an array of bitcells. Also, the device may have first precharge circuitry that precharges the bitlines before a write cycle. Also, the device may have second precharge circuitry that precharges the bitlines after the write cycle.
US11676655B2
To provide a semiconductor device which can be stably operated while achieving a reduction of the power consumption. A semiconductor device includes a CPU, a system controller which designates an operation speed of the CPU, P-type SOTB transistors, and N-type SOTB transistors. The semiconductor device is provided with an SRAM which is connected to the CPU, and a substrate bias circuit which is connected to the system controller and is capable of supplying substrate bias voltages to the P-type SOTB transistors and the N-type SOTB transistors. Here, when the system controller designates a low speed mode to operate the CPU at a low speed, the substrate bias circuit supplies the substrate bias voltages to the P-type SOTB transistors and the N-type SOTB transistors.
US11676647B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to image based media type selection are described. Memory systems can include multiple types of memory media. Data can be written in a type of memory media based on one or more settings applied to the data. A setting can be determined based on input received by a logic within the memory system. In an example, a method can include receiving, at logic within a memory system that comprising a plurality of memory media types, data from an image sensor coupled to the logic of the memory system, receiving input from a host, identifying one or more attributes of the data, analyzing the received input to determine an setting, generating the setting based on the analyzed input, and writing the data to a first memory media type of the plurality of memory media types based on the generated setting.
US11676646B2
A memory device includes bit lines, and a cell array including strings, each of which includes memory cells, a select cell coupled to a respective one of the bit lines, and a dummy cell between the select cell and the memory cells. The memory device also includes a select line coupled to the select cells, a dummy word line coupled to the dummy cells, word lines each coupled to a respective row of the memory cells, and a controller coupled to the cell array. The controller is configured to drive a voltage on the dummy word line from a first level to a second level lower than the first level. The controller is also configured to drive a voltage on the select line from the first level to the second level, such that the voltage on the select line reaches the second level after the voltage on the dummy word line reaches the second level. The controller is further configured to, after the voltage on the select line reaches the second level, drive a voltage on a selected word line of the word lines from the second level to a third level higher than the first level to program the memory cells coupled to the selected word line.
US11676634B2
An optical disk (100) of the present invention includes (i) a medium information region (101) (a) in which type identification information is recorded by recesses and/or protrusions which are formed by a given modulation method and whose lengths are longer than a length of an optical system resolution limit of a playback device and (b) in which first address information is recorded in a first address data format and (ii) a data region (102) (a) in which content data is recorded by recesses and/or protrusions which are formed by the given modulation method and which include a recess and/or a protrusion whose length is shorter than the length of the optical system resolution limit and (b) in which second address information is recorded in a second address data format.
US11676627B2
Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to a magnetic recording head that includes a main pole, a leading shield, a first side shield disposed on a first side of the main pole, a second side shield disposed on a second side of the main pole, and a trailing shield. The trailing shield is disposed on a trailing side of the main pole. One or more approaches are disclosed to control return-fluxes. In some embodiments, at least one of the upper return pole, the leading shield, the trailing shield, the first side shield, and the second side shield includes a laminate structure having at least a pair of ferromagnetic layers, and a non-magnetic spacer layer disposed between adjacent ferromagnetic layers. In some embodiments, one or more shunts are positioned, such as connecting the leading shield to the upper return pole in order to create circuits to control magnetic flux.
US11676622B2
An audio processing system (100) accepts an audio bitstream having one of a plurality of predefined audio frame rates. The system comprises a front-end component (110), which receives a variable number of quantized spectral components, corresponding to one audio frame in any of the predefined audio frame rates, and performs an inverse quantization according to predetermined, frequency-dependent quantization levels. The front-end component may be agnostic of the audio frame rate. The audio processing system further comprises a frequency-domain processing stage (120) and a sample rate converter (130), which provide a reconstructed audio signal sampled at a target sampling frequency independent of the audio frame rate. By its frame-rate adaptability, the system can be configured to operate frame-synchronously in parallel with a video processing system that accepts plural video frame rates.
US11676618B1
An example method of operation may include designating sub-regions which collectively provide a defined reception space, receiving audio signals at a controller from the microphone arrays in the defined reception space, configuring the controller with known locations of each of the microphone arrays, assigning each of the sub-regions to at least one of the microphone arrays based on the known locations, and creating beamform tracking configurations for each of the microphone arrays based on their assigned sub-regions.
US11676617B2
An acoustic noise suppressing apparatus includes a sound pickup circuit, a first and second suppression circuits, and an output signal selection circuit. The sound pickup circuit picks up sound. The first suppression circuit processes the sound, in which the first suppression circuit is configured to calculate a first suppression sound signal in which acoustic noise is suppressed from the sound by using a first algorithm suitable for multiple sound sources. The second suppression circuit processes the audio signal in parallel with the first suppression circuit, in which the second suppression circuit is configured to calculate a second suppression sound signal in which acoustic noise is suppressed from the sound signal by using a second algorithm suitable for a single sound source. The output signal selection circuit outputs only one of the first suppression audio signal and the second suppression audio signal.
US11676607B2
A method for denormalizing raw speech recognition results. The method includes receiving a speech input from a user and obtaining context metadata associated with the speech input. The context metadata indicates that the speech input includes dictated speech directed to a messaging application that is currently executing on a user device for inclusion in an electronic message. The method further includes generating, using a speech recognizer, a raw speech recognition result including an explicit punctuation term spoken by the user and corresponding to the speech input. Based on the context metadata, the method includes denormalizing the generated raw speech recognition result into denormalized text by applying an explicit punctuation denormalizer to convert the explicit punctuation term in the raw speech recognition result into a corresponding punctuation symbol and displaying the denormalized text including the corresponding punctuation symbol on a display screen of the user device.
US11676598B2
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 microphone frequency responses associated with at least one microphone may be received. One or more microphone frequency response-based augmentations may be performed on the plurality of signals based upon, at least in part, the one or more microphone frequency responses, thus defining one or more microphone frequency response-based augmented signals.
US11676595B2
A reception apparatus, including processing circuitry that is configured to receive a voice command related to content from a user during presentation of the content to the user. The processing circuitry is configured to transmit the voice command to a server system for processing. The processing circuitry is configured to receive a response to the voice command from the server system. The response to the voice command is generated based on the voice command and content information for identifying the content related to the voice command.
US11676593B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for training an artificial intelligence (AI) of a voice response system. Aspects include receiving, by the voice response system from a user, a voice command to perform a requested action and interpreting, by an AI model, the voice command. Aspects also include performing an action based on the interpretation of the voice command and receiving non-verbal feedback from the user. Aspects further include updating the AI model based on a determination that the non-verbal feedback indicates that the user is not satisfied with the action performed.
US11676589B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide for systems and methods for submitting speech queries to one or more voice assistant devices, and retrieving the responses, in a soundproof environment. The systems and methods provide for sound-dampening voice boxes that are configured to house the respective voice assistant devices, in which the sound-dampening voice boxes submit speech queries to the respective voice assistant devices, and retrieve the responses therefrom.
US11676586B2
The system provides a voice command recommendation to a user to avoid a non-voice command. The system determines a command that is expected to be received, and generates a voice command recommendation that corresponds to the predicted command. The predicted command can be based on the user's behavior, a plurality of users' behavior, environmental circumstances such as a phone call ring, or a combination thereof. The system may access one or more databases to determine the predicted command. The voice command recommendation may include a displayed notification that describes the recommended voice command, and exemplary voice inputs that are recognized. The system also activates an audio interface, such as a microphone, that is configured to receive a voice input. If the system receives a recognizable voice input at the audio interface that corresponds to the recommendation, the system performs the predicted command in response to receiving the voice input.
US11676580B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a microphone, and at least one processor operatively connected to the microphone, wherein the at least one processor may include a buffer memory configured to store a first feature vector for a first voice signal obtained from the microphone as an inverse value, and an operation circuit configured to perform a norm operation for a first feature vector and a second feature vector, based on the second feature vector, based on a second voice signal streamed from the microphone and an inverse value of the first feature vector stored in the buffer memory, or calculate a similarity between the first feature vector and the second feature vector. In addition, various embodiments identified through the specification are possible.
US11676571B2
A device for speech generation includes one or more processors configured to receive one or more control parameters indicating target speech characteristics. The one or more processors are also configured to process, using a multi-encoder, an input representation of speech based on the one or more control parameters to generate encoded data corresponding to an audio signal that represents a version of the speech based on the target speech characteristics.
US11676567B2
A method for manufacturing a sound absorption structure comprising a cellular panel, a porous layer positioned on a cellular panel first face, a reflective layer positioned on a cellular panel second face and a plurality of acoustic elements positioned in the cellular panel. The method comprises the steps of producing, for each acoustic element, a recess in the cellular panel opening out onto the first and second faces of the cellular panel, inserting the acoustic elements into their recesses, laying an anchoring layer on the second cellular panel face, curing or polymerization at a first pressure to connect each acoustic element to the cellular panel and/or to the anchoring layer, putting in place the porous layer and the reflective layer, and curing or polymerization at a second pressure to connect the porous layer and the reflective layer to the cellular panel.
US11676562B1
A synthetic reed for use with a woodwind instrument includes a synthetic resin matrix with randomly distributed suspended cane particles. Synthetic fibers, which may comprise one or more different material filaments, may also be impregnated within resin matrix. The cane particles can be present in a concentration of approximately 0.5-10% by volume and at least a majority of the cane particles in the resin matrix can be less than 100 micrometers. The matrix may be formed from two components including an epoxy resin component and a hardener component. The reed exhibits improved strength properties usually provided by synthetics with the warmer sonic properties associated with natural cane reeds and preferred by musicians.
US11676551B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a gamma voltage correction method and device, and a display device, wherein a candidate refresh rate last determined in a current frame period of a display panel is used as a target refresh rate, and a gamma voltage corresponding to the target refresh rate is used as a gamma voltage at a display phase in a next frame period of the display panel to perform brightness correction, so that flashing of the display panel during refresh rate switching is prevented, and storage resources are saved.
US11676537B2
Provided is a pixel driving circuit, a display panel and a display apparatus. The pixel driving circuit includes: driving transistor having gate electrode connected to first node, first electrode connected to second node, and second electrode electrically connected to third node coupled to light emitting element; storage capacitor connected to the first node; and M first transistors having M first and second electrodes connected to the first node M functional signal terminals, respectively, M≥1. A driving cycle of the pixel driving circuit includes light-emitting stage and N non-light-emitting stages, N≥M. The M first transistors are respectively turned on in the N non-light-emitting stages, and the M first transistors are all turned off in the light-emitting stage. One of the N non-light-emitting stages includes first non-light-emitting stage adjacent to the light-emitting stage. Channel length L and width W of the first transistor satisfy: W × L < C st × Δ V ∑ i = 1 i = M C ox × ( V G _ off - V N 1 ) 2 ❘ "\[LeftBracketingBar]" V G _ off - V N 1 ❘ "\[RightBracketingBar]" + ❘ "\[LeftBracketingBar]" V G _ off - V X _ i ❘ "\[RightBracketingBar]" .
US11676536B2
A display device includes a display panel including pixels coupled to a first scan line and a data line, a power supply to supply voltages, a scan driver to provide a first scan signal to the first scan line a plurality of times for a first frame period (FFP), a data driver to supply a data signal to the data line, and a timing controller to control driving of components. The FFP includes: a first active period (FAP), in which the data signal is supplied; and a first blank period (FBP), in which the data signal is not supplied. The power supply provides on-bias power having a first voltage level (FVL) in the FAP, and provides on-bias power having a second voltage level (SVL) in the FBP. The FBP following the FAP includes a first dimming period in which the on-bias power gradually changes from the FVL to the SVL.
US11676533B2
A signal processing device and an image display apparatus including the same are disclosed. The image display apparatus includes a display including an organic light emitting diode panel and a signal processor configured to control the display, wherein the signal processor is configured to perform luminance conversion based on a first luminance conversion pattern in the case in which the luminance level of an input image is greater a first level and to perform luminance conversion based on a second luminance conversion pattern having a higher luminance level than the first luminance conversion pattern in the case in which the luminance level of the input image is equal to or less than the first level, whereby low gray level expression of the organic light emitting diode panel is improved.
US11676530B2
A display apparatus of a plurality of display apparatuses constituting a wall display includes a first board, a second board, and a plurality of display modules. The first board includes a first communication interface including a circuitry for wireless transmission, and a timing controller configured to, in response to information on an image being received, generate a plurality of driving signals for driving the plurality of display modules based on the received information and transmit the plurality of driving signals to the second board through the first communication interface. The second board includes a second communication interface including circuitry for wireless reception, a plurality of interfaces electrically connected to the plurality of display modules, and an IC chip configured to, based on the plurality of driving signals being received through the second interface, provide each of the received driving signals to each of the display modules.
US11676524B2
The present disclosure provides a shift register, a gate driving circuit and a display panel, and belongs to the field of display technology. The shift register of the present disclosure includes: an input circuit configured to precharge and reset a pull-up node; one pull-down control circuit being electrically connected to one pull-down circuit through a pull-down node; the pull-down control circuit being configured to control a potential at the pull-down node under a first power voltage; each pull-down circuit being configured to pull down the potential at the pull-down node in response to a potential at the pull-up node; an output circuit configured to output a clock signal through a signal output terminal in response to the potential at the pull-up node; one first noise reduction circuit connected to one pull-down node.
US11676523B2
A method of operating a display device includes: receiving image data at an input frame frequency; generating a modulated clock signal by modulating an input clock signal according to a modulation frequency; randomly selecting an output frame frequency within a data frequency selection range, the input frame frequency being within the data frequency selection range; determining an output start timing of the image data based on the output frame frequency; initiating, at the output start timing, output of the image data in synchronization with the modulated clock signal; and displaying an image based on the outputted image data.
US11676520B2
The present disclosure relates to a technology for a power management device applied to a display device, in which driving voltages having different levels are supplied to driving devices having different sizes of load in different times, and this allows all of the driving devices to stably receive voltages within a limited range even though the number of driving devices increases according to the enlargement of a display panel.
US11676519B2
The present embodiment provides a technology for sensing a common mode voltage in the positive line and negative line of a transmission line for image data and determining whether noise occurs in the image data transmitted through the transmission line by comparing the common mode voltage with a set reference voltage.
US11676515B2
Systems and methods are provided for encrypting and decrypting data using visually encoded ciphertext. The method includes selecting, using a graphical user interface coupled to an electronic device, one or more portions of a document to be encrypted, visually encoding the selected one or more portions of the document, generating a visual representation, wherein the visual representation corresponds to encrypted content, and replacing the selected one or more portions of the document with the visual representation. The method further includes displaying, to the user, the visual representation, capturing the visual representation using one or more cameras, decoding the visual representation, obtaining the encrypted content, and decrypting the encrypted content, generating decrypted content.
US11676510B2
Described herein are examples of welding simulation systems with observation devices that facilitate the types of group interactions that occur in conventional weld training. In some examples, third party observers may use the observation devices to observe the welding simulation from their own perspectives. In some examples, this may allow for traditional “over the shoulder” observation, and/or group/classroom observation and interaction.
US11676508B2
A cloud-based performance enhancement service captures and collects data relating to interactions of users with industrial automation systems of multiple industrial customers for storage and analysis on a cloud platform. The service employs a performance enhancement component that analyzes the data to facilitate determining correlations between certain user interactions and favorable performance of an industrial automation system, determining user interactions that are less favorable or unsafe, determining alternative actions that a user can take to achieve a same or similar preferred operational result, generating recommendations relating to the alternative actions, determining or designing components or techniques that can automate a preferred user action, determining improved user assignments in connection with the industrial automation system, and/or generating training modules or presentations based on preferred user actions that can be used to train users to more efficiently interact with an industrial automation system to achieve improved system performance.
US11676503B2
Systems and methods are provided by which a machine learning model may be executed to determine the probability that a given user will respond correctly to a given assessment item of a digital assessment on their first attempt. The machine learning model may process feature data corresponding to the user and the assessment item in order to determine the probability. The feature data may be calculated periodically and/or in real time or near-real time according to a machine learning model definition based on assessment data corresponding to the user's activity and/or based on responses submitted by all users to the assessment item and/or to content related to the assessment item.
US11676499B2
Methods and system for alerting a Visual Decent Point (VDP) in an aircraft system. The methods and systems retrieve runway altitude data and Minimum Descent Altitude (MDA) data from an avionics database for a target runway. Data in the avionics database for the target runway does not include a published VDP. The method includes calculating the VDP based on a difference between the runway altitude data and the MDA so as to achieve a target downward acceptable glidepath angle during final descent from the MDA to the target runway. The method includes outputting an alert of the VDP by an output device of the aircraft system.
US11676498B2
A system and method for enhanced vehicle efficiency through smart automation for an onboard weather update is provided. The system comprises a processor, and a non-transitory processor readable medium including instructions, executable by the processor, to perform a method comprising: receiving vehicle data from an onboard vehicle data source; receiving real-time weather data from one or more weather data sources; detecting when onboard forecast weather data is out-of-date or irrelevant based on the vehicle data and the real-time weather data; estimating one or more potential benefits from an update of the onboard forecast weather data; and activating the update of the onboard forecast weather data.
US11676496B2
Systems and methods to identify a query parameter in an incoming flight voice or data communication to respond to a request. A processing system configured to: in response to receipt of a clearance message, decode the clearance message to determine whether the clearance message contains a command instruction or clearance data for a flight, and to present the command instruction to a pilot as notice to execute the command instruction or if available, obtain at least one query parameter from the clearance data to configure in a query operation to present in response to a pilot question about the command instruction. In response to receipt of the voice or data communication, determine further an intent within the voice or data communication of a question or instruction voiced by applying an acoustic model for tagging identified parts about the question or instruction voiced with query parameters in response to the pilot.
US11676489B2
An operation schedule changer can execute, as a schedule change process for changing a normal operation schedule, an advancing change process, a delay change process, and a cut-in change process. The schedule changer executes one of the advancing change process, the delay change process, or the cut-in change process based on a boarding demand.
US11676487B2
A parking assist system wherein the system includes a sensor device configured to detect parking space data and transmit it to a post device, wherein the sensor device includes an energy storage device, and a communication device. The communication device may include a camera. The system includes a post device in communication with the sensor device, the system configured to collect parking space data transmitted from a sensor device and communicate parking space occupancy to a driver, wherein the post device includes a vertical post, an energy storage device, a communication device, and a light-emitter. The system may utilize one or more machine-learning algorithms and generate one or more machine-learning models to detect parking space occupancy.
US11676484B2
A method of operating an incursion warning system for a work zone, the incursion warning system comprising: a plurality of sensor units arranged about a perimeter of the work zone; and a plurality of alarm units each comprising one or more of an audio, visual or haptic alarm operable to warn a workforce of a potential danger in response to a detected breach into the work area; the method comprising: establishing a geo-zone delimiting a geographical area that includes at least part of the work zone; and a set of rules associated with the geo-zone; deriving an instruction for one of the alarm units determined to be in the geo-zone from the set of rules based on a characteristic of the alarm unit and a characteristic(s) of one or more other alarm units determined to be within the geo-zone; and wherein the instruction is derived in response to a change in a characteristic of the alarm unit and/or the one or more other alarm units and/or one or more of the sensor units within the geo-zone.
US11676469B2
Techniques and examples pertaining to a tracking method using a two-component tracking device are described. The tracking device includes two components paired with one another: a first component that is specific to a subject the tracking device is intended to track, and a second component that is generic. The second component is capable of establishing a wireless connection with a cellular network, as well as collecting location information of the second component itself. The tracking method involves receiving from the cellular network a set of requirements associated with the subject, and triggering an action based on the set of requirements and the location information collected. The tracking method enables tracking of multiple subjects without a pairing mistake. Namely, a mismatch between multiple subjects to be tracked and multiple tracking devices intended to track the subjects can be avoided.
US11676457B2
An electronic game machine comprises a display, an interface device for receiving input from a human player and a controller. The controller, responsive to initiation of a machine implemented game, prompts the human player to select to play a first player state or a second player state. The controller receives in response to the prompt, an input from the human player through the interface device whereby the human player chooses the first player state or the second player state. The first player state enables the human player to select at least one of at least two predefined selections responsive to a game state and the second player state defines the response of the humane player according to predetermined rules. If the human player has selected the first player state, the controller receives the selection from the human player of the at least one of the at least two predefined selections, determines a predetermined response of the electronic game machine responsive to the selection of the human player and determines an outcome to the machine implemented game responsive to the selection of the human player and the predetermined response of the electronic game machine. If the human player has selected the second player state, the controller automatically responds to selections of the electronic game machine in accordance with the predetermined rules and determines the outcome to the machine implemented game responsive to the automatic responses of the human player. The controller awards the wagered units responsive to the determined outcome. If the human player and the electronic game machine each have remaining wagering units, the controller implements a further round of wagering.
US11676454B2
A credit-substitution symbol mechanic for a gaming device is described. The credit-substitution symbol mechanic randomly triggers an add-substitution symbol feature and randomly determines a number of substitution symbols to add to a first reel to be displayed in a reel area. The credit-substitution symbol mechanic randomly determines a substitution symbol from the number of substitution symbols added to the first reel is a credit-substitution symbol and determines that the credit-substitution symbol is part of a payline. The credit-substitution symbol substitutes as a different symbol type when forming the payline. The credit-substitution symbol mechanic performs a first payout for the payline that pays out a payline award and performs a second payout for the payline that pays out a credit value of the credit-substitution symbol.
US11676449B2
On a network of electronic gaming machines, data regarding the performance of the machines or the players of the machines is collected and processed to make predictions of future jackpots and recommendations of games to play. The predictions and recommendations are delivered via at least one virtual persona that communicates with players or potential players via displays in a casino or on a web browser, via smartphone. Players can conduct conversations with the persona using cellular telephone, text messaging, or other types of Internet communications.
US11676439B2
A face authentication system including a storage to store a face image of each of a plurality of persons who are permitted to enter in advance and information on a zone; an image processing unit to detect a face of at least one person in an image captured by at least one camera having identification information, and generate a face cut-out image of the at least one person; a zone determination unit to determine a zone where a person in the face cut-out image is captured; a collation unit to collate the face cut-out image with the face image of each of the plurality of persons; and an output control unit to, when it is determined that there is not a face of a person appearing in the face cut-out image, superimpose a detection frame indicating a face of a person who is not permitted to enter the zone.
US11676434B2
A method includes performing, by a terminal with an access card, a first relay attack check for the access card in accordance with a local value associated with the terminal and a local value associated with the access card; determining, by the terminal, that the access card has passed the first relay attack check, and based thereon, performing, by the terminal with the access card, an authentication check of the access card in accordance with the local value associated with the terminal, the local value associated with the access card, and a local challenge value associated with the terminal; and determining, by the terminal, that the access card has passed the first relay attack check and the authentication check, and based thereon, validating, by the terminal, the access card.
US11676433B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for enhanced property access with video analytics. In some implementations, images of a first area captured by a camera are obtained. A number of persons in the first area is determined from the images. Data indicating one or more unique identifications is received. A number of persons who are authorized to access a second area are determined. Access is provided to the second area.
US11676426B2
Smart tolling for vehicles is provided. A toll advertisement message (TAM) is received by a vehicle, broadcast from a road-side unit (RSU) via V2X communication, the TAM defining a plurality of toll road tariff data elements, each of the toll road tariff data elements specifying a set of tolling factors indexed by a unique toll context identifier. Roadway usage of the vehicle is determined. A charge for the roadway usage is determined according to the set of tolling factors of the TAM. A toll usage message (TUM) is sent via the V2X communication, the TUM indicating, to the RSU, the tariff for the roadway usage of the vehicle.
US11676417B2
A method for detecting spoof fingerprints detected using an optical fingerprint sensor and polarization includes controlling a display of an electronic device to output a pattern of light to illuminate a fingerprint sample touching the display; blocking smaller-angle light from impinging a plurality of anti-spoof photodiodes of the pixel array; filtering larger-angle light incident on the plurality of anti-spoof photodiodes to at least one polarization direction; detecting the larger-angle light using the plurality of anti-spoof photodiodes; correlating the larger-angle light with the pattern of light; determining the fingerprint spoofing based at least in part on the correlation of the larger-angle light and the pattern of light; and wherein the plurality of anti-spoof photodiodes is interleaved with a plurality of imaging photodiodes such that each anti-spoof photodiode of the plurality of anti-spoof photodiodes is between adjacent imaging photodiodes of the plurality of imaging photodiodes.
US11676416B1
An optical identification device includes a circuit board, a top cover, an optical detection module and an optical channel. The top cover is disposed on the circuit board and has an identification region. The optical detection module is disposed on the circuit board and located inside the top cover. The optical detection module includes an optical emitter and an optical receiver. The optical emitter is adapted to emit an illumination beam toward the top cover. The optical receiver is adapted to receive the illumination beam reflected from the top cover. The optical channel is disposed between the optical emitter and the top cover, and adapted to block the illumination beam from projecting onto a lower surface of the identification region facing the optical receiver.
US11676410B1
Systems and methods are described for natural language processing of a text sequence. The system can identify a set of text and location information for the set of text in an image. The set of text may correspond to an input sequence space. The system can project embeddings of the text into a latent space for processing. Further, the system can reproject the processed embeddings from the latent space to the input sequence space. The system may perform multiple stages of projecting the embeddings to the latent space and reprojecting the processed embeddings from the latent space to the input sequence space. The system can route the reprojected embeddings to a neural network that can identify class predictions for elements of the set of text.
US11676397B2
A system for detecting an object collision includes a processor and a memory in communication with the processor with an objection collision detection module. The objection collision detection module has instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to obtain a first image and a second image of a scene from a camera sensor mounted to a vehicle, determine a change amount between the first image and the second image, and based on the change amount, determine at least one of that an object is approaching the vehicle or the object has collided with the vehicle. The change amount represents the number of pixels with the same location value that changed intensity values between the first and second images.
US11676391B2
A computer accesses a plurality of image frames. The computer identifies, within the plurality of image frames, a plurality of vehicle front vehicle back detections. The computer pairs at least a subset of the plurality of vehicle back detections with vehicle front detections. A given vehicle back detection is paired with a given vehicle front detection based on camera angle relative to a predefined axis. The computer assigns, using each of a plurality of pools, a score to each vehicle front detection—vehicle back detection pair, each non-paired vehicle front detection, and each non-paired vehicle back detection. Each pool comprises a data structure representing a scoring mechanism and a set of detections. The computer assigns each detection to a pool that assigned a highest score to that detection. Upon determining that a given pool comprises at least n detections: the computer labels the given pool as representing a specific vehicle.
US11676386B2
The present disclosure provides a method and system for automated analysis of human behavior. The automated analysis of human behavior is performed to determine fraudulent behavior. The system collects a technical data and a video data from one or more data sources and one or more video sources. In addition, the system trains a fraudulent behavior detection system with the collected technical data and the video data in real-time. Further, the system receives a live video stream data from the one or more video sources. Furthermore, the system analyzes the live video stream data received from the one or more video sources installed at the facility in real-time. Moreover, the system predicts likelihood of fraudulent behavior of humans based on analyzation of the live video stream data. Also, the system performs prediction to alarm concerned authorities of the facility about likelihood of fraudulent behavior.
US11676371B2
An apparatus for processing a neural network comprises an image memory into which an input image is written tile-by-tile, each tile overlapping a previous tile to a limited extent; a weights memory for storing weight information for a plurality of convolutional layers of a neural network, including at least two pooling layers; and a layer processing engine configured to combine information from the image and weights memories to generate an output map and to write the output map to image memory. The apparatus is configured to store a limited number of values from adjacent a boundary of an output map for a given layer. The layer processing engine is configured to combine the output map values from a previously processed image tile with the information from the image memory and the weights when generating an output map for a layer of the neural network following the given layer.
US11676370B2
A method is provided for Cross Video Temporal Difference (CVTD) learning. The method adapts a source domain video to a target domain video using a CVTD loss. The source domain video is annotated, and the target domain video is unannotated. The CVTD loss is computed by quantizing clips derived from the source and target domain videos by dividing the source domain video into source domain clips and the target domain video into target domain clips. The CVTD loss is further computed by sampling two clips from each of the source domain clips and the target domain clips to obtain four sampled clips including a first source domain clip, a second source domain clip, a first target domain clip, and a second target domain clip. The CVTD loss is computed as |(second source domain clip−first source domain clip)−(second target domain clip−first target domain clip)|.
US11676366B1
Image features are extracted from multiple variably-illuminated images, with the images acquired from a multi-camera array microscope. A sequence of images per camera is captured, with the illumination pattern varied between each image capture. After image capture, a post-processing algorithm finds keypoints of interest within the images captured by each camera. These features can be used to assist with stitching together images from the multi-camera array, in addition to image compression, object tracking or other automated tasks.
US11676365B2
An Artificial Intelligence (AI) based automatic damage detection and estimation system receives images of a damaged object. The images are converted into monochrome versions if needed and analyzed by an ensemble machine learning (ML) cause prediction model that includes a plurality of sub-models that are each trained to identify a cause of damage to a corresponding portion for the damaged object from a plurality of causes. In addition, an explanation for the selection of the cause from the plurality of causes is also provided. The explanation includes image portions and pixels of images that enabled the cause prediction model to select the cause of damage. An ML parts identification model is also employed to identify and labels parts of the damaged object which are repairable and parts that are damaged and need replacement. The cost estimation for the repair and restoration of the damaged object can also be generated.
US11676363B2
A digital image is stored on a server. One or more areas of interest are determined within the digital image. One or more sets of features for each of the one or more areas of interest within the digital image are extracted. The digital image is parsed into a set of image layers, wherein a subset of image layers is associated with a first set of features of the one or more sets of features. A request to download the image from the server is received from a client. The subset of image layers is sent to the client. In response to sending the subset, the remainder of the set of images is sent.
US11676361B2
A method includes: acquiring data including moving image obtained by photographing a target and annotation images each indicative of a region of the target in each of frame images in the moving image; executing a process using the data. The process includes: detecting the target in the frame images; inputting, to an auto-encoder, an image obtained by combining partial images including the target and peripheral region images of the target detected in a given number of preceding and succeeding second frame images in a time series of the moving image of a first frame image; inputting a partial image corresponding to the first frame image to a neural network performing a segmentation; updating parameter of the auto-encoder and the neural network based on a difference between an image obtained by combining images from the auto-encoder and the neural network and a partial image of the annotation image.
US11676356B2
Techniques for providing indirect local geo-positioning using AR markers are disclosed. A first movable AR marker can be located or found by a computing device. A location of the first movable AR marker can be known and shared with the computing device. The location of the first movable AR marker can be based on distance between the first movable AR marker and a fixed AR marker. A distance to the first movable AR marker can be determined. Based on the known location of the first movable AR marker and the distance to the first movable AR marker from the computing device, an estimate of the location of the computing device can be determined without having line-of-sight (LOS) to the fixed AR marker.
US11676352B2
Adaptive Control Driven System/ACDS 99, supports visual enhancement, mitigation of challenges and with basic image modification algorithms and any known hardware from contact lenses to IOLs to AR hardware glasses, and enables users to enhance vision with user interface based on a series of adjustments that are applied to move, modify, or reshape image sets and components with full advantage of the remaining useful retinal area, thus addressing aspects of visual challenges heretofore inaccessible by devices which learn needed adjustments.
US11676347B2
A method for virtual try-on of user-wearable items is provided. The method includes capturing, in a client device, a first image of a user, the first image including a reference token for a user-wearable item and displaying, in the client device, images of multiple user-wearable items for the user, receiving an input from the user, the input indicative of a selected user-wearable item from the user-wearable items on display. The method also includes segmenting the first image to separate the reference token from a background comprising a portion of a physiognomy of the user, replacing a segment of the reference token in the first image with an image of the selected user-wearable item in a second image of the user, and displaying, in the client device, the second image of the user.
US11676342B2
The subject technology generates depth data using a machine learning model based at least in part on captured image data from at least one camera of a client device. The subject technology applies, to the captured image data and the generated depth data, a 3D effect based at least in part on an augmented reality content generator. The subject technology generates a depth map using at least the depth data. The subject technology generates a packed depth map based at least in part on the depth map, the generating the packed depth map. The subject technology converts a single channel floating point texture to a raw depth map. The subject technology generates multiple channels based at least in part on the raw depth map. The subject technology generates a segmentation mask based at least on the captured image data. The subject technology performs background inpainting and blurring of the captured image data using at least the segmentation mask to generate background inpainted image data.
US11676339B2
Methods and tessellation modules for tessellating a patch to generate tessellated geometry data representing the tessellated patch. Received geometry data representing a patch is processed to identify tessellation factors of the patch. Based on the identified tessellation factors of the patch, tessellation instances to be used in tessellating the patch are determined. The tessellation instances are allocated amongst a plurality of tessellation pipelines that operate in parallel, wherein a respective set of one or more of the tessellation instances is allocated to each of the tessellation pipelines, and wherein each of the tessellation pipelines generates tessellated geometry data associated with the respective allocated set of one or more of the tessellation instances.
US11676336B2
A method of generating identifiers (IDs) for primitives and optionally vertices during tessellation. The IDs include a binary sequence of bits that represents the sub-division steps taken during the tessellation process and so encodes the way in which tessellation has been performed. Such an ID may subsequently be used to generate a random primitive or vertex and hence recalculate vertex data for that primitive or vertex.
US11676333B2
Techniques are described for operating an optical system. In some embodiments, light associated with a world object is received at the optical system. Virtual image light is projected onto an eyepiece of the optical system. A portion of a system field of view of the optical system to be at least partially dimmed is determined based on information detected by the optical system. A plurality of spatially-resolved dimming values for the portion of the system field of view may be determined based on the detected information. The detected information may include light information, gaze information, and/or image information. A dimmer of the optical system may be adjusted to reduce an intensity of light associated with the world object in the portion of the system field of view according to the plurality of dimming values.
US11676321B2
A method and system for performing graphics processing is provided. The method and system includes storing stencil buffer values in a stencil buffer; generating either or both of a reference value and a source value in a fragment shader; comparing the stencil buffer values against the reference value; and processing a fragment based on the comparing the stencil buffer values against the reference value.
US11676318B2
Provided is an image processing apparatus that reduces the unnaturalness of variable printing. The terminal is this image processing apparatus for designing variable printing. The data acquisition unit acquires form data and variable data for variable printing. The variable drawing unit draws variable data as an aggregate figure with respect to the form data acquired by the data acquisition unit at an area where the drawing may be affected. The output unit outputs an aggregate figure drawn by the variable drawing unit.
US11676317B2
Composite emoji images may be generated based on user-selected input feed types associated with various Internet of Things (IoT) device input feeds. A plurality of input feed type indicators corresponding to a plurality of input feed types may be displayed for user selection. The plurality of input feed types may be associated with a plurality of IoT device input feeds. A user selection of at least some of the plurality of input feed types may be received. A composite emoji image may be generated based on a composite of a base template emoji and individual emoji image layer portions that are generated according to the at least some of the plurality of input feed types of the user selection. For each real-time IoT device input feed, a current emoji image layer portion associated with the feed may be regularly updated for display to better enable the user selection.
US11676314B2
Boundary correspondence determination techniques are described for digital objects as implemented by a boundary correspondence system. In an implementation, the boundary correspondence system partitions outer boundaries of first and second digital objects into a first plurality of cuts and a second plurality of cuts, respectively. A set of corresponding cut pairs are then determined based on a comparison of the first plurality of cuts with the second plurality of cuts. Further, corresponding anchor point pairs are determined based on a comparison of anchor points of the set of corresponding cut pairs. The boundary correspondence system then generates and outputs a mapping of the first digital object to the second digital object based on the determined correspondence of anchor point pairs.
US11676313B2
One embodiment of a disclosed system, method, and computer readable storage medium which includes an algorithm for generating a vector graphic based on a raster graphic input. A tablet scribe system identifies a boundary of a raster graphic image. The boundary is comprised of contrasting pixels in the raster graphic. The system determines a slope for each line segment of the raster graphic boundary. Based on a comparison of the slope for the adjacent line segments, the system generates a contour replaces line segments with equivalent slopes wherein each line segments represents a point on the contour. The system condenses the contour by removing redundant points on the contour based on their position relative to neighboring points and converts the edges of one or more remaining line segments into continuous curves on the contour.
US11676307B2
According to an aspect of an embodiment, operations may comprise capturing, at a vehicle as the vehicle travels, LIDAR scans and camera images. The operations may further comprise selecting, at the vehicle as the vehicle travels, a subset of the LIDAR scans and the camera images that are determined to be useful for calibration. The operations may further comprise computing, at the vehicle as the vehicle travels, LIDAR-to-camera transformations for the subset of the LIDAR scans and the camera images using an optimization algorithm. The operations may further comprise calibrating, at the vehicle as the vehicle travels, one or more sensors of the vehicle based on the LIDAR-to-camera transformations.
US11676303B2
A system includes a processor configured to request capture of image data of an environment surrounding the user, responsive to a margin of error of a detected location of a user being above a predefined threshold. The processor is also configured to process the image data to determine an actual user location relative to a plurality of objects, having known positions, identifiable in the image data and replace the detected location with the determined actual user location.
US11676300B2
A method for determining a position of a tow ball in an image. The method includes obtaining at least one real-time image from a vehicle. The at least one real-time image is processed with a controller on the vehicle to obtain a feature patch (f) describing at least one real-time image. A convolution is performed of the feature patch (f) and each filter (h) from a set of filters (H) with the filter (h) being based on data representative of known tow hitches fixed to the vehicle. A location of a tow ball on the tow hitch is identified in the at least one real-time image is based on the convolution between the feature patch (f) and each filter (h) from the set of filters (H).
US11676296B2
Techniques for augmenting a reality captured by an image capture device are disclosed. In one example, a system includes an image capture device that generates a two-dimensional frame at a local pose. The system further includes a computation engine executing on one or more processors that queries, based on an estimated pose prior, a reference database of three-dimensional mapping information to obtain an estimated view of the three-dimensional mapping information at the estimated pose prior. The computation engine processes the estimated view at the estimated pose prior to generate semantically segmented sub-views of the estimated view. The computation engine correlates, based on at least one of the semantically segmented sub-views of the estimated view, the estimated view to the two-dimensional frame. Based on the correlation, the computation engine generates and outputs data for augmenting a reality represented in at least one frame captured by the image capture device.
US11676293B2
A method for depth sensing from an image of a projected pattern is performed at an electronic device with one or more processors and memory. The method includes receiving an image of a projection of an illumination pattern; for a portion of the image, selecting a candidate image of a plurality of candidate images by comparing the portion of the image with a plurality of candidate images; and determining a depth for the portion of the image based on depth information associated with the selected candidate image. Related electronic devices and computer readable storage medium are also disclosed.
US11676292B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products are described that include obtaining, at a processor, a first image from an image capture device onboard a computing device, detecting, using the processor and at least one sensor, a device orientation of the computing device associated with capture of the first image, determining, based on the device orientation and a tracking stack associated with the computing device, a rotation angle in which to rotate the first image, rotating the first image to the rotation angle to generate a second image, and generating neural network based estimates associated with the first image and the second image.
US11676289B2
An object tracking system that includes a plurality of sensors and a tracking system. A first sensor from the plurality of sensors is configured to capture a first frame of a global plane for at least a portion of the space. The tracking system is configured to determine a pixel location in the first frame for an object located in the space, and to apply a homography to the pixel location to determine a coordinate in the global plane. The homography is configured to translate between pixel locations in the first frame and coordinates in the global plane.
US11676283B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that generate refined segmentation masks for digital visual media items. For example, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems utilize a segmentation refinement neural network to generate an initial segmentation mask for a digital visual media item. The disclosed systems further utilize the segmentation refinement neural network to generate one or more refined segmentation masks based on uncertainly classified pixels identified from the initial segmentation mask. To illustrate, in some implementations, the disclosed systems utilize the segmentation refinement neural network to redetermine whether a set of uncertain pixels corresponds to one or more objects depicted in the digital visual media item based on low-level (e.g., local) feature values extracted from feature maps generated for the digital visual media item.
US11676281B2
3-D convolutional neural networks for organ segmentation in medical images for radiotherapy planning
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for segmenting a medical image. In one aspect, a method comprises: receiving a medical image that is captured using a medical imaging modality and that depicts a region of tissue in a body; and processing the medical image using a segmentation neural network to generate a segmentation output. The segmentation neural network can include a sequence of multiple encoder blocks and a decoder subnetwork. Training the segmentation neural network can include determining a set of error values for a segmentation channel; identifying the highest error values from the set of error values for the segmentation channel; and determining a segmentation loss based on the highest error values identified for the segmentation channel.
US11676280B2
There is provided a method of processing 2D ultrasound images for computing clinical parameter(s) of a right ventricle (RV), comprising: selecting one 2D ultrasound image of 2D ultrasound images depicting the RV, interpolating an inner contour of an endocardial border of the RV for the selected 2D image, tracking the interpolated inner contour obtained for the one 2D ultrasound image over the 2D images over cardiac cycle(s), computing a RV area of the RV for each respective 2D image according to the tracked interpolated inner contour, identifying a first 2D image depicting an end-diastole (ED) state according to a maximal value of the RV area for the 2D images, and a second 2D US image depicting an end-systole (ES) state according to minimal value of the RV area for the 2D images, and computing clinical parameter(s) of the RV according to the identified first and second 2D images.
US11676279B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods that utilize a deep neural network to process object user indicators and an initial object segmentation from a digital image to efficiently and flexibly generate accurate object segmentations. In particular, the disclosed systems can determine an initial object segmentation for the digital image (e.g., utilizing an object segmentation model or interactive selection processes). In addition, the disclosed systems can identify an object user indicator for correcting the initial object segmentation and generate a distance map reflecting distances between pixels of the digital image and the object user indicator. The disclosed systems can generate an image-interaction-segmentation triplet by combining the digital image, the initial object segmentation, and the distance map. By processing the image-interaction-segmentation triplet utilizing the segmentation neural network, the disclosed systems can provide an updated object segmentation for display to a client device.
US11676277B2
From a plurality of medical images in time phases, a target site is extracted from at least one medical image, a reference point is set on each of a target-site side, and a periphery side of the target site which are on across from each other over an outline of the extracted target site, and movement information for the reference points is calculated.
US11676273B2
The method for display may include obtaining an image to be displayed by at least one of the one or more display devices. The image may have a first region. The method may also include acquiring image information to be displayed in a second region that is displayed in the at least one of the one or more display devices. The image information may be related to the image. The method may also include acquiring a display standard associated with the image. The method may also include storing the image to at least one of the one or more storage devices. The method may also include generating a first determination that a display of the second region does not satisfy the display standard when storing the image. The method may also include generating a response based on a result of the first determination.
US11676264B2
A system for characterizing a specimen is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes a characterization sub-system configured to acquire one or more images a specimen, and a controller communicatively coupled to the characterization sub-system. The controller may be configured to: receive from the characterization sub-system one or more training images of one or more defects of a training specimen; generate one or more augmented images of the one or more defects of the training specimen; generate a machine learning classifier based on the one or more augmented images of the one or more defects of the training specimen; receive from the characterization sub-system one or more target images of one or more target features of a target specimen; and determine one or more defects of the one or more target features with the machine learning classifier.
US11676262B2
A method for determining part wear, such as using a wear metric, includes receiving, from a sensor, sensor data representing a surface of a wear part. The method further includes determining distances between measured points in the sensor data and points on one or more part models, which part models may include new part models and/or worn or wear limit part models. The method further includes using a bounding model that at least partially envelopes the part model(s) and the measured points to determine a direction along which the distances are measured. The method may also include quantifying wear using the measured distances.
US11676256B2
Estimating absolute geospatial accuracy in input images without the use of surveyed control points is disclosed. For example, the absolute geospatial accuracy of a satellite images may be estimated without the use of control points (GCPs). The absolute geospatial accuracy of the input images may be estimated based on a statistical measure of relative accuracies between pairs of overlapping images. The estimation of the absolute geospatial accuracy may include determining a root mean square error of the relative accuracies between pairs of overlapping images. For example, the absolute geospatial accuracy of the input images may be estimated by determining a root mean square error of the shears of respective pairs of overlapping images. The estimated absolute geospatial accuracy may be used to curate GCPs, evaluate a digital elevation map, generate a heatmap, or determine whether the adjust the images until a target absolute geospatial accuracy is met.
US11676251B2
Method and system for extracting metadata from an observed scene comprising the use of high-speed image sensor array observing the scene through a field-of-view, filtering, matching of interesting information defined as activity/incident in the observed scene with a predefined-library, adapting the filtering to enhance frequencies of interest and suppress all others, and extracting metadata of interest.
US11676248B2
Described herein are embodiments of a deep residual network dedicated to color filter array mosaic patterns. A mosaic stride convolution layer is introduced to match the mosaic pattern of a multispectral filter arrays (MSFA) or a color filter array raw image. Embodiments of a data augmentation using MSFA shifting and dynamic noise are applied to make the model robust to different noise levels. Embodiments of network optimization criteria may be created by using the noise standard deviation to normalize the L1 loss function. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that embodiments of the disclosed deep residual network outperform the state-of-the-art denoising algorithms in MSFA field.
US11676247B2
The invention relates to reconstructing a synthetic dense super-resolution image from at least one low-information-content image, for example from a sequence of diffraction-limited images acquired by single molecule localization microscopy. After having obtained such a sequence of diffraction-limited images, a sparse localization image is reconstructed from the obtained sequence of diffraction-limited images according to single molecule localization microscopy image processing. The reconstructed sparse localization image and/or a corresponding low-resolution wide-field image are input to an artificial neural network and a synthetic dense super-resolution image is obtained from the artificial neural network, the latter being trained with training data comprising triplets of sparse localization images, at least partially corresponding low-resolution wide-field images, and corresponding dense super-resolution images, as a function of a training objective function comparing dense super-resolution images and corresponding outputs of the artificial neural network.
US11676240B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods may provide for technology to process multi-resolution images by identifying pixels at a boundary between pixels of different resolutions, and selectively smoothing the identified pixels.
US11676232B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products for determining an application status of an applicant for an educational program may include receiving cohort performance data comprising first data entries for participants that have respectively achieved outcomes for the educational program and applicant performance data comprising second data entries for the applicant, calculating adjusted cohort performance data based on the cohort performance data and first data characteristics, providing a predictor model based on the adjusted cohort performance data and the outcomes, sequentially changing predictive parameters of the first data characteristics to create second data characteristics and creating an adjusted predictor model based on the second data characteristics and the outcomes, calculating adjusted applicant performance data based on the applicant performance data and the second data characteristics, and calculating a probability of success for the applicant in the educational program based on the adjusted applicant performance data and the adjusted predictor model.
US11676221B2
The invention relates to systems and methods for behavioral modification of users in an online community where users store or share data to help one another reach informed decisions. One aspect of the invention provides a method for encouraging active participation in an online community. The method includes: receiving information from a first user regarding a topic, receiving a request from a second user for additional information desired from the first user, and sending a personalized message to the first user requesting the additional information. Another aspect of the invention provides a computer-readable medium whose contents cause a computer to perform a method for encouraging active participation in an online community. The method includes: receiving information from a first user regarding a topic; identifying additional information desired from the first user; and sending a personalized message to the first user requesting the additional information.
US11676215B1
Embodiments are disclosed for automatically processing a claim provided by a user. Responsive to receiving a notice of loss associated with a claim of a user, a set of customer identity validation data are collected. The set of customer identity validation data may be determined to meet a pre-defined identity validation criteria. Responsive to determining that the set of customer identity validation data meets the pre-defined identity validation criteria, current claim evaluation data for the claim may be accessed. A set of predictive impact assessment scores associated with the current claim evaluation data may be determined using a predictive model. The set of current claim evaluation data may be determined to meet pre-defined claim data criteria by comparing the predictive impact assessment scores with a set of impact assessment thresholds. Responsive to determining that the set of current claim evaluation data meets the pre-defined claim data criteria, a reactive action to the claim may be determined.
US11676204B1
Systems and methods for automated digital-property analysis are disclosed. A document representing a digital property may be received and the document, or key elements and/or language characterizations representing the document, may be utilized to search one or more databases for similar documents. The search results may be ranked and displayed for review. If an indication that the search results do not correspond to the document is received, that indication may be utilized to promote registration of the document with a trade-secret registry, for provision of insurance policies, etc. Scheduled auditing may be established and utilized to confirm the digital property has not be disclosed and/or to determine a potential misappropriation event.
US11676192B1
A system for providing product recommendations to online visitors to an e-commerce website is provided. The system may include program comprising instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to sort a list of products based on a comparison of a user's interactions with the e-commerce website and previous user interactions with the same e-commerce website.
US11676189B1
The innovation disclosed and claimed herein, in one aspect thereof, comprises systems and methods for optimized communications based on a customer emotional state. In aspects of the system and method, a customer social media account is analyzed for past social media posts. Customer emotional states are determined for the past social media posts. The past social media posts are also associated with financial transactions made by the customer such that emotional states are linked to specific financial transactions. The system and method monitor the customer social media account for new social media posts. A new social media post can be detected. An emotional state can be determined for the new social media post. The system and method collect the financial transactions with the same emotional state. The system and method generate an offer for similar products and/or related to the financial transactions. The offer is communicated to the customer.
US11676185B2
The disclosure herein relates to business content analysis. In particular, the disclosure relates to systems and methods of an expense management system operable to perform automatic business documents' content analysis for generating business reports associated with automated value added tax (VAT) reclaim, Travel and Expenses (T&E) management, Import/Export management and the like. The system is further operable to provide various organizational expense management aspects for the corporate finance department and the business traveler based upon stored data. Additionally, the system is configured to use a content recognition engine, configured as an enhanced OCR mechanism used for extracting tagged text from invoice images and also provides continuous learning mechanism in a structured mode allowing classification of invoice images by type, providing continual process of improvement and betterment throughout.
US11676179B2
A client device can receive, from a data processing system, first data, the first data selected by the data processing system based on second data generated by at least one IoT device with which the client device is associated, and the first data indicating at least one advertisement. The client device can access the at least one advertisement using the first data indicating the at least one advertisement. The client device can add the at least one advertisement to the content accessed by the client device. The client device can present the content with the at least one advertisement added to the content.
US11676176B2
A method that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, providing a first digital assistant to engage in a first communication exchange with a user of the first communication device where the first digital assistant has a first digital assistant persona that controls information provided by the first digital assistant during communication exchanges, analyzing user input during the first communication exchange, and adjusting the first digital assistant persona based on one or more of the user persona, user deficiency, or promotional offers. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11676163B1
Disclosed are a computer implemented method and system for determining a likelihood of a prospective client to engage in a real estate transaction, by obtaining and/or retrieving one or more characteristics of the prospective client; extracting data regarding a digital interaction behavior of the prospective client; deriving from the retrieved/extracted data one or more digital interaction features of the prospective client directly or indirectly associated with real estate, applying a machine learning algorithm on the derived one or more digital interaction features and on the prospective client's characteristics to determine a probability, a range of probabilities or a category of likelihood of the prospective client to engage in the real-estate transaction.
US11676157B2
Systems and methods herein are developed which enable modification of an initial customized cosmetic product, wherein the initial customized cosmetic product is created based on an initial customized cosmetic product specification or an existing specification of a non-custom product. One such system and method for making a custom cosmetic product from an existing non-custom cosmetic product is configured to be capable of: characterizing a non-custom product with a known key comprised of at least one search component; providing user interaction to modify at least one of the at least one search components in this key to create a modified key; and using the modified key to produce custom product which may include determining manufacturing instructions. Such systems and methods may incorporate a custom or non-custom product attribute data base for providing product attribute data for modification and adjustment of the user search key using an adjustment service. Also incorporated herein are applications based on user interaction through two-dimensional complexion color maps derived using data associated with skin color, tone, morphology and/or biochemistry from a plurality of users.
US11676150B1
Various embodiments of the technology described herein alleviate the need to specifically request enrollment information from a user to enroll the user in a passive voice authentication program. The system can receive one or more spoken words from a user. The system can determine that a voice profile is usable for user authentication. The system can select at least one word from the one or more spoken words to enroll the user into a voice authentication program without requiring further interaction from the user. The voice authentication program enables access to secure data in response to receiving the at least one word spoken by the user. After enrollment of the user into the voice authentication program, at least one word spoken by the user is received, and the user is authenticated based on the at least one word.
US11676149B2
A system and method for routing ATM transactions. A transaction request is received at an external application programming interface (API) associated with an account holder. The external API runs on a first processor. The transaction request is validated and authorized at the external API. Information about the transaction is forwarded from the external API to an internal API associated with an automated teller machine (ATM). The internal API runs on a second processor. A unique identifier is generated for the transaction request and provided to a user. The unique identifier is received from the user at the ATM without the user presenting any card and without connecting a mobile device of the user to the ATM. The unique identifier is provided from the ATM to the internal API to confirm a validity of the transaction. The transaction is implemented at the ATM by either dispensing cash or accepting a deposit.
US11676148B2
A system and method for authenticating a candidate user accessing a host computing device as an authentic user is provided. The host computing device is in communication with an authenticating computing device. The method includes receiving, by the authenticating computing device, a request to authenticate the candidate user as an authentic user. The authentication request includes a user identifier. The method also includes retrieving, by the authenticating computing device, transaction data including payment transactions performed by the authentic user based on the user identifier. The method also includes generating, by the authenticating computing device, a challenge question and a correct answer based on the transaction data associated with the authentic user, and transmitting the challenge question for display on a candidate user computing device used by the candidate user.
US11676144B2
A computer-implemented method comprising receiving a transaction request from a first node within the plurality of nodes, the transaction request corresponding to a pending transaction between the first node and a second node; identifying a blockchain associated with the pending transaction, the blockchain including a first block instance having a hierarchy file indicating a hierarchy among the first node, the second node, and the third node; identifying a second block instance having an executable file to approve the transaction request received from the first node; executing the executable file, wherein the executable file is configured to retrieve data from a data source associated with the third node and analyze data to approve or deny the transaction request; and appending a third block instance comprising the set of transaction attributes to the blockchain.
US11676137B2
A system for assisting a payment to a passenger on a commercial passenger vehicle is disclosed. The system is located in the commercial passenger vehicle and comprises: an onboard server configured to (1) receive, from a personal electronic device associated with a passenger, a request to process a payment along with payment credential information and (2) operate to authorize the payment; a light sourcing device in communication with the onboard server and configured to receive, from the onboard server, a verification request for the payment credential information, and display a light identification (ID); and the personal electronic device in communication with the onboard server and the light sourcing device and configured to capture an image of the light ID and obtain the verification request corresponding to the payment credential information from the captured image.
US11676134B2
Embodiments for entity transaction interaction analysis and summarization by a processor. Transaction elements relating to one or more entity transaction interactions may be identifies and extracted from one or more communications. The transaction elements may be combined with one or more transaction opportunities and transaction historical data to provide a transaction summary.
US11676125B2
A system and method for third-party food and dining ordering control, comprising at least one device capable of accessing the internet which may be a mobile device or personal computing device such as a laptop or desktop, a web application, and a point-of-sale system at a restaurant or retailer, wherein users of the web application may deposit funds into an account and set regulations on what they may purchase with the deposited funds, or have an administrator set up an account for them such as a parent setting up an account for a child or a doctor setting up an account for a patient, allowing the parent or doctor or other administrator to regulate what the sub-user such as the child or patient may purchase, in keeping with budget, diet, and lifestyle restrictions, and which may utilize zero-step authentication to allow for seamless use of the service at certain establishments.
US11676124B2
A checkout apparatus includes a memory that stores first information about one or more commodities registered in a registration process, a first interface configured to acquire an image of a predetermined region where registered commodities are to be placed, and a processor configured to identify commodities in the image acquired via the first interface by object recognition, determine whether each of the identified commodities is in the first information stored in the memory, and if one of the identified commodities is not in the first information, output an error signal.
US11676122B2
A distributed ledger based utility system architecture may be configured to enable secure payments, data transmission, and meter configuration of smart sensors. The utility system architecture may be a tiered architecture including multiple nodes at different levels of the architecture where each level may contain a different portion of the distributed ledger. As information is added to the distributed ledger, each portion of the distributed ledger may be updated based on whether the information is relevant to that node. The information may include rate contract transactions, meter configuration data transactions, payment transactions, or the like.
