US11707003B2
A memory device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The memory device includes a device substrate, a resistance variable layer and a top electrode. The bottom electrode is disposed on the device substrate. The resistance variable layer is disposed on the bottom electrode. The top electrode is disposed on the resistance variable layer. The bottom electrode is formed with a tensile stress, while the top electrode is formed with a compressive stress.
US11706995B2
A semiconductor device includes an array region defined on a substrate, a ring of dummy pattern surrounding the array region, and a gap between the array region and the ring of dummy pattern. Preferably, the ring of dummy pattern further includes a ring of magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) pattern surrounding the array region and a ring of metal interconnect pattern overlapping the ring of MTJ and surrounding the array region.
US11706992B2
Provided are a flexible body and a method for controlling the flexible body to deform. The flexible body comprises one or more flexible units, wherein each of the flexible units comprises: a first electrode, a second electrode, an electroactive polymer layer, and a thin film transistor, wherein a source electrode or a drain electrode of the thin film transistor is electrically connected to the second electrode. The first electrode and the second electrode are configured to provide an electric field acting on the electroactive polymer layer, and the electroactive polymer layer is configured to deform in response to the electric field provided by the first electrode and the second electrode.
US11706990B2
In a method for calibrating at least one sensor, wherein the sensor includes at least one piezoelectric element with at least one electrode, and wherein at least one electrode is embodied as a measurement electrode, it is provided as essential to the invention that an electrical excitation voltage is applied to at least one further electrode of the piezoelectric element, embodied as a calibration electrode, to create a mechanical deformation of the piezoelectric element, that the voltage induced by the deformation of the piezoelectric element is captured with at least one measurement electrode, and that the applied excitation voltage and captured voltage are compared.
US11706981B2
Specific polycyclic compounds of the general formula (I) and a process for its preparation, an electronic device comprising at least one of these compounds, an emitting layer, preferably present in an electronic device, comprising at least one compound of general formula (I) and the use of compounds according to general formula (I) in an electronic device as a host material, a charge transporting material, charge and/or exciton blocking material, preferably as a host material or an electron transporting material.
US11706979B2
Disubstituted diaryloxybenzoheterodiazole compound of general formula (I): in which: Z represents a sulfur atom, an oxygen atom, a selenium atom; or an NR5 group in which R5 is selected from linear or branched C1-C20, or from optionally substituted aryl groups; R1, R2, R3 and R4 are as defined in the claims. The disubstituted diaryloxybenzoheterodiazole compound of general formula (I) can advantageously be used as a spectrum converter in luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) which are in turn capable of improving the performance of photovoltaic devices (or solar devices) selected, for example, from photovoltaic cells (or solar cells), photovoltaic modules (or solar modules) on either a rigid substrate or a flexible substrate.
US11706973B2
Provided are a condensed cyclic compound and an organic light-emitting device including the same. The organic light-emitting device may include a first electrode, a second electrode, and an organic layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The organic layer may include the condensed cyclic compound represented by Formula 1: In Formula 1, rings A1, A2, and A3 may each be independently a C5-C60 carbocyclic group or a C2-C30 heterocyclic group, and n1 to n3 may each be independently 0 or 1, provided that the sum of n1, n2, and n3 is 1. In addition, the descriptions of X1, L1 to L9, a1 to a9, Ar1 to Ar6, b1 to b6, R1 to R3, and c1 to c3 are as defined in the present specification.
US11706972B2
This invention discloses oligosilane compounds. These compounds can be used in OLEDs.
US11706969B2
An opto-electronic device includes: a first electrode; an organic layer disposed over the first electrode; a nucleation promoting coating disposed over the organic layer; a nucleation inhibiting coating covering a first region of the opto-electronic device; and a conductive coating covering a second region of the opto-electronic device.
US11706961B2
Provided is a display panel including first bypass wirings electrically coupling main pixel circuits in a first direction, and bypassing along one side of a pixel group at an outermost portion of the component area, horizontal wirings electrically coupled to the main pixel circuits and auxiliary pixel circuits and extending in a first direction, and extension wirings between two pixel groups adjacent to each other along the first direction, and extending in the first direction, wherein the extension wirings are electrically coupled to the horizontal wirings included in each of the two pixel groups, and the number of the extension wirings is less than the number of the horizontal wirings.
US11706959B2
A display device is provided. The display device includes: a substrate including a display area including pixels at which an image is displayed and a peripheral area at which the image is not displayed, the peripheral area disposed outside the display area. In the peripheral area, the display device further includes: a plurality of thin film transistors connected to the pixels and with which operation of the pixels is tested, the thin film transistors including gate electrodes arranged separated from each other on the substrate; and a bridge wiring electrically connecting adjacent gate electrodes of the plurality of thin film transistors to each other.
US11706955B2
A display device is provided. The display device includes first, second and third front signal lines disposed on a first portion and electrically connected to light emitting elements, connection lines overlapping a second portion, and first, second and third rear signal lines disposed on a third portion. The first, second and third front signal lines are disposed on different layers. The first front signal line and the first rear signal line are disposed on a same layer. The second front signal line and the second rear signal line are disposed on a same layer. The third front signal line and the third rear signal line are disposed on a same layer. The connection lines electrically and selectively connect the front signal lines and the rear signal lines.
US11706954B2
A display device includes a substrate, a first semiconductor pattern on the substrate and including a semiconductor layer of a first transistor, a first gate insulator on the substrate, a first conductive layer on the first gate insulator and including a first gate electrode of the first transistor and a first electrode of the capacitor connected to the first gate electrode of the first transistor, a first interlayer dielectric on the first gate insulator, a second semiconductor pattern on the first interlayer dielectric and including a semiconductor layer of a second transistor and a second electrode of the capacitor, a second gate insulator on the first interlayer dielectric, a second conductive layer on the second gate insulator and including a gate electrode of the second transistor and a third semiconductor pattern between the second semiconductor pattern and any one of the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer.
US11706933B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a substrate, a dielectric layer on the substrate, and a contact plug in the dielectric layer. An upper portion of the contact plug protrudes from a top surface of the dielectric layer. The upper portion of the contact plug acts as a first electrode. A buffer layer is disposed on the dielectric layer and beside the upper portion of the contact plug. A resistive-switching layer is disposed beside the buffer layer. A second electrode is disposed beside the resistive-switching layer.
US11706930B2
A semiconductor device includes a bottom electrode, a top electrode, a sidewall spacer, and a data storage element. The sidewall spacer is disposed aside the top electrode. The data storage element is located between the bottom electrode and the top electrode, and includes a ferroelectric material. The data storage element has a peripheral region which is disposed beneath the sidewall spacer and which has at least 60% of ferroelectric phase. A method for manufacturing the semiconductor device and a method for transforming a non-ferroelectric phase of a ferroelectric material to a ferroelectric phase are also disclosed.
US11706926B2
A semiconductor memory device, with which a manufacturing method is associated, includes a substrate. The semiconductor memory device also includes a source structure disposed on a first region of the substrate, memory cell strings connected to the source structure, and a capacitor structure disposed on a second region of the substrate. The capacitor structure is spaced apart from the source structure in a horizontal direction.
US11706923B2
A semiconductor memory device including: a common source line; a substrate on the common source line; a plurality of gate electrodes arranged on the substrate and spaced apart from each other in a first direction perpendicular to a top surface of the common source line; a plurality of insulation films arranged among the plurality of gate electrodes; a plurality of channel structures penetrating through the plurality of gate electrodes and the plurality of insulation films in the first direction; and a plurality of residual sacrificial films arranged on the substrate and spaced apart from each other in the first direction, wherein the plurality of gate electrodes are disposed on opposite sides of the plurality of residual sacrificial films.
US11706921B2
A semiconductor storage device includes a substrate, a first wiring, a second wiring, a third wiring, a fourth wiring, a charge storage unit. The first wiring extends in a first direction along a surface of the substrate. The second wiring is aligned with the first wiring in a second direction intersecting with the first direction and extends in the first direction. The third wiring is in contact with the first wiring and the second wiring and includes a semiconductor. The fourth wiring is located between the first wiring and the second wiring, extends in a third direction intersecting with the first direction and the second direction, and is aligned with the third wiring in at least the first direction. The charge storage unit is located between the third wiring and the fourth wiring.
US11706918B2
A method used in forming a memory array comprising strings of memory cells comprises forming a stack comprising vertically-alternating first tiers and second tiers. The stack comprises laterally-spaced memory-block regions. Channel-material strings extend through the first tiers and the second tiers. Material of the first tiers is of different composition from material of the second tiers. Conducting material is formed in one of the first tiers. The conducting material comprises a seam in and longitudinally-along opposing sides of individual of the memory-block regions in the one first tier. The seam is penetrated with a fluid that forms intermediate material in the seam longitudinally-along the opposing sides of the individual memory-block regions in the one first tier and comprises a different composition from that of the conducting material. Other embodiments, including structure independent of method, are disclosed.
US11706917B2
A method is provided in which a monitor cell is made that is substantially identical to the flash memory cells of an embedded memory array. The monitor cell is formed simultaneously with the cells of the memory array, and so in certain critical aspects, is exactly comparable. An aperture is formed that extends through the control gate and intervening dielectric to the floating gate of the monitor cell. To prevent silicide contamination during a subsequent CMP process, a silicide protection layer (SPL), such as a resist protective oxide, is formed over exposed portions of the control gate prior to formation of a silicide contact formed on the floating gate. The SPL is formed simultaneously with existing manufacturing processes to avoid additional process steps.
US11706916B2
A method of controlling a memory device includes receiving a write instruction; starting a write operation to a first address in response to the write instruction; receiving a first read instruction of the first address; suspending the write operation; and applying a read voltage to a word line corresponding to the first address in a first read operation in response to the first read instruction.
US11706915B2
An array of electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM) includes a first row of floating gate, a second row of floating gate, two spacers, a first row of word line and a second row of word line. The first row of floating gate and the second row of floating gate are disposed on a substrate along a first direction. The two spacers are disposed between and parallel to the first row of floating gate and the second row of floating gate. The first row of word line is sandwiched by one of the spacers and the adjacent first row of floating gate, and the second row of word line is sandwiched by the other one of the spacers and the adjacent second row of floating gate. The present invention also provides a method of forming said array of electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM).
US11706913B2
The present disclosure provides to a method for manufacturing a semiconductor memory device. The method includes receiving a substrate including a cell area and a peripheral area; forming a first bit line structure on a surface of the cell area; depositing a landing pad above the barrier layer and on the top surface of the first bit line structure; removing a top corner of the landing pad to form an inclined surface connecting a top surface of the landing pad to a sidewall of the landing pad; etching the nitride layer of the first bit line structure and the spacer nitride layer from the top opening so as to form a concavity; etching the spacer oxide layer from the concavity to form an air gap; and depositing a silicon nitride layer to seal the air gap.
US11706910B2
Semiconductor devices may include an active pattern, a gate structure in an upper portion of the active pattern, a bit line structure on the active pattern, a lower spacer structure on a lower portion of a sidewall of the bit line structure, and an upper spacer structure on an upper portion of the sidewall of the bit line structure. The lower spacer structure includes first and second lower spacers sequentially stacked, the first lower spacer contacts the lower portion of the sidewall of the bit line structure and does not include nitrogen, and the second lower spacer includes a material different from the first lower spacer. A portion of the upper spacer structure contacting the upper portion of the sidewall of the bit line structure includes a material different from the first lower spacer.
US11706909B2
Some embodiments include a memory device having a buried wordline, a shield plate, and an access device. The access device includes first and second diffusion regions and a channel region. The diffusion regions and the channel region are arranged vertically so that the channel region is between the first and second diffusion regions. The wordline is adjacent to a first side surface of the channel region, and the shield plate is adjacent to a second side surface of the channel region; with the first and second side surfaces being in opposing relation to one another. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.
US11706907B2
A modular system of plastic walls having embedded and coextensive electrically conductive components configured to electrically connect with each other when the walls are mated. The walls have joining edges that form joint seams with other walls when joined together to create an enclosure. When enough walls are used to surround a storage space, a Faraday cage is created. The walls additionally have portions of tortuous paths at each joining edge that mate with a complementary portion of a tortuous path of another wall when the walls are joined together. A torturous path seal is thereby created at each joint seam. The plastic walls can be configured in a multiplicity of combinations to create various enclosures necessary for RFID-enabled storage and tracking of medical articles. Containers, enclosures, cabinets, and drawers of differing heights and sizes can be made and they may be stacked or otherwise assembled.
US11706905B2
A module includes a substrate, which has a polygonal shape in a plan view, an electronic component and an electronic component, which are mounted on a main surface of the substrate, and side electrodes, which are provided on at least two side surfaces of a plurality of side surfaces that form the polygonal shape of the substrate. A conductor film coupled to the electronic component and a conductor film coupled to the electronic component are provided on the substrate. The conductor film extends to reach a side surface of the at least two side surfaces to be coupled to a side electrode provided on the side surface. The conductor film extends to reach a side surface of the at least two side surfaces, which is different from the side surface, to be coupled to a side electrode provided on the side surface.
US11706904B2
An electronic device is provided, which may include a first housing; a second housing configured to accommodate at least a portion of the first housing and guide a sliding movement of the first housing; a display including a first display area disposed on the first housing and a second display area extending from the first display area; a PCB configured to accommodate at least one electronic component; a support member configured to support the PCB; a side wall member connected to the support member and facing at least a portion of the first housing; a heat dissipation sheet configured to receive heat from the at least one electronic component, the heat dissipation sheet being disposed on the support member and the side wall member; and a heat dissipation member disposed on the side wall member and facing the heat dissipation sheet.
US11706900B1
An information handling system includes a plurality of computing devices, and at least one environmental management unit external to the plurality of the computing devices and configured to manage an internal environment of the information handling system.
US11706895B2
A storage system that supports independent scaling of compute resources and storage resources, the storage system including: one or more chassis, wherein each chassis includes a plurality of slots, each slot configured to receive a blade; a plurality of compute resources; a plurality of storage resources; a plurality of blades, where each blade includes at least one compute resource or at least one storage resource and each of the storage resources may be directly accessed by each of the compute resources without utilizing an intermediate compute resource; a first power domain configured to deliver power to one or more of the compute resources; and a second power domain configured to deliver power to the storage resources, wherein the first power domain and the second power domain can be independently operated.
US11706892B1
An apparatus is provided for loading an electronic device, e.g., a populated GPU board, onto a device tray, e.g., a GPU tray, where the electronic device is cumbersome and the device tray presents obstacles that prevent simply lowering the device into the tray. The apparatus includes a dolly and a base, the base configured to position the dolly against the device tray so that the dolly, carrying the board, may slide the device into position and then be removed from beneath the device.
US11706887B2
An electronic device including a waterproof structure is provided. The electronic device includes a housing that includes a first face, a second face that faces in a direction substantially opposite to the first face, and a side surface that at least partially encloses a space between the first face and the second face, a middle plate arranged between the first face and the second face inside the housing to be substantially parallel to the first face, extending from the side surface, and including at least one opening, a printed circuit board arranged between the middle plate and the second face, a display arranged between the middle plate and the first face, and including a face directed toward the second face, and a seal member configured to hermetically seal the at least one opening of the middle plate, and arranged between the face of the display and the middle plate.
US11706869B2
A printed circuit board of an information handling system includes a dielectric layer, adjacent differential pairs, a ground layer, and a ground wall. The adjacent differential pairs are plated on the dielectric layer, and generate crosstalk between each other. The ground wall is in physical communication with and electrically coupled to the ground layer. The ground wall extends substantially perpendicular from the ground layer through the dielectric layer. A top surface of the ground wall is a specific height above a top surface of the adjacent different pairs. The ground wall suppresses the generated crosstalk based on the specific height and a width of the ground wall.
US11706868B2
A circuit board includes at least one circuit board unit sequentially stacked in a thickness direction of the circuit board, an insulating layer, an electromagnetic shielding layer, and a barrier layer. The circuit board unit includes a substrate layer, and two conductive layers respectively disposed on two opposite sides of the substrate layer in a thickness direction of the substrate layer, and each of the conductive layers includes a plurality of signal lines. The insulating layer is located on a side of an outermost conductive layer away from the substrate layer. The electromagnetic shielding layer is located on a side of the insulating layer away from the substrate layer. The barrier layer is located between the electromagnetic shielding layer and the outermost conductive layer. The barrier layer at least covers a plurality of signal lines in the outermost conductive layer.
US11706858B2
An occupancy sensing lighting control system is disclosed. The occupancy sensing lighting control system includes an electric lighting fixture configured to illuminate a surrounding area, a wireless communication unit associated with the electric lighting fixture, a signal-generating device, a signal detector, an occupancy condition generating device, and a load control device configured to control the current supplied to the electric lighting fixture. The signal-generating device generates control signals detectable by a mobile cellular phone device which is located within the surrounding area and is not being in an active call mode. The signal detector detects communication signals generated by the mobile cellular phone device and the occupancy condition generating device determines occupancy condition in response to a detection of communication signals from the mobile cellular phone device.
US11706851B2
An exemplary semiconductor technology implemented microwave filter includes a dielectric substrate with metal traces on one surface that function as frequency selective circuits and reference ground. A top enclosure encloses the substrate have respective interior recesses with deposited continuous metal coatings. A plurality of metal bonding bumps or bonding wall extends outwardly from the projecting walls of the bottom and top enclosures. The bonding bumps on the top enclosure engage reference ground metal traces on respective surface of the substrate. As a result of applied pressure, the bonding bumps and respective reference ground metal traces together with the through-substrate vias form a metal-to-metal singly-connected ground reference structure for the entire circuitry.
US11706843B2
The present invention relates to a method for controlling a cooking process by using a liquid in a cooking vessel, for example a cooking pot, upon a cooking hob (20). The method comprises a step of determining a cooking parameter of the liquid in the cooking vessel at a predetermined time (tB, tBP), a step of adjusting a heating power density (P) of a cooking zone of the cooking hob (20) for transferring a heating power (P) to the cooking vessel placed on the cooking zone; and a step of reducing the heating power density (P) transferred to the cooking vessel from an initial power (iP) to a simmering power (PS). Further, the present invention relates to a cooking vessel for the cooking hob (20). Moreover, the present invention relates to a cooking appliance for performing the cooking process.
US11706840B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to perform methods for enhancement of multi-SIM devices, such as UE 106. A network may increase paging retries for known MU-SIM devices, e.g., based on an indication of capabilities from a MU-SIM device. The indication may be via a NAS registration request, an RRC capability procedure, and/or an RRC UE assistance procedure. Additionally, a network may include an indication of a paging priority to the UE. The UE may then determine a response to the page based, at least in part, on the indicated priority. Further, the UE may indicate a tune-away to the network. The indication of the tune-away may include a cause and/or duration for the tune-away and may be provided at an RRC level or a network access stratum (NAS) level.
US11706839B2
A portable communication device cooperation system includes a slave portable communication device that can communicate with a master portable communication device. Each of a plurality of slave-side slots of a slave-side storage unit included in the slave portable communication device stores a slave application program transferred from a master-side slot disposed in the master portable communication device. The slave application program includes part of information of a master application program, and causes the slave portable communication device to operate by being executed by a slave-side control unit of the slave portable communication device. As a result, the portable communication device cooperation system, the master portable communication device, and the slave portable communication device exhibit an effect of enabling the slave portable communication device to be variously used.
US11706833B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to on-demand ultra-reliable, low-latency communication (URLLC) are provided. In one embodiment, a base station (BS) receives, from a user equipment (UE) in a first cell frequency, a request for a protocol data unit (PDU) session over a network slice. The BS receives, from a core network entity, a resource configuration request for the PDU session over the network slice. The BS transmits, to the core network entity, a resource configuration response indicating a cause for rejecting the resource configuration request. In one embodiment, a UE transmits, in a first cell frequency of a network, a network registration request message requesting a network slice of the network that is not provided by the first cell frequency. The UE receives a network registration response message indicating the network slice is allowed based on a second cell frequency of the network providing the network slice requested.
US11706824B2
This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for transmitting, to one or more local area network clients of the device, a multicast message indicating an available network slice, receiving, from a first local area network client of the one or more local area network clients based on the multicast message, a request to access the available network slice, establishing, at the device based on receiving the request, a connection associated with the available network slice, and transmitting, to the first local area network client based on establishing the connection, a confirmation to access the available network slice.
US11706818B2
Disclosed is a network access method, including that a station receives a first radio frame from a first access point, where the first radio frame indicates a resource unit for a random-access operation; and when the sending address of the first radio frame is a public identity or a private identity, the station performs the random-access operation. Also disclosed are a network access apparatus and a storage medium.
US11706813B2
A random access method for a terminal includes: receiving a system message broadcasted by a target base station and initiating random access to the target base station; in response to a failure of the random access, determining a first operator to which the target base station belongs based on a first PLMN identity in the plurality of PLMN identities; and in response to a second operator, to which the terminal belongs, being different from the first operator, stopping a random access retry to the target base station and initiating random access to other base station except the target base station. The system message includes a plurality of public land mobile network (PLMN) identities with an order relationship.
US11706801B2
A method of listen before talk (LBT) recovery procedure for a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method comprises performing an LBT failure detection procedure for a serving cell, triggering the LBT recovery procedure for the serving cell in response to detecting consistent uplink (UL) LBT failures in a first bandwidth part (BWP) on the serving cell according to the LBT failure detection procedure, where the LBT recovery procedure includes triggering an LBT failure procedure for determining the first BWP as an invalid BWP, and cancelling the triggered LBT recovery procedure for the serving cell in response to confirming a predefined condition in the UE.
US11706780B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive one or more messages indicative of uplink semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) resources and downlink SPS resources allocated to the UE, the uplink SPS resources and the downlink SPS resources being within a frequency band used for full duplex communications by the UE. The UE may modify parameters associated with the full duplex communications on the uplink SPS resources, the downlink SPS resources, or both, based at least in part on instances of the uplink SPS resources at least partially overlapping in time with instances of the downlink SPS resources. The UE may apply the one or more parameters, after modification, to transmission of uplink communications over the instances of the uplink SPS resources, reception of downlink communications over the instances of the downlink SPS resources, or both.
US11706779B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive control signaling indicating a preamble configuration. The UE may receive a preamble in a time domain. The preamble may include a set of modulated bits during a first portion of an initial symbol duration of a slot. The set of modulated bits may include one or more of a first subset of network temporary identifier bits or a second subset of modulation and coding scheme (MCS) bits. The UE may process the preamble during a second portion of the initial symbol duration of the slot based on the preamble configuration.
US11706774B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may communicate with a base station over a set of component carriers according to a carrier aggregation configuration. In some cases, the UE may receive an indication of one or more groups of units, where each group may include one or more component carriers and/or one or more time intervals of each component carrier. The UE may receive downlink control information (DCI) including one or more fields that are common to a group of units that may schedule a set of data transmissions over the one or more groups of units such that the single DCI may schedule multiple component carriers (e.g., two or more) over one or more time intervals. The UE may transmit or receive the set of data transmissions (e.g., uplink or downlink data transmissions) over the scheduled units based on receiving the DCI.
US11706763B2
Device-to-Device (D2D) resource configuration or allocation methods and apparatuses are provided. The D2D resource configuration method includes the following steps. A User Equipment (UE) receives D2D resource configuration information sent by a D2D control node. The UE configures D2D resources according to the D2D resource configuration information. The technical solution implements D2D resource configuration for a D2D UE.
US11706758B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for scheduling component carriers and one or more operations on a per NB RF chain basis. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes monitoring occurrences of a first number of operations to be performed for a plurality of component carriers (CCs) according to different periodicities, determining a second number of available narrow band (NB) radio frequency (RF) chains, and scheduling, on the available NB RF chains, up to the second number of the operations to be performed for the plurality of CCs based on a scheduling algorithm if the first number is greater than the second number.
US11706756B2
A method of allocating an uplink data packet resource and a user equipment are provided, and the method includes: receiving at least one UL grant sent by a network device; determining, according to Logical Channel Prioritization LCP restriction corresponding to a target object, correspondence relationship between the target object and the UL grant; and performing resource allocation on each UL grant according to the correspondence relationship between the target object and the UL grant; wherein, the LCP restriction includes at least mapping relationship between the target object and a type of UL grant, and the target object is a service type or a logical channel or a logical channel group.
US11706753B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a sidelink grant scheduling a sidelink data transmission associated with one or more sidelink resources. The UE may determine a minimum time delay between the sidelink grant and the sidelink data transmission scheduled by the sidelink grant based at least in part on a value associated with a sidelink minimum-k parameter configured for the UE. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11706751B2
A base station determines a temporal filter configuration for a user equipment (UE) and transmits the temporal filter configuration to the UE. The temporal filter configuration indicates whether the UE should apply a temporal filter to channel state information (CSI) measurements to generate CSI values, or identifies which temporal filter to apply. The UE generates CSI values based on the temporal filter configuration and reports the generated CSI values to the base station.
US11706739B2
This disclosure relates to systems, apparatuses, and methods for coordinating communication and avoiding and/or mitigating collisions for multi-subscriber identity module devices in a wireless communication system. A wireless device may coordinate communication associated with different subscriber identity modules and/or may mitigate collisions between communications associated with different subscriber identity modules. A network may provide information to improve coordination and/or mitigate collisions. A network may adjust paging schedules and/or provision of alert messages to improve coordination.
US11706737B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may transmit multiple repetitions of a paging early indication (PEI) signal to a user equipment (UE) to indicate that the UE is to receive paging signaling in a paging occasion. In some cases, a PEI occasion for transmitting a PEI repetition may have a scheduling conflict. For example, a PEI occasion may collide with other downlink signaling. A UE may implement techniques to resolve scheduling conflicts or collisions for PEI repetitions. For example, the UE may be configured to receive either colliding PEI signaling or colliding downlink signaling based on priorities of the signaling. Additionally, or alternatively, PEI signaling may be shifted (e.g., delayed) until after the downlink signaling ends. In some cases, a UE may be configured with a subset of blind decoding hypotheses for PEI decoding.
US11706732B2
A method performed by an access and mobility management function (AMF), the method comprising receiving, from a User Equipment (UE), a first message including capability information related to a periodic registration timer, setting a periodic registration timer indication based on the capability information, and transmitting, to the UE, a second message including the periodic registration timer indication.
US11706730B2
The present application provides a time synchronization method and an electronic device. The method includes sending a clock synchronization signal and first real time clock (RTC) information separately; and the clock synchronization signal is configured to measure a delay between a first module and at least one second module, the delay is used for phase compensation performed on the clock synchronization signal received at the side of the at least one second module, and the clock synchronization signal after being subjected to the phase compensation is configured to trigger the at least one second module to update local second RTC information to the first RTC information.
US11706721B2
A wireless device receives one or more messages. The one or more messages comprise a sidelink priority for a sidelink transmission via a sidelink resource pool; a first priority threshold for the sidelink resource pool; and a second priority threshold for the sidelink resource pool. The sidelink transmission overlapping with a configured uplink transmission is transmitted based on comparing the sidelink priority with: the first priority threshold in response to the configured uplink transmission being a first priority class; and the second priority threshold in response to the configured uplink transmission being a second priority class.
US11706712B2
Controlling server power usage in a data center is provided. Power usage among a plurality of server racks in active mode processing a set of workloads in the data center is managed. It is detected that a new server rack in standby mode is being added to the plurality of server racks. It is ensured that the new server rack in the standby mode is properly controlled and monitored prior to transitioning the new server rack to the active mode. It is determined whether power safety criteria are met to safely join the new server rack to the plurality of server racks prior to transitioning the new server rack from the standby mode to the active mode. The new server rack is transitioned to the active mode in without exceeding a power budget for the plurality of server racks in response to determining that the power safety criteria are met.
US11706707B2
Within many applications impulse radio based ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) transmission offers significant benefits for very short range high data rate communications when compared with existing standards and protocols. In many of these applications the main design goals are very low power consumption and very low complexity design for easy integration and cost reduction. Digitally programmable IR-UWB transmitters using an on-off keying modulation scheme on a 0.13 microns CMOS process operating on 1.2V supply and yielding power consumption as low as 0.9 mW at a 10 Mbps data rate with dynamic power control are enabled. The IR-UWB transmitters support new frequency hopping techniques providing more efficient spectrum usage and dynamic allocation of the spectrum when transmitting in highly congested frequency bands. Biphasic scrambling is also introduced for spectral line reduction. Additionally, an energy detection receiver for IR-UWB is presented to similarly meet these design goals whilst being adaptable to address IR-UWB transmitter specificity.
US11706696B2
A wireless communications device is configured to act as a remote node of a wireless access network by selecting, when the wireless communications device is in an idle mode in which it has not established a connection to the wireless communications network, an infrastructure equipment forming part of the radio access network of the wireless communications network to provide a network interface with a core network part of the wireless communications network via the selected infrastructure equipment.
US11706695B2
A method for providing system information (SI) performed by a base station (BS) is provided. The method includes: broadcasting a system information block type 1 (SIB1) associated with a cell; receiving, from a user equipment (UE), a first message including a common control channel (CCCH) service data unit (SDU), the CCCH SDU including a radio resource control (RRC) SI request message; and transmitting, to the UE, a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) including a UE contention resolution identity that matches a portion of the CCCH SDU. The MAC CE enables a MAC entity of the UE to indicate reception of an acknowledgment for the RRC SI request message to an RRC entity of the UE. The SIB1 does not include information related to a Random Access (RA) resource specific to SI requested by the RRC SI request message.
US11706692B2
A method for a wireless device to establish an RRC connection with a network for accessing a network slice of the network is provided. The method receives, from the network, an access control parameter configuration of an access category associated with the network slice while the wireless device is in a Radio Resource Control (RRC) inactive state (RRC INACTIVE). The method then initiates a random access procedure for establishing the RRC connection with the network to access the network slice according to an access control indicator of the access control parameter configuration of the access category.
US11706688B2
An apparatus and method are provided for steering a PDU session associated with traffic routed to a selected UPF. The method includes receiving, from an AF entity, a first message including information for selecting a UPF entity for traffic routing of a terminal and information on a spatial condition associated with a location of the terminal; transmitting, to an SMF entity, a second message to receive information associated with the location of the terminal indicating that the terminal entered or left a specific area, the specific area being determined by the PCF entity based on the spatial condition; receiving, from the SMF entity, a third message including the information associated with the location of the terminal; and transmitting, to the SMF entity, a fourth message based on the information associated with the location of the terminal included in the third message, the fourth message including the information for selecting the UPF entity for traffic routing of the terminal.
US11706684B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods related to reducing or making more efficient handovers from one cell to another cell in a communications network. The method includes receiving mobility data for a device being serviced by a first cell, classifying the device based on the mobility data to yield a classification and making a handoff decision when handing off the device from the first cell to a second cell based at least in part on the classification. An example of the mobility data is a speed at which the device is moving or time a device is in a cell.
US11706680B2
A network entity and an operating method thereof in a communication system are provided. The method includes establishing a first connection with a user equipment (UE) using a first access technology; receiving, from the UE, via the first connection, capability information on communication with a second cell using a second access technology different from the first access technology; transmitting a first signal to the UE via the first connection; and transmitting, to the UE, via the first connection, configuration information related to the second cell for establishing a second connection between the UE and the second cell. The first cell and the second cell are simultaneously active for the UE.
US11706674B2
Various embodiments are described for apparatuses, systems, and methods for pre-forwarding data packets for conditional handover. A UE may connect to a serving base station and perform measurement(s) of one or more neighboring base stations. The UE may provide measurement report(s) corresponding to the measurement(s) to the serving base station. The UE may receive handover assistance information from the serving base station. The handover assistance information may identify at least one neighboring base station that receives downlink packet forwarding of downlink packets intended for the UE prior to handover. The UE may evaluate handover conditions of the neighboring base stations, including the at least one neighboring base station. The UE may perform handover to a first neighboring base station of the at least one neighboring base station based on the at least one neighboring base station receiving downlink packet forwarding of downlink packets intended for the UE prior to handover.
US11706670B2
This document describes methods, devices, systems, and means for the transfer of radio bearer (RB) configurations from a Fifth Generation (5G) New Radio (NR) base station (121) to an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) base station (122). The 5G NR base station (121) configures an RB configuration to configure an RB for communication of Protocol Data Units between the 5G NR base station (121) and a user equipment (111). The 5G NR base station (121) determines to hand over the user equipment (111) to an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) base station and sends a Handover Request message for the user equipment (111) to the E-UTRA base station (122). The 5G NR base station (121) receives a Handover Request Acknowledge message from the E-UTRA base station (122) and transmits a 5G NR Radio Resource Control (RRC) message including an E-UTRA RRC message to the user equipment (111).
US11706669B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for voice session handover. One method (800) includes receiving (802) a handover message including first information indicating a voice handover request to handover a voice session from a first network to a second network. The method (800) includes determining (804) a first network function configured to facilitate communication with the second network. The method (800) includes transmitting (806) a relocation request message to the first network function, wherein the relocation request message includes second information related to the voice handover request. The method (800) includes receiving (808) a relocation response message from the first network function, wherein the relocation response message indicates completion of a voice handover. The method (800) includes transmitting (810) third information related to the voice handover to a third network function, wherein the third network function suspends non-guaranteed bit rate data flows.
US11706666B2
A resource selection method, an apparatus, and a device, where the method includes determining, by first user equipment (UE), parameter information of a sensing window, where the parameter information includes at least one of a start time, a time span, or a quantity, sensing, by the first UE, the resource in the sensing window according to the parameter information of the sensing window, and selecting, by the first UE, a resource according to a sensing result.
US11706660B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration for buffer status reporting associated with a sidelink between the first UE and a second UE and a link between the first UE and a base station; generate a buffer status report (BSR) based at least in part on the configuration, wherein the BSR includes buffer reporting information for one or more logical channels on the sidelink between the first UE and the second UE, and buffer reporting information for one or more logical channels on the link between the first UE and the base station; and provide the BSR to the base station. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11706656B2
Various embodiments provide methods for Internet Protocol (IP) packet handling. Various embodiments may enable downlink (DL) data prioritization of IP packets for time-sensitive applications, for example by using differentiated services code point (DSCP) indications or type-of-service (TOS) indications in headers of the IP packets to distinguish prioritized IP packets from non-prioritized IP packets. In various embodiments, IP packets that are prioritized IP packets may be sent to another processor of a wireless device using a prioritized traffic handling configuration that has a lower latency than a default traffic handling configuration used for sending non-prioritized IP packets. Various embodiments may further enable uplink (UL) data prioritization of IP packets.
US11706655B2
Embodiments of this application provide a data transmission method and a corresponding apparatus. The method includes obtaining, by a second terminal, first information, wherein the first information indicates a correspondence between a downlink quality of service (QoS) flow and a downlink device-to-device (D2D) bearer; and sending, by the second terminal to a first terminal based on the correspondence, a downlink data packet on the downlink D2D bearer corresponding to the downlink QoS flow, wherein the downlink data packet is carried on the downlink QoS flow.
US11706650B2
Method for orchestrating wireless sensors, including registering each of a plurality of monitoring sensors that are attached to a respective plurality of wireless hosting equipment, with an orchestrator, generating, for each sensor, a monitoring plan including a description of wireless channels/protocols for the sensor to monitor, and amounts of time that the sensor should spend monitoring each channel/protocol prior to advancing to a next channel/protocol, wherein the monitoring plan for a sensor includes directives that instruct the sensor what to do when a monitoring period for a channel/protocol is interrupted before its intended monitoring time is finished, attempting, by the sensors, to monitor the channels/protocols specified in the sensor's monitoring plan in accordance with the time specified in the sensor's monitoring plan, and generating, by each sensor, an execution report including time spent at each channel/protocol, amount of data collected from each channel/protocol, and data captured from each channel/protocol.
US11706649B2
Channel state determination is performed at a user equipment (UE) of a mobile network. The UE determines one or a plurality of time intervals that may be used for channel measurements, performs a plurality of signal power measurements associated each to one of the time intervals to be used for channel measurement and generates a channel state information as a function of the plurality of the signal power measurements. Information comprising an indication of a plurality of time intervals that may be used for received signal power measurements is generated and sent from an access node (eNB) to the UE. The eNB evaluates a measurement report, received from the UE, that comprises received signal power measurements associated each to one of the time intervals.
US11706646B2
A method for performing frequency measurement by a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises receiving, from a base station, system information comprising first configuration information associated with frequency measurement and second configuration information associated with relaxed frequency measurement; determining whether to perform measurement on at least one frequency based on the first configuration information; determining whether to perform relaxed measurement for the at least one frequency based on the second configuration information according to a result of the determining whether to perform the measurement; and performing the relaxed measurement for the at least one frequency based on a result of the determining whether to perform the relaxed measurement.
US11706645B2
Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for intelligent node type selection in a telecommunications network. In one implementation, a customer set is obtained for a communications node in the telecommunications network. The customer set includes an existing customer set and a new customer set. A set of customer events is generated for a node type of the communications node using a simulator. The set of customer events is generated by simulating the customer set over time through a discrete event simulation. An impact of the customer events is modeled for the node type of the communications node. The node type is identified from a plurality of node types for a telecommunications build based on the impact of the customer events for the node type.
US11706641B2
Techniques for operating a wireless network in a plurality of radio operating environments are disclosed. In some embodiments, an apparatus receives a first parameter value set that is selected from a group of multiple parameter value sets, wherein the first parameter value set is appropriate for a first target radio operating environment that corresponds to one or more of: a first level of mobility of user devices or a first range of wireless transmission. In some embodiments, the apparatus is reconfigured to receive wireless broadcast transmissions from a second broadcast transmitter using a second parameter value set that is appropriate for a second target radio operating environment. The first and second broadcast transmitters may be the same or different. The parameter value sets may include a first parameter based upon which the apparatus is configured to determine subcarrier spacing and a second parameter that indicates a cyclic prefix size.
US11706621B2
The technology disclosed herein pertains to a method for mobile storage device registration to a management domain using a random token and a pin. In at least one implementation, a technology disclosed herein provides a method of authenticating a device on a system, the method including generating a random token, displaying the random token to a user, communicating the random token to an authentication system portal, in response the authentication system portal validating the random token receiving a PIN from the user, and communicating the PIN to the authentication system portal, and receiving a portal IP address and a certificate of authentication from the authentication system portal.
US11706613B2
An information processing method is provided. The method includes: receiving a connection request of establishing a call connection, the connection request including a communication identifier of a requester; upon determining the communication identifier of the requester meeting a privacy condition, verifying an identity of a responder; and determining whether to permit a response of the responder to the connection request based on a verification result of the identity of the responder.
US11706603B2
An emergency event detection and response system detects an occurrence of an event associated with a user and initiates an emergency response flow. A user may be associated with a wearable device and have in his home a base station and portable or stationary wireless devices containing sensors capable of detecting an emergency event. The emergency event may be detected based on voice or non-voice audio input from the user, data monitoring by the wearable device, base station, and/or portable or stationary wireless device, or by physical button press. Responsive to determining that an emergency event has occurred, the system triggers an emergency response flow by notifying a call center and contacting one or more caregivers associated with the user. Caregivers may access a response system application to receive updates regarding the detected emergency and to contact the user and/or a provider associated with the call center.
US11706600B2
An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires first communication information for connecting with an apparatus via a first network and second communication information for connecting with the apparatus via a second network, a determination unit that determines whether communication between an information processing apparatus and the apparatus via the first network based on the first communication information is possible, a connection unit that connects the information processing apparatus with the apparatus via the second network based on the second communication information when the communication via the first network is impossible, and a request unit that transmits a processing request to the apparatus via the first network when the communication via the first network is possible, and transmits the processing request to the apparatus via the second network when the information processing apparatus is connected with the apparatus via the second network.
US11706596B2
An infrastructure device includes a transceiver, programmed to communicate with a plurality of vehicles, wherein at least one of the vehicles is located within a distance defined from a location of the infrastructure device, and at least one of the vehicles is located outside the distance from the location of the infrastructure device; and a controller, programmed to measure a channel busy ratio (CBR) for communication with the plurality of vehicles, measure a package error rate (PER) for communication with one or more of the vehicles located within the distance, and responsive to the CBR being greater than a CBR threshold, or the PER being greater than a PER threshold, record an interference event into a log.
US11706585B2
A location-based mobile messaging shopping network is provided that acquires location data from a mobile computing device (MCD), receives the location data at a server, generates a collection of businesses and individual sellers offering goods or services in the location associated with the location data based on the service area of the businesses and individual sellers and user location, and establishes a real-time communication channel between the businesses and MCD. The MCD displays various real-time communication channels to enable the user of the MCD to communicate with the businesses, and enables the user to purchase goods and services directly through the real-time communication channels displayed on the MCD.
US11706581B2
A sound spatialisation method includes determining digital processing parameters to be applied to sound signals to be broadcast by a set of at least two loudspeakers in order to reproduce a virtual sound source at a desired position, and restoring sound signals by the loudspeakers during which the digital processing parameters are applied to the sound signals. The sound spatialisation method also includes defining a trajectory defined by a set of N points, with two consecutive points of the trajectory being connected together by a curve, and positioning during which the desired position of the virtual sound source is defined on the trajectory.
US11706580B2
Various embodiments provide a multi-audio input, stereo audio output, push-to-talk (PTT) switch device. The device may include an audio processing unit configured to perform spatial separation/positioning for one or a plurality of audio sources. The audio processing unit of the device may apply unique head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) to produce left and right audio outputs that correspond to predetermined or dynamically positioned spatial locations for each of the incoming audio streams.
US11706579B2
Examples described herein involve validating motion of a microphone during calibration of a playback device. An example implementation involves a mobile device detecting, via one or more microphones, audio signals emitted from one or more playback devices as part of a calibration process. After the one or more playback devices emit the audio signals, the mobile device determines whether the detected audio signals indicate that sufficient horizontal translation of the mobile device occurred during the calibration process. When the detected audio signals indicate that insufficient horizontal translation occurred, the mobile device displays a prompt to move the mobile device more while the one or more playback devices emit one or more additional audio signals as part of the calibration process. When the detected audio signals indicate that sufficient horizontal translation occurred, the mobile device calibrates the one or more playback devices with a calibration based on the detected audio signals.
US11706577B2
Embodiments are provided for receiving a request to output audio at a first speaker and a second speaker of an electronic device, determining that the electronic device is oriented in a portrait orientation or a landscape orientation, identifying, based on the determined orientation, a first equalization setting for the first speaker and a second equalization setting for the second speaker, providing, for output at the first speaker, a first audio signal with the first equalization setting, and providing, for output at the second speaker, a second audio signal with the second equalization setting.
US11706569B2
A sound producing cell includes a membrane and an actuating layer. The membrane includes a first membrane subpart and a second membrane subpart, wherein the first membrane subpart and the second membrane subpart are opposite to each other. The actuating layer is disposed on the first membrane subpart and the second membrane subpart. The first membrane subpart includes a first anchored edge which is fully or partially anchored, and edges of the first membrane subpart other than the first anchored edge are non-anchored. The second membrane subpart includes a second anchored edge which is fully or partially anchored, and edges of the second membrane subpart other than the second anchored edge are non-anchored.
US11706559B2
A sound attenuating apparatus may include a replaceable sound attenuating device and an electronic receiver configured to mate with the replaceable sound attenuating device. The replaceable sound attenuating device may include a sound attenuating material having an embedded sensor element. The sensor element may have a property that corresponds to a type of replaceable sound attenuating device. The electronic receiver may detect the property of the sensor element. A computing device may determine the type of the replaceable sound attenuating device from the property of the sensor element and perform one or more operations based on the type of replaceable sound attenuating device, including audio control, safety warnings, personal attenuation rating determinations, and the like.
US11706549B2
Provided are a display apparatus and a computing apparatus including the same. A display apparatus includes: a display module including a display panel configured to display an image, a vibration plate on the display module, a first air gap between the vibration plate and the rear surface of the display module, a vibration module on the vibration plate, and a system rear cover on the vibration plate, a second air gap between the system rear cover and the vibration plate, wherein the vibration plate includes a communication part configured to allow air to flow between the first air gap and the second air gap.
US11706545B2
An imaging device with low power consumption is provided. The pixel of the imaging device includes first and second photoelectric conversion elements, and first to fifth transistors. A cathode of the first photoelectric conversion element is electrically connected to the first transistor. An anode of a second photoelectric conversion element is electrically connected to the second transistor. Imaging data of a reference frame is obtained using the first photoelectric conversion element, and then imaging data of a difference detection frame is obtained using the second photoelectric conversion element. After the imaging data of the difference detection frame is obtained, a first potential that is a potential of a signal output from the pixel and a second potential that is a reference potential are compared. Whether or not there is a difference between the imaging data of the reference frame and the imaging data of the difference detection frame is determined using the first potential and the second potential.
US11706541B2
A first circuit constituting a plurality of first circuit in a first direction, which stores a signal output from a pixel having a photoelectric conversion unit; a first control unit to which the plurality of first circuits are connected and outputs a first signal for outputting signals stored in the plurality of first circuits; a readout unit that reads out the signal output from the first circuit; a plurality of second circuits that are connected to the first control unit, a plurality of sets of the plurality of second circuits in the first direction; and a second control unit that controls a readout of the signal by the readout unit. The first control unit outputs a second signal to the plurality of second circuits together with the first signal; and the second control unit controls the readout of the signal by the readout unit, based on the second signal.
US11706531B2
Disclosed is an image data encoding/decoding method and apparatus. A method for decoding a 360-degree image comprises the steps of: receiving a bitstream obtained by encoding a 360-degree image; generating a prediction image by making reference to syntax information obtained from the received bitstream; combining the generated prediction image with a residual image obtained by dequantizing and inverse-transforming the bitstream, so as to obtain a decoded image; and reconstructing the decoded image into a 360-degree image according to a projection format.
US11706502B2
An example device for processing media data is configured to parse a bitstream including the media data, the bitstream being formatted according to Common Media Application Format (CMAF), detect, during the parsing, a file type (FTYP) value for a CMAF track file of the bitstream, determine that a CMAF header of the CMAF track file starts with the FTYP value, and process one or more CMAF fragments following the CMAF header of the CMAF track file. The device may additionally be configured to detect one or more segment type (STYP) values in the bitstream, determine that each of the one or more STYP values corresponds to a start of a respective one of the CMAF fragments, and process each of the CMAF fragments starting from the corresponding STYP value.
US11706499B2
A method and system for providing synchronized input feedback, comprising receiving an input event, encoding the input event in an output stream wherein the encoding of the input event is synchronized to a specific event and reproducing the output stream through an output device whereby the encoded input event in the reproduced output stream is imperceptible to the user.
US11706497B1
Techniques are described for low-latency streaming of media content using a lossless protocol. For example, a media stream, comprising encoded video data, can be streamed to a plurality of streaming clients via the lossless protocol. The plurality of streaming clients can be monitored to determine whether any of them have fallen behind in streaming the media stream. When a streaming client falls behind, a portion of video data to be streamed to the streaming client can be selectively dropped based on scalability information and/or long term reference (LTR) frame information. The low-latency streaming can be performed without using per-client quality feedback from the plurality of streaming clients. When streaming using a semi-lossy protocol, a plurality of delivery modes can be used, where each delivery mode is for a different type of encoded video data and provides a different level of reliability.
US11706496B2
Techniques for displaying comments relative to video frames are described herein. The disclosed techniques include sending message data comprising a comment on a video item by a first client computing device when the first client computing device is in a first state among a plurality of states; receiving bullet screen data comprising comments on the video item sent by the first client computing device and other client computing devices; determining echo bullet screens comprising a plurality of comments on the video item sent by the other client computing devices during a predetermined period; and displaying a bullet screen comprising the comment sent by the first client computing device and the echo bullet screens.
US11706495B2
An example display device may include a voice signal receiver, a display, at least one memory storing an application supporting a contents providing service and storing instructions, a communication circuit communicating with at least one external server supporting the contents providing service, and at least one processor. The contents providing service may provide contents files of a first type and contents files of a second type.
US11706477B2
The invention relates to a system and a corresponding method for sharing multi-media content among a plurality of users. The invention further relates the corresponding devices and a corresponding computer program for conducting the sharing of multi-media content. The system comprises a first device comprising means for generating an invitation and a play time stamp and the system further comprises means for transmitting the play time stamp and the invitation to at least one second device. The system also comprises a third device that may generate a system time and distribute the system time. The at least one second device may play multi-media content synchronous to playback of the same multi-media content at the first device.
US11706471B2
A scheduling method includes: a server receiving a first request of a first peer (P2P) node; the first request containing service content; using position information on different network hierarchies of the first P2P node and the service content to determine at least one candidate P2P node for the first P2P node; the at least one candidate P2P node can provide a service for the first P2P node; the position information being position information generated on the basis of a network topology structure; using the at least one candidate P2P node to generate a candidate P2P node information list; P2P node information in the information list representing a transmission distance between the at least one candidate P2P node and the first P2P node; and returning the information list to the first P2P node. Further disclosed at the same time are a server, a first P2P node and a computer-readable storage medium.
US11706448B2
The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method capable of suppressing a deterioration in image quality. The image processing apparatus includes a threshold value setting unit which sets a threshold value for identifying a feature of neighboring pixels of a current block in an intra prediction process in encoding of image data according to a bit depth of the image data and a filtering processing unit which performs a filtering process on the neighboring pixels by using a filter according to the feature of the neighboring pixels identified by using the threshold value set by the threshold value setting unit. The present disclosure may be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus.
US11706446B2
An image decoding method according to the present invention may comprise determining an intra prediction mode of a current block, deriving reference samples of the current block, and obtaining a prediction sample of the current block using at least one of the reference samples.
US11706442B2
An image decoding method performed by the decoding apparatus according to this document comprising deriving a temporary reference motion vector for a current block based on a reference candidate block of the current block, deriving a reference motion vector by compressing the temporary reference motion vector based on a shifting operation, deriving a motion vector for the current block based on the reference motion vector, deriving prediction samples for the current block based on the motion vector for the current block, and generating reconstructed samples for the current block based on the prediction samples for the current block, wherein a total number of bits of the binary code representing the reference motion vector is less than a total number of bits of the binary code representing the temporary reference motion vector.
US11706441B2
Devices, systems and methods for asymmetric weighted bi-predictive merging in video coding are described. In a representative aspect, a method for decoding video data includes determining that a current video block of the video data is predicted from an asymmetric bi-predictive merge candidate, wherein different weights are used for a first reference block and a second reference block, and making, based on the determination, a determination between enabling and disabling a coding tool for the current video block. In a case that the current video block is predicted from an asymmetric bi-predictive merge candidate, the coding tool is not applied to the current video block.
US11706438B2
An image decoding method according to the present invention includes reconstructing a residual block by inverse-quantizing and inverse-transforming an entropy-decoded residual block, generating a prediction block by performing intra prediction on a current block, and reconstructing an picture by adding the reconstructed residual block to the prediction block, wherein generating the prediction block includes generating a final prediction value of a prediction target pixel included in the current block based on a first prediction value of the prediction target pixel and a final correction value calculated by performing an arithmetic right shift on a two's complementary integer representation for an initial correction value of the prediction target pixel by a binary digit of 1. Accordingly, upon image encoding/decoding, computation complexity may be reduced.
US11706427B2
Techniques are disclosed for the creation of multi-codec encoding profiles (or encoding ladders), which define quality and bitrate for each of the streams made available to clients for streaming a video. In particular, optimization techniques may take into account a quality rate function of each of the codecs when determining the encoding ladder. Additional considerations may include a network bandwidth distribution and/or a distribution of client types.
US11706424B2
A video image decoding device receives, as the code string to be decoded, a first code string to be decoded including information based on an encoded residual coefficient and header information or a second code string to be decoded including a residual image obtained in encoding the code string to be decoded and header information. The video image decoding device, when the code string to be decoded that is received by the receiver is the first code string to be decoded, adds the residual decoded image and the predictive image to each other to generate and output a reconstructed image and, when the code string to be decoded received by the receiver is the second code string to be decoded, adds a residual image included in the second code string to be decoded and the predictive image to each other to generate and output a reconstructed image.
US11706418B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an image decoding method including: obtaining an arithmetic-coded symbol stream from an image stream; identifying a symbol segment from the symbol stream according to symbol segment information signaled from an encoding apparatus; selecting an arithmetic decoding process corresponding to the symbol segment; and collectively processing one or more symbols among multiple symbols included in the symbol segment, in association with the selected arithmetic decoding process.
US11706417B2
A video decoding method includes obtaining a to-be-entropy-decoded syntax element in a current block by parsing a received bitstream, where the to-be-entropy-decoded syntax element includes a syntax element 1 or a syntax element 2 in the current block, obtaining a context model corresponding to the to-be-entropy-decoded syntax element, where both of a context model corresponding to the syntax element 1 and a context model corresponding to the syntax element 2 are determined from the same preset context model set, entropy decoding the to-be-entropy-decoded syntax element based on the context model corresponding to the to-be-entropy-decoded syntax element, and obtaining a reconstructed image of the current block based on the syntax element obtained by entropy decoding.
US11706407B2
At least a method and an apparatus are provided for efficiently encoding or decoding video. For example, a most probable mode (MPM) list comprising a number of intra prediction mode candidates for a current block is obtained depending on a shape of the current block. The current block is then encoded or decoded based on the obtained most probable mode list.
US11706403B2
Based on viewing tracking data, a viewer's view direction to a three-dimensional (3D) scene depicted by a first video image is determined. The first video image has been streamed in a video stream to the streaming client device before the first time point and rendered with the streaming client device to the viewer at the first time point. Based on the viewer's view direction, a target view portion is identified in a second video image to be streamed in the video stream to the streaming client device to be rendered at a second time point subsequent to the first time point. The target view portion is encoded into the video stream with a higher target spatiotemporal resolution than that used to encode remaining non-target view portions in the second video image.
US11706395B2
The present disclosure provides an apparatus and a method for selecting camera providing input images to synthesize virtual view images. According to the present disclosure, A method of selecting a camera providing as input image to synthesize a virtual view image, the method may comprise, for a camera providing an input image, determining whether or not the camera is comprised in a field of view (FoV) at a virtual view position and in response to the camera determined to be comprised in the field of view, selecting the camera to synthesize the virtual image, wherein the determining determines, by way of comparison, whether or not a direction from the virtual view position to a position of the camera is in the FoV at the virtual view position.
US11706394B1
A method and a system of real-time variable refresh rate video processing for ambient light rendering, comprise: capturing a HDMI video signal and converting the HDMI video signal into a RGB signal; obtaining frame rates X1, X2, and X3 of a current video source by detecting a field frequency signal V-SYNC; setting a constant frame rate or a variable frame rate by user; setting the constant frame rate by the user and the constant frame rate is set as N, obtaining the constant frame rate N set by the user, outputting a color rendering data of the fixed frequency in real time through data processing; setting the variable frame rate by the user and the variable frame rate is set as M, obtaining the variable frame rate M set by the user, and outputting a color rendering data of a variable frequency in real time through the data processing.
US11706392B2
A light projection system includes a MEMS mirror operating on a mirror drive signal to generate a mirror sense signal resulting from operation of the MEMS mirror based on the mirror drive signal. A mirror driver generates the mirror drive signal from a drive control signal. A controller receives the mirror sense signal from the MEMS mirror, obtains a first sample of the mirror sense signal at a first phase thereof, obtains a second sample of the mirror sense signal at a second phase thereof, wherein the first and second phases are separated by a half period of the mirror drive signal, with the second phase occurring after the first phase, and generates the drive control signal based on a difference between the first and second samples to keep the mirror drive signal separated in phase from the mirror sense signal by a desired amount of phase separation.
US11706386B1
When a user creates a new video exchange session via an online system, the user specifies an activity for the video exchange session. The activity may specify a name for the video exchange session, as well as other thematic content (e.g., visual effects, backgrounds) displayed via the video exchange session. The online system trains a machine learned model that predicts a likelihood that other users will accept an invitation to join the video exchange session if a certain activity is specified for the video exchange session. The online system may then use these likelihoods to rank and sort the activities for the user or to highlight activities with threshold likelihoods.
US11706385B2
Machine learning-based multi-view video conferencing from single view video data, including: identifying, in video data, a plurality of objects; and generating a user interface comprising a plurality of first user interface elements each comprising a portion of the video data corresponding to one or more of the plurality of objects.
US11706372B2
A redundantly printed security-enhanced document, printing method, and system for better ensuring that the meaning of the information imparted by variable indicia printed by redundant printing indicia on a document protected by a removable Scratch-Off Coating (SOC). By printing the variable indicia with multiple colors, redundancy and integrity of the intended indicia is achieved relative to the perception of human eye photoreceptor cones. The redundantly printed document, methods, and systems enhance the overall appearance of the redundantly printed document, and reduce possible consequences resulting from misprinted variable indicia.
US11706369B1
Systems and methods electronically uniquely imprint a digital watermark on produced resources, such as on data or electronic documents produced by an online software platform (OSP), in nearly invisible ways that are likely to survive subsequent processing. In one embodiment the OSP stores a plurality of resource digital rules used for producing resources for respective relationship instances of primary entities with other entities; receives a dataset on behalf of a primary entity, in which the dataset includes data representing a relationship instance between the primary entity and a secondary entity; in response to the received dataset, produces a resource based on applying one or more of the plurality of resource digital rules to the dataset; and digitally watermarks the produced resource with a digital watermark such that the produced resource is identifiable via the digital watermark as having been produced by the OSP.
US11706365B2
To make it possible to easily determine a printed material of an electronic document proved to be an authentic original document and a copied material thereof. In a case where a printed material is copied, embedded information is extracted from a scanned image obtained by scanning the target printed material. Then, in a case where it is confirmed that the copy-target printed material is an authentic document, the printed material is printed and output by adding information indicating being a copied material thereto.
US11706363B2
An image processing apparatus includes a print setting acquisition unit configured to acquire a print paper size, a threshold setting unit configured to set, based on the print paper size, a threshold for a protruding portion of a print product, the protruding portion protruding from a reading range, an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a scanned image of the print product, a detection unit configured to detect the protruding portion from the scanned image, and a conveyance displacement abnormality detection unit configured to detect conveyance displacement abnormality from the threshold and a result of the detection.
US11706360B2
A storage device stores an operation history in which at least one of four types of data, picture, graphic, symbol, and keyword, in a first data set used in image formation on a sheet by the image forming device is associated with a setting data set manipulated by a user during the image formation. An image reading device reads an original document for use in forming an image and generates a second data set. A comparator compares at least one of the four types of data in each of the stored first data sets with at least corresponding one type of data in the second data set and selects the first data set consistent with the second data set. A screen creator uses the setting data set associated with the selected first data set to create a setting screen for image formation. A display device displays the created setting screen.
US11706348B2
Systems and methods for providing headset/ear bud voice control to crew members in a quick-service restaurant are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: transmit transmission signals from a headset to the base station, receive reception signals by the headset from the base station; capture audio information from a first crew member, generate sound based on the received reception signals, generate the transmission signals to form a headset-specific uplink packet based on the captured audio information; generate semantic information based on the headset-specific uplink packet, wherein the semantic information includes one or more individual words; determine one or more commands that modify operation of the communication system, based on the semantic information, and facilitate execution of the one or more commands to control and/or modify the operation of the communication system.
US11706347B1
Tangible, non-transitory, machine-readable media include instructions that cause a processor to receive a first indication that a user is attempting to communicate with a provider, and intercept communication between the user and the provider based on the first indication being received. The instructions also cause the processor to send user information to a provider application server based on the first indication being received, and display a visual interface that establishes communication with the relevant provider department or performs a transaction based on the first indication being received. The instructions further cause the processor to receive a second indication associated with performing the action associated with the provider via the visual interface; and performing the action based on the second indication being received.
US11706342B2
A system and method for hybrid callback management, utilizing a callback cloud and an on-premise callback system, allowing brands to utilize a hybrid system that protects against any premise outages or cloud service faults and failures by introducing redundancies and co-maintenance of data key to callback execution while allowing for mixed telephony types to be seamlessly integrated into one communication platform.
US11706341B2
A system and method for intent-based active callback management, utilizing a cloud callback system comprising at least a profile manager, callback manager, interaction manager, media server, and environment analyzer, allowing users to call businesses, agents in contact centers, or other users who are connected to a cloud callback system, and, failing to connect to the individual they called, allow for an automatic callback object to be created, whereby the two users may be automatically called and bridged together at a time when both users are available.
US11706339B2
Methods to reduce agent effort and improve customer experience quality through artificial intelligence. The Agent Assist tool provides contact centers with an innovative tool designed to reduce agent effort, improve quality and reduce costs by minimizing search and data entry tasks The Agent Assist tool is natively built and fully unified within the agent interface while keeping all data internally protected from third-party sharing.
US11706334B2
One example method of operation may include identifying a call from a calling device destined for a mobile device, identifying a calling device number associated with the calling device and a mobile device number associated with the mobile device, determining whether a stored calling relationship exists between the calling device number and the mobile device number, and appending one of a plurality of caller identification names (CNAM) to the call based on the determination as to whether there is a stored calling relationship.
US11706331B2
An information processing method, comprising: in response to that a third party application receives an information display instruction, generating a download instruction; transmitting the download instruction to a processing platform, for prompting the processing platform to download a configuration file according to the download instruction; controlling the processing platform to parse the configuration file to generate display parameters; obtaining target information by analyzing the display parameters, and displaying the target information in the third party application.
US11706330B2
There is disclosed a smartphone, tablet or other computing device comprising: (a) a touch sensitive display; (b) one or more processors; (c) computer memory; (d) an operating system computer program stored in the computer memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors and including instructions for detecting a swipe gesture, and, in response to the detected swipe gesture, displaying a search bar.
US11706326B2
A technique for selectively configuring a case of a handheld device to shield an antenna from receiving or transmitting wireless signals is disclosed. The technique includes moving a blocking element on the case between a first position and a second position. The blocking element is a physical structure that is rotatable, slidable, or removable to switch between the first position and the second position. In response to moving the blocking element to the first position, the blocking element blocks wireless signals received or transmitted by the antenna of the handheld device. In response to moving the blocking element to the second position, wireless signals can be received or transmitted through the case by the antenna.
US11706325B2
An angle determining circuit and method, and a folding screen terminal are provided. The circuit is applied to the folding screen terminal which includes a first and second screens rotatably connected through a rotary shaft, a resistance ring is fixedly provided outside the rotary shaft. The circuit includes: a first power supply; a first resistor, where one terminal of the first resistor is electrically connected to the first power supply; a first conductive element fixedly disposed at the first screen, where one terminal of the first conductive element is electrically connected to the other terminal of the first resistor, and the other terminal thereof slidably abuts against the resistance ring; a second conductive element fixedly disposed at the second screen, where one terminal of the second conductive element slidably abuts against the resistance ring, and the other terminal thereof is grounded; and a processor.
US11706324B2
A hybrid network communication method is disclosed. A gateway device receives a first association request of a multimode device through a first physical interface, where the first association request includes a MAC address of a second physical interface of the multimode device. The gateway device receives a second association request of the multimode device through a third physical interface, where the second association request includes a MAC address of a fourth physical interface of the multimode device. The gateway device obtains an IPv6 address of the multimode device, and records a first correspondence and a second correspondence. The first correspondence includes the IPv6 address of the multimode device, the MAC address of the second physical interface, and the first physical interface. The second correspondence includes the IPv6 address of the multimode device, the MAC address of the fourth physical interface, and the third physical interface.
US11706323B2
Embodiments include methods for managing a reordering timer performed by a processor of a wireless device. The processor may receive packets from a communication network and store the packets in a memory buffer of the wireless device. The processor may detect one or more conditions that affect an amount of time required to reorder or reassemble at least some of the packets received from the communication network. The processor may determine a timer adjustment based on the detected one or more conditions. The processor may adjust a timer with the determined timer adjustment. The processor may deliver one or more packets from the memory buffer in response to expiration of the adjusted timer.
US11706322B2
An example according to the present disclosure relates to a technique for identifying a wireless LAN (WLAN) packet. For example, when a physical protocol data unit (PPDU) includes a legacy signal field, a field contiguous to the legacy signal field may be used to identify a type of the PPDU. A field contiguous to the legacy signal field may include information indicating that the PPDU is an extreme high throughput (EHT) PPDU. The field contiguous to the legacy signal field may include at least one of information related to a frame format, a transmission opportunity, an STA ID, and/or a bandwidth.
US11706320B2
A Byzantine fault-tolerant distributed computing system of nodes configured to process client requests, executes a leader-based total order broadcast (LBTOB) protocol. The computing system concurrently executes multiple instances of the LBTOB protocol at the nodes, on respective disjoint partitions of the client requests, and the disjoint partitions are assigned to the instances using a deterministic function of a state of the system. The computing system multiplexes outputs of the executing instances in an ordered log of the client requests, and the ordered log is maintained at each of the nodes.
US11706315B2
The described technology relates to rendering a client-side user interface using a server-side cache for providing the displayed data. In an example implementation, in response to a user interface (e.g., dashboard with multiple widgets in a web application) being launched on the client device, the server initiates a refresh of the cache for the widgets; and transmits a first set of data obtained from the cache for widgets in the user interface before the cache is updated in response to the initiated refresh. The first set of data is followed by a second set of data obtained from the cache for at least some of the widgets after the cache is updated in response to the initiated refresh. The client displays the user interface using the second set of data while overwriting, for one or more of the widgets, information previously displayed using the first set of data.
US11706313B2
Systems, methods, and devices for user interface customization based on content data network priming
A computing platform is implemented using a server system. The computing platform is configurable to cause identifying a data event associated with a user based on an interaction between the user and a user interface, and generating a segment data object based on the data event, a unique user identifier, and a segment database, the segment data object characterizing a membership of the user within an audience segment. The computing platform is also configurable to cause identifying a content data network server based on a geographical location of the user, the content data network server being a closest available content data network server to the user, and the content data network server being capable of serving, to the user, one or more data objects associated with metadata customized based on one or more segment data objects, and updating a local storage location of the content data network server.
US11706312B2
Techniques are described herein for distributed data stream programming and processing. The techniques include sending a request indicating one or more regions of a program code to access a stream in a stream pool and to execute on a processing node in a processing nodes pool. The techniques also include accessing the stream defined in the one or more regions of the program code to service the request. Thereafter, the processing node is selected to use for execution of the one or more regions of the program code and the processing node executes one or more instances of the one or more regions of the program code.
US11706311B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to cognitive automation-based engine processing to propagate data across multiple systems via a private network to overcome technical system, resource consumption, and architecture limitations. Data to be propagated can be manually input or extracted from a digital file. The data can be parsed by analyzing for correct syntax, normalized into first through sixth normal forms, segmented into packets for efficient data transmission, validated to ensure that the data satisfies defined formats and input criteria, and distributed into a plurality of data stores coupled to the private network, thereby propagating data without repetitive manual entry. The data may also be enriched by, for example, correcting for any errors or linking with other potentially related data. Based on data enrichment, recommendations of additional target(s) for propagation of data can be identified. Reports may also be generated. The cognitive automation may be performed in real-time to expedite processing.
US11706310B2
The invention relates to a system and a method for adapting a response provided by a first device. The system comprises the first device with means for receiving from at least one client device, as at least one second device, a data access request comprising at least one client identifier and a predetermined application programming interface or service provider interface associated with the first device. The first device comprises means for processing the data access request that provides the response to the data access request and means for sending the response. The system comprises adapting means for intercepting and adapting the response sent by the first device. The adapting means adapts the response while being specific to the client and provides an adapted response. And the system comprises adapted response sending means for sending at least a part of the adapted response to the second or a third device(s).
US11706309B2
There is provided mechanisms for enabling discovery of a collaborative proxy node in a 3GPP communication network. A method is performed by a network exposure function. The method comprises obtaining, from a content providing application function, a request for a cooperative performance enhancement service to be performed for application traffic between the application function and a user equipment, the cooperative performance enhancement service being performed by the cooperative performance enhancement node. The method comprises providing, upon having authorized the request, parameters as obtained in the request to a policy control function, thereby enabling discovery of the cooperative performance enhancement node.
US11706295B2
The invention relates to a computer-implemented method for exchanging information, through a DAG/Hashgraph consensus algorithm via a gossip protocol, the method includes making a first given node select a second given node randomly and send reference information; determining based on the reference information which node events are in front of that of the others; if the reference information implies that the events of the first given node is in front of that of the second given node, then sending a cancellation information to the first given node, preventing, in consequence, the first given node from sending DAG-event information to the second given node; if the reference information implies that the events of the second given node is in front of that of the first given node, then making the first given node send DAG-event information to the second given node; and soon through the network.
US11706287B2
An information processing system including Application Platform capable of communicating with Edge1 connected to each other to be able to communicate each other, in which Application Platform includes a second processor, information on microservices and data possessed by Edge1, and performance information describing the performance of Edge1, and the second processor uses predetermined data to combine a plurality of predetermined microservices and causes Edge1 to execute them in a predetermined order. When executing the application, microservices and data are moved between Edge1 based on the information of the microservices and the data possessed by Edge1, and the performance information.
US11706285B2
A device includes an image capture device configured to capture a first video. The device includes a memory configured to store one or more videos. The device further includes a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to concatenate the first video and a second video to generate a combined video. The second video is included in the one or more videos or is accessible via a network. The second video is selected by the processor based on a similarity of a first set of characteristics with a second set of characteristics. The first set of characteristics corresponds to the first video. The second set of characteristics corresponds to the second video.
US11706278B2
This technology enables prioritization of Multiple Stream Reservation Protocol (“MSRP”) transmissions in Audio Video Bridging (“AVB”) virtual local area networks (“VLANs”). An AVB switch receives a status from listener devices, associates a state with each of the statuses indicating whether each listener device is active or in-active, and stores each state in a database. For each listener device, a queue of MSRP protocol data unit (“PDU”) packets exists to be transmitted to the listener device. The AVB switch searches the database for listener devices with an active state, searches the queue for each active listener device for packets associated with an active state, and transmits the packets associated with the active state to each active listener device. Subsequently, the AVB switch searches each listener device's queue for packets associated with an in-active state and transmits the packets associated with an in-active state to each listener device.
US11706267B2
The present invention relates to a method for generating and causing display of a communication interface that facilitates the sharing of emotions through the creation of 3D avatars, and more particularly with the creation of such interfaces for displaying 3D avatars for use with mobile devices, cloud based systems and the like.
US11706265B2
A system and method are provided for a wireless device for use with a first video conference device, a second video conference device, WAN and an item. The video conference devices are configured to establish a video conference over a secure communication channel over the WAN. The first video conference device is additionally configured to transmit a video conference invitation in response to a video conference request from the wireless device, the video conference invitation including credentials to establish a communication channel with the first video conference device. The second video conference device is additionally configured to transmit a magnification control signal. The wireless device is configured to: image the item in a first magnification; transmit first image data of the item based on the first magnification; change the magnification; image the item in a second magnification; and transmit second image data of the item based on the second magnification.
US11706260B2
A cloud-based security solution that provides a robust and secure framework for managing and enforcing security policies related to various resources managed in the cloud is disclosed. The cloud-based security solution is implemented by a security zone policy enforcement system in a cloud service provider infrastructure. The system receives a request to perform an operation on a resource and determines a compartment associated with the resource. The system determines that the compartment is associated with a security zone and determines a set of one or more security zone policies applicable to the resource. The system then determines that the operation on the resource is permitted based on the set of one or more security zone policies and responsive to determining that the operation on the resource is permitted, allows the operation to be performed on the resource.
US11706256B2
A client application establishes a connection between the client application and an origin server over one or more networks. The application generates a request to establish a secure session with the origin server over the connection. The request includes information, in a header of the request, that flags traffic sent during the secure session to a network of the one or more networks as subject to one or more optimizations performed by the network. Subsequent to establishing the secure session, the application encrypts the traffic in accordance with the secure session and sends the traffic to the origin server over the connection, subject to the one or more optimizations. The infrastructure service applies the one or more optimizations to the traffic as it passes through the edge network to the origin server.
US11706250B2
A system, device and method to securely notify a user of a compromise of a device are provided. The system, device and method may include a detection device adapted for determining a compromise of the device communicatively coupled to the first path, a user database including at least information regarding the device and other devices associated with the user, and the secure signal path to at least one of the other devices.
US11706246B2
Techniques for establishing a risk score for Internet of Things (IoT) device parameters and acting in response thereto are disclosed. One or more data packets transmitted to or from an Internet of Things (IoT) device are analyzed to obtain event parameters. The event parameters are analyzed to determine a context of the IoT device. A behavior of the IoT device is determined based at least in part on the event parameters and the context. A progressive risk score is obtained for the IoT device. Subsequent to obtaining the progressive risk assessment score, the progressive risk assessment score is updated based at least in part on an analysis of one or more additional data packets.
US11706240B2
Techniques for providing dynamic resource implementation prioritization for a network are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes determining a user of a selected device and assigning a user value based on the user's identity. The method includes determining related devices on the network by evaluating user behavior information to identify devices in the network that are in communication with the selected device. The method includes calculating a composite device value based on a value of the selected device, the user value, and values of the related devices. The method includes determining a probability factor for potential security vulnerabilities affecting the selected device and calculating a risk score based on the composite device value and the probability factor. Security measures may be implemented based on a comparison of the calculated risk score for the selected device with a plurality of risk scores for other devices in the network.
US11706239B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media are disclosed for detecting vulnerabilities in real-time during execution of a process or an application. In one example, a device may have one or more memories storing computer-readable instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the computer-readable instructions to obtain real-time process information associated with a process executing in an endpoint. The device can then determine package information for a package associated with the process based on the process information. The device can then identify at least one vulnerability associated with the package information using a database of vulnerabilities stored on a backend component of the network. The backend component may have a database of vulnerabilities for packages.
US11706226B1
In an embodiment, a list of domains is received that includes one or more categories for each domain. The categories are assigned to each domain using a classifier that is trained using features extracted from webpages known to be associated with particular categories. An administrator creates access rules for users, or groups of users, that control the categories of domains that each user is permitted to access or not access. When a user makes a request for a webpage, access rules associated with the user are retrieved, and one or more categories associated with the domain of the requested webpage are determined using the list of domains. If any of the one or more categories of the domain violate an access rule associated with the user, the request for the webpage is denied. Otherwise the user is allowed to access the webpage.
US11706218B2
The described technology provides a single sign-on capability so that a user who is already signed on to a web application from a client application may not be required to sign-on again when he/she later needs access to the web application from the same or another client application. The technology also provides a multiple login prevention capability to detect multiple sign-on events using the same credentials and disable one or more of the associated multiple sessions.
US11706216B2
A network device may receive, from an application on a user device, a first network packet associated with a packet flow. The network device may identify an application identifier of the first network packet, wherein the application identifier identifies the application on the user device. The network device may select, based on the application identifier, a security protocol, wherein the security protocol is associated with at least one of an authentication header (AH) or an encryption algorithm. The network device may selectively apply, to a second network packet associated with the packet flow, at least one of the AH or the encryption algorithm, associated with the security protocol, to generate a protected network packet. The network device may transmit the protected network packet.
US11706213B2
Systems and methods are provided for facilitating voice authentication of a user in connection with a network transaction. One exemplary method includes receiving an authentication request for a transaction, initiated at a voice interactive device, from a merchant plug-in (MPI) associated with a merchant involved in the transaction, where the authentication request includes a pre-authentication indicator based on voice authentication of a user by the voice interactive device or by a voice authentication service. The method also includes generating a risk score for the transaction based at least in part on the pre-authentication indicator, transmitting the risk score with the authentication request for the transaction to an access controller server (ACS) associated with an issuer of an account to which the transaction is directed, and returning a result response to the MPI where the result response indicates permission to proceed in the transaction based on authentication of the user.
US11706195B2
The technology disclosed herein enables micro-segmentation of virtual computing elements. In a particular embodiment, a method provides identifying one or more multi-tier applications comprising a plurality of virtual machines. Each application tier of the one or more multi-tier applications comprises at least one of the plurality of virtual machines. The method further provides maintaining information about the one or more multi-tier applications. The information at least indicates a security group for each virtual machine of the plurality of virtual machines. Additionally, the method provides identifying communication traffic flows between virtual machines of the plurality of virtual machines and identifying one or more removable traffic flows of the communication traffic flows based, at least in part, on the information. The method then provides blocking the one or more removable traffic flows.
US11706192B2
A cybersecurity infrastructure command validation system is provided herein for validating asset commands issued within an infrastructure network. The cybersecurity infrastructure command validation system can be integrated into an infrastructure network to monitor and validate infrastructure asset commands in real-time or while the infrastructure network is active. The cybersecurity infrastructure command validation system can receive or intercept commands issued by asset controllers. The cybersecurity infrastructure command validation system can validate the commands based on a command validation model. The command validation model can represent normal operating behavior of the infrastructure network. The cybersecurity infrastructure command validation system can provide valid commands to the intended infrastructure asset, or can reject invalid commands. The cybersecurity infrastructure command validation system can store validation results for use in updating the command validation model. The cybersecurity infrastructure command validation system can flag or otherwise warn the infrastructure network or administrators of invalid commands.
US11706191B2
Some embodiments provide a novel method for assigning a unique internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) link-local address to each interface of a software router implementing a plurality of logical interfaces for a corresponding plurality of logical networks. In some embodiments, the method, for each logical interface, determines a logical network identifier for a logical network corresponding to the logical interface and generates the link-local address based on that logical network identifier (e.g., a virtual network identifier (VNI)).
US11706182B2
Local content publishing is disclosed. A queue is obtained. The queue is associated with a geographical region. A set of entities is determined based at least in part on the geographical region associated with the queue. A piece of content assigned to the queue is obtained. The piece of content is published on behalf of the set of entities determined based at least in part on the geographical region associated with the queue.
US11706181B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for providing a system with access to resources associated with a user account using a disposable email address (DEA) are provided. A request to provide a system with access to a first set of resources may be received. The first set of resources may be associated with a first email account associated with a first email address. A first DEA associated with the first email account may be generated. The first DEA may be transmitted to the system. A first set of modified emails may be generated based upon a first set of emails of the first email account. A first modified email of the first set of modified emails may comprise an indication of the first DEA. Access to the first set of modified emails may be provided to the system. The first DEA may be deactivated.
US11706179B2
A method that comprises receiving at a network connected server from a first client terminal, a message comprising, an user application ID of a user selecting a media object using a user interface presented on a display of the first client terminal and the media object, generating a web document which presents a browser user interface and the media object when accessed by a browser, the web document having a network accessible storage address, sending the network accessible storage address from the network connected server to allow a browser installed in a second client terminal to use of the network accessible storage address to display the media object the browser user interface, identifying a usage of the browser user interface for inputting a reaction to the media object by a user of the second client terminal, and forwarding the reaction to the first client terminal using the sender user ID.
US11706155B1
Systems and methods of the disclosure include: receiving, by a cloud resource provisioning component via a cloud provisioning request application programming interface (API), a cloud resource request; storing the cloud resource request on a cryptographically-protected distributed ledger; receiving, from a first cloud provider, a first cloud resource offer responsive to the cloud resource request; and responsive to receiving, from a node of the cryptographically-protected distributed ledger, a notification of validation of the first cloud resource offer with respect to the cloud resource request, causing the first cloud provider to provision a cloud resource specified by the first cloud resource offer.
US11706137B2
A router including a communication device, a first processor, and a second processor. The communication device is configured to receive a plurality of first packets of a connection and at least one second packet of the connection subsequent to the first packets The first processor, coupled to the communication device, and configured to analyze the first packets to determine at least part of a plurality of transport-layer parameters associated with the connection, receive a traffic control rule associated with the connection, and offload processing of the at least one second packet of the connection to a second processor after the at least part of the transport-layer parameters is determined. The second processor is configured to perform traffic control on the second packet according to the traffic control rule and the at least part of the transport-layer parameters.
US11706132B2
Systems and methods for routing traffic through a network along Label-Switched Paths (LSPs) that may extend across multiple autonomous systems include performing Internet Protocol (IP) routing lookups as a packet is transmitted along the LSP. In one implementation, a packet having a predetermined value (which may be inserted by an upstream network device) is received at a network device after travelling along a first segment of an LSP. In response to identifying the predetermined label value of the packet, the network device may perform an IP routing lookup using IP routing information included in the packet to identify a next hop for the packet. The network device may then update a label of the packet such that the packet is routed along a second segment of the LSP and transmit the communication packet to the next hop.
US11706131B2
An information processing apparatus is communicable with an electronic apparatus according to a plurality of protocols. The information processing apparatus includes circuitry. The circuitry identifies a particular protocol supported by the electronic apparatus among the plurality of protocols. The circuitry determines a management type based on the identified particular protocol. The circuitry sets a communication path through which the electronic apparatus communicates with a management apparatus based on the determined management type.
US11706130B2
In one embodiment, a device obtains user experience metrics for a plurality of sessions with an online application. The device detects a plurality of anomalies from among the user experience metrics. The device determines, based on a correlation between the plurality of anomalies, that a particular path entity is a root cause of the plurality of anomalies. The particular path entity comprises an egress service provider or data center of the online application. The device provides an indication of the particular path entity being the root cause of the plurality of anomalies.
US11706126B2
Embodiments disclosed include a method and apparatus for global traffic control and optimization for software-defined networks. In an embodiment, data traffic is optimized by distributing predefined metrics (data traffic information) to all controllers in the network. The predefined metrics are specific to local network switches and controllers, but are distributed to all peers at configurable intervals. “Local” as used herein implies one POP and its associated switch and controller. The method of distribution of local POP metrics is strictly in band using a packet as defined by the protocol used by the data network.
US11706122B2
Described herein are systems, methods, and software to manage the compression of route tables for communication between networking elements. In one implementation, a network device identifies network keys for a route table by replacing attributes in the tables with values. The network device further generates a compressed route table using the route keys and associating each of the route keys with one or more additional attributes. The network device also generates a dictionary to associate each of the values for the route keys to a corresponding attribute of the attributes.
US11706114B2
A network flow measurement method is applicable to a system including a network measurement device and a control plane device. The network flow measurement method includes measuring, by the network measurement device, first data, where the first data includes a first-type data structure, the first-type data structure includes first measurement information of a flow, and the first measurement information corresponds to a bit of a keyword of the flow, and sending, by the network measurement device, the first data to the control plane device.
US11706110B2
Systems and methods implement closed loop analytics feedback for a transport network. A network device, such as a Network Data Analytics Function (NWDAF), receives, from a commissioning network function, an analytic information request for analytic event information and sends, to the commissioning network function, an analytic report that is responsive to the analytic information request wherein the analytic report includes a unique analytic report identifier. The network device receives, from the commissioning network function, a feedback event message that includes the analytic report identifier and a change description for a network parameter change influenced by the analytic report.
US11706105B2
Service assurance is provided. A low priority pod corresponding to a low priority service in an orchestration platform that is to be evicted due to a predicted peak load period of a high priority service is identified based on analysis of historical and resource information. The low priority service corresponding to the low priority pod that is to be evicted due to the predicted peak load period of the high priority service is marked as an assured service for a guaranteed run in response to receiving an input from a user who was notified regarding eviction of the low priority pod. The low priority pod corresponding to the low priority service that is to be evicted due to the predicted peak load period of the high priority service is provisioned on a second host node prior to the eviction of the low priority pod from a first host node.
US11706102B2
Systems, software, and methods for managing networks of connected electronic devices are described. In one example, network management policy and network management applications are transferred automatically upon detection and identification of a new device, protocol or application on the network. In another example, information related to at least one aspect of the network is obtained by an NMAS, and at least one applicable management policy is identified by the NMAS; and the identified policy is used to manage at least one aspect of the network's operation.
US11706100B2
Methods and apparatus for predicting communications resources which will be needed at a venue and then controlling the amount of available resources dynamically are described. In various embodiments real time or near real time video of areas of the venue are used to predict the number of people in a portion of a venue and/or the direction of movement. Along with other information such as the type of event and/or event schedule collected information is supplied to a set of trained resource requirement models which are used to predict future resource needs at a venue, e.g., while an event is ongoing. Commands are sent to dynamically vary the amount of communications resources provided to one or more portions of the venue. Resources which can be varied included but are not limited to fixed wired WAN bandwidth, WiFi bandwidth, cellular bandwidth, network based on-demand services, transcoding services, firewall services, etc.
US11706098B1
Embodiments are described herein for systems and methods for continuously monitoring a network structure of one or more networks using a cloud-based network monitoring system, and rearranging, using the cloud-based network monitoring system, the network structure of the one or more networks to protect confidential and/or prioritized assets of the one or more networks based at least in part on the monitoring of the network structure of the one or more networks. In certain embodiments, the cloud-based network monitoring system is configured to continuously monitor a network structure of one or more networks, and to automatically rearrange the network structure of the one or more networks to protect confidential and/or prioritized assets of the one or more networks based at least in part on the continuous monitoring of the network structure of the one or more networks.
US11706097B2
A task processing method includes: acquiring target data and target algorithm required by a target task to be executed; acquiring from a network topology at least one first-type node capable of providing the target data and at least one second-type node capable of executing the target algorithm; selecting, from the at least one first-type node, a node that provides one set of target data as a first target node, and selecting, from the at least one second-type node, a node that provides one set of target algorithm as a second target node; and controlling the second target node to process the target data in the first target node by using the target algorithm.
US11706090B2
A system for troubleshooting network problems is disclosed. A model can use demographic information, network usage information, and network membership information to determine an importance of a problem. The importance of the problem for the user who reported the problem, a number of other users affected by the problem, and the importance of the problem to the other users can be used to determine a priority for resolving the problem. Before and after a work order is executed to resolve the problem, network metrics can be gathered, including aggregate network metrics, and automatically presented in various user interfaces. The analysis of the metrics can be used to update a database of which work orders are assigned in response to which problems.
US11706080B2
Examples described herein include systems and methods for providing dynamic serviceability for a software-defined data center (“SDDC”). An example method can include collecting data-center metrics from a management service that monitors the SDDC, filtering the data-center information based on a predetermined list of metrics provided by a partner entity, and translating the filtered data-center information into a partner-specific format requested by the partner entity. The example method can also include generating metadata associated with the translated data-center information and transmitting the metadata and translated data-center information to a partner site associated with the partner entity. If the partner site is not available, the method can include transmitting the information to a partner-accessible storage location and, when the partner site becomes available, identifying the storage location and failed attempt to deliver the information.
US11706076B2
The embodiments of the disclosure provide a computer system, comprising a plurality of computing devices, each computing device comprising a storage unit and at least one computing unit which are connected in parallel, the plurality of computing devices being divided into a plurality of nodes, and the plurality of nodes forming a network topology; a communication device comprising an autonomous domain building module and a first communication module, the first communication module being configured for connecting the plurality of computing devices in a communication manner; and a task processing device comprising an addressing module and a task processing module. Therefore, the solution of the present disclosure meets the explosive demand of massive data and large amount computing power caused by artificial intelligence and blockchain to a certain extent.
US11706074B2
A base station may transmit a control channel transmission during a configured discovery reference signal window on a shared spectrum. A user equipment (UE) may detect the control channel transmission from the base station during the configured discovery reference signal window on the shared spectrum. The UE may determine, in response to detecting the control channel transmission, expected synchronization signal block (SSB) positions within a maximum SSB burst length starting from the control channel transmission during the discovery reference signal window. The base station may transmit SSBs at the expected SSB positions within the maximum SSB burst length starting from the control channel transmission during the discovery reference signal window. The UE may measure SSBs at the expected SSB positions. The UE may conserve power by stopping measurements or entering a sleep mode after the expected SSB positions.
US11706069B2
Transmission quality is improved in an environment in which direct waves dominate in a transmission method for transmitting a plurality of modulated signals from a plurality of antennas at the same time. All data symbols used in data transmission of a modulated signal are precoded by hopping between precoding matrices so that the precoding matrix used to precode each data symbol and the precoding matrices used to precode data symbols that are adjacent to the data symbol in the frequency domain and the time domain all differ. A modulated signal with such data symbols arranged therein is transmitted.
US11706063B2
A system for switching between different communication modes by network nodes according to a time-division schedule to transmit and receive data packets is provided. For example, a transmitting node is configured to determine a scheduled communication mode of an upcoming time division according to a time-division schedule, and transmit a data packet in that time division when the scheduled communication mode matches a selected communication mode supported by both the transmitting node and a receiving node. The receiving node operates in a scheduled communication mode specified for a current time division by the time-division schedule and determines whether a header of the data packet is detected in the current time division. If not, the receiving node switches to a second scheduled communication mode specified for the subsequent time division by the time-division schedule to detect the header of the data packet in a subsequent time division.
US11706060B2
A serial receiver combines continuous-time equalization, analog interleaving, and discrete-time gain for rapid, efficient data reception and quantization of a serial, continuous-time signal. A continuous-time equalizer equalizes a received signal. A number N of time-interleaved analog samplers sample the equalized continuous-time signal to provide N streams of analog samples transitioning at rate reduced by 1/N relative to the received signal. A set of N discrete-time variable-gain amplifiers amplify respective streams of analog samples. A quantizer then quantizes the amplified streams of analog samples to produce a digital signal.
US11706052B2
An apparatus, system, method, and computer-readable recording media perform smart control in a wireless network, which includes a plurality of wireless devices. Configuration parameters are obtained to set one wireless device as an active master device in the wireless network. The active master device receives updates in the configuration parameters and learned station (STA) information, and periodically transmits the updates to the configuration parameters and the learned STA information to the other wireless devices in the wireless network. Any one of the other wireless devices in the wireless network can use the updates to the configuration parameters and the learned STA information to be set as a new active master device in the wireless network when the active master device becomes out of network.
US11706051B2
In some embodiments, a network regulator device protects a local network of client systems (e.g. Internet-of-things devices such as smartphones, home appliances, wearables, etc.) against computer security threats. When introduced to the local network, some embodiments of network regulator take over some network services from a router, and automatically install the network regulator as gateway to the local network. The network regulator then carries out an automatic device discovery procedure and distribute device-specific utility agents to the protected client systems. An exemplary utility agent detects when its host device has left the local network, and in response, sets up a virtual private network (VPN) tunnel with a security server to maintain protection of the respective device.
US11706049B2
A subscriber station for a serial bus system including a communication control device for controlling a communication with another subscriber station and a transceiver device for sending a transmit signal produced by the communication control device as a frame to a bus of the bus system. The bit time of a signal sent to the bus in the first communication phase differs from a bit time of a signal sent in the second communication phase. The communication control device produces the transmit signal, in a first operating mode, for a first frame that is designed according to a specified communication protocol with which other subscriber stations in the bus system communicate, and is designed to produce the transmit signal, in a second operating mode, for a second frame that assigns to at least one bit a different function than is assigned to the bit in the specified communication protocol.
US11706047B2
A method, system and computer program for transmitting at least two payloads in a downstream traffic phase of a time-division duplex (TDD) cycle with a single preamble from a headend followed by concatenated payloads without intervening preambles, whereby the payloads are ranked by increasing modulation profiles. The preamble, and concatenated and ordered set of payloads are then transmitted to two or more predetermined customer premise equipments (CPEs).
US11706046B2
An apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to output, to a plurality of devices, an initial superframe configured in an initial superframe mode of a plurality of superframe modes. Each superframe mode of the plurality of superframe modes allocating each slot of a plurality of slots for wireless communication to a first protocol, a second protocol, or a third protocol. In response to determining a change in bandwidth, the processing circuitry is configured to select an updated superframe mode from the plurality of superframe modes. The processing circuitry is further configured to output, to the plurality of devices, an updated superframe configured in the updated superframe mode.
US11706041B2
This disclosure describes techniques for improved multicast network telemetry implemented over multilayer switches in a PIM domain. The multilayer switches may be configured to collectively certify end-to-end flow provisioning, and to publish telemetry data certifying flow provisioning from a single notifier to an external controller host. Computational workload and network traffic for streaming data related to certifying path provisioning is kept to a minimum for each flow that needs to be certified, which also keeps compounding of network traffic for many different flows to a minimum. Moreover, since controller hosts are notified upon successful provisioning but not at other times, controller hosts can trust that the telemetric data is minimally latent, and may be relied upon to enact timely actions which produce desired outcomes.
US11706040B2
A method of identifying primitives for implementing a physical unclonable function providing a response representative of a device comprising a plurality of primitives coupled in pairs, said primitives being configured for being one-time programmable through application of a burning energy to said primitives, by selecting a subset of the pairs, assessing a difference between electrical characteristics values provided by primitives belonging to each pair of said subset, qualifying all pairs of primitives for which the assessed difference is higher than a reference threshold, and identifying said qualified pairs of primitives comprising programming at least one primitive of each pair of primitives for which the assessed difference is lower than said reference threshold, by applying a burning energy to said at least one primitive so as to differentiate qualified pairs of primitives from those that are not qualified.
US11706039B2
Techniques for encrypting data using a key generated by a physical unclonable function (PUF) are described. An apparatus according to the present disclosure may include decoder circuitry to decode an instruction and generate a decoded instruction. The decoded instruction includes operands and an opcode. The opcode indicates that execution circuitry is to encrypt data using a key generated by a PUF. The apparatus may further include execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction according to the opcode to encrypt the data to generate encrypted data using the key generated by the PUF.
US11706038B1
A public key infrastructure (PKI) ecosystem includes a first organization computer system having a first processor, a first memory, and a first organization process including instructions that are (i) encoded in the first memory, and (ii) executable by the first processor. The ecosystem further includes a second organization computer system having a second processor and a second memory, a digital ledger, and domain name system security extensions (DNSSEC). When executed, the first instructions cause the first processor to create at least one public/private PKI keypair for a first domain name, in the DNSSEC, register the first domain name and create a certificate authority (CA), register the CA in the blockchain, using the CA, create a certificate for a first entity, register the certificate in the blockchain and/or the DNSSEC, and assert, to the second organization computer system, trust in the first entity based on the registered certificate.
US11706037B2
Achieving certificate pinning security in reduced trust networks. A client receives a second certificate from a server over a first secured communications channel. The first secured communications channel is established based at least upon a first digital certificate associated with the first secured communications channel being certified by a pinned certificate. The client sends a request towards the server via a second communications channel with an untrusted computer system, and the request is received by the server. The server generates a response comprising a timestamp, a URI portion, and a signature that is generated using the second certificate. The server sends the response via the second communications channel. The client receives the response, and uses the second certificate to verify that the response is authentic and that the timestamp and URI portion are valid. The client then processes the payload.
US11706030B2
An authorization method and an authorization system are provided. The authorization method includes displaying, by a service device, authorization information on an e-paper arranged on the service device; obtaining, by a user device, the authorization information from the e-paper; and using, by the user device, the authorization information displayed on the e-paper to perform an authorization operation between the user device and the service device.
US11706027B2
Systems and methods for managing a compromised autonomous vehicle server are described herein. A processor may obtain an indication of a first server configured to control an autonomous vehicle being compromised. The autonomous vehicle may have previously been provisioned with a first public key. The first public key may be paired with a first private key. A processor may compile command information. The command information may include a command for the autonomous vehicle and a digital certificate of a second server configured to control the autonomous vehicle in the event of the first server being compromised. The digital certificate may include a second public key and may be signed with the first private key. The command may be signed with a second private key associated with the second server. The second private key may be paired with the second public key.
US11706023B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a non-transitory, machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations including receiving a call; selecting a next carrier to handoff the call; generating a call data record (CDR) for the handoff to the next carrier; encrypting the CDR using a call encryption key, thereby creating an encrypted CDR; encrypting the encrypted CDR using a committee encryption key, thereby creating a double encrypted CDR; recording the double encrypted CDR to a blockchain; and sending the call encryption key to the next carrier. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11706020B2
An application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and method are provided for executing a memory-hard algorithm requiring reading generated data. A processor or state machine executes one or more steps of the memory-hard algorithm and requests the generated data. At least one specialized circuit is provided for generating the generated data on demand in response to a request for the generated data from the processor. Specific embodiments are applied to memory-hard cryptographic algorithms, including Ethash and Equihash.
US11706015B2
A method for side-channel attack mitigation in streaming encryption includes reading an input stream into a decryption process, extracting an encryption envelope having a wrapped key, a cipher text, and a first message authentication code (MAC) from the input stream, generating a second MAC using the wrapped key of the encryption envelope, and performing decryption of the cipher text in constant time by determining whether the encryption envelope is authentic by comparing the first MAC extracted from the encryption envelope and the second MAC generated using the wrapped key.
US11706008B2
In embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided an approach for channel sounding. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, if the CSI change rate exceeds a first threshold, the AP may disable the beamforming. If the CSI change rate does not exceed the first threshold but exceeds a second threshold below the first threshold, the AP may perform the channel sounding at a first time interval. Otherwise, if the CSI change rate does not exceed the second threshold, the AP may perform the channel sounding at a second time interval. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an effective way for channel sounding.
US11706000B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for managing sounding reference signal (SRS) transmissions in shared radio frequency spectrum. Described techniques provide for increased occasions at which a SRS may be transmitted, enhance likelihood of a successful listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure, or any combinations thereof. Increased occasions for SRS may be provided through multiple transmission times that are available in the event of an earlier LBT failure. Enhanced likelihood of successful LBT may be provided through one or more timing offsets that may be randomly selected from a set of available timing offsets, selection of a cyclic prefix length for a SRS based on whether the SRS transmission is within or outside of a channel occupancy time of a base station, providing an initial SRS transmission time for an initial periodic time interval, triggering of an aperiodic SRS within the channel occupancy time, or any combinations thereof.
US11705999B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may communicate with a base station using a beamforming configuration, according to a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) configuration. The UE may receive a message including a TCI configuration. The UE may determine based on the TCI configuration, a TCI pool for a TCI state type of a set of TCI state types and a set of CCs. The UE may then perform the wireless communication via a directional beam based on the TCI pool for the TCI state type and the set of component carriers (CCs).
US11705998B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some wireless communications systems, a transmitting device may be configured to transmit a transport block in a set of transmission time intervals (TTIs) of a repetition window to improve the chances that the transport block is received by a receiving device. In some cases, however, the transport block may not be available to be transmitted in the repetition window until after a first TTI of the repetition window. In such cases, a transmitting device may use the techniques described herein to identify appropriate configurations for transmitting the transport block in the repetition window. For example, the transmitting device may identify an adjusted redundancy version sequence to use for transmitting the transport block in the repetition window or the transmitting device may adjust a repetition window based on a TTI in which the transport block is available to be transmitted.
US11705989B1
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may receive an encoded communication, the encoded communication being encoded with a hierarchical coding scheme comprising: first layer code blocks including pairs of information bits and sets of first parity bits, and second layer code blocks including sets of second parity bits, with each set of the second parity bits associated with a subset of the first layer code blocks. The wireless communication device may decode the encoded communication based at least in part on one or more of the sets of the second parity bits that are associated with one or more of the first layer code blocks determined to have failed decoding based at least in part on one or more associated sets of the first parity bits. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11705983B2
The present disclosure is directed to BIER forwarding over varying BSL domains, the methods including the steps of receiving, at a border node, a packet comprising a BIER header having a BIER bit string with a first bit string length; reading an incoming label of the packet comprising instructions to split the BIER header into a plurality of smaller headers associated with a plurality of smaller bit strings; generating a set of split bit masks; performing a separate bitwise AND operation on each split bit mask and the BIER bit string to generate the plurality of smaller bit strings, each copied to a corresponding smaller header of the plurality of smaller headers; and performing a lookup for each of the plurality of smaller headers on a respective forwarding table to determine one or more egress routers to which to transmit the packet.
US11705977B2
A radio communication apparatus according to an exemplary aspect includes: a detection unit configured to detect an object flying in the vicinity of a propagation path of directional radio waves; a distance calculation unit configured to calculate a distance between the propagation path of the radio waves and the object detected by the detection unit; a change amount determination unit configured to determine a change amount of a transmission power value used in performing transmission of the radio waves in accordance with the distance calculated by the distance calculation unit; and a signal control unit configured to control the transmission power value based on the change amount determined by the change amount determination unit. The change amount determination unit adopts a positive value as the change amount when the calculated distance is equal to or smaller than the prescribed distance.
US11705974B2
A system and method for real-time in-situ calibration of an Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) utilizes an S-parameter matrix-based EM transfer function between an end fire, unobtrusive, near field probe radiating element to minimize AESA look angle blockage. A sniffer probe is integrated in the AESA aperture of mechanical mounting frame or embedded with the AESA aperture structure. Hadamard orthogonal coding is utilized to simultaneously energize AESA elements.
US11705963B2
A system and method for managing a transmit power of a terminal includes dividing a spectrum into frequency bins and an inroute layout including inroutes; mapping at least one of the frequency bins with each of the inroute; determining a respective normalized Transmit Power (TP) for each of the frequency bins; calculating a transmission TP based on the respective normalized TP of one or more of the frequency bins mapped to a selected inroute; and transmitting a radio signal with the transmission TP on the selected inroute. A first frequency bin is adjacent a second frequency bin, a respective normalized TP of the first frequency bin compared to a respective normalized TP of the second frequency bin varies no more than a threshold power delta, a count of frequency bins is greater than one and unequal to a count of the inroute layout.
US11705962B2
The present disclosure relates to a maritime communication system based on low earth orbit satellites and an unmanned aerial vehicle. The maritime communication system according to one embodiment may include one or more maritime users, one or more satellites connected to a network operator, and an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for relaying communication between the maritime users and the satellites.
US11705960B2
A millimeter-wave repeater may be provided to cover a radio shaded area, in a system for the millimeter-wave repeater. The millimeter-wave repeater may provide a service by changing a signal of a millimeter-wave band to an intermediate frequency band, and then changing the signal to the millimeter-wave band again.
US11705956B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems for a beam failure recovery on one or more secondary cells are described. In one example aspect, a wireless communication method includes receiving, by a first device, parameters configured to carry out beam failure detection and beam failure recovery for secondary cells associated with the first device, determining, by the first device, whether a beam failure event has occurred on at least one of the secondary cells based on at least one of the parameters, performing, upon a determination that the beam failure event has occurred, a beam failure recovery procedure for the secondary cell with the beam failure event, and terminating the beam failure recovery procedure upon an occurrence of a termination event.
US11705954B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication to apply, for one or more uplink communications of a spatial division multiplexing (SDM) configuration, a group indication associated with downlink beams. The UE may transmit the one or more uplink communications based at least in part on the group indication associated with the downlink beams. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11705951B2
The techniques described herein provide procedures at user equipment (UEs) for performing channel state information (CSI) reporting and sounding reference signal (SRS) transmissions based on an ultra-reliable low latency communication (URLLC) block error rate (BLER) target and for reliably receiving PDCCH transmissions. For CSI reporting, a UE may be configured to generate a CSI report based on a BLER target and on received CSI reference signals (CSI-RSs), where the CSI-RSs may be transmitted on one or more groups of quasi co-located antenna ports. For SRS transmissions, a UE may be configured to transmit SRS based on an SRS configuration determined based on a BLER target. For receiving PDCCH transmissions, a UE may be configured to receive and combine DCI received from multiple base stations.
US11705940B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining data regarding interference detected in a received communication signal, and performing polarization adjusting for one or more orthogonally-polarized element pairs of an antenna system such that an impact of the interference on the antenna system is minimized. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11705934B2
A wireless communication chip includes an analog front-end circuit and a baseband circuit. The analog front-end circuit includes a first transceiver circuit and a second transceiver circuit, wherein the first transceiver circuit is arranged to transmit or receive signals through a first antenna, and the second transceiver circuit is arranged to transmit or receive signals through a second antenna. The baseband circuit is arranged to control the first transceiver circuit to use a first band or a second band for communication, and/or to control the second transceiver circuit to use the first band or the second band for communication. The baseband circuit controls the first transceiver circuit and the second transceiver circuit so that the analog front-end circuit alternately performs 2T2R in the first band and 2T2R in the second band.
US11705928B2
A signal predistortion circuit configuration includes a digital predistortion circuit, a first transceiver, a first analog front-end (AFE) circuit, a second transceiver, and a second AFE circuit. The digital predistortion circuit outputs a first transmission signal according to first predistortion parameters and outputs a second transmission signal according to second predistortion parameters, and the digital predistortion circuit determines whether to adjust the first predistortion parameters according to a first reception signal and determines whether to adjust the second predistortion parameters according to a second reception signal. A transmitting circuit of the first transceiver, the first AFE circuit, and a receiving circuit of the second transceiver jointly generates the first reception signal according to the first transmission signal. A transmitting circuit of the second transceiver, the second AFE circuit, and a receiving circuit of the first transceiver jointly generates the second reception signal according to the second transmission signal.
US11705927B2
A duplexer may be used to isolate a transmitter and a receiver that share a common antenna. By using impedance gradients to provide impedances that cause balance-unbalance transformers (balun) of the duplexer to cut-off access to the common antenna rather than duplicate the antenna impedance, the duplexer is balanced. Such cut-offs may have a lower insertion loss than a duplexer that merely duplicates the antenna impedance to separate the differential signals of the receiver and transmitter from the common mode signal.
US11705925B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses include receiving a codeword stored in a memory device. The codeword is error corrected for a first number of iterations. The error correction includes traversing the codeword according to a first order. The codeword is error corrected for a second number of the iterations. The error correction of the codeword during a second iteration from the second number of iterations includes traversing the codeword according to a second order that is different from the first order.
US11705919B2
An analog-to-digital circuit that digitizes an analog voltage. The analog-to-digital circuit includes plural comparators functionally connected to form a tree that has levels i, and each level i has branches j, and an encoder connected to the plural comparators and configured to generate a digitized value of an input analog voltage. Each comparator from a level i has first and second outputs, and each of the first and second outputs is electrically connected to an input of different comparators from a next level i+1 of the tree.
US11705909B1
A frequency-locked circuit for a variable frequency topology is configured to trigger a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) controller to lock a frequency of a driving signal outputted by the PWM controller. The frequency-locked circuit includes an AC wave generating circuit and a comparator. The AC wave generating circuit receives and converts the driving signal to generate an AC wave signal. The comparator is electrically connected to the AC wave generating circuit and receives the AC wave signal. The comparator compares the AC wave signal with a reference signal to generate a comparison output signal. In response to determining that the AC wave signal is greater than the reference signal, the comparison output signal triggers the PWM controller to convert the driving signal from one voltage level to another voltage level so as to lock the frequency. The one voltage level is different from the another voltage level.
US11705905B1
An apparatus and configuring scheme where a ferroelectric capacitive input circuit can be programmed to perform different logic functions by adjusting the switching threshold of the ferroelectric capacitive input circuit. Digital inputs are received by respective capacitors on first terminals of those capacitors. The second terminals of the capacitors are connected to a summing node. A pull-up and pull-down device are coupled to the summing node. The pull-up and pull-down devices are controlled separately. During a reset phase, the pull-up and pull-down devices are turned on in a sequence, and inputs to the capacitors are set to condition the voltage on node n1. As such, a threshold for the capacitive input circuit is set. After the reset phase, an evaluation phase follows. In the evaluation phase, the output of the capacitive input circuit is determined based on the inputs and the logic function configured during the reset phase.
US11705903B2
The embodiments herein describe technologies for back-gate biasing of clock trees using a reference generator. A circuit includes a set of clock buffers and a programmable voltage reference generator to apply a voltage to a back gate of a transistor of the set of clock buffers.
US11705874B2
A power amplifier circuit includes a first transistor having a first terminal to which a voltage corresponding to a variable power supply voltage is to be supplied and a second terminal to which a radio-frequency signal is to be supplied, the first transistor being configured to amplify the radio-frequency signal, a bias circuit configured to supply a bias current or voltage to the second terminal of the first transistor, and an adjustment circuit configured to adjust the bias current or voltage in accordance with the variable power supply voltage supplied from a power supply terminal.
US11705873B2
A receiver front end having low noise amplifiers (LNAs) is disclosed herein. A cascode having a “common source” configured input FET and a “common gate” configured output FET can be turned on or off using the gate of the output FET. A first switch is provided that allows a connection to be either established or broken between the source terminal of the input FET of each LNA. A drain switch is provided between the drain terminals of input FETs to place the input FETs in parallel. This increases the gm of the input stage of the amplifier, thus improving the noise figure of the amplifier.
US11705871B2
An RF power detector adapted to detect an RF power of an RF signal, includes, in part, an antenna adapted to receive the RF signal, a narrow-band RF power converter adapted to convert the RF signal to a DC signal, an accelerometer, and a magnetometer. The accelerometer and magnetometer are adapted to determine the orientation and location of the power detector. The power detector optionally includes a gyroscope. The narrow-band RF power converter may be a rectifier tuned to the frequency of the RF signal. The power detector optionally includes an indicator adapted to provide information representative of the amount of the DC power of the DC signal, as well as position and orientation of the power detector. The power detector may be adapted to be inserted into a mobile device so as to provide the information about the amount of DC power, orientation and position to the mobile device.
US11705869B2
Apparatus and methods for a low-load-modulation power amplifier are described. Low-load-modulation power amplifiers can include multiple amplifiers connected in parallel to amplify a signal that has been divided into parallel circuit branches. One of the amplifiers can operate as a main amplifier in a first amplification class and the remaining amplifiers can operate as peaking amplifiers in a second amplification class. The main amplifier can see low modulation of its load between the power amplifier's fully-on and fully backed-off states. Improvements in bandwidth and drain efficiency over conventional Doherty amplifiers are obtained.
US11705859B2
A solar tracking system including a plurality of bases, a torque tube supported by the plurality of bases and configured to support a plurality of solar modules, and a drive device operably connected to the torque tube and arranged to translate the torque tube in a direction parallel to its longitudinal axis. The solar tracking system also includes a plurality of helical guides operably connected to the torque tube, and a plurality of cam assemblies, wherein upon linear movement of the torque tube, interaction between the helical guides and cam assemblies causes the torque tube to rotate about its linear axis.
US11705856B2
An assembly comprising at least one electrical device; the at least one electrical device being mounted to at least one support; at least one solar element for creating electric power from solar power; at least one energy storage device for storing electricity generated by the solar element; at least one wind impacting surface operatively associated with the support; at least one energy converter for generating electric power from the wind; and at least one shaft operatively connected to the at least one energy converter and the support. Optionally, the energy converter comprises at least one motor which operates to rotate the support; the at least one motor being operatively connected to the at least one battery for storing electric power therein.
US11705855B2
Building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) systems provide for solar panel arrays that can be aesthetically pleasing to an observer. BIPV systems can be incorporated as part of roof surfaces as built into the structure of the roof, particularly as photovoltaic modules having the appearance of a plurality of roofing tiles that each have photovoltaic cells. Each photovoltaic module may include a metal backer, photovoltaic cells, and light transmissive top sheets adhered to both the metal backer and the photovoltaic cells. BIPV systems can also include non-photovoltaic modules that appear similar to photovoltaic modules, but do not collect solar energy.
US11705850B2
A rotating electrical machine control system that controls an alternating-current rotating electrical machine having two coil sets of an N phase arranged on the same stator core includes a first inverter, a second inverter, and an inverter control device that individually controls the two inverters such that currents of different phases flow through the two coil sets. The inverter control device stops the second inverter and performs switching control of the first inverter to convert electric power between a direct current and an alternating current of an N phase, or performs switching control of the two inverters to convert electric power between a direct current and alternating currents of 2N phases. Switching devices included in the first inverter have a shorter transition time between an off state and an on state and smaller switching loss than switching devices included in the second inverter.
US11705845B2
This motor control device includes a vector control unit. The vector control unit includes: a current control unit that calculates a before-compensation d-axis voltage command value and a before-compensation q-axis voltage command value; a first non-interference control unit that calculates a first d-axis non-interference compensation value on the basis of a q-axis current command value to compensate for the before-compensation d-axis voltage command value and calculates a first q-axis non-interference compensation value on the basis of a d-axis current command value to compensate for the before-compensation q-axis voltage command value; and a second non-interference control unit that cancels out an interference component of a d-axis current generated in a specific rotation range of a motor with a q-axis current and an interference component of the q-axis current generated in the specific rotation range with the d-axis current by using a variable integral gain varying depending on a motor rotation speed.
US11705832B2
A device for driving a plurality of motors, including an inverter connected to a DC terminal; a multi-phase motor connected to the inverter; and a single-phase motor serially connected to the multi-phase motor, wherein a number of frequency of current input to the multi-phase motor when driving the single-phase motor and the multi-phase motor at the same speed is smaller than the number of frequency of current input to the multi-phase motor when driving the single-phase motor and the multi-phase motor at different speeds. Accordingly, a plurality of motors can be simultaneously driven at different speeds, by using a single inverter.
US11705829B2
An apparatus may include a first switch leg connected between a first input terminal and a first output terminal, the first switch leg comprising serially connected switches. The apparatus may also include a second switch leg connected between a second input terminal and the first output terminal, the second switch leg comprising serially connected switches. The apparatus may further include a third switch leg connected between an input voltage midpoint and the first output terminal. A control circuit may control the first switch leg, the second switch leg and the third switch leg.
US11705822B2
Various embodiments are directed to a voltage clamp system comprising: a rectifier; a protected node, a reference node, and one or more internal nodes, coupled to the rectifier; a power converter, coupled to the rectifier via the one or more internal nodes; and one or more output nodes coupled to the power converter and configured to couple to a power sink. The rectifier and the power converter are configured to output power via one or more output nodes coupled to the rectifier, and to limit a component of the voltage between the protected node and the reference node.
US11705815B1
A controller of a power converter is coupled to a switch assembly and configured to perform a hold-up time procedure that causes the controller to control first and second switching elements into opposite conducting states during a first period of time of a pulse cycle and into alternate opposite conducting states during a second period of time of the pulse cycle. The hold-up time procedure also causes the controller to control a first pair of synchronous rectifier switching devices into a conducting state during a third period of time overlapping less than all of the first period of time and into the conducting state during a fourth period of time overlapping less than all of the second period of time. A second pair of synchronous rectifier switching devices is controlled into a non-conducting state during the first and second periods of time.
US11705814B2
A switching control circuit for controlling an LLC converter that includes a first switching device, a first free-wheeling diode connected in parallel with the first switching device, a second switching device connected in series with the first switching device and the first free-wheeling diode, and a second free-wheeling diode connected in parallel with the second switching device. The switching control circuit controls switching of the first and second switching devices. The switching control circuit includes a determination circuit determining whether an operation mode of the LLC converter is a first mode or a second mode based on the resonant current of the LLC converter, and a drive signal output circuit outputting first and second drive signals for respectively switching the first and second switching devices based on the determined operation mode, to thereby prevent a shoot-through current from flowing through the first switching device or the second switching device.
US11705809B2
A voltage converter includes a capacitive voltage conversion circuit, an output capacitor, an inductor, a current detector, and a controller. The capacitive voltage conversion circuit includes switches, at least one flying capacitor, and an intermediate capacitor at an output portion. The current detector detects a current flowing in the inductor. The controller controls the switches in the capacitive voltage conversion circuit to change between at least two states by comparing the current flowing in the inductor to a threshold current.
US11705808B2
A control circuit for a power factor correction (PFC) circuit, the control circuit includes a multiplier having first, second, and third multiplier inputs and a multiplier output. The control circuit has an adder having first and second inputs and an output. The first input of the adder is coupled to the multiplier output. The control circuit further includes a root mean square (RMS) calculation circuit configured to determine a square of a root mean square of an input sinusoidal voltage. The RMS calculation circuit has an output coupled to the second multiplier input. An input voltage square calculation circuit is configured to determine a square of the input sinusoidal voltage. The input voltage square calculation circuit has an output coupled to the third multiplier input.
US11705807B2
The present disclosure provides a power factor improvement circuit with a DC/DC converter including an arithmetic circuit. A first voltage having a full-wave rectified waveform is received by an input voltage detection terminal of the power factor improvement circuit. A second voltage is generated by amplifying an error between a first detection voltage and a reference voltage according to an output voltage of the DC/DC converter. A third voltage is generated by multiplying the first voltage by the second voltage. The arithmetic circuit adds an offset voltage to a third voltage to generate a fourth voltage. A comparator is configured to compare a second detection voltage with the fourth voltage. A drive circuit is configured to turn on/off drive of the switching transistor according to an output of the comparator. When the second detection voltage is higher than the fourth voltage, the switching transistor is turned off.
US11705797B2
An electromagnetic generator comprises one or more flux assembly having at least one coil and at least one magnetic field source separated by a gap. An interference drum has a sidewall at least partially positioned inside the gap and comprising at least one magnetic field permeable zone and at least one magnetic field impermeable zone. The interference drum is movable relative to the at least one coil and to the at least one magnetic field source to alternatively position the at least one magnetic field permeable zone and the at least one magnetic field impermeable zone of the sidewall inside the gap. When the interference drum is moved, magnetic flux is created in the coil, and induces electrical current to flow into the coil. The coil may be connected to an external circuit, such that the electrical current may flow through the external circuit.
US11705782B2
A stator and a motor including a stator. The stator includes a stator hub, a plurality of stator teeth extending from the stator hub that define a stator slot having a stator slot base, at least one winding disposed in the stator slot, and one or more oscillating heat pipes disposed at least partially in the at least one winding. The at least one winding is held apart from the stator slot base so that a cooling channel is defined between an inner winding portion of the at least one winding and a portion of the one or more oscillating heat pipes is disposed in the channel so cooling fluid can be passed between the stator slot base and the inner winding portion to cool the inner winding portion via at least operation of the one or more oscillating heat pipes.
US11705774B2
An industrial electrical machine system includes an industrial electrical machine including a first housing and a first plug-in electrical connector disposed on the first housing; and an electronics module including a second housing; a converter disposed in the second housing and constructed to convert an input electrical power to an output electrical power; a second plug-in electrical connector electrically coupled to the converter and constructed to sealingly engage and electrically couple to the first plug-in electrical connector and electrically couple the converter to the industrial electrical machine and supply the output electrical power to the industrial electrical machine from the converter, wherein the industrial electrical machine is a motor, a generator or a motor/generator.
US11705773B2
An integrated magnetic shield and bearing holder useable with electric motors includes a shaft portion and a cover portion extending radially outward from the shaft portion. The shaft portion includes an inner wall defining a channel and a ledge extending radially inward from the inner wall. The cover portion includes a first layer, a second layer extending substantially parallel to the first layer, a magnetic shield extending between the first layer and the second layer, and an outer wall extending from the first layer and/or the second layer such that a space is defined between the outer wall and the shaft portion. The cover portion includes one or more retainers coupled to the magnetic shield to restrict movement of the magnetic shield relative to the first layer and/or the second layer.
US11705766B2
A permanent magnet motor comprises: a stator comprising teeth; and a rotor rotatable relative to the stator, the rotor having a plurality of poles, wherein each pole of the rotor comprises a pair of magnet retention slots, each magnet retention slot accommodating a magnet. Surfaces of the teeth of the stator facing the rotor are flat or have an arc shape. Each magnet retention slot may have a plurality of angled slot surfaces forming a first barrier around a corner of the magnet positioned closest to an outer surface of the rotor. At least three second barriers are positioned around a mid-axis extending along between the pair of the magnet retention slots. Each magnet retention slot comprises a slot surface slanted or curved relative to a second side surface of the magnet facing an inner surface of the rotor to form a third barrier around an end of the second side surface of the magnet.
US11705763B2
Devices, systems, and techniques are described to detect when a power transmitting and receiving system is in an inefficient position, which may cause a thermal response that less desirable than a more efficient position. The system may power transmitting device configured to wirelessly transfer electromagnetic energy to a power receiving device. Processing circuitry of the system may compute a target output power deliverable by the power transmitting device for a first duration and control the power transmitting device to output the target output power based in part on a heat limit. The processing circuitry may further calculate an energy transfer efficiency to the power receiving unit, update an adjustment factor based on the calculated energy transfer efficiency, and apply the adjustment factor to the heat limit for a subsequent duration.
US11705760B2
A wireless electrical energy transmission system is provided. The system comprises a wireless transmission base configured to wirelessly transmit electrical energy or data via near field magnetic coupling to a receiving antenna configured within an electronic device. The wireless electrical energy transmission system is configured with at least one transmitting antenna and a transmitting electrical circuit positioned within the transmission base. The transmission base is configured so that at least one electronic device can be wirelessly electrically charged or powered by positioning the at least one device external and adjacent to the transmission base.
US11705755B2
An example system includes an aggregator configured to receive a service collaboration request and iteratively determine, based on minimum and maximum power values for DERs under its management, an optimized operation schedule. The aggregator may also be configured to iteratively determine, based on the optimized operation schedule, an estimated flexibility range for devices under its management and output an indication thereof. The system may also include a power management unit (PMU) configured to iteratively receive the indication and determine, based on a network model that includes the estimated flexibility range, a reconfiguration plan and an overall optimized operation schedule for the network. The PMU may also be configured to iteratively cause reconfiguration of the network based on the plan. The PMU and aggregator may also be configured to iteratively, at a fast timescale, cause energy resources under their management to modify operation based on the overall optimized operation schedule.
US11705753B2
An Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) including an input configured to receive input AC power, a backup power input configured to receive backup DC power having a first voltage level from a backup power source, a converter configured to convert the input AC power from the input and the backup DC power from the backup power input into DC power having a second voltage level, the converter including an input selection circuit configured to selectively couple the converter to the input and the backup power input, an inductor, a first converter switch configured to couple a first end of the inductor to a neutral connection, and a second converter switch configured to couple a second end of the inductor to the backup power input via the input selection circuit.
US11705752B1
A low-voltage direct supply system capable of switching between solar energy and mains supply comprises: a solar and stable-voltage energy storage branch system used for providing solar power supply and charging through multiple groups of extensible solar panels and an energy storage battery pack; a mains power supply stable-switching branch system used for quickly switching to mains power supply without shocks through a mains supply conversion module and charging the energy storage battery pack; a power supply load detection and control branch system used for detecting a voltage, a charge/discharge current, and a balance between supply and demand of the energy storage battery pack and performing switching control on branch systems; and an output balance and low-voltage direct supply branch system used for performing balanced low-voltage direct supply on a load side according to a control output signal of the power supply load detection and control branch system.
US11705751B1
Aspects of the disclosure include a power system comprising a power-supply device having an output, the power-supply device being configured to provide output power to the output of the power-supply device, and control circuitry configured to receive voltage information indicative of a voltage of a battery, determine that the voltage of the battery is above a first voltage threshold, activate a shutdown signal responsive to determining that the voltage of the battery is above the first voltage threshold, determine that the voltage of the battery is below a second voltage threshold, the second voltage threshold being less than the first voltage threshold, control the power-supply device to disable the output power to the output of the power-supply device responsive to determining that the voltage of the battery is below the second voltage threshold and that the shutdown signal is activated, and control the power-supply device to provide the output power to the output of the power-supply device responsive to determining that the voltage of the battery is below the second voltage threshold and that the shutdown signal is not activated.
US11705750B2
A power sequence in a power-delivery (PD) mechanism (interaction between host system components and a charger) and a firmware sequence during power contract negotiation reduces the host system power consumption at or below the pSnkStdby power limit to improve user experience and battery life. The power sequence uses USB Type-C PD protocol and timing specification to implement a synchronous trigger or interrupt and interface mechanism. The synchronous trigger or interrupt and interface mechanism between a PD controller and an embedded controller firmware controls the power consumption dynamically during the boot flow sequence to be less than or equal to pSnkStdby power limit while implementing a predictable boot sequence and optimizing boot time. The power negotiating sequence is also applicable when a source (e.g., a charger) is connected to a SoC host system which is in active state (e.g., S0) and when there is an indication of low battery capacity.
US11705745B2
A charging surface comprising multiple conductive regions can be used to charge an electronic device placed on it the surface so that electrodes on the device engage respective conductive regions of the surface. In order to distinguish such chargeable devices from short circuits and other spurious connections, the coupling interface associated with the charging surface is controlled so as to establish a text voltage across each pair of conductive regions in sequence, and look for pairs of conductive region demonstrating a voltage drop characteristic of a particular class of device. Relationships between every pair of conductive regions can be determined and recording, and the voltage level supplied to each conductive region set accordingly. The coupling interface may furthermore operate to identify device classes, and to set supply voltages or establish additional connections on the basis of stored device class information. Discrimination on the basis of voltage drop can be enhanced by the provision of a coupling adapted associated with a device to be detected, where the coupling adapter demonstrates an anti-inversion characteristic, for example implemented with a MOSFET, across at least a pair of these electrodes.
US11705734B2
A wind farm, having a nominal power, for feeding electrical power into a supply network, comprising: wind power installations, a wind farm network and a stabilization unit connected to the wind farm network and arranged between the installations and the supply network. The stabilization unit increases a stability of the wind farm and comprises: an energy storage device which is set up to provide an electrical power, an intermediate circuit which is connected to the storage device and which is set up to conduct at least the electrical power provided by the storage device, an inverter connected to the intermediate circuit and set up to form at least the electrical power provided by the storage device, and a control unit set up to control at least the inverter such that the stabilization unit at the wind farm appears, statically as well as dynamically, like an electromechanical synchronous machine.
US11705732B2
Various embodiments include a storage device for electrical energy, the device comprising: a rechargeable battery; two terminals to connect the battery to at least one of: a supply network, an electrical load, and/or an electrical generator; a control unit to control charging and discharging of the battery; a communication interface configured to provide wireless data access; and a display of machine-readable code including authentication data enabling wireless data access.
US11705729B2
The present invention provides a power control circuit connectable to a load adapted to receive a power supply, the power control circuit adapted to absorb power from the power supply and adapted to deliver power to the power supply to stabilize at least one electrical parameter of the power supply. The present invention also provides an associated method of stabilizing at least one electrical parameter of a power supply connectable to a load, the method including absorbing power from the power supply or delivering power to the power supply. The at least one electrical parameter of the power supply includes parameters such as voltage and frequency.
US11705718B2
A device for cancellation of parasitic voltage on the neutral line and for adjusting phase-to-neutral voltage at the remote end of a long power line comprises an autotransformer and at least two single-port-to-multi-port controllable selectors and a controller. The controller is adapted to enable educated selection of taps of the autotransformer by the controllable single-port-to-multi-port controllable selectors, for setting the phase-to-neutral output voltage to nominal voltage and for canceling the parasitic neutral-to-ground voltage.
US11705696B2
A spark plug for an internal combustion engine includes a housing, an insulator, a center electrode, a ground electrode, and an auxiliary chamber forming portion. The ground electrode faces the center electrode from an outer peripheral side and forms a discharge gap between the ground electrode and the center electrode. An auxiliary chamber is formed inside the auxiliary chamber forming portion. A distance in an axial direction between the discharge gap and a distal end of the auxiliary chamber is equal to or greater than a maximum wall thickness of the auxiliary chamber forming portion. The auxiliary chamber forming portion includes injection holes. The injection holes are formed in a state where openings on an outer side are located closer to a distal end than openings on the auxiliary chamber side. At least one of the injection holes is an injection hole in the axial direction formed along an axial direction of a plug. When viewed in the axial direction of the spark plug, a center of the axial injection hole is eccentric from a central axis of the spark plug toward the discharge gap.
US11705686B2
A beam positioner can be broadly characterized as including a first acousto-optic (AO) deflector (AOD) operative to diffract an incident beam of linearly polarized laser light, wherein the first AOD has a first diffraction axis and wherein the first AOD is oriented such that the first diffraction axis has a predetermined spatial relationship with the plane of polarization of the linearly polarized laser light. The beam positioner can include at least one phase-shifting reflector arranged within a beam path along which light is propagatable from the first AOD. The at least one phase-shifting reflector can be configured and oriented to rotate the plane of polarization of light diffracted by the first AOD.
US11705684B2
The invention relates to a method for manufacturing an electric cable (2), according to which the cable (2) is successively processed in processing modules (41, 43) that are independent from one another. According to the invention, at least one sheath clamp (10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4), which is independent from the plug connectors (22) that are to be mounted on the cable (2) during manufacturing, is attached to a cable sheath (9) of the cable (2) in a non-positive fit at a defined axial position along the longitudinal axis (L) of the cable (2). Alternatively or in addition, the cable (2) is attached to a cable carrier (4), wherein the cable carrier (4) comprises at least one stop element (44) which is arranged at a defined axial position along the longitudinal axis (L) of the cable (2).
US11705677B2
A method of assembling a water-in-fuel sensor assembly. The method includes an initial step of providing a housing that has a recess, at least one pin located within the housing, a circuit board, and at least one terminal configured for engaging the at least one pin. The method also includes forming a board-mounting subassembly by coupling the at least one terminal to the circuit board. The method also includes positioning the board-mounting subassembly within the housing by engaging the at least one terminal with the at least one pin such that the board-mounting subassembly is disposed within the recess of the housing.
US11705676B2
A plug configured to be at least partially inserted into a central housing of a turbocharger. The plug includes a body having a first end, a second end opposite the first end, and a threaded portion extending from the second end to a location on the body between the first end and the second end. The plug further includes a heat sink coupled to the second end, and a microchip mounted to a substrate that is coupled to the heat sink, the microchip configured to store information related to the turbocharger, wherein the microchip is at least partially submerged in coolant in the central housing when the plug is inserted into the central housing of the turbocharger.
US11705672B2
A heavy-duty plug-in connector has a ground terminal that can be conveniently assembled and can comprise the greatest possible number of electrical crimp plug-in contacts (4,5). For this purpose, ground plug-in contacts (4′, 5′), likewise of a crimping configuration, are fitted in formations (13, 13′, 23, 23′) of the contact carriers (1, 2) for electrical contacting with metallic protective earthing elements (3, 3′, 3″, 3′″). For said contacting, the formations (13, 13′, 23, 23′) have a respective opening (130, 130′) or passage (230, 230′). In the formations (13, 13′, 23, 23′), not only ground plug-in contacts (4′, 5′) but also further plug-in contacts (4, 5) are arranged, so that the number of plug-in contacts (4, 5) of the plug-in connector is increased considerably.
US11705668B2
A retainer apparatus includes a post having a first end to be received by an opening of a wall plate cover of an outlet and a second end opposite the first end. At least a portion of the post has a plurality of grooves positioned between the first end and the second end. The plurality of grooves forming a retainer-receiving portion. A plug retainer is moveably coupled to the post. The plug retainer to slide along the retainer-receiving portion in a linear direction relative to the grooves when the plug retainer is moved relative to the retainer-receiving portion of the post.
US11705663B2
The present disclosure relates to a power supply system (1) including a main unit (10) including a protective main housing (11) and a distribution circuit (20) disposed in the protective main housing (11) and a module unit (30) including a protective module housing (31) and a converter module (40) disposed in the protective module housing (31). A protective connection system (CS) is configured to provide a releasable connection between the module unit (30) and the main unit (10); wherein the protective connection system (CS) includes a first connector device (15), a second connector device (35) and a sealing element (53).
US11705662B2
The present disclosure provides a connector and a connector assembly. The connector includes a plurality of guiding blocks and at least one connection port. Each of the plurality of guiding blocks has a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a third surface adjacent to the first surface and the second surface. A first guiding groove is disposed on the first surface. A second guiding groove is disposed on the second surface. An engaging hole is inserted between the first guiding groove and the second guiding groove. A locking hole is disposed on the third surface. Each of the at least one connection port is disposed on two adjacent guiding blocks of the plurality of guiding blocks. The connector may be used with a mating connector having fixing bars to engage in the guiding grooves or alternatively with a mating connector having locking pieces to engage in the locking holes.
US11705661B2
A modular combined socket, which comprises a circuit module, a connection module and at least two socket modules. The circuit module includes a connection module interface and a socket interface with at least four conductive paths connected to each other. The connection module includes a power supply interface and a circuit module interface with at least four conductive paths that are connected to each other and can be connected to the connection module interface of the circuit module through the circuit module interface, and the socket module includes two or three interconnected socket modules. The output socket and line interface of the conductive path, each of the socket modules can be connected to different conductive paths of the socket interface through the line interface. It has the advantages of flexible combination, large load bearing and strong anti-interference. The present invention also provides a modular power supply assembly.
US11705655B2
An elastic contact element of the electrical connector is provided and has an upper ring, a lower ring, and a plurality of elastic flat bodies connected to and located between the upper ring and the lower ring. Each one of the elastic flat bodies is strip-shaped and forms a contact portion. The elastic flat bodies are spaced apart from each other and divided into several groups according to different height positions of the contact portions. Each one of the contact portions protrudes toward a center axis. Because the elastic flat bodies are divided into several groups according to different height positions of the contact portions, the elastic flat bodies contact an inserted male probe at various positions.
US11705649B2
A cable assembly comprising a connector with a termination that enables high density and high signal integrity. Shields of cables are terminated to a paddle card via a conductive structure attached to a surface of the paddle card. The signal conductors of the cables are terminated to pads on the paddle card that are exposed within openings of the conductive structure. Such a structure creates a ground structure per cable that provides low insertion loss and low crosstalk, even when multiple cables are aligned side by side and terminated in one or more rows. The cables may be drainless, enabling a large number of cables, such as eight cables, to be packed within the width of a paddle card specified in high density standards such as QSFP-DD or OSFP. The cables may nonetheless have large diameter signal conductors, enabling 2.5 or 3 meter assemblies with less than 17 dB insertion loss.
US11705647B2
Method for crimping a cable terminal onto an electric cable includes providing an electric cable having an outer insulation sheath and at least one conductive strand with a sheathed portion, and providing a terminal having shrink wings and provide a gasket having a sealing portion and a shrink portion. The method also includes stripping the electrical cable so that a stripped portion is formed, positioning the shrinkage portion of the joint so that it directly overlaps the stripped portion of the cable without the shrinkage portion overlapping the sheathed portion of the cable, and fully crimping the shrink wings onto the shrink portion of the joint without the shrink wings covering the sheathed portion of the cable.
US11705646B2
A connection structure between sensor and cable includes a cable formed by assembling a plurality of electric wires each including a covering portion covering a core and a core-exposing portion exposing the core at an end of the covering portion, a spacer that is interposed in a space surrounded by the covering portions of the electric wires and holds end portions of the covering portions in the state that the end portions are spaced from each other, and a sensor that detects a physical quantity, and the core-exposing portion of each of the electric wires of the cable is electrically connected to the sensor via a fixing member in the state that each of the electric wires is held by the spacer.
US11705645B1
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, by a radio frequency (RF) mechanical device, signals relating to one or more crossed-dipole radiating elements of an antenna system, performing, by the RF mechanical device, polarization rotation of the signals to derive output signals having polarizations that are rotated in a manner that mimics physical rotation of the one or more crossed-dipole radiating elements, and providing, by the RF mechanical device, the output signals to enable avoidance of interference. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11705644B2
A plurality of segments each include one input-output port and a plurality of antenna ports. A plurality of subarrays each include a plurality of elements connected to any of the plurality of antenna ports. The plurality of elements constitute a sequential array for each subarray. Each of the plurality of segments includes a distribution-combination circuit that distributes a signal input to a first port to the plurality of antenna ports and that combines signals input to the respective plurality of antenna ports to output a combined signal from the first port, and a first amplifier connected between the input-output port and the first port. In the plurality of subarrays, the plurality of antenna ports to which the respective plurality of elements included in one subarray are connected are included in one segment.
US11705640B2
An apparatus includes a plurality of conductive structures having first sides and second sides opposite the first sides, wherein the second sides of the plurality of conductive structures are configured to be physically coupleable with a printed circuit board (PCB) of a receiver or a transmitter. The first sides of the plurality of conductive structures are configured to be spaced from the PCB by a first distance when the plurality of conductive structures is physically coupled with the PCB. The apparatus includes an antenna having a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The first side of the antenna includes a radiating side of the antenna and the second side of the antenna is disposed closer to the plurality of conductive structures than the first side of the antenna when the plurality of conductive structures is physically coupled with the PCB.
US11705637B2
Magnetodielectric (MD) metamaterials have a magnetodielectric (MD) substrate of a ferrite composition or composite having a characteristic impedance matching an impedance of free space and at least one frequency selective surface (FSS). The FSS has a plurality of frequency selective surface elements disposed in a pattern and supported on the MD substrate. The FSS has a conducting composition and is configured to permit one or more of transmission, reflection, or absorption at a selected resonant frequency or selected frequency band. Articles incorporating magnetodielectric metamaterials are provided.
US11705636B2
A composite antenna and array antenna using the same. The antenna has a three-layer structure including a patch antenna, a slot antenna and a transmission line. A first layer includes a patch antenna resonating at half a wavelength, a second layer includes a slot antenna resonating at half the wavelength, and a third layer includes a transmission line and a feed point. The three layers are coupled and the entire composite antenna unit satisfies a resonance condition. A signal is fed through the transmission line and coupled to the slot antenna, and the signal from the slot antenna is further coupled to the patch antenna. This composition antenna has a desirable antenna gain, and an increased antenna bandwidth compared to a single patch antenna or slot antenna.
US11705631B2
An antenna module includes digital phase shifters, a plurality of antenna elements arranged in a first direction, and a fixed phase shifter. Each of the digital phase shifters changes a phase of a signal to a first phase value. The fixed phase shifter changes a phase of a signal to a second phase value, the second phase value being obtained by adding a predetermined offset phase value to the first phase value. A middle point of a virtual line is an antenna center and connects a center of an antenna element located on an end in the first direction and a center of an antenna element located on a different end. Under a symmetrical condition, an antenna center among the plurality of antenna elements are paired as an antenna element pair, the fixed phase shifter is electrically connected to at least one antenna element of the antenna element pair.
US11705628B2
A radio frequency antenna system is provided and can include a radio printed circuit board, a first antenna element located proximate an edge of the radio printed circuit board, a second antenna element located proximate the edge of the radio printed circuit board, and a cancelation circuit located on the radio printed circuit board and connected to feeding points of the first antenna and the second antenna, wherein the cancelation circuit can provide a cancelation effect at output ports of the cancelation circuit with respect to signals broadcast by the first antenna element and the second antenna element over air.
US11705614B2
A coupling device includes a plurality of couplers, a first coupled output port and a second coupled output port, wherein the plurality of couplers comprise a first coupler and a second coupler that are adjacent one another, and each of the first coupler and the second coupler comprises a main line and a subline, and for each of the first coupler and the second coupler: the subline includes a first section, a second section, and a third section, wherein the second section of the subline of the first coupler has a common segment with the first section of the subline of the second coupler.
US11705610B2
This application relates to an end cover assembly, a battery cell, a degassing method, a battery, and an electric apparatus. The end cover assembly includes: an end cover plate provided with a degassing hole, where the degassing hole penetrates through the end cover plate; and a degassing apparatus mounted in the degassing hole, where the degassing apparatus includes a columnar portion, a first limiting portion, a second limiting portion, a first elastic member, and a second elastic member. The columnar portion penetrates through the degassing hole. The first limiting portion and the second limiting portion are respectively located on an outer side and an inner side of the end cover plate. The first elastic member is located between the first limiting portion and the end cover plate. The second elastic member is located between the second limiting portion and the end cover plate.
US11705608B2
A battery cell includes: an electrode unit including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a current collector, and a separator; a housing unit accommodating the electrode unit; a first insulator disposed inside the housing unit and between the electrode unit and the housing unit, an internal terminal disposed inside the housing unit and electrically connected to the current collector; a second insulator disposed inside the housing unit and between the internal terminal and the housing unit; and an external terminal disposed outside the housing unit. A contact surface of the first insulator with the electrode unit has indented shape. The first insulator is fixed to the housing unit.
US11705604B2
The present disclosure relates to a battery module including at least one battery unit array structure, an upper cover, a lower cover and a fireproof component disposed vertically. Each battery unit array structure includes a plurality of battery units and a plurality of busbars electrically connected to the plurality of battery units. The battery unit array structure is disposed between the upper cover and the lower cover. Each battery unit of each battery unit array structure is provided with a vent facing towards the fireproof component. Different from the related art, when thermal runaway occurs in a battery unit according to the present disclosure, flame and high-temperature particles ejected from a vent of a battery unit are blocked by the fireproof component from burning adjacent battery units, thereby preventing the thermal runaway in the other battery units from being triggered by the existing thermal runaway.
US11705602B2
A battery pack having an interlock structure includes a plurality of battery modules, a case that includes a case main body accommodating the plurality of battery modules and a case cover covering the case main body, and a bus bar unit that electrically conducts two battery modules among the plurality of battery modules. The case cover includes a cover connecting portion connected to an accommodation item accommodated in the case or the case main body, and the bus bar unit includes a shielding portion that blocks the cover connecting portion from being removed from the accommodation item or the case main body.
US11705599B2
This disclosure relates to a battery accommodation module is configured to accommodate a plurality of batteries. The battery accommodation module includes a base container and at least one add-on container. The base container has a first accommodation space configured to accommodate one of the plurality of batteries. The at least one add-on container has a second accommodation space configured to accommodate another one of the plurality of batteries. One of the at least one add-on container is detachably engaged with the base container to cover the first accommodation space.
US11705592B2
A battery module is disclosed, which includes: a multiplicity of battery cells; a printed circuit board with a first series-connector with a first pad area and a second pad area, and a second series-connector with a third pad area and a fourth pad area; a cross-connector, which connects the first series-connector between the first pad area and the second pad area with the second series-connector between the third pad area and the fourth pad area; and a sensor configured to detect a cross-current at the cross-connector. The first contact electrode of a first battery cell is connected with the first pad area. The second contact electrode of a second battery cell is connected with the second pad area. The first contact electrode of a third battery cell is connected with the third pad area. The second contact electrode of a fourth battery cell is connected with the fourth pad area.
US11705590B1
In one aspect, computer-implemented method may include receiving, from a cloud-based computing system, one or more machine learning model parameters that are configured to enable predicting a remaining useful life of each cell of a battery pack of a vehicle. The method may include loading, into memory of a processing device at the vehicle, the one or more machine learning model parameters, receiving data comprising one or more measurements and one or more user battery usage profiles, and based on the data, executing a trained machine learning model with the one or more parameters to input the data and to output the remaining useful life of each cell of the battery pack.
US11705577B2
Electrodes containing lithium phosphate derivative materials and batteries with such electrodes are provided. The lithium phosphate derivative compounds contain an anionic framework capable of conducting lithium ions and have an activation energy from 0.2 to 0.45 eV and conductivities from 0.01 to 10 mS/cm at 300K. Materials of specific formulae are provided and methods to alter the composite materials with inclusion of aliovalent ions shown.
US11705576B2
Disclosed is a method for producing a sulfide-based solid electrolyte containing an alkali metal, a sulfur element, a phosphorus element and a halogen element, including performing a reaction of an alkali metal sulfide and a substance containing at least one element of a sulfur element, a phosphorus element and a halogen element in an organic solvent having an electron-withdrawing group. The method provides a sulfide-based solid electrolyte having a high ion conductivity.
US11705574B2
When a temperature Tedge of a cell at an end of a battery pack is higher than a temperature Tcen of a cell in a pack central portion, a management server generates rebuilding information for rebuilding a battery pack such that a cell less likely to deteriorate than a cell arranged in the pack central portion is arranged at a pack end. When temperature Tcen is higher than temperature Tedge, the management server generates rebuilding information such that a cell less likely to deteriorate than a cell arranged at the pack end is arranged in the pack central portion.
US11705571B2
A flow-through redox galvanic cell and a battery is described, where each flow-through galvanic cell is separated into two parts by a metal foil serving as a bi-electrode in contact with two solutions having different redox potentials. Voltage due to redox processes is formed through the foil, and two traditional electrodes (cathode and anode) in each cell are not necessary anymore. The cells in a battery should be in electric contact with each other via ion-selective membranes. The battery is easy to recharge, and it is smaller, lighter, safer and cheaper than known redox-flow batteries. It may be used as a reserve source of energy in electric grids and households. It also may be used in electric cars, and it is especially attractive for use near the seashore and on sea ships.
US11705564B2
A fuel cell device has a mounting plate on which a fuel cell unit having a predefined number of fuel cells is arranged, the mounting plate and the fuel cell unit comprising media connections for guiding media, in particular for guiding a coolant and for guiding reactants, and electrical contact points for electrically connecting the fuel cell unit to the mounting plate. Further media connections and further electrical contact points are designed or arranged on the fuel cell unit in such a way that the fuel cell unit can be connected or is connected to a second fuel cell unit with a mechanical fluid connection for further guidance of the media and electrical connection for power uptake.
US11705546B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate having a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area, a first initialization voltage line on the substrate, an organic film layer on the first initialization voltage line and having a first contact hole exposing at least a portion of the first initialization voltage line, and a bridge wiring on the organic film layer corresponding to the peripheral area, and in contact with the first initialization voltage line through the first contact hole, wherein the organic film layer corresponding to the peripheral area has a groove or dummy hole, each of the groove and the dummy hole being adjacent to the first contact hole.
US11705528B2
A semiconductor light-receiving element includes a substrate; a light-receiving mesa portion, formed on top of the substrate, including a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, an absorption layer, and a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type; a light-receiving portion electrode, formed above the light-receiving mesa portion, connected to the first semiconductor layer; a pad electrode formed on top of the substrate; and a bridge electrode, placed so that an insulating gap is interposed between the bridge electrode and the second semiconductor layer, configured to connect the light-receiving portion electrode and the pad electrode on top of the substrate, the bridge electrode being formed in a layer separate from layers of the light-receiving portion electrode and the pad electrode.
US11705527B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for methods of making substrates having an (AR) antireflective layer, substrates having an antireflective layer, devices including a substrate having an antireflective layer, and the like. The AR layer can have a total specular reflection of less than 10% at a wavelength of about 400-800 nm, and a height of about 500-1000 nm.
US11705520B2
A semiconductor device includes first and second fin-shaped patterns disposed on a substrate and extending in a first direction, first and second channel layers disposed on the first and second fin-shaped patterns, first and second etch stop layers disposed inside the first and second channel layers, first and second gate structures extending in a second direction different from the first direction on the first channel layer with a first recess formed therebetween, third and fourth gate structures extending in the second direction on the second channel layer with a second recess formed therebetween, the first recess having a first width in the first direction and having a first depth in a third direction perpendicular to the first and second directions, the second recess having a second width different from the first width in the first direction, and having a second depth equal to the first depth in the third direction.
US11705519B2
A semiconductor device includes a Fin FET device. The Fin FET device includes a first fin structure extending in a first direction and protruding from an isolation insulating layer, a first gate stack including a first gate electrode layer and a first gate dielectric layer, covering a portion of the first fin structure and extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a first source and a first drain, each including a first stressor layer disposed over the first fin structure. The first fin structure and the isolation insulating layer are disposed over a substrate. A height Ha of an interface between the first fin structure and the first stressor layer measured from the substrate is greater than a height Hb of a lowest height of the isolation insulating layer measured from the substrate.
US11705512B2
A high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) includes a carrier transit layer, a carrier supply layer, a main gate, a control gate, a source electrode and a drain electrode. The carrier transit layer is on a substrate. The carrier supply layer is on the carrier transit layer. The main gate and the control gate are on the carrier supply layer. A fluoride ion doped region is formed right below the main gate in the carrier supply layer. The source electrode and the drain electrode are at two opposite sides of the main gate and the control gate, wherein the source electrode is electrically connected to the control gate by a metal interconnect. The present invention also provides a method of forming a high electron mobility transistor (HEMT).
US11705505B2
A semiconductor device and a method of forming the same are provided. The method includes forming a sacrificial gate structure over an active region. A first spacer layer is formed along sidewalls and a top surface of the sacrificial gate structure. A first protection layer is formed over the first spacer layer. A second spacer layer is formed over the first protection layer. A third spacer layer is formed over the second spacer layer. The sacrificial gate structure is replaced with a replacement gate structure. The second spacer layer is removed to form an air gap between the first protection layer and the third spacer layer.
US11705504B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and resulting structures for nanosheet devices having defect free channels. In a non-limiting embodiment of the invention, a nanosheet stack is formed over a substrate. The nanosheet stack includes alternating first sacrificial layers and second sacrificial layers. One layer of the first sacrificial layers has a greater thickness than the remaining first sacrificial layers. The first sacrificial layers are removed and semiconductor layers are formed on surfaces of the second sacrificial layers. The semiconductor layers include a first set and a second set of semiconductor layers. The second sacrificial layers are removed and an isolation dielectric is formed between the first set and the second set of semiconductor layers.
US11705503B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a gate electrode on the substrate, a gate spacer on a sidewall of the gate electrode, an active pattern penetrating the gate electrode and the gate spacer, and an epitaxial pattern contacting the active pattern and the gate spacer. The gate electrode extends in a first direction. The gate spacer includes a semiconductor material layer. The active pattern extends in a second direction crossing the first direction.
US11705501B2
Provided herein may be a semiconductor memory device and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor memory device. The semiconductor memory device includes a stacked body including interlayer insulating layers and a select line disposed between the interlayer insulating layers, a core insulating layer penetrating the stacked body, a semiconductor pattern extending along a sidewall of the core insulating layer and including an undoped area disposed between the select line and the core insulating layer, doped semiconductor patterns disposed between the semiconductor pattern and the interlayer insulating layers, and a gate insulating layer disposed between the semiconductor pattern and the select line.
US11705500B2
Some embodiments include a memory array having a vertical stack of alternating insulative levels and control gate levels. Channel material extends vertically along the stack. The control gate levels comprising conductive regions. The conductive regions include at least three different materials. Charge-storage regions are adjacent the control gate levels. Charge-blocking regions are between the charge-storage regions and the conductive regions.
US11705498B2
A method for fabricating a nanowire transistor includes the steps of first forming a nanowire channel structure on a substrate, in which the nanowire channel structure includes first semiconductor layers and second semiconductor layers alternately disposed over one another. Next, a gate structure is formed on the nanowire channel structure and then a source/drain structure is formed adjacent to the gate structure, in which the source/drain structure is made of graphene.
US11705487B2
Transistors having reduced parasitics and enhanced performance. In some embodiments, a transistor can include a source and a drain each implemented as a first type active region, and a gate implemented relative to the source and the drain such that application of a voltage to the gate results in formation of a conductive channel between the source and the drain. The transistor can further include a body configured to provide the conductive channel upon the application of the voltage to the gate. The body can be implemented as a second type active region that butts with the first type active region on the source side at a respective area not covered by the gate, and does not butt with the first type active region on the drain side at a respective area not covered by the gate.
US11705482B2
A metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor includes a first group of metal contacts disposed on a first region of an isolation layer spaced apart from each other in a first direction, a second group of metal contacts disposed on a second region of the isolation layer spaced apart from each other in the first direction, a dielectric layer disposed between the first group of metal contacts and the second group of metal contacts, a first metal electrode disposed to contact the top surfaces of the first group of metal contacts, and a second metal electrode disposed to contact the top surfaces of the second group of metal contacts.
US11705472B2
A biosensor is provided. The biosensor includes a substrate, a first photodiode, a second photodiode, an angle-sensitive filter, and an immobilization layer. The first photodiode and the second photodiode are disposed in the substrate and define a first pixel and a second pixel, respectively. The first pixel and the second pixel receive a light. The angle-sensitive filter is disposed on the substrate. The immobilization layer is disposed on the angle-sensitive filter.
US11705460B2
A panel comprises a substrate; a transistor disposed on the substrate and including: a source electrode, a drain electrode, a gate electrode, a gate insulation layer, an active layer, an auxiliary source electrode configured to electrically connect one end of the active layer to the source electrode, and an auxiliary drain electrode configured to electrically connect an other end of the active layer to the drain electrode; and a capacitor disposed on the substrate and including a first plate and a second plate. The first plate of the capacitor is made of a same material as the auxiliary source electrode and the auxiliary drain electrode.
US11705453B2
Self-aligned gate endcap (SAGE) architectures having local interconnects, and methods of fabricating SAGE architectures having local interconnects, are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a first gate structure over a first semiconductor fin, and a second gate structure over a second semiconductor fin. A gate endcap isolation structure is between the first and second semiconductor fins and laterally between and in contact with the first and second gate structures. A gate plug is over the gate endcap isolation structure and laterally between and in contact with the first and second gate structures. A local gate interconnect is between the gate plug and the gate endcap isolation structure, the local gate interconnect in contact with the first and second gate structures.
US11705444B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory system includes a substrate, a plurality of elements and an adhesive portion. The substrate has a multilayer structure in which wiring patterns are formed, and has a substantially rectangle shape in a planar view. The elements are provided and arranged along the long-side direction of a surface layer side of the substrate. The adhesive portion is filled in a gap between the elements and in a gap between the elements and the substrate, where surfaces of the elements are exposed.
US11705439B2
A multi-color LED display comprises pixels, each comprising a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, and a third sub-pixel. The first sub-pixel comprises a first light-emitting diode (LED) that emits a first color of light, the second sub-pixel comprises second LEDs that emit a second color of light different from the first color of light, and the third sub-pixel comprises third LEDs that emit a third color of light different from the first color of light and different from the second color of light. The second LEDs are electrically connected in parallel and the third LEDs are electrically connected in series.
US11705437B1
An interconnection structure of a system on wafer and a PCB based on a TSV process and a method for manufacturing the same. The structure comprises a bottom structural part and a top structural part, the upper surface of the bottom structural part is provided with a plurality of positioning holes; the lower surface of the top structural part is provided with positioning pins; the upper surface of the bottom structural part is provided with a bottom groove, and a system on wafer is arranged in the bottom groove; the lower surface of the system on wafer is connected with the bottom groove; the lower surface of the top structural part is provided with a top groove, and a PCB preformed die is connected in the top groove, and the other end of the PCB preformed die is connected with the system on wafer by an elastic connector.
US11705413B2
A semiconductor package including a base comprising an upper surface and a lower surface that is opposite to the upper surface; a radio-frequency (RF) module embedded near the upper surface of the base; an integrated circuit (IC) die mounted on the lower surface of the base in a flip-chip manner so that a backside of the IC die is available for heat dissipation; a plurality of conductive structures disposed on the lower surface of the base and arranged around the IC die; and a metal thermal interface layer comprising a backside metal layer that is in contact with the backside of the IC die, and a solder paste conformally printed on the backside metal layer.
US11705411B2
Structures and formation methods of a chip package are provided. The chip package includes a semiconductor die having a conductive element and an antenna element over the semiconductor die. The chip package also includes a first conductive feature electrically connecting the conductive element of the semiconductor die and the antenna element. The chip package further includes a protective layer surrounding the first conductive feature. In addition, the chip package includes a second conductive feature over the first conductive feature. A portion of the second conductive feature is between the first conductive feature and the protective layer.
US11705409B2
A semiconductor device including a chip package, a dielectric structure, and a first antenna pattern is provided. The dielectric structure is disposed on the chip package and includes a cavity and a vent in communication with the cavity. The first antenna pattern is disposed on the dielectric structure, wherein the chip package is electrically coupled to the first antenna pattern, and the cavity of the dielectric structure is disposed between the chip package and the first antenna pattern.
US11705400B2
A semiconductor package includes: a first substrate; a semiconductor chip mounted on the first substrate such that a circuit formation surface is oriented toward the first substrate; a second substrate arranged above the first substrate, the semiconductor chip being sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a resin that seals the semiconductor chip and that is filled between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the second substrate includes a solder resist layer having a first surface facing a back surface that is an opposite surface of the circuit formation surface of the semiconductor chip, and wherein on an area of the first surface of the solder resist layer facing the back surface of the semiconductor chip, at least one protruding portion that protrudes towards the back surface of the semiconductor chip is provided.
US11705399B2
There is provided a terminal that includes a first conductive layer; a wiring layer on the first conductive layer; a second conductive layer on the wiring layer; and a conductive bonding layer which is in contact with a bottom surface and a side surface of the first conductive layer, a side surface of the wiring layer, a portion of a side surface of the second conductive layer, and a portion of a bottom surface of the second conductive layer, wherein an end portion of the second conductive layer protrudes from an end portion of the first conductive layer and an end portion of the wiring layer, and wherein the conductive bonding layer is in contact with a bottom surface of the end portion of the second conductive layer.
US11705397B2
A three-dimensional memory device includes a plurality of row lines stacked alternately with a plurality of interlayer dielectric layers in a vertical direction on a substrate, and each of the plurality of row lines having a projection from a side surface thereof; and a plurality of vias extending in the vertical direction from the substrate, each coupled to the projection of a corresponding row line, and electrically coupling the plurality of row lines to a peripheral circuit defined below the substrate.
US11705395B2
An integrated circuit structure comprises a first and second conductive structures formed in an interlayer dielectric (ILD) of a metallization stack over a substrate. The first conductive structure comprises a first conductive line, and first dummy structures located adjacent to one or more sides of the first conductive line, wherein the first dummy structures comprise respective arrays of dielectric core segments having a Young's modulus larger than the Young's modulus of the ILD, the dielectric core segments being approximately 1-3 microns in width and spaced apart by approximately 1-3 microns. The second conductive structure formed in the ILD comprises a conductive surface and second dummy structures formed in the conductive surface, where the second dummy structures comprising an array of conductive pillars.
US11705393B2
A semiconductor device includes: a plurality of vertical conductive structures, wherein each of the plurality of vertical conductive structures extends through an isolation layer; and an insulated extension disposed horizontally between a first one and a second one of the plurality of vertical conductive structures.
US11705389B2
Embodiments herein describe techniques for a semiconductor device including a package substrate. The package substrate includes a via pad at least partially in a core layer. A first dielectric layer having a first dielectric material is above the via pad and the core layer, where the first dielectric layer has a first through hole that is through the first dielectric layer to reach the via pad. A second dielectric layer having a second dielectric material is at least partially filling the first through hole, where the second dielectric layer has a second through hole that is through the second dielectric layer to reach the via pad. A via is further within the second through hole of the second dielectric layer, surrounded by the second dielectric material, and in contact with the via pad. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11705381B2
A method of forming a semiconductor structure includes: attaching a semiconductor device to a first surface of a substrate; placing a thermal interface material (TIM) film over a first side of the semiconductor device distal from the substrate, where the TIM film is pre-formed before the placing, where after the placing, a peripheral portion of the TIM film extends laterally beyond sidewalls of the semiconductor device; and attaching a lid to the first surface of the substrate to form an enclosed space between the lid and the substrate, where after attaching the lid, the semiconductor device and the TIM film are disposed in the enclosed space, where a first side of the TIM film distal from the substrate contacts the lid.
US11705375B2
A method includes forming an inner chamber in a process chamber of a plasma processing apparatus, the inner chamber having smaller volume than the process chamber. At least one gas is introduced into the inner chamber, and flow of the at least one gas into the inner chamber is measured. The flow of the at least one gas is adjusted to a desired rate, and a wafer is processed by the at least one gas at the desired rate while the inner chamber is not formed.
US11705373B2
A system and method for performing in-situ measurements of semiconductor devices during chemical vapor deposition (CVD) includes disposing a chip carrier within a sealed chamber of a reactor for carrying out in-situ monitoring of partially fabricated semiconductor devices. The chip carrier includes a plurality of metallized bonding pads disposed along both peripheral edges on a same surface of the base for making electrical connections to metallized pads or contacts on the semiconductor device through bonding wires. Each of the plurality of metallized bonding pads disposed along both peripheral edges is electrically connected to each other as a pair through electrically connecting to a corresponding pair of ports which are disposed along both peripheral edges of the chip carrier. In-situ monitoring of the partially fabricated semiconductor device is performed through connecting the plurality of ports on the chip carrier to an external source-measure unit through a connector and wire harness.
US11705369B2
A semiconductor device includes conductive structures formed in a first dielectric layer, a conductive cap layer selectively positioned over the conductive structures and the first dielectric layer with a top surface and sidewalls, a second dielectric layer selectively positioned over the first dielectric layer and disposed between the sidewalls of the conductive cap layer, a third dielectric layer selectively positioned over the second dielectric layer and disposed between the sidewalls of the conductive cap layer, a fourth dielectric layer arranged over the conductive structures and the third dielectric layer, and an interconnect structure formed in the fourth dielectric layer. The interconnect structure includes a trench structure and a via structure that is positioned below the trench structure and connected to the trench structure. The via structure includes a first portion positioned over the conductive cap layer and a second portion disposed over the first portion and the third dielectric layer.
US11705360B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an image sensor. The image sensor comprises a substrate. A photodetector is in the substrate and includes a semiconductor guard ring extending into a first side of the substrate. A shallow trench isolation (STI) structure extends into the first side of the substrate. An outer isolation structure extends into a second side of the substrate, opposite the first side of the substrate, to the STI structure. The STI structure and the outer isolation structure laterally surround the photodetector. An inner isolation structure extends into the second side of the substrate and overlies the photodetector. The inner isolation structure is vertically separated from the photodetector by the substrate. Further, the outer isolation structure laterally surrounds the inner isolation structure.
US11705356B2
A mounting table includes a base member, having a rear surface and a front surface facing the rear surface, in which a coolant path is formed, a groove portion having a bottom surface within the base member being annularly formed on the front surface, the base member being divided into a cylindrical inner base member portion positioned at an inner side of the groove portion and an annular outer base member portion positioned at an outer side of the groove portion by the groove portion; an annular focus ring supported by the outer base member portion, the annular focus ring having, at an inner side surface thereof, a protrusion that is protruded radially and inwardly to cover the groove portion; a first heat transfer member provided between the mounting surface and the coolant path; and the second heat transfer member provided between the focus ring and the coolant path.
US11705349B2
A transfer substrate is configured to transfer a plurality of micro components from a first substrate to a second substrate. The transfer substrate comprises a base and a plurality of transfer heads. The base includes an upper surface. The plurality of transfer heads is disposed on the upper surface of the base, wherein each transfer head includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other and the transfer heads contact the base with the first surfaces thereof. A plurality of adhesion lumps is separated from each other, wherein each adhesion lump is disposed on the second surface of one of the transfer heads. A CTE of the base is different from CTEs of the transfer heads.
US11705346B2
An upper member is disposed at an upper portion within a processing chamber. A ceiling member forms a ceiling of the processing chamber, and is provided with a through hole at a facing surface thereof which faces the upper member. A supporting member supports the upper member with a first end thereof located inside the processing chamber by being inserted through the through hole and slid within the through hole. An accommodation member accommodates therein a second end of the supporting member located outside the processing chamber, and is partitioned into a first space at a first end side and a second space at a second end side in a moving direction with respect to the second end. A pressure controller generates a pressure difference between the first space and the second space. The pressure difference allows the supporting member to be moved.
US11705332B2
A method of forming a pattern in a photoresist layer includes forming a photoresist layer over a substrate, and reducing moisture or oxygen absorption characteristics of the photoresist layer. The photoresist layer is selectively exposed to actinic radiation to form a latent pattern, and the latent pattern is developed by applying a developer to the selectively exposed photoresist layer to form a pattern.
US11705330B2
A substrate for an electronic device, including a nitride semiconductor film formed on a joined substrate including a silicon single crystal, where the joined substrate has a plurality of silicon single crystal substrates that are joined and has a thickness of more than 2000 μm, and the plurality of silicon single crystal substrates are produced by a CZ method and have a resistivity of 0.1 Ωcm or lower. This provides: a substrate for an electronic device having a nitride semiconductor film formed on a silicon substrate, where the substrate for an electronic device can suppress a warp and can also be used for a product with a high breakdown voltage; and a method for producing the same.
US11705328B2
Various embodiments of the present application are directed towards a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) substrate. The SOI substrate includes a handle substrate; a device layer overlying the handle substrate; and an insulator layer separating the handle substrate from the device layer. The insulator layer meets the device layer at a first interface and meets the handle substrate at a second interface. The insulator layer comprises a getter material having a getter concentration profile. The handle substrate contains getter material and has a handle getter concentration profile. The handle getter concentration profile has a peak at the second interface and a gradual decline beneath the second interface until reaching a handle getter concentration.
US11705326B2
There is provided a technique that includes filling a concave portion formed on a surface of a substrate with a first film and a second film by performing: (a) forming the first film having a hollow portion using a first precursor so as to fill the concave portion formed on the surface of the substrate; (b) etching a portion of the first film which makes contact with the hollow portion, using an etching agent; and (c) forming the second film on the first film of which the portion is etched, using a second precursor, wherein (b) includes performing, a predetermined number of times: (b-1) modifying a portion of the first film using a modifying agent; and (b-2) selectively etching the modified portion of the first film using the etching agent.
US11705324B2
A wafer cleaning apparatus includes a polishing unit used in chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) of a wafer and a cleaning dispensing unit arranged to direct cleaning fluids toward a far edge of the wafer after the CMP of the wafer. A wafer cleaning method includes CMP of a wafer by a polishing unit and directing cleaning fluids toward a far edge of the wafer after the CMP of the wafer by a cleaning dispensing unit. Another method can include CMP, applying deionized water, and applying pH adjuster having a pH range from about 2 to about 13.
US11705312B2
The disclosure describes a plasma source assemblies comprising a differential screw assembly, an RF hot electrode, a top cover, an upper housing and a lower housing. The differential screw assembly is configured to provide force to align the plasma source assembly vertically matching planarity of a susceptor. More particularly, the differential screw assembly increases a distance between the top cover and the upper housing to align the gap with the susceptor. The disclosure also provides a better thermal management by cooling fins. A temperature capacity of the plasma source assemblies is extended by using titanium electrode. The disclosure provides a cladding material covering a portion of a first surface of RF hot electrode, a second surface of RF hot electrode, a bottom surface of RF hot electrode, a portion of a surface of the showerhead and a portion of lower housing surface.
US11705310B2
A plasma probe device includes: an antenna installed in an opening portion formed in a wall of a processing container via a seal member that seals between a vacuum space and an atmospheric space; and a light transmission portion installed inside the antenna or forming at least a portion of the antenna, and configured to transmit emission of plasma generated in the vacuum space to the atmospheric space.
US11705309B2
A temperature changing method includes changing a pressure of a gas supplied from a gas supply to a gap between the substrate and an electrostatic chuck from a first pressure to a second pressure being lower than the first pressure, changing a voltage applied to the electrostatic chuck from a first voltage to a second voltage being lower than the first voltage, changing a temperature of the electrostatic chuck from a first temperature to a second temperature, electrostatically attracting the substrate by the electrostatic chuck for a time in a state where the gas pressure is the second pressure and the voltage is the second voltage, changing the gas pressure from the second pressure to a third pressure being lower than the first pressure and higher than the second pressure, and changing the voltage from the second voltage to a third voltage being higher than the second voltage.
US11705308B2
There is provision of a plasma processing apparatus including a processing vessel, a first member provided in the processing vessel, and a second member provided outside the first member. In at least one of the first member and the second member, a gas flow passage is formed, and the gas flow passage is configured to cause a gas to flow into a gap between the first member and the second member.
US11705306B2
A variable frequency and non-sinusoidal power generator includes a pulse module circuit, a slope module circuit, and first and second cooling systems. The pulse module circuit and the slope module circuit includes control switches, and generates at least one of a output currents and a output voltages by selectively turning on/off the control switches based on control signals. The first and second cooling systems are disposed at first and second sides of the control switches. A bias power having a variable frequency and a non-sinusoidal waveform is generated based on the control signals, at least one of the output currents and the output voltages.
US11705297B2
An electromagnetic relay includes a first movable contact piece, a moving member, a coil, and a movable iron core. The movable iron core is connected to the moving member and is configured to move by a magnetic force generated by the coil. The moving member is made of an electrical insulator. The moving member includes a support portion and a connecting portion. The support portion holds a first movable contact piece. The connecting portion is connected to the movable iron core. The connecting portion includes a locking groove and a locking projection. An end of the movable iron core is disposed in the locking groove. The locking projection presses the end of the movable iron core in the locking groove. The locking projection extends in a support direction perpendicular to a moving direction of the moving member.
US11705292B2
An electromagnetic relay includes a first fixed terminal including a first fixed contact, a second fixed terminal including a second fixed contact, a movable contact piece, a case, a drive device, and a first magnet. The movable contact piece includes a first movable contact and a second movable contact. The case includes an accommodation space and a side wall covering the accommodation space in a first direction. The first magnet extends an arc generated between the first fixed contact and the first movable contact in a second direction opposite to the first direction. The first fixed terminal includes a first end. The first end of the first fixed terminal includes a tapered portion inclined in the second direction from the first fixed contact toward the first magnet and that at least partially overlaps with the first magnet when viewed from a moving direction of the movable contact piece.
US11705288B1
Many electronic devices may employ electrolytic polymer capacitors in their power supplies for noise filtering, decoupling/bypassing, frequency conversion and DC-DC and AC-DC conversion. However, some polymer capacitors exhibit an anomalous charging current phenomenon, which may prevent proper charging and cause failure in power circuits of the electronic devices. Disclosed herein are polymer capacitors that have a wide band gap material layer between an insulator/dielectric and a polymer cathode, a charge depletion region in the insulator/dielectric, or both, that may mitigate the anomalous charging current.
US11705284B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a capacitor main body including a multilayer body including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers alternately laminated, and external electrodes each provided at one of two end surfaces of the multilayer body and connected to the internal electrode layers, and two interposers provided on both sides in a length direction of a surface of the capacitor main body. The two interposers each include a protrusion extending from one of the two interposers to another of the two interposers.
US11705281B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes: a multilayer chip in which dielectric layers mainly composed of ceramic and internal electrode layers are alternately stacked so that the internal electrode layers are alternately exposed to two end faces of the multilayer chip having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape; and a pair of external electrodes formed from the two end faces to at least one side face of side faces, wherein each external electrode includes a metal layer formed from the end face to the at least one side face and mainly composed of copper, and an oxide layer covering at least a part of the metal layer, mainly composed of copper oxide, and having a maximum thickness of 0.5 μm or greater, wherein a first surface, which is in contact with the plated layer, of the oxide layer has Cu particles formed thereon.
US11705278B2
A multi-layer ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body and an external electrode. The ceramic body includes an end surface facing in a first direction, and internal electrodes exposed from the end surface and laminated in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The external electrode is provided on the end surface and includes two protrusions that are formed along two peripheral portions of the end surface and protrude in the first direction, the two peripheral portions being disposed in a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction.
US11705275B2
A current transformer (CT) for the purpose of, for example, current measurement, that uses a power line as a first coil and a second coil for measurement purposes, is further equipped with a third coil. Circuitry connected to the third coil is adapted to measure a signal therefrom. The measured signal from the third coil is compared to a signal measured from the second coil and based on the results, internal CT parameters are determined allowing calibration of actual results to expected results thereby providing an improved accuracy. This is especially desirable when using the CT for measurement of the like of current or phase of the primary coil when measurements are adjusted using the newly determined calibration parameters.
US11705264B2
An LC filter arrangement includes a filter capacitor that connects the first output terminal to the second output terminal, a magnetic core, and a choke having a plurality of turns surrounding the magnetic core, and a first choke terminal and a second choke terminal. Each of the turns is formed by a separate conductor segment, at least partially surrounding the magnetic core. The LC filter arrangement is mounted on a circuit board and is electrically connected to a conductor track of the circuit board.
US11705262B2
The invention relates to an electromagnetic actuating device (20) having at least two actuator units (1a, 1b) which are arranged adjacently in a housing (10) and which each have electrically energizable static coil means (2a, 2b), armature means (3a, 3b) mounted so as to be movable relative to said coil means, and a plunger (4a, 4b) which interacts with the armature means (3a, 3b) and which is mounted so as to be movable along axial plunger direction (S1, S2) and which has a free end portion (5a, 5b) for engagement into an actuation partner, in particular a guide groove of a camshaft, wherein the plungers (4a, 4b) of the actuator units (1a, 1b) of the actuating device (20) are preferably arranged such that the plunger directions (S1, S2) thereof run parallel to one another, and wherein the device (20) has adjustment means (6) which are integrated in the housing (10) and which serve for varying the arrangement of at least one plunger along a plane (E) perpendicular to the respective plunger direction (S1, S2).
US11705258B2
A high saturation, low loss magnetic material suitable for high frequency electrical devices, including power converters, transformers, solenoids, motors, and other such devices.
US11705257B2
The present invention relates to an R-T-B sintered magnet and a preparation method thereof. The sintered magnet includes a grain boundary region T1, a shell layer region T2 and an R2Fe14B grain region T3; at 10 μm to 60 μm from a surface of the sintered magnet toward a center thereof, an area ratio of the shell layer region T2 to the R2Fe14B grain region T3 is 0.1 to 0.3, and a thickness of the shell layer region T2 is 0.5 μm to 1.2 μm; and an average coating percent of the shell layer region T2 on the R2Fe14B grain region T3 is 80% or more. In the present invention, by optimizing a preparation process and a microstructure of a traditional rare earth permanent magnet, diffusion efficiency of heavy rare earth in the magnet is improved, such that coercivity of the magnet is greatly improved, and manufacturing cost is reduced.
US11705254B2
A wiring component includes a plurality of electric wires aligned in a predetermined alignment direction, and a holder to hold the plurality of electric wires. The holder includes a pair of resin members that sandwich longitudinal portions of the plurality of electric wires in a perpendicular direction perpendicular to the alignment direction, and the pair of resin members are recess-projection fitted between the plurality of electric wires.
US11705248B2
System and computer-implemented method for detecting and categorizing pathologies through an analysis of pulsatile blood flow. The method has a pulsatile blood flow signal of a subject, extracting a set of features from the pulsatile blood flow signal; and categorizing a pathology based on the extracted features. The extracted features may be predetermined features or features learned through a machine learning algorithm. For the categorization, a classification or a regression algorithm may be used to provide an index or a value score as a biomarker. Additional static features of the subject may be used in the categorization.
US11705242B2
A method for presenting an interactive emergency department (ED) dashboard display for an ED at a user computing device is provided. The method may include presenting a plurality of user interface indicators on the interactive ED dashboard display at the user computing device. Each of the plurality of user interface indicators may correspond to a real-time performance metric for the ED, where the real-time performance metric is based on patient data for a plurality of patients in the ED. A user input may be received at the user computing device. The user input may indicate a selection of one of the plurality of user interface indicators. The method may further include, in response to the user input, presenting on the interactive ED dashboard display the patient data that is associated with the real-time performance metric corresponding to the selected one of the plurality of user interface indicators.
US11705239B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for generating image reports. In one embodiment, the method includes: obtaining an image to be analyzed; determining at least one reference image corresponding to the image to be analyzed, the at least one reference image corresponding to a respective reference image report; and generating, based on the reference image report, an image report corresponding to the image to be analyzed. In the method for generating an image report provided by the embodiments, by obtaining an image to be analyzed is obtained, at least one reference image corresponding to the image to be analyzed is determined; and an image report corresponding to the image to be analyzed is generated based on a respective reference image report corresponding to the at least one reference image. Therefore, medical staff are assisted in quickly writing an image report, thereby ensuring the quality and the efficiency of the image report, reducing labor costs and time costs required for collating the image report, and further improving the practicability of the method.
US11705238B2
A method of performing a surgical procedure includes storing a software application on a memory associated with a computer, which when executed by a processor causes the software application to develop a model of a patient's anatomical structure, process images of the patient's anatomy, display the images of the patient's anatomy on a user interface associated with the computer, superimpose critical structures within the patient over the displayed images of the patient's anatomy, determine a location within the patient's body cavity where the images of the patient's anatomy were taken, and display the model of the patient's anatomical structure on the user interface, the displayed model indicating the determined location where the images of the patient's anatomy were taken.
US11705233B2
A peristaltic pump includes a plunger-cam follower, a tube receiver, a spring-biased plunger, a spring, a position sensor, and a processor. The plunger-cam follower engages the plunger cam to follow the plunger cam and to disengage from the plunger cam. The spring-biased plunger is coupled to the plunger-cam follower and the spring biases the spring-biased plunger toward the tube receiver. The position sensor determines a position of the spring-biased plunger when the plunger-cam follower is disengaged from the plunger came. The processor estimates fluid flow utilizing at least the position of the spring-biased plunger as indicated by the position sensor when the plunger-cam follower is disengaged from the plunger cam and the spring biases the spring-biased plunger against the tube.
US11705232B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving audio-based content from a user who is reviewing an image on a display screen; receiving gaze information that defines a gaze location of the user; and temporally aligning the audio-based content and the gaze information to form location-based content.
US11705230B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for adjusting monitoring profiles of end devices. In one aspect, a method generates a health profile for the user; determines, based on the health profile of the user, a particular health risk for the user; determines, for the particular health risk, a first monitoring profile for the user that causes one or more health monitoring devices to monitor the user for a first set of health data; provides the first monitoring profile to the one or more health monitoring devices; receives epigenetic data describing epigenetic factors for the user; determines that a health change event for the particular health risk has occurred for the user; and in response, determines a second monitoring profile for the user for the particular health risk and provides the second monitoring profile to the one or more health monitoring devices.
US11705228B2
A method for managing patient information in a system includes a cloud server, a healthcare facility, and affiliated facilities connected via a network. The method includes: receiving, from the healthcare facility, a medical image in response to examination order information sent by a first user from one affiliated facility; correlating the medical image to the examination order information and adding them to the patient information; correlating the medical image to disclosure propriety information indicating whether to allow the patient information to be disclosed to a second user; receiving a viewing request sent by the first or second user from one affiliated facility; determining whether to approve the viewing request based on the examination order information or the disclosure propriety information; and approving the viewing request and transmitting the patient information to the affiliated facility from which the viewing request has been sent.
US11705226B2
A method and system for storing user application programs and micro-service programs, for each of multiple patients that have cancerous cells and receive treatment, includes obtaining clinical records data in original forms, storing it in a semi-structured first database, generating sequencing data for the patient's cancerous and normal cells using a next generation genomic sequencer, storing the sequencing data in the first database, shaping at least some of the first database data to generate system structured data optimized for searching and including clinical record data, storing the structured data in a second database, for each user application program, selecting an application-specific subset of data from the second database and storing it in a structure optimized for application program interfacing in a third database, wherein an orchestration manager operatively connected to one or more micro-service programs receives status messages and initiates a respective micro-service program when program prerequisites are satisfied.
US11705194B2
Techniques are provided for accessing two memory cells of a memory tile concurrently. A memory tile may include a plurality of self-selecting memory cells addressable using a row decoder and a column decoder. A memory controller may access a first self-selecting memory cell of the memory tile using a first pulse having a first polarity to the first self-selecting memory cell. The memory controller may also access a second self-selecting memory cell of the memory tile concurrently with accessing the first self-selecting memory cell using a second pulse having a second polarity different than the first polarity. The memory controller may determine characteristics of the pulses to mitigate disturbances of unselected self-selecting memory cells of the memory tile.
US11705181B2
Methods of operating a memory device are disclosed. A method may include determining an amount of activity associated with at least one memory bank of a memory device. The method may further include adjusting a row hammer refresh rate for the at least one memory bank based on the amount of activity associated with the at least one memory bank. Memory devices and systems are also described.
US11705169B2
A trim/test interface in a packaged integrated circuit device prevents high through-current between pins of the IC device and trim/test interface digital logic within the IC device using a floating-pin-tolerant always-on CMOS input buffer. The always-on buffer uses a coupling capacitor at its input to block signals at DC and a weak-latch feedback path to ensure that intermediate or floating inputs are provided through the buffer only at one of two digital levels (e.g., those provided by a ground pin GND and by a high supply voltage pin VDD). The described interfaces and methods provide for false-entry-free test mode activation for IC devices with a low pin count, where there are a limited number of pins to cover all test/trim functions, or in which only analog, no-connect, or failsafe pins are available for trim or test mode entry control or trim or test data input.
US11705165B2
Embodiments of the disclosure, there is provided a method, a system for adjusting the memory, and a semiconductor device. The method for adjusting the memory includes: acquiring a mapping relationship between a temperature of a transistor, an equivalent width-length ratio of a sense amplifier transistor in a sense amplifier and an actual time at which the data is written into the memory; acquiring a current temperature of the transistor; and adjusting the equivalent width-length ratio, based on the current temperature and the mapping relationship, so that the actual time at which the data is written into the memory corresponding to the adjusted equivalent width-length ratio is within a preset writing time.
US11705162B2
Described are clamps useful for temporarily holding a slider of a hard disk drive in a test socket for dynamic electrical testing of the slider, as well as related assemblies that include the test socket, a head-gimbal-assembly, a testing assembly, and related methods of use.
US11705161B2
Methods, devices, and systems for segmenting and annotating videos for analysis are disclosed. A user identifies specific moments of the video that provide a teachable moment. A pre-context and a post-context portion of the video surrounding the identified moment are used to create a tile video. One or more tile videos are compiled in a user-defined order to generate a weave video with a specific focus or theme. The generated weave video is shared with one or more users and can be annotated to facilitate teaching and/or discussion.
US11705151B1
Systems and methods transmit, to a user device across a network, digital communication(s) thereby facilitating displaying the digital communication(s) via a user interface of the user device. Based on a user of the user device providing user input(s) in response to the digital communication(s) response data related to physical location(s) are received and data processing is performed thereon to determine whether additional data collection sequence(s) should be provided. Based on determining an additional data collection sequence should be provided, a condition-specific data collection sequence is provided via the user interface to facilitate obtaining condition-specific data related to a condition at a physical location, where the condition-specific data includes audio data collected via the user device and where the obtaining the condition-specific data comprises using a speech signal processing system to perform audio transduction to generate the audio data from a speech signal and facilitate performing natural language processing thereon.
US11705146B2
An audio encoder for providing an output signal using an input audio signal includes a patch generator, a comparator and an output interface. The patch generator generates at least one bandwidth extension high-frequency signal, wherein a bandwidth extension high-frequency signal includes a high-frequency band. The high-frequency band of the bandwidth extension high-frequency signal is based on a low frequency band of the input audio signal. A comparator calculates a plurality of comparison parameters. A comparison parameter is calculated based on a comparison of the input audio signal and a generated bandwidth extension high-frequency signal. Each comparison parameter of the plurality of comparison parameters is calculated based on a different offset frequency between the input audio signal and a generated bandwidth extension high-frequency signal. Further, the comparator determines a comparison parameter from the plurality of comparison parameters, wherein the determined comparison parameter fulfils a predefined criterion.
US11705143B2
A method for representing a second presentation of audio channels or objects as a data stream, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a set of base signals, the base signals representing a first presentation of the audio channels or objects; (b) providing a set of transformation parameters, the transformation parameters intended to transform the first presentation into the second presentation; the transformation parameters further being specified for at least two frequency bands and including a set of multi-tap convolution matrix parameters for at least one of the frequency bands.
US11705134B2
Methods for voice authentication include receiving a plurality of mono telephonic interactions between customers and agents; creating a mapping of the plurality of mono telephonic interactions that illustrates which agent interacted with which customer in each of the interactions; determining how many agents each customer interacted with; identifying one or more customers an agent has interacted with that have the fewest interactions with other agents; and selecting a predetermined number of interactions of the agent with each of the identified customers. In some embodiments, the methods further include creating a voice print from first and second speaker components of each interaction; comparing the voice prints of a first selected interaction to the voice prints from a second selected interaction; calculating a similarity score between the voice prints; aggregating scores; and identifying the voice prints that are associated with the agent.
US11705119B2
A guide voice output control system includes a voice output control unit having a function of outputting a guide voice in response to a trigger and a function of executing interaction related processing having a reception stage for receiving voice, a recognition stage for recognizing voice, and an output stage for outputting voice based on a recognition result, in which the voice output control unit controls the output of the guide voice according to the processing stage of the interaction related processing when the trigger is generated during the execution of the processing, and dynamically controls the output of the guide voice according to whether or not the processing stage is a stage that does not affect the accuracy of voice recognition or listening difficulty of a user even if the guide voice is output.
US11705117B2
Acoustic features are batched into two different batches. The second batch of the two batches is made in response to a detection of a word hypothesis output by a speech recognition network that received the first batch. The number of acoustic feature frames of the second batch is equal to a second batch size greater than the first batch size. The second batch is also to the speech recognition network for processing.
US11705110B2
An electronic device and a method for controlling thereof are provided. The electronic device includes a communicator comprising circuitry, a microphone, at least one memory configured to store at least one instruction and dialogue history information, and a processor configured to execute the at least one instruction, and the processor, by executing the at least one instruction, is further configured to determine whether to transmit, to a server storing a first dialogue system, a user speech that is input through the microphone, based on determining that the user speech is transmitted to the server, control the communicator to transmit the user speech and at least a part of the stored dialogue history information to the server, receive, from the server, dialogue history information associated with the user speech, through the communicator, and control the received dialogue history information to be stored in the memory.
US11705107B2
Embodiments of a production-quality text-to-speech (TTS) system constructed from deep neural networks are described. System embodiments comprise five major building blocks: a segmentation model for locating phoneme boundaries, a grapheme-to-phoneme conversion model, a phoneme duration prediction model, a fundamental frequency prediction model, and an audio synthesis model. For embodiments of the segmentation model, phoneme boundary detection was performed with deep neural networks using Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) loss. For embodiments of the audio synthesis model, a variant of WaveNet was created that requires fewer parameters and trains faster than the original. By using a neural network for each component, system embodiments are simpler and more flexible than traditional TTS systems, where each component requires laborious feature engineering and extensive domain expertise. Inference with system embodiments may be performed faster than real time.
US11705104B2
An electronic system includes a fan module, an embedded controller, a reference microphone, an error microphone, an active noise cancellation controller, and a micro speaker module. The reference microphone is configured to output a wide-band noise signal associated with the operation of the fan module. The error microphone is configured to output an error signal by detecting the noise level during the operation of the electronic system. According to the wide-band noise signal, the error signal and the fan information provided by the embedded controller, the active noise cancellation controller calculates the narrow-band noises and the wide-band noises generated by the fan module, and drives the micro speaker module accordingly for providing a noise cancellation signal. The error signal may be reduced to zero by adaptively adjusting the noise cancellation signal for canceling the noises generated during the operation of the electronic system.
US11705097B2
Battery powered devices are provided with electrically isolated outputs. One exemplary battery device comprises at least one battery; and control electronics configured to provide a plurality of outputs from one of the at least one battery, wherein the plurality of outputs comprise at least one output that is electrically isolated from at least one other output of the plurality of outputs that each provide power to one or more of a plurality of loads. In another exemplary battery device, the control electronics are configured to provide a plurality of outputs from one of the at least one battery, and further comprises a housing assembly comprising (i) at least two surfaces, wherein the at least two surfaces have a space therebetween configured to house the control electronics and the at least one battery; or (ii) a tubular structure configured to house the control electronics and the at least one battery.
US11705094B2
A drumhead tuning rim system and method for securing and tuning a drumhead on a drum shell of a drum, comprising a drumhead tuning rim apparatus comprising a cable tension dial assembly configured for operably engaging a rim of the drum so as to increase or decrease tension on the rim, the rim being configured for seating over the drumhead on the drum shell, and an apparatus controller configured for operably interfacing with the drumhead tuning rim apparatus so as to selectively control the cable tension dial assembly and thereby adjust the overall pitch of the drumhead as by adjusting the tension on the rim.
US11705091B2
This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for parallelization of GPU composition with DPU topology selection. A processor may receive an indication of a plurality of application layers for composition at a first processor (e.g., a DPU) and a second processor (e.g., a GPU). The processor may select one or more first application layers of the plurality of application layers for attempted composition at the first processor and one or more second application layers of the plurality of application layers for composition at the second processor. The processor may transmit each of the one or more first application layers to the first processor for composition and each of the one or more second application layers to the second processor for composition.
US11705087B2
The present invention provides a display device. The display device includes a timing controller, a data register, a source driver, and a display panel. A portion of a vertical effective display column data in a vertical idle period is output through the data register, which can increase a sum of charging time of a pixel column of an entire frame of images. Moreover, an N/2th horizontal idle period to the Nth horizontal idle period are adjusted to improve display uniformity of an upper half screen and a lower half screen.
US11705084B1
A high-speed buffer amplifier includes an input stage including a first channel coupled to receive differential inputs and a second channel coupled to receive the differential inputs; a middle stage including a first current source coupled to receive outputs of the second channel and electrically connected to power, a second current source coupled to receive outputs of the first channel and electrically connected to ground, and a floating current source electrically connected between the first current source and the second current source; and an output stage coupled to the middle stage to generate an output voltage. A shunt circuit is electrically connected between the first current source and the second current source, and configured to bypass the floating current source.
US11705081B2
A display device for vehicle capable of reducing visual recognition burden on a driver and shortening watching time is provided. The display device for vehicle includes a liquid crystal display including a first area, a second area and a third area as display areas, and a CPU configured to switch the liquid crystal display between a normal display mode and a simple display mode. The CPU is configured to, in the normal display mode, make the first area, the second area and the third area to display vehicle information, and in the simple display mode, put the first area and the second area in a non-displayed state and make only the third area to display in digital indication at least speed information among the vehicle information.
US11705076B2
A cholesteric liquid crystal (LC) composite display device includes a light absorbing substrate, a first and second transparent substrates, a light supplement module arranged between the light absorbing substrate and the first transparent substrate, a control module, a first and second electrode layers respectively formed on the first and second transparent substrates, a first cholesteric LC layer sandwiched between the first and second electrode layers, and a first light absorbing layer disposed on the second transparent substrate. The projection of the first light absorbing layer on the horizontal plane and the projection of the light supplement module on the horizontal plane are arranged in a misaligned manner. The control module is provided for controlling the light supplement module according to the brightness signal. Thereby, when the external brightness is low, the light supplement module enhances the displaying brightness of the cholesteric LC composite display device to meet the usage requirements.
US11705075B2
A display device includes a display panel, a first memory, and a degradation compensator. The first memory device stores stress data including degradation values representing a degradation degree of each of the blocks in the display panel. The degradation compensator loads the stress data from the first memory device, updates the stress data based on current input data and a maximum degradation value, updates the maximum degradation value based on degradation values included in the updated stress data, and generate compensated data by compensating for the current input data based on the updated stress data. The degradation compensator determines whether a first degradation value included in the stress data is normal by comparing the first degradation value with the maximum degradation value, and updates the first degradation value based on at least one adjacent degradation value adjacent to the first degradation value, when the first degradation value is abnormal.
US11705074B2
A display device includes a display panel that includes a first display area and a second display area, a data driving circuit which drives a plurality of data lines, a scan driving circuit which drives a plurality of scan lines, and a driving controller which controls the data driving circuit and the scan driving circuit such that the first display area is driven at a first driving frequency, and the second display area is driven at a second driving frequency lower than the first driving frequency during a multi-frequency mode, where the driving controller receives an image signal and provides to the data driving circuit an image data signal obtained by compensating for a gamma level of the image signal corresponding to the second display area during the multi-frequency mode.
US11705062B1
A method for an electronic device merges a subset of display brightness and corresponding ambient light value pairs selected from a brightness adjustment model and one or more user defined display brightness and corresponding ambient light value pairs received from user input occurring at a user interface of the electronic device to obtain a merged brightness adjustment model dataset. The method filters the merged brightness adjustment model dataset to obtain a filtered brightness adjustment model dataset and extracts a merged brightness adjustment model from the filtered brightness adjustment model dataset. One or more processors of the electronic device control a display brightness of a display of the electronic device using the merged brightness adjustment model.
US11705058B2
Display panels and display devices are provided. The display panel includes a functional module area and a plurality of first signal wirings arranged along a first direction. The display panel includes a first area and a second area, and along the first direction, the functional module area is disposed between the first area and the second area. The plurality of first signal wirings include a plurality of first cross-lines and a plurality of first sub-signal wirings along a second direction, the plurality of first sub-signal wirings are disposed in a display area, the plurality of first cross-lines are connected to the plurality of first sub-signal wirings, and the second direction intersects the first direction. The first area includes M first cross-lines of the plurality of first cross-lines, the second area includes N first cross-lines of the plurality of first cross-lines, and M is greater than N.
US11705057B2
A pixel includes a light emitting element, a driving switching element and a first compensation switching element and a second compensation switching element. The driving switching element is which applies a driving current to the light emitting element. The first compensation switching element and the second compensation switching element are connected between a control electrode of the driving switching element and an output electrode of the driving switching element. The first compensation switching element and the second compensation switching element are connected to each other in series. The driving switching element is a P-type transistor. The first compensation switching element is an N-type transistor. The second compensation switching element is a P-type transistor.
US11705050B2
A power management integrated circuit includes a flip-flop circuit configured to perform a logic operation on a start clock signal which sets a driving start time point of a gate driving circuit and an on-clock signal which sets an output start time point of the gate driving circuit; a first AND gate circuit configured to receive one among output signals of the flip-flop circuit and the start clock signal, to perform an AND logic operation thereon, and to generate a gate start signal; and a second AND gate circuit configured to receive the other of the output signals of the flip-flop circuit and the start clock signal, to perform an AND logic operation thereon, and to generate a gate reset signal.
US11705041B2
A display panel includes a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element. The pixel circuit includes a driving module. The driving module includes a driving transistor, and is configured to provide a driving current for the light-emitting element. The pixel circuit includes a control terminal configured to receive a first light-emitting control signal, the first light-emitting control signal is an effective pulse, and the driving module corresponding to the control terminal is turned on during the effective pulse. A time period of one frame of the display panel includes a non-light-emitting stage and a light-emitting stage, an operating state of the pixel circuit includes a first mode and a second mode, a time length of the non-light-emitting stage in the first mode is L1, and a time length of the non-light-emitting stage in the second mode is L2, where L1>L2.
US11705036B2
The present disclosure related to an optical fingerprint identification display and a driving method thereof. In the optical fingerprint identification display and the driving method thereof, the fingerprint identification display includes: a display panel and a processor. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional matrix. The pixel includes: at least one subpixel which emits light on the basis of a first signal received from the processor; and an optical sensor which receives the light emitted from the subpixel and is reflected from a fingerprint and generates a second signal. The processor determines a touch region on the display panel, and transmits the first signal to one or more pixels included in the touch region, and identifies the fingerprint of the user on the basis of the second signal received from the pixel.
US11705033B2
A method provided by the present application comprises: obtaining a number n of rows of pixel units to be precharged; controlling a scanning driving chip to sequentially output n first scanning enable signals to a scanning driving circuit according to the number n of rows; and outputting a second scanning enable signal to the scanning driving circuit, so that the scanning driving circuit is controlled to output a second scanning signal to the pixel units of the n-th row to charge the pixel units of the n-th row.
US11705031B2
The invention relates to a source driver and a composite level shifter. The source driver comprises a data buffer circuit, a plurality of level shifters and a plurality of driving circuits. The data buffer circuit receives and registers a plurality of pixel data during a driving period. The level shifters convert the voltage levels of the pixel data registered in the data buffer circuit during the driving period. The driving circuits generate a plurality of source signals according to the converted pixel data during driving period. The data buffer circuit may comprise a plurality of composite level shifters for converting the voltage levels of the pixel data, and latching the converted pixel data.
US11705030B2
Methods, apparatuses and systems provide for technology to identify a communication that is to be presented to a user. The technology controls a first plurality of actuators to press a first portion of a light emitting element (LEE) layer against a deformable layer to deform the deformable layer into a shape that represents the communication to be presented to the user, and controls the LEE layer to emit light from the first portion of the LEE layer that is pressed against the deformable layer to illuminate the shape of the deformable layer.
US11705029B1
Systems and methods are provided to compensate image data for display on a curved display. A pixel uniformity compensation factor may be applied based on a pixel uniformity compensation factor map that is calibrated to the display panel while the display panel has a flat shape, and a panel curvature compensation factor may be applied when the image content is to be displayed while the display panel has a curved shape. The panel curvature compensation factor may be based on a panel curvature compensation factor map that is calibrated to the display panel after the display panel is bent from the flat shape to the curved shape.
US11705021B2
An article comprising a pop-up card is provided. The article comprises a single sheet of paper including a single crease and separating the sheet of paper into a left panel and a right panel, wherein the sheet is in a closed position when folded along the crease, and wherein the sheet is in the open position when not folded along the crease, a pop-up slice-form element coupled to said sheet, wherein the slice-form includes a first plurality of slice-form elements perpendicular to a second plurality of slice-form elements when in the open position, wherein the slice-form element comprises a first and last slice-form element each with a distal tab, and wherein in the open position the pop-up slice-form element is displayed as a three-dimensional configuration, and in the closed position said pop-up slice-form element folds together into a flat configuration.
US11705019B2
The present invention provides a dynamic contact heat transfer simulation device for rolling heavy-load deformation zone. The device includes a control system, a data acquisition system, a pressure-adjustable fixed cold end, a rotating chuck, a temperature-adjustable heat-conducting rod and an speed-adjustable rotation hot end; the device utilizes the rotating chuck and the speed-adjustable rotating hot end to adjust the rotation speed in real time according to the actual rolling conditions, simulate the working conditions of the actual rolling heavy-load deformation zone, and accurately obtain the dynamic heat transfer coefficient of the rotating contact interface under variable load pressure conditions.
US11705017B2
Disclosed is an educational board game having a game surface and associated physical gaming elements that cooperatively simulate distinct phases of a supply chain, in which different physical gaming elements and game board segments correspond to those distinct supply chain phases. Mating, player-specific (e.g., color coded) material game pieces represent materials that may be combined to form a simulated product. Combined game pieces representing player-specific products may then be moved across the game board with players paying various supply chain costs and receiving payment for product sales through the segments of the supply chain. A random number generator, such as one or more dice, in combination with various cards, are used by the players to determine the occurrence of various supply chain risks, values, and projections as the players progress through the segments of the supply chain to ultimate sale of finished products.
US11705015B2
In certain implementations, creation of an educational test may be facilitated based on prior performance with individual test questions. A user input indicating a subject matter for a test, one or more question categories related to the subject matter, and a questionee group for which the test is intended may be received. A plurality of questions may be obtained based on the user input. For each question of the plurality of questions, a question performance metric value associated with the question (that is calculated based on prior performance of one or more questionees with the question) may be obtained. A test performance metric value associated with the test may be calculated based on the question performance metric values associated with at least some questions of the plurality of questions. The at least some questions and the test performance metric value may be provided for presentation on a user interface.
US11705005B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, an apparatus and a device for an illegal vehicle warning. The method includes: detecting an illegal vehicle in a preset area; and performing the illegal vehicle warning on a target vehicle entering the preset area according to vehicle information of a detected illegal vehicle in the preset area. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the traffic control unit detects the illegal vehicle in the preset area, and the illegal vehicle warning is performed on the target vehicle entering the preset area according to the vehicle information of the detected illegal vehicle in the preset area, thereby avoiding or mitigating the collision of the target vehicle with the illegal vehicle, and improving the traffic safety of the target vehicle.
US11704997B2
A method of generating map data indicating a deviation from expected jam conditions on a segment of a plurality of segments in an area covered by an electronic map, the segment having associated therewith a jam probability indicating the likelihood of a jam on that segment. The method comprises establishing an expected jam condition for the segment based on the jam probability of that segment, and then obtaining live data indicating the jam conditions on at least one of the plurality of other segments in the area. A revised jam condition can then be established for the segment using the obtained live data.
US11704996B2
Impedance matching in tunable circuits promotes consistent, high-efficiency wireless communication signal despite changing environmental conditions.
US11704994B2
Various smart doorbell arrangements are presented. Based on a measured temperature of the smart doorbell, operation of the smart doorbell device may be altered such that more heat or less heat is generated without affecting user-facing features. Based on another measured temperature, operation of the smart doorbell may be altered such that a chime that is electrically coupled to the smart doorbell device is not sounded in response to a doorbell actuation, but that a notification of the doorbell actuation is wirelessly transmitted by the smart doorbell device.
US11704986B2
In an aspect, the present disclosure includes a system for detecting metal foil using millimeter wave (mmWave) for retail applications. The system comprises one or more pedestals positioned to define an exit portal leading to a point of exit, one or more security tag readers, fixedly positioned with the one or more pedestals, configured to read data from a security tag passing through the exit portal and one or more mmWave receivers, fixedly positioned near the point of exit, configured to receive one or more reflected mmWave beams from metal foil, wherein the detection of metal foil results in an alert message.
US11704985B2
A combined EAS and RFID circuit includes an HF coil antenna, a UHF tuning loop, and an RFID chip coupled to a strap that includes a first coupling area and a second coupling area. The coil ends of the HF coil antenna are configured to capacitively and/or conductively couple to one or both of the first coupling area or second coupling area of the strap. The HF coil antenna can include a gap between turns for non-interfering placement of the UHF tuning loop. The EAS circuit can be deactivating upon application of a field at the resonant frequency of sufficient intensity to cause the breakdown voltage to be exceeded between a coil end and coupling area. The threshold breakdown voltage between a coil end and a coupling area can be reduced by laser ablation treatment of a conductive surface of one or both of the coil end or coupling area.
US11704984B1
A management server receives a request to view video content; access a stream of video content corresponding to the request; access and store, in one or more databases, metadata associated with the video content, wherein the metadata includes a plurality of detections and was generated by the video gateway device based on an analysis of the video content and previously uploaded to a remote computing device; generating and causing display of a user interface that includes: the stream of the video content, a seek bar configured to be manipulated by a user so that the user can navigate through the video content, and the metadata overlaid on the seek bar such that the plurality of detections are overlaid at locations on the seek bar corresponding to when the plurality of detections were detected.
US11704981B2
A method of playing a card game between a dealer and a player includes dealing first, third, fifth, seventh and ninth cards to the player. Second, fourth, sixth, eighth and tenth card are dealt to the dealer. A determination is made whether the first or second card has a higher value for a first point, whether the third or the fourth card has a higher value for a second point, whether the first, third and fifth combination of cards or the second, fourth and sixth combination of cards has a higher three-card stud poker hand for a third point, whether the seventh or eighth card has a higher value for a fourth point, and whether the first, third, fifth, seventh and ninth combination of cards or the second, fourth, sixth, eighth and tenth combination of cards has a higher five-card stud poker hand for a fifth point.
US11704978B2
A bonus round of a video keno game may consist of a series of bonus game instances. During a bonus game instance, a game controller may identify a set of bonus game pieces and select a set of bonus outcome identifiers from a bonus outcome pool. A win amount may be determined based on the number of matches between the set of bonus outcome identifiers and the set of bonus game pieces. The bonus outcome identifiers may include persistent identifiers and non-persistent identifiers. Persistent identifiers may be removed from the bonus outcome pool for subsequent bonus game instances in the series. Additionally or alternatively, the bonus game pieces corresponding to the persistent identifiers may continue to be matches for the subsequent bonus game instances in the series.
US11704975B2
Various embodiments of the gaming systems and methods provide cross-hand winning card combination evaluations for multi-hand poker.
US11704974B2
A gaming machine, method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium are disclosed, which permit a player to play a base game and a feature game that may be triggered or initiated through play of the base game. During play of the feature game, the gaming machine holds each instance of a feature trigger symbol in its respective feature game display position and, if a feature game has remaining spins, spins/respins reels to obtain replacement symbols for each feature game display position without the feature trigger symbol. If a newly-presented feature trigger symbol includes one or more directional components, the gaming machine propagates the new-presented feature trigger symbol in a direction or directions indicated by the one or more directional components.
US11704970B2
Embodiments of the invention include a mystery degressive bonus system. Instead of a bonus that increases its value as the likelihood of winning the bonus increases, embodiments of the invention disconnect the likelihood of winning a mystery bonus from the amount awarded for triggering the mystery bonus. In some embodiments as the likelihood of winning the mystery bonus increases, the award for winning the mystery bonus decreases. Some embodiments include a minimum value for winning the mystery bonus. Additional embodiments are directed to an indicator system to show to the player a present amount of the mystery bonus award as well as the likelihood of winning the award. Further embodiments include a gaming device that includes a bonus game in which the amount awarded to the player decreases over time.
US11704960B2
A coin handling apparatus having: a first coin position; a second coin position; and a pipe for transporting coins from the first to the second coin position. The pipe is jointed and has a rigid, elongate element having a straight, elongate portion and a curved portion at a first end of the straight, elongate portion. The pipe further includes a rigid, curved element. The curved portion and the curved element are connected to define a continuous passageway through the curved element and the elongate element. The curved element, at least before mounting of the pipe in the coin handling apparatus, is rotatable in relation to the elongate element, such that an angle between a first opening of the curved element and a direction extending along the straight elongate portion is variable.
US11704953B2
A system for identifying users for entrance to an area comprising a point of entry into a pre-defined area. The system comprises a first computing device having a microprocessor, a memory and a screen disposed adjacent to the point of entry. There is also at least one second computing device having at least one microprocessor and at least one memory, said at least one second computing device being disposed remote from the first computing device. There is at least one third computing device having at least one screen and at least one microprocessor wherein the third computing device is in communication with the second computing device wherein the second computing device is configured to send at least one image to the first computing device and to the third computing device wherein when an image at the point of entry matches an image on the third computing device the port of entry will allow the user holding the third computing device into the point of entry.
US11704949B2
Provided are a user verifying bicycle control system and a user verification method thereof, including a sensing module and a control module installed on a bicycle. The sensing module obtains a torque signal and an angle signal from a crank sensing component, further obtains a speed signal from a speed sensing unit, and outputs the torque signal, the angle signal, and the speed signal to the control module; the control module assembles the torque signal, the angle signal, and the speed signal into a signal sequence as a key to verify a user identity for the bicycle.
US11704942B2
A system may comprise a device. The device may be configured to receive, from one or more sensor devices of the machine, sensor data associated with wear of one or more components of an undercarriage of the machine; and predict, using a machine learning model and the sensor data, an amount wear of the one or more components based on a wear rate of the one or more components. The machine learning model is trained, using training data, to predict the wear rate of the one or more components. The training data includes two or more of: historical sensor data, historical inspection data, or simulation data, of a simulation model, from one or more third devices. The device may perform an action based on the amount of wear.
US11704939B2
Biometrics are increasingly used to provide authentication and/or verification of a user in many security and financial applications for example. However, “spoof attacks” through presentation of biometric artefacts that are “false” allow attackers to fool these biometric verification systems. Accordingly, it would be beneficial to further differentiate the acquired biometric characteristics into feature spaces relating to live and non-living biometrics to prevent non-living biometric credentials triggering biometric verification. The inventors have established a variety of “liveness” detection methodologies which can block either low complexity spoofs or more advanced spoofs. Such techniques may provide for monitoring of responses to challenges discretely or in combination with additional aspects such as the timing of user's responses, depth detection within acquired images, comparison of other images from other cameras with database data etc.
US11704937B2
The disclosure is inputting a first image obtained by capturing an object of authentication moving in a specific direction; inputting a second image at least for one eye obtained by capturing a right eye or a left eye of the object; determining whether the second image is of the left eye or the right eye of the object, based on information including the first image, and outputting a determination result associated with the second image as left/right information; comparing characteristic information relevant to the left/right information, the characteristic information being acquired from a memory that stores the characteristic information of a right eye and a left eye pertaining to object to be authenticated, with characteristic information associated with the left/right information, and calculating a verification score; and authenticating the object captured in the first image and the second image, based on the verification score, and outputting an authentication result.
US11704928B1
Methods, devices and systems for controlling a fingerprint sensor system are disclosed. Some examples involve receiving a contact indication corresponding to a contact of an object with a surface of an apparatus and determining, responsive to the contact indication, multiple force values corresponding to contact of the object with the surface during a force monitoring time interval. Some examples involve determining whether at least a plurality of the multiple force values exceeds a force threshold and controlling a fingerprint sensor system based, at least in part, on whether at least the plurality of the multiple force values exceeds the force threshold.
US11704924B2
Method, computer readable medium, and apparatus of recognizing character zone in a digital document. In an embodiment, the method includes classifying a segment of the digital document as including text, calculating at least one parameter value associated with the classified segment of the digital document, determining, based on the calculated at least one parameter value, a zonal parameter value, classifying the segment of the digital document as a handwritten text zone or as a printed text zone based on the determined zonal parameter value and a threshold value, the threshold value being based on a selection of an intersection of a handwritten text distribution profile and a printed text distribution profile, each of the handwritten text distribution profile and the printed text distribution profile being associated with a zonal parameter corresponding to the determined zonal parameter value, and generating, based on the classifying, a modified version of the digital document.
US11704914B2
A tolling system is operable to reduce the number of manual reviews of a toll point images needed to process toll fee charges by separately reporting from both toll points and mobile device in vehicles running a tolling application program the lane and crossing time when traversing a toll point. A tolling service can match records produced by the toll points with records providing by the mobile device when the toll point cannot immediately determine the identity of the toll customer passing through the toll point.
US11704912B2
A method is disclosed for evaluating a classifier used to determine a traffic light signal state in images. The method includes, by a computer vision system of a vehicle, receiving at least one image of a traffic signal device of an imminent intersection. The traffic signal device includes a traffic signal face including one or more traffic signal elements. The method includes classifying, by a traffic light classifier (TLC), a classification state of the traffic signal face using labeled images correlated to the received at least one image. The classification state controls an operation of the vehicle at the intersection. The method includes evaluating a performance of the classifying of the classification state generated by the TLC. The evaluation is a label-free performance evaluation based on unlabeled images. The method includes training the TLC based on the evaluated performance.
US11704909B2
Devices, systems and methods for operating a rear-facing perception system for vehicles are described. An exemplary rear-facing perception system contains two corner units and a center unit, with each of the two corner units and the center unit including a camera module and a dual-band transceiver. A method for operating the rear-facing perception system includes pairing with a control unit by communicating, using the dual-band transceiver, over at least a first frequency band, transmitting a first trigger signal to the two corner units over a second frequency band non-overlapping with the first frequency band, and switching to an active mode. In an example, the first trigger signal causes the two corner units to switch to the active mode, which includes orienting the camera modules on the center unit and the two corner units to provide an unobstructed view of an area around a rear of the vehicle.
US11704904B2
An imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes: an imaging unit having a pixel region in which a plurality of pixels is arranged; a readout controller that controls readout of pixel signals from pixels included in the pixel region; a first unit-of-readout setting unit that sets a unit of readout as a part of the pixel region, for which the readout controller performs readout of the pixel signal; an image output unit that outputs a first image based on the pixel signal read out from the unit of readout to a subsequent stage; a second unit-of-readout controller that controls the unit of readout in which the readout controller performs readout of the pixel signal; and a recognition unit that learns training data for each of the units of readout, performs a recognition process on the pixel signal for each of the units of readout, and outputs a recognition result.
US11704901B2
According to various embodiments, a wrinkle detection service providing server for providing a wrinkle detection method based on an artificial intelligence may include a data pre-processor for obtaining a skin image of a user from a skin measurement device and performing pre-processing based on feature points based on the skin image; a wrinkle detector for inputting the skin image pre-processed through the data pre-processing into an artificial neural network and generating a wrinkle probability map corresponding to the skin image; a data post-processor for post-processing the generated wrinkle probability map; and a wrinkle visualization service providing unit for superimposing the post-processed wrinkle probability map on the skin image and providing a wrinkle visualization image to a user terminal of the user.
US11704898B2
System(s) and method(s) that analyze image data associated with a computing screen operated by a user, and learns the image data (e.g., using pattern recognition, historical information analysis, user implicit and explicit training data, optical character recognition (OCR), video information, 360°/panoramic recordings, and so on) to concurrently glean information regarding multiple states of user interaction (e.g., analyzing data associated with multiple applications open on a desktop, mobile phone or tablet). A machine learning model is trained on analysis of graphical image data associated with screen display to determine or infer user intent. An input component receives image data regarding a screen display associated with user interaction with a computing device. An analysis component employs the model to determine or infer user intent based on the image data analysis; and an action component provisions services to the user as a function of the determined or inferred user intent. In an implementation, a gaming component gamifies interaction with the user in connection with explicitly training the model.
US11704897B2
A method for assigning a number of lanes and a direction of travel on a path includes receiving location data including a plurality of location points, projecting the plurality of location points on to an aggregation axis perpendicular to a centerline of the vehicle path, grouping the plurality of location points as projected onto the aggregation axis into one or more clusters, and determining the number of vehicle lanes of the vehicle path based on a count of the one or more clusters.
US11704890B2
In various examples, a deep neural network (DNN) is trained—using image data alone—to accurately predict distances to objects, obstacles, and/or a detected free-space boundary. The DNN may be trained with ground truth data that is generated using sensor data representative of motion of an ego-vehicle and/or sensor data from any number of depth predicting sensors—such as, without limitation, RADAR sensors, LIDAR sensors, and/or SONAR sensors. The DNN may be trained using two or more loss functions each corresponding to a particular portion of the environment that depth is predicted for, such that—in deployment—more accurate depth estimates for objects, obstacles, and/or the detected free-space boundary are computed by the DNN. In some embodiments, a sampling algorithm may be used to sample depth values corresponding to an input resolution of the DNN from a predicted depth map of the DNN at an output resolution of the DNN.
US11704889B2
A method of reducing false positives and identifying relevant true alerts in a video management system includes analyzing images to look for patterns indicating changes between subsequent images. When a pattern indicating changes between subsequent images is found, the video management system solicits from a user an indication of whether the pattern belongs to one of two or more predefined categories. The patterns indicating changes between subsequent images are saved for subsequent use. Subsequent images received from the video camera are analyzed to look for patterns indicating changes between subsequent images. When a pattern indicating changes between subsequent images is detected by the video management system, the video management system compares the pattern indicating changes between subsequent images to those previously categorized into one of the two or more predefined categories. Based on the comparison, the video management system may provide an alert to the user.
US11704886B2
Modulation-encoded light, using different spectral bin coded light components, can illuminate a stationary or moving (relative) target object or scene. Response signal processing can use information about the respective different time-varying modulation functions, to decode to recover information about a respective response parameter affected by the target object or scene. Electrical or optical modulation encoding can be used. LED-based spectroscopic analysis of a composition of a target (e.g., SpO2, glucose, etc.) can be performed; such can optionally include decoding of encoded optical modulation functions. Baffles or apertures or optics can be used, such as to constrain light provided by particular LEDs. Coded light illumination can be used with a focal plane array light imager receiving response light for inspecting a moving semiconductor or other target. Encoding can use orthogonal functions, such as an RGB illumination sequence, or a sequence of combinations of spectrally contiguous or non-contiguous colors.
US11704879B2
In one embodiment, a method includes rendering, for a VR display device and based on a field of view of a user, a first output image of a VR environment comprising a virtual boundary corresponding to a real-world environment; determining, responsive to the user approaching within a first threshold distance of the virtual boundary, a speed of movement and the field of view of the user; accessing one or more images of the real-world environment captured by one or more cameras of the VR display device; and rendering, for the VR display device, a second output image comprising a portion of the VR environment and a portion of a passthrough view of the real-world environment based on the accessed images, where an area of the portion of the passthrough view is based on the determined speed of movement and the field of view of the user.
US11704871B2
A method of garment deformation based on Laplacian deformation of a human body, including the following steps: inputting polygonal mesh models of the human body and the garment; discretizing non-homogeneous mesh models of the human body and the garment inputted in the first step; clustering all the discretized mesh vertices, to reduce a number of vertices and to form a set of homogeneous discrete vertices; constructing Laplacian matrices of the human body and the garment; preprocessing and solving inverse matrices; editing by using the human body mesh as a control vertex, to drive a real-time smooth deformation of the garment mesh; and mapping a deformed and simplified mesh back to a mesh space of an original resolution to obtain deformed human body and garment mesh models.
US11704862B1
Improved techniques for generating video content are disclosed. In some embodiments, it is determined whether a frame comprising a scene is an independent frame or a predictive frame. In the event that the frame is an independent frame, the frame is encoded independently. In the event that the frame is a predictive frame, block differences and motion vectors are encoded, wherein motion vectors are determined from a known three-dimensional model and time evolution of the scene.
US11704857B2
A three-dimensional (3D) object reconstruction neural network system learns to predict a 3D shape representation of an object from a video that includes the object. The 3D reconstruction technique may be used for content creation, such as generation of 3D characters for games, movies, and 3D printing. When 3D characters are generated from video, the content may also include motion of the character, as predicted based on the video. The 3D object construction technique exploits temporal consistency to reconstruct a dynamic 3D representation of the object from an unlabeled video. Specifically, an object in a video has a consistent shape and consistent texture across multiple frames. Texture, base shape, and part correspondence invariance constraints may be applied to fine-tune the neural network system. The reconstruction technique generalizes well—particularly for non-rigid objects.
US11704855B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and device embodiments for implementing a customizable animation experience. A multi-tenant service may associate an animation element with a visual component of an application, and generate a markup component including an animation parameter configured to customize the animation element within the application code. Further, the multi-tenant service may receive a request for the animation from an animation manager based on execution of the application code, and send the animation information to the animation manager. In some embodiments, the animation manager is configured to set the animation parameter to the animation information and present an animation associated with the animation element based on the animation parameter.
US11704853B2
Techniques are disclosed for learning a machine learning model that maps control data, such as renderings of skeletons, and associated three-dimensional (3D) information to two-dimensional (2D) renderings of a character. The machine learning model may be an adaptation of the U-Net architecture that accounts for 3D information and is trained using a perceptual loss between images generated by the machine learning model and ground truth images. Once trained, the machine learning model may be used to animate a character, such as in the context of previsualization or a video game, based on control of associated control points.
US11704847B2
A computer-implemented method for generating geocoded user information is disclosed. The method comprises searching user data across multiple different data corpuses for entries having location-related information and determining locations for the location-related information. The method further comprises generating a map showing a current location of a mobile device along with representations of the entries having location-related information, at the determined locations, for entries from the multiple different data corpuses.
US11704842B2
Certain embodiments involve a graphics manipulation application using brushstroke parameters that include a maximum alpha-deposition parameter and a fractional alpha-deposition parameter. For instance, the graphics manipulation application uses an alpha flow increment computed from the maximum alpha-deposition parameter and the fractional alpha-deposition parameter to compute an output canvas color. In some embodiments, if the current canvas opacity exceeds or equals the maximum alpha-deposition parameter, the current canvas opacity is selected as the output canvas opacity. Otherwise, the graphics manipulation application computes the output canvas opacity by increasing the current canvas opacity based on the alpha flow increment. The graphics manipulation application updates a canvas portion affected by a brushstroke input to include the output canvas opacity and the output canvas color.
US11704841B2
For information about point cloud data, a point cloud data sameness estimation apparatus and a point cloud data sameness estimation system in which accuracy of evaluating sameness is improved are provided. In the present disclosure, a point cloud data sameness estimation apparatus for estimating sameness of objects that are sources of two 3-dimensional point cloud datasets includes a point cloud data acquisition unit configured to acquire first point cloud data and second point cloud data including 3-dimensional point cloud data; a first neural network configured to output a first point cloud data feature, with information about the first point cloud data as an input into the first neural network; a second neural network configured to output a second point cloud data feature, with information about the second point cloud data as an input into the second neural network; and a sameness evaluation unit configured to output an evaluation about sameness of the first point cloud data and the second point cloud data, based on the first point cloud data feature and the second point cloud data feature, wherein a weight is mutually shared by the first neural network and the second neural network.
US11704839B2
The present disclosure provides a multi-view image decoding method including: obtaining, from a bitstream, three-dimensional geometry information indicating a three-dimensional space of a multi-view image, view independent component information indicating a view independent component, which is uniformly applied to every view, and view dependent component information indicating a view dependent component, which is differently applied according to views; determining a view dependent component for a texture map of a current view from the view dependent component information; generating the texture map of the current view from a view independent component of the view independent component information and the determined view dependent component for the current view; and reconstructing a current view image according to a three-dimensional space that is constructed according to the texture map of the current view and the three-dimensional geometry information.
US11704831B2
A system for connecting a first ship to a second ship, the system having a plurality of target items coupled to the second ship, a camera module coupled to the first ship and configured to provide information comprising positions of images of the target items in a FOV, and a processor coupled to the camera module and a memory and configured to determine a first position and a first orientation of the second ship relative to the first ship.
US11704823B2
A preprocessing technique for synthetic radar images. An embodiment of a method for preprocessing synthetic aperture radar images includes: receiving range-compressed radar data generated from raw radar image data on-board a satellite or an airborne vehicle; generating a preliminary SAR image by performing a pre-focusing on the range-compressed radar data; extracting image subsectors from the preliminary SAR image; transmitting the extracted image subsectors to an on-ground portion; reconstructing the range-compressed radar data pertaining to the extracted image subsectors; and making the range-compressed radar data pertaining to the extracted image subsectors available for a Nominal synthetic aperture radar processor, wherein the Nominal synthetic aperture radar processor is configured to generate a focused SAR image having a nominal value of image resolution that is higher than the resolution of the preliminary SAR image.
US11704818B2
An optical device acquires event data based on an output of an event sensor detecting a change in luminance of a subject image and maps the event data acquired in a mapping time to generate a frame. The optical device performs control such that the mapping on the event data is overlapped partially in a plurality of the frames and calculates a motion vector based on the plurality of frames in which there is a difference of the mapping time at a start time of the mapping.
US11704817B2
This application disclose a method for training a model performed at a computing device. The method includes: acquiring a template image and a test image; invoking a first object recognition model to process a feature of a tracked object in the template image to obtain a first reference response, and a second object recognition model to process the feature in the template image to obtain a second reference response; invoking the first model to process a feature of a tracked object in the test image to obtain a first test response, and the second model to process the feature to obtain a second test response; tracking the first test response to obtain a tracking response of the tracked object; and updating the first object recognition model based on differences between the first and second reference responses, that between the first and second test responses, and that between a tracking label and the tracking response.
US11704815B2
A tracking device for tracking a target object includes an interface connectable to a camera configured to acquire an image and determine a location of the object within the image and a distance therefrom, a memory that stores first coordinates that indicate a location of the camera with respect to a reference point in the facility, and a first direction towards which the camera faces, and a processor configured to calculate a second direction from the camera to the object based on the first direction and the location of the object, based on the second direction and the distance, calculate second coordinates indicating a location of the target object with respect to the location of the camera, based on the first and second coordinates, calculate third coordinates indicating a location of the target object with respect to the reference point, and store the calculated third coordinates in the memory.
US11704794B2
There is provided a filing device, a filing method, and a program that cause a still image and a motion image to be associated with each other, which are captured without being associated with each other. The problem is solved through a filing device including an acquisition unit that acquires at least one still image and at least one motion image, a still image analysis unit that analyzes a pixel value of the still image and extracts still image information, a motion image analysis unit that analyzes a pixel value of the motion image and extracts motion image information, and an associating unit that associates the still image with the motion image by comparing the still image information with the motion image information.
US11704781B2
The various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards methods for tone mapping High-Dynamic-Range (HDR) image data, as well as controlling the brightness of the image encoded by HDR the image data and/or the tone-mapped image data. HDR image is captured. A tone mapping function for the HDR image data is generated. To generate the tone mapping function, control points are dynamically determined based on an analysis of the HDR image data. The tone mapping function is fit to the control points. The tone mapping function is a non-linear function, and is described by a curve in a plane. The shape of the curve is constrained by a line generated from a portion of the control points. The tone mapping function is applied to the HDR image data. A color-compression is applied to the tone mapped image data to generate Standard Dynamic Range or Low Dynamic Range image data.
US11704776B2
Depth information can be used to assist with image processing functionality, such as image stabilization and blur reduction. In at least some embodiments, depth information obtained from stereo imaging or distance sensing, for example, can be used to determine a foreground object and background object(s) for an image or frame of video. The foreground object then can be located in later frames of video or subsequent images. Small offsets of the foreground object can be determined, and the offset accounted for by adjusting the subsequent frames or images. Such an approach provides image stabilization for at least a foreground object, while providing simplified processing and reduce power consumption. Similarly processes can be used to reduce blur for an identified foreground object in a series of images, where the blur of the identified object is analyzed.
US11704770B2
A terminal for receiving streaming data may receive information of a plurality of different quality versions of an image content; request, based on the information, a server for a version of the image content from among the plurality of different quality versions of the image content; when the requested version of the image content and artificial intelligence (AI) data corresponding to the requested version of the image content are received, determines whether to perform AI upscaling on the received version of the image content, based on the AI data; and based on a result of the determining whether to perform AI upscaling, performs AI upscaling on the received version of the image content through a upscaling deep neural network (DNN) that is trained jointly with a downscaling DNN of the server.
US11704759B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods are described for selectively performing one or more operations relating to an object of consent. The system includes (i) a network, (ii) a user device having an input device and configured to obtain an object of consent from a user of the user device via the input device, (iii) a server having a storage and configured to receive the object of consent from the user device, to perform at least one data processing operation associated with the object of consent, to store a result of the data processing operation at the storage, and to generate an agreement object associated with the object of consent, and (iv) a blockchain configured to receive the agreement object, to combine at least one of identity information or permission information associated with the agreement object, and to selectively store a consent record by the blockchain.
US11704754B2
Computing devices, systems, and methods for automatically prompting a foreign currency transaction by detecting a trip end condition associated with a registered user with respect to travel to a foreign location associated with a foreign currency. The methods and system may further determine that the registered user has a remaining foreign currency balance, and, as a result, may identify and send to the registered user's mobile device at least one option for using the remaining foreign currency balance. The at least one option may be a merchant offer from a merchant located in the area of the mobile device or may include an option to exchange the foreign currency for another currency. The trip end condition may be detected by determining that the registered user and/or user's mobile device is at an international departure location. The currency exchange may be with another registered user.
US11704752B2
Network traffic is received from an unrecognized guest device on a computer network. A user profile server is queried to determine a user identifier that is associated with the device identifier of the unrecognized guest device. A login database is queried to find an unexpired login record of an authorized guest device associated with the user identifier. The unexpired login record grants the authorized guest device access to the network service with a service entitlement for an allowed access duration, and a stored device identifier in the unexpired login record of the authorized guest device is different from the device identifier of the unrecognized guest device. The service entitlement of the network service specified in the unexpired login record is shared between the authorized guest device and the unrecognized guest device for a remaining portion of the allowed access duration of the unexpired login record of the authorized guest device.
US11704747B1
The disclosure describes embodiments of systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable storage media that increase a base limit value for a contact based on a user interaction with a graphical user interface. Generally, the disclosed system provides a graphical user interface for display to a user that includes base limit increase elements to increase base limit values for contacts of the user. Based on user selection of a base limit increase element, the disclosed system can provide an increased base limit value to an account associated with the contact.
US11704744B2
Techniques are described including displaying an interface associated with a computing device, the interface being configured to present a form including a text entry box, receiving data from an activity information pipeline associated with a self-reporting service, the activity information pipeline having a source of activity information associated with a tool configured to geotag the activity information and another source of associated with a mobile sensor configured to capture other activity information geotagged by the tool, the other activity information being processed by the self-reporting service to deprioritize a suggestion over another suggestion, displaying, in response to selection of the text entry box, a suggestion indicative of a journey and identified as prioritized and presented proximate to the center of the interface of the display device, and dynamically adjusting the suggestion while prioritizing display of the suggestion over a generic suggestion.
US11704743B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for processing transactions in a computing system. An example method generally includes receiving a request to perform an operation with respect to an object included in the request. A system identifies an archetype defining properties of the object included in the request. Based on the identified archetype, the system identifies data repositories to commit data to in order to perform the requested operation and rules for performing the operation with respect to the object. One or more actions are executed against the identified data repositories according to the identified rules.
US11704723B2
In an example embodiment, bid specifications for an ecommerce transaction are transmitted from a party requesting bids to a plurality of bidders. Then a modification to the bid specifications is received from a first bidder of the plurality of bidders along with a bid in accordance with the modified bid specifications. The modified bid specifications may then be transmitted to the plurality of bidders other than the first bidder. Bids in accordance with the modified bid specifications are then received from each of the plurality of bidders other than the first bidder. One of the bids may be selected, and the ecommerce transaction may be consummated based on the selected bid.
US11704711B1
Methods and systems disclosed herein utilize location signals received from beacons and other indoor positioning systems along with an application program on customer devices for better management of customer traffic in physical queues and virtual queues, specifically in environments such as airports, food courts, shopping malls, and amusement parks. These methods and systems also provide a customer with a token for his place in the queue on his mobile device, so he is free to continue with his activities until it is time for him to acquire a product or a service.
US11704706B2
A system and method for generating an electronic catalog booklet for online computer users is disclosed. The system and method in an example embodiment includes providing access to a database of item listings; enabling selection of a plurality of item listings from at least some of the item listings provided in the database; enabling arrangement of the plurality of selected item listings on a plurality of pages in a computer-generated electronic catalog booklet; recording an identifier of the computer-generated electronic catalog booklet; and recording information associating each of the plurality of selected item listings with the identifier of the computer-generated electronic catalog booklet.
US11704705B2
Systems and methods for sourcing participants for a usability study are provided. In some embodiments the systems and methods receive study parameters including the type of study, time-to-field of the study, required number of participants, and required participant attributes. Additionally, a set of business rules for the study are received. These business rules may be received from a client, extrapolated from a service contract with a client for which the study is being performed, or generated based on the monitored outcomes of sourcing of previous studies. Next, panel sources for potential participants and pricing data are queried, and a set of the sources are selected based upon the pricing data. Participants are then received from these sources, which are then fielded in the study and monitored for outcomes.
US11704704B2
A method including a system receiving, in real-time and through a computer network, a donation authorization from a donor via a donor user interface executed on a donor device of the donor. The donation authorization can comprise: a donation amount, a donor token for the donor, a donee first token for a donee, and/or donee information. The donor token can be uniquely associated with a donor account for the donor, and the donor account can be maintained by a sender financial institution. The donee first token can be uniquely associated with a donee account for the donee, and the donee account can be maintained by a receiver financial institution. The method further can include the system, after receiving the donation authorization, instructing or facilitating, in real-time and through the computer network, the receiver financial institution to post in real-time the donation amount to the donee account. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11704697B2
An on-board signage system includes one or more vehicles, a display device installed in each of the vehicles, and a signage controller, in which the signage controller is configured to function as a post collecting unit that collects a post content item uploaded to an SNS site, a post analyzing unit which extracts a location relating to the post content item as a relevant location, a post database that stores post-related information obtained from the post content item in association with the relevant location, and a selector that selects at least one of a travel route of the vehicle and an image to be assigned to the vehicle, based on information stored in the post database, and transmits the selected travel route or image to the vehicle.
US11704689B2
Methods, systems, and media for estimating the causal effect of different content exposure levels are provided.
US11704683B1
As described herein, a machine learning system, method, and computer program provide marketing segmentation of residential spaces. In use, network usage data is collected from each residential network router of a plurality of residential network routers operating in a different residential space of a plurality of residential spaces. Additionally, the network usage data is processed by a machine learning algorithm to segment the plurality of residential spaces into a plurality of segments. Further, the plurality of segments are output.
US11704682B2
Systems and methods for pre-processing data to facilitate efficient and accurate machine learning are provided. The data may include market data. The pre-processing may include partitioning the data into windows assigning categories to windows generate a series of vectors. The series of vectors then being input into a computer system that executes a machine learning algorithm to efficiently train a neural network used to identify structure or patterns therein.
US11704679B2
Techniques for adaptive validation and remediation are described. In some embodiments, the method includes determining, for a plurality of media service accounts, corresponding fraud suspicion values based on a model. The method also includes identifying a plurality of suspected accounts based on the corresponding fraud suspicion values. The method additionally includes identifying one or more suspected devices and predicting a likelihood of account takeover from each of the one or more suspected devices. The method further includes detecting a triggering event from a device of the one or more suspected devices associated with an account. The method additionally includes executing a validation and/or remediation procedure based on a trigger sensitivity value associated with the triggering event, a respective likelihood of account takeover from the device associated with the account, a respective device risk value associated with the device, and a respective fraud suspicion value associated with the account.
US11704673B1
A method and apparatus for fraud detection during transactions using identity graphs are described. The method may include receiving, at a commerce platform system, a transaction from a user having initial transaction attributes and transaction data. The method may also include determining, by the commerce platform system, an identity associated with the user, wherein the identity is associated with additional transaction attributes not received with the transaction. Furthermore, the method may include accessing, by the commerce platform system, a feature set associated with the initial transaction attributes and the additional transaction attributes, wherein the feature set comprises machine learning (ML) model features for detecting transaction fraud. The method may also include performing, by the commerce platform system, a machine learning model analysis using the feature set and the transaction data to determine a likelihood that the transaction is fraudulent, and performing, by the commerce platforms system, the transaction when the likelihood that the transaction is fraudulent does not satisfy a transaction fraud threshold.
US11704667B2
A central computer system transforms identification information of a consumer into an identity code that hides the identification information and stores it with contact information of a consumer's computer system. When a computer system on the network of the central computer system conducts a transaction with a subject who uses the identity code of the consumer, the central computer system contacts the consumer's computer system so that the consumer can stop the transaction if it is not authorized. Because only the identity code is used to protect the consumer, the original identification information of the consumer is fully protected.
US11704659B2
The present disclosure is related to a field of payment transactions using a card that discloses a computer-implemented method and a system for restricting a transaction while using a payment card. A card processing server may receive card details, a transaction amount, a flag, and signature data of the payment card from a remote terminal upon initiating a transaction using the payment card. Further, the card processing server validates the payment card based on the card details and the signature data of the payment card and thereafter determines a value associated with the flag upon successful validation. The value associated with the flag indicates one of two conditions, e.g., a true condition and a false condition. Based on the condition indicated by the flag, the card processing server performs one of a first action and a second action related to either processing or declining the transaction.
US11704652B2
A computer-implemented augmented reality-based method provides a user device access to data content by processing of camera image captured by the user device to identify a candidate visual area, which are then processed to identify visual features indicative of available data content. The identified features are compared to visual features of database objects indicative of available data content, and a determination made regarding the object that corresponds to the identified features. Instructions are then generated to augment a display of the camera image with selectable image features. In response to a selection of one of the selectable image features, a determination is made regarding whether the user device has permission to access the data content associated with the selected image feature. If not, a payment settlement arrangement is implemented for the user device to gain access permission to the data content.
US11704642B2
A method and system for conducting an online payment transaction through a point of sale device. The method includes receiving input from a user selecting an item for purchase through the point of sale device; calculating a total purchase amount for the item in response to a request from the user to purchase the item; and sending payment authorization for the total purchase amount from the point of sale device to a payment entity, in which the payment authorization is sent to the payment entity via a mobile communication device of the user. The method further includes receiving a result of the payment authorization from the payment entity through the mobile communication device; and completing the payment transaction based on the result of the payment authorization.
US11704637B2
A real-time third-party payment system accepts payments to a lender from third-party merchants in real-time. The payment system may receive real-time payment information from the third-party, and various services within the payment system validate the customer account information, create a payment, store the payment in a database, and post the payment to a real-time ledger. The payment system may also receive an end-of-day file including file-based payment information. The file-based payment information may be verified against the real-time payments stored in the database. Upon validation, the payment system creates a file based payment and posts the file-based payment to a file-based ledger. The payment system may detect fraud, errors, and other discrepancies in real-time payments and make corrections based on settlement rules and self-healing rules provided by the third-party.
US11704631B2
A system may receive video of a damaged vehicle, perform image analysis of the video to determine one or more frames of the video that include a damaged portion of the vehicle, further analyze the one or more frames of the video that include a damaged portion of the vehicle to determine a damaged cluster of parts of the vehicle, determine whether the damaged cluster of parts should be repaired or replaced, map the damaged cluster of parts to one or more parts in a vehicle-specific database of parts, and generate, based on the mapping, a list of parts for repair or replacement.
US11704629B2
Methods and systems for processing information cards. The implementations include receiving from a first application an instruction by a second application to process the information card. The first application is different from an application corresponding to the information card, and the second application is capable of processing the information card. The second application may process the information card based on the instruction. Alternatively, the second application may return service data to the first application based on the instruction such that the first application processes the information card based on the service data. This improves flexibility and efficiency of information card processing.
US11704628B2
The system provides a method and process for displaying and sorting messages in a communication system. The system allows multiple folders of messages to be opened simultaneously. The system also displays sent and received messages in the same display when desired. The system includes automatic and/or custom color coding of messages for ease of identification of message types, sent or received messages, root sender, cc messages, responsive messages, etc. The system also includes a unique navigation system to allow the user to more easily move through related messages, threads, and folders. The navigation system can be used in situations where the prior art would have required a search to be executed.
US11704623B1
Systems and methods for product imaging and provisioning include a mobile application (app) installed on an imaging device, where the mobile app activates the imaging device to generate an image of a product tag associated with an unavailable product at a first location. The mobile app determines, based on the image, a product indicator associated with the unavailable product. A provisioning app, executing on a remote device, receives the product indicator associated with the unavailable product. The provisioning app also receives a user indicator associated with a first user and executes one or more product provisioning rules that determine, based on a product availability database and the user indicator, an availability result. The availability result indicates whether the unavailable product will be available to the first user. The provisioning app is further operable to send the availability result to the imaging device for presentation by the imaging device.
US11704622B2
A system for parcel transport and tracking that operates responsive to data bearing records includes a plurality of geographically spaced repositories. The exemplary repositories include a plurality of enclosed compartment spaces. Access to each of the enclosed compartment spaces is controlled by respective door which is in operative connection with the respective lock. Central control circuitry in operative connection with the repositories is operative to control access to the compartment spaces and to cause compartments to be selectively accessible so that selected parcels may be placed therein or removed therefrom.
US11704614B1
A computer program product for prioritizing order fulfillment at a retail sales facility, including the steps of: a) receiving purchase request information at a retail sales computing device that includes identifying information and order information for the first customer, b) receiving location information for the first customer, c) processing the received location information for the first customer together with location information of the retail sales facility to predict an estimated time of arrival (ETA) for the first customer at the retail sales facility, d) scheduling a time interval for acquiring updated location information for the first customer, and e) placing the identifying information, order information and ETA for the first customer in an order fulfillment queue for all current customers. Entries in the order fulfillment queue are ordered in increasing ETA order, whereby order fulfillment activities can proceed according to the order of order requests in the order fulfillment queue. ETA is continuously updated for each customer, and thereby the order for fulfilling customer orders in the order fulfillment queue. For example, if a customer's distance from the retail sales facility increases (for example, due to a mistaken turn), that customer's order will drop to a later-served position in the queue. The location information for the first customer includes GPS-based location information of the first customer that is captured by a GPS device associated with a mobile computing device of the first customer. The location information for the retail sales facility includes GPS-based location information of the retail sales facility. The ETA prediction is performed using the GPS-based location information of the first customer and the GPS-based location information of the retail sales facility.
US11704606B2
A system for monitoring and controlling a business process involving a plurality of workstations or/and computerized services, the system comprising apparatus for receiving messages exchanged between the plurality of workstations or computerized services and having content, and for deriving from the content of the messages, monitoring information regarding the single business process.
US11704605B2
A method of managing change in a complex system begins with identifying an unsatisfied need to be met by the system. To satisfy the need a proposed change to the system to satisfy the need is represented a high-level representation of the proposed change. The high-level representation is mapped to a low-level executable semantic model, which is used to validate the proposed change and ensure the proposed change meets the identified and does not require additional changes to the system. On a condition that the validating steps determines that additional changes are required the additional changes are represented in the high-level representation of the system; the high-level change is mapped to the low-level executable semantic model and the additional changes are re-validated.
US11704604B2
An optimization method, apparatus, computer device and storage medium for engine model. The method includes: setting an initial population according to a predetermined number of solutions; obtaining a first output set of the initial population on the engine model; determining a first fitness value; operating selection, crossover, and mutation on the initial population according to the first fitness value to obtain an evolved population, and the initial population and the evolved population constitute a to-be-selected population; obtaining a second output set of the evolved population on the engine model; determining a second fitness value; selecting engine model parameters in the to-be-selected population to form a new population according to the second fitness value; and optimizing the engine model by using the engine model parameters in the new population if a termination condition is met.
US11704603B2
Methods and corresponding system are provided herewith that, in at least one embodiment, include the act or acts of: determining that a service provided by a restaurant is available for bidding. The service is provided for a particular time and a particular date. The methods and system also include receiving a bid for the service provided by the restaurant, in which the bid is associated with a first amount; storing the bid with a plurality of other bids in a storage device; and comparing the bid with at least one other bid that is submitted for reserving the service. The at least one other bid is associated with a second amount. The methods and system also include determining that the first amount is greater than the second amount; and outputting an indicia that grants the request to reserve the service provided by the restaurant to a highest bidder, in which the first amount submitted by the highest bidder is greater than the second amount.
US11704601B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that generates inclusion data in accordance with a Poisson distribution, wherein the inclusion data specifies a number of inclusions for each observation in a set of observations. The technology may also train a first decision tree in a random forest based at least in part on the inclusion data.
US11704594B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products are included for providing a predicted outcome to a user interface. An exemplary method includes receiving, from a user interface, a plurality of identifiers that identify objects. At the user interface, a target success function is selected corresponding to the plurality of identifiers. The target success function is mapped to at least one attribute of one or more attributes of the objects. The at least one attribute of the objects and one or more other attributes are queried. Data values are retrieved corresponding to the queried at least one attribute and the one or more other attributes. Based on the data values, an outcome of the target success function is predicted. The predicted outcome is provided to the user interface.
US11704591B2
An IDS generator determines multiple classes for electronic data items. The IDS generator determines, for each class, a class-specific candidate ruleset. The IDS generator performs a differential analysis of each class-specific candidate ruleset. The differential analysis is based on differences between result values of a scoring objective function. In some cases, the differential analysis determines at least one of the differences based on additional data structures, such as an augmented frequent-pattern tree. A probability function based on the differences is compared to a threshold probability At least one testing ruleset is modified based on the comparison. The IDS generator determines, for each class, a class-specific optimized ruleset based on the differential analysis of each class-specific candidate ruleset. The IDS generator creates an optimized interpretable decision set based on combined class-specific optimized rulesets for the multiple classes.
US11704586B2
Computational systems implement problem solving using hybrid digital/quantum computing approaches. A problem may be represented as a problem graph which is larger and/or has higher connectivity than a working and/or hardware graph of a quantum processor. A quantum processor may be used determine approximate solutions, which solutions are provided as initial states to one or more digital processors which may implement classical post-processing to generate improved solutions. Techniques for solving problems on extended, more-connected, and/or “virtual full yield” variations of the processor's actual working and/or hardware graphs are provided. A method of operation in a computational system comprising a quantum processor includes partitioning a problem graph into sub-problem graphs, and embedding a sub-problem graph onto the working graph of the quantum processor. The quantum processor and a non-quantum processor-based device generate partial samples. A controller causes a processing operation on the partial samples to generate complete samples.
US11704580B2
Combining predictions made by multiple different prediction systems, including: obtaining a new input sample; obtaining a combiner which comprises optimal selection values that are configured to maximize a predefined performance measure; automatically applying multiple different prediction systems to the new input sample, to generate predictions; and automatically selectively combining the generated predictions based on the optimal selection values, to generate a combined prediction whose predefined performance measure is improved compared to individual usage of each of the prediction systems. The selective combination includes splitting the generated predictions into an intersection subset, fully-disjoint subsets, and optionally one or more partially-disjoint subsets; selecting predictions, from the subsets, at a ratio corresponding to the optimal selection values associated with the subsets, and modifying the subsets to remove all non-selected predictions; and merging all predictions in the modified subsets, to produce the combined prediction.
US11704575B2
Neural networks can be implemented with DNA strand displacement (DSD) circuits. The neural networks are designed and trained in silico taking into account the behavior of DSD circuits. Oligonucleotides comprising DSD circuits are synthesized and combined to form a neural network. In an implementation, the neural network may be a binary neural network in which the output from each neuron is a binary value and the weight of each neuron either maintains the incoming binary value or flips the binary value. Inputs to the neural network are one more oligonucleotides such as synthetic oligonucleotides containing digital data or natural oligonucleotides such as mRNA. Outputs from the neural networks may be oligonucleotides that are read by directly sequencing or oligonucleotides that generate signals such as by release of fluorescent reporters.
US11704571B2
A method for pruning weights of an artificial neural network based on a learned threshold includes determining a pruning threshold for pruning a first set of pre-trained weights of multiple pre-trained weights based on a function of a classification loss and a regularization loss. Weights are pruned from the first set of pre-trained weights when a first value of the weight is less than the pruning threshold. A second set of pre-trained weights of the multiple pre-trained weights is fine-tuned or adjusted in response to a second value of each pre-trained weight in the second set of pre-trained weights being greater than the pruning threshold.
US11704567B2
A system and method for accelerated tuning of hyperparameters includes receiving a multi-task tuning work request for tuning hyperparameters of a model, wherein the multi-task tuning work request includes: a full tuning task for tuning hyperparameters, wherein the full tuning task includes a first set of tuning parameters governing a first tuning operation; a partial tuning task for tuning the hyperparameters of the model, wherein the partial tuning task includes a second distinct set of tuning parameters governing a second tuning operation; executing the first tuning operation and the second tuning operation; generating a first suggestion set and a second suggestion set of one or more proposed values for the hyperparameters based on the execution of the full tuning task and the partial tuning task; and setting the partial tuning task as a proxy for the full tuning task thereby accelerating a tuning of the hyperparameters of the model.
US11704565B2
Embodiments described herein provide a system to configure distributed training of a neural network, the system comprising memory to store a library to facilitate data transmission during distributed training of the neural network; a network interface to enable transmission and receipt of configuration data associated with a set of worker nodes, the worker nodes configured to perform distributed training of the neural network; and a processor to execute instructions provided by the library. The instructions cause the processor to create one or more groups of the worker nodes, the one or more groups of worker nodes to be created based on a communication pattern for messages to be transmitted between the worker nodes during distributed training of the neural network. The processor can transparently adjust communication paths between worker nodes based on the communication pattern.
US11704563B2
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for classifying time series image data. Aspects of the invention include encoding motion information from video frames in an eccentricity map. An eccentricity map is essentially a static image that aggregates apparent motion of objects, surfaces, and edges, from a plurality of video frames. In general, eccentricity reflects how different a data point is from the past readings of the same set of variables. Neural networks can be trained to detect and classify actions in videos from eccentricity maps. Eccentricity maps can be provided to a neural network as input. Output from the neural network can indicate if detected motion in a video is or is not classified as an action, such as, for example, a hand gesture.
US11704561B2
A method for realizing an artificial neural network via an electronic integrated circuit (FPGA), wherein artificial neurons grouped into different interlinked layers for the artificial neural network, where a functional description is created for each neuron of the artificial neural network, taking into account a specifiable starting weighting, a synthesis is performed for each neuron based on the associated functional description with the associated specified starting weighting, a network list is determined as the synthesis result, in which at least a base element and a starting configuration belonging to the base element are stored for each neuron, a base element is formed as a lookup table (LUT) unit and an associated dynamic configuration cell, in which a current configuration for the LUT unit or the base element is stored, and where the network list is implemented as a starting configuration of the artificial neural network in the electronic integrated circuit.
US11704548B2
In one embodiment, a system to deterministically transfer partitions of contiguous computer readable data in constant time includes a computer readable memory and a modulo address generator. The computer readable memory is organized into D banks, to contain contiguous data including a plurality of data elements of size M which are constituent data elements of a vector with N data elements, the data elements to start at an offset address O. The modulo address generator is to generate the addresses of the data elements of a vector with i data elements stored in the computer readable memory, the modulo address generator including at least one forward permutaton to permute data elements with addresses of the form O+M*i where 0<=i
US11704546B2
An apparatus for, by inputting data to a hierarchical neural network and performing operation processing in each layer of the network, calculating a feature plane in the layer, comprises an operation unit, a feature plane holding unit including at least one memory that holds a feature plane to be processed, a unit configured to control to arrange the feature plane in the memory based on network information as information about each layer undergoing the operation processing and to manage reading/writing from/in the memory, and a processor configured to access, via a bus, the feature plane holding unit which is address-mapped in a memory space. The processor calculates, based on the network information, an address address-mapped in the memory space, reads out the feature plane, and processes the feature plane.
US11704545B2
Provided are an integrated circuit chip apparatus and a related product, the integrated circuit chip apparatus being used for executing a multiplication operation, a convolution operation or a training operation of a neural network. The present technical solution has the advantages of a small amount of calculation and low power consumption.
US11704537B2
The implementations of the subject matter described herein relate to an octree-based convolutional neural network. In some implementations, there is provided a computer-implemented method for processing a three-dimensional shape. The method comprises obtaining an octree for representing the three-dimensional shape. Nodes of the octree include empty nodes and non-empty nodes. The empty nodes exclude the three-dimensional shape and are leaf nodes of the octree, and the non-empty nodes include at least a part of the three-dimensional shape. The method further comprises for nodes in the octree with a depth associated with a convolutional layer of a convolutional neural network, performing a convolutional operation of the convolutional layer to obtain an output of the convolutional layer.
US11704534B2
Provided is a neural-network-based classification method, including: generating, by a neural network, one or more score vectors corresponding to one or more samples respectively; determining a first subset of the one or more samples according to the one or more score vectors and a first decision threshold, wherein the first subset is associated with a first class; and selecting samples to be re-examined from the one or more samples according to the first subset.
US11704530B2
A physical card may include a substantially planar body that may include a front surface, a back surface, and one or more side surfaces. The front surface may include a background formed primarily in a first color, and a plurality of embossed characters each having one or more front surfaces aligned substantially in parallel relative to the background. The plurality of embossed characters may include one or more side surfaces extending from the background at a lower edge to the front surface at an upper edge, wherein the one or more front surfaces of at least a first embossed character of the plurality of embossed characters are formed primarily in a second color different from the first color and the one or more side surfaces of at least the first embossed character are formed primarily in the first color to limit a viewing angle of the plurality of embossed characters.
US11704522B2
An information processing device includes a storage portion storing a learned model trained by machine learning based on a data set in which temperature information, setting information, and countermeasure information are associated, a reception portion receiving the temperature information and the setting information at a time of ejecting ink by the printing head, and a processing portion deciding a countermeasure to be executed for condensation based on the received temperature information and setting information and the learned model.
US11704519B2
In a case where image data for which brief spot color matching has been performed is stored by a BOX function, it is not possible to output the image data in correct color on a condition that the image data is transmitted to another device as it is. In a case where image data is stored by the BOX function, in a printer driver that generates PDL data therefor, a color matching method of type accompanied by the brief spot color matching is not allowed to be set.
US11704517B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on an image bearing member based on an image forming condition; a transfer unit configured to transfer the image formed on the image bearing member onto a sheet; a first reading sensor configured to read a first image for adjustment which has been formed on the sheet; a second reading sensor configured to read a second image for adjustment which has been formed on the image bearing member; and a controller configured to: generate the image forming condition based on reading results of the first image for adjustment on a plurality of sheets, which are obtained by the first reading sensor; and generate the image forming condition based on a reading result of the second image for adjustment, which is obtained by the second reading sensor.
US11704515B2
A method of reading machine-readable marks on a movable support and object of a sample instrument. The method includes capturing a first image of the moveable support as the moveable support moves from a first position to a second position using an image capture device; determining whether a first fiducial machine-readable mark on the moveable support is in the first image; determining, when the first fiducial machine-readable mark is in the first image, whether a first machine-readable mark on a first object coupled to the moveable support is in the first image at a predetermined position relative to the first fiducial machine-readable mark; and associating information decoded from the first machine-readable mark on the first object with a first location on the moveable support associated with the first fiducial machine-readable mark.
US11704511B2
A card may store data on integrated circuits housed within the card. The card includes two short-range antennas and one long-range antenna that are configured to transmit the data. Antennas of the card may be configured to transmit the data in different directions as a result of a signal-blocking layer embedded within the card that isolates respective antennas from electromagnetic signals originating from a direction on the opposing side of the blocking layer. The long-range antenna may be configured to transmit identification data of the user, while the short-range antennas may be configured to transmit financial data related to the user. A system may be configured to instantiate events for the user of the card with the long-range antenna. Events that are instantiated by the long-range antenna may then be executed using the short-range antennas.
US11704510B2
A system is disclosed for tracking and monitoring sets of assets in or on a container using RFID-RF tags associated with the assets. The system comprises a specimen holder bin or similar container and a wireless tag affixed to the specimen holder bin. The specimen bin holder is configured to hold a plurality of assets. The wireless tag comprises a radio frequency identifier (RFID) circuit, a radio frequency (RF) circuit, a processor, a memory storing an identifier (ID) associated with the RFID circuit, and an energy source electrically connected to the RFID circuit, the RF circuit, and the processor. The wireless tag is configured to broadcast the identifier associated with the RFID circuit responsive to an interrogation signal by one or more gateways associated with the system. In some embodiments, each asset of the plurality of assets additionally comprises an RFID tag.
