US11758735B2
One aspect of this description relates to a semiconductor device. In some embodiments, the semiconductor device includes a first drain/source structure extending in a first direction, a second drain/source structure extending the first direction and spaced from the first drain/source structure in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, a third drain/source structure extending in the first direction and spaced from the second drain/source structure in the second direction, a first bit line disposed over the first drain/source structure in the first direction, a common select line that includes a portion disposed over the second drain/source structure in the first direction, a second bit line disposed over the third drain/source structure in the first direction, and a charge storage layer coupled to at least a first sidewall of each of the first drain/source structure, the second drain/source structure, and the third drain/source structure.
US11758733B2
In some aspects of the present disclosure, a memory device includes a first memory array including: a plurality of memory strings spaced from each other along a first lateral direction and a second lateral direction, each of the plurality of memory strings including a plurality of memory cells arranged along a vertical direction; and a plurality of first conductive structures extending along the vertical direction; wherein each of the plurality of first conductive structures includes a first portion and a second portion; wherein the first portion extends across the plurality of memory cells of a corresponding pair of the plurality of memory strings along the vertical direction, and the second portion is disposed over the first portion along the vertical direction; and wherein the second portion extends farther than the first portion along at least one of the first or second lateral direction.
US11758728B2
In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a stacked film alternately including a plurality of electrode layers and a plurality of insulating layers, a charge storage layer provided on a side face of the stacked film via a first insulator, and a semiconductor layer provided on a side face of the charge storage layer via a second insulator. The device further includes a third insulator provided between an electrode layer and an insulating layer in the stacked film and between the electrode layer and the first insulator, and a first film provided between the third insulator and the insulating layer and/or between the third insulator and the first insulator, and including carbon, germanium, tin, aluminum, phosphorus or arsenic.
US11758721B2
A semiconductor device includes a non-volatile memory. The non-volatile memory includes a first dielectric layer disposed on a substrate, a floating gate disposed on the dielectric layer, a control gate. A second dielectric layer is disposed between the floating gate and the control gate, having one of a silicon nitride layer, a silicon oxide layer and multilayers thereof. A third dielectric layer is disposed between the second dielectric layer and the control gate, and includes a dielectric material having a dielectric constant higher than silicon nitride.
US11758718B2
A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers, first memory opening fill structures extending through the alternating stack and including a respective first vertical semiconductor channel having a tubular section and a semi-tubular section, second memory opening fill structures, first bit lines electrically connected to a respective subset of the first drain regions, second bit lines electrically connected to a respective subset of the second drain regions, and an erase voltage application circuit configured to electrically bias the first bit lines at a first bit line erase voltage and the second bit lines at a second bit line erase voltage during an erase operation. The first bit line erase voltage is greater than the second bit line erase voltage.
US11758713B2
A semiconductor device includes first and second trenches in respective first and second regions in a substrate, a first isolation structure having a first inner wall oxide pattern, a first liner, and a first filling insulation pattern sequentially stacked I the first trench, a second isolation structure having a second inner wall oxide pattern, a second liner, and a second filling insulation pattern sequentially stacked I the second trench, a first gate structure having a first high-k dielectric pattern, a first P-type metal pattern, and a first N-type metal pattern sequentially stacked on the first region, and a second gate structure having a second high-k dielectric pattern and a second N-type metal pattern sequentially stacked on the second region, wherein the first and second liners protrude above upper surfaces of the first and second inner wall oxide patterns and the first and second filling insulation patterns, respectively.
US11758710B2
A memory device includes a first electrode, a first support layer, a dielectric layer and a second electrode. The first electrode is disposed on a substrate and extending upwards. The first support layer laterally supports an upper portion of a sidewall of the first electrode, where the first support layer has a slim portion. The dielectric layer is disposed on the first electrode and the first support layer. The second electrode is disposed on the dielectric layer. In addition, a method of fabricating the memory device is provided.
US11758702B2
A head-mounted device can effectively manage heat while also managing noise output in a manner that reduces the user's perception thereof. For example, a support member extending across a flow channel can provide multiple sections with different profiles and/or cross-sectional dimensions within the flow channel. Each of the profiles and/or cross-sectional dimensions can generate tonal noises at different frequencies, so that the tonal noises generated are distributed across multiple frequencies to mask such tonal noises among broadband noises that are generated by the head-mounted device. Such a support member can be moveably positioned within the flow channel and rigidly coupled to other components of the head-mounted device. Such a support member can also be used to draw heat away from other components of the head-mounted device to be dissipated by the flow of air within the flow channel.
US11758699B2
A charging module for electric vehicle includes a power conversion unit, a heat dissipation unit, and a thermoelectric module. The power conversion unit includes a power conversion module disposed inside a cabinet, and the power conversion unit provides output power. The heat dissipation unit cools the power conversion unit through liquid cooling or air cooling. The thermoelectric module generates electrical energy based on a temperature difference between the power conversion unit and the heat dissipation unit during operation. The electrical energy is supplied to the power conversion unit and/or the heat dissipation unit.
US11758698B2
Provided is a power semiconductor cooling module for an electric vehicle. The power semiconductor cooling module for an electric vehicle, according to one exemplary embodiment of the present invention, is electrically connected to a motor and comprises: a box-shaped housing part having an inner space; a power element part disposed in the inner space and electrically connected to a motor via at least one busbar; a heat dissipation part disposed in the inner space so as to make contact with the power element part in order to cool heat generated from the power element part; and a heat backflow prevention member disposed so as to surround at least a portion of the total length of the busbar, and disposed so as to make contact with the heat dissipation part.
US11758696B2
A cooling structure for an electronic control unit which is mounted in a vehicle, includes: a duct having a flow channel on which the electronic control unit is disposed; and a blower configured to take air in the inside of the vehicle and to emit the air to the flow channel of the duct, wherein the duct is configured to: cool the electronic control unit with the air emitted from the blower; and discharge air which has been used to cool the electronic control unit to the outside of the vehicle.
US11758681B2
The systems and methods disclosed are directed towards a retractable and adjustable display arm for a data center cabinet that allows a user to access internal components of the data center cabinet without completely detaching a display from the data center cabinet. The retractable and adjustable display arm has an attachment base to pivotally couple the retractable and adjustable display arm to the data center cabinet, and also has a mounting portion for mounting a display, such as a computer display monitor, tablet, or the like, to the retractable and adjustable display arm. The attachment base achieves the pivotal coupling between the retractable and adjustable display arm to the data center cabinet using one or more hinges. Further, the mounting portion has one or more adjustable supports, allowing displays of varying sizes to be mounted in various locations on the mounting portion.
US11758679B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure include a support frame having a rear side, a bottom section, a connector bracket, a first perimeter section, a second perimeter section, and a rotatable bracket. The bottom section defines a width of the support frame. The connector bracket extends upright from the bottom section. The first perimeter section and the second perimeter section extend upright from opposing ends of the bottom section. The first perimeter section and the second perimeter section are substantially parallel to the connector bracket. The rotatable bracket is rotatably coupled at one end to the first perimeter section. The rotatable bracket is configured, at another end, to removably couple to the connector bracket, thereby enclosing an opening when the rotatable bracket is in a closed configuration. The opening is defined by the first perimeter section, a portion of the bottom section, the connector bracket, and the rotatable bracket.
US11758677B2
A release mechanism is disclosed that can facilitate safely and efficiently removing an expansion card from a computing device. The release mechanism can be installed on a motherboard around an expansion slot, and can include an opening that permits access to the expansion slot to allow an expansion card to be installed therein. When removal of the expansion card is desired, a handled of the release mechanism can be pulled, causing contact surfaces of the release mechanism to push the expansion card away from the expansion slot with even force, removing the need to tilt the expansion card.
US11758672B2
An electronic apparatus includes: a first chassis accommodating a first electronic component; a second chassis accommodating a second electronic component; a hinge connecting the first chassis and the second chassis in a relatively rotatable manner; and a flexible board connecting the first electronic component and the second electronic component. The flexible board includes a first folded portion that is offset from adjacent ends of the first and second chassis in the direction toward the first chassis, the first folded portion being folded from a first direction, which is directed from the second chassis to the first chassis, to a second direction that is opposite to the first direction.
US11758671B2
Provided is a curvature variable display device including a back plate provided on a rear surface of a panel assembly, a first side bracket and a second side bracket respectively coupled to two sides of a rear surface of the back plate, a bending plate rotatably coupled to the first side bracket and the second side bracket, a stand post coupled to the bending plate and the stand base, a wire moving member built into the stand post to move the wire by driving a motor and change the curvature of the panel assembly and the back plate.
US11758670B2
A display device including: a display module; a first support part and a second support part which are disposed under the display module and spaced apart from each other in a first direction; a first gear connected to each of both sides of the first support part which are opposite each other in a second direction crossing the first direction; and a second gear connected to each of both sides of the second support part which face each other in the second direction, where the second gear is disposed adjacent to the first gear in the first direction and engaged with the first gear. When viewed in the second direction, each of the first gear and the second gear has a shape corresponding to at least a portion of an elliptical shape.
US11758666B2
A manufacturing method of a metal structure is disclosed, which includes the following steps: forming a seed layer on a substrate; forming a patterned metal layer on the seed layer, wherein the patterned metal layer includes a metal member; forming a first patterned photoresist layer on the seed layer, wherein a thickness of the first patterned photoresist layer is less than a thickness of the patterned metal layer; and performing a first patterning process to the seed layer through the first patterned photoresist layer to form a patterned seed layer, wherein after the first patterning process, the metal member includes a first part and a second part, the first part is disposed between the patterned seed layer and the second part, and a width of the first part is greater than a width of the second part.
US11758665B2
The present disclosure relates to a battery connection module and a battery device. The battery connection module includes a carrying tray, a plurality of busbars and a flexible circuit board. The plurality of busbars are provided to the carrying tray. The flexible circuit board is provided to the carrying tray and includes a main board body and a plurality of connecting board bodies integrally connected to the main board body in a floatable manner and respectively electrically connected to the plurality of busbars, each connecting board body is provided to a side edge of the main board body, extends in a longitudinal direction and faces the corresponding busbar in a transverse direction, each connecting board body has a central portion and two cantilevered portions respectively extending from two opposite sides of the central portion in the longitudinal direction, each cantilevered portion has a proximal segment connected to the central portion, a distal segment opposite to the proximal segment and a curved segment positioned between the proximal segment and the distal segment, the curved segment extends along at least the longitudinal direction and the transverse direction, each connecting board body is connected to the main board body only by the distal segments of the two cantilevered portions, a gap is formed between the connecting board body and the main board body.
US11758657B2
A printed circuit board includes a first insulating layer; a first wiring layer disposed on one surface of the first insulating layer and including a pad; a second insulating layer disposed on the one surface of the first insulating layer and covering the first wiring layer; a second wiring layer disposed on one surface of the second insulating layer and including a metal pattern; a third insulating layer disposed on the one surface of the second insulating layer and covering the second wiring layer; and a cavity extending through each of the second and third insulating layers, and having a bottom surface and a sidewall respectively exposing the pad of the first wiring layer and the metal pattern of the second wiring layer. The cavity includes a non-through groove in the one surface of the first insulating layer.
US11758648B2
A high-frequency board includes an insulating substrate, a first line conductor, a second line conductor, a capacitor, a first bond, and a second bond. The insulating substrate has a recess on its upper surface. The first line conductor extends from an edge of the recess on the upper surface of the insulating substrate. The second line conductor faces the first line conductor across the recess on the upper surface of the insulating substrate. The capacitor overlaps the recess. The first bond joins the capacitor to the first line conductor. The second bond joins the capacitor to the second line conductor, and is spaced from the first bond.
US11758641B2
The present disclosure relates to a power supply system for improving plasma uniformity and a method thereof, wherein the power supply system includes a signal generating device, a first electrode and a second electrode. The signal generator is respectively connected with a plurality of signal processing circuits and is used for generating a plurality of initial signals at different frequencies; the signal processing circuits are used for processing the initial signals at corresponding frequencies; the plurality of signal processing circuits are all connected with the first electrode; and the initial signals are processed by the signal processing circuits and then act on the plasma through the first electrode. The present disclosure may effectively process signals in different power supplies, improve the stability of plasma discharge, reduce the impact of the coupling effect between different power supplies, and realize the independent control of ion flux and ion energy.
US11758637B2
Disclosed embodiments provide a lighting device that is controllable both by a triac device as well as by wireless control. When intelligent lamps are installed in indoor applications, there can be technical problems of lamp mismatch due to a triac dimmer. Disclosed embodiments provide a compatibility device. In disclosed embodiments, when the triac dimmer is in high output, at or above a predetermined threshold, a wireless controller can control the brightness, color temperature and RGB (red-green-blue) output of coupled lamps. When the triac dimmer is below the predetermined threshold, the wireless controller is not controlling dimming, the triac dimmer can control the brightness and/or color temperature of coupled lamps (LED lights).
US11758628B2
A light emitting diode (LED) lamp includes at least one LED and an LED driver. The LED driver includes at least two terminals, a burning processor, and an address memory. The at least two terminals have a power input terminal and a power output terminal. The power input terminal and the power output terminal are externally coupled to a power line. The burning processor receives a burning activation data of a burning signal through the power input terminal or the power output terminal, and directly and externally receives a burning address data of the burning signal without from the power line. When a burning function of the burning processor is activated by the burning activation data, the burning processor converts the burning address data into a local address data and burns the local address data into the address memory.
US11758626B2
A special effects system includes a retroreflective target, an object comprising one or more light sources disposed on an end of the object, where the end of the object is spatially oriented to face the retroreflective target such that light from the one or more light sources is emitted onto the retroreflective target, and a controller communicatively coupled to the one or more sensors and the one or more light sources, wherein the controller comprises a processor configured to adjust the light from the light source based in part on the on the one or more signals output by the one or more sensors, wherein the signals are indicative of a position of the object, or a condition of the one or more light sources.
US11758623B2
A detector for a chromatograph includes a light source, and a light detector that detects light generated based on turning on of the light source, wherein the light source includes a deuterium lamp, and a deuterium lamp power supply circuit connected to the deuterium lamp, and the deuterium lamp power supply circuit includes a DC voltage generation circuit that generates a DC voltage by performing a switching operation, a rectifying operation and a smoothing operation, a voltage application circuit that applies a DC voltage generated by the DC voltage generation circuit to the deuterium lamp, a first feedback circuit that feeds a first feedback voltage changing depending on a DC voltage to the DC voltage generation circuit such that the DC voltage generated by the DC voltage generation circuit becomes close to a discharge maintaining voltage, after electric discharge of the deuterium lamp is started, and a constant current control circuit that controls a discharge current of the deuterium lamp to be constant.
US11758606B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine that a failure event for a beam or a link, between the UE and a base station, is occurring or will occur, and transmit a message to the base station indicating that the UE is refraining from performing a recovery procedure for the beam or a link for a time duration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11758603B2
Embodiments here in relate to methods for message handling performed by an Access and Mobility Management function, AMF, and a User Equipment, UE, as well as a corresponding AMF and UE. Particularly, embodiments herein relate to methods for handling service requests performed by an Access and Mobility Management function, AMF, and a User Equipment, UE, as well as a corresponding AMF and UE.
US11758600B1
In a wireless communication system including a first access node and a second access node, where the first and second access nodes cooperatively support providing user equipment devices (UEs) with dual-connectivity service, where data flows between the first and second access nodes, and where a proper subset of the data flowing between the first and second access nodes is user-plane data of the dual-connectivity service, a method includes (i) detecting that a total volume of the user-plane data that flows between the first and second access nodes is at least as high as a predefined threshold, and (ii) based on at least the detecting, blocking new establishment of the dual-connectivity service.
US11758588B2
Techniques for interference mitigation in a wireless communication system are disclosed. One example method includes receiving, at a first communication node, interference status information indicative of a remote interference between the first communication node and a second communication node and performing, by the first communication node, subsequent communications to the second communication node by implementing a backoff based on a granularity.
US11758585B2
A method in a UE comprises: receiving a message from a network node comprising information about one or more sets of dedicated random access channel (RACH) resources, each set of dedicated RACH resources associated with a beam associated with a target cell; obtaining an estimate of beam quality for each beam associated with the sets of dedicated RACH resources; determining, based on the obtained estimate of beam quality, whether any beam associated with the one or more sets of dedicated RACH resources meets one or more criteria of a first set of criteria for performing random access; and performing random access based on whether any beam associated with the one or more sets of dedicated RACH resources meets the one or more criteria of the first set of criteria for performing random access.
US11758583B2
A system includes multiple techniques of implementing listen before talk functionality to provide multiple mobile communication devices connectivity with a wireless base station.
US11758572B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may transmit, to a user equipment (UE), a first demodulation reference signal for each of one or more sub-bands and configured in accordance with a first one or more demodulation reference signal configurations. The UE may select a second demodulation reference signal configuration from a respective set of second demodulation reference signal configurations for each of the one or more sub-bands and may transmit an indication of the second demodulation reference signal configuration for each of the one or more sub-bands. The base station may receive the indication and may transmit, to the UE, a second demodulation reference signal for each of the one or more sub-bands and configured in accordance with the second demodulation reference signal configuration for each of the one or more sub-bands.
US11758570B2
A method is disclosed for use in a frequency division duplex (FDD) wireless network including a base station (BS) and a user equipment controller (UE) communicating through a medium having an uplink communication channel supporting communications from the UE to the BS, and a downlink communication channel supporting communications from the BS to the UE. The method includes identifying an uplink frequency spectrum in the uplink communication channel affected by an interfering signal, and determining the uplink power level of the interfering signal and whether the interfering signal is caused by passive intermodulation distortion (PIM). In response to determining that that the interfering signal is caused by PIM, the method includes adjusting, based on the uplink frequency spectrum and the uplink power level of the interfering signal, one or more of a downlink power level of a downlink transmission signal and a downlink frequency range in the downlink communication channel.
US11758565B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive an indication of first values for a set of transmission parameters for an uplink transmission; and transmit, based at least in part on identifying a maximum permissible exposure event, the uplink transmission based at least in part on second values for the set of transmission parameters, wherein the second values are different from the first values for at least one modulation parameter of the set of transmission parameters. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11758562B2
This disclosure provides methods, devices, and techniques to indicate operations by extremely high throughput (EHT) devices on an operating bandwidth, including devices in a basic service set (BSS) supporting the use of a 320 MHz channel. In some aspects, the supported functionality may include extensions to flexibility and support rules, structures, and signaling using legacy fields, frames, and features. In addition, the supported functionality may include channel sensing and reporting, such as per-channel network allocation vectors (NAVs) for the sub-channels of the operating bandwidth. A device may identify an operating mode for an operating bandwidth and determine a value for a bandwidth query report (BQR) or a target wake time (TWT) element. The device may check multiple NAVs for sub-channels of the operating bandwidth. The operating bandwidth may span concurrent operations on traditional Wi-Fi frequency bands including the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands as well as the 6 GHz band.
US11758558B2
An apparatus is disclosed including a receiver that receives a downlink control information and a downlink shared channel that is scheduled by the downlink control information; a processor that determines an allocation of the downlink shared channel in a time domain based on a first timing indicated by a first time unit and a second timing indicated by a second time unit that are obtained from information notified by the downlink control information; and an output apparatus that outputs information based on the downlink shared channel, wherein the first timing is defined based on a numerology of the downlink shared channel. In other aspects, a system is also disclosed.
US11758555B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, via a first carrier associated with a first radio access technology, at least a first uplink grant from a base station. The UE may implement one or more backoff schemes. For example, the UE may transmit, using resources indicated by at least the first uplink grant, an uplink message based on a temperature of one or more components of the UE satisfying a threshold, the uplink message including a transport block (TB) indicating data, a buffer status report (BSR) associated with the data, one or more padding bytes different from the data, or any combination thereof. The UE may monitor for at least a second uplink grant from the base station during a first time period based on transmitting the uplink message.
US11758545B2
In one aspect of the present invention, a first base station for communicating with user equipment together with a second base station according to dual connectivity includes a data storage unit configured to store data to be transmitted from the first base station to the user equipment; a reception unit configured to receive from the second base station information indicating whether data to be transmitted from the second base station to the user equipment exist; and a state control unit configured to, when information indicating that data to be transmitted from the second base station to the user equipment exist is received, prevent the user equipment from releasing a radio resource or transitioning to a discontinuous reception state, even if the amount of to-be-transmitted data stored in the data storage unit is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold.
US11758539B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for using an assistance information framework to perform fast carrier aggregation and dual connectivity configuration. A wireless device may provide assistance information for determining a carrier aggregation or dual connectivity configuration to a cellular base station. The assistance information may be provided while establishing a radio resource control connection. The assistance information may include either or both of carrier aggregation or dual connectivity preference information for the wireless device or service data amount information for the wireless device. The cellular base station may select a carrier aggregation or dual connectivity configuration for the wireless device based on the assistance information, and may provide configuration information for the selected configuration to the wireless device.
US11758525B2
Wireless communications are described. A wireless device may receive configuration parameters of an unlicensed cell. The configuration parameters may indicate a starting position in an uplink subframe. The starting position may be based on a listen-before-talk (LBT) period and a timing advance value.
US11758523B2
Aspects relate to an integrated access backhaul (IAB)-Distributed Unit (DU) resource configuration framework for paired (e.g., frequency division duplex (FDD)) spectrum. Two DU resource configurations per cell may be supported for paired spectrum, including one for a first spectrum band (e.g., a downlink frequency band) and another for a second spectrum band (e.g., an uplink frequency band) of the paired spectrum. Each DU resource configuration may include a respective symbol pattern of symbol types (e.g., downlink (DL), uplink (UL), flexible) for a plurality of slots, as well as a corresponding availability attribute for each symbol type (e.g., hard, soft, or not available). A DU of an IAB node in an IAB network may receive the two DU resource configurations for the paired spectrum from a central unit (CU) of an IAB donor node in the IAB network.
US11758515B2
A method and device is disclosed to select a network access link for an application in a user equipment (UE) device to use for communicating with a network. The method may include determining a plurality of network access links associated with the UE device and determining one or more criteria associated with a request to access a network. The criteria may include throughput, financial cost, latency, or signal strength. The method may include determining a score for each of the plurality of network access links with respect to the criteria. The score score may be based on historical data related to the criteria. The method may include comparing the score for each of the plurality of network access links with the criteria and selecting one of the network access links for an application to use to communicate with the network.
US11758499B2
An access and mobility management function (AMF) receives, from a wireless device, a registration request message for the wireless device. The AMF performs an authentication and/or authorization procedure for an aerial service of the wireless device. The AMF receives, from the wireless device, a request to establish a session associated with the aerial service. The AMF sends, to a session management (SMF), based on the request to establish the session, a message indicating whether the aerial service of the wireless device is authenticated and/or authorized.
US11758497B2
A user equipment (UE) in a radio resource connection (RRC) inactive or idle state may initiate a random access procedure with a base station (BS) for initial access to a network, to resume an RRC connection, to re-establish an RRC connection, or to perform an early data transmission to a network. The BS may selectively include a timing advance (TA) medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) and an indication of a simplified timing advance command for the UE. The aspects herein may reduce the signaling overhead of the TA MAC CE. For example, the UE may enter an idle state or an inactive state. The UE may transmit a random access message to the BS with a request for timing advance simplification based, at least in part, on a TA value corresponding to the BS, wherein the TA value is applied to the transmission of the random access message.
US11758489B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a wireless communication method and a device, which are beneficial to energy saving of a terminal. The method includes: sending, by a network device, an energy-saving signal to a terminal device, where the energy-saving signal is configured to indicate first configuration information of a signal used for synchronization.
US11758484B2
A wireless access node controls the transmit power of wireless User Equipment (UEs). The access node wirelessly receives uplink data from the wireless UEs over wireless uplinks and transfers the uplink data to a communication network. The access node determines individual uplink signal strengths, interference levels, and error rates for the wireless UEs. The access node determines individual power instructions for the wireless UEs based on their uplink signal strengths, interference levels, and error rates. The wireless access node wirelessly transfers the individual power instructions to the individual wireless UEs. The individual wireless UEs control their transmit power responsive to the individual power instructions.
US11758483B2
Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a first wireless device transmits a request to participate in a coordination and detection procedure to determine whether a human is present in an environment of the first wireless device, receives an acknowledgment from at least a second wireless device, transmits a first set of at least two consecutive wireless signals to the second wireless device, receives a second set of at least two consecutive wireless signals from the second wireless device, determines whether the human is present in the environment based at least in part on a first time of flight (ToF) and a second ToF between the first wireless device and the second wireless device, and sets a transmit power of the first wireless device based on the determination of whether the human is present in the environment.
US11758482B2
A method and information handling system (IHS) for dynamic multiple antenna sensor and wireless power management for multiple radio types and multiple wireless configurations comprise enabling, by an antenna controller (AC), a proximity sensor (P-sensor) connected interrupt to be generated by a P-sensor; upon activation of the P-sensor connected interrupt, determining, at the AC, a reason for the P-sensor connected interrupt; when the reason is a steady-state detection event, calibrating, by the AC, the P-sensor; when the reason is a proximity detection event, storing, by the AC, a radio transmit power lookup table, the radio transmit power lookup table mapping a P-sensor channel, an antenna subsystem physical configuration value, and an IHS physical configuration usage mode value to a radio transmit power level value; and configuring, at a radio, the radio to operate at a radio transmit power level corresponding to the radio transmit power level value.
US11758459B2
Systems, devices, and automated processes are provided with selective access to multiple available slices of a network from at least one cell by a user equipment (UE) to enable reductions in slice failure access to the network. The method includes: accessing at a first cell, by the UE, slice A of the network wherein slice A provides higher bandwidth and lower latency access than slice B; and accessing at a second cell, by the UE, both slice A and slice B of the network wherein slice B have greater access availability than slice A wherein if the UE attempts to access the first or second cell then via cell reselection of the UE making a determination to select the second cell if the user is authorized for use of a premium service for the higher bandwidth and lower latency access of slice A else selecting by the UE the first cell for network access of slice B.
US11758443B2
According to an aspect, there is provided a method of operating a first radio access node in a communication network, the method comprising determining (601) whether a first base key that is used to determine a first encryption key for encrypting communications between a communication device and the first radio access node can be used by a second radio access node for determining a second encryption key for encrypting communications between the communication device and the second radio access node; and if the first base key can be used by the second radio access node, sending (603) the first base key to the second radio access node during handover of the communication device from the first radio access node to the second radio access node.
US11758436B2
When a packet data session is established for a user equipment (UE), a comparative assessment of load information factors from different sets of load information factors associated with a plurality of user plane function (UPF) instances may be performed. Each set of load information factors of a UPF instance may include predicted load information factors indicative of a predicted load at the UPF instance. A UPF instance may be selected for the packet data session of the UE based on the comparative assessment. The comparative assessment may additionally consider a predicted load contribution of the packet data session to be established for the UE. A data analytics function may utilize a model (e.g. a multiple linear regression model) to calculate predicted load contribution factors, where the model is derived based on historical usage data from previous sessions of one or more UEs, for example, data from charging data records (CDRs).
US11758434B2
Mechanisms and methods are provided for improving wireless audio transmission and synchronization for multi-channel Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) systems. In various embodiments, mechanisms and methods may include generating transmissions having a plurality of Protocol Data Units (PDUs) to BLE-compliant slave devices. The plurality of PDUs may be stored in a buffer. When an error is determined to have occurred in transmitting one of the PDUs, a re-transmission to the slave device may be generated, which may include the PDU in error and any subsequent PDUs of the plurality of PDUs.
US11758424B2
A method and device for monitoring a signal in a wireless communication system includes a PDCCH monitoring operation based on a combination of X and Y. In detail, in order to monitor a PDCCH in Y slots, a duration of a search space is restricted to be an integer multiple of L.
US11758418B2
A transmission configuration method includes: determining a candidate transmission configuration information set, where the determined candidate transmission configuration information set includes K types of transmission configuration information, and each of the K types of transmission configuration information is used for implementing transmission configuration of at least one of a signal or a channel, where K is greater than or equal to 1; selecting at least one type of transmission configuration information from the determined candidate transmission configuration information set; and transmitting the selected transmission configuration information to a terminal by using a signaling.
US11758414B2
A radio terminal that performs radio communication with a base station, including: a communicator configured to perform radio measurement and monitoring of a paging signal; and a controller configured to control the communicator to receive information related to first duration by Non-Access Stratum (NAS) message from the base station, and not to perform the radio measurement and the monitoring during the first duration but to perform the radio measurement and the monitoring during second duration different from the first duration, wherein the controller is further configured to control the radio measurement and the monitoring by ending the first duration for transmitting uplink data of the radio terminal.
US11758409B2
Systems and methods for dynamic allocation of spectrum among cross-interfering radio nodes of wireless communications systems are disclosed. Multiple radio nodes may be deployed within a geographical region, and each radio node may support wireless communication over spectrum in which access is arbitrated by an external service not under the control of the operator of the radio node. Each radio node is configured to detect radio conditions which may indicate coexistence between the radio node and a neighboring radio node. A network entity associated with the radio node obtains radio condition information and determines a coexistence status between the radio node and the neighboring radio node, such as whether coexistence with the neighboring radio node is tolerable or intolerable. The network entity reports an indication of the coexistence status to a spectrum server, and the spectrum server reallocates the spectrum among the radio nodes.
US11758405B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to mechanisms for proximity service (ProSe) authorization and provisioning. A user equipment (UE) may be configured to support ProSe communication and may indicate this capability to a radio access network (RAN) and a core network during registration of the UE. Based on the ProSe indication, the RAN may select an access and mobility management function (AMF) that supports ProSe authorization and policy provisioning and forward a registration request indicating the UE supports ProSe communication to the selected AMF. Upon authorizing the UE for ProSe operation, the AMF may transmit a registration accept message including a ProSe supported indication to the UE. The UE may then initiate a ProSe session with another UE based on the ProSe supported indication in the registration accept message.
US11758394B2
A communication device may display an instruction screen in a case where a first wireless connection is established between the communication device and a first external device; in a case where it is instructed that a target process is to be executed in a situation where the instruction screen is displayed, supply, to the first wireless interface, first instruction information; after the public key has been sent to the first external device, receive an authentication request from the first external device; send an authentication response to the first external device; receive connection information from the first external device; and in a case where the connection information is received from the first external device, establish, by using the connection information, the second wireless connection between the communication device and a second external device.
US11758386B2
The present invention discloses methods and systems for communicating at a cellular router between a first wireless communication module and a first subscriber identity module (SIM). The cellular router receives a first request from a first wireless communication module and encapsulates the first request in a first modified request. The cellular router then sends the first modified request to a first SIM card in a first communication apparatus and waits for a first modified reply. While waiting for the first modified reply the cellular router sends at least one halt message to the first wireless communication module after a first time threshold. After receiving the first modified reply, the cellular router decapsulates the first modified reply to retrieve a first reply and sends the first reply to the first wireless communication module where the first modified reply is a reply to the first modified request.
US11758385B2
A system is provided that allows profiles from multiple mobile network operators to be provisioned across multiple eUICCs from different eUICC manufacturers that may each utilize different provisioning methods. This is accomplished through the use of an abstraction layer with application programming interfaces (APIs) that enable SM-DP and SM-SR functionality for eUICCs from multiple eUICC manufacturers and for multiple MNO profiles.
US11758375B2
The present disclosure has an object to provide an information processing apparatus that can easily grasp a passenger during a driver's driving. A controller included in an information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure executes: acquiring first information that is information related to an appearance of a passenger having requested a ride in a vehicle being driven by a driver and is image information taken; and generating information related to the passenger by converting the first information into second information representing a predetermined characteristic part of the appearance of the passenger.
US11758367B2
In one embodiment, a method comprises: establishing, by a network management device, a wireless multicast tree topology for a wireless mesh network, the wireless multicast tree topology comprising a root network device and wireless multicast hubs providing respective wireless multicast areas, the establishing including selecting each wireless multicast hub based on a corresponding location and a corresponding wireless neighbor count; and causing, by the network management device, the root network device to unicast transmit to a selected one or more of the wireless multicast hubs a multicast packet encapsulated within a unicast header, the unicast header causing the selected one or more of the wireless multicast hubs to multicast transmit the multicast packet within a corresponding one or more of the wireless multicast areas.
US11758366B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for a computer-implemented method for displaying a heat map are provided. One of the methods includes: receiving heat data from a server, wherein the heat data comprises a color value associated with each of a plurality of regions and one or more geographic locations respectively corresponding to one or more boundary points of each of one or more heat regions among the plurality of regions; generating a first heat map comprising a plurality of pixels; obtaining a second heat map by adjusting the color value of each pixel in the first heat map; and providing the second heat map for display, wherein the second heat is superimposed on a digital map. This method addresses the issue of conventional techniques that service request information may be misrepresented due to abrupt changes in color values across neighboring heat regions.
US11758365B2
This application discloses systems, devices, and methods for indoor navigation and tracking with a mesh network. In one aspect, a navigation device includes a receiver configured to receive a locational signal from a node network. The locational signal identifies a respective node of the node network, and the node network is distributed throughout a physical space. The navigation device includes a memory storing a program and a processor in communication with the receiver and configured to execute the program to calculate a position of the navigation device from the identity of the respective node, determine a routing instruction from the position of the navigation device to a destination based on the position of the navigation device and a known mapping of the node network in the physical space, and update the position of the navigation device and the routing instruction as the navigation device moves through the physical space.
US11758363B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may receive positioning information for a first user equipment (UE), the first UE supporting sidelink communications via a sidelink interface with one or more roadside units. The base station may identify that a second UE is associated with the first UE, the association between the first UE and the second UE satisfying a threshold and the second UE supporting sidelink-assisted positioning. The base station may provide, to a network entity, a message indicating the positioning information for the first UE and identifying the first UE and the second UE.
US11758361B2
Techniques for locating a user device in an indoor environment include receiving an indication of an acceleration event at a start position and a deceleration event associated with the user device. Based at least on the amount of time elapsed between the acceleration event and the deceleration event, a traveled distance of the user device may be determined. Additionally, sensor data collected from the user device between the acceleration event and the deceleration event may be used to determine the direction of travel of the user device. Following the determination of the traveled distance and the direction of travel, a finish position relative to the start position of the user device in the indoor environment may be mapped using an architectural plan associated with the indoor environment.
US11758338B2
Disclosed herein, among other things, are systems and methods for authentication and encryption key exchange with an ALD for hearing device applications. A method includes receiving an acoustic input at a microphone of a hearing device, and receiving a wireless signal over a wireless link from an assistive listening device (ALD) at an antenna of the hearing device, the wireless signal including digital audio information. The acoustic input is compared to the digital audio information using a processor of the hearing device. Upon determining that the acoustic input and the digital audio information are correlated at a threshold level, the processor is used to create and distribute an encryption key to the ALD to secure the wireless link. The ALD may include a processor for correlating the input and the information, and for creating and distributing the encryption key, in some embodiments.
US11758331B2
A balanced vibration system including a magnetic circuit unit, a vibration unit and a casing. The magnetic circuit unit and the vibration unit are inside the casing. The vibration unit includes a balanced iron core and a vibrating diaphragm; the balanced iron core is movably connected with the casing, the vibrating diaphragm is fixed on the casing, and the balanced iron core drives the vibrating diaphragm; the magnetic circuit unit includes a magnetic circuit coil and magnet groups, the magnetic circuit coil is sleeved on the balanced iron core, and the two magnet groups are respectively located at ends of the balanced iron core along an axial direction; each magnet group includes magnets which are arranged oppositely at both sides of the balanced iron core; when the magnetic circuit coil is ON, magnetic field forces applied by the two magnet groups to the balanced iron core are same in direction.
US11758327B2
The present application discloses playback devices and networks, software for operating playback devices and playback device networks, and methods of operating playback devices and networks, where an individual network device is configured to switch between operating various operating modes comprising a non-paired mode and a paired mode, where the playback device is configured to output various channels of audio content within various audio frequency ranges while operating in the various operating modes.
US11758323B2
The improved active noise cancellation system for forced air heating or cooling systems onboard aircraft employs a duct having a proximal end coupled to the fan unit to entrain the airflow stream in the direction of a distal end of the duct. A reference sensor is positioned within the proximal end of the duct. A means is provided for injecting an audio frequency control signal into the airflow stream in a manner that does not substantially impede the airflow stream. An error sensor is positioned at the distal end of the duct where it is responsive to sounds carried by the airflow stream, including the audio frequency control signal. An electronic circuit coupled to the reference sensor and to the error sensor supplies a noise abating control signal to energize the control transducer and thereby substantially reduce at least one noise harmonic of the fan unit through destructive interference.
US11758322B2
A sound pickup method includes splitting a sound pickup signal of a microphone of which sound pickup in a predetermined range is blocked by an acoustic obstacle, into a plurality of sound pickup signals and subjecting at least one sound pickup signal among the plurality of sound pickup signals to band limitation processing, and comparing characteristic amounts of the plurality of sound pickup signals including the sound pickup signal after being subjected to the band limitation processing and controlling a gain of the microphone in accordance with a result of comparing the characteristic amounts.
US11758321B2
Provided is a speaker box, including housing and sounding unit having diaphragm including vibration portion and suspension portion. The housing includes holder, lower and upper covers. The holder includes holder body, holder extension portion and holder fixing portion. The sounding unit is fixed to the holder fixing portion. Orthographic projection of the vibration portion completely falls into the holder body. The suspension portion is arc-shaped formed by recessing away from the holder body. The lower cover includes lower cover plate and lower cover sidewall. The sounding unit, the holder and the lower cover sidewall define front sound cavity. The sounding unit and the lower cover define rear sound cavity. The lower cover sidewall, the holder fixing portion, the holder extension portion and the upper cover define auxiliary rear sound cavity communicated with the rear sound cavity. The speaker box has large cavity volume and good acoustic performance.
US11758312B2
A sound producing package structure includes a first sub-package structure and a second sub-package structure. The first sub-package structure includes a first substrate having a first opening and a first chip including a first membrane, wherein a first cavity is formed between the first membrane and the first substrate. The first sub-package structure and the second sub-package structure are stacked, and the second sub-package structure includes a second substrate and a second chip. The second substrate is connected to the first substrate and has a second opening. The second chip includes a second membrane, wherein a second cavity is formed between the second membrane and the second substrate. A gap, connected to the first opening and the second opening, is formed between the first substrate and the second substrate, such that an ambient of the sound producing package structure, the first cavity and the second cavity are connected.
US11758309B2
An antenna includes: a dielectric substrate; a conductive plane formed on a back surface of the dielectric substrate; a radiating element having a linear shape and formed on a front surface of the dielectric substrate; a shorting pin connecting one end of the radiating element to the conductive plane; and a power supply pin that is connected to the radiating element, at a point a predetermined distance away from the one end to which the shorting pin is connected, through a hole provided in the conductive plane, and that supplies a transmission signal to the radiating element. A radio wave is emitted from the radiating element.
US11758305B2
The present disclosure relates to a comparator, an AD converter, a solid-state imaging device, an electronic apparatus, and a comparator control method that can reduce power consumption while increasing the determination speed of the comparator. The comparator includes a comparison unit, a positive feedback circuit, and a current limiting unit. The comparison unit compares the voltage of an input signal and the voltage of a reference signal, and outputs a comparison result signal. The positive feedback circuit increases the transition speed at the time when the comparison result signal is inverted. The current limiting unit limits the current flowing in the comparison unit after the inversion of the comparison result signal. The present disclosure can be applied to comparators, for example.
US11758303B2
To divide an image capture region into multiple regions for which different image capture conditions are set and to generate multiple moving images corresponding to the multiple regions. An electronic apparatus includes an image sensor that captures first and second moving images in first and second regions of an image capture region on different image capture conditions, the second region differing from the first region, and a moving image generation unit that generates the first and second moving images captured in the first and second regions.
US11758302B2
An imaging device includes a controller, a power supply, a regulator, and a switch. The controller is configured to control an imaging unit, on the basis of a command and data that are received from a host in accordance with an I2C/I3C communication protocol. The power supply is configured to supply a voltage to a digital block of the controller. The digital block is configured to be subjected to dynamic voltage frequency scaling within one-frame operation. The regulator and the switch are provided between the digital block and the power supply, and coupled in parallel with each other.
US11758300B2
An imaging device includes a plurality of unit pixels or pixels, with each pixel separated from every other unit pixel by an isolation structure. Each unit pixel includes a photoelectric conversion unit, a pixel imaging signal readout circuit, and an address event detection readout circuit. A first transfer transistor selectively connects the photoelectric conversion unit to the pixel imaging signal readout circuit, and a second transfer transistor selectively connects the photoelectric conversion unit to the address event detection readout circuit. The photoelectric conversion unit, the pixel imaging signal readout circuit, the address event detection readout circuit, and the first and second transfer transistors for a given pixel are located within a pixel area defined by the isolation structure. The isolation structure may be in the form of a full thickness dielectric trench isolation structure.
US11758295B2
Methods, systems, and media for generating compressed images are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: identifying a multi-plane image, MPI, that represents a three-dimensional image, wherein the MPI comprises a plurality of fronto-parallel planes; splitting the MPI into a plurality of sub-volumes, wherein each sub-volume in the plurality of sub-volumes includes a subset of the plurality of fronto-parallel planes; calculating, for each sub-volume of the MPI, a depthmap; converting each depthmap to a mesh, wherein each mesh corresponds to a layer of a plurality of layers associated with a multi-depth image, MDI, to be rendered; calculating, for each layer of the plurality of layers, an image; and storing the meshes corresponding to the plurality of layers of the MDI and the images corresponding to the plurality of layers of the MDI as the MDI.
US11758291B2
A device and method used to image wells and other fluid-carrying tubulars having localized features of interest. The device scans large areas of the tubular first in a low-resolution mode, then identifies areas that contain those localized features with some probability. The device images the identified areas in a high-resolution mode and stores the images for further image processing. The device may comprise two sensors axially spaced-apart on the device, which sensors may be electromagnetic, acoustic, or cameras.
US11758289B2
A method for image processing includes the following. A first image is obtained by exposing the pixel array. A second image is obtained by converting the panchromatic image pixels in the first image into first-color image pixels. A third image is obtained by converting the second-color image pixel and the third-color image pixel in the second image into first-color image pixels. A second-color intermediate image and a third-color intermediate image are obtained by processing the third image according to the first image. A target image is obtained by merging the third image, the second-color intermediate image, and the third-color intermediate image.
US11758276B2
An exposure control apparatus accepts a specification of a shutter speed, determines, based on the specified shutter speed, a first accumulation time in which an image sensor accumulates a charge for image capture during a live view, determines, based on the specified shutter speed, a second accumulation time in which the image sensor accumulates a charge for image capture when obtaining a still image; and controls the image sensor to accumulate a charge over the first accumulation time or the second accumulation time. The accumulation time that can be set in the image sensor differs between during the live view and when obtaining a still image, and the first determination unit varies a method of determining the first accumulation time according to whether or not the specified shutter speed is longer than a predetermined shutter speed.
US11758274B2
A vehicular camera module includes a main circuit board electrically connected with an imager circuit board via a flexible ribbon cable. Electronic circuitry disposed at a main PCB of the main circuit board includes an image processor. With the imager operated to capture image data, captured image data is provided via the flexible ribbon cable to the electronic circuitry disposed at the main PCB of the main circuit board. The electronic circuitry disposed at the main PCB of the main circuit board includes an electrical connector configured for electrical connection to a connector of a vehicular wire harness. Electrical components disposed at a first side of the main PCB of the main circuit board, electrical components disposed at a second side of the main PCB of the main circuit board, and the electrical connector are electrically operatively coupled together by conductive traces and vias of the main PCB.
US11758272B2
An apparatus includes a camera for capturing an image at a first moment; a range finder for measuring a distance to an object at a center of the image; a rotatable mounting platform, fixedly hosting the camera and the range finder; and a controller. The controller is configured to receive the captured image and the measured distance; determine whether a target of interest (TOI) appears in the image; in response to determining a TOI appearing in the image, determine whether the TOI appears at the center of the image; calculate position parameters of the rotatable mounting platform for centering the TOI in an image to be captured at a second moment, separated from the first moment by a pre-determined time interval; control the rotatable mounting platform to rotate according to the calculated position parameters; and calculate and store the position parameters of the TOI with respect to the apparatus.
US11758270B2
A shake correction control device includes a processor that selects mechanical correction of mechanically performing shake correction of a subject image or electronic correction of electronically performing the shake correction of the subject image. The processor performs a switching control from either of the mechanical correction or the electronic correction to the other of the mechanical correction or the electronic correction, and synchronizes shake correction operations of the mechanical correction and the electronic correction during the switching control, and changes an operation ratio of the mechanical correction and the electrical correction during the switching control.
US11758269B2
An electronic apparatus suppressed in occurrence of lowering of focus adjustment accuracy in a case where an occlusion area exists in an object area. An image is acquired which is captured using an image capturing device including a plurality of photoelectric converters to which are incident light fluxes via exit pupils of an image capturing optical system pupil-divided in first and second directions. An object and occlusion areas of the object are detected from the image. Focus adjustment is controlled based on phase difference information, according to a direction of distribution of the occlusion areas.
US11758257B2
A circuit, e.g., a CMOS sensor, with individually addressable transfer transistors and individually addressable reset transistors is described. Through the individually addressable transistors, pixels within different regions of interest, of the same or different size and/or the same or different exposure times, can be efficiently processed. Different regions of interest may be exposed concurrently and read out independently.
US11758247B2
A depth acquisition device includes memory and processor performing: acquiring, from the memory, intensities of infrared light emitted from a light source and measured by imaging with the infrared light reflected on a subject by pixels in an imaging element; generating a depth image by calculating a distance to the subject as a depth for each pixel based on an intensity received by the pixel; acquiring, from the memory, a visible light image generated by imaging, with visible light, a substantially same scene with a substantially same viewpoint and at a substantially same timing as those of imaging the infrared light image; detecting, from the visible light image, an edge region including an edge along a direction perpendicular to a direction of movement of the visible light image; and correcting, in the depth image, a depth of a target region corresponding to the edge region in the depth image.
US11758246B2
The technology disclosed relates to filling video ad requests with video ad content that begins in a format incompatible with the mobile device that is requesting the ad content. In particular, it relates to accessing available on ad content, transcoding the ad content to a video stream and publishing the video stream to the mobile device that requested the head content. This sometimes requires synchronization between a player on the mobile device and the video stream transcoder.
US11758240B2
A system for integrating video content and data provision includes an upstream signal path to process upstream data traffic received from a first transmission network for transmission to a second transmission network, and a downstream signal path to process downstream data traffic and downstream video traffic for transmission from the second transmission network to the first transmission network. The upstream signal path includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and an upstream demodulator, and the downstream signal path includes an Ethernet processor, a digital-signal-processor (DSP) and a digital-to-analog converter (DAC).
US11758228B2
Methods, systems, and media for modifying the presentation of video content on a user device based on a consumption mode of the user device are provided. In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises: receiving, from a user device, a request to present a video content item, wherein the video content item includes an audio portion; identifying a segment of the audio portion as including a particular type of audio content (e.g., silent content, music content, speech content, theatrical content, non-musical content, etc.); determining a consumption mode associated with the user device; generating a modified video content item based on the consumption mode associated with the user device by removing a portion of the video content item that corresponds to the segment of the audio portion identified as including the particular type of audio content; and causing the modified video content item to be presented on the user device.
US11758220B2
A method and system for controlling whether to have a content-presentation device dynamically replace a modifiable content segment, such as a replaceable ad, that is upcoming on a channel being received by the content-presentation device. An example method includes a computing system determining, based on objectionable-content data established from user input and/or channel-changing history, whether the modifiable content segment is objectionable as to the content-presentation device. And the example method then includes, based at least on the determination of whether the determined modifiable content segment is objectionable as to the content-presentation device, the computing system controlling whether to have the content-presentation device dynamically replace the modifiable content segment with a replacement content segment.
US11758214B2
Disclosed herein are playback devices, groups of playback devices, and methods of operating playback devices and groupings thereof, wherein individual playback devices are configured to detect and correct clock rate drift by synchronizing a clock rate and perhaps clock time of a local clock to a remote time source.
US11758213B2
Disclosed is a display apparatus including: a display; a communicator; a storage; and a processor configured to obtain state information about one or more electronic apparatuses, select a first electronic apparatus, among the one or more electronic apparatuses, based on the obtained state information of the first electronic apparatus satisfying a predetermined criteria, transmit a connection request signal to the first electronic apparatus through the communicator along with information about a function to be performed by the display apparatus based on a user input, connect with the first electronic apparatus and receive a user input from the first electronic apparatus through the communicator, and execute the function based on the received user input.
US11758207B2
The invention relates to a method for packaging media and data for transmission over a broadband communications network link for display at a terminal destination. Features of the method included creating desired media segments for transmission to the terminal destination and for creating targeting information, for example in whole or in part in the form of metadata, for transmission to the terminal destination. Other features include packaging the created media segments and the created targeting information in a single package and unpacking the single package for display of the targeted media at the terminal destination. In another aspect, the invention can provide a method for unpacking media and data for display at a terminal destination implementing, at the terminal destination, receiving a single package containing media segments and instructions regarding handling of the media segments, quickly unpacking the media segments and the instructions from the single package and, based on the unpacked instructions, assembling one or more of the media segments for display at the terminal destination.
US11758206B1
Methods and apparatus are described for encoding and delivering secondary content (e.g., advertisements) for insertion in primary content (e.g., live events, movies, and television shows). Secondary content is encoded such that the duration of any audio component of the secondary content is equal to or longer than the video component duration. When the secondary content is inserted, the overall duration of the inserted content is specified to be equal to the video component duration.
US11758190B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for image data encoding/decoding. A method of decoding an image includes receiving a bitstream in which the image is encoded; obtaining index information for specifying a block division type of a current block in the image; and determining the block division type of the current block from a candidate group pre-defined in the decoding apparatus. The candidate group includes a plurality of candidate division types, including at least one of a non-division, a first quad-division, a second quad-division, a binary-division or a triple-division. The method also includes dividing the current block into a plurality of sub-blocks; and decoding each of the sub-blocks with reference to syntax information obtained from the bitstream.
US11758183B2
Devices, systems and methods for digital video coding, which includes matrix-based intra prediction methods for video coding, are described. In a representative aspect, a method for video processing includes performing a first determination whether a luma video block of a video is coded using a matrix based intra prediction (MIP) mode; performing a second determination that the luma video block is applicable for determining a chroma intra mode for a current chroma video block of the video; performing, based on the first determination and the second determination, a third determination about the chroma intra mode to be used for the current chroma video block; and performing, based on the third determination, a conversion between the current chroma video block and a bitstream representation of the current chroma video block.
US11758177B2
Devices, systems and methods for coding video using one or more tables to store motion information and process subsequent blocks are described. In one aspect, a video coding method is provided to include deriving motion information for a first video block which is coded using an intra block copy mode, wherein one or more candidates of one or more tables are selectively checked during a motion candidate list construction process which is used to derive the motion information for the first video block, wherein each table of the one or more tables includes motion candidates derived from previously coded video blocks that are coded prior to the first video block; and coding, based on the motion information, the first video block.
US11758168B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods, apparatuses, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for video encoding and video decoding. An apparatus for video decoding can include processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to decode neural network update information in a coded bitstream for at least one neural network in the video decoder. The at least one neural network is configured with a set of pretrained parameters, and the neural network update information indicates a first modification parameter. The processing circuitry is configured to update the set of pretrained parameters in the at least one neural network in the video decoder based on the first modification parameter. The processing circuitry is configured to decode an encoded image based on the updated at least one neural network.
US11758167B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for video coding. The apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry can determine a subblock-based merge mode used to code a current block in a current picture. The processing circuitry can partition the current block into a plurality of subblocks based on the subblock-based merge mode. The processing circuitry can determine that decoder-side motion vector refinement (DMVR) is to be applied to one of the plurality of subblocks in the current block based on a mode type of the subblock-based merge mode. The processing circuitry can encode information indicating the subblock-based merge mode in a bitstream.
US11758163B2
A method for decoding a compressed video bit stream in a video decoder to recover a video sequence, the video decoder including a plurality of decoder processing cores is provided. The method includes determining that a picture is encoded in the compressed bit stream as a pre-determined number of independently encoded sub-pictures, and dispatching a first encoded sub-picture of the pre-determined number of sub-pictures to a first decoder processing core of the plurality of decoder processing cores and a second encoded sub-picture of the pre-determined number of sub-pictures to a second decoder processing core of the plurality of decoder processing cores, wherein the first encoded sub-picture and the second encoded sub-picture are independently decoded in parallel on the respective first and second decoder processing cores.
US11758158B2
The image decoding method includes: determining a context for use in a current block to be processed, from among a plurality of contexts; and performing arithmetic decoding on a bit sequence corresponding to the current block, using the determined context, wherein in the determining: the context is determined under a condition that control parameters of neighboring blocks of the current block are used, when the signal type is a first type, the neighboring blocks being a left block and an upper block of the current block; and the context is determined under a condition that the control parameter of the upper block is not used, when the signal type is a second type, and the second type is one of “ref_idx_l0” and “ref_idx_l1”.
US11758156B2
Described are a method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for block modulating video and image compression. Different masks may be imposed on different blocks of an image and then the blocks summed to one block. In some embodiments, an encoder complexity of the encoder may be O(1). A method can be carried out that includes dividing an input image into a plurality of blocks; assigning different masks to each respective image block of the plurality of image blocks, the different masks having a size equal to that of each respective image block of the plurality of image blocks; modulating each respective image block of the plurality of blocks the assigned different masks to generate a plurality of modulated image blocks; summing the modulated plurality of blocks to at least one summed block; and quantizing the at least one summed block.
US11758155B2
An image decoding method of decoding, on a block-by-block basis, image data included in a coded stream includes: deriving candidates for an intra prediction mode to be used for intra prediction for a decoding target block, the number of the candidates constantly being a plural number; obtaining, from the coded stream, an index for identifying one of the derived candidates for the intra prediction mode; and determining, based on the obtained index, one of the derived candidates for the intra prediction mode as the intra prediction mode to be used for intra prediction for the decoding target block.
US11758153B2
A method of decoding JVET video, comprising receiving a bitstream indicating how a coding tree unit was partitioned into coding units according to a partitioning structure that allows nodes to be split according to a partitioning technique. An intra direction mode for a coding unit may be selected, as well as one or more of the plurality of reference lines to generate at least one predictor for the intra direction mode. A predictor may be generated from reference samples within each selected reference line by combining predicted pixel values based on a projected position on a main reference line in combination with predicted pixel values based on a projected position on a side reference line. The predicted pixel values are weighted according to a weight parameter, wherein the weight parameter is determined based on a shift conversion factor.
US11758150B2
An image decoding method according to the present disclosure includes determining a reference pixel line of a current block, determining an intra prediction mode of the current block and deriving a prediction sample of the current block based on the intra prediction mode and a reference pixel included in the reference pixel line. In this case, the prediction sample is determined based on a prediction angle of the intra prediction mode and an inverse-angle variable derived based on the prediction angle. And when the prediction angle has a predefined value, the inverse-angle variable is set as a default value.
US11758146B2
In various embodiments, an encoding optimization application positions key frames within encoded video sequences based on shot changes. The encoding optimization application determines key frame location(s) based on shot change(s) included in a source video sequence associated with a media title. Each key frame location is associated with a different frame included in the source video sequence. For each of the key frame location(s), the encoding optimization application configures an encoding application to encode a frame of video content located at the key frame location as a key frame when performing encoding operations. Subsequently, the encoding optimization application causes the encoding application to perform encoding operation(s) on the source video sequence to generate a first encoded video sequence. During playback, the media title is switchable between a decoded version of the first encoded video sequence and a decoded version of a second encoded video sequence at the key frame location(s).
US11758139B2
The present disclosure relates to an image processing device and method that enable suppression of an increase in the amount of coding of a quantization matrix. An image processing device of the present disclosure includes an up-conversion unit configured to up-convert a quantization matrix limited to a size less than or equal to a transmission size that is a maximum size allowed for transmission, from the transmission size to a size that is identical to a block size that is a processing unit of quantization or dequantization. The present disclosure is applicable to, for example, an image processing device for processing image data.
US11758136B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding a video image based on transform. The method for decoding a video includes: determining a transform mode of a current block; inverse-transforming residual data of the current block according to the transform mode of the current block; and rearranging the inverse-transformed residual data of the current block according to the transform mode of the current block, wherein the transform mode includes at least one of SDST (Shuffling Discrete Sine Transform), SDCT (Shuffling Discrete cosine Transform), DST (Discrete Sine Transform) or DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform).
US11758135B2
An encoder system may include an analyzer that analyzes a current image area in an input video to select a transform. A selectable residue transformer, controlled by the analyzer, may perform the selectable transform on a residue image generated from the current image area and a predicted current image area, to generate a transformed residue image. An encoder may encode the transformed residue image to generate output data. The analyzer controls the encoder to encode information to identify the selectable transform and to indicate that the selectable transform for the current image area is different from a transform of a previous image area of the input video. A decoder system may include components appropriate for decoding the output data from the encoder system.
US11758131B2
Methods and apparatuses for applying a deblocking to a coding unit in video pictures. In one aspect, the deblocking is applied to sub-block boundaries in the coding unit and to implicit transform unit boundaries in the coding unit.
US11758130B2
This application provides a video picture decoding and encoding method and a video picture decoding and encoding apparatus. When it is determined that a merge or skip mode is used, if it is determined through decoding that a merge mode with motion vector difference (MMVD) indicator is true, a triangle prediction unit (PU) indicator may not be coded. The triangle PU indicator is coded when it is determined through decoding that the MMVD indicator is false. This reduces a quantity of used coding resources, and can reduce bit overheads of a bitstream.
US11758129B2
A merge candidate list is generated, a merge candidate is selected from the merge candidate list as a merge candidate, a bitstream is decoded to derive a motion vector difference, and a corrected merge candidate is derived by adding the motion vector difference to a motion vector of the selected merge candidate for a first prediction without scaling and subtracting the motion vector difference from a motion vector of the selected merge candidate for a second prediction without scaling.
US11758126B2
A method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a video unit of a video and a coded representation of the video using at least a video picture. Only one of a sub-picture coding mode or a resolution-changing coding mode is enabled for the video unit. The sub-picture coding mode is a mode in which the video picture is divided into multiple sub-pictures, and the resolution-changing coding mode is a mode in which a resolution of the video picture is adjusted during the conversion.
US11758119B2
A system for displaying a stereo image is disclosed. The system includes a stereoscopic head up display (HUD) that includes a combiner and a display configured to display a stereo image. The system further includes either a head tracking sensor or an eye tracking sensor configured to generate a tracking dataset. The system further includes a processor and a memory with instructions that cause the processor to receive the tracking dataset, generate a distortion map based on the tracking dataset and a distortion function, receive a media stereo image, generate a stereo signal based on the distortion map and the media stereo image, and transmit the stereo signal to the display. The system is capable of conveying an image to an operator in the absence of a relay lens.
US11758117B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure propose a method for controlling projection of a projection module, a projection system and a storage medium. The method for controlling projection of the projection module includes: obtaining a projection environment where the projection module is located, and determining a position of a target person according to the projection environment; and planning the best projection position in the projection environment according to the projection environment and the position of the target person. The best projection position in the projection environment is planned according to the position of the target person, so that the projection picture projected by the projection module can be adaptively changed along the position of the target person to fit with the current status of the target person to improve the perception experience of the user.
US11758114B2
A virtual 3D display for a motor vehicle includes a substrate and a flexible display positioned on the substrate. The flexible display has two foldable sections and a main section. The main section provides a shared viewing area and each of the foldable sections provides a first and a second independent viewing area.
US11758113B2
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels each including a light emitting layer, and a stereoscopic lens including a curved base disposed on a surface of the display panel with a predetermined radius of curvature, and a plurality of lenses disposed on the curved base and inclined from a side of the display panel. A thickness of the curved base of the stereoscopic lens increases as a distance from a center of the stereoscopic lens increases.
US11758107B2
A method of providing adaptive augmented reality (AR) streaming and an apparatus performing the method are disclosed. An AR streaming method includes identifying an AR content to be displayed, obtaining a metafile corresponding to the AR content, extracting information of chunks to render the AR content from the metafile, requesting the chunks based on the information, receiving the requested chunks, and rendering the AR content based on the received chunks.
US11758105B2
A system and method for providing immersive video based on gaze vector information. A gaze vector is obtained from a client device operating to display an immersive video asset to a user, wherein each video frame comprises an array of tiles projected on a 3-dimensional (3D) display environment viewed by the user in which the user is immersed, the gaze vector defining a gaze direction in the 3D display environment where the user is viewing (i.e., a viewport) at any particular time. Angular separations between the viewport and remaining portions of the video frame are used in selecting different video qualities of the immersive video asset such that the viewport comprises a higher video quality than the remaining portions when displayed by the client device.
US11758102B2
A display device is mounted on a vehicle. The display device comprises a display unit and a control unit A virtual screen is a two-dimensional plane at a predetermined distance away from an origin of a XYZ coordinate system along a Y coordinate axis, and is approximately parallel to an XZ plane defined by an X coordinate axis and a Z coordinate axis. The control unit is configured to calculate coordinates of a second point obtained as a result of projecting a first point in the XYZ coordinate system onto the virtual screen, convert the calculated coordinates of the second point into coordinates according to a display mode of the display unit, and cause the display unit to display an image corresponding to the second point at the converted coordinates.
US11758099B2
The disclosure provides an image blending method. The method includes projecting a plurality of images onto a projection surface, respectively, wherein an image of the first portion of the first image and an image of the first portion of the second image projected onto the projection surface overlap each other in the first overlapping area on the projection surface; the image parameters of all pixels of the first non-overlapping area and the second non-overlapping area are adjusted according to the position of the first non-overlapping area and the position of the second non-overlapping area, such that the black-level brightness of the first non-overlapping image in the first non-overlapping area of the first image and the black-level brightness of the second non-overlapping image in the second non-overlapping area of the second image are close to the black-level brightness of the first overlapping image in the first overlapping area.
US11758097B2
Provided is a method for transmitting video signals, including: receiving an input video signal provided by a source, wherein the input video signal includes an image signal and a source timing signal; generating a pulse synchronization signal based on the source timing signal and an output frame rate, wherein the output frame rate is a frame rate of outputting the image signal to a display module, and a cycle of the pulse synchronization signal is an integer multiple of a cycle of the source timing signal, and is an integer multiple of a cycle corresponding to the output frame rate; generating an output timing signal based on the pulse synchronization signal; and transmitting an output video signal to the display module, wherein the output video signal includes the image signal and the output timing signal.
US11758091B2
Provided is a food monitoring apparatus including at least one light source configured to selectively radiate light of a first wavelength band and light of a second wavelength band that is different from the first wavelength band to food, at least one image sensor configured to obtain a visible image of the food and a hyperspectral image of the food based on light scattered, emitted, or reflected from the food, and at least one processor configured to obtain first information of the food based on the visible image, and to obtain second information of the food based on the first information and the hyperspectral image.
US11758086B2
One example method for conducting a conference between conference participants includes obtaining a scene layout for the conference, the scene layout comprising a plurality of video areas that are each assigned to a respective display video stream from one of the conference participants, and the scene layout forming a common visual presentation for the conference; receiving video streams from one or more of the conference participants; and displaying the scene layout, wherein the video streams from the conference participants are displayed in their respective assigned video areas.
US11758083B1
A conferencing system terminal device includes a communication device electronically in communication with a content presentation companion device operating as a primary display for the conferencing system terminal device during a videoconference. An image capture device of the conferencing system terminal device captures one or more images of a subject for presentation on the content presentation companion device. One or more processors apply a mirroring function to the one or more images of the subject when operating in a normal videoconference mode of operation and, in response to one or more sensors detecting an initiation of a demonstration operation by the subject, transition to a demonstration videoconference mode of operation where application of the mirroring function to the one or more images of the subject is precluded.
US11758077B1
Disclosed is a system (100) comprising server(s) (102) communicably coupled to devices (104a, 104b, 202a-202c). Server(s) is/are configured to: receive depth information generated by said device using active illuminator and active sensor; detect when at least two devices are in same surroundings, based on at least partial matching of depth information received from at least two devices; and send instructions to at least two devices to generate new depth information by: controlling active illuminator (106a) of one of at least two devices (104a, 202a) to project sequence of light patterns on same surroundings, whilst switching off active illuminator (106b) of another of at least two devices (104b, 202b), and controlling first active sensor (108a) of one of at least two devices and second active sensor (108b) of another of at least two devices to sense simultaneously reflections of sequence of light patterns.
US11758074B2
A system is disclosed. The system includes at least one physical memory device to store calibration logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device to execute the calibration logic to receive an image having a blended input color comprising a first primary color value and a second primary color value, generate blend weights for the blended input color based on the first primary color value and the second primary color value, receive a plurality of transfer functions corresponding to each of the first primary color value and the second primary color values and apply the blend weights and the plurality of transfer functions to the first primary color value and the second primary color value to generate a uniformity corrected first primary color value and a uniformity corrected second primary color value associated with the blended input color.
US11758071B1
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing identification and removal of noise from documents, and, more particularly, to methods, systems, and apparatuses for implementing identification and removal of noise from financial documents using one or more machine learning algorithms. In various embodiments, computing system might receive a document. The computing system might detect, using one or more machine learning algorithms, that noise exists in the document. Based on the detection that noise exists in the document, the computing system might remove the noise from the document. Once the noise is removed from the document, the computing system might generate a copy of the document with the noise removed while retaining important or useful information contained in the document.
US11758066B2
An FFC coupling a sensor substrate and an AFE substrate includes a configuration in which a ground line is sandwiched between a first lead wire and a second lead wire that are signal lines that transmit a read signal from the sensor substrate to the AFE substrate, and includes a configuration in which a third lead wire having a smaller voltage change than the signal line is sandwiched between two signal lines that are at least one set other than a set of the first lead wire and the second lead wire, wherein each of the signal lines is coupled to a ground pattern of the sensor substrate and is coupled to a ground pattern of the AFE substrate, and the third lead wire is coupled to a ground pattern of the sensor substrate and is coupled to a ground pattern of the AFE substrate.
US11758062B1
According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a housing, a first sensor configured to detect a user in front of the housing, an illumination light configured to emit light in an illumination direction, and an opening and closing element configured to open and close a portion of the housing. A second sensor is configured to detect the opening and the closing of the opening and closing element. An adjuster is configured to change a detection distance of the first sensor and the illumination direction in conjunction with each other by physical movement. A controller is configured to turn on the illumination light when the opening and closing element is open, and turn off the illumination light when is closed.
US11758060B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, an information processing apparatus comprises receiving a selection of a channel for a destination of a document image, obtaining information of users belonging to the channel for the destination from an information sharing service, displaying a button for each of the obtained information of users on a screen, and if the button is pressed, displaying a message including a user corresponding to the pressed button as a recipient in an input field of the screen, and transmitting the message inputted on the screen and the document image to the channel of the information sharing service.
US11758048B2
Provided herein are methods, systems, computing devices, and/or computing entities for generating a performance metric recommendation by generating an agent group data object for an agent profile; generating an agent assessment data object for the agent profile; generating an inferred performance gap data object for the agent profile; and generating the performance metric recommendation based at least in part on the inferred performance gap data object.
US11758045B2
Systems and methods for processing emergency communications are provided. A system may receive an emergency communication initiated by an emergency communicator. The system may detect a data field action in response to an emergency receiver entering a data input based on the emergency communication. The system may capture a timestamp of when the data field action occurred. The system may generate a communication snippet based on the action timestamp and a snippet length. The communication snippet may be configured to provide context from the emergency communication to the data input. The system may transmit the communication snippet and the data input to an emergency responder.
US11758042B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for indicating callers for incoming voice calls to a shared device among multiple users. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions receiving an incoming voice call, determining a calling number and a called number from the incoming voice call, identifying a user account that corresponds to the called number, determining a contact name for the calling number based on contact entries for the user account, and providing the audible contact name for output to the device speaker.
US11758039B1
Embodiments described herein disclose methods and systems for providing selective data access to representatives. In some embodiments, the system can monitor a call between a user and a representative regarding a subject matter. The user can have an associated profile with data, and the data can be locked such that the representative cannot access the data. During the conversation between the representative and the user, the system can continuously convert both parties' speech into text. The system can determine an intent of the call based on the text and unlock a portion of the data about the user based on the determined intent of the call. Only the unlocked portion of the data is displayed to the representative.
US11758032B2
An electronic device according to various embodiments of the disclosure may include a first housing structure, a second housing structure arranged adjacent to the first housing structure, a hinge structure arranged between the first housing structure and the second housing structure and providing a rotational movement between the first housing structure and the second housing structure, a flexible display extending from the first housing structure to the second housing structure, across the hinge structure, and at least one haptic actuator arranged in the hinge structure or adjacent to the hinge structure. The at least one haptic actuator may be arranged in parallel with the folding axis direction of the hinge structure so as to output vibrations corresponding to the folding axis.
US11758025B2
Techniques for using trace with tunnels and cloud-based systems for determining measures of network performance are presented. Systems and methods include obtaining policy information related to a trace; performing a plurality of traces, from a start point to an end point in a network, using the different protocols based on the policy information; evaluating which of the plurality of traces reach the end point, and evaluating any of average latency of the plurality of traces, average loss of the plurality of traces, and a number of hops found, for each of the plurality of traces that reach the end point; and selecting a protocol of the different protocols to use for the trace based on the evaluating. The different protocols include Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP), Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), and User Datagram Protocol (UDP).
US11758011B2
Methods, computer readable media, and devices for automated routing based on content metadata are provided. One method may include receiving a user request for content with metadata from a client by a content distribution network (CDN), parsing the user request for content to generate an evaluation of the metadata, determining a routing decision representing a selection of one of a plurality of origin services for the user request for content based on the evaluation of the metadata, transmitting the user request for content to the selected one of the plurality of origin services based on the routing decision, receiving a response to the user request for content from the selected one of the plurality of origin services, and sending the response to the client.
US11758010B1
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system transforms an application for a distributed computing environment. The system comprises one or more memories, and at least one processor coupled to the one or more memories. The system analyzes a description of user intent to extract information for transforming the application. The extracted information indicates functionalities for the distributed computing environment. A plurality of software artifacts of the application are mapped to the functionalities. The plurality of software artifacts form different groups of software artifacts. Remaining software artifacts of the application are assigned into the different groups based on a remaining software artifact corresponding to a mapped software artifact of a group. The different groups correspond to microservices for the distributed computing environment. The microservices for the distributed computing environment are presented based on the different groups.
US11758003B2
A process that includes establishing, with a first client computing device, a first peer-to-peer connection with a second client computing device. The process further includes determining, with the first client computing device, that a first media stream provided by the first client computing device satisfies at least one selective forwarding unit streaming condition, and providing, with the first client computing device and in response to the first media stream satisfying the at least one selective forwarding unit streaming condition, the first media stream to the second client computing device via a selective forwarding unit.
US11757998B2
A method to distribute and manage virtual reality (VR) content among a plurality of headsets can be provided by receiving VR experience configuration information from an administrator of a VR experience including VR content module information identifying the VR content modules to be executed during the VR experience, transmitting information over a network responsive to the VR experience configuration information to a plurality of headsets to operate the plurality of headsets as part of the VR experience subject to operating limitations of the VR content identified by the VR content module information, receiving information from the plurality of headsets relating to operation of the VR experience and, monitoring the information relating to operation of the VR experience relative to the limitations of the VR content identified by the VR content module information.
US11757996B2
A ceiling fan for a space is provided. The ceiling fan can include a first communication interface configured to provide communications between the ceiling fan and a plurality of peripheral devices over a local network. The ceiling fan can further include a second communication interface configured to provide communications between the ceiling fan and an external network. The ceiling fan can further include one or more control devices configured to provide one or more control signals to control operation of one or more of the peripheral devices.
US11757990B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments that perform data synchronization in a cloud computing environment are described. In one embodiment, a method includes maintaining a plurality of accounts within a cloud computing environment. In response to receiving a command to enable data synchronization for an account, a data synchronization condition is constructed to specify that a synchronization action will be triggered when data input by the account satisfies the data synchronization condition. Access to the account is monitored. In response to the access satisfying the data synchronization condition, the synchronization action is triggered to identify a second account with data corresponding to data input by the account. The synchronization action is executed to create a synchronization field in the second account and insert data of the account into the synchronization field.
US11757982B2
A technique performs load balancing self-adjustment within an application environment. The technique involves, while nodes of the application environment load balance traffic among clusters that provide services for an application in accordance with a first load balancing configuration, sensing application environment metrics. The technique further involves performing a self-adjustment operation that generates a second load balancing configuration based on the application environment metrics, the second load balancing configuration being different from the first load balancing configuration. The technique further involves deploying the second load balancing configuration among the nodes to enable the nodes to load balance the traffic among the clusters that provide the services for the application in accordance with second load balancing configuration in place of the first load balancing configuration.
US11757980B2
Examples described herein involve selecting a group coordinator device for a zone group. An example implementation includes: receiving an instruction to form a zone group comprising the first media device and the second media device; comparing a first one or more communication parameters corresponding to a network connection of the first media device to a second one or more communication parameters corresponding to a network connection of the second media device; identifying the first media device as a group coordinator of the zone group based on at least the indication that the first media device communicates with the router over the first communication frequency band; and configuring the first media device to provide data indicating audio content and audio content playback timing information to the second media device to facilitate synchronous playback of the audio content as the group coordinator of the zone group.
US11757979B2
To regulate information exchanges, provide personal security and enhance personal privacy inside and outside a network and to regulate devices. Provided is a personal bio-data mining and pairing method of a human user to one or more communications devices capable of functioning in a network cloud environment and, where the rules governing cloud organization and communications are based in part upon a human user bio-data and real world information exchanges commonly occurring at specific geographical locations.
US11757977B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for implementing rule-based triggering in a provider network are disclosed. When conditions are met for one or more triggers, one or more rules that comprise the one or more triggers are determined. The conditions are determined in a provider network comprising a plurality of resources. One or more actions are determined in the one or more rules that comprise the one or more triggers. The one or more actions are performed, comprising modifying one or more of the resources in the provider network.
US11757972B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide for methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer storage media, for adaptively routing web traffic. A system can receive from a user computing device accessing a web resource, a content request, including data characterizing user interaction by the user computing device with the web resource before or after receiving the first content request. The system can identify a policy from a plurality of policies to execute in accordance with one or more objectives, wherein the plurality of policies are generated using data from a plurality of content requests and data characterizing user interaction with the web resource after serving a respective response to each of the plurality of content requests. The system can perform, in response to the content request, one or more actions of the ranked list of actions of the identified policy.
US11757964B2
Techniques for serving a manifest file of an adaptive streaming video include receiving a request for the manifest file from a user device. The video is encoded at different reference bitrates and each encoded reference bitrate is divided into segments to generate video segment files. The manifest file includes an ordered list of universal resource locators (URLs) that reference a set of video segment files encoded at a particular reference bitrate. A source manifest file that indicates the set of video segment files is identified based on the request. An issued manifest file that includes a first URL and a second URL is generated based on the source manifest file. The first URL references a first domain and the second URL references a second domain that is different from the first domain. The issued manifest file is transmitted to the user device as a response to the request.
US11757962B2
A system and method for wirelessly transmitting audiovisual information. A first plurality of packets including audiovisual information may be generated. A second plurality of packets including error correction coding information for the audiovisual information may be generated. Control information for associating the error correction coding information with the audiovisual information may be generated, and a third plurality of packets including the control information may also be generated. The plurality of packets, including the first, second, and third pluralities of packets, may be transmitted to a mobile device in a wireless manner. The control information may inform the mobile device of the association of the first error correction coding information with the audiovisual information.
US11757959B2
Systems and methods for specifying a stream processing topology via a client-side API without server-side support. A schema may be generated by a client-side application using a query language and transmitted to a stream processor registry, wherein the schema defines a desired data stream. The stream processor registry, acting as a server-side run time corresponding to the query language, may store the schema as metadata. The stream processor registry may generate a stream processing topology based on the metadata to obtain data relevant to the data stream and generate a user-specific topic comprising the data relevant to the data stream. The stream processor registry may filter the data relevant to the data stream based a subscription call by the client to generate a target topic comprising portions of the data relevant to the data stream.
US11757957B2
One example method for controlling presentations in video conferences includes displaying, by a video conference application executing on a first client device, a first slide of a plurality of slides in a slide presentation as part of a visual display of a video conference on the first client device, receiving, by the video conference application executing on the first client device from the video conference application executing on a second client device, a command to display a second slide, wherein the command is issued by a first user of a plurality of users of the video conferencing application authorized to control the slide presentation; and displaying, by the video conference application executing on the first client, the second slide in response to receiving the command.
US11757956B2
Techniques for Internet (“over the top”) worldwide public chat capabilities matched to specified (“URL”) streaming content. The techniques augmented to allow interaction between users watching specified (“URL”) and non-specified (“Prenamed & hardcoded”) content by sending messages to other users in various ways such as: mentions ‘@user’, direct messages (privately end to end superficially hidden) ‘dm@user’ or general messages sent within the body of the chat window viewable to all. Users all around the world can opt to use a ‘watch together’ feature which either joins them to an existing room created from the specified content URL or creates a unique room dedicated to the specified content URL—and thus, connecting users who are watching the same content and allowing them to chat using either of the messaging interactions mentioned above.
US11757955B2
An information switching and sharing method, a device, an electronic apparatus, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: upon detecting a trigger operation of a link to a second page in a first page currently being shared, redirecting to the second page, wherein the first page is currently being displayed and sent to a client terminal of a recipient user, such that the client terminal of the recipient user displays the first page; and sharing the second page to the client terminal of the recipient user in a follow mode, such that the client terminal of the recipient user in the follow mode mirrors a display of the second page, wherein the follow mode follows a display of a current display page on a client terminal of a host sharing user.
US11757943B2
There is provided a wireless end-user device including a wireless wide area network (WWAN) modem, a memory storing a WWAN network access policy including one or more first policy instructions associated with a first software application, and one or more processors to provide, using the WWAN modem, one or more network data traffic flows between the wireless end-user device and the WWAN, associate the first software application with a first one of the one or more network data traffic flows, and when (i) the wireless end-user device communicates or attempts to communicate data over the WWAN, and (ii) the first software application is associated with the first one of the one or more network data traffic flows, apply the one or more first policy instructions associated with the first software application to the first one of the one or more network data traffic flows.
US11757941B2
A computer performs dynamic address isolation. The computer comprises an application associated with an application address, a network interface coupled to receive incoming data packets from and transmit outgoing data packets to an external network, a network address translation engine configured to translate between the application address and a public address, and a driver for automatically forwarding the outgoing data packets to the network address translation engine to translate the application address to the public address, and for automatically forwarding the incoming data packets to the network address translation engine to translate the public address to the application address. The computer may communicate with a firewall configured to handle both network-level security and application-level security.
US11757939B2
The concepts and technologies disclosed herein provide a network-assisted secure access (“NASA”) application that is installed on a user device. The NASA application can enhance current multi-factor authentication processes to prevent unauthorized access by leveraging mobile connectivity data. The enhanced two-factor authentication process is made seamless and transparent to the user by authenticating the mobile connectivity data with data known to the mobile network that serves the user device. The mobile connectivity data can include network-determined location, cell identifier (“cell ID”), Internet protocol (“IP”) address, a globally unique temporary identifier (“GUTI”), combinations thereof, and the like. Additionally or alternatively, one or more user profiles (e.g., user-defined and/or social media profile(s)) can be used to further enhance security. The enhanced two-factor authentication process can be executed at initial access to establish a secure connection and/or at any time during an established connection to ensure the connection remains secure.
US11757936B2
Techniques for providing a large scale high-interaction honeypot farm are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/method/computer program product for providing a large scale high-interaction honeypot farm includes sending traffic detected at a sensor to a smart proxy for a honeypot farm that is executed in a honeypot cloud, wherein the traffic is forwarded attack traffic that is sent using a tunneling protocol, and wherein the honeypot farm includes a plurality of container images of distinct types of vulnerable services; selecting a matching type of vulnerable service from the plurality of container images of distinct types of vulnerable services based on a profile of the attack traffic; forwarding the traffic to an instance of the matching type of vulnerable service; and executing a security agent associated with the instance of the matching type of vulnerable service to identify a threat by monitoring behaviors and detecting anomalies or post exploitation activities.
US11757928B2
The techniques described in this disclosure provide resilient and reactive on-demand Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) mitigation services using an exchange. For example, an exchange comprises a first virtual network for switching mixed traffic (including dirty (DDoS) traffic and clean (non-DDoS) traffic)) from one or more networks to one or more DDoS scrubbing centers; and a second virtual network for switching the clean traffic from the one or more DDoS scrubbing centers to the one or more networks, wherein the exchange is configured to receive the mixed traffic from the one or more networks and switch, using the first virtual network, the mixed traffic to a selected DDoS scrubbing center of the one or more DDoS scrubbing centers, and wherein the exchange is configured to receive the clean traffic from the selected DDoS scrubbing center and switch, using the second virtual network, the clean traffic to the one or more networks.
US11757917B2
The disclosure provides an approach for detecting and preventing attacks in a network. Embodiments include receiving network traffic statistics of a system. Embodiments include determining a set of features of the system based on the network traffic statistics. Embodiments include inputting the set of features to a classification model that has been trained using historical features associated with labels indicating whether the historical features correspond to attacks. Embodiments include receiving, as output from the classification model, an indication of whether the system is a target of an attack. Embodiments include receiving additional statistics related to the system. Embodiments include analyzing, in response to the indication that the system is the target of the attack, the additional statistics to identify a source of the attack. Embodiments include performing an action to prevent the attack based on the source of the attack.
US11757912B2
A computer-implemented method for protecting a processing environment from malicious incoming network traffic may be provided. The method comprises: in response to receiving incoming network traffic comprising a data packet, performing a packet and traffic analysis of the data packet to determine whether said data packet is non-malicious and malicious, and processing of the data packet in a sandbox environment. Furthermore, the method comprises: in response to detecting that the data packet is non-malicious based on the packet and traffic analysis, releasing the processed data packet from the sandbox environment for further processing in the processing environment, and in response to detecting that the data packet is malicious based on the packet and traffic analysis discarding the data packet.
US11757910B2
Mechanisms for detecting fraudulent activity based on hardware events are provided. In accordance with some embodiments of the disclosed subject matter, the method comprises: receiving a request for advertising content to be placed on a website; receiving data describing physical activity at one or more user input hardware devices; receiving data describing interactions with the website; correlating the data describing interactions with the website with the data describing physical activity at one or more user input hardware devices; determining whether at least a portion of the interactions with the website are indicative of fraudulent behavior based on the correlation; and responding to the request for advertising content on the website by inhibiting the advertising content to be transmitted to the website in response to the determination that at least a portion of the interactions with the website indicates fraudulent behavior.
US11757909B2
Methods and systems for generating a security policy at a gateway are disclosed. A server computer and a gateway can perform a protocol in order to train a security model at a gateway, such that it can detect attack packets and prevent those attack packets from reaching the server computer via the gateway. In a learning phase, the server computer can provide training packets and test packets to the gateway. The gateway can use the training packets to train a security model, and the gateway can classify the test packets using the security model in order to test its accuracy. When the server computer is satisfied with the accuracy of the security policy, the server computer can transmit an acceptance of the security policy to the gateway, which can subsequently deploy the model in order to detect and filter attack packets.
US11757908B2
The technology disclosed works in real time, as base and subordinate HTTP URL requests are received, to attribute subordinate HTTP URL requests to base web pages. The main case uses the “referer” or “referrer” HTTP header field for attribution, directly and through a referer hierarchy to the base web page. A second case, which minimizes false generation of base web page log entries, involves small files, such as cascading style sheets (CSS) files, that often have a blank or no referer field. The technology disclosed applies equivalently to hypertext transfer protocol secure (HTTPS) data (e.g., HTTPS transactions, requests, and/or events).
US11757898B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for parental controls based on the location of a wireless computing device. Wireless access points may be located in different locations, e.g., in different rooms of a home. The location of the wireless computing device may be determined based on comparing measured signal strengths to baseline signal strengths associated with the location. Information related to an access level associated with the location may be determined. The access level may, for example, permit access to content in a first location, but prevent access to the content in a second location. Content may be provided to the wireless computing device based on the access level associated with the location.
US11757894B2
Technologies for a distributed Internet of Things (IoT) system including a plurality of IoT devices are disclosed. An example first Internet of Things (IoT) device includes at least one processor to execute instructions to access a first message transmitted by a second IoT device, the first IoT device and second IoT device communicatively coupled via a direct communication, identify that the first message is indicative of an administrative event, the administrative event associated with a function of one or more of the first IoT device or the second IoT device, update a status of a system of IoT devices based on the administrative event, the system of IoT devices including the first IoT device and the second IoT device, and send a second message indicative of the administrative event to a universal bus.
US11757887B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide for centralized access permission management of a plurality of application instances. An example embodiment is configured to receive a manage access permissions request, cause rendering of a centralized access user interface, receive a domain access configuration request associated with a first domain, retrieve instance data associated with a plurality of application instances, cause rendering of a domain access configuration user interface associated with the first domain, receive a first product role selection request, generate a first domain permissions profile, the first domain permissions profile comprising at least a first product role associated with the first application instance, the first product role defining the role-based domain access permission of the first domain for accessing the first application instance, and store the first domain permissions profile in a permissions repository in association with the first domain and the first application instance.
US11757883B2
Techniques for sharing or borrowing communication lines are discussed herein. For example, a system can distinguish between a communication line borrower and a communication line owner based on unique user identifiers. The system can identify the communication line borrower as an intended recipient of communication information and user information based on a unique identifier of the communication line borrower that is associated with the communication information and user information by one or more network nodes. The system can secure the shared communication line against activation by the communication line owner and additional communication line borrowers while the shared communication line is assigned to the communication line borrower.
US11757882B2
Techniques are described herein for using special session identifiers to defer additional authentication steps (AAS) for at least some restricted application actions. A client session is associated with a special session identifier that is mapped to an authentication tier (AT) achieved for the session based on the satisfied authentication steps. Web servers that are enabled for AAS deferral include context information, which identifies a requested action, with session verification requests to an authentication service. The authentication service determines that AAS is required to perform an action when (a) the AT associated with the action is a higher-security tier than the AT associated with the session, or (b) the session is associated with an AT that is lower than the highest-security AT and there is no context information accompanying the request for session validation, in which case the authentication service assumes that the highest-security AT is required to perform the request.
US11757874B2
A wireless communication system enables one-sided authentication of a responder device (120) by an initiator device (110) and mutual authentication of both devices. Embodiments of the initiator may have a message unit (116) and a state machine (117). The initiator starts by acquiring a responder public key via an out-of-band action and sends an authentication request. The responder sends an authentication response comprising responder authentication data based on a responder private key and a mutual progress status indicative of the mutual authentication being in progress for enabling the responder device to acquire an initiator public key via a responder out-of-band action. The initiator state machine is arranged to provide a mutual authenticating state, engaged upon receiving the mutual progress status, for awaiting mutual authentication. Thereby long time-out periods during wireless communication are avoided, while also enabling the initiator to report communication errors to the user within a short time.
US11757872B2
A system for contextual and risk-based multi-factor authentication having a multi-dimensional time series data server configured to monitor and record a network's traffic data and to serve the traffic data to other modules and a directed computation graph module configured to receive network traffic data from the multi-dimensional time series data server, determine a network traffic baseline from the network traffic data, and determine a verification score needed before granting access based at least in part by the network traffic baseline. A plurality of verification methods build up a user's verification score to required level to gain access.
US11757863B2
Systems and methods are provided to authorize users to anonymously access resources of different web sites. For example, a business listing service may authenticate users and allow the authenticated users to access the resources of the businesses listed via the business listing service, without the users having to create separate accounts with the businesses and without having to reveal the identities of the users to the businesses.
US11757860B1
Computer-implemented systems and methods provide a better support experience and resolve user configuration issues for firm platforms more quickly. The systems and methods use automated tools that query a selected firm platform for real time data that allows anyone to obtain an up-to-date view of a user's data or configuration for the selected platform.
US11757859B2
Run-time attestation of a workspace including deploying, at a client information handling system, an application broker, the application broker including a model that defines characteristics of a computer-implemented application accessible through a server information handling system; establishing a trust relationship between a control vault system of the client information handling system and the server information handling system; provisioning entitlements, by the application broker, that are associated with the computer-implemented application at the client information handling system; identifying an execution of the entitlements at the client computing device, and comparing the execution of the entitlements with the model; determining, based on the comparing, a violation of the model, and in response, procuring a trust challenge from the server information handling system; generating, by the application broker and in response to the trust challenge, an attestation of the trust relationship between the control vault system and the server information handling system.
US11757852B2
Media, method, and system for providing encryption key management for international data residency. Organizations using a group-based communication system can designate a particular geopolitical area where that organization's data can be stored and another geopolitical area (which may be the same or different) where encryption keys used to encrypt and decrypt that data should be stored. Users of that organization can post message or access messages previously posted on the group-based communication system from any geopolitical area, causing the system to automatically store and retrieve messages and encryption keys from the appropriate regions to allow the users to transparently access the group-based communication system while maintaining security and data residency requirements.
US11757848B1
Users access content using a variety of formats, where some formats provide stronger encryption or protections than others. Content transmitted over open protocols may expose content to unauthorized third parties or enable unauthorized use of the content. The content may be protected by converting the content to a set of instructions on a user device, where the instructions correlate characters to identifications and outlines of the characters with instructions for rendering the characters. Different segments of content may have different mappings between characters, identifications, and outlines to add time or resource use to attempts to reverse engineer the instructions.
US11757844B2
Techniques for providing a smart proxy for a large scale high-interaction honeypot farm are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/method/computer program product for providing a smart proxy for a large scale high-interaction honeypot farm includes receiving tunneled traffic at a smart proxy from a sensor for a honeypot farm that is executed in a honeypot cloud, wherein the tunneled traffic is forwarded attack traffic, and wherein the honeypot farm includes a plurality of container images of distinct types of vulnerable services; selecting a matching type of vulnerable service from the plurality of container images of distinct types of vulnerable services based on a profile of the attack traffic; and forwarding the tunneled traffic to an instance of the matching type of vulnerable service.
US11757834B2
Systems and methods comprise a gateway that includes a processor coupled to a security system at a premises via a channel. The channel comprises a protocol of the security system that is a proprietary bus protocol of the control panel of the security system. A touchscreen at the premises is coupled to the gateway and presents user interfaces. The user interfaces include a security interface that provides control of functions of the security system and access to data collected by the security system, and a network interface that provides access to network devices. A camera is located at the premises and coupled to the gateway. A security server at a remote location is coupled to the gateway. The security server comprises a client interface through which remote client devices exchange data with the gateway and the security system.
US11757829B2
A method for detecting an IPv6 aliased prefix based on fragmented fingerprint includes: generating a plurality of pseudo random addresses in a target prefix space; determining the target prefix as an active prefix; and determining that the plurality of the pseudo random addresses and the active prefix are configured on the same host, so as to identify the active prefix as the aliased prefix. This method may effectively discover a network host, reduce the cost of network detection, and provide more effective data support for network measurement, network surveying and mapping and security research.
US11757828B2
A domain name address obtaining method includes: in a case that a first condition is met, performing a related operation of refreshing a domain name address record. The first condition includes at least one of: confirming that an obtained DNS address is changed; occurring a PDU session relocation; confirming that an obtained IP address is changed; a first DNN being no longer available; a second DNN being available; a terminal moving from a first area to a second area; the terminal moving out of the first area; the terminal moving to the second area; a first indication being received; the terminal being handed over; or the terminal being in a connected state. The first area includes at least one of: a serving area of a first local service, a serving area of a non-local service, or an available area of the first DNN.
US11757822B2
Examples described herein include systems and methods for performing email synchronization in situations where mobile-device connectivity is lacking. The mobile device can send an SMS message to an email notification server requesting email synchronization and the email notification server can request synchronization with the email server associated with the user's email account. After receiving an email from the email server, the email notification server cart encrypt the email and break it into various chunks, with each chunk including a header having identifying information. The chunks can be transmitted as SMS messages to the mobile device. The email application can retrieve the SMS messages, decrypt them, and reconstruct the email. The email application can then display the email for the user.
US11757821B1
Systems and methods are described for providing instant voice communications to users of a chat platform. An example method includes: providing a chat platform for a plurality of users, the chat platform including a plurality of chatrooms; presenting, on a client device of a first user from the plurality of users, a graphical user interface corresponding to a first chatroom from the plurality of chatrooms, the graphical user interface including a selectable element for initiating an instant voice communication channel among members of the chatroom, the members including the first user and at least one other user from the plurality of users; receiving, on the client device of the first user, an indication that the user has selected the selectable element in the graphical user interface; and providing, in response to the selection, the instant voice communication channel to client devices associated with the members.
US11757808B2
The present invention relates to a data processing system and method for enterprise application chatbot. The invention identifies the intent of a data string or an SCM action executed on the enterprise application using AI engine for predicting the relevant data to be extracted by the chatbot from the database and presenting the same on the chatbot interface for enabling a user to take an informed decision.
US11757806B2
Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for publisher and share action integration in a user interface (UI) for automated messaging. In some implementations, information is displayed in a first component and in a second component in a UI on a display. The first component is a publisher configured for composing and sharing messages on different communication channels using different share actions. The second component includes links to data items. When one of the data items is selected, a set of share actions for sharing the selected item using the publisher can be identified and displayed. When one of the displayed share actions is selected, it can be determined that the selected share action is applicable to one of the communication channels. A reference to the selected item can be provided in a message being composed in the publisher for sharing on the one communication channel.
US11757802B2
Technologies for dynamically managing a batch size of packets include a network device. The network device is to receive, into a queue, packets from a remote node to be processed by the network device, determine a throughput provided by the network device while the packets are processed, determine whether the determined throughput satisfies a predefined condition, and adjust a batch size of packets in response to a determination that the determined throughput satisfies a predefined condition. The batch size is indicative of a threshold number of queued packets required to be present in the queue before the queued packets in the queue can be processed by the network device.
US11757793B2
Embodiments herein describe using translation mappings and security contracts to establish interconnects and policies between switching fabrics at different sites to create a unified fabric. In one embodiment, a multi-site controller can stretch endpoint groups (EPGs) between the sites so that a host or application in a first site can communicate with a host or application in a second site which is assigned to the same stretched EPG, despite the two sites have different namespaces. Further, the shadow EPGs can be formed to facilitate security contracts between EPGs in different sites. Each site can store namespace translation mapping that enable the site to convert namespace information in packets received from a different site into its own namespace values. As a result, independent bridging and routing segments in the various sites can be interconnected as well as providing application accessibility across different fabrics with independent and private namespaces.
US11757792B2
Techniques are described for enabling users of a service provider network to create and configure “application profiles” that include parameters related to execution of user workloads at provider substrate extensions. Once an application profile is created, users can request the deployment of user workloads to provider substrate extensions by requesting instance launches based on a defined application profile. The service provider network can then automate the launch and placement of the user's workload at one or more provider substrate extensions using edge-optimized compute instances (e.g., compute instances tailored for execution within provider substrate extension environments). In some embodiments, once such edge-optimized instances are deployed, the service provider network can manage the auto-resizing of the instances in terms of various types of computing resources devoted to the instances, manage the lifecycle of instances to ensure maximum capacity availability at provider substrate extension locations, and perform other instance management processes.
US11757790B2
A method, performed by a server, of adjusting allocation of computing resources to a plurality of virtualized network functions (VNFs), and the server are provided. The method includes: for processing at least one task related to user equipments (UEs) connected to the server, identifying a plurality of VNFs related to the task; obtaining predicted traffic expected to be generated in the server by processing the task via the plurality of VNFs; obtaining, from at least one associated server, status information of computing resources in the at least one associated server; and adjusting allocation of computing resources to the plurality of VNFs based on the status information of the computing resources in the at least one associated server and the predicted traffic, wherein the at least one associated server includes another server that processes the task.
US11757786B2
A method for joint optimization of resource allocation includes: obtaining network data volumes of two services; obtaining queue statuses at a time t; computing sub-channel slices; computing a local CPU speed scaling, a user association, a sub-carrier assignment, and a power allocation of service 1; computing a user association, a video quality decision, and a sub-carrier assignment of service 2; obtaining an initial sub-carrier assignment and an initial power allocation; obtaining the user association; obtaining the power allocation and the sub-carrier assignment of service 1; obtaining the video quality decision; obtaining the sub-carrier assignment of service 2; obtaining an optimal data transmission rate and the user association to obtain a data rate allocation; and obtaining an optimal CPU speed scaling, an optimal user association, an optimal sub-carrier assignment, an optimal power allocation, an optimal video quality decision and an optimal sub-channel allocation.
US11757775B2
A message generation method, a message processing method, a message generation apparatus, and a message processing apparatus are provided. The message generation method includes: obtaining, by a first device, a segment identifier list SID list, where the SID list includes a plurality of segment identifiers SIDs, the first N bits of the plurality of SIDs are the same, and N is a positive integer; generating, by the first device, a first message based on the SID list, where the first message includes a first part and a second part, the first part includes the first N bits of the plurality of SIDs, and the second part includes bit N+1 to bit 128 of each of the plurality of SIDs; and sending, by the first device, the first message to a second device.
US11757773B2
Techniques are described for communications in an L2 virtual network. In an example, the L2 virtual network includes a plurality of L2 compute instances hosted on a set of host machines and a plurality of L2 virtual network interfaces and L2 virtual switches hosted on a set of network virtualization devices. An L2 virtual network interface emulates an L2 port of the L2 virtual network. Storm control information applicable to the L2 port is sent to a network virtualization device that hosts the L2 virtual network interface.
US11757767B2
Various example embodiments for supporting source routing are presented herein. Various example embodiments for supporting source routing may be configured to support source route compression for source routing. Various example for supporting source route compression for source routing may be configured to support source route compression for source routing based on use of shadow addresses. Various example for supporting source route compression for source routing based on use of shadow addresses may be configured to support source routing of packets based on use of shadow addresses of hops in place of actual addresses of hops to encode source routes within source routed packets, thereby compressing the source routes within the source routed packets and, thus, providing source route compression.
US11757754B2
A method and network node for obtaining a target transmission path, where the method includes obtaining, by a first network node in a network domain, topology information of a plurality of network nodes on each path between an ingress node and an egress node that are in the network domain, obtaining, by the first network node, a transmission delay of each path according to the topology information, where the transmission delay of each path includes a sum of physical link delays between all network nodes on each path and node residence times of all the network nodes on each path, and determining, by the first network node, the target transmission path according to the transmission delay of each path.
US11757750B2
A method for testing network devices for networks with a large traffic load utilizes one or more traffic load amplifiers to amplify the traffic load. The load amplifiers connected to the device may receive packets of an initial traffic load, multiply or copy the received packet, alter the destination address information in the header of the copied packets to generate packets with different destination addresses, and transmit the altered packets back to the device for further routing. The altered or copied packets may then be routed via the device back to the load amplifier for further amplification. Through this amplification process, a small initial load of packets may be amplified over and over by the load amplifiers until a target traffic load is achieved at the device to test the device performance at a large traffic load.
US11757735B2
A method for facilitating an audit of an event-based business process is provided. The method includes identifying an application in the event-based business process; initiating a subscription with the identified application; recording a published event based on the subscription; correlating, by using a correlation identifier, the recorded published event with the event-based business process, the correlation identifier including a value that references an event chain; and storing, in a memory, the correlated published event based on an event sourcing pattern. The method further includes determining, by using the correlated published event, an anomaly in the event-based business process; and displaying, via a graphical user interface, a notification that includes information relating to the anomaly and a recommended compensating action.
US11757731B2
Disclosed embodiments are directed at systems, methods, and architecture for operating a control plan of a microservices application. The control plane corresponds with data plane proxies associated with each of a plurality of APIs that make up the microservices application. The communication between the data plane proxies and the control plane enables automatic detection of service groups of APIs and automatic repair of application performance in real-time in response to degrading service node conditions.
US11757730B2
Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for custom interface specification in a cloud management system are disclosed. An example cloud management system includes: a first interface to communicate with a second interface external to the cloud management system; and a host to manage requests from the second interface and allocate resources to the second interface as a reverse proxy for the second interface with respect to a backend. The example host is to at least: add, at the request of the second interface, an endpoint with respect to the second interface; fetch, at the request of the second interface, data for the endpoint from the backend, the backend identified for the endpoint based on metadata in a component registry; and provide the data from the backend to the second interface.
US11757729B2
A system for dynamically managing a configuration file of a switch is provided. During operation, the system can determine one or more groups of line specifications in a specification file. A respective line specification can indicate a format of a respective variant of a configuration command of the switch. The system can then annotate a respective group in the specification file with a corresponding label. Subsequently, the system can associate a respective configuration command of the configuration file with a label of a group based on matching the configuration command with the group.
US11757727B2
A system and techniques for intelligent network design allows for capture and conversion of a basic network design, often manually created, into a digital format without duplication of effort. The disclosed techniques provide a faster, more intelligent approach for designing a network by analyzing many thousands of existing network designs and recommending proposed solutions based on user provided objectives. The techniques can generate provider independent code that provides flexibility in supporting arbitrary provider targets. The techniques can also output provider specific code that allow for rapid, efficient deployment of the network. In addition, the technique can output network system architecture designs of varying details that can be customized for the intended audience. The techniques provide for automated importing and updating provider changes to network components, schemas, and application programming interfaces reducing any lag in system design.
US11757725B1
Groups of connected nodes in a network of nodes can be detected for evaluating and mitigating risks of the network of nodes. For example, a system can process one or more subnetworks of the network of nodes in parallel. For each subnetwork, the system can identify root nodes and their reachable nodes to create rooted groups of connected nodes. The system then can determine outdegrees of the remaining nodes in the network. The system can identify reachable nodes from a remaining node of the highest outdegree to create a nonrooted group of connected nodes. The system can estimate a risk value based on the number of rooted groups and nonrooted groups, the number of nodes in each rooted group and nonrooted group, and the attributes of the nodes in each group. The system can mitigate potential risks by reconfiguring the network of nodes.
US11757723B2
The present disclosure discloses a distributed secure state reconstruction method based on a double-layer dynamic switching observer. The method includes the following steps: constructing a dynamics model of a sensing channel of a multi-agent system after the sensing channel is attacked according to the multi-agent system; building a double-layer observer for each multi-agent in combination with a specific multi-agent system model, constructing a proper observation communication topology, and designing a corresponding residual generator; analyzing dynamic information generating a residual threshold aiming at an observation model, checking a magnitude between each residual signal and the threshold, dynamically switching the communication topology between the observers according to the compared magnitude, and performing a new data communication interaction; and performing iterative updating to generate new observation data in combination with self observation data and received neighbor observation information, and taking whether the residual signal is greater than a current threshold or not as a standard for determining whether a corresponding communication channel is attacked or not. According to the present disclosure, all transmission channels subjected to malicious attacks can he correctly identified, and the real state of the system can be securely reconstructed.
US11757713B1
A disclosed plug and play method for expanding a cluster, comprised of a cluster manager and a plurality of existing and configured nodes connected to a Layer 2 discovery network detect a new node connecting to the cluster. The new node may be provisioned with a TCP/IP virtual adapter (TVA) configured to perform TVA operations. The TVA operations may include joining the Layer 2 discovery network and invoking an agent running in the new node to collect TVA stack information as well as broadcasting the TVA stack information to the Layer 2 discovery network. The operations further include, responsive to detecting TVA stack information on the Layer 2 discovery network by the new node, storing the TVA stack information to a node pool store and configuring the new node based, at least in part, on the TVA stack information and information in the node pool store corresponding to one or more of the configured nodes.
US11757709B1
A method including receiving, at an infrastructure device from a first device in a mesh network, a request requesting the infrastructure device to determine a communication parameter associated with the first device; configuring an application layer included in a network stack associated with the infrastructure device to: determine the communication parameter associated with communication of meshnet data with the first device, and determine a response including identification information indicating the communication parameter; and transmitting, by the infrastructure device, the response to the first device via a meshnet connection between the infrastructure device and the first device is disclosed. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11757700B2
A computing system receives, from a client device, a first request for access to a single page application associated with the computing system. A gateway of the computing system intercepts the first request before it reaches a shell service associated with the single page application. The gateway sends a second request for the single page application to the shell service. Based on the single page application request, the gateway determines that the shell service is experiencing a failure. Responsive to determining that the shell service is experiencing a failure, the gateway retrieves, from a content delivery network, a uniform resource locator (URL) associated with a time-lapse hypertext markup language (HTML) of the single page application. The gateway redirects the client device to the time-lapse HTML of the single page application using the URL.
US11757693B2
A transmitting apparatus is disclosed. The transmitting apparatus includes an encoder to perform channel encoding with respect to bits and generate a codeword, an interleaver to interleave the codeword, and a modulator to map the interleaved codeword onto a non-uniform constellation according to a modulation scheme, and the constellation may include constellation points defined based on various tables according to the modulation scheme.
US11757692B2
Disclosed in various embodiments are a method for transmitting/receiving a signal in a wireless communication system, and a device supporting same. More particularly, disclosed in various embodiments are a method for transmitting/receiving a synchronization signal block (SSB) in an unlicensed band, and a device supporting same.
US11757690B2
A transmitter includes: a frame generator configured to generate a frame including a frame starting symbol, at least one data symbol and a frame closing symbol; a pilot and reserved tone inserter configured to insert pilots and reserved tones in at least one of the frame starting symbol, the data symbol and the frame closing symbol such that positions of the reserved tones do not overlap positions of the pilots in the at least one of the frame starting symbol, the data symbol and the frame closing symbol; and a transmitter configured to transmit the frame in which the pilots and the reserved tones are inserted, wherein the reserved tones are not used to transmit data in the frame.
US11757687B2
The disclosure relates to a communication technique and a system for fusing a 5th generation (5G) communication system with Internet of Things (IoT) technology to support a higher data rate after a 4G system. The disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (e.g., a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or a connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail, security- and safety-related services, or the like), based on 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. The disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for assigning frequency and time resources for data transmission in a wireless communication system.
US11757683B2
A receiver includes a plurality of linear equalizers receiving an input signal; and a plurality of samplers configured to sample a plurality of equalization signals output from the plurality of linear equalizers according to a clock signal. Each of the plurality of linear equalizers compares the input signal with a reference voltage among a plurality of reference voltages to determine a level of the input signal.
US11757681B1
To compensate for intersymbol interference, a serial data receiver circuit included in a computer system may include an equalizer circuit that includes a digital-to-analog converter circuit. Based on previously received symbols, the equalizer circuit modifies a signal received via a communication channel or link prior to clock and data recovery. In cases when the digital-to-analog converter circuit becomes saturated, the equalizer circuit additionally uses a dither signal to modify the received signal.
US11757673B2
Systems and methods for managing interference groups in a full duplex transmission network.
US11757670B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for programmatically determining a user status avatar that is configured for transmitting as renderable within a group-based communication interface of a group-based communication system.
US11757660B2
Disclosed is a method for validating a digital request in which cooperating entities are able to use security processors loaded with an application for processing the request, each processor issuing, on request, a digital certificate of integrity; wherein said method includes: an application integrity verification process such that, based on the issued certificates, each entity ensures that each of the other entities implements an application identical to its own; a process by which entities create a common secret and thus form a group of Creative entities; and a process by which entities of the group of Creative entities designate the signatory entities, thus forming a group of cooperating signatory entities, so that, as such, the group has access to the common secret; in order for the request to be validated if and only if entities of the group of signatory entities implement the application by means of the common secret.
US11757658B2
A system for implementing mixed protocol certificates, the system includes a subject device designed and configured to receive, from an issuing device, a first digital certificate, wherein the first digital certificate further comprises a first digital signature public and private key pair according to a first digital signature protocol and a second digital signature public key according to a second digital signature protocol, wherein the second digital signature protocol is distinct from the first digital signature protocol, to generate a second digital certificate, wherein generating the second digital certificate comprises generating a subject digital signature signing the certificate, the subject digital signature generated as a function of the second digital signature protocol and to provide the first digital certificate and the second digital certificate to a verifying device.
US11757657B2
A method for providing a digital signature to a message, M, in accordance with a digital signature algorithm (DSA) or an elliptic curve digital signature algorithm (ECDSA) is disclosed. A secret key, x, is generated as a random secret sharing [x] among at least two parties, such as among at least three parties. Random secret sharings, [a] and [k], are generated among the at least two parties and [w]=[a][k], R=gk and W=Ra are computed and their correctness verified. [w] is verified by checking whether or not gw=W. The message, M, is signed by generating a sharing, [s], among the at least two parties, using at least M, [w], R and [x].
US11757654B2
Disclosed is a method of witnessing electronic signing of a document. The method may include identifying an eligible witness device from a signature request. Furthermore, the witness electronic device may be configured to verify the signor electronic device before making a document available to a signor electronic device based on a witness action from the witness electronic device. Additionally, the method may include transmitting the document to the signor electronic device upon verification of the signor electronic device. Furthermore, the signed document may include the electronic signature of the signor.
US11757634B2
A system is provided for secure client-side cryptographic key retrieval using cryptographic key splitting and wrapping. In particular, the system may generate an encryption key that may be wrapped using a wrapping key. The wrapping key may in turn be split into a plurality of parts that may be stored in a distributed manner on a client computing system and a cryptographic database. Furthermore, the wrapping key may be generated using an encryption algorithm that allows the wrapping key to be reconstituted with fewer than all of the plurality of parts. In this way, the system provides a secure way to restrict access to sensitive data to authorized parties.
US11757623B2
This application pertains to encryption/decryption methods and related apparatuses. A communication device receives an initial layer-3 message. The initial layer-3 message includes an indication indicating that a part of the initial layer-3 message is encrypted. The communication device generates a keystream, and decrypts the encrypted part of the initial layer-3 message by performing an exclusive OR operation on the keystream and the initial layer-3 message.
US11757604B2
Two-way (full-duplex) wireless links in facilitating network management and improve network performance. Once aspect includes methods for network management using a high-throughput channel and a low-throughput channel. Other aspects include methods to facilitate practical realization and improve performance of some of the network information theoretic configurations, such as Space-Division Multiple Access (SDMA) in uplink and downlink, Interference Channel, and other forms of distributed collaborative signaling schemes. Another aspect includes methods to support cognitive wireless networks.
US11757597B2
Techniques for allocating channel frequencies in remote physical device. The channel frequencies are sorted in a predefined order, wherein each channel frequency has a symbol rate. Further, the channel frequencies are grouped into one or more channel groups, wherein each channel group comprises one or more channel frequencies. The one or more channel groups are prioritized from highest priority to lowest priority. Further, the one or more channel frequencies are allocated starting from highest priority channel group to largest size window based on available slots in the largest size window and till a difference between last channel frequency and first channel frequency falls within frequency span limit of the largest size window. Further, prioritizing and allocating are repeated till remaining one or more channel frequencies of the one or more channel groups are allocated to next available windows or the next available windows are exhausted.
US11757596B1
A method for processing multiple overlapping channels includes: transmitting, by a base station comprising a processor and a memory, a channel comprising a plurality of physical downlink shared channels (PDSCH) in a slot, the PDSCHs being organized into one or more sub-groups of overlapping PDSCHs; and receiving, by the base station and from a mobile station, an acknowledgment (ACK) or a negative acknowledgment (NACK) for two or more overlapping PDSCHs in at least one of the one or more sub-groups in the slot.
US11757594B2
A method for a UE in a multiple transmission points communication system, mTRP, scheme, is provided. The method includes receiving downlink control information, DCI, indicating a at least two transmission points scheme for a scheduled data transmission on physical resource blocks, PRBs. The PRBs includes at least a first subsets of PRBs, associated with a first transmission point, and a second subset of PRBs, associated with a second transmission point. The method further includes determining a first PT-RS frequency density for the first set of PRBs based on the number of PRBs in the first set of PRBs and a second PT-RS frequency density based on the number of PRBs in the second set of PRBs. A UE, methods for a base station and a base station are also provided.
US11757589B2
A method for receiving a Reference Signal (RS) performed by a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention may include receiving a first RS through a first antenna port; and receiving a second RS through a second antenna port which is Quasi Co-Located (QCL)-assumed with the first antenna port, the first and second antenna ports may be QCL-assumed for at least one QCL parameter, and the at least one QCL parameter may include a reception beam related parameter.
US11757588B2
One or more techniques for sharing control channel and pilot resources are disclosed.
US11757587B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide apparatus, methods, processing systems, and computer readable mediums that allow a switch between coherent physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmissions (e.g., that include demodulated reference signals (DMRS)) and non-coherent PUCCH transmissions (e.g., without DMRS). An example method by a user equipment (UE) generally includes receiving, from a network entity, a configuration of a set of PUCCH resources with different PUCCH formats, receiving signaling, from the network entity, indicating one of the PUCCH resources for a PUCCH transmission and whether the PUCCH transmission is to be sent as a coherent transmission or non-coherent transmission, and sending the coherent or non-coherent PUCCH transmission in accordance with the indication.
US11757586B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a wireless communication method, a user equipment and a base station. The wireless communication method performed by the user equipment includes: receiving reference signal configuration information transmitted by a base station by using at least one reference signal group, the reference signal configuration information including an identification of at least one reference signal group and measurement configuration information of at least one reference signal group; and feeding back feedback information about channel quality according to the reference signal configuration information.
US11757577B2
A data transmission method, a terminal device, and a network device are provided. The data transmission method includes: receiving a PDSCH; and mapping HARQ-ACK feedback information corresponding to a PDSCH with repetition transmissions at least to a first transmission position for transmission, where the first transmission position is a position corresponding to a last transmission of the repetition transmissions of the PDSCH in a semi-static HARQ-ACK codebook.
US11757574B2
A communications system, a method of operating a communications system, and a method of operating a communications device are provided. The communications system includes a transmitter configured to transmit a data packet to a receiver; and the receiver configured to receive the data packet from the transmitter, wherein the receiver is configured to receive at least one first packet from the transmitter, determine whether there is a first failed packet having an error from among the at least one first packet, transmit a first status report requesting retransmission of the first failed packet, and transmit a second status report requesting retransmission of the first failed packet within a previously determined status report processing period from transmission of the first status report, wherein the first status report comprises first time information corresponding to a transmission time of the first status report from the receiver to the transmitter, and the second status report comprises second time information corresponding to a transmission time of the second status report from the receiver to the transmitter.
US11757571B2
A method performed by a communication device. The method includes the communication device receiving assistance information, wherein the assistance information comprises at least one of: i) channel sensing statistics information (e.g., LBT failure ratio) and ii) channel occupancy, CO, information related to channel occupancy of a channel. The method further includes the communication device making a decision based on the received assistance information.
US11757560B2
The present subject matter is directed to an apparatus and methodology for monitoring for the occurrence of use of unauthorized telecommunications equipment within a designated area. The present subject matter has particular utility to the corrections environment in that it discloses a methodology for detecting and reporting the unauthorized operation of cellular telephones within a corrections facility. The present technology may be used advantageously in combination with inmate telephone systems to transmit information to appropriate personnel in the form of email messages and/or voice communications by way of telephone local or corrections facility external telephone lines. The present technology also provides for recordation and storage of time, date and location information for detected events.
US11757554B2
Device cost and electric power consumption are reduced. Nodes 11a to 11d as optical add/drop multiplexers each include AWGs 24a and 24b connected between light transmission paths as optical fibers 12 and 13 and transponders 25a to 25n and configured to output optical signals from the light transmission paths to the transponders 25a to 25n through ports and transmit optical signals from the transponders 25a to 25n to the light transmission paths through ports, and an optical coupler 24c configured to connect ports of the AWGs 24a and 24b to the transponders 25a to 25n through coupling or bifurcation. The channel interval of ports of the AWGs 24a and 24b is multiple times larger than the channel interval of ports of the transponders 25a to 25n, and transponder signals of a plurality of different wavelengths to and from one or a plurality of the transponders 25a to 25n can pass through ports of the AWGs 24a and 24b.
US11757552B2
Performing a superposed transmission in a wireless communications network. The superposed transmission includes a first signal intended for a first wireless device and a second signal intended for a second wireless device that are superposed and transmitted simultaneously by the network node on the same transmission resources. A first ratio and a second ratio of the total transmission power available for the superposed transmission are determined. The first ratio is to be used for the first signal and the second ratio is to be used for the second signal. Information indicating the first and/or second ratio is transmitted to at least the first wireless device and the superposed transmission to the first and second wireless device is performed simultaneously on the same transmission resources by transmitting the first signal using a transmission power according to the first ratio and the second signal using a transmission power according to the second ratio.
US11757545B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may generate a layer one reference signal received power (L1-RSRP) measurement report to include an indication of L1-RSRP measurements associated with one or more synchronization signal bocks (SSBs) included in an SSB set, wherein the SSB set is identified, from a plurality of SSB sets, in the L1-RSRP measurement report by an SSB set indicator, and wherein the one or more SSBs are identified in the L1-RSRP measurement report by respective SSB indexes that index into the SSB set. The UE may transmit the L1-RSRP measurement report. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11757539B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for controlling vibrations output by one or more computing devices. A computing device may determine an event, and may also determine, using a noise sensor, an ambient noise level around the computing device. Based on the ambient noise level, the computing device may then select a tactile vibration or an audible sound associated with the event. Also, an intensity level of the vibration or sound may be based on the determined ambient noise level.
US11757533B2
A shutdown circuit may include a filter, for receiving a laser trigger signal for a laser emitter, that is configured to output a filtered signal. The shutdown circuit may include a logic gate configured to receive the filtered signal and at least one of a first signal based on a signal from a photodiode or a second signal based on a signal from a conductive path. The shutdown circuit may include a flip-flop configured to receive an output of the logic gate and to output an enablement signal that is based on the output of the logic gate, and a driver circuit for a switch configured to control current flow to the laser emitter. The driver circuit may be configured to receive the enablement signal and the laser trigger signal and to output the laser trigger signal based on whether the enablement signal is a first or a second voltage.
US11757526B1
In an embodiment, a user terminal includes a connection manager component configured to generate an initial network entry request; an antenna assembly communicatively coupled to the connection manager and configured, in response to the initial network entry request, to find a satellite based on a search of a sky, wherein the satellite comprises a satellite assigned to downlink to a geographic cell associated with the user terminal; and a media access control (MAC) layer component communicatively coupled to the connection manager, the MAC layer component configured to generate an uplink radio frame including a random access channel (RACH) request associated with the initial network entry request at a particular portion of the uplink radio frame for the satellite, wherein the particular portion is selected by the MAC layer component from among a plurality of portions of the uplink radio frame.
US11757525B2
A communication system including a mobile station that communicates with a wireless station and moves toward a predetermined destination, and a relay station that relays communication between the mobile station and the wireless station, includes: the mobile station that pauses movement when sensing an obstacle present on a first moving route toward the destination in a case of moving along the first moving route, and moves along a second moving route headed to the destination while avoiding the obstacle when establishing communication between the mobile station and the wireless station via the relay station in a case where the movement is paused; and the relay station that moves so as to keep a position where communication between the mobile station and the wireless station can be relayed according to movement of the mobile station when the mobile station moves along the second moving route.
US11757523B2
The present invention relates to an aerially distributable communications device (ACCD) including one or more gyrochutes and communications module configured for wireless communication with external communication nodes. The communications module can be configured for mesh network type communication with similar aerially distributable communications device, or as a gateway type communications device to a wide area network such as a satellite network. The ACCD is for deployment in remote areas and/or areas where normal communications networks are down, such as disaster areas. The ACCD can be deployed from an aircraft or a spacecraft. The ACCD can further be configured with emergency equipment such as water purification equipment, power charging equipment, or the like.
US11757518B2
Multi-level beam scheduling in a wireless communications circuit, particularly for a wireless communications system (WCS), is disclosed. The WCS includes a central unit(s) and a wireless communications circuit(s) configured to reduce beamforming overhead and improve radio frequency (RF) coverage in a wireless communications cell(s) based on a multi-level beam scheduling scheme. In a non-limiting example, the multi-level beam scheduling scheme includes a first level (L1) scheduler, a second level (L2) scheduler, and a third level (L3) scheduler configured to perform cross-cell beam scheduling, in-cell beam scheduling, and in-beam user equipment (UE) scheduling, respectively. By employing the multi-level beam scheduling scheme in the WCS, it may be possible to reduce processing overhead and improve resource usage, data throughput, and system adaptability of the wireless communications circuit(s), thus helping to optimize capacity and throughput in the wireless communications cell(s).
US11757514B2
A user equipment (UE) may be configured with a first set of indexed timing offsets for determining offsets between uplink grants and uplink data transmissions and a second set of indexed timing offsets for determining offsets between an aperiodic channel state information (CSI) trigger and transmission of an aperiodic CSI report. A UE may receive both an uplink grant for an uplink data transmission and an aperiodic CSI report trigger. The UE may determine a timing offset for transmission of both the uplink data transmission and the aperiodic CSI report. The timing offset may be based at least in part on the first set of indexed timing offsets, the second set of indexed timing offsets, or a third set of indexed timing offsets for joint transmission of uplink data and aperiodic CSI. The UE may transmit the uplink data transmission and the aperiodic CSI report according to the timing offset.
US11757511B2
Methods and systems for reporting Channel State Information (CSI), including ordering of CSI in Uplink Control Information (UCI), are provided herein. According to one embodiment, a method performed in a wireless device for reporting CSI comprises at least one of: receiving an indication of a resource allocation for an UL transmission; determining, from the indication, a maximum container size for a CSI report; mapping the one or more information bits of a CSI report to a bitstream, optionally such that a first CSI subset is mapped to more significant bits than a second CSI subset; and omitting the one or more least significant bits of the bitstream.
US11757507B2
The position of a mobile device is estimated using angle based positioning measurements. The angle based positioning measurements are generated using transmit (Tx) beams or receive (Rx) beams from one or more base stations that generate the beams over an ultra-wide bandwidth, which produces frequency and spatial distortions and impairments in an array gain response. The array gain distribution variation as a function of angle and frequency for the set of beam weights used in beamforming is conveyed to indicate the frequency and spatial distortions. The array gain distribution variation may be provided to the mobile device in assistance data for a sub-band that is only a portion of the allocated bandwidth for the base stations, or as an aggregation of the array gain distribution variation for a plurality of sub-bands of the allocated bandwidth to reduce the overhead in signaling.
US11757505B2
A system and method for beamforming includes providing an antenna including feeds, a coverage area including service areas and data streams for each of the service areas; selecting a cluster of M feeds from the feeds; computing, with a GBBF processor (ground based beam former), M×N weights; generating M feed excitations by distributing the N data streams per the M×N weights; switching an array to transfer a respective one of the M feed excitations to a respective one of the M feeds; and beamforming, with the M feeds of the antenna, N beams. In the method, the N beams are each focused on a respective service area of each of the N data streams, the M×N weights improve the transmitting into the respective service area of each of the N data streams, and at least one of the N beams includes a portion of a plurality of the M feed excitations.
US11757504B2
The present disclosure pertains to a network entity for a mobile telecommunications system having circuitry configured to communicate with at least one user equipment, wherein the circuitry is further configured to transmit, to the at least one user equipment, time information for indicating a beam which will cover the at least one user equipment.
US11757503B2
A configuration for reporting a beam application time for a specific beam at an antenna panel of a UE. The apparatus transmits, to a base station, a beam application time report for at least one antenna panel of the UE, wherein the beam application time report comprises a time for application of a beam for use by the at least one antenna panel. The apparatus applies the beam at the at least one antenna panel of the UE based on the beam application time report in preparation of communication with the base station. The apparatus communicates with the base station using the beam of the at least one antenna panel at least at a time based on the beam application time report.
US11757493B2
A method of communicating between a first electronic communication device of a plurality of electronic communication devices and a wireless communication initiating device for reading the first electronic communication device. The method comprises receiving, at the first electronic communication device, a communication signal from the wireless communication initiating device and determining a first characteristic value relating to the communication signal. The method further comprises receiving at least a second characteristic value relating to a communication signal received by at least a second electronic communication device that is connected to the first electronic communication device and initiating communication with a reading device based on the first and second value.
US11757490B2
Embodiments provide a method for transmitting data from a user terminal to another apparatus. The method has a step of generating a signal for driving an electromagnetic actuator of a loudspeaker of the user terminal, and a step of driving the electromagnetic actuator by the generated signal to produce, by the electromagnetic actuator, a magnetic field which carries the data.
US11757484B2
This disclosure provides a radio frequency front-end circuit and a mobile terminal. The circuit includes: a gating switch, separately connected to a first antenna, a second antenna, and a radio frequency circuit module; and a double-pole double-throw switch, separately connected to the gating switch, a third antenna, a fourth antenna, and a first radio frequency circuit, where the radio frequency circuit module is connected to a first target antenna in the first and second antennas via the gating switch, and receives and/or transmits a signal with the first target antenna; or the radio frequency circuit module is connected to a second target antenna in the third and fourth antennas via the gating switch and the double-pole double-throw switch, and receives and/or transmits a signal with the second target antenna; the first radio frequency circuit is connected to one of the third and fourth antennas via the double-pole double-throw switch.
US11757482B2
A frontend circuit includes a wide-band filter, a transmit filter, and switches. The wide-band filter passes both the receive frequency band of a first communication frequency band and that of a second communication frequency band which is close to or overlaps that of the first communication frequency band. The transmit filter passes the transmit frequency band of the first or second communication frequency band. The switches are capable of simultaneously bringing, into conduction, at least two of multiple filters including the wide-band filter and the transmit filter. In carrier aggregation using the receive frequency bands of the first and second communication frequency bands, the switches simultaneously bring the wide-band filter and the transmit filter into conduction. Thus, in carrier aggregation using signals of multiple communication frequencies simultaneously in communication, attenuation of signals due to signal leakage in two receive frequency bands, which are close to each other, is suppressed.
US11757479B2
A TX-TX pre-compensation system that estimates unwanted coupling in a victim transmit chain caused by an aggressor transmit chain and injects a pre-compensation signal to cancel out the estimated coupling. In some embodiments, a signal measurement module estimates the amplitude, phase, and envelope delay of the coupling and an isolation pre-compensation module generates the pre-compensation signal based on the estimated amplitude, the estimated phase, the estimated envelope delay, and the difference between the carrier frequencies of the transmit chains. Since the phase of the coupling may be affected by the carrier frequency of the transmit chains, in some embodiments the phase of the pre-compensation signal is adjusted in response to a change in carrier frequency. Since the amplitude of the coupling may be affected by attenuator gain settings, in some embodiments the amplitude of the pre-compensation signal may be adjusted in response to a change in attenuator gain setting.
US11757477B2
An embodiment integrated electronic device comprises a mixer module including a voltage/current transconductor stage including first transistors and connected to a mixing stage including second transistors, wherein the mixing stage includes a resistive degeneration circuit connected to the sources of the second transistors and a calibration input connected to the gates of the second transistors and intended to receive an adjustable calibration voltage, and the sources of the first transistors are directly connected to a cold power supply point.
US11757475B2
A radio-frequency (RF) sampling transmitter (e.g., of the type that may be used in 5G wireless base stations) includes a complex baseband digital-to-analog converter (DAC) response compensator that operates on a complex baseband signal at a sampling rate lower than the sampling rate of an RF sampling DAC in the RF sampling transmitter. The DAC response compensator flattens the sample-and-hold response of the RF sampling DAC only in the passband of interest, addressing the problem of a sin c response introduced by the sample-and-hold operation of the RF sampling DAC and avoiding the architectural complexity and high power consumption of an inverse sin c filter that operates on the signal at a point in the signal chain after it has already been up-converted to an RF passband.
US11757470B2
A transmitter is provided. The transmitter includes: a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) encoder configured to encode outer-encoded bits to generate an LDPC codeword including LDPC information bits and parity bits; a puncturer configured to puncture some of the parity bits included in the LDPC codeword; and a mapper configured to map the LDPC codeword except the punctured parity bits to symbols for transmission to a receiver, wherein the puncturer calculates a number of parity bits to be punctured among the parity bits included in the LDPC codeword based on a number of the outer-encoded bits, a number of the LDPC information bits, and a minimum number of parity bits to be punctured among the parity bits included in the LDPC codeword.
US11757466B2
Systems and methods for improving the efficiency of a rotational dynamic element matching (DEM) for Delta Sigma converters. In some implementations, the systems and methods are provided for reducing intersymbol interference (ISI) of a Delta Sigma converter. A delta sigma converter architecture can include multiple I-DACs, and the output from each I-DAC can vary from the other l-DACs. Techniques include decreasing mismatch among multiple l-DACs while improving efficiency of rotational dynamic element matching.
US11757463B2
A method for self-calibration of reference voltage drop in a Digital to Analog Converter (DAC) includes measuring each one of a plurality of thermometric weightages associated with a respective one of a plurality of thermometric bits, wherein the DAC includes a plurality of sub-binary bits and the plurality of thermometric bits. For each sequentially increasing combination of thermometric bit settings including at least two thermometric bits coupled to a high reference voltage and each sub-binary bit coupled to a low reference voltage, performing the steps of: determining a respective combined weightage correction; adding the combined weightage correction to the highest order bit of the combination of thermometric bit settings; and incrementing a number of bits of the combination of thermometric bit settings in response to the number of bits of the sequential combination being less than a total number of the plurality of thermometric bits.
US11757459B2
A reference buffer has many legs each with an upper transistor, a lower transistor, and a resistor or current source as a tail device in series. The source or emitter of the upper (lower) transistor generates an upper (lower) reference voltage. This source follower transistor configuration has a low output impedance and high current. The gate or base of the upper (lower) transistors are driven by a first (second) control node. A control leg has an upper transistor, a lower transistor, and a tail device in series. The source and gate, or emitter and base, are connected together for the upper and lower transistors and generate the upper and lower control nodes. Alternately, the gate or base of the upper (lower) transistor is driven by an op amp receiving an upper (lower) bandgap voltage and the upper (lower) control node as negative feedback.
US11757453B2
A multi-bit gray code generation circuit includes: a zeroth bit gray code generation circuit configured to generate a gray code corresponding to a bit 0 of a multi-bit gray code; and a plurality of gray code generation circuits each configured to generate a gray code corresponding to each bit higher than the bit 0 of the multi-bit gray code. Each of the plurality of gray code generation circuits is constituted by a plurality of flip-flop circuits. An output of a flip-flop circuit in the previous stage is input to a flip-flop circuit of the next stage. An output of a flip-flop circuit of the final stage is inverted and held by a flip-flop circuit of the first stage. An output of one of the plurality of flip-flop circuits is output as a gray code corresponding to each bit.
US11757452B1
A class of complex logic gates are presented that use non-linear polar material. The logic gates include multi-input majority gates. At least one input to an individual multi-input majority gate is a fixed input. Other inputs are driven to non-linear input capacitors on their respective first terminals. The second terminals of the non-linear input capacitors are coupled a summing node, which provides a majority function of the inputs. The summing node is coupled to a CMOS logic. Leakage through the capacitors is configured such that capacitors of a majority gate have substantially equal leakage, and this leakage has a I-V behavior which is symmetric. As such, reset device(s) on the summing node are not used. The non-linear charge response from the non-linear input capacitors results in output voltages close to or at rail-to-rail voltage levels, which reduces the high leakage problem faced from majority gates that use linear input capacitors.
US11757449B2
A magneto-electric (ME) XNOR logic gate device includes a conducting device; and a ME-FET coupled to the conducting device. The ME-FET can be formed of a split gate; a first gate terminal coupled to a first portion of the split gate for receiving a first input signal; a second gate terminal coupled to a second portion of the split gate for receiving a second input signal; a source terminal coupled to a ground line; and a drain terminal coupled to the conducting device.
US11757445B2
Sub-threshold current reduction circuit (SCRC) switches and related apparatuses and methods are disclosed. An apparatus includes an electronic circuit, a first set of SCRC switches, and a second set of SCRC switches. The electronic circuit includes first circuitry and second circuitry. The first set of SCRC switches are at one or more SCRC regions of an integrated circuit device including the electronic circuit. The first set of SCRC switches are configured to provide power to the first circuitry. At least one second SCRC switch of the second set of SCRC switches is positioned between one of the first set of SCRC switches and another of the first set of SCRC switches. The second set of SCRC switches is configured to provide power to the second circuitry.
US11757438B2
A transposed delay line oscillator including a mode selection filter and a transposed delay line is provided. An output of the transposed delay line is coupled to an input of the mode selection filter to establish an oscillator loop. Based on the transposed delay line output, the mode selection filter generates a mode selection signal including an isolated oscillatory mode, in a Radio Frequency (RF) band. The transposed delay line receives the mode selection signal for transposition to an intermediate frequency of an intermediate frequency (IF) delay line. The IF delay line includes a delay filter and a phase noise suppression loop configured to suppress de-correlated transposition phase noise resulting from a delay of the delay filter. Suppression of phase noise in the IF delay line enables cancellation of transposition phase noise when transposing the IF delay line output to the RF band.
US11757421B2
An electrical filter circuit is disclosed. The circuit includes a first input line and a second input line. A first transmission line is coupled electrically in series at a first node with a first output line, and an inductor is coupled electrically in series between the first input line and the first transmission line. The filter also includes a second transmission line having a first impedance coupled to the first node. The second input line is coupled electrically in series at a second node with a second output line. A third transmission line is coupled to the second node, and a capacitor is coupled electrically in series between the second transmission line and the third transmission line. The first output line has a second impedance that is greater than the first impedance.
US11757407B2
An electronic device may include a transceiver with mixer circuitry that up-converts or down-converts signals based on a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) signal. The transceiver circuitry may include first, second, third, and fourth VCOs. Each VCO may include a VCO core that receives a control voltage and an inductor coupled to the VCO core. Fixed linear capacitors may be coupled between the VCO cores. A switching network may be coupled between the VCOs. Control circuitry may place the VCO circuitry in one of four different operating modes and may switch between the operating modes to selectively control current direction in each of the inductors. The VCO circuitry may generate the VCO signal within a respective frequency range in each of the operating modes. The VCO circuitry may exhibit a relatively wide frequency range across all of the operating modes while introducing minimal phase noise to the system.
US11757402B2
Solar trackers that may be advantageously employed on sloped and/or variable terrain to rotate solar panels to track motion of the sun across the sky include bearing assemblies and other mechanical features configured to address mechanical challenges posed by the sloped and/or variable terrain that might otherwise prevent or complicate use of solar trackers on such terrain.
US11757389B2
A method for noise reduction of a three-phase-driven electrical machine includes recording an angular state of a rotor of the electrical machine, calculating a reference frequency on the basis of the recorded angular state, forming a sine and cosine value of the calculated reference frequency, and filtering the sine and cosine value. The method may also include recording a sound-related feedback variable, forming a weighting vector, forming a superposition signal, and applying the superposition signal to a manipulated variable of the electrical machine.
US11757380B2
A driving device that can be prevented from being damaged is provided. Abase member includes a frame-shaped part that rotatably supports a movable part via a shaft part provided on an inner circumference side of the frame-shaped part, and an elastic structural part extending to an outer circumference side of the frame-shaped part. The elastic structural part of the base member is joined to the pedestal, and this allows the difference in amount of thermal deformation generated on the base member and the pedestal to be absorbed by deformation of the elastic structural part, thereby preventing the driving device from being damaged.
US11757377B2
A power conversion device includes: a power converter connected to an AC grid to which a load is connected; and a control circuit. The control circuit includes a harmonic compensation unit that includes a current command generation unit and a limit coefficient calculation unit and compensates for harmonic current contained in load current. The current command generation unit generates compensation current desired values for respective frequency components, and corrects the compensation current desired values using corresponding limit coefficients, to generate compensation current commands for respective frequency components. The limit coefficient calculation unit calculates each limit coefficient, on the basis of the compensation current desired value for each frequency component, and maximum voltage and maximum current that the power converter can output.
US11757365B2
A converter includes a switching stage including first and second primary transistors, a resonant stage connected to the switching stage, a transformer including a primary winding connected to the resonant stage, a rectifying stage connected to a secondary winding of the transformer and including first and second synchronous rectifiers, and a controller. The controller is configured and/or programmed to operate in a steady-state mode in which an output voltage of the converter is regulated by varying a switching frequency of the first and second primary transistors and of the first and second synchronous rectifiers and a synchronous-rectification control mode in which the output voltage is regulated when an output-voltage overshoot is detected by switching the first and second primary transistors and the first and second synchronous rectifiers at a fixed switching frequency and by varying a duty cycle of the first and second synchronous rectifiers.
US11757361B2
A DC/DC converter system includes a bidirectional DC/DC converter converting between voltage levels at first and second ports and a control system for controlling the DC/DC converter. The bidirectional DC/DC converter includes a first conversion stage connected to the first port and a second conversion stage interfaced with the first conversion stage and connected to the second port. The control system includes outer and inner control loops. The outer control loop compares a command for one of a voltage level, a current level or power at one of the first and second ports to an actual value of voltage level, current level or power level and outputs an interface current command based on the comparison. The inner control loop compares the interface current command to an actual interface current at an interface of the first and second conversion stages, and controls a switching signal duty value based on the comparison.
US11757358B2
In an example, a method includes storing a pending PWM pulse for a switching voltage regulator. The method also includes determining a switching voltage regulator is operating in a current limit mode, where an inductor current is above a current limit threshold. The method includes providing a predetermined number of PWM pulses in the current limit mode. The method also includes, responsive to providing the predetermined number of PWM pulses, ceasing storage of pending PWM pulses for the switching voltage regulator.
US11757344B2
The present disclosure provides a conversion circuit including a power supply module, positive and negative input terminals, positive and negative output terminals, a switch, an inductor, input and output capacitors, and a controller. The power supply module converts an AC power for providing three potentials on three power supply terminals respectively. The potential on the first power supply terminal is higher than the potential on the second power supply terminal, which is higher than the potential on the third power supply terminal. The positive and negative input terminals are electrically connected to the first and third power supply terminals respectively, and a voltage therebetween is an input voltage. The negative output terminal is electrically connected to the third power supply terminal. The controller is electrically connected to the positive input terminal, the second power supply terminal and the switch. A voltage across the controller is lower than the input voltage.
US11757343B2
An apparatus includes a soft start manager such as implemented via hardware, software, or a combination of hardware and software. The soft start manager receives input parameter from a power supply; the input parameter (such as output voltage, duty cycle, input voltage, etc.) is associated with conversion of the input voltage into an output voltage that powers a load. The soft start manager monitors a magnitude of the input parameter. Based at least in part on the magnitude of the input parameter, the soft start manager controls a switching period applied to switch circuitry in the power supply.
US11757336B2
A wiring board (3) has first and second rigid sections (11, 12) each having six metal leaf layers, and a flexible section (13) having two metal leaf layers that connect the both rigid sections (11, 12). A capacitor unit (34) and a filter unit 31, which supplies power to an inverter, are mounted on the first rigid section (11), and a CPU (21) and a pre-driver circuit element (22) are mounted on the second rigid section (12). Mutually-independent two control systems are arranged so as to be symmetrical about a board center line (M). Detection signal lines (51) of rotation sensors (37, 38) located at the middle of the first rigid section (11) extend along the board center line (M) on the flexible section (13). Each of the two control systems is configured along a wiring direction of the detection signal lines (51).
US11757329B2
A ventilator for a control device for a vehicle may include a stator having a plurality of coils and a rotor comprising a hollow cylinder. An impeller may include a plurality of blades, the impeller being coupled to the hollow cylinder such that a rotation of the hollow cylinder causes a rotation of the impeller. The hollow cylinder may have a plurality of magnets. The stator may partially encompasses the rotor.
US11757326B2
The present disclosure relates to a busbar unit for a motor, the busbar unit including: a holder having an inner circumferential surface on which crest portions and trough portions connected to the crest portions are formed; and a terminal coupled to the holder and including first terminal portions disposed on the crest portions, such that it is possible to obtain an advantageous effect of simplifying a structure and reducing costs.
US11757318B2
One embodiment of the present invention relates to a rotor and a motor having same, the rotor comprising: a rotor core; and a plurality of magnets arranged to be spaced apart from each other on an outer circumferential surface of the rotor core, wherein the rotor core includes: a body; and protrusions protruding obliquely inward at a predetermined angle from an inner circumferential surface of the body, wherein a predetermined gap (G1) is formed between the inner circumferential surface of the body and the end of each of the protrusions. Accordingly, the rotor and the motor having the same may minimize the amount of change in the outer circumferential surface of the rotor core by using the protrusions. As a result, it is possible to inhibit separation of the magnets attached to the outer circumferential surface of the rotor core.
US11757317B2
A spoked rotor is rotatable about an axis. The rotor includes a core. The core includes a plurality of pole segments arranged arcuately about the axis. The rotor includes a plurality of arcuately arranged magnets alternating arcuately with the pole segments, such that each of the magnets is at least in part interposed between a pair of adjacent pole segments. Each of the magnets includes a curved section extending arcuately between radially inner and outer curved section ends. An effective rotor pole location is defined on each of the pole segments. Each of the pole segments has an end opposite the effective rotor pole location. A center point is defined at the pole segment end. Each of the effective rotor pole locations is arcuately offset from a corresponding one of the center points by between about five tenths (0.5) rotor poles and about two (2.0) rotor poles.
US11757311B2
A power transmitter includes a control and communications unit and an inverter circuit configured to receive input power and convert the input power to a power signal. The power transmitter further includes a coil configured to transmit the power signal to a power receiver, the coil formed of wound Litz wire and including a first coil portion and a second coil portion, the first coil portion defining a top face and a first diameter, the second coil portion defining a second diameter, the second diameter being greater than the first diameter. The power transmitter further includes a shielding comprising a ferrite core and defining a cavity and a magnetic ring, the cavity configured such that the ferrite core substantially surrounds all but the top face of the first coil portion and the second coil portion is positioned, at least in part, above the magnetic ring.
US11757310B2
The present specification provides a wireless power reception apparatus comprising: a power pick-up unit configured to receive wireless power from a wireless power transmission apparatus by magnetic coupling with the wireless power transmission apparatus and convert an AC signal generated by the wireless power into a DC signal; a communication/control unit configured to receive the DC signal from the power pick-up unit and control the wireless power; and a load configured to receive the DC signal from the power pick-up unit. When foreign material is detected before power transmission, wireless power transmission is sustained on the basis of a safe basic power profile of 5 W or less, without interrupting power transmission, and thus, a charging delay can be prevented and the accuracy and reliability of detection of foreign material can be increased despite individual characteristics of the wireless power reception apparatus.
US11757309B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to an apparatus and method for detecting foreign objects in a wireless power transmission system. This specification provides a wireless power reception apparatus for detecting foreign objects, including a power measurement unit for generating required power information indicative of required power for the wireless power reception apparatus, sending the required power information to a wireless power transmission apparatus, and measuring power induced from the wireless power transmission apparatus and a secondary coil for receiving the power induced from the wireless power transmission apparatus. In accordance with the present invention, foreign objects intervened between the wireless power transmission apparatus and the wireless power reception apparatus are recognized, and a user removes the foreign objects. Accordingly, damage to a device attributable to foreign objects can be prevented.
US11757303B2
Provided is an external power feeder and an external power supply system that make it possible to continuously supply power to an external load even at a location without an electrical facility. An external power feeder connectable to a plurality of power supply sources includes: a plurality of connection ports which are respectively in connection with the plurality of power supply sources; a connection state acquisition unit that acquires a connection state of each of the plurality of connection ports with the power supply source; a power supply state acquisition unit that acquires a power supply state from each of the plurality of power supply sources; and a switching unit that switches from power supply from one power supply source to power supply from one other power supply source, among the connected power supply sources, based on a power supply state of the one power supply source.
US11757279B2
A module for a fire-mitigating surge arrester includes: an inner arrester module including an electrically conductive assembly; a cartridge including a first end, a second end, a sidewall that extends between the first end and the second end, and an exhaust region in the sidewall, the sidewall surrounding the inner arrester module; a first electrical component in contact with a first end of the electrically conductive assembly and the first end of the cartridge; a second electrical component in contact with a second end of the electrically conductive assembly and the second end of the cartridge; and a reinforcement structure on the sidewall, the first electrical component, and the second electrical component.
US11757275B1
Disclosed is a fitting having a main body including a distal end and a proximal end, and a first split ring coupled to the distal end of the main body, wherein the first split ring includes an opening for receiving a main tab along an outer surface of the main body, and wherein the first split ring includes a set of disengagement tabs on opposite sides of a slot. The fitting may further include a second split ring within an interior of the main body, wherein the second split ring comprises a set of interior arms operable to engage a sheath of a cable.
US11757274B2
Cable gland for guiding a cable through a wall opening, comprising a body element extending along a longitudinal axis and having an internal cable duct extending along the longitudinal axis, a clamping portion arranged on the body element and having a plurality of clamping elements, a tubular sealing element arranged inside the cable duct and connected to the body element, and a cap nut having an axial opening at one end which is mechanically coupled with the body element, wherein the body element is formed from a first material and the cap nut is formed from a second material, wherein the first material and the second material are injection moulded on to one another.
US11757265B2
A switchgear system includes a switchgear frame having an interior compartment and front opening and containing therein at least one electrical switchgear component. A truck carries an electrical component and is supported for movement on the switchgear frame. A drive mechanism connects the truck and is configured to rack in the truck into an electrically connected position with the at least one electrical switchgear component, rack out the truck from the electrically connected position into an electrically disconnected position, and rotate the truck upward from its disconnected position into a rotated position to allow operator access through the front opening to the at least one electrical component.
US11757264B2
A modular power overlay architecture includes at least two sets of power overlay tiles arranged to provide for or meet a desired power overlay architecture demand. The power overlay assembly can include a base having seats to receive the power overlay tiles. The power overlay tiles can include power switching components arranged relative to a conductive surface commonly arranged relative to each of the at least two sets of power overlay tiles.
US11757260B1
In a WBC system of the present disclosure, an LD bar array constituted by a plurality of LD bars is configured such that a main axis direction of an off-angle of at least one LD bar is reversed with respect to a main axis direction of an off-angle of the other LD bar. By doing so, even in the LD bar in which a wavelength distribution in a wafer exists, a difference between a designed lock wavelength and a gain peak wavelength can be kept within a range where an LD oscillation due to an external resonance is possible for all emitters in the LD bar, thereby an output in the WBC system can be maximized.
US11757259B2
The invention relates to an edge-emitting semiconductor laser comprising —at least two laser diodes, each of which is designed to generate electromagnetic radiation, wherein —the laser diodes are arranged on top of one another in a vertical direction, —the laser diodes are monolithically connected to one another, and —at least one frequency-stabilizing element is arranged in an end region of the laser diodes. The invention also relates to a method for producing an edge-emitting semiconductor laser.
US11757249B2
A substrate for mounting a light-emitting element includes a substrate with a plate shape and a base that protrudes from a front surface of the substrate, wherein the base has a mounting part for mounting a light-emitting element on a top surface thereof and composes a sloping surface that slopes with respect to the front surface and the substrate and the base are integrally formed of a ceramic.
US11757242B2
The present invention provides an improved wedge connector removal tool for disconnecting a transmission or distribution line wedge tap connection and the methods of using such a tool. The tool may couple to a wedge connector around the transmission or distribution lines enabling a lineman's hands to be free from supporting the tool, and the wedge may be removed from the connection without the incorporation of powder charges.
US11757238B2
An electrical connector assembly includes a contact module having an upper part and a lower part stacked with each other. The upper part includes a front/outer upper unit and a rear/inner upper unit and the lower part includes a front/outer lower unit and a rear/inner lower unit. Each unit includes an insulative body and a plurality of contacts integrally formed with the insulative body via an insert-molding process. The insulative body includes a middle sector and a pair of side sectors. The contacts include side-band contacts retained in the middle sector and differential-pair contacts retained in the side sectors.
US11757235B2
An electrical connector, comprising an insulating housing, a housing electromagnetic shielding member, and a plurality of terminal modules. The insulating housing comprises a first surface, a second surface, a plurality of terminal plugging hole groups, and a plurality of shield accommodating grooves. The first surface is opposite to the second surface. The plurality of terminal plugging hole groups are arranged at intervals. Each of the terminal plugging hole groups comprises a plurality of ground terminal plugging holes and a plurality of signal terminal plugging holes penetrating the first surface and the second surface. Each of the shield accommodating grooves is formed on the second surface and is disposed on one side of the corresponding terminal plugging hole group. The housing electromagnetic shielding member is embedded on the second surface and comprises a plurality of connecting bumps. Each of the terminal modules comprises a terminal electromagnetic shielding member.
US11757233B2
A connector detection system includes a connector interface including a connector port having an interior volume configured receive a connector of a cable; and an optical sensor. The optical sensor includes a transmitter configured to transmit a light beam across the interior volume; a receiver configured to monitor for a reflected light beam corresponding to the transmitted light beam; and processing circuitry configured to determine whether the connector is inserted into the interior volume based on a monitoring for the reflected light beam.
US11757229B2
An electrical connector system for assisting in coupling and unmating electrical connectors. The system generally includes an electromagnet to assist in mating and, alternatively, unmating or uncoupling a first electrical connector with a second electrical connector. The system may include a first electrical connector having a first plurality of contacts, an electromagnet on the first electrical connector adapted to produce a magnetic force, and an input device adapted to receive an input and to provide an output that causes an electrical current to be supplied to the electromagnet. When coupled, the first plurality of electrical contacts are conductively engaged with a second plurality of electrical contacts on the second electrical connector.
US11757222B1
To provide for high-performance communicational throughput between electronic systems, a high-performance connector pair is disclosed. The connector pair includes a pin receptacle and card edge (PRCE) connector that may be seated or connected to a pin and card edge receptacle (PCER) connector. The PRCE connector includes an edge connector, with a plurality of edge connector pads and a pin receptacle connector with a mount region connected to the printed circuit board and a receptacle portion with a plurality of conductive pin receptacles. The PRCE connector further includes a clearance between the edge connector and the receptacle portion. The PCER connector includes a pin and card edge receptacle connector with an edge socket that receives the edge connector and includes a plurality of socket pads. The PCER connector includes further includes a pin socket that receives the receptacle portion with a plurality of pins.
US11757220B2
A paddle card includes a printed circuit board and a twin-axial cable. The PCB includes a first signal pad on a top surface of the PCB and a second signal pad on a bottom surface of the PCB. The second signal pad is directly below the first signal pad. The twin-axial cable includes a first signal conductor coupled to the first signal pad and a second signal conductor coupled to the second signal pad.
US11757219B2
An electrical connector includes an insulation body, a main plate, a side plate and a plurality of terminals. The insulation body has at least one aperture penetrating through an upper surface and a lower surface of the insulation body. The main plate is fastened in the insulation body. The side plate is fastened in the insulation body. The side plate is disposed to one side of the main plate. The main plate has a first corresponding side. The side plate has a second corresponding side. The second corresponding side is corresponding to the first corresponding side in the at least one aperture. The first corresponding side and the second corresponding side are exposed to an outside of the insulation body through the at least one aperture. The plurality of the terminals are mounted in the insulation body.
US11757211B2
An electrical grounding assembly includes an electrically conductive metal grounding substrate that is electrically connectable to a structure to be electrically grounded. A corrosion-protective jacket is on the grounding substrate. The jacket is electrically conductive and water impermeable, and includes a polymeric matrix and a particulate carbonaceous material dispersed in the polymeric matrix.
US11757207B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a battery; a display; a circuit board provided at a rear of the battery; and at least one second antenna provided at a rear of the battery, wherein the at least one second antenna includes a magnetic body and a conducting wire that is wound around the magnetic body multiple times in a first direction with respect to a first axis that is substantially parallel with a surface of the display.
US11757206B1
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining data regarding interference originating from one or more interference sources, and electronically rotating polarizations of signals relating to crossed-dipole radiating elements of an antenna system, the antenna system operating in multiple frequency bands, the electronically rotating being performed for a select number of frequency bands of the multiple frequency bands and facilitating mitigation of the interference. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11757204B2
A modular wideband antenna includes a ground plane, first and second antenna elements disposed on a first surface of a substrate, a first portion of a two-layer feed balun disposed on the first surface of the substrate, and electrically coupled to the first and second antenna elements, and to the ground plane, a second portion of the two-layer feed balun disposed on a second surface of the substrate, the second portion of the two-layer feed balun being electrically coupled to a signal feed, and being capacitively coupled to the first portion of the two-layer feed balun, first and second coupling capacitances disposed on the second surface of the substrate, the first coupling capacitance being capacitively coupled to the first antenna element, and the second coupling capacitance being capacitively coupled to the second antenna element, and first and second grounding posts being electrically coupled to the first and second coupling capacitances.
US11757202B2
Embodiments of this application provide a pillar-shaped luneberg lens antenna and a pillar-shaped luneberg lens antenna array, and relate to the field of communications technologies, so that the pillar-shaped luneberg lens antenna can support dual polarization and improve a capacity of a communications system. The pillar-shaped luneberg lens antenna includes two metal plates that are parallel to each other and a pillar-shaped luneberg lens disposed between the two metal plates, the pillar-shaped luneberg lens includes a main layer and a compensation layer that are of the pillar-shaped luneberg lens, and the compensation layer is configured to compensate for equivalent dielectric constants of the main layer of the pillar-shaped luneberg lens in a TEM mode and/or a TE10 mode, so that distribution of equivalent dielectric constants of the pillar-shaped luneberg lens in the TEM mode and the TE10 mode is consistent with distribution of preset dielectric constants.
US11757201B2
The present disclosure discloses an MXene-based terahertz wave broadband super-strong absorbing foam, and belongs to the technical field of electromagnetic functional materials. The MXene-based terahertz wave broadband super-strong absorbing foam includes a porous polymer foam and a MXene nanosheet attached onto the porous polymer foam, wherein the MXene nanosheet is attached onto the porous polymer foam in a coating form, a film forming form and a suspension form; the average pore diameter of the porous polymer foam ≥500 μm, the thickness of the porous polymer foam ≤10 mm, and the filling mass of the MXene nanosheet is less than 50% of the mass of the absorbing foam.
US11757200B2
An active-passive integrated antenna is provided. The active-passive integrated antenna includes a reflective plate, a pair of mounting portions respectively secured to two sides of a bottom of the reflective plate, a dielectric plate, a plurality of passive antenna elements and an active antenna unit. More specifically, the dielectric plate is spaced apart from the reflective plate on the pair of mounting portions, and a first surface of the dielectric plate is provided with a frequency selection surface; the plurality of passive antenna elements are respectively arranged on the reflective plate and the frequency selection surface; the active antenna unit is arranged above a second surface of the dielectric plate and secured to the pair of mounting portions.
US11757189B2
An apparatus includes a radio frequency (RF) circuit to transmit or receive RF signals. The apparatus further includes a loop antenna to transmit or receive the RF signals. The apparatus further includes an impedance matching circuit coupled to the RF circuit and to the loop antenna. The impedance matching circuit includes lumped reactive components.
US11757184B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to a switched coupled inductance phase shift mechanism for beamsteering an antenna array and applied in a radar system or a communication system. The phase shift mechanism includes a variable inductor element configured to toggle between a first inductance state and a second inductance state in response to a first control bit value, and a plurality of variable capacitor elements coupled to the variable inductor element and configured to toggle between a first capacitance state and a second capacitance state in response to a second control bit value. The variable inductor element and the variable capacitor elements collectively produce a first phase shift using the first inductance and capacitance states, and collectively produce a second phase shift using the second inductance and capacitance states, where a target phase shift is produced from a difference between the first and second phase shifts. Other examples disclosed herein relate to an antenna array and a method of phase shifting with switched coupled inductance.
US11757178B2
An antenna of a terminal device, the antenna includes a metal frame, a side of the metal frame is provided with at least two slot units, each slot unit includes a first slot ring and a second slot ring, the first slot ring and the second slot ring communicate through a third slot, an outer edge circumference of the first slot ring is different from that of the second slot ring. Portions of the metal frame on both sides of the third slot are provided with an antenna feed point and a ground feed point, respectively. The metal frame is electrically connected with a ground plate in the terminal device.
US11757175B2
A straddle type vehicle comprising a rear fender arranged on an upper side of a rear wheel, and a monitoring device configured to monitor a traveling environment on the periphery of a vehicle, wherein the monitoring device includes a pair of sensors, the rear fender includes a sensor support member configured to support one of the pair of sensors on a left side of a vehicle body and the other on a right side of the vehicle body, the sensor support member includes a pair of left and right side wall portions, and a bottom wall portion configured to connect the pair of left and right side wall portions, and the pair of sensors are arranged along the pair of left and right side wall portions on the bottom wall portion.
US11757172B1
A transmission-line assembly provides a transition between more coupled and less coupled transmission lines. The more coupled transmission lines may be configured as a dual stripline, and the less coupled transmission lines may be configured as separate striplines or a dual stripline with reduced coupling. In an intermediate section, the transmission conductors transition between the more coupled and less coupled sections and at least one transmission conductor bends. A grounded shield conductor is coplanar with and edge-coupled to the one transmission conductor and extends along the bend in the one transmission conductor. The shield conductor is not connected to either of the transmission conductors, and overlaps the other transmission conductor when viewed normal to the planes of the transmission conductors, whereby the shield conductor is broadside coupled to the other transmission conductor. Capacitive coupling between the transmission conductors and the shield conductor reduce capacitive coupling between the transmission conductors.
US11757171B2
The invention relates to a MIMO antenna system for IEEE 802.11 WiFi communication. The invention also relates to a wireless device, such as a wireless access point (AP), a router, a gateway, and/or a bridge, comprising at least one antenna system according to the invention. The invention further relates to a wireless communication system, comprising a plurality of antenna systems according to the invention, and, preferably, a plurality of wireless devices according to the invention.
US11757166B2
Waveguide assemblies are described that utilize a surface-mount waveguide for vertical transitions of a printed circuit board (PCB). The surface-mount waveguide enables low transmission-loss (e.g., increased return-loss bandwidth) by utilizing a waveguide cavity positioned over a plated slot to efficiently transfer electromagnetic energy from one side of the PCB to another side. The waveguide cavity is designed to excite two resonant peaks of the EM energy to reduce a return-loss of power and increase power delivered to an antenna while supporting a high bandwidth of EM energy. Furthermore, the surface-mount waveguide does not require precise fabrication often required for vertical transitions, allowing the surface-mount waveguide to be compatible with low-cost PCB materials (e.g., hybrid PCB stack-ups).
US11757160B2
This disclosure presents an electrode lead plate (6) for a cylindrical secondary cell (1) comprising a terminal part (4) and an electrode roll (3) comprising a conductive sheet (3a). The electrode lead plate (6) comprises an inner contact region (6c) configured to be arranged in direct electrical contact with the terminal part (4), an outer contact region (6e) configured to be arranged in direct electrical contact with the conductive sheet (3a), and a fuse region (6d). Further, a terminal part (4) and a cylindrical secondary cell (1), as well as uses and methods of manufacture, are presented.
US11757149B1
A battery quenching system includes a reservoir that holds a quenching material. The battery quenching system further includes a distribution system for carrying the quenching material from the reservoir to a battery pack, a battery module, or a plurality of battery cells. The battery quenching system further includes a melting plug configured to melt at a predefined temperature, the melting of the plug resulting in release of the quenching material into the battery pack via the distribution system. The melting plug may be positioned within a tube of the distribution system or within an aperture of a battery enclosure. The battery quenching system may further include one or more quenching channels positioned within a battery pack. The distribution system may be configured to carry the quenching material to any or several of a plurality of locations within a battery pack or battery system.
US11757145B2
Methods and systems are provided for a battery thermal management system. In one example, a method includes increasing coolant to a battery above a currently demanded battery cooling in response to a predicted battery temperature exceeding a threshold temperature at an upcoming location.
US11757144B2
A plurality of battery cells each having a prismatic shape, a fixing member that fixes the plurality of battery cells in a stacked state, and a thermal insulation sheet that is sandwiched between stacking surfaces of battery cells and thermally insulates the adjacent battery cells, wherein thermal insulation sheet is an inorganic fiber sheet in which inorganic fibers are aggregated in a three-dimensionally non-directional manner and fine voids are provided between the inorganic fibers.
US11757133B2
The present invention concerns a mixture comprising: —lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide; —lithium 2-trifluoromethyl-4,5-dicyano-imidazole; and —lithium hexafluorophosphate; as well as an electrolyte composition comprising said mixture, and their uses.
US11757131B2
This invention relates to an electrolyte composition for a lithium ion battery comprising a lithium salt in a non-aqueous solvent containing an additive comprising a compound of formula R3SiOP(O)nF2; wherein each R independently is a hydrocarbyl group; and n is 0 or 1; and wherein the additive is substantially free from (R3SiO)3P(O)n and (R3SiO)2P(O)nF. Electrochemical cells and batteries also are described.
US11757123B2
The present disclosure provides a cap assembly for a secondary battery and a secondary battery. The cap assembly includes a cap plate, an electrode terminal, a fixing member, a sealing member and a connecting member, wherein: the cap plate has an electrode lead-out hole; the fixing member is fixed to the cap plate through the connecting member; the electrode terminal includes a terminal board, wherein an outer peripheral surface of the terminal board is surrounded at least in part by the fixing member to fix the electrode terminal to the fixing member, the terminal board is located at a side of the cap plate and covers the electrode lead-out hole, and the outer peripheral surface of the terminal board protrudes out of an inner wall of the electrode lead-out hole; and the sealing member is disposed between the terminal board and the cap plate to seal the electrode lead-out hole.
US11757121B2
A fuel cell system includes a solid oxide fuel cell capable of generating power by receiving a supply of a reformed gas and an oxidant gas; an oxidant gas supply device that supplies the oxidant gas to the fuel cell; a reforming unit that supplies the reformed gas to the fuel cell; a fuel supply device that supplies a fuel which is a raw material for the reformed gas to the reforming unit; a combustion unit that combusts discharged gases of the fuel cell, wherein the reforming unit can reform the fuel into the reformed gas by exchanging heat with a combustion gas produced by the combustion unit; and a first control unit controls the fuel supply device to additionally supply the fuel to the fuel cell through the reforming unit in order to prevent the oxidant gas from flowing in from downstream of a fuel electrode of the fuel cell at the time of stopping the system. The fuel cell system further includes a second control unit that controls to supply the fuel to the reforming unit before the additional supply so that the temperature of the reformed gas flowing into the fuel cell does not exceed a predetermined temperature at the time of stopping the system.
US11757115B2
An air compression system for a fuel cell system, the air compression system has a main air compressor with a maximum air flow output approximately equal to a continuous mode air flow requirement of the fuel cell system. The main air compressor weighs less than an air compressor having a maximum air flow output approximately equal to a peak air flow requirement of the fuel cell system such that the weight of the air compression system is reduced compared to a conventional air compression system. The air compression system also includes a supplemental oxygen supply system which is fluidically coupled with the fuel cell system.
US11757107B2
The invention related to metal-supported solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC), fuel cell stacks containing the same, methods of their manufacture and use thereof. The SOFC of the invention utilizes an extended electrolyte and barrier layers to prevent specific types of corrosion of the metal substrate. This new coating approach reduces the rate of degradation of the fuel cells and improves system reliability when operated over long durations.
US11757100B2
A battery cell includes a current collector, separator, anode, and deposition biasing element. The anode is positioned between the current collector and separator, and includes an ion conducting ceramic material with a porous structure. The biasing element is positioned within the battery cell so as to bias ion deposition within the anode, during a charging process, away from the separator. A method for forming a battery cell includes electrospinning particles of material into a mesh to form an anode that includes an ionically conductive material. At least one biasing element is applied to at least one of the anode and a current collector. The anode is positioned between the current collector and a separator. The current collector and the separator are joined to the anode.
US11757089B2
A carbon matrix composite material, a preparation method therefor and a battery comprising the same. The carbon matrix composite material comprises micron-sized soft carbon, micron-sized hard carbon, a nano-active material, a first carbon coating layer and a second carbon coating layer, wherein the first carbon coating layer is coated on a surface of the nano-active material to form composite particles; the composite particles are dispersed on the surfaces of the soft carbon and the hard carbon, and in the second carbon coating layer; and the second carbon coating layer coats soft carbon, the hard carbon and the composite particles.
US11757088B2
An alkaline electrochemical cell includes a cathode, an anode which includes an anode active material, and a non-conductive separator disposed between the cathode and the anode, wherein from about 20% to about 50% by weight of the anode active material relative to a total amount of anode active material has a particle size of less than about 75 μm, and wherein the separator includes a unitary, cylindrical configuration having an open end, a side wall, and integrally formed closed end disposed distally to the open end.
US11757087B2
Methods are provided for forming an electrode. The method can comprise thermally reducing GeO2 powders at a reducing temperature of 300° C. to 600° C. to produce Ge particles; mixing the Ge particles with an organic binder and a carbon source; and pressing the Ge particles with the binder and the carbon source to form the electrode. Electrodes are also provided that include a plurality of microparticles comprising Ge grains, an organic binder, and a carbon source, wherein the Ge grains comprise cubic Ge and are bonded together to form Ge particles, and wherein the Ge grains define nanopores within the electrode.
US11757072B2
In accordance with one or more aspects of the present disclosure, a semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device may include: a plurality of light-emitting devices comprising a first light-emitting device, a second light-emitting device, and a third light-emitting device, wherein each of the plurality of light-emitting devices comprises a first ohmic contact and a second ohmic contact; and a light-conversion device with embedded quantum dots, wherein a first portion of the light-conversion device includes a first plurality of quantum dots for converting light produced by the first light-emitting device into light of a first color, wherein a second portion of the light-conversion device includes a second plurality of quantum dots for converting light produced by the second light-emitting device into light of a second color, and wherein the third light-emitting device emits light of a third color.
US11757066B2
A device, system and method for producing enhanced external quantum efficiency (EQE) LED emission are disclosed. The device, system and method include a patterned layer configured to transform surface modes into directional radiation, a semiconductor layer formed as a III/V direct bandgap semiconductor to produce radiation, and a metal back reflector layer configured to reflect incident radiation. The patterned layer may be one-dimensional, two-dimensional or three-dimensional. The patterned layer may be submerged within the semiconductor layer or within the dielectric layer. The semiconductor layer is p-type gallium nitride (GaN). The patterned layer may be a hyperbolic metamaterials (HMM) layer and may include Photonic Hypercrystal (PhHc), or may be a low or high refractive index material or may be a metal.
US11757061B2
Several embodiments of semiconductor systems and associated methods of color corrections are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method for producing a light emitting diode (LED) includes forming an (LED) on a substrate, measuring a base emission characteristic of the formed LED, and selecting a phosphor based on the measured base emission characteristic of the formed LED such that a combined emission from the LED and the phosphor at least approximates white light. The method further includes introducing the selected phosphor onto the LED via, for example, inkjet printing.
US11757043B2
The disclosed technology generally relates to ferroelectric materials and semiconductor devices, and more particularly to semiconductor memory devices incorporating doped polar materials. In one aspect, a semiconductor device comprises a capacitor which in turn comprises a polar layer comprising a base polar material doped with a dopant. The base polar material includes one or more metal elements and one or both of oxygen or nitrogen. The dopant comprises a metal element that is different from the one or more metal elements and is present at a concentration such that a ferroelectric switching voltage of the capacitor is different from that of the capacitor having the base polar material without being doped with the dopant by more than about 100 mV. The capacitor stack additionally comprises first and second crystalline conductive oxide electrodes on opposing sides of the polar layer. The capacitor stack further comprises first and second barrier metal layers on respective ones of the first and second crystalline conductive oxide electrodes on opposing sides of the polar layer.
US11757038B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor memory structure. The semiconductor memory structure includes a substrate, a gate structure, a drain stressor and a source stressor. The gate structure is disposed in the substrate. Each of the source stressor and the drain stressor includes a strained part disposed in the substrate.
US11757036B2
A uniform moon-shaped bottom spacer for a VTFET device is provided utilizing a replacement bottom spacer that is epitaxially grown above a bottom source/drain region. After filling a trench that is formed into a substrate with a dielectric fill material that also covers the replacement bottom spacer, the replacement bottom spacer is accessed, removed and then replaced with a moon-shaped bottom spacer.
US11757028B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes first to third electrodes, first and second semiconductor layers, a nitride layer, and an oxide layer. A direction from the second electrode toward the first electrode is aligned with a first direction. A position in the first direction of the third electrode is between the first electrode and the second electrode in the first direction. The first semiconductor layer includes first to fifth partial regions. The first partial region is between the fourth and third partial regions in the first direction. The second partial region is between the third and fifth partial regions in the first direction. The nitride layer includes first and second nitride regions. The second semiconductor layer includes first and second semiconductor regions. The oxide layer includes silicon and oxygen. The oxide layer includes first to third oxide regions.
US11757023B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a plurality of work function metal layers and an oxygen absorbing layer over a channel region of the semiconductor device, including forming a first work function metal layer over the channel region, forming an oxygen absorbing layer over the first work function metal layer, forming a second work function metal layer over the oxygen absorbing layer. A gate electrode metal layer is formed over the plurality of work function metal layers. The work function metal layers, oxygen absorbing layer, and gate electrode metal layer are made of different materials.
US11757020B2
A method includes forming a fin extending from a substrate; forming an first isolation region along opposing sidewalls of the fin; forming a gate structure over the fin; forming an epitaxial source/drain region in the fin adjacent the gate structure; forming an etch stop layer over the epitaxial source/drain region and over the gate structure; forming a protection layer over the etch stop layer, the protection layer including silicon oxynitride; and forming a second isolation material over the protection layer, wherein forming the second isolation material reduces a nitrogen concentration of the protection layer.
US11757012B2
A technique relates to a semiconductor device. A source or drain (S/D) contact liner is formed on one or more S/D regions. Annealing is performed to form a silicide layer around the one or more S/D regions, the silicide layer being formed at an interface between the S/D contact liner and the S/D regions. A block layer is formed into a pattern over the one or more S/D regions, such that a portion of the S/D contact liner is protected by the block layer. Unprotected portions of the S/D contact liner are removed, such that the S/D contact liner protected by the block layer remains over the one or more S/D regions. The block layer and S/D contacts are formed on the S/D contact liner over the one or more S/D regions.
US11757004B2
Techniques are disclosed for forming transistors including source and drain (S/D) regions employing double-charge dopants. As can be understood based on this disclosure, the use of double-charge dopants for group IV semiconductor material (e.g., Si, Ge, SiGe) either alone or in combination with single-charge dopants (e.g., P, As, B) can decrease the energy barrier at the semiconductor/metal interface between the source and drain regions (semiconductor) and their respective contacts (metal), thereby improving (by reducing) contact resistance at the S/D locations. In some cases, the double-charge dopants may be provided in a top or cap S/D portion of a given S/D region, for example, so that the double-charge doped S/D material is located at the interface of that S/D region and the corresponding contact. The double-charge dopants can include sulfur (S), selenium (Se), and/or tellurium (Te). Other suitable group IV material double-charge dopants will be apparent in light of this disclosure.
US11756997B2
A semiconductor structure is provided. The semiconductor structure includes a plurality of nanostructures vertically stacked and separated from one another. The semiconductor structure also includes a gate stack wrapping around the plurality of nanostructures. The semiconductor structure also includes a source/drain feature adjacent to the plurality of nanostructures. The semiconductor structure also includes a semiconductor inner spacer layer interposing between the gate stack and the source/drain feature and interposing between the plurality of nanostructures and the source/drain feature.
US11756993B2
An apparatus comprising an insulated gate bipolar transistor and a super junction metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistor wherein the insulated gate bipolar transistor and the super-junction metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistor are electrically and optionally structurally coupled.
US11756992B1
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate comprising a P-type lightly doped semiconductor layer; an undoped silicon layer formed on the P-type lightly doped semiconductor layer; a first deep trench isolation and a second deep trench isolation formed from an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate to the undoped silicon layer and filled with insulating films; and a first N-type highly doped buried layer formed on the undoped silicon layer, and disposed between the first deep trench isolation and the second deep trench isolation, wherein the undoped silicon layer surrounds bottoms of the first and second deep trench isolations, and has a thickness greater than a thickness of the first N-type highly doped buried layer.
US11756988B2
A semiconductor structure includes a trench capacitor, a stacked capacitor, a first electrode plate, and a second electrode plate. The trench capacitor is located in a substrate, in which the trench capacitor has a first conductive structure and a first dielectric structure in contact with the first conductive structure. The stacked capacitor has a second conductive structure and a second dielectric structure in contact with the second conductive structure, in which the stacked capacitor is at least partially aligned with the trench capacitor in an axis vertical to a top surface of the substrate, and the first and second conductive structures are electrically connected. The trench capacitor and the stacked capacitor are electrically connected in parallel between the first and second electrode plates.
US11756986B2
An isolator includes a first electrode; a first insulating portion on the first electrode; a second electrode on the first insulating portion; a second insulating portion around the second electrode; and a first dielectric portion on the second electrode and the second insulating portion. The second insulating portion is provided along a first plane perpendicular to a first direction from the first electrode toward the second electrode. The second electrode including a bottom surface facing the first insulating portion, an upper surface facing the first dielectric portion, a first side surface connected to the bottom surface, and a second side surface connected to the upper surface and the first side surface. The upper surface is wider than the bottom surface in a second direction along the first plane. The first side surface is tilted with respect to the bottom surface and the second side surface.
US11756974B2
The present technology relates to a focus detecting device and an electronic device that can adjust the maximum value and the minimum value of sensitivity in phase detection pixels. The focus detecting device and an electronic device each include a microlens, a photoreceptor configured to receive light entering through the microlens, a light shield film provided between the microlens and the photoreceptor and configured to limit an amount of light on the photoreceptor, and a light shield wall provided vertical to the light shield film. The light shield wall or the light shield walls having a predetermined height are provided on any one or both of surfaces of the light shield film facing the photoreceptor and the microlens. The present technology can be applied to an imaging device configured to detect a focus by detection of phase difference.
US11756971B2
A solid-state imaging element of a pixel sharing type with improved driving of transistors is disclosed. A first electric charge accumulating section and a second electric charge accumulating section are arranged in a predetermined direction. A first transfer section transfers electric charge from first photoelectric conversion elements to the first electric charge accumulating section, causing it to accumulate the electric charge. A second transfer section transfers electric charge from second photoelectric conversion elements to the second electric charge accumulating section, causing it to accumulate the electric charge. A first transistor is configured to output a signal corresponding to an amount of the electric charge accumulated in each of the first electric charge accumulating section and the second electric charge accumulating section. A second transistor is arranged with the first transistor in the predetermined direction and connected in parallel to the first transistor.
US11756967B2
A display device includes a first substrate having a display area and a non-display area adjacent to the display area, the first substrate including a substrate through-hole penetrating the first substrate in a thickness direction, an etching stopper disposed on a first surface of the first substrate, the etching stopper including a stopper through-hole that overlaps the substrate through-hole and penetrates the etching stopper in the thickness direction, a data line disposed on the etching stopper, a substrate connection electrode that fills the substrate through-hole and the stopper through-hole, the substrate connection electrode being disposed in the display area and electrically connected to the data line, and a first pad disposed on a second surface of the first substrate opposite to the first surface and overlapping the substrate connection electrode. The first pad is electrically connected to the substrate connection electrode.
US11756965B2
An electro-optical device includes a substrate having light-transmissivity, a capacitance element having light-transmissivity and including a first electrode, a dielectric layer, and a second electrode, a first insulating film having light-transmissivity, a light-shielding film, a second insulating film having light-transmissivity, and a transistor. The first electrode, the dielectric layer, the second electrode, the first insulating film, the light-shielding film, the second insulating film, and the transistor are layered in this order from the substrate side, and an interfacial reflection at the first insulating film side of the light-shielding film is greater than an interfacial reflection at the dielectric layer side of the first electrode with respect to light entering from the substrate.
US11756948B2
Embodiments described herein are directed to a thin film capacitor (TFC) for power delivery that is in situ in a package substrate and techniques of fabricating the TFC. In one example, the TFC includes a first electrode, a dielectric layer over the first electrode, and a second electrode over the dielectric layer. Each of the dielectric layer and the second electrode comprises an opening. Furthermore, the two openings are positioned over one another such that the openings expose a surface of the first electrode. In this example, a first vertical interconnect access (via) is positioned on the exposed surface of the first electrode and a second via is positioned on an exposed surface of the second electrode. The TFC can be positioned in or on a layer of the package substrate close to a component (e.g., a die, a die stack, etc.) on the package substrate that may require a decoupling capacitance.
US11756947B2
Light-emitting devices are described herein. A device includes a packaging substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface and a hybridized device having a bottom surface on the top surface of the packaging substrate. The hybridized device includes a silicon backplane that includes input/output (I/O) pins and a light-emitting diode (LED) array having a bottom surface on a top surface of the silicon backplane. Passive components are disposed on the top surface of the packaging substrate. Conductive connectors are electrically coupled between the top surface of the hybridized device and the top surface of the packaging substrate.
US11756943B2
Microelectronic assemblies, and related devices and methods, are disclosed herein. For example, in some embodiments, a microelectronic assembly may include a photonic receiver; and a die coupled to the photonic receiver by interconnects, wherein the die includes a device layer between a first interconnect layer of the die and a second interconnect layer of the die. In still some embodiments, a microelectronic assembly may include a photonic transmitter; and a die coupled to the photonic transmitter by interconnects, wherein the die includes a device layer between a first interconnect layer of the die and a second interconnect layer of the die.
US11756941B2
Embodiments include semiconductor packages. A semiconductor package includes a plurality of dies on a package substrate, and a plurality of smart dies on the package substrate, where the plurality of smart dies include a plurality of interconnects and a plurality of capacitors. The semiconductor package also includes a plurality of routing lines coupled to the dies and the smart dies, where the routing lines are communicatively coupled to the interconnects of the smart dies, where each of the dies has at least two or more routing lines to communicatively couple the dies together, and where one of the routing lines is via the interconnects of the smart dies. The capacitors may be a plurality of metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitors. The dies may be a plurality of active dies. The routing lines may communicatively couple first and second active dies to first and second smart dies.
US11756937B2
A display apparatus and a method of manufacturing the same. The display apparatus includes a circuit board; and a plurality of pixels formed on the circuit board, wherein at least one of a blue light emitting diode chip, a red light emitting diode part, and a green light emitting diode chip is disposed in each of the pixels, and the blue light emitting diode chip, the red light emitting diode part and the green light emitting diode chip are covered by a coupling structure.
US11756933B2
A package device includes a first device die and second device die bonded thereto. When the area of the second device die is less than half the area of the first device die, one or more inactive structures having a semiconductor substrate is also bonded to the first device die so that the combined area of the second device die and the one or more inactive structures is greater than half the area of the first device die.
US11756919B2
It is an object to enable a non-destructive inspection of reliability of a bonding part and enabling an accurate inspection. A wedge tool includes: a groove which is formed along a direction of an ultrasonic vibration in a tip portion and in which a bonding wire is disposed in a wedge bonding; a first planar surface and a second planar surface disposed on both sides of the groove; and at least one convex portion formed away from the groove in at least one of the first planar surface and the second planar surface, wherein the bonding wire comes in contact with the convex portion by a deformation of the bonding wire in a bonding part of the bonding wire and a bonded object bonded to each other by a wedge bonding.
US11756916B2
A method for soldering a die obtained using the semiconductor technique with a leadframe, comprising the steps of providing a leadframe, which has at least one surface made at least partially of copper; providing a die, which has at least one surface coated with a metal layer; applying to the surface a solder alloy comprising at least 40 wt % of tin or at least 50% of indium or at least 50% of gallium, without lead, and heating the alloy to a temperature of at least 380° C. to form a drop of solder alloy; providing a die, which has at least one surface coated with a metal layer; and setting the metal layer in contact with the drop of solder alloy to form the soldered connection with the leadframe. Moreover, a device obtained with said method is provided.
US11756912B2
A semiconductor device includes an SiC semiconductor substrate including a diffusion layer, a first electrode provided on the SiC semiconductor substrate, a second electrode provided on the first electrode, and a resin section that is substantially the same size in a plan view as the SiC semiconductor substrate, and that is configured to seal in the second electrode.
US11756911B2
The present invention provides a structure. In an exemplary embodiment, the structure includes a base material, at least one metal pad, where a first surface of the metal pad is in contact with the base material, and a metal pedestal, where the metal pedestal is in contact with the metal pad, where a radial alignment of the metal pad is shifted by an offset distance, with respect to the metal pedestal, such that the metal pad is shifted towards a center axis of the base material, where a first dimension of the metal pad is smaller than a second dimension of the metal pad, where the second dimension is orthogonal to a line running from a center of the metal pad to the center axis of the base material, where the first dimension is parallel to the line.
US11756896B2
A semiconductor package structure and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor package structure are provided. The semiconductor package structure includes an electronic component, a conductive contact, and a first shielding layer. The electronic component has a first surface, a lateral surface angled with the first surface, and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The conductive contact is connected to the first surface of the electronic component. The first shielding layer is disposed on the lateral surface of the electronic component and a portion of the first surface of the electronic component. The first shielding layer contacts the conductive contact.
US11756891B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. In the method, first substrate is prepared. Each of the first substrates has first product regions. The first substrates are stacked, thereby electrically connecting different layers of the first substrates via a through-electrode. A second substrates having second product regions is prepared. Second semiconductor chips are attached to the second product regions. The second semiconductor chips are attached to the second substrate on a top layer of the first substrates. The second substrate is removed from the second semiconductor chips. First electrode pads of the top layer are electrically connected to second electrode pads of the second semiconductor chips via through-electrodes. The second semiconductor chips are connected to each other in parallel. The first and second product regions are separated, thereby manufacturing semiconductor chip stacks including more semiconductor chips in the top layer than the other layers.
US11756881B2
A semiconductor device includes: a first substrate; a multilayer wiring layer formed on the first substrate; a first inductor formed into a meander shape on the multilayer wiring layer in a plan view; and a second inductor formed into a meander shape on the multilayer wiring layer in a plain view, and arranged so as to be close to the first inductor in a plan view and not to overlap with the first inductor. A transformer is configured by the first inductor and the second inductor and, in a plan view, the first inductor and the second inductor extend along a first direction in which one side of the first substrate extends.
US11756874B2
An electronic device includes a carrier substrate with an electronic IC chip mounted on top of the carrier substrate. An encapsulation block on top of the front face of the carrier substrate embeds the IC chip. The encapsulation block has a through-void for positioning and confinement that extends through the encapsulation block to the top of the carrier substrate. At least one electronic component is positioned within the through-void and mounted to the top of the carrier substrate. Solder bumps or pads are located within the through-void to electrically connect the at least one electronic component to the carrier substrate.
US11756862B2
The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to an integrated chip structure. The integrated chip structure includes a standard contact disposed within a dielectric structure on a substrate. An oversized contact is disposed within the dielectric structure and is laterally separated from the standard contact. The oversized contact has a larger width than the standard contact. An interconnect wire vertically contacts the oversized contact. A through-substrate via (TSV) vertically extends through the substrate. The TSV physically and vertically contacts the oversized contact or the interconnect wire. The TSV vertically overlaps the oversized contact or the interconnect wire over a non-zero distance.
US11756858B2
A power module including a main housing, a power element, and at least one assembling component is provided. The main housing has at least one side wall and at least two ribs extending from the side wall. The power element is disposed in the main housing and is closely pressed against a heat dissipation structure by the side wall. The assembling component includes a main section and two bending sections. The main section is located between the two ribs and includes a central portion, at least one movable component, and a peripheral portion. The central portion has a fastening portion, the peripheral portion surrounds the central portion, and the movable component is connected between the central portion and the peripheral portion. The two bending sections are respectively connected to two opposite sides of the peripheral portion and are respectively embedded in the two ribs.
US11756851B2
The present disclosure provides systems for applying a compression load on at least part of an application specific integrated circuit (“ASIC”) ball grid array (“BGA”) package during the rework or secondary reflow process. The compression-loading assembly may include a top plate and a compression plate. The compression plate may exert a compression load on at least part of the ASIC using one or more compression mechanisms. The compression mechanisms may each include a bolt and a spring. The bolt may releasably couple the top plate to the compression plate and allow for adjustments to the compression load. The spring may be positioned on the bolt between the top plate and the compression plate and, therefore, may exert a force in a direction away from the top plate and toward the compression plate. The compression load may retain the solder joint and may prevent the solder separation defect during the reflow process.
US11756846B2
A glass core, a multilayer circuit board, and a method of manufacturing a glass core that appropriately form copper wiring, and suppresses crack and the like, a glass core includes: a glass plate; a first metal layer provided on the glass plate; a first electrolytic copper plating layer provided on the first metal layer; a dielectric layer provided above the first electrolytic copper plating layer; a second metal layer provided on the dielectric layer; an electroless nickel plating layer provided on the second metal layer and having a phosphorus content of less than 5 mass %; and a second electrolytic copper plating layer provided on the electroless nickel plating layer.
US11756844B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate; a die attached over the substrate; and a metal enclosure continuously encircling a space and extending vertically between the substrate and the die.
US11756842B2
A semiconductor device includes a first wafer and a second wafer. The semiconductor device includes a seal ring structure comprising a first metal structure in a body of the first wafer, a second metal structure in the body of the first wafer, a third metal structure in a body of the second wafer, and a metal bonding structure including a first set of metal elements coupling the first metal structure and the third metal structure through an interface between the first wafer and the second wafer, and a second set of metal elements coupling the second metal structure and the third metal structure through the interface between the first wafer and the second wafer.
US11756838B2
Disclosed is a method of forming a semiconductor device. The method includes providing a precursor having a substrate and gate stacks over the substrate, wherein each of the gate stacks includes an electrode layer, a first hard mask (HM) layer over the electrode layer, and a second HM layer over the first HM layer. The method further includes depositing a dielectric layer over the substrate and the gate stacks and filling spaces between the gate stacks; and performing a first chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) process to partially remove the dielectric layer. The method further includes performing an etching process to remove the second HM layer and to partially remove the dielectric layer, thereby exposing the first HM layer. The method further includes performing a second CMP process to at least partially remove the first HM layer.
US11756837B2
A method forms heterogeneous complementary FETs and a related semiconductor structure. The method comprises forming a layered nanosheet stack comprising two layers of a first channel material alternating with two layers of a second channel material, depositing a dielectric layer on a top layer of the nanosheet stack, and forming a checkered mask material with at least a first and a second row above the dielectric material. The first and the second row are distanced from each other. The method removes the first channel material and the second channel material outside an area of the checkered mask material, resulting in the at least a first row of pillars and a second row of pillars of layered nanosheet stacks. The method selectively removes in each of the pillars of the first stripe the second channel material.
US11756835B2
Semiconductor device and the manufacturing method thereof are disclosed herein. An exemplary semiconductor device comprises a first semiconductor fin and a second semiconductor fin formed over a substrate, wherein lower portions of the first semiconductor fin and the second semiconductor fin are separated by an isolation structure; a first gate stack formed over the first semiconductor fin and a second gate stack formed over the second semiconductor fin; and a separation feature separating the first gate stack and the second gate stack, wherein the separation feature includes a first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer with an air gap defined therebetween, and a bottom portion of the separation feature being inserted into the isolation structure.
US11756832B2
A method includes depositing a high-k gate dielectric layer over and along sidewalls of a semiconductor fin. The method further includes depositing an n-type work function metal layer over the high-k gate dielectric layer and performing a passivation treatment on the high-k gate dielectric layer through the n-type work function metal layer. The passivation treatment comprises a remote plasma process. The method further includes depositing a fill metal over the n-type work function metal layer to form a metal gate stack over the high-k gate dielectric layer. The metal gate stack comprising the n-type work function metal layer and the fill metal.
US11756829B2
Gate aligned contacts and methods of forming gate aligned contacts are described. For example, a method of fabricating a semiconductor structure includes forming a plurality of gate structures above an active region formed above a substrate. The gate structures each include a gate dielectric layer, a gate electrode, and sidewall spacers. A plurality of contact plugs is formed, each contact plug formed directly between the sidewall spacers of two adjacent gate structures of the plurality of gate structures. A plurality of contacts is formed, each contact formed directly between the sidewall spacers of two adjacent gate structures of the plurality of gate structures. The plurality of contacts and the plurality of gate structures are formed subsequent to forming the plurality of contact plugs.
US11756824B2
A semiconductor structure having an epitaxial structure is provided. The semiconductor structure includes a first fin and a second fin on a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor structure also includes an isolation feature over the semiconductor substrate to surround the first fin and the second fin. The semiconductor structure further includes an epitaxial structure on the first fin and the second fin. In addition, the semiconductor structure includes outer spacers on opposite sides of the epitaxial structure. The semiconductor structure also includes an inner spacer structure between the first fin and the second fin, wherein the inner spacer structure has a U-shape and covers a sidewall of the epitaxial structure.
US11756813B2
Disclosed is a substrate treating apparatus. The substrate treating apparatus includes an index unit including a load pot, in which a container is seated, and an index chamber connected to the load pot, and a process executing unit having a load lock chamber connected to the index chamber and a process chamber that treats a substrate transferred to the load lock chamber, the index unit further includes an alignment unit provided in the index chamber and that aligns a substrate type sensor transferred to the process chamber.
US11756812B2
This disclosure relates to an adhesive dispense unit for a semiconductor die bonding apparatus. The adhesive dispense unit includes an adhesive dispense nozzle and a pin member; the pin member comprising a down stand portion and a sheath portion, and the down stand is reciprocateable within the sheath portion.
US11756797B2
A etching method of a copper-molybdenum film and an array substrate are provided. The etching method of a copper-molybdenum film includes forming a copper-molybdenum film on a substrate; forming a photoresist in a predetermined pattern on the copper-molybdenum film; etching a copper film of the copper-molybdenum film with an acidic first etching solution; etching a molybdenum film of the copper-molybdenum film with a neutral or basic second etching solution, to form the copper-molybdenum film in the predetermined pattern.
US11756792B2
Transistors having a control gate isolated from a first region of semiconductor material having a first conductivity type, first and second source/drain regions having a second conductivity type different than the first conductivity type and formed in the first region of semiconductor material, and a second region of semiconductor material having the first conductivity type in contact with the first region of semiconductor material, wherein the first region of semiconductor material is between the control gate and the second region of semiconductor material, wherein the first region of semiconductor material has a first width, and wherein the second region of semiconductor material has a second width, less than or equal to the first width, as well as memory containing such transistors.
US11756791B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes first and second electrodes, first, fourth, and sixth semiconductor regions of a first conductivity type, a junction region, a fifth semiconductor region of a second conductivity type, and a gate electrode. The junction region includes a second semiconductor region of the first conductivity type and a third second semiconductor region of the second conductivity type. The second semiconductor regions and the third semiconductor regions are alternately provided in a second direction perpendicular to a first direction. A concentration of at least one first element selected from the group consisting of a heavy metal element and a proton in the junction region is greater a concentration of the first element in the fourth semiconductor region, or a density of traps in the junction region is greater than that in the first semiconductor region and greater than that in the fourth semiconductor region.
US11756779B2
An apparatus includes a tubular connector having a longitudinal axis. The connector includes a first end that connects to a first analytical system, a second end that connects to a second analytical system, and a flexible portion between the first end and the second end that curves in a direction transverse to the axis of the connector such that the connector contains ion guides to transfer ions between the first analytical system and the second analytical system.
US11756771B2
A tunable upper plasma exclusion zone (PEZ) ring adjusts a distance of plasma during processing in a processing chamber and includes: a lower surface that includes: a horizontal portion; and an upwardly tapered outer portion that is conical and that extends outwardly and upwardly from the horizontal portion at an upward taper angle of about 5° to 50° with respect to the horizontal portion, where an outer diameter of the upwardly tapered outer portion is greater than 300 millimeters (mm), and where an inner diameter where the upwardly tapered outer portion begins to extend upwardly is less than 300 mm. A controller is to, during processing of a 300 mm circular substrate, adjust the distance of plasma for treatment of the 300 mm circular substrate at least one of radially inward and radially outward using the tunable upper PEZ ring.
US11756767B2
A plasma processing apparatus includes: a chamber; first and second matching circuits; a first RF generator generating a first RF pulsed signal including a plurality of first pulse cycles in which each cycle includes first, second, and third periods, and the first RF pulsed signal has first, second, and third power levels in first, second, and third periods, respectively; a second RF generator generating a second RF pulsed signal including a plurality of second pulse cycles in which each cycle includes fourth and fifth periods, and the second RF pulsed signal has fourth and fifth power levels in fourth and fifth periods, respectively; and a third RF generator generating a third RF pulsed signal including a plurality of third pulse cycles in which each cycle includes sixth and seventh periods, and the third RF pulsed signal has sixth and seventh power levels in sixth and seventh periods, respectively.
US11756764B2
A charged particle beam apparatus includes: a movement mechanism; a particle source; an optical element; a detector; and a control mechanism, in which the control mechanism acquires a diffraction pattern including a plurality of Kikuchi lines, calculates a crystal zone axis of the sample by performing analysis based on a plurality of intersections at which two Kikuchi lines included in the diffraction pattern intersect with each other, calculates an inclination angle of the sample based on the crystal zone axis and an irradiation direction of the charged particle beam, and controls the moving mechanism based on the inclination angle.
US11756762B2
A sample holder retains a sample and can continuously rotate the sample in a single direction while the sample is exposed to a charged particle beam (CPB) or other radiation source. Typically, the CPB is strobed to produce a series of CPB images at random or arbitrary angles of rotation. The sample holder can rotate more than one complete revolution of the sample. The CPB images are used in tomographic reconstruction, and in some cases, relative rotation angles are used in the reconstruction, without input of an absolute rotation angle.
US11756761B2
A Wien filter and a charged particle beam imaging apparatus are provided. The Wien filter Wien filter, including a Wien filter body which includes: an electrostatic deflector, including at least one pair of electrodes, respective two electrodes in each pair of which are opposite to each other, each electrode including an electrode body constructed in an arc-shaped form, and respective electrode bodies of respective two electrodes in each pair of the at least one pair of electrodes being arranged concentrically with and opposite to each other in a diameter direction, and the at least one pair of electrodes being configured to generate respective electric fields by cooperation of the respective two electrodes in each pair of the at least one pair of electrodes, in the condition of respective bias voltages applied individually thereon; and a magnetic deflector, including at least one pair of magnetic poles, respective two magnetic poles in each pair of which are opposite to each other, each magnetic pole including a magnetic pole body constructed in an arc-shaped form, and respective magnetic pole bodies of respective two magnetic poles in each pair of the at least one pair of magnetic poles being arranged concentrically with and opposite to each other in the diameter direction, and the magnetic pole bodies of the at least one pair of magnetic poles in the magnetic deflector and the electrode bodies of the at least one pair of electrodes in the electrostatic deflector being arranged concentrically and spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction, and the at least one pair of magnetic poles being configured to generate respective magnetic fields by cooperation of respective two magnetic poles in each pair of the at least one pair of magnetic poles; a resultant electric field formed collectively by all of the respective electric fields is perpendicular to a resultant magnetic field formed collectively by all of the respective magnetic fields; and each electrode is also provided with a respective first protrusion extending radially inwards from a radial inner side of the respective electrode body thereof, and each magnetic pole is also provided with a second protrusion extending radially inwards from a radial inner side of the respective magnetic pole body thereof.
US11756759B2
An electromagnetic relay includes a fixed contact, a movable contact piece having a movable contact, a drive shaft, an electromagnetic drive device, and a positioning portion. The movable contact piece is movable in a first direction contacting the fixed contact and in a second direction separating from the fixed contact. The electromagnetic drive device includes a movable iron core integrally movably connected to the drive shaft. The electromagnetic drive device switches between a contact state in which the movable contact comes into contact with the fixed contact and a separate state in which the movable contact is separated from the fixed contact by moving the drive shaft with the movable iron core. The positioning portion positions the drive shaft or the movable iron core in the separate state. The drive shaft or the movable iron core includes a first inclined portion that contacts the positioning portion in the separate state.
US11756751B2
A functional component having a button function includes a support component, a film, and an electrical switching element. The support component has a recess. The film covers the recess. The electrical switching element is situated below the recess and is actuatable by pressure being exerted on the film in the area above the recess. A ring-shaped or hollow cylindrical body is situated along an inner edge surface of the recess and is in contact with the film.
US11756739B2
An electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor element and an electrolytic solution. The capacitor element includes: an anode body including a dielectric layer; a cathode body; and a solid electrolyte in contact with the dielectric layer. The electrolytic solution includes a solvent, a solute, and a polymer component. The solvent includes an ethylene glycol compound. The polymer component includes polyalkylene glycol. The polyalkylene glycol includes at least one of (i) a mixture of polyoxyethylene and polyoxypropylene and (ii) an oxyethylene-oxypropylene copolymer. In the polyalkylene glycol, a molar ratio m/n of oxyethylene units to oxypropylene units is greater than 1.
US11756737B2
A multi-layer ceramic capacitor includes: a multi-layer unit including ceramic layers laminated in a first direction and electrodes disposed between the ceramic layers, positions of end portions of the electrodes falling within a range of 0.5 μm in a second direction; and side margins each containing manganese or magnesium and silicon and facing each other in the second direction. When each margin is equally divided into an inner region and an outer region, a total concentration of manganese and magnesium in the outer region is higher than a total concentration of manganese and magnesium in the inner region and higher than a total concentration of manganese and magnesium in the ceramic layers, and a concentration of silicon in the inner region is not less than a concentration of silicon in the outer region and higher than a concentration of silicon in the ceramic layers.
US11756736B2
A manufacturing method of ceramic powder includes mixing a barium carbonate having a specific surface are of 15 m2/g or more, a titanium dioxide having a specific surface area of 20 m2/g or more, a first compound of a donor element having a larger valence than Ti, and a second compound of an acceptor element having a smaller valence than Ti and having a larger ion radium than Ti and the donor element, and synthesizing barium titanate powder by calcining the barium carbonate, the titanium dioxide, the first compound and the second compound until a specific surface area of the barium titanate powder becomes 4 m2/g or more and 25 m2/g or less.
US11756734B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a body including a dielectric layer, first and second internal electrodes, a stacked portion including first and second surfaces opposing each other in a stacking direction of the first and second internal electrodes, third and fourth surfaces connected to the first and second surfaces and opposing each other, and fifth and sixth surfaces connected to the first and second surfaces, connected to the third and fourth surfaces, and opposing each other, and a coating layer disposed on the first to sixth surfaces of the stacked portion and having first and second connection portions; and first and second external electrodes connected to the first and second internal electrodes, respectively, and arranged on the third and fourth surfaces of the body, wherein the first and second internal electrodes are respectively connected to the first and second external electrodes through the first and second connection portions.
US11756731B2
A system and method for providing and programming a programmable inductor is provided. The structure of the programmable inductor includes multiple turns, with programmable interconnects incorporated at various points around the turns to provide a desired isolation of the turns during programming. In an embodiment the programming may be controlled using the size of the vias, the number of vias, or the shapes of the interconnects.
US11756729B2
A compression-molding method for a permanent includes: providing a drive coil to generate an electromagnetic force when a transient current is passed into the drive coil, so as to apply a molding compression force to magnetic powder under compression, and providing an orientation coil to generate an orientation magnetic field when a transient current is passed into the orientation coil, thereby providing the magnetic powder under compression with an anisotropic property; and synchronously passing the transient currents to the drive coil and the orientation coil to synchronously generate the electromagnetic force and the orientation magnetic field, thereby completing compression-molding of the permanent magnet, wherein a magnitude of the electromagnetic force and an intensity of the orientation magnetic field are respectively changed by changing peak values of the transient currents.
US11756725B2
A switching power converter includes a first switching stage, a second switching stage, a coupled inductor, and a boost winding. The coupled inductor includes a first phase winding, a second phase winding, and a magnetic core. The first phase winding is wound at least partially around a first portion of the magnetic core, and the first phase winding is electrically coupled to the first switching stage. The second phase winding is wound at least partially around a second portion of the magnetic core, and the second phase winding is electrically coupled to the second switching stage. The boost winding forms at least one turn such that mutual magnetic flux associated with each of the first and second phase windings flows through the at least one turn.
US11756724B2
A coil electronic component includes a support substrate; first and second coil patterns disposed on an upper surface and a lower surface of the support substrate, respectively; an encapsulant covering at least portions of the support substrate and the first and second coil patterns; and first and second external electrodes connected to the first and second coil patterns, respectively, and disposed on portions of a lower surface of the encapsulant, wherein at least one portion of a lower surface of the first coil pattern is exposed from the encapsulant, at least one portion of a lower surface of the second coil pattern is exposed from the encapsulant, and the first and second external electrodes are respectively connected to the at least one portion of the lower surface of the first coil pattern and the at least one portion of the lower surface of the second coil pattern.
US11756722B2
An inductor includes an annular core, and a first coil and a second coil which are wound around the core. The core has an internal surface, an external surface, a first end surface, and a second end surface. The first coil and the second coil include a first coil piece having a length of one turn and a second coil piece having a length of one turn. The first coil piece and the second coil piece surround the internal surface, the first end surface, the external surface, and the second end surface of the core. The first coil piece has, at its tip, a joint portion to be joined to the second coil piece, and the second coil piece has, at its tip, a joint surface to be in contact with the joint portion. Thus, the resistance value of the coil is reduced.
US11756699B1
A conductive silver aluminum paste includes the following components by weight percentage: 80.0%-90.0% of silver powder; 0.3%-2.5% of aluminum powder; 0.0%-1.5% of silicon powder; 1.0%-6.0% of first-type glass powder; 0.5%-4.0% of second-type glass powder; and 7.0%-15.0% of organic vehicle. The first-type glass powder is Pb-Zn-B-O-M glass powder, and the second-type glass powders is Ba-B-O-M glass powder, M is at least one of alkali metal elements; the organic vehicle is a vehicle of organic resin and/or cellulose, and a content of the organic resin and/or the cellulose in the organic vehicle is not higher than 10.0% of a total mass of the organic vehicle. By introducing two different types of glass powder, the contact resistance between the metal grid and the PN junction layer is reduced, thereby obtaining high-performance silver aluminum pastes for N-type Topcon monocrystalline silicon cells and high-efficiency electrode metallization for N-type silicon solar cells.
US11756694B2
The present disclosure describes various aspects of remote presence interfaces (RPIs) for use on portable electronic devices (PEDs) to interface with remote presence devices. An RPI may allow a user to interact with a telepresence device, view a live video feed, provide navigational instructions, and/or otherwise interact with the telepresence device. The RPI may allow a user to manually, semi-autonomously, or autonomously control the movement of the telepresence device. One or more panels associated with a video feed, patient data, calendars, date, time, telemetry data, PED data, telepresence device data, healthcare facility information, healthcare practitioner information, menu tabs, settings controls, and/or other features may be utilized via the RPI.
US11756690B2
Computer-implemented methods are disclosed for estimating values of hemodynamic forces acting on plaque or lesions. One method includes: receiving one or more patient-specific parameters of at least a portion of a patient's vasculature that is prone to plaque progression, rupture, or erosion; constructing a patient-specific geometric model of at least a portion of a patient's vasculature that is prone to plaque progression, rupture, or erosion, using the received one or more patient-specific parameters; estimating, using one or more processors, the values of hemodynamic forces at one or more points on the patient-specific geometric model, using the patient-specific parameters and geometric model by measuring, deriving, or obtaining one or more of a pressure gradient and a radius gradient; and outputting the estimated values of hemodynamic forces to an electronic storage medium. Systems and computer readable media for executing these methods are also disclosed.
US11756687B2
A computerized method performed by a processor, an apparatus and a computer program product the method comprising: receiving a model associating motion parameters of an action performed by a subject with a score, the model based at least partially on data obtained in a controlled environment while performing a task on a first time period; determining action parameters during motion of the subject within an uncontrolled environment on a second time period; and providing the action parameters to the model, to obtain an assessment of an expected score for the subject performance of the task as would be performed by the subject in the controlled environment.
US11756683B2
Various systems and methods for collecting patient data are discussed herein. According to some systems and methods, a timer may be started, and a blood pressure data collection system is actuated to obtain a blood pressure measurement of a patient upon the expiration of the timer. The timer may be incorporated into a patient data collection system or method to ensure the patient is relaxed and calm prior to taking a blood pressure measurement. An event may be sensed by an environmental sensor system and the timer may be started in response to sensing the event. A clinician leaving a room where the patient is disposed is one example of an event. An interruption may be sensed by the environmental sensor system and the timer may be terminated in response to sensing the interruption. The clinician entering the room where the patient is disposed in one example of an interruption.
US11756678B1
The present disclosure provides a method and system for scheduling vaccines in a smart city based on the Internet of Things (IoT), which is executed by a vaccine management platform. The method includes obtaining a service scope corresponding to each vaccination point in a preset area, obtaining information related to vaccine service within the service scope, the information related to the vaccine service including vaccination information, information of target persons to be vaccinated, and a time type of each preset time point, determining a prediction result based on the information related to the vaccine service within the service scope, the prediction result including a number of possible to-be-vaccinated persons at the each vaccination point at the each preset time point, and determining an allocation scheme based on the prediction result.
US11756672B2
A surgical exercise performed with a surgical robotic system is sensed by depth cameras, generating 3D point cloud data. Robot system data associated with the surgical robotic system is logged. Object recognition is performed on image data produced by the one or more depth cameras, to recognized objects, including surgical equipment and people, in the operating room (OR). The surgical exercise is digitized by storing the 3D point cloud data of unrecognized objects, a position and orientation associated with the recognized objects, and c) the robot system data.
US11756671B2
A method for administering an exposure treatment of a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) uses a mobile app and a server application. A user state of a patient undergoing a first step of the CBT based on the patient's condition during the first step is detected by sensors of the patient's smartphone. A situational state of the patient's surroundings during the first step is detected by the smartphone sensors. The mobile app determines whether the patient has made progress performing the first step. A user prompt is generated based on the user state and situational state. A next step of the CBT is configured based on the user state and situational state. The characteristics of the user prompt are generated using machine learning based on past task completions by the patient and other users so as to increase the likelihood that the patient will complete the next step of the CBT.
US11756668B2
Disclosed is a system for medical procedure tracking, evaluation and assistance, wherein one or more video cameras, one or more acoustic sensors or one or more medical device interfaces acquire video, audio or medical device feeds from a medical treatment setting. A scene evaluation module detects scene related features in the video, audio or medical device feeds. A procedure compliance assessment module compares one or more scene related features detected and reported by the scene evaluation module to a list of expected actions or equipment usages associated with the procedure being performed in the treatment setting. A procedure assistance module provides compliance based procedure related action recommendations or instructions from within the list of expected actions or equipment usages.
US11756665B2
A phototherapy apparatus with interactive user interface for treating biological tissue of an animal or human target. The user interface comprises intuitive graphic menus which allow the clinicians or practitioners to define the properties of the biological tissue through easily observable physical characteristics such as weight, skin color, and hair color of the patient. The central control unit of the phototherapy apparatus then automatically optimizes the parameters of the light source according to the properties of the biological tissue and generates an appropriate treatment protocol to produce the optimum phototherapy result.
US11756656B2
A method is provided for treating or preventing symptoms of asthma in a subject in need thereof by administering a corticosteroid pharmaceutical composition to a subject qualified for over-the-counter access to the corticosteroid pharmaceutical composition. In some embodiments, the corticosteroid pharmaceutical composition includes a class B corticosteroid, a glucocorticosteroid, budesonide, ciclesonide, fluticasone furoate, mometasone furoate, fluticasone propionate, or beclomethasone dipropionate.
US11756631B2
A target value of programmed bits of a first programming distribution of a set of programming distributions associated with a memory device is established. A first read voltage level is applied to a wordline portion of the memory device. A count of programmed bits in the set of programming distributions corresponding to the first read voltage level is determined. A measured ratio of the programmed bits of the first programming distribution to the count of programmed bits in the set of programming distributions is determined. The target value is compared to the measured ratio to determine a comparison result. An action is executed in view of the comparison result.
US11756630B2
Apparatuses and techniques are described for obtaining a threshold voltage distribution for a set of memory cells based on a user read mode. The user read mode can be based on various factors including a coding of a page and an increasing or decreasing order of the read voltages. The read process for the Vth distribution is made to mimic the read mode which is used when the memory device is in the hands of the end user. This results in a Vth distribution which reflects the user's experience to facilitate troubleshooting. In some cases, one or more dummy read operations are performed, where the read result is discarded, prior to a read operation which is used to build the Vth distribution.
US11756628B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a first conductor extending in a first direction, bit lines, sense amplifiers, and a second conductor extending in the first direction. A plurality of first memory cells being connected to the first conductor. The bit lines respectively connected to the first memory cells. The first sense amplifiers are respectively connected to a plurality of first bit lines included in the bit lines, each of the first sense amplifiers including a first sense node, and a first transistor connected between the first sense node and a corresponding one of the first bit lines. The second conductor function as gate electrodes of the first transistors included in the first sense amplifiers.
US11756616B2
A computer includes: a memristor array including memristors arranged at intersections between word lines and a first bit line in the memristor array and at intersections between the word lines and second bit lines in the memristor array; an adder circuit configured to obtain sum voltages for the second bit lines by adding first voltages generated according to currents that flow in the second bit lines when a first pattern is supplied to the word lines to difference voltages between a reference voltage generated according to a current that flows in the first bit line when a second pattern is supplied to the word lines and second voltages generated according to currents that flow in the second bit lines when a second pattern is supplied to the word lines; and a detection circuit that detects a second bit line that corresponds to a maximum value of the sum voltages.
US11756607B2
An electronic device includes a memory controller and a memory device. The memory controller that controls the memory device includes a write buffer to temporarily store write data received from a host, a write timing controller to receive temperature information indicating a temperature of the memory device and generate write timing information based on the temperature information, the write timing information indicating a write timing at which the write data is transferred to and stored in the memory device, and a write operation controller to control the write buffer and the memory device based on the write timing information such that the write data stored in the write buffer is transferred to and stored in the memory device.
US11756601B2
Methods, systems, and devices for differential sensing for a memory device are described. A memory device in accordance with examples as disclosed herein may include a sense component having a signal development component for generating a sense signal, a reference component for generating a reference signal, and a tail component coupled with the signal development component and the reference component. The tail component may be configured for canceling common aspects of the sense signal and the reference signal. Additionally or alternatively, a memory device in accordance with examples as disclosed herein may include a sense component having a sense amplifier configured to operate in multiple power domains, with one power domain associated with sense signal and reference signal generation and comparison, and another power domain associated with logical signal or information transfer.
US11756594B2
Memory devices might include an array of memory cells, a plurality of access lines, and control logic. The array of memory cells includes a plurality of strings of series-connected memory cells. Each access line of the plurality of access lines is connected to a control gate of a respective memory cell of each string of series-connected memory cells of the plurality of strings of series-connected memory cells. The control logic is configured to: open the array of memory cells for multiple read operations; read first page data from respective memory cells coupled to a selected access line of the plurality of access lines; read second page data from the respective memory cells coupled to the selected access line; and close the array of memory cells subsequent to reading the first page data and the second page data.
US11756573B2
Disclosed is an electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus includes a communicator comprising communication circuitry, and a processor configured to control the electronic apparatus to, in response to a call request being received through the communicator, transmit CAPTCHA information to an external device that requests the call, and in response to receiving response information about the CAPTCHA information from the external device, identify a counterpart that requests the call based on whether the response information is matched with the CAPTCHA information, and provide information on the identified counterpart.
US11756567B2
In an approach to generating conversational image representations, one or more computer processors detect one or more utterances by a user, wherein utterances are either textual or acoustic. The one or more computer processors generate one or more image representations of the one or more detected utterances utilizing a generative adversarial network restricted by one or more user privacy parameters, wherein the generative adversarial network is fed with an extracted sentiment, a generated avatar, an identified topic, an extracted location, and one or more user preferences. The one or more computer processors display the generated one or more image representations on one or more devices associated with respective one or more recipients of the one or more utterances.
US11756561B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating discrete latent representations of input audio data. Only the discrete latent representation needs to be transmitted from an encoder system to a decoder system in order for the decoder system to be able to effectively to decode, i.e., reconstruct, the input audio data.
US11756555B2
A system is provided to categorize voice prints during a voice authentication. The system includes a processor and a computer readable medium operably coupled thereto, to perform voice authentication operations which include receiving an enrollment of a user in the biometric authentication system, requesting a first voice print comprising a sample of a voice of the user, receiving the first voice print of the user during the enrollment, accessing a plurality of categorizations of the voice prints for the voice authentication, wherein each of the plurality of categorizations comprises a portion of the voice prints based on a plurality of similarity scores of distinct voice prints in the portion to a plurality of other voice prints, determining, using a hidden layer of a neural network, one of the plurality of categorizations for the first voice print, and encoding the first voice print with the one of the plurality of categorizations.
US11756554B2
An attribute identification technology that can reject an attribute identification result if the reliability thereof is low is provided. An attribute identification device includes: a posteriori probability calculation unit 110 that calculates, from input speech, a posteriori probability sequence {q(c, i)} which is a sequence of the posteriori probabilities q(c, i) that a frame i of the input speech is a class c; a reliability calculation unit 120 that calculates, from the posteriori probability sequence {q(c, i)}, reliability r(c) indicating the extent to which the class c is a correct attribute identification result; and an attribute identification result generating unit 130 that generates an attribute identification result L of the input speech from the posteriori probability sequence {q(c, i)} and the reliability r(c). The attribute identification result generating unit 130 obtains a most probable estimated class c{circumflex over ( )}, which is a class that is estimated to be the most probable attribute, from the posteriori probability sequence {q(c, i)} and sets ϕ indicating rejection as the attribute identification result L if the reliability r(c{circumflex over ( )}) of the most probable estimated class c{circumflex over ( )} falls within a predetermined range indicating that the reliability r(c{circumflex over ( )}) is low and sets the most probable estimated class c{circumflex over ( )} as the attribute identification result L otherwise.
US11756552B2
A voice recognition apparatus includes: a communication circuit acquiring a speech sentence that is a result of voice recognition of a speech; a storage storing digit number information indicative of the maximum number of digits; and a control circuit. When the number of digits of a first numerical value indicated by a first numeral included in the speech sentence is larger than the maximum number of digits, the control circuit replaces the first numeral in the speech sentence with a second numeral indicative of a second numerical value having the number of digits equal to or less than the maximum number of digits. The control circuit divides the first numeral into a plurality of numerals and adds numerical values respectively indicated by the plurality of numerals to calculate the second numerical value.
US11756546B2
Implementations set forth herein relate to employing dynamic regulations for governing responsiveness of multiple automated assistant devices, and specifically the responsiveness an automated assistant to a given spoken utterance that has been acknowledged by two or more of the assistant devices. The dynamic regulations can be context-dependent and adapted over time in order that the automated assistant can accommodate assistant interaction preferences that may vary from user to user. For instance, a spoken utterance such as “stop,” may be intended to affect different assistant actions based on a context in which the user provided the spoken utterance. The context can refer to a location of the user relative to other rooms in a home, a time of day, a user providing the spoken utterance, an arrangement of the assistant devices within a home, and/or a state of each device in the home.
US11756544B2
Implementations described herein receive audio data that captures a spoken utterance, generate, based on processing the audio data, a recognition that corresponds to the spoken utterance, and determine, based on processing the recognition, that the spoken utterance is ambiguous (i.e., is interpretable as requesting performance of a first particular action exclusively and is also interpretable a second particular action exclusively). In response to determining that the spoken utterance is ambiguous, implementations determine to provide an enhanced clarification prompt that renders output that is in addition to natural language. The enhanced clarification prompt solicits further user interface input for disambiguating between the first particular action and the second particular action. Determining to provide the enhanced clarification prompt includes a current or prior determination to provide the enhanced clarification prompt instead of a natural language (NL) only clarification prompt that is restricted to rendering natural language.
US11756540B2
A brain-inspired spoken language understanding system, comprises: a first module that facilitates the conversion of a voice input into phoneme sequences; a buffer module that facilitates the storing of the phoneme sequences until they are clustered into a first storage as one or more meaningful thought representations; a second module that facilitates the monitoring of the reasoning, disambiguation, and prioritization of the system, in addition to controlling the system; a seventh module and an eighth module that facilitate the capturing of at least one non-verbal signal from a conversation, and create at least one time-synchronized non-verbal object, with the help of a third knowledge base; a third module that facilitates the conversion of the phoneme sequences and at least one time-synchronized non-verbal object into sequences of phonetics-based words; a fourth module that facilitates the conversion of the phonetics-based words into sequences of thought representations, with the help of a first knowledge base; a fifth module that facilitates the fine-tuning of the thought representations, with the help of the first knowledge base and a second knowledge base; and a sixth module that maintains the instance of conversation as thought representations in the form of one or more connected stories. A device for implementing the brain-inspired spoken language understanding system and its method of functioning are also disclosed.
US11756539B2
A system, apparatus, and method for processing a natural language, and a computer readable recording medium are provided. The system includes a user device configured to receive a compound or complex sentence and a natural language processing apparatus configured to generate a plurality of control commands for the user device based on whether operations intended by a user are sequentially performable in the compound or complex sentence received from the user device.
US11756538B1
Devices and techniques are generally described for pre-caching of speech processing feature data. In various examples, first data indicating source data is received from a first speech processing component. The source data may be used to generate first feature data. In various examples, a first request to process first input data is received. A second speech processing component may generate the source data during processing of the first input data. The first feature data may be generated using the source data. The first feature data may be sent to the first speech processing component. In some examples, the first speech processing component may store the first feature data in a first cache local to the first speech processing component.
US11756537B2
Techniques are described herein for enabling an automated assistant to adjust its behavior depending on a detected age range and/or “vocabulary level” of a user who is engaging with the automated assistant. In various implementations, data indicative of a user's utterance may be used to estimate one or more of the user's age range and/or vocabulary level. The estimated age range/vocabulary level may be used to influence various aspects of a data processing pipeline employed by an automated assistant. In various implementations, aspects of the data processing pipeline that may be influenced by the user's age range/vocabulary level may include one or more of automated assistant invocation, speech-to-text (“STT”) processing, intent matching, intent resolution (or fulfillment), natural language generation, and/or text-to-speech (“TTS”) processing. In some implementations, one or more tolerance thresholds associated with one or more of these aspects, such as grammatical tolerances, vocabularic tolerances, etc., may be adjusted.
US11756525B1
One disclosed example method includes a device receiving an audio signal recorded in a physical environment and applying a machine learning model onto the audio signal to generate an enhanced audio signal. The machine learning model is configured to simultaneously remove interference and distortion from the audio signal and is trained via a training process. The training process includes generating a training dataset by generating a clean audio signal and generating a noisy distorted audio signal based on the clean audio signal that includes both an interference and a distortion. The training further includes constructing the machine learning model as a generative adversarial network (GAN) model that includes a generator model and multiple discriminator models, and training the machine learning model using the training dataset to minimize a loss function defined based on the clean audio signal and the noisy distorted audio signal.
US11756518B2
Vocal audio of a user together with performance synchronized video is captured and coordinated with audiovisual contributions of other users to form composite duet-style or glee club-style or window-paned music video-style audiovisual performances. In some cases, the vocal performances of individual users are captured (together with performance synchronized video) on mobile devices, television-type display and/or set-top box equipment in the context of karaoke-style presentations of lyrics in correspondence with audible renderings of a backing track. Contributions of multiple vocalists are coordinated and mixed in a manner that selects for presentation, at any given time along a given performance timeline, performance synchronized video of one or more of the contributors. Selections are in accord with a visual progression that codes a sequence of visual layouts in correspondence with other coded aspects of a performance score such as pitch tracks, backing audio, lyrics, sections and/or vocal parts.
US11756503B2
An electronic device includes a display panel and image processing circuitry. The image processing circuitry receives input image data corresponding to an image to display on the display panel, modifies the input image data by executing a first context task (e.g., lower priority task), and receives a context switch request. The image processing circuitry also pauses modification of the input image data by pausing execution of the first context task and then switches to modifying the input image data by executing a second context task (e.g., higher priority task).
US11756501B2
An output circuit includes a first switch that outputs a positive voltage signal received via a first node when in an ON state, a second switch that outputs a negative voltage signal received via a second node when in an ON state, third and fourth switches that set the first and second nodes to a reference power supply voltage when in an ON state, a first voltage follower circuit that supplies a voltage obtained by shifting a voltage of the positive voltage signal supplied to the first node to a negative side by a predetermined voltage difference to a gate of the first switch, and a second voltage follower circuit that supplies a voltage obtained by shifting a voltage of the negative voltage signal supplied to the second node to a positive side by a predetermined voltage difference to a gate of the second switch.
US11756482B2
A light emitting display apparatus and a driving method thereof. The light emitting display apparatus includes a display panel configured to display an image, a timing controller including an on bias stress (OBS) voltage calculator configured to calculate an optimal OBS voltage value on the basis of a refresh rate of the display panel and a data signal which is to be supplied to the display panel, and a power supply configured to generate an OBS voltage which is to be supplied to the display panel, on the basis of the optimal OBS voltage value.
US11756480B2
A pixel of a display device includes a first transistor including a top gate coupled to a first node, a first terminal, a second terminal coupled to a second node, and a bottom gate, a second transistor including a gate coupled to a writing signal line, a first terminal coupled to a data line, and a second terminal coupled to the first node, a storage capacitor coupled between the first node and the second node, a light emitting element coupled between the second node and a second power supply voltage line, and a seventh transistor including a gate coupled to an initialization signal line, a first terminal coupled to a bias voltage line, and a second terminal coupled to the bottom gate.
US11756476B1
A display device includes a display panel, a backlight unit configured to provide light to the display panel, an external input interface configured to receive an image signal and image information about the image signal from an external device, and a processor configured to, when a frequency of the image signal is reduced from a first frequency to a second frequency according to a variable refresh rate (VRR) operation, transmit a local dimming signal based on a third frequency between the first frequency and the second frequency to the backlight unit.
US11756466B2
Provided is an electronic apparatus including a first display, a second display, a lens array between the first display and the second display, a first polarization modulation array between the first display and the lens array, a second polarization modulation array between the lens array and the second display, a memory, and at least one processor configured to identify a first area having a luminance lower than a reference luminance in the second display, identify, to control a first luminance of the first area in the second display to be the reference luminance, a first polarization angle variation corresponding to a first area in the first polarization modulation array and a second polarization angle variation corresponding to a first area in the second polarization modulation array, control the first polarization modulation array based on the first polarization angle variation, and control the second polarization modulation array based on the second polarization angle variation.
US11756462B2
The disclosure provides a display driving device and an operation method thereof. The display driving device includes a timing controller circuit and a driving circuit. The timing controller circuit performs oblique filter processing on an original image frame by an oblique filter with an oblique filter mask matrix to generate a processed image frame. The oblique filter comprises an oblique high-pass filter or a smoothing filter. Original pixel data of a current pixel in the original image frame is replaced with new pixel data when the oblique filter mask matrix is configured for the current pixel. The driving circuit drives a display panel module according to the processed image frame. The display panel module includes a tilt lenticular lens layer having a first tilt angle. A second tilt angle of the oblique filter mask matrix of the oblique filter processing corresponds to the first tilt angle.
US11756450B2
An anthropomorphic test device includes a spine assembly, a pair of clavicle assemblies coupled to the spine assembly, a pair of arms with a respective one arm coupled to a respective one clavicle assembly, and at least one pad assembly having a clavicle portion mounted to a respective one of the clavicle assemblies and positioned onto a respective one arm. Each pad assembly includes a clavicle portion, which includes an arm portion and a clavicle base region, and a neck portion, which includes a raised neck region and a neck base region. The neck portion and clavicle portion are each formed from thermosetting materials, with the neck portion being stiffer than the clavicle portion, and with the neck and clavicle portions coupled together with mechanical locking features. The pad assembly is configured to provide a human-like response while reducing or eliminating entrapment of a shoulder belt during a crash test.
US11756448B2
A system and method for predicting risk of violence for an individual (primarily school violence, but not limited to school violence) performs the following steps: (a) receiving responses to questions from an individual; (b) extracting by a computerized annotator words or phrases from the questions and responses; (c) assigning by the annotator extracted word(s) or phrase(s) to at least one of a plurality of pre-defined categories; and (d) automatically identifying and scoring words or phrases that could be classified into the pre-defined categories by a trained machine-learning engine to produce a score reflecting relative risk of violence by the individual. The pre-defined categories include: expression of violent acts or thoughts of the individual; expression of negative feelings, thoughts or acts of others; expression of negative feelings, thoughts or acts of the individual; expression of family discord or tragedies; and expression of protective factors.
US11756442B1
A method is described. Recorded data capable of being consciously experienced by a user through a sensory form is represented as an indexed digital sequence and maintaining the indexed digital sequence in a storage device. The data is provided to the user via an output device capable of reproducing the data in the sensory form while the user is monitored with a monitor device for a point at which a non-conscious stimuli, as evoked by the user in reaction to the providing of the data, is captured. The stimuli as captured by the monitor device is paired using a processing device with a portion of the data corresponding to the point at which the stimuli was evoked and the data in the storage is reorganized with the processing device as categorized by the stimuli. The output device is configured to efficiently provide the reorganized data as personalized to the user.
US11756436B2
Setting unit performs the setting of each of the operating modes of a plurality of aerial vehicles on the basis of communication quality information of the planned route of the plurality of aerial vehicles that fly in a group. Specifically, setting unit firstly specifies the planned positions and periods in which each aerial vehicle is to fly from the flight plan information of the plurality of aerial vehicles that fly in a group. Next, setting unit specifies a communication quality of first wireless communication unit of each aerial vehicle in each position and each period from the communication quality information that represents the communication quality in the specified positions and periods. Then, setting unit specifies an operating mode setting schedule of main unit mode and auxiliary unit mode, which sets an aerial vehicle having a specified communication quality, and sets the remaining aerial vehicles as auxiliary units.
US11756435B2
An airspace network optimization method based on a flight normality target is capable of comprehensively considering spatial and temporal distribution of national air traffic demands, a service capability of an airspace network and a capacity increase limit of each airspace unit according to the flight normality optimization target on the basis of carrying out pre-analysis on a flight operation efficiency under a current airspace service capability, to position a key problem airspace and generate a capacity expansion suggestion of the related airspace; and aims at improving the flight operation efficiency by expanding the airspace service capability, and providing technical support for a user to carry out analysis and optimization work of national airspace network problems at a strategic level.
US11756430B2
An information processing apparatus encourages passengers to practice distributed boarding to enable smooth operation of vehicles. The information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller is configured to acquire information indicating a boarding status of passengers at a stop when it is judged that a preceding vehicle has arrived at the stop, generate notification information to encourage passengers who have not boarded the preceding vehicle to practice distributed boarding onto a subsequent vehicle when it is judged that the boarding status satisfies a predetermined condition based on the acquired information, and provide the generated notification information to the preceding vehicle and/or the stop.
US11756429B2
A system for an autonomous vehicle can receive profile data of a passenger of the autonomous vehicle, the profile data indicating a need of the passenger for audio assistance. Based on the profile data, the system can execute a set of configurations to assist the passenger over a trip duration between a pick-up location and a destination. Execution of the set of configurations can include dynamically monitoring the passenger to determine a state of the passenger, and based on the state of the passenger, output the audio assistance to at least aid the passenger in entering and exiting the autonomous vehicle.
US11756421B2
Systems and methods for system for controlling a traffic grid, the system comprising a traffic grid including a first roadway and a second roadway, the second roadway crossing the first roadway at an intersection; a special transit lane included within at least one of the first roadway and the second roadway, the special transit lane being configured to share both personal vehicular traffic and special vehicular traffic; a detector configured to detect the presence of a special vehicle within a detection zone, which detection zone is formed within the special transit lane in a predetermined area proximate to the intersection; and a signal light proximate to the intersection configured to control traffic traveling through the intersection, the signal light having a controller; wherein the controller controls the signal light to operate in a first mode of operation based, at least in part, on a detection of a special vehicle by the detector within the detection zone.
US11756420B2
A vehicle detection system 200 comprises: a receiver 202 arranged to receive data transmissions from a vehicle 210; a camera 204 arranged to capture an image of the vehicle 210; and a processing subsystem 206 arranged to implement a trained model for detecting and/or classifying vehicles in an image. The system 200 is arranged to operate in a first mode wherein: the camera 204 captures an image of a vehicle 210 and the receiver 202 receives a data transmission from the vehicle 210; and the processing subsystem 206 is arranged to use information resulting from the data transmission received and the image to train the model further. The system 200 is also arranged to operate in a second mode wherein: the camera 204 captures an image of a vehicle 210 and the receiver 202 does not receive a data transmission; and the processing subsystem 206 is arranged to use the image and the trained model to detect and/or classify the vehicle 210 in the image.
US11756419B2
Methods and systems for providing standardized mobile device distraction prevention and safety protocols are disclosed. In particular, an embodiment of a method for activating a distraction prevention or safety protocol behavior in a mobile device when the mobile device satisfies a specific condition is disclosed. The method includes discovering one or more protocol activators configured to transmit discovery information associated with a specific condition. The method further includes activating distraction prevention safety protocol behavior in the mobile device based at least in part on the discovery information. In an implementation, the specific condition may be a specified environment itself and or include an event when the mobile device enters a specified environment, or a specified sequence of numbers is dialed from the mobile device.
US11756416B2
A vehicle that includes controller(s) and components that are coupled with, among other devices and systems, imaging sensors, transceivers, and obstacle and infrastructure detectors, which are configured to detect and predict locations and movements of roadway obstacles, infrastructure features and elements that include, for example, intersections and crosswalks, and positions, movement, and trajectories of pedestrians and other vehicles. Such roadway obstacles may include the other vehicles, pedestrians on and entering the crosswalks and roadway, and other potential obstacles. The controller(s) and device(s) are also coupled to and/or configured trajectory and intersection signal detectors, which detect the roadway obstacles and features such as the pedestrians, other vehicles, intersections, and crosswalks, as well as signals for the roadways and crosswalks. The vehicle controller(s) and device(s) generate and communicate signaling changes to the intersection and crosswalk infrastructure controllers, and message alerts that are communicated to the other vehicles.
US11756411B1
An apparatus to locally monitor, and report to a remote monitoring system, specific physical conditions of equipment that provide early indication of failure conditions, including but not limited to: temperature, level of fluids, pressure, temperature, the presence of gases or airborne particulate, and signs leaks.
US11756409B2
In an approach to invention purpose, for controlling evacuation of a plurality of individuals carrying corresponding portable computing devices from a venue having a plurality of exits associated with corresponding exit computing devices, wherein the method comprises, under the control of the portable computing device of each of the individuals. One or more computer processors receive one or more of evacuation messages of wireless type each being transmitted by a source entity. The one or more computer processors select a selected evacuation message of the received evacuation messages according to the hop number of the received evacuation messages. The one or more computer processors subscribe to a directed exit being set to the origin exit of the selected evacuation message.
US11756406B2
Disclosed herein are apparatuses and methods for providing evacuation guidance. An implementation may comprise identifying a person physically present in an environment requiring an evacuation. The implementation further includes detecting, using at least one sensor in the environment, a last known location of the person. The implementation further includes calculating an exit time for evacuating the environment based on the last known location. The implementation further includes monitoring, using at least one sensor located at an egress point of the environment, whether the person has evacuated the environment. The implementation further includes determining whether a current time has passed the exit time. The implementation further includes transmitting an alert to a device of the respective person in response to determining that the current time has passed the exit time and that the person has not evacuated the environment.
US11756403B2
A cabinet with AED light signal display is disclosed. A cabinet body receives an AED having an indicator. A light signal indication device is disposed on the outside of the cabinet body. A status sensor is disposed on the outside of the indicator of the AED and is electrically connected to the circuit board through a transmission cable, detecting a display status of the indicator of the AED to generate a detection result. A circuit board is electrically connected to the status sensor and a light signal indication device. The circuit board generates a control signal according to the detection result, controlling the light signal indication device to show a light signal corresponding to the indicator.
US11756397B2
Disclosed are systems comprising: a transmitter background; a receiver background; a plurality of transmitter units affixed on the transmitter background, each transmitting an encoded electromagnetic wave (EM), wherein the electromagnetic wave is transmitted as a wide beam; and a plurality of receiver units affixed on the receiver background, wherein each of the plurality of the transmitter units is in electromagnetic communication with at least one of the receiver units. Also disclosed are methods of identifying the presence of an object intersecting a spatial surface. Further, a housing for the system is disclosed.
US11756391B2
The present invention relates to a voice alarm device which forms part of a fire alarm system loop. Upon detection of a fire, a control panel instructs appropriate voice alarm devices to retrieve relevant audio from local storage and output the audio via a local speaker.
US11756387B2
Various card devices and methods involving card devices are described. Other embodiments are also described.
US11756385B2
A bonus device and method are set forth for gaming machines. The bonus device is configured as a two dimensional display or three dimensional object, such as a sphere, box, or football shape, which can be controlled to rotate, spin or move to display a bonus. The bonus device is embedded with display technology that allows the bonus amounts, to change upon certain conditions in the base game such as an increased number of credits wagered, combinations achieved in the base game, or other random occurrences.
US11756368B2
An improved dispenser unit for dispensing bulk food items, including a cabinet having at least one hopper having a drum with product compartments, a deflector and flexible gate valve, a dispense assembly, and a control system. The dispense assembly may or may not include one or more belts and/or sensors. The product compartments include flexible and/or elastic membranes, which dynamically change the effective product storage volume within a compartment, and eliminate rigid or semi-rigid pinch points between the drum and drum compartment. A product flow divider may be positioned above the receiving container in the dispense assembly, said divider configured to cause the dispensed product to divide into two or more flow streams into the receiving container. The receiving container may be vibrated or oscillated.
US11756364B2
An identification system uses a local cache for performing identifications. An identity system device may store identity information and identification information. An electronic device stores a cache of a portion of the identity information and a part of the identification information. The electronic device receives user input, determines an identity by comparing the user input to the cached identification information (such as by comparing a received digital representation of a biometric with cached biometric identification information), and performs an action using information in the cached identity information that is associated with the identity. The electronic device may update the identity information stored by the identity system device based on the action.
US11756362B2
A method and a sensor for checking documents are provided in which the same detector is used for a remission measurement and a luminescence measurement of the value document. The remission measurement value being detected during the illumination of the value document with an excitation light used for luminescence excitation, and the luminescence measurement value after switching off the illumination. In order to reduce a distortion of the remission measurement value by the luminescence, a spectral detection filter is incorporated into the detection ray path, which has a transmission of at least 0.5% in the spectral region of the excitation light. The increased transmission of the spectral detection filter achieves that the excitation intensity impinging on the detector far exceeds the luminescence intensity occurring simultaneously with the excitation and thus reduces the mentioned distortion.
US11756359B2
An automated kiosk is located adjacent to a point of access to a room or premises. The kiosk can control an automated locking mechanism for the point of access. The kiosk can read the temperature of all persons that attempt to enter the room or premises. The kiosk can also command the persons to sanitize their hands in a sanitation window of the kiosk while dispensing sanitizer and monitoring the hands of the person for effective sanitation action. The kiosk can read identification credentials, perform facial recognition, speech recognition and recognize gestures of persons. The kiosk can be further coupled to a central control computer.
US11756357B2
An access management system includes a mobile device with a processor and a memory and a software platform including at least a processor and a memory. The software platform is configured to analyze data obtained from the mobile device and other devices connected to the software platform. Specifically, the software platform is operable to determine if an access key received, read, or captured by a mobile device matches an access key for an authorized account, object, device, or space for the mobile device, and to provide access to the mobile device if the access key received, read, or captured by the mobile device matches the authorized access key.
US11756350B2
Disclosed embodiments include systems, vehicles, and computer-implemented methods for developing a model from parallel sets of driving data to identify the risk level of an event in one of the sets of driving data. In an illustrative embodiment, a system includes a vehicle data system operably coupled with at least one sensor aboard a vehicle to collect vehicle driving data representing driving conduct. A portable data collection module is configured to cause a portable computing system transportable aboard a vehicle to collect portable driving data representing the driving conduct. An evaluation system is configured to receive the portable driving data and the vehicle driving data, assign a risk level to at least one event included in the vehicle driving data, and correlate the vehicle driving data with the portable driving data to identify a pattern in the portable driving data that is associable with the risk level.
US11756347B2
This state monitoring device configured to monitor a current state of a vehicle includes: a storage configured to have stored therein a load index which is an index indicating an accumulation degree of a load having occurred in the vehicle; and a calculation unit configured to receive detection values of a plurality of sensors mounted on the vehicle, and configured to perform a predetermined calculation. The calculation unit includes: a status specification section configured to, by using the detection values of the plurality of sensors, specify, out of a plurality of status categories determined in advance and each indicating a status of use regarding running of the vehicle, one or more of the status categories; and an index update section configured to, on the basis of each specified status category, update the load index stored in the storage.
US11756340B2
To acquire maintenance information easily from packed electronic equipment without unpacking. An AR display device includes: an information projection unit that performs display on the basis of augmented reality; a wireless power supply unit that performs wireless power supply to packed electronic equipment; a wireless power supply control unit that controls directivity and distance of the wireless power supply unit upon performing wireless power supply to the packed electronic equipment, so that a packing box of the packed electronic equipment is displayed on the information projection unit; a wireless communication unit that performs wireless communication with the packed electronic equipment to which the wireless power supply is performed; and a control unit that displays maintenance information received from the packed electronic equipment on the information projection unit.
US11756337B2
Embodiments are disclosed for a subtitle generator for sign language content in digital videos. In some embodiments, a method of subtitle generation includes receiving an input video comprising a representation of one or more sign language gestures, extracting landmark coordinates associated with a signer represented in the input video, determining derivative information from the landmark coordinates, and analyzing the landmark coordinates and the derivative information by at least one gesture detection model to identify a first sign language gesture.
US11756320B2
A method for template matching can include iteratively selecting a template set of points to project over a centerline of a candidate symbol; conducting a template matching analysis; assigning a score to each template set; and selecting a template set with a highest assigned score. For example, the score can depend on proximity of the template points to a center and/or boundaries of a principal tracing path of the symbol. Additionally, one or more template sets having a top rank can be selected for a secondary analysis of proximity of the template points to a boundary of a printing of the symbol. The method can further include using the template with the highest score to interpret the candidate symbol.
US11756319B2
Systems and methods of improving alignment in dense prediction neural networks are disclosed. A method includes identifying, at a computing system, an input data set and a label data set with one or more first parts of the input data set corresponding to a label. The computing system processes the input data set using a neural network to generate a predicted label data set that identifies one or more second parts of the input data set predicted to correspond to the label. The computing system determines an alignment result using the predicted label data set and the label data set and a transformation of the one or more first parts, including a shift, rotation, scaling, and/or deformation, based on the alignment result. The computing system computes a loss score using the transformation, label data and the predicted label data set and updates the neural network based on the loss score.
US11756310B2
A method and device for sensor data fusion for a vehicle as well as a computer program and a computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. At least one sensor device (S1) is associated with the vehicle (F), and in the method, fusion object data is provided representative of a fusion object (OF) detected in an environment of the vehicle (F); sensor object data is provided representative of a sensor object (OS) detected by the sensor device (S1) in the environment of the vehicle (F); indicator data is provided representative of an uncertainty in the determination of the sensor object data; reference point transformation candidates of the sensor object (OS) are determined depending on the indicator data; and an innovated fusion object is determined depending on the reference point transformation candidates.
US11756305B2
A control apparatus and method that captures video image includes acquiring a parameter for recognition processing with respect to acquired image data and changing the acquired parameter according to a change in zoom magnification of an image capturing unit.
US11756296B2
A method comprises receiving one or more inputs captured by a camera of a device, and determining, using one or more machine learning models, whether the one or more inputs depict at least one object configured to capture a visual representation of a screen of the device. A recommendation is generated responsive to an affirmative determination, the recommendation comprising at least one action to prevent the capture of the visual representation of the screen of the device.
US11756294B2
An exemplary process for identifying a type of a physical environment amongst a plurality of types of physical environments is provided. The process includes obtaining, using the one or more cameras, image data corresponding to a physical environment. The process further includes identifying at least one portion of an entity in the physical environment based on the image data; determining, based on the identified at least one portion of the entity, whether the entity is an entity of a first type; determining a type of the physical environment if the entity is an entity of the first type; and presenting one or more virtual objects and a representation of the entity.
US11756291B2
Provided is a technique for determining a context of an image and an object depicted by the image based on the context. A trained context classification model may determine a context of an image, and a trained object recognition model may determine an object depicted by the image based on the image and the context. Provided is also a technique for determining an object depicted within an image based on an input location of an input detected by a display screen. An object depicted within an image may be detected based on a distance in feature space between an image feature vector of an image and a feature vector of the object, and a distance in pixel-space between an input location of an input and location of the object within the image.
US11756285B2
A system for removing a noise artifact from an image of a document extracts a first set of features from the image, where the first set of features represents items on the image. The system identifies noise artifact features from the first set of features representing pixel values of the noise artifact. The system generates a second set of features by removing the noise artifact features from the first set of features. The system generates a test clean image of the document based on the second set of features as an input. The system determines whether a portion of the test clean image that previously displayed the noise artifact corresponds to a counterpart portion of the training clean image. If it is determined that the portion of the test clean image corresponds to the counterpart portion of the training clean image, the system outputs the test clean image.
US11756284B2
An apparatus of labeling for object detection according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes an image selector that determines a plurality of labeling target images from among a plurality of unlabeled images, and determines a labeling order of the plurality of labeling target images, a feedback obtainer that obtains label inspection information on the plurality of labeling target images from a user, and a model trainer that learns the label inspection information input from the user by using the labeling target images, obtains a pseudo label for supervised learning based on a learning result using the label inspection information, and re-determines the labeling order of the labeling target images based on the pseudo label.
US11756283B2
A system includes an image sensor having a plurality of pixels that form a plurality of regions of interest (ROIs), and configured to operate at a frame rate higher than a threshold rate. The system also includes an image processing resource. The system further includes control circuitry configured to perform operations that include obtaining, from the image sensor, a full-resolution image of an environment. The full-resolution image contains each respective ROI of the plurality of ROIs. The operations also include selecting a particular ROI based on the full-resolution image, and detecting an object of interest in the particular ROI. The operations include determining a mode of operation by which subsequent image data generated by the particular ROI is to be processed. The operations further include processing, based on the mode of operation and the frame rate, the image data comprising a plurality of ROI images of the object of interest.
US11756281B1
Disclosed are systems and methods for splat filling a three-dimensional (“3D”) model using semi-measured data. The splat filling includes generating measured data points for a 3D representation of a scene with positions that are measured from scanning the scene, and with color values defined from measured color values of used pixels from a two-dimensional (“2D”) of the scene. The splat filling includes generating a semi-measured data point based on an unused pixel of the 2D image. The position of the semi-measured data point is derived based on a separation between the unused pixel and one or more used pixels of the 2D image, and based on the positions of measured data points that are defined with the measured color values of the one or more pixels. The color values of the semi-measured data point are defined directly from the measured color values associated with the unused pixel.
US11756279B1
An immersive content generation system can capture a plurality of images of an object in the performance area using a camera. The object is at least partially surrounded by one or more displays presenting images of a virtual environment. The system can determine attributes of a lens of the taking camera, a first distance from the taking camera to the physical object, and a second distance between a LED display presenting a virtual image of the physical object and the taking camera. The system can determine the depth of field blur for the virtual objects based on the attributes of the taking camera and the virtual depth of each of the virtual objects. The system can apply the depth of field blur to the virtual objects and generate content based on the plurality of captured images and the determined amount of depth of field blur to the virtual objects.
US11756278B2
A method for establishing a denture dentition model includes: obtaining face information and teeth alignment information of a use, to establish a three-dimensional mouth-opening face model and an original teeth model, and superimposing the original teeth model to the three-dimensional mouth-opening face model; establishing a reference line corresponding to each of the teeth of the original teeth model; generating a plurality of grids on the three-dimensional mouth-opening face model according to the reference lines, and adjusting each of the grids to correspond to the edge of each tooth, to obtain an actual size of each of the teeth; providing an upper edge curve and a lower edge curve on the three-dimensional mouth-opening face model as a smile curve; aligning each grid with the smile curve, and placing a denture model in each grid; and adjusting a denture contour of each denture model, to generate the denture dentition model.
US11756275B2
An auxiliary system for intelligent well control includes augmented reality (AR) glasses, a server, and a first sensor group. The first sensor group is configured to collect real-time data of a wellbore and the surface and transmit the real-time data to the server. The server is configured to analyze a target pressure value of a choke valve of the surface according to the real-time data, obtain an actual pressure value of the choke valve of the surface from the real-time data, and transmit the actual pressure value and the target pressure value to the AR glasses. The AR glasses are configured to dynamically display the actual pressure value and the target pressure value in real time. Through the first sensor group and the server, the actual pressure value and the target pressure value can be accurately received by an operator in real time.
US11756274B1
A method for managing power resource in an augmented reality (AR) device is described. In one aspect, the method includes configuring a low-power mode to run on a low-power processor of the AR device using a first set of sensor data, and a high-power mode to run on a high-power processor of the AR device using a second set of sensor data, operating, using the low-power processor, a low-power application in the low-power mode based on the first set of sensor data, detecting a request to operate a high-power application at the AR device, in response to detecting the request, activating the second set of sensors of the AR device corresponding to the high-power mode, and operating, using the high-power processor, a high-power application in the high-power mode based on the second set of sensors.
US11756267B2
A method for navigating in a simulated environment is disclosed herein. A navigation device determines a search space associated with a plurality of viewpoints other than the current viewpoint in a three-dimensional (3D) space for a current viewpoint. The search space comprises a set of 3D coordinates for each of the plurality of viewpoints. The navigation device determines a field of view at the current viewpoint, which is an area associated with a viewing angle and a visible distance. The navigation device determines a target viewpoint in the search space of the current viewpoint based on the field of view at the current viewpoint. The target viewpoint is outside the area of the field of view at the current viewpoint. The navigation device causes display of a guidance user interface (UI) comprising an indicator corresponding to the target viewpoint in the field of view at the current viewpoint.
US11756255B2
Accelerating structure for hybrid ray tracing is characterized by high locality, wherein scene changes are updated locally in one of its hierarchies, without effecting other locations in the structure. Reconstructions of accelerating structures of prior art are replaced by low-cost updates. The efficiency of traversals is improved by a double step traversal.
US11756254B2
Light contribution information can be determined and cached for use in rendering image frames for a scene. In at least one embodiment, a spatial hash data structure can be used to split the scene into regions, such as octahedral voxels. Using cast light rays, an average light contribution can be computed for each individual voxel. Those light values can then be used to build a cumulative distribution function for each voxel that can be used to select which lights to sample for a given frame during rendering. The sampling for a region or voxel can be based at least in part upon the number of contributing lights for that region, as well as the relative contributions of those lights. Such an approach can be very bandwidth and cache efficient, while providing high image quality.
US11756252B2
A combustion simulation system is provided. The combustion simulation system can be performed using a computing device operated by a computer user or artist. The computer-implemented method of generating one or more visual representations of a combustion even is provided. The method includes simulating the combustion event, which transforms combustion reactants into combustion products, the combustion event occurring at a reference pressure, automatically determining values of combustion properties, the values of the combustion properties being calculated as a function of a nonzero pressure field, and generating the one or more visual representations of the combustion event based on the values of combustion properties.
US11756248B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to determining computer graphics objects (CGOs) to render for a device of a user in a virtual environment having a plurality of participants, each participant corresponding to a CGO. A priority value of each CGO corresponding to each participant can be determined. A CGO priority list can be generated based on the determined priority values, wherein the CGO priority list ranks the CGOs based on the priority values. A rendering list of CGOs can be generated, wherein the rendering list includes a subset of the CGOs of the CGO priority list based on applied rendering processing constraints. The CGOs of the rendering list can then be rendered.
US11756241B2
Disclosed are a positron emission tomography system and an image reconstructing method using the same and the positron emission tomography system includes: a collection unit collecting a positron emission tomography sinogram (PET sinogram); an image generation unit applying the positron emission tomography sinogram to an MLAA with TOF and generating a first emission image and a first attenuation image and a NAC image reconstructed without attenuation correction; and a control unit selecting at least one of the first emission image, the first attenuation image and the NAC image generated by the image generation unit as an input image and generating and providing a final attenuation image by applying the input image to the learned deep learning algorithm.
US11756236B2
This application relates to a system for compressing captured images. The system may include an image capturing device configured to continuously capture images, for example, of a location, or frame, or field of view, and convert the captured images respectively into a plurality of sets of digital data, each of the plurality of sets of digital data including at least two consecutive rows of digital data. The system may also include a processor circuit configured to combine the at least two sets of the plurality of sets of digital data to generate a pre-compression set of digital data and simultaneously compress the pre-compression set of digital data simultaneously or together in a single compression operation.
US11756226B2
Described herein is a detector for determining a position of an object. The detector includes a sensor element having a matrix of optical sensors, each designed to generate a sensor signal in response to an illumination of its light-sensitive area by a light beam propagating from the object to the detector. The detector also includes an evaluation device configured to select a region of interest of the matrix, respectively determine a sensor signal of at least two optical sensors of the region of interest, and determine a longitudinal coordinate zDPR of the object by evaluating a combined sensor signal Q. The evaluation device is also configured to determine an image of the region of interest from the sensor signals, determine a longitudinal coordinate zDFD of the object by optimizing at least one blurring function fa, and determine combined distance information z considering the longitudinal coordinates zDPR and zDFD.
US11756218B2
Distributing different resolution point clouds of a full resolution point cloud, including: applying a plurality of sieve functions to the full resolution point cloud (PC) to generate a plurality of partial point clouds (PCs), wherein the partial PCs are disjointed elements of the full resolution PC; scrambling each partial PC of the plurality of partial PCs using a respective one of a plurality of secret keys; and distributing at least one scrambled PC and a selected secret key to an intended recipient, wherein the selected secret key is selected based on an appropriate resolution determined for the intended recipient.
US11756206B2
It is provided a recognition device for analyzing a starvation extent of a whiteleg shrimp based on underwater imaging, including a bracket, a camera mounted on a top of the bracket, a plurality of light sources for illumination, and a processor connected with the camera. The processor receives a shrimp image collected by the camera, extracts an edge image of the shrimp after the collected shrimp image is preprocessed, and calculates a movement speed of the shrimp and a quantity of baits after a head and a tail are recognized, to recognize starvation extent of the shrimp. It is also provided a recognition method for analyzing starvation extent of the whiteleg shrimp based on underwater imaging. The present disclosure may guide feeders to feed and realize reasonable culture for the shrimp, by capturing images of the shrimp in time and determining starvation the extent of shrimp.
US11756201B2
A method and system for performing characterization of one or more materials. One or more materials are scanned by means of a sensory system including an X-ray sensor configured to perform multi-energy imaging for obtaining at least a lower-energy X-ray image and a higher-energy X-ray image. Images obtained by means of the sensory system are segmented, and for each segmented object, data indicative of an area density and data indicative of an atom number by analysis of the lower-energy X-ray image and the higher-energy X-ray image, and data indicative of the area density and atom number is determined by means of a calibrated model. Data indicative of a mass is calculated based on the data indicative of the area density and the data indicative of the area of each of the segmented objects. The data indicative of the atom number is provided as input to a trained neural network, wherein the trained neural network is configured to label each segmented object, and wherein the data indicative of the mass is coupled to each of the labeled segmented objects.
US11756194B2
Computer-implemented process on an image of a biological sample The present invention relates to a computer-implemented process to automatically analyze a digital image (103) of abiological sample (101). The process involves a change (203) from a first color space to a second color space. Then, fits are performed taking into account several dimensions of the second color space to classify pixels.
US11756193B2
A method of diagnosing Alzheimer's disease using a positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) image may include generating a standard brain CT template in a Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) region based on a CT image calculated from a PET-CT apparatus, calculating a whole cortex volume of interest (VOI) for a plurality of detail regions capable of being used in 18F-florbetaben (FBB) and 18F-flutemetamol (FMM) in common within a cortex ROI region in which a deposition of beta amyloid protein is equal to or higher than a given value based on the standard brain CT template, and calculating a centiloid of each of the plurality of detail regions based on an amyloid standardized uptake value ratio (SUVR) of each of the plurality of detail regions.
US11756187B2
Systems and methods for optimal electron beam metrology guidance are disclosed. According to certain embodiments, the method may include receiving an acquired image of a sample, determining a set of image parameters based on an analysis of the acquired image, determining a set of model parameters based on the set of image parameters, generating a set of simulated images based on the set of model parameters. The method may further comprise performing measurement of critical dimensions on the set of simulated images and comparing critical dimension measurements with the set of model parameters to provide a set of guidance parameters based on comparison of information from the set of simulated images and the set of model parameters. The method may further comprise receiving auxiliary information associated with target parameters including critical dimension uniformity.
US11756183B2
The present invention relates to a RNA molecule comprising a first ribozyme, a first ligation sequence, an effector molecule, a second ligation sequence, and a second ribozyme. Methods of producing circular RNA molecules and treatment methods are also disclosed.
US11756169B2
A method for error handling in a geometric correction engine (GCE) is provided that includes receiving configuration parameters by the GCE, generating, by the GCE in accordance with the configuration parameters, output blocks of an output frame based on corresponding blocks of an input frame, detecting, by the GCE, a run-time error during the generating, and reporting, by the GCE, an event corresponding to the run-time error.
US11756166B2
A method includes receiving, by a computing device, training data comprising a plurality of pairs of images, wherein each pair comprises an image and at least one corresponding target version of the image. The method also includes training a neural network based on the training data to predict an enhanced version of an input image, wherein the training of the neural network comprises applying a forward Gaussian diffusion process that adds Gaussian noise to the at least one corresponding target version of each of the plurality of pairs of images to enable iterative denoising of the input image, wherein the iterative denoising is based on a reverse Markov chain associated with the forward Gaussian diffusion process. The method additionally includes outputting the trained neural network.
US11756165B2
The technique of the present disclosure can add a gloss to image data according to the hair flow of a subject. An image data obtaining unit obtains input image data, and a characteristic amount calculating unit calculates characteristic amounts for the input image data. The characteristic amount calculating unit obtains a degree to which directions of hair flow are concentrated to a predetermined direction (a degree of alignment) in a predetermined range based on the directions of hair flow, and sets this as a characteristic amount indicative of the degree of alignment of the directions of hair flow. A determining unit estimates the state of the hair flow of the entire input image data based on the characteristic amounts thus calculated, and determines whether to correct the input image data. A correcting unit performs a gloss adding correction to the input image data.
US11756160B2
The present disclosure describes a computer-implemented method of transforming a low-resolution MR image to a high-resolution MR image using a deep CNN-based MRI SR network and a computer-implemented method of transforming an MR image to a pseudo-CT (sCT) image using a deep CNN-based sCT network. The present disclosure further describes a MR image-guided radiation treatment system that includes a computing device to implement the MRI SR and CT networks and to produce a radiation plan based in the resulting high resolution MR images and sCT images.
US11756153B2
A mechanism is described for facilitating hemisphere cube map projection format imaging environments, according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes capturing, by a camera coupled to one or more processors, an image having image content, wherein the image content being represented by the image is omnidirectional such that the image content is mapped on a sphere while representing less than the sphere; mapping the image to a cubic representation based on six faces of a cube, wherein one or more of the six faces are classified as inactive regions such that they remain unoccupied or partially occupied; and arranging, based on the cubic representation, the six faces in a compact representation by avoiding inclusion of the inactive regions.
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Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an end-cloud collaborative media data processing method and apparatus, a device and a storage medium, where the method includes: calling a target processing flow in response to a first operation triggering a target functionality, where the target processing flow includes a local algorithm node and a remote algorithm node, and the target functionality is used for adding a special effect to media data to be processed; executing, based on the target processing flow, a corresponding local algorithm node and remote algorithm node to obtain first processing data output by the local algorithm node and second processing data output by the remote algorithm node; and generating third processing data through the first processing data and/or the second processing data.
US11756150B2
Embodiments described herein provide techniques to disaggregate an architecture of a system on a chip integrated circuit into multiple distinct chiplets that can be packaged onto a common chassis. In one embodiment, a graphics processing unit or parallel processor is composed from diverse silicon chiplets that are separately manufactured. A chiplet is an at least partially and distinctly packaged integrated circuit that includes distinct units of logic that can be assembled with other chiplets into a larger package. A diverse set of chiplets with different IP core logic can be assembled into a single device.
