US11770986B2
A resistive switching memory stack, comprised of a bottom electrode, an oxide layer located on the bottom electrode; and a top electrode located on the oxide layer. The top electrode is comprised of a first layer, an intermediate layer located directly on the first layer, and a top layer located on top of the intermediate layer. Wherein the intermediate layer is comprised of a doped carbide active layer.
US11770981B2
Provided are a magnetoresistance effect element and a magnetic memory having a shape magnetic anisotropy and using a recording layer having an anti-parallel coupling. A first magnetic layer (3) and a second magnetic layer (5) of the magnetoresistance effect element include a ferromagnetic substance, have a magnetization direction variable to the direction perpendicular to a film surface and are magnetically coupled in an anti-parallel direction, and a junction size D (nm), which is a length of the longest straight line on an end face perpendicular to the thickness direction of the first magnetic layer (3) and the second magnetic layer (5), a film thickness t1 (nm) of the first magnetic layer (3), and a film thickness t2 (nm) of the second magnetic layer (5) satisfy relationships D
US11770972B2
Provided herein are multifunctional photoresponsive compositions that can undergo conversion from an aggregation-caused quenching (ACQ) state to an aggregation-induced emission (AIE) state and macroscopic actuation and systems comprising the same and methods of use thereof.
US11770941B2
A method of producing a film having excellent external quantum efficiency when used in a light emitting layer of a light emitting device is provided. A method of film production includes preparing an ink containing a specific metal complex, storing the ink for 3 days or more under light shielding, and forming a film by using the stored ink. The total content of metal complexes having a molecular weight larger by 16, 32 or 48 than that of the specific metal complex according to an area percentage value determined by liquid chromatography is 0.6 or less when the content of the specific metal complex is taken as 100.
US11770920B2
Disclosed is an EMI shielding material. The EMI shielding material includes a resin material and metal particles mixed with each other, and the surface of the metal particles has an insulating protective layer. Further disclosed is a communication module product, including a module element arranged on a substrate, and the periphery of the module element that requires EMI shielding is filled with said shielding material. Further disclosed is an EMI shielding process, including the following steps: a. preparing a communication module on which a module element is provided; and b. applying said shielding material to a region of the module element that needs to be EMI shielded on the communication module. The shielding material shields a chip region in a wrapping manner, that is, the shielding material wraps and shields all six surfaces or six directions of the chip, and provides shielding between chips.
US11770916B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include an apparatus having a band including a high thermally conductive material is disposed at least partially around an inductor.
US11770913B2
A heat-dissipating component for a mobile device includes a case body, a micro pump, and a heat dissipation tube plate. The case body has a vent hole and a positioning accommodation trough. The bottom of the positioning accommodation trough is in communication with the vent hole. The micro pump is disposed in the positioning accommodation trough and corresponds to the vent hole The heat dissipation tube plate has cooling fluid inside. One end of the heat dissipation tube plate is fixed on the positioning accommodation trough and contacts a heating element of the mobile device. The gas transmitted by the micro pump forms gas flow so as to perform heat exchange with heat absorbed by the heat dissipation tube plate, and the gas flow is discharged out through the vent hole.
US11770908B2
A display device and an assembling method thereof are provided. The display device includes a display including an annular body, two flexible screens and a circuit board assembly disposed on the annular body. The two flexible screens are attached on an outer surface of the annular body, and opposite first ends of the two flexible screens are spliced with each other. The circuit board assembly is disposed in a mounting groove provided on the annular body and positioned between second ends of the two flexible screens. The circuit board assembly is electrically connected to both of the two flexible screens, and can drive the two flexible screens to display independently.
US11770899B2
An electronic circuit board includes a printed circuit board and first and second electronic components. The printed circuit board includes a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer attached to the first insulating layer and in which is formed an open cavity, and a second conductive layer attached to the second insulating layer. The second conductive layer is treated to form a surface solder pad. The first electronic component is housed in the open cavity of the second insulating layer. The second electronic component is placed on the second insulating layer without overlapping with the open cavity. The first electronic component and the second electronic component each include a termination soldered on the surface solder pad, the surface solder pad being shared by the first and second electronic components.
US11770893B2
A display device includes: a display panel including a bending area; and a first passivation film and a second passivation film disposed on a first surface of the display panel to be spaced apart from each other. The second passivation film includes a first flat portion and a first stepped portion overlapping the bending area, and a thickness of the first stepped portion is less than a thickness of the first flat portion.
US11770892B2
The high-frequency amplifier assembly for a high-frequency generator, in particular for a high-frequency generator for operating a plasma generator, is provided with a signal generator for generating a high-frequency signal; a first amplifier transistor for amplifying the signal generated by the signal generator; an output terminal for outputting the amplified signal to an external load; an input network arranged between the signal generator and the first amplifier transistor for providing the high-frequency signal at the input of the amplifier transistor; an output network arranged between the amplifier transistor and the external load for providing a desired load impedance for the amplifier transistor; and an electronic voltage-limiting assembly arranged at the output terminal for limiting the output voltage at the output terminal.
US11770887B2
A method of controlling a plurality of light sources based on a source image is disclosed. The method comprises controlling a first light source according to a first light setting based on a first color of the source image, receiving an input indicative of a change of the first light setting of the first light source, determining a color of the changed first light setting, modifying the source image by modifying the first color in the source image based on the color of the changed light setting, and rendering the modified image on a display.
US11770884B2
Daisy-chained connected light emitting diode (LED) devices for an automotive direct backlight system are presented herein. Such system can include a group of LED devices communicatively coupled with respective LED devices of the group of LED devices in a daisy-chained manner via serial communication interfaces between the respective LED devices. A host device of the system is directly connected, via a serial peripheral interface, to a foremost device of the respective LED devices, and is communicatively coupled, via the foremost device, to successive devices of the respective LED devices in the daisy-chained manner. The host device synchronizes generation of light by the respective LED devices based on defined timing information, and sends, via the foremost device, respective optical and electrical characteristic data to each of the LED devices to facilitate modification, via LED drivers of the LED devices, of operating characteristics of respective LED chips of the LED devices.
US11770873B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging an IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate beyond a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to an intelligent service (e.g. a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, a retail business, a security and safety-related service, etc.) on the basis of a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology. The present disclosure provides a method wherein, after a MICO mode terminal establishes a connection and transmits data, the MICO mode terminal can be kept in a connected mode state, rather than entering an idle mode, in order to provide for a case where slightly delayed response traffic occurs according to the type of application or service.
US11770864B2
A Connector for establishing a connection to a wireless network in accordance with device provisioning protocol (DPP) and information for establishing a connection to a wireless network in accordance with a protocol different from the DPP are held. In a case where the held Connector is provided to another communication apparatus, information for establishing a connection to a wireless network that is connectable by using the Connector is held, the Connector and the held information are provided to the other communication apparatus in accordance with the DPP.
US11770863B2
Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for wireless communication of analyte data. In this regard, in embodiments, a mobile includes a transceiver configured to transmit and receive wireless signals. The mobile device includes circuitry operatively coupled to the transceiver. The mobile device also includes a non-transitory computer-readable medium operatively coupled to the circuitry and storing instructions that, when executed, cause the mobile device to perform a number of operations. One such operation is to obtain a derivative of a first signal received via a first link. Another such operation is to obtain a derivative of a second signal received via a second link; and. Yet another such operation is to generate a selection for connection to an analyte sensor system, based on a comparison of the derivative of the first signal and the derivative of the second signal.
US11770855B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure are generally directed to design of random access channel (RACH) procedures. For example, certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE). The method generally includes receiving an indication of a RACH procedure capability of a network entity, and selecting a first RACH procedure or a second RACH procedure, based on the indication. The UE may then communicate one or more messages with the network entity based on the selected first RACH procedure or the selected second RACH procedure.
US11770849B2
A random access method, a base station, and a user equipment (UE) are disclosed. The random access method includes: transmitting a first message for random access for the UE, the first message including a preamble message and a signal message; receiving a second message and a fourth message for random access for the UE at a time and determining random access for the UE is successful upon receiving the second message and the fourth message; and upon reception of a second message configured to request the UE to transmit the signal message, transmitting a third message comprising the signal message, receiving the fourth message in response to the third message, and determining random access for the UE is successful upon receiving the fourth message.
US11770839B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). Next generation of wireless cellular operation is expected to be deployed in higher frequency above 6 GHz (eg. 10 GHz˜100 GHz, also called mmWave and/or cmWave) due to availability of large amount of spectrum bandwidths. The physical layer of wireless cellular system in both DL and UL operating in mmWave/cmWave would be based on new air-interface different from that of LTE-A air-interface because the radio characteristics is different for mmWave/cmWave bands. The wireless system deployed in mmWave/cmWave system is expected to employ DL beam sweeping on broadcast control information to provide cell coverage to the UE which would result in excessive signaling overhead.
US11770837B2
Systems and methods for wireless communications are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a base station configures a first uplink resource. The first uplink resource is defined using configuration parameters including at least one of a time-domain starting point of the first uplink resource, a time-domain duration of the first uplink resource, or a frequency-domain range of the first uplink resource. The base station transmits to a wireless communication device an indication that uplink transmission on a second uplink resource within the first uplink resource is canceled. The wireless communication device cancels the uplink transmission on the second uplink resource.
US11770835B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may transmit a configured grant that indicates time-frequency resources for a user equipment (UE) to use to transmit sidelink or uplink messages in a wireless communications system. To reduce the amount of low priority traffic that may interfere with higher priority traffic, the base station may configure a threshold probability to allow high priority sidelink transmissions and to cancel low priority transmissions. The base station may transmit a cancellation indication that includes a priority indication instructing the UE to cancel transmissions having a priority less than a priority threshold during the allocated time-frequency resources. Based on transmitting the cancellation indication, the base station may cancel transmissions that have low priority, and the UE may determine whether to transmit (or to refrain from transmitting) one or more messages based on the priority of the message.
US11770834B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data transmission method and a network device. The method includes generating, by a network device, a slot format indicator (SFI). The SFI is used to indicate one or more slot format indices. The one or more slot format indices are used to determine a slot format in a time unit based on a first correspondence relationship. The first correspondence relationship is a relationship between a slot format index and a slot format. The method also includes sending, by the network device, the SFI to a terminal device. The method further includes sending, by the network device, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) to the terminal device according to the slot format corresponding to the one of the one or more slot format indices indicated by the SFI. The SFI is carried in downlink control message (DCI), and the DCI is scrambled by using a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI).
US11770833B2
This application provides a communication method, a terminal device, and a network device. The method performed by a terminal device includes: determining N resource areas, where N is a positive integer; detecting, downlink scheduling information in M resource areas, where the downlink scheduling information includes resource indication information of P resource areas; and determining based on the resource indication information of the P resource areas, a resource for transmitting downlink data, where the M resource areas are M of the N resource areas, the P resource areas are P of the N resource areas, M is a positive integer less than or equal to N, and P is a positive integer less than or equal to N.
US11770830B2
A method, wireless device and network node are configured to generate or process a control channel, having two multiplexed sequences based on a base sequence. In some embodiments, a method includes sampling even samples of the base sequence and modulating the sampled even samples to create a first control channel sequence. The method includes performing a second sampling of odd samples of the base sequence to create a second control channel sequence. The method also includes frequency division multiplexing the first and second control channel sequences to produce the control channel.
US11770828B2
Aspects described herein relate to generating a configuration indicating whether a minimum communication range parameter in sidelink control information (SCI) corresponds to a location-based value or a signal strength-based value, and transmitting the configuration to one or more UEs.
US11770827B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a signal in a wireless communication system, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the method comprising the steps of: receiving information indicating a demodulation-reference signal (DM-RS) port related to transmission of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); and transmitting the PUSCH and a DM-RS on the basis of the information. Provided are a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a signal in a wireless communication system, according to another embodiment of the present disclosure, the method comprising the steps of: receiving information indicating a demodulation-reference signal (DM-RS) port related to reception of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH); and receiving the PDSCH and a DM-RS on the basis of the information. On the basis of a determination about a frequency domain orthogonal cover code (OCC) being not applied to the DM-RS port indicated by the information, the DM-RS may be transmitted after a change operation for the DM-RS port.
US11770822B2
This document describes techniques and apparatuses for managing scheduling requests in an unlicensed frequency band. These techniques include a user equipment receiving first and second configuration messages allocating radio resources for first and second logical channels, respectively, at a scheduling request (SR)-transmission occasion on first and second multiple-access (MA) channels, respectively, in the unlicensed frequency band (402, 404). In aspects, the user equipment detects that the first MA channel is busy and the second MA channel is idle (406). The user equipment transmits a scheduling request via the second radio resource (408) and initiates a timer for the second logical channel to prohibit transmission of an additional scheduling request via the second radio resource until expiration of the timer (410). The user equipment also determines whether to initiate another timer for the first logical channel based on a priority level of the first logical channel (414).
US11770815B2
For efficient communication in 5G and 6G, transmission beams are to be aligned with each user device as soon as possible during the initial access procedure. Prior-art procedures for downlink beam alignment consume large amounts of power and resources. Therefore, low-complexity formats and procedures are disclosed for a new user device to indicate its angular position relative to the base station upon entering the network. In one embodiment, the SSB message is broadcast isotropically, along with test signals which are transmitted in different directions. The user device indicates which test signal is best received, thereby indicating its angular direction. In a second embodiment, the test signals and feedback messages are appended to various entry messages after initial contact. Using either method, the base station and user device can then aim their beams toward the other, for enhanced signal quality thereafter.
US11770814B2
A method and apparatus, a gateway, a terminal, an adjustment system, and a storage medium are provided. The method may be applied to a gateway. The gateway may determine position information of at least one terminal through at least three ultra-wide band modules. The at least one terminal may be within a network coverage range of a gateway. The gateway may include the at least three ultra-wide band modules. The gateway may adjust a lobe direction of an antenna based on the position information of the at least one terminal to achieve shaped beam coverage for each terminal.
US11770813B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may be configured to receive a downlink control information (DCI) message including an indication to update a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state associated with a communications channel between the UE and a base station. In some examples, the indication may trigger the UE (e.g., implicitly or explicitly) to participate in a beam management procedure involving one or more beams associated with the TCI state. As such, the UE may participate in the beam management procedure with the base station, where the beam management procedure may include the transmission of reference signals (e.g., sounding reference signals (SRSs), the reception of reference signals (e.g., channel state information (CSI) reference signals (RSs)), or a combination thereof.
US11770809B2
A radio frequency (RF) unit and method of operation of the RF unit are disclosed herein. The RF unit comprises an antenna array, and the antenna array comprises a plurality of antenna elements. A first set of the plurality of antenna elements is configured to operate in a first mode and a second set of the plurality of antenna elements is configured to operate in a second mode. In the first mode, the first set of the plurality of antenna elements is configured to transmit and receive. In the second mode, the second set of the plurality of antenna elements is configured to only receive.
US11770802B2
Methods, systems, and devices for reducing latency for closed loop sidelink communications for non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) are described. In some examples, a first user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a network entity, a message requesting an allocation of sidelink resources for the first UE and an allocation of sidelink resources for a second UE. The first UE may receive, from the network entity in response to the request message, an indication of a first set of sidelink resources for the first UE. In some examples, the first UE may transmit one or more data messages to the second UE, including an indication of a second set of sidelink resources, an indication that the network entity may directly allocate the second set of sidelink resources, or both. In some example, the first UE may receive one or more data messages from the second UE on the second set of sidelink resources.
US11770794B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a first device may be in communication with a second device and may receive, from the second device, DCI in a downlink control channel and a message in a downlink shared channel. The message in the downlink shared channel may include an indication of a system information update that is relevant to the first device and may include information relating to one or more system information parameters that are updated. The first device may determine the system information update based on the DCI and the indication in the message and may acquire system information accordingly. The first device may update the system information of the first device based on the acquired system information update and may communicate with the second device using the updated system information.
US11770789B2
This application provides a radio frame sending method and apparatus, and a radio frame receiving method and apparatus. First information for identifying a first MLD in an MLE is included in a radio frame, so that a receiver of the radio frame obtains information of the first MLD from the MLE based on the first information after receiving the radio frame. In the method, a first AP generates the radio frame including the MLE, the MLE carries the information of the first MLD, the MLE includes the first information, and the first information identifies the first MLD; and the first AP sends the radio frame. This application is applied to a wireless local area network system supporting next-generation Wi-Fi protocols of IEEE 802.11ax, for example 802.11be (or referred to as the EHT protocol) and other 802.11 family of protocols.
US11770788B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for a decentralized electronic subscriber identity module (dSIM) and an intelligent multi-chain offloading platform to leverage a plurality of decentralized blockchain-based cellular networks. In one embodiment, an AI-enabled offloading gateway can interconnect a plurality of mobile network operators with said decentralized blockchain-based cellular networks using a dSIM profile. The dSIM profile may contain symmetric and/or asymmetric network access applications, Proof-of-Coverage, and Quality-of-Service applications. The offloading gateway may include of various server nodes exposing network access and blockchain interfaces to mobile operators' systems and subscriber equipment containing dSIM profiles inside embedded or integrated universal integrated circuit cards (eUICCs/iUICCs).
US11770784B2
A multi-member Bluetooth device for communicating data with a source Bluetooth device acting as a master in a first piconet. The multi-member Bluetooth device includes a main Bluetooth circuit acting as a slave in the first piconet and as a master in a second piconet, and an auxiliary Bluetooth circuit acting as a slave in the second piconet. The main Bluetooth circuit generates a first slave clock and a second main clock according to a first main clock generated by the source Bluetooth device, with which both the first slave clock and the second main clock are synchronized. The auxiliary Bluetooth circuit generates a second slave clock and a third slave clock according to the second main clock, with which both the second slave clock and the third slave clock are synchronized. The auxiliary Bluetooth circuit sniffs Bluetooth packets transmitted through the first piconet from the source Bluetooth device.
US11770780B2
A method for wireless communication, a terminal device and a network device are provided. The method for wireless communication includes: a terminal device receives a Synchronization Signal Block (SSB), here, the SSB comprises Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS), Secondary Synchronization Signal (SSS), and Physical Broadcasting Channel (PBCH); here, the SSB comprises four consecutive symbols in time domain, which are symbol S0, symbol S1, symbol S2 and symbol S3 in sequence; and the PSS is transmitted on the symbol S0, the SSS is transmitted on the symbol S2, and the PBCH is transmitted on the symbol S1, the symbol S2 and the symbol S3.
US11770778B1
Methods and systems are provided for controlling a maximum transmit power of a high power user equipment (HPUE) using dedicated signaling. The methods and systems receive signal data corresponding to signals from a carrier cell. Based on the signal data, the methods and systems determine whether an interference level of the carrier cell is above a threshold value. Upon determining that the interference level of the carrier cell is above the threshold value, the methods and systems communicate an indication to the HPUE to transmit at a first power level. Upon determining that the interference level of the carrier cell is below the threshold value, the methods and systems communicate an indication to the HPUE to transmit at a second power level. The first power level is lower than the second power level.
US11770774B2
A communication apparatus of the present disclosure comprises a first receiver which, in operation, receives a downlink data frame from a base station; a decoder which, in operation, decodes data included in the received downlink data frame; a signal generator which, when the decoded data indicates that there is no buffered traffic for the communication apparatus, generates an uplink frame that includes acknowledgement information and a wake-up radio (WUR) mode request indicating a request to transit to the WUR mode from a primary connectivity radio (PCR) mode; and a transmitter which, in operation, transmits the uplink frame to the base station.
US11770768B2
Provided is a method and apparatus for discontinuously transmitting/receiving packets for low-power consumption of a terminal in a cellular system for packet transmission. The present research provides a method and apparatus that can perform a low-power consuming operation when a terminal is in active state in a cellular system. The method for discontinuously transmitting/receiving packet data to reduce power consumption of a terminal in a cellular system, including the steps of: a) establishing discontinuous reception/transmission (DRX/DTX) parameters including discontinuous DRX/DTX cycle information for terminals operating in a transmission suspension mode, which is a sub-state of an active state; and b) performing DRX/DTX based on the DRX/DTX parameters in the terminals operating in the transmission suspension mode.
US11770765B2
A method of wireless communications by a user equipment (UE) includes transmitting a wakeup message to awaken a base station from a sleep mode. The method also includes communicating with the base station after the base station awakens. A method of wireless communications by a base station includes entering a sleep mode when no user equipments (UEs) are connected to the base station. The method also includes receiving a signal from a UE to awaken from the sleep mode. The method further includes resuming signal transmissions after waking up from the sleep mode.
US11770762B2
Provided are a method and a device for processing a network slice-specific authentication and authorization (NSSAA) failure caused by a network error or timeout. An access and mobility management function (AMF): starts an NSSAA procedure for an NSSAA function (NSSAAF) and single network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI); and restarts the NSSAA procedure after waiting for a certain period, on the basis that the Hypertext Transfer protocol (HTTP) status code “504 Gateway Timeout” is received from the NSSAAF, and/or a response regarding the NSSAA procedure could not be received from the NSSAAF.
US11770759B2
A method and apparatus are described. A method includes determining whether the apparatus is in a coverage enhancement (CE) mode or a non-CE mode. The method further includes receiving a CE-system information block (CE-SIB) on a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) based on at least one of a known location or at least one known parameter for the CE-SIB, on a condition that the WTRU is determined to be in the CE mode.
US11770755B2
A mobile gateway may provide access to one or more networks based on a variety of configurable parameters, constraints, etc. A Mobile Gateway Management System (“MGMS”) may maintain different sets of rules, parameters, etc. associated with multiple different mobile gateways, such that a network may be able to determine whether to provide access to a particular mobile gateway based on location parameters, temporal parameters, account parameters, or other parameters. When access is granted to the network based on the parameters, the mobile gateway may serve as an interface between one or more User Equipment (“UEs”) and the network.
US11770754B2
There is provided a network management apparatus comprising a processor. In a network constituted by a plurality of vehicles and a plurality of mobile terminals having wireless communication functions, a processor detects a vehicle and a mobile terminal which can be used as a next hop of a predetermined vehicle among the plurality of vehicles. The next hop is for predetermined communication originating from or relayed by the predetermined vehicle. When a vehicle which can be used as the next hop is detected, the processor preferentially selects the vehicle that has been detected as the next hop. When a vehicle which can be used as the next hop is not detected and a mobile terminal which can be used as the next hop is detected, the processor selects the mobile terminal that has been detected as the next hop.
US11770750B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of obtaining path information of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The method is applicable to a base station, and includes: receiving indication information from the UAV, where the indication information indicates whether the UAV has a capability of sending the path information; if the UAV has the capability of sending the path information according to the indication information, sending configuration information to the UAV, where the configuration information indicates whether the UAV is allowed to send the path information to the base station; and if the UAV is allowed to send the path information to the base station, receiving the path information from the UAV. According to examples of the present disclosure, the base station successfully receives the path information from the UAV.
US11770749B2
Managing a plurality of non-coordinated radio access networks (RANs) connected to the core network is provided by acquiring information indicating that a wireless communication device is connected to a base station in a first of the plurality of RANs, and information indicating a location of the wireless communication device, acquiring information identifying at least a second of the plurality of RANs to which the wireless communication device may connect based on the location of the wireless communication device, and information indicating available frequencies in the second RAN via which frequencies the wireless communication device is allowed to access a network being accessible by the mobility management node, said network being operated by an operator different from those operating the first and second RANs, and delivering the information identifying the second RAN and the information indicating available frequencies in the second RAN to the wireless communication device.
US11770748B2
Embodiments of the present technique can provide a mobile device and a method of establishing a connection via a core network by a mobile terminal. The method comprises receiving by the mobile terminal in a first cell an identifier assigned by a node in a first core network of a first type, the identifier comprising an identifier of the node or a group of nodes in the first core network, selecting a second cell in which service via a core network of a second type is available, and determining whether service via a core network of the first type is available from the second cell. The method further comprises establishing a connection via the second cell by transmitting a message including a first indication, the first indication based on at least a portion of the identifier, and when service via a core network of the first type is not available from the second cell, transmitting in the message a second indication, the second indication indicating that the identifier was received from a core network different from the second type, without identifying the first type of core network.
US11770737B2
A system and method for beamforming beams including: matching weights T to a distribution of resources for each of the beams based on a traffic variation for each of the beams; calculating, with a signal processor for each of the beams based on the weights T, a power scalar β and a weighted minimum mean squared error (WMMSE) matrix WWMSE; and transmitting/receiving the beams based on the power scalar β and the WMMSE matrix WWMSE, where the power scalar β satisfies a total power constraint of an antenna subsystem.
US11770735B2
Method, apparatuses, and computer program product for overhead reduction are provided. One method may include determining a channel sparsity. The method may also include determining a shut-off ratio based on the channel sparsity ratio. In addition, the method may include providing feedback to a network node of a suggested shutoff pattern or a shut-off index from a shut-off table for reference signals, and receiving instructions from the network node to execute a shut-off pattern or a shut-off index selected by the network node. Further, the method may include executing a shut-off procedure according to the shut-off pattern or the shut-off index selected by the network node.
US11770729B2
Systems and methods are provided for scheduling the transmission of data in a datapath. A source node can send a registration request indicating its preferred sending time for data transmission. Intermediate nodes can determine if there are overlaps in timeslot reservations and adjust, and schedule, the requested preferred sending time accordingly.
US11770728B2
A method for performing measurement scheduling control by a user equipment (UE) and associated apparatus are provided. The method may include: establishing a connection with a base station on a cell of the base station, wherein the UE is configured to perform measurement on at least one reference signal of at least one cell comprising the cell; obtaining, by a modulator-demodulator (Modem) in the UE, sensor information from a sensor system within the UE through a communication interface between the sensor system and the Modem; and controlling periodicity of a measurement cycle of the measurement according to the sensor information in order to reduce power consumption of the UE.
US11770727B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for CSI reporting. The method comprises detecting a downlink transmission, and transmitting, in response to the detection of the downlink transmission, a channel state information (CSI) report in an uplink control resource configured for CSI reporting. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, a timely and accurate CSI reporting can be provided.
US11770722B2
A method and apparatus to perform communicating with a network device in a communication network by another network device, information including characteristics of a 3 GPP system network associated with the another network device; based at least on the information, determining scheduling information for communication by at least one network node in the 3 GPP system network; and sending the scheduling information for the communication in the 3 GPP system network. Further, to perform communicating with a network device in a communication network by another network device information including characteristics of an 3 GPP system network associated with the another network device; and based on the characteristics, communicating with the network device to identify at least one interval of time to achieve a specific deterministic latency for a communication in the 3 GPP system network by at least one network node.
US11770718B2
An unlicensed channel sharing method and device, a storage medium, a terminal and a base station, the sharing method comprising: determining channel sharing information, the channel sharing information comprising time slot specification information which may allow a network to access and occupy a channel occupation time of an unlicensed channel; and sending the channel sharing information to the network. By means of employing the technical solution of the present invention, a UE may notify a base station of an unlicensed channel occupation duration so that the UE effectively carries out channel sharing with the base station.
US11770715B2
An embodiment includes a method to increase the efficiency of security checkpoint operations. A security checkpoint kiosk serves as a Relying Party System (RPS). The RPS establishes a secure local connection between the RPS and a User Mobile-Identification-Credential Device (UMD). The RPS sends a user information request to the UMD, via the secure local connection, seeking release of user information associated with a Mobile Identification Credential (MIC). The RPS obtains authentication of the user information received in response to the user information request. The RPS retrieves user travel information based on the user information. The RPS determines that the user travel information matches the user information. When the user travel information matches the user information, the RPS approves the user to proceed past the security checkpoint kiosk.
US11770696B2
A method for UE capability signaling for supporting reference signal based measurements in NR-U is proposed. A UE transfers its UE capability information to a mobile communication network, wherein the UE capability information includes information regarding whether the UE supports measurements of a CSI-RS on an unlicensed cell. The UE receives configuration from the mobile communication network, wherein the configuration includes information regarding radio resources of the CSI-RS on the unlicensed cell. The UE measures the CSI-RS on the unlicensed cell based on the configuration.
US11770693B2
According to certain embodiments, an electronic device comprises a short-range communication module, a processor operatively connected to the short-range communication module, and a memory operatively connected to the processor, wherein the memory may store instructions which, when executed, cause the processor to: confirm that the electronic device is inserted into a first external electronic device; obtain setting information regarding a Bluetooth communication connection from the first external electronic device by using the short-range communication module; confirm whether a condition for setting address information of the electronic device is satisfied; and on the basis of confirming that the condition is satisfied, set the address information of the electronic device by using the setting information. Various other embodiments are possible.
US11770686B2
A computing system for presenting on a mobile device pieces of content each connected to a geographic location is described. The facility plots visual indications of the pieces of content in a two-dimensional display with respect to an origin point representing a user geographic location. In particular, for each piece of content, the facility plots a visual indication at a point that is (1) in a direction from the origin point that corresponds to a compass direction from the user geographic location to the geographic location to which the piece of content is connected, and (2) at a distance from the origin point that corresponds to a predicted amount of time to travel from the user geographic location to the geographical location to which the piece of content is connected.
US11770679B2
Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: receiving request data from a first mobile UE device, the request data requesting installation of an instance of a client software installation package on the first mobile UE device; and responsively to the request data from the first mobile UE device, deploying a first instance of the client software installation package to the first mobile UE device for installation on the first mobile UE device, wherein the client software installation package is configured so that when the client software installation package is installed on a respective mobile client, the respective mobile client is operative for counting of crossings of the respective mobile client with one or more neighboring mobile client during performance of a trip.
US11770672B2
A tracking device can securely communicate with a secondary device by generating a hash value based on the identity of the tracking device. If the secondary device cannot resolve the hash value, the hash value can be provided to a tracking server, such as a cloud server, for resolving the hash value. Upon resolving the hash value, the tracking server can store a location of the tracking device in association with the identity of the tracking device. To preserve power, the secondary device can activate location-detection functionality (such as a GPS receive) only in response to the detection of movement of the tracking device, can obtain location information, and can de-activate the location-detection functionality upon providing the location information to the tracking server. The tracking server can associate one or both of a previous location and the current location information based on movement of the tracking device.
US11770657B2
A piezo-electric element includes a piezo-electric element part, a support part, and a stretchable film. The piezo-electric element part includes a piezo-electric film and electrodes between which the piezo-electric film is sandwiched in a thickness direction. The support part supports a peripheral portion of the piezo-electric element part. The stretchable film is provided in an oscillation region located inside of the peripheral portion of the piezo-electric element part. The stretchable film also has a higher elasticity than that of the piezo-electric element part.
US11770642B2
An image sensor integrated with a convolutional neural network computation circuit is provided. The image sensor includes: a pixel array including pixels divided into pixel groups, wherein each pixel converts a light signal into a PWM signal; a convolution computation circuit controlling a turn-on time of a corresponding weighted current according to the first PWM signal of each pixel, and accumulating the weighted currents into an integrated current; a comparison circuit converting the integrated current into a second PWM signal and comparing it with that of an adjacent pixel group to output a larger one; and a classification circuit quantizing the second PWM signal to a quantization value according to a weight of a node in a fully-connected layer corresponding to each pixel group, accumulating the quantization values of all pixel groups into a feature value, and comparing the feature value with a feature threshold to obtain a classification result.
US11770636B2
An optical sensor including: a substrate; a circuit element layer disposed on the substrate and including a circuit element; and a photoelectric element layer including a photoelectric element, a self-assembled monolayer, and a bias electrode connected to the photoelectric element, wherein the photoelectric element is connected to the circuit element, and wherein the self-assembled monolayer is disposed on the photoelectric element.
US11770630B2
A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a second substrate including a signal processing circuit configured to perform signal processing using machine learning on a signal output from the first substrate. The second substrate is disposed on the first substrate in a multilayer structure. The signal processing circuit is so disposed to overlap with a pixel array but not overlap with a light-shielded pixel area as seen in a plan view.
US11770628B2
The disclosed imaging device includes pixels each including a photoelectric convertor, a focus controller controlling a focal position of light, and a pixel controller controlling charge accumulation in the photoelectric convertors and readout of signals from the pixels. The pixels include a first pixel outputting signal corresponding to light in a first wavelength band and a second pixel outputting signal corresponding to light in a second wavelength band. The pixel controller executes, during one frame, a first period of accumulating charge in the photoelectric convertor of the first pixel in a state that the light in the first wavelength band is focused on, a second period of accumulating charge in the photoelectric convertor of the second pixel in a state that the light in the second wavelength band is focused on, and a third period of reading out signals corresponding to amount of charge generated in the photoelectric convertors.
US11770626B2
A camera module includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of image frames having a spatial phase difference therebetween, an image generation unit configured to generate image data having a resolution higher than a resolution of each of the plurality of image frames using the plurality of image frames, and a depth information extraction unit configured to extract depth information about an object using the image data.
US11770624B2
An image signal processor includes a first matrix processing circuit, a post processing circuit, a second matrix processing circuit, and a split visual and analytics circuit. The first matrix processing circuit is configured to receive a plurality of component images generated based on an image captured by an image sensor and generate a plurality of first matrix outputs based on the plurality of component images. The post processing circuit is configured to perform color conversion on the plurality of first matrix outputs to generate a first luminance component of the image and a chrominance component of the image. The second matrix processing circuit is configured to perform color conversion on the plurality of first matrix outputs to generate a second luminance component of the image and a saturation component of the image. The split visual and analytics circuit is configured to generate visual and analytic data of the image.
US11770623B2
One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at a camera sensor associated with an information handling device, image data from a plurality of imaging ports, wherein the plurality of imaging ports are positioned around the information handling device; determining, using a processor, a primary imaging port from the plurality of imaging ports, wherein image data captured at the primary imaging port shows a front view of a user; and broadcasting, responsive to the determining, the image data from the primary imaging port. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US11770622B2
Processor, image processing device including the same, and control method of image processing device
An image processing device, which includes processing circuitry configured to cause the image processing device to first detect a first bad pixel based on first image data, correct the first bad pixel based on first values of first peripheral pixels in response to the first detection to obtain a first correction result, the first peripheral pixels being peripheral to the first bad pixel, second detect the first bad pixel and a second bad pixel based on the first image data, the second bad pixel being adjacent to the first bad pixel, correct the second bad pixel based on second values of second peripheral pixels to obtain a second correction result, the second peripheral pixels being peripheral to the second bad pixel, and correct the first bad pixel by using the first correction result stored in a buffer in response to the second detection.
US11770610B2
An image sensor comprises: a plurality of microlenses; and a pixel region including, with respect to each of the plurality of microlenses, a plurality of first sensitivity regions formed at first depth from a light incident surface, a plurality of second sensitivity regions formed at second depth which is deeper than the first depth, and a plurality of connection portions that electrically connect the plurality of first regions and the plurality of second regions in different combinations.
US11770607B2
Disclosed embodiments include a selfie camera system for capturing selfie content and sharing captured content on a social media and/or a video streaming platform. In various embodiments, selfie camera makes capturing higher quality selfie content more efficient by providing a preview of the selfie content before and after capture. One or more aspects of previews may be modified to simulate content displayed on a social media and/or video streaming platform. The selfie camera may be easily attached to any surface using one or more mounting mechanisms to allow the selfie camera for function as a personal, private photographer than can capture any scene from a variety of perspectives using a variety of capture sequences.
US11770605B2
A method includes operating a remote image capture system within a defined geolocation region. The remote image capture system includes a camera, position orientation controls for the camera, ambient sensors and a control unit. A user of a client device that enters the geolocation region is designated based upon identifying information received from the client device and user facial recognition data. Attributes of the geolocation region are communicated to the client device. An image capture location within the geolocation region is communicated to the client device. The client device is provided a prompt to activate the camera.
US11770598B1
A device for providing even illumination to a user’s hand or other object to acquire images of the object for biometric identification of a user, includes a camera, a first light module positioned on a first side of the camera, and a second light module positioned on a second side of the camera. The camera is positioned closer to the second light module. The second light module emits light with a lesser intensity than the first light module. Light bending films positioned adjacent to the light modules redirect emitted light toward opposite edges of the field of view of the camera. Diffusers in the path of the emitted light diffuse portions of the emitted light along the edges of the field of view. Polarizers positioned in the path of the emitted light polarize the emitted light to facilitate visualization of particular features of the hand or other object.
US11770596B2
A terahertz wave camera that acquires information on a measurement target includes: a sensor unit in which a plurality of elements having spectral sensitivity to the terahertz wave are arranged; a readout circuit unit that reads out signals from the elements; a first light-shielding portion; and an optical unit. The first light-shielding portion reduces disturbance light to which the readout circuit unit has spectral sensitivity. The optical unit guides a terahertz wave from the measurement target to the sensor unit.
US11770591B2
Multiple broadcasters create live streams of digital content relating to live events, and multiple viewers of each broadcaster receive copies of the live streams. Viewer latency is significantly reduced, and event information relating to live events is synchronized amongst all broadcasters and viewers of live streams relating to the same event. Scalable and flexible access to live streams is provided to different types and numbers of viewers with different qualities of service. A social media platform is provided in tandem with live streaming of digital content relating to live events, to allow a given broadcaster and their associated viewers to communicate with one another, comment on the event and/or the broadcaster's live stream and send digital gifts. In one example, the broadcasters' digital content relates to live sporting events, and studio-quality graphics and animations are provided on mobile client devices in tandem with the broadcasters' digital content and social networking functionality.
US11770589B2
Methods and systems for using text data in content presentation and content search are disclosed. Text data and a plurality of video frames can be extracted from a content program and stored in a database. Extracted text data can be divided into a plurality of text segments. The plurality of text segments and the plurality of video frames can be presented in the form of an electronic book or guide. In addition, the content program can be divided into a plurality of content segments and stored in the database. The plurality of content segments and the plurality of text segments can be associated by time indices. A user can identify one or more content segments in the database by a query, and notifications can be sent according to the query.
US11770588B2
Systems and methods for dynamically skipping a presentation of a portion of frames to catch up to live based on a user selection is disclosed herein. For example, a streaming application generates a content item for live streaming where the content item comprises a plurality of frames. In response to determining that playing of the content item lags behind the live streaming of the content item, the streaming application presents a selectable option for a user input where the option comprises (a) catch up to live in a particular time period. In response to receiving the user input via a corresponding option to (a) catch up to live in the particular time period, the streaming application skips a presentation of a portion of the plurality of frames, such that the playing of the content item catches up to live in the particular time period.
US11770581B2
Systems and methods are presented herein for recording portions of a media asset relevant to recording criteria. A media application receives input indicating the recording criteria and identifying a first keyword. The media application accesses a data structure to identify a first node associated with the first keyword. The data structure includes the first node and a plurality of nodes connected to the first node via a plurality of paths. The media application receiving audio component data for a portion of the media asset extracts a term from the audio component data, and identifies a second node in the data structure that is associated with the extracted term. The media application calculates a path score for the portion of the media asset based on a path size in the data structure between the first node and the second node. When the score is high enough, the portion of the media asset is recorded.
US11770580B2
Systems and methods for automatically recording media assets not explicitly scheduled for recording by a user when the user leaves his or her home. For example, when the user leaves home, a media guidance application, being executed on a user equipment device (such as a set-top box), schedules to record media assets that the user has expressed interest in, but has not explicitly scheduled for recording. If the user returns home before a recording has begun, the media guidance application does not record the media assets the user has not explicitly scheduled for recording.
US11770567B1
A content distribution platform is disclosed. The content distribution platform enables content creators to upload video based content onto the platform. Users can then view the videos or shortened versions of the videos. The videos may be classified/categorizes based on the contents of the video. Based on the categorization/classifications, specific product and service recommendations may be made to users. Recommendations can also be made based on tracking user behavior across the platform.
US11770559B2
An image decoding apparatus decodes a transform coefficient on a transform unit basis, decodes a flag scaling_matrix_for_lfnst_disabled_flag indicating whether to apply a quantization matrix during a non-separable transform, scales the transform coefficient by utilizing a scaling list, and performs a non-separable transform in accordance with a non-separable transform index lfnst_idx. In a case that scaling_matrix_for_lfnst_disabled_flag==1 and lfnst_idx!=0 and a size of a transform block is equal to or greater than a prescribed size, instead of scaling using the quantization matrix according to a position of the transform coefficient, uniform quantization not depending on the position of the transform coefficient is performed.
US11770535B2
A method includes receiving an image frame comprising pixels, wherein each pixel comprises n color channels, generating, by a separate color channel quantization branch for each of the n color channels configured to guarantee a non-negative reconstruction error, a first sample set of quantized indices based on color values of residues for a first particular pixel in the image frame, wherein the first sample set corresponds to a first n-tuple, and generating, by an entropy encoder, an entropy encoding for the first particular pixel based on data that maps indices to n-tuples of quantized indices, wherein the first n-tuple is mapped to a first index.
US11770524B2
A loop filter utilized in an encoder includes a constrained directional enhancement filter and a decision circuit. The constrained directional enhancement filter is arranged to process multiple frames, wherein for a first frame in the multiple frames, the constrained directional enhancement filter determines a best filter strength of each block in the first frame in a first filter strength list, and determines a second filter strength list according to content of the first frame. The decision circuit is coupled to the constrained directional enhancement filter, and is arranged to record which index in the first filter strength list is the best filter strength corresponding to each block in the first frame, and provide the first filter strength list and the index corresponding to each block to an encoding circuit of the encoder as an output of the encoder.
US11770514B2
An optical observation instrument according to the invention, in particular a surgical microscope or exoscope, comprises an optics unit with an objective arrangement and at least one electronic image recorder, wherein the optics unit has a first stereo channel with a first beam path and a second stereo channel with a second beam path for recording a stereo image of an object field with the at least one electronic image recorder and wherein the first and the second beam path extend through the objective arrangement. Further, the observation instrument comprises a retaining apparatus which comprises a retaining bracket, which engages over the optics unit, wherein the retaining bracket comprises an operating device with a number of operating elements for controlling a retaining arm, to which the retaining apparatus is connectable.
US11770513B1
Systems and methods for reducing a number of focal planes used to display a three-dimensional object are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, data defining a three-dimensional image according to a first plurality of focal planes are received. Pixel luminance values from the first plurality of focal planes are mapped to a second plurality of focal planes comprising fewer focal planes than the first plurality of focal planes. Data is stored identifying initial focal distances of the mapped pixel luminance values in the first plurality of focal planes. The second plurality of focal planes are then displayed on a near eye device which uses the data identifying initial focal distances of the mapped pixel luminance values to adjust a wavelength of light produced by the second plurality of images to cause the pixels to appear at their original focal distances.
US11770504B2
A person detection device configured to analyze a fisheye image obtained by a fisheye camera installed above a to-be-detected area to detect a person existing in the to-be-detected area includes a human body detector configured to detect a human body candidate from a fisheye image and output, as a detection result, a bounding box indicating a region on the fisheye image of each human body candidate detected, a reference storage configured to prestore a reference for a shape and/or size of the bounding box for each position or area on the fisheye image, and a false detection determining unit configured to compare the shape and/or size of the bounding box of the human body candidate contained in the detection result with the reference corresponding to a position where the human body candidate is detected to determine whether the human body candidate results from false detection.
US11770502B2
The present invention relates to an image surveillance apparatus applied with a moving-path tracking technique using a multi camera and, more specifically, to an image surveillance apparatus applied with a moving-path tracking technique using a multi camera, the image surveillance apparatus comprising a plurality of surround cameras arranged in a horizontal direction and a central camera located at the center of the surround cameras, wherein arrangements of the surround cameras and the central camera are restricted, a blind spot during surveillance of the image surveillance apparatus is minimized, and detection and automatic tracking of a moving object to be tracked are possible.
US11770497B2
A method, apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for processing a video are provided. A terminal determines a subject region of a video frame in a video and a background region. A target object is located in the subject region. The background region is a region of the video frame other than the subject region. The terminal overlays the subject region in at least one of a first video frame having the target object on at least one of a second video frame having the target object and generates a special effect frame including at least two subject regions in each of which the target object is located.
US11770496B2
Methods and apparatus for visualizing a surface covering on at least a portion of a surface in an image of a scene. The method comprises identifying, using at least one computer processor, a surface plane from the image of the scene, determining, for each pixel of a plurality of pixels corresponding to the surface plane, whether the pixel corresponds to at least a portion of the surface in the scene, and generating an updated image of the scene by overlaying on the surface plane, a visualization of a plurality of surface covering tiles on pixels along the surface plane determined to correspond to at least a portion of the surface in the scene.
US11770490B2
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of devices configured to perform different job processing, a control unit configured to control job processing performed by each device, a reception unit configured to receive an instruction for causing the control unit to shift to a state where the job processing is capable of being performed, and a power control unit configured to, when the control unit is shifted to a stand-by state in response to receiving the instruction, supply a power to a device specified based on a job processing function corresponding to an initial screen to be displayed.
US11770488B2
An image processing apparatus capable of preventing recurrence of a jam at the time of document reading is provided. The image processing apparatus includes a feeder, a reader, a storage device, and a processor. The processor causes the image processing apparatus to function as: a reading unit configured to cause the reader to read a document by a reading method among a plurality of reading methods including a conveyance-based reading method using the feeder; a storage control unit configured to, in a case where reading of a document with the reader by the conveyance-based reading method has failed, store information on the document in the storage device; and a notification unit configured to, in a case where an instruction to read again the document by the conveyance-based reading method is issued, issue, in accordance with the information, a notification that prompts to change the reading method set for the document.
US11770484B2
An operation panel accepts a selection instruction to select an icon and an edit instruction to edit the icon selected by the selection instruction when an edit screen is displayed, a display control section selects two or more of the icons as a selection icon group when the operation panel accepts the selection instruction for the two or more icons, and the display control section edits the selection icon group when the operation panel accepts the edit instruction for the selection icon group.
US11770482B2
Examples dis closed herein relate to displaying, proximate to a hand engagement interface, a plurality of user interface elements, receiving, via a freeform input interface associated with the hand engagement interface, a freeform input from a user, identifying a command associated with a first element of the plurality of user interface elements associated with the freeform input, and updating the display of the plurality of user interface elements according to the command associated with the first element of the plurality of user elements.
US11770481B2
The present invention provides an information processing apparatus capable of performing appropriate processing wider a predetermined usage agreement. To this end, the information processing apparatus stores state information indicating whether the information processing apparatus is in a first state in which a predetermined service is unavailable or a second state in which the predetermined service is available. Moreover, the information processing apparatus communicates with a server and updates the stored state information based on the predetermined agreement information obtained from the server. In the case where the stored state information indicates the second state at a timing at which the information processing apparatus is reactivated or recovers from a power-saving mode, the information processing apparatus performs the processing of communicating with the server and updating the state information and the preparation processing for starting predetermined processing according to a received job in parallel.
US11770478B2
A system and methods for mobile device active callback prioritization with predictive outcome scoring, utilizing an enhanced callback prioritization engine operating on a user's mobile device for integration through the operating system and software applications operating on the device, wherein the enhanced callback prioritization engine receives intercepted data or voice messages sent to the mobile device, retrieves and aggregates data related to the assigned messages, inputs the assigned data message and aggregate data into prioritization model wherein the prioritization model may analyze the input data, the results of the analysis may be used to compute a priority score for the assigned data message. An outcome model may be present and configured to produce outcome scores for a callback recipient based on the context of the data or voice message. System generates a callback list from the computed prioritization score and outcome score.
US11770466B2
A network device may receive, from a timing source of a network, timing information. The network device may identify a client device to which the timing information is to be provided, wherein the network device provides an interface between the client device and the network. The network device may select a virtual network address to associate with a timing agent of the network device, wherein the virtual network address is within an address range that is reachable by the client device. The network device may provide to the client device, and via a network layer communication, a timing control packet comprising the timing information, wherein the timing control packet identifies the virtual network address as a source network address of the timing control packet, and wherein the timing information is to be used by the client device to update a clock of the client device.
US11770465B2
A first router transmits a first message including information identifying a first set of transport layer protocols supported by the first router. The first router receives a second message including information identifying a second set of transport layer protocols supported by a second router. A common transport layer protocol is selected from a subset of transport layer protocols that are common to the first and second sets of transport layer protocols. The first router then establishes a border gateway protocol (BGP) session with the second router over the common transport layer protocol. The first message is unicast to the second router or broadcast/multicast over a plurality of links to a plurality of routers that includes the second router. In some cases, the common transport layer protocol is selected by the router having a higher priority, based on preferences, or a combination thereof.
US11770464B1
A frame is received at an agent. The frame is analyzed to determine that the frame is associated with a first known pod. IP information is reported to a backend process. The backend process is configured to stitch the IP information with other IP information reported by one or more additional agents to identify a second pod.
US11770452B2
Methods and systems of monitoring and managing a facility including a plurality of end point devices. One system includes an end point device including an electronic processor, the electronic processor powered by an energy source local to the end point device. The electronic processor is configured to receive data from at least one electro-mechanical element of a fixture associated with the facility, the data related to an operation of the fixture. The electronic processor is also configured to convert the data pursuant to a networking protocol. The electronic processor is also configured to enable, over a network associated with the networking protocol, transmission of the converted data for virtual processing.
US11770447B2
Methods, systems and computer program products for implementing high-availability file services in a clustered computing environment. Two or more clusters are interconnected to carry out operations for replication of file content between file servers. The file servers and their respective network links are registered with a file server witness. The file servers operate in synchrony, where each file I/O is replicated from one file server to another file server over a first set of network paths. A file server witness communicates with each file server using a second set of two or more network paths interfaced with respective file servers. The file server witness monitors the file servers to determine operational health of the file servers. Upon receipt of a file I/O request, the file I/O request is directed to one of the two file servers based at least in part on the determined operational health.
US11770444B2
A device may include a memory storing instructions and processor configured to execute the instructions to receive, by a first blockchain node and via a first base station, a message from a first Internet of Things (IoT) device to a second IoT device, wherein the device corresponds to a first multi-access edge computing (MEC) device located in a first MEC network associated with the first base station. The processor may be further configured to authenticate, by the first blockchain node, the first IoT device using a blockchain associated with a group of IoT devices and send, by the first blockchain node, the message to a second blockchain node in a second MEC device in a second MEC network associated with a second base station servicing the second IoT device, in response to authenticating the first IoT device using the blockchain associated with the group of IoT devices.
US11770442B2
An electronic device includes a memory, a communication circuit, and a processor. The memory is configured to store an application and an edge enabler client. The communication circuit is configured to communicate with at least one of a first server, a second server, or a third server. The application is configured to perform one or more functions corresponding to the third server. The processor is configured to receive access information for accessing the second server from the first server. The processor is configured to receive access information of the third server from each of a plurality of second servers. The processor is configured to check at least one or more third servers capable of providing a service The processor is configured to select the third server to request access among a plurality of third servers. The processor is configured to perform the service using the selected third server.
US11770439B2
A proxy server to receive a request from a client to a webserver and a response corresponding with the request from the webserver to the client is disclosed. The request is wrapped, and a wrapped request is received at the proxy server. The wrapped request is read at the proxy server. Metadata is added to a response corresponding with the wrapped request at the proxy server. The metadata can be based on the read wrapped request or the corresponding response.
US11770435B2
A system designed for increasing network communication speed for users, while lowering network congestion for content owners and ISPs. The system employs network elements including an acceleration server, clients, agents, and peers, where communication requests generated by applications are intercepted by the client on the same machine. The IP address of the server in the communication request is transmitted to the acceleration server, which provides a list of agents to use for this IP address. The communication request is sent to the agents. One or more of the agents respond with a list of peers that have previously seen some or all of the content which is the response to this request (after checking whether this data is still valid). The client then downloads the data from these peers in parts and in parallel, thereby speeding up the Web transfer, releasing congestion from the Web by fetching the information from multiple sources, and relieving traffic from Web servers by offloading the data transfers from them to nearby peers.
US11770434B1
One example method includes receiving stream data batches at a client node. The client node determines if the stream data batches are compressible. For the compressible stream data batches, a request is sent to a server node for an on-demand stream compression service, the request including an indicator of a stream data type for the compressible data batches. The on-demand stream compression service is deployed and launched at the client node. The on-demand stream compression service includes a compressor pool of compressors that are able to compress the stream data type of the compressible stream data batches. A compressor of the compressor pool is selected and used to compress the compressible stream data batches. The compressed stream data batches are sent to the server node.
US11770430B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for processing communications. In one aspect, a method in a first node in a network of delivering content comprises delivering a first portion of the content to a device, receiving a request for a second portion of the content from the device and, responsive to the request and responsive to a determination that the second portion of the content should be delivered to the device from a second node in the network, instructing the device to retrieve the content from the second node.
US11770427B2
Embodiments described herein involve an auxiliary zone contributing audio to a primary zone. In an example implementation, a network media system determines that a first zone in the network media system is playing back a first type of audio content and that a second zone in the network media system is not playing back audio content. While the first zone is playing back the first type of audio content and the second zone is not playing back audio content, the network media system forms a temporarily playback configuration. In the temporary playback configuration, the first zone plays back primary audio content including full frequency range audio content and the second playback device of the second zone plays back auxiliary audio content including low frequency range audio content.
US11770426B2
A software-defined media platform having one or more media processing units that may be dynamically instantiated, interconnected and configured according to changes in demand, resource availability, and other parameters affecting system performance relative to demand. In one example media processing method, a source media stream may be received via multicast or unicast. The source media stream may be processed into one or more levels of work product segments having different media characteristics by a plurality of transcoding processing units, as needed. One or more levels of work product segments, or the source media stream, may be packaged (e.g., including resegmenting) into final work product segments having select media characteristics, which may be uploaded to a cloud storage unit for delivery to end users.
US11770419B2
Devices and systems for voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) codec selection are described herein. One or more embodiments include a VoIP device for selecting a codec comprising a link monitor to detect an Internet link and an interface coupled to the link monitor, wherein the interface determines a bandwidth, usage, and/or type of the Internet link to select the codec.
US11770418B2
In an embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a processor and from a user device associated with a user, a request to access a service associated with a first protocol. The method further includes receiving, by the processor, a virtual credential of the user authorized by an authorizing entity. The virtual credential is compliant with a second protocol different than the first protocol. The method further includes verifying, by the processor, that the virtual credential is authorized by the authorizing entity. The method further includes transforming, by the processor, the virtual credential to generate a transformed virtual credential compliant with the first protocol. The method further includes sending, by the processor, a representation of the transformed virtual credential to the service. The method further includes verifying, by the processor and after the sending, that the transformed virtual credential is valid.
US11770412B2
One example method includes logging into websites through devices including insecure devices. A logon device may store credentials. The logon device is configured to connect with an insecure device and then communicate with a website for authentication purposes without exposing a user's credentials to the insecure device. After the user is authenticated, the session is transferred to the insecure device.
US11770408B2
Systems and methods for mitigating network attacks include, responsive to detection of malicious traffic in a network, causing creation of an isolated network slice in the network where the isolated network slice is a set of connection resources that are allocated to a flow of traffic and that spans a plurality of network devices in the network; and causing rerouting of the malicious traffic from a source node of the malicious traffic to a deceptive network resource along the isolated network slice.
US11770403B2
Systems and methods for a security rating framework that translates compliance requirements to corresponding desired technical configurations to facilitate generation of security ratings for network elements is provided. According to one embodiment, a host network element executes a collection of security checks on at least a first network element. The execution is performed by receiving configuration data of the first network element pertaining to each security check of the collection of security checks in response to a request by the host network element and validating each security check by comparing the received configuration data pertaining to each security check with a pre-defined or configurable network security configuration recommendation to generate a compliance result. Further, the host network element generates a compliance report by aggregating the compliance results obtained by executing each security check of the collection of security checks.
US11770396B2
A method, including identifying, in network data traffic, a set of pairs of source and destination nodes, each pair having a given source node, a given destination node, and one or more ports accessed in the traffic between the nodes in each pair, and computing, for each pair, a respective baseline that indicates a first number of the ports that source nodes other than the given source node in the pair accessed on the given destination node during a first period. For each pair, a respective test score is computed that indicates a difference between a second number of the ports that the given source node in the pair accessed on the given destination node during a second period and the baseline, and a preventive action is initiated with respect to the given source node in any of the pairs for which the test score is greater than a threshold.
US11770392B2
Methods, systems, and computing platforms for data communication are disclosed. A computer-data communication based network, including receiving a set of virtual nodes each with a data payload may include an originating node attribute, an infosec data attribute, an behavioral data attribute, a biometric enterprise attribute and at least one data element associated with the originating node attribute. A machine learning module may learn from across multiple of collection points to determine control triggers and control durations. A user anomaly collector/module may be configured to identify an unusual or anomalous usage of an application.
US11770386B2
A multiresolution parser (MRP) can selectively extract one or more information units from a dataset based on the available processing capacity and/or the arrival rate of the dataset. Should any of these parameters change, the MRP can adaptively change the information units to be extracted such that the benefit or value of the extracted information is maximized while minimizing the cost of extraction. This tradeoff is facilitated, at least in part, by an analysis of the spectral energy of the datasets expected to be processed by the MRP. The MRP can also determine its state after a processing iteration and use that state information in subsequent iterations to minimize the required computations in such subsequent iterations, so as to improve processing efficiency.
US11770379B1
The present disclosure relates to two-factor authentication with a Hardware Security Module (HSM). In response to a login attempt, the HSM indicates that two-factor authentication is required. To generate the second authentication factor, a management console is accessed using credentials. The management console generates the second authentication factor and provides the second authentication factor to the client. The client then provides the second authentication factor to the HSM to complete the two-factor authentication operations.
US11770368B2
Techniques for sharing private data objects in a trusted execution environment using a distributed ledger are described. The techniques described herein may enable sharing of data objects, referred to herein as private data objects (PDOs), between individuals and organizations with access and update policies mediated by execution of code (referred to herein as a “smart contract”) carried with the PDO in a secure enclave. A distributed ledger may serve as a “public commit log” to ensure that there is a single, authoritative instance of the object and provide a means of guaranteeing atomicity of updates across interacting objects.
US11770367B2
According to an embodiment, there is provided a security method of XML web document, and in particular, a method of encrypting a tag set by a user when generating an XML document to display data contents of the encrypted tag as a web document. The security method of XML web document includes setting, by the processor, an encryption tag to be encrypted according to setting of a user; generating, by the processor, an XML document including the encryption tag based on data input by the user; retrieving, by the processor, the set encryption tag of the XML document; and generating, by the processor, an encrypted text for data corresponding to the encryption tag and outputting the encrypted text on a View window, and a plain tag format and the encryption tag format are maintained as they are and displayed on the View window, and only the data corresponding to the encryption tag is displayed on the View window as the generated encrypted text.
US11770366B2
A method of associating user identity with an autonomous agent embodied on a blockchain stored in a blockchain network, the method comprising the following steps: a user engaging in a user authentication process to obtain a set of one or more verified identity attributes of the user; computing an identity hash, by applying a hash function to input data comprising the set of verified identity attributes; and sending to the blockchain network a data package comprising the identity hash and an identifier of the autonomous agent; wherein the autonomous agent is embodied on the blockchain as program code and at least one associated state register for storing associated program state, and wherein the data package causes at least a portion of the autonomous agent's program code to be executed on a node of the blockchain network, which upon execution stores the identity hash in the at least one state register of the autonomous agent.
US11770365B2
Disclosed are various examples for providing contextual awareness with an internet of things (IoT) infrastructure in an enterprise workspace. IoT devices can connect to a network through a gateway or other edge device enrolled in a management service. The gateway device can provide context-based services defined by the management services to users in an enterprise through interactions with IoT devices. A gateway device can identity managed user devices within a service range of the gateway device. When a managed user device is within the service range of the gateway device, the gateway device can provide a context-based service by interacting with connected IoT devices.
US11770363B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a secure communication between a first network and a second network. The method may include receiving, at a Secure Access Smart Hub (SASH), a signal from the first network requesting a communication connection; establishing a first connection between the first network and the SASH; establishing a second connection between the SASH and the second network; receiving, at the SASH, data from the first network having a first protocol; translating the data having the first protocol into data having a second protocol; and transmitting the data from the SASH to the second network.
US11770360B1
A computer-implemented method of identifying associated communications between a first network with a first addressing scheme and a second network with a second addressing scheme is presented. The technique can include: detecting a first protocol data unit addressed from a first device in the first network and addressed to a destination in the second network, prior to translation by a network address translator; inserting, prior to translation from the first addressing scheme to the second addressing scheme, a breadcrumb protocol data unit that is addressed to the second network, the breadcrumb protocol data unit including, in a location immune from address translation by the network address translator, the source address of the first protocol data unit; receiving a translated breadcrumb protocol data unit; and reporting an association of the source address of the first protocol data unit with the translated source address of the first protocol data unit.
US11770358B2
Presented herein are embodiments of mechanisms to add security in the communication of messages between devices, particularly in the context of VXLAN (Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (LAN)) environments. When a VXLAN device sends a multicast message to discover other devices in the network, there is possibilities for rogue devices to respond and then receive data that is not intended for them. In one or more embodiments, information handling systems operating as a VTEP (VXLAN tunnel endpoint) may use enhanced encryption that is shared with other authorized VTEP—but not shared with rough VTEP devices—to verify other authorized VTEPs. In one or more embodiments, information used to verify a VTEP device is included in the message, such as included in the header, which a properly configured receiving VTEP will recognize and use to verify that that sending VTEP is not a rogue device.
US11770350B2
The present disclosure is directed to adaptive networking policy with user defined fields and includes one or more processors and one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media coupled to the one or more processors and comprising instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause one or more components to perform operations including generating a user defined attribute (UDA) value corresponding to a set of attributes; receiving, at a network device, a packet having one or more packet conditions; determining that the one or more packet conditions of the packet match the set of attributes of the UDA value; assigning a UDA tag to the packet, wherein the UDA tag corresponds to the UDA value and is configured for chaining with one or more other UDA tags; and taking an action on the packet based on the UDA tag.
US11770341B2
Provided are an apparatus and a method for allocating a bandwidth for providing a low-latency fronthaul service in a passive optical network. An bandwidth allocating method performed by a bandwidth allocating apparatus included in an OLT includes receiving an actual report message requesting bandwidth allocation from at least one ONU for wired subscribers connected to the OLT, receiving radio scheduling information for at least one ONU for mobile connected to the OLT from a central unit (CU)/digital unit (DU), generating a virtual report message using the radio scheduling information received from the CU/DU, allocating a transmission bandwidth for the at least one ONU for wired subscribers and the at least one ONU for mobile through the received actual report message and the generated virtual report message, and transmitting the allocated transmission bandwidth to the ONU for wired subscribers and the ONU for mobile using a grant message.
US11770339B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus embodiments are described herein for controlling policy in integrated small cell and Wi-Fi networks (ISWNs). It is recognized herein that multiple actors within an ISWN may have needs or preferences that conflict with each other, and that the best way of reconciling those conflicting needs is not always to simply give one actor preference over another. As described herein, optimum management decisions may be dynamically based on current network conditions and preferences of multiple actors.
US11770335B2
Systems and methods for communicating messages of distributed private network (DPN) over a plurality of communication networks including an inter-network interface and a message coordinator communicatively coupled. The inter-network interface is operable to receive a packetized message from a first DPN network element over a first communication network. The message coordinator receives the packetized message from the inter-network interface, assigns at least a transport route for the packetized message; and communicates the packetized message to a second DPN network element based on the assigned transport route over a second communication network. The message coordinator is further operable to assign priority protocol and security protocol to the packetized message.
US11770331B1
A network device may receive an MPLS packet destined for a destination via a label-switched path (LSP), and may determine whether to apply a first special purpose label (SPL) option or a second SPL option for a label stack of the MPLS packet. The network device may apply, when the first SPL option is determined to be applied, one of a first type of the first SPL option for the label stack via a policy data indicator (PDI) and policy data (PD), or a second type of the first SPL option for the label stack via the PDI and the PD. The network device may forward the MPLS packet to a hop of the LSP based on the first type of the first SPL option or the second type of the first SPL option applied to the MPLS packet.
US11770330B1
Network requests can be automatically routed between two or more computer subsystems in some examples. In one such example, a system can determine that a user is eligible for a service based on usage data relating to an account of the user. Based on determining that the account is eligible for the service, the system can activate the service for the user by communicating with a service subsystem. Subsequent to activating the service for the user, the system can receive a network request associated with the user and determine that the network request has a characteristic. Based on determining that the network request has the characteristic, the system can forward the request to the service subsystem. The service subsystem can complete the network request using the service.
US11770322B1
A two-wire electronic circuit can sense a voltage across terminals of a transistor and control an electrical current of the two-wire electronic circuit in accordance with the sensed voltage.
US11770319B2
Techniques for using traceroute with tunnels and cloud-based systems for determining measures of network performance are presented. Systems and methods implemented by a traceroute application implementing a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) stack in a processing device include sending a plurality of TCP packets via a raw socket to perform a trace to a destination; receiving responses to the plurality of TCP packets; detecting the responses in the TCP stack and diverting the responses to the raw socket; and aggregating the responses by the traceroute application to determine details of a service path from the processing device to the destination.
US11770310B2
Method and system for performing data protection services using a subsystem level feedback mechanism
Techniques described herein relate to a method for managing performances of data protection services. The method may include obtaining subsystem statistics from subsystems; in response to obtaining the subsystem statistics, making a determination that the subsystem statistics indicate a concurrency adjustment; and in response to the determination, assigning an adjusted concurrency to the subsystems based on the subsystem statistics and priorities; and initiating performance of data protection services using the adjusted concurrency.
US11770306B2
Provided is a method for performing an action based on a predictive outcome of an intended service deployment. The method includes receiving information pertaining to an intended service deployment. The method further includes receiving data pertaining to the intended service deployment based on the received information. The method further includes determining a predictive outcome of the intended service deployment based on the received data. The method further includes performing an action based on the predictive outcome.
US11770305B2
Approaches presented herein enable deploying a distributed machine learning framework in an edge computing environment. More specifically, a status of a connection between a computing system and an edge node of a plurality of edge nodes is monitored. At least one server node and a group of worker nodes from the plurality of edge nodes are identified based on the status. A path for distributing the training data to the worker nodes is determined based on the status. The training data from the edge node to the worker nodes is distributed via the path.
US11770304B1
Systems, methods, software and a framework are disclosed for an improved, adaptable, intelligent, real time, machine learning, AI/Robot integrated, large scale, cloud computing based synchronous communications/computing network enabled with adaptive intelligent ‘4D spherical scaling’ of databases, servers, and/or virtual servers and/or server clusters and elastically with their directly associated computer caches/storage and linked and ‘intra-scalable microservices’ and with external resources and with ‘tech stack awareness’, and ‘tech stack integration’ functionality.
US11770299B2
Systems and methods are provided for receiving a template usable to generate a configuration for at least one network device. A specification in a preprocess file can be interpreted to request at least one server-side feature to be used for the template. Data can be received from a server based on the interpreting the specification. The data can be provided to the template. The template can reference the data when generating the configuration.
US11770294B1
A virtual computer system service receives a request from a customer to provision a dedicated server for the exclusive use of the customer. The dedicated server may be used to launch one or more virtual machine instances. The virtual computer system service subsequently selects, from a pool of available servers, a server that can be dedicated to the customer and that does not have capacity allocated to any other customer. The virtual computer system service may update a database to specify, in an entry corresponding to the selected server, that the server has been dedicated for the exclusive use of the customer. Once the database has been updated, the virtual computer system service will enable the customer to launch a virtual machine instance using the dedicated server.
US11770287B2
An apparatus includes a radio-frequency (RF) receiver for receiving an RF signal using a plurality of antennas. The RF receiver includes a demodulator to provide a switch signal to cause the RF receiver to use an antenna in the plurality of antennas. The RF receiver further includes a carrier frequency offset (CFO) correction circuit that uses an estimation of the carrier frequency offset and an estimation of phase differences to remove the carrier frequency offset.
US11770265B2
An off-road mobile work machine data capture system includes a robustly-identifiable sensor module having a task sensor that provides a task sensor signal indicative of a task. The system also includes a processor coupled to the robustly-identifiable sensor module that is configured to issue a challenge to the robustly-identifiable sensor module and compare a response from the robustly-identifiable sensor module to an expected response to authenticate the robustly-identifiable sensor module. The processor is further configured to generate an indication of authentication failure if the response from the robustly-identifiable sensor module does not match the expected response.
US11770258B2
In one example an apparatus comprises a computer readable memory, hash logic to generate a message hash value based on an input message, signature logic to generate a signature to be transmitted in association with the message, the signature logic to apply a hash-based signature scheme to a private key to generate the signature comprising a public key, and accelerator logic to pre-compute at least one set of inputs to the signature logic. Other examples may be described.
US11770257B1
A method verifies the ingredients in an agricultural product or byproduct. Data packages related to compound purity are uploaded and assigned a hash within a blockchain directory. These compounds are combined according to a formula in order to create batches of a product. The formula is tracked through the system and the batches become tied to the data packages associated with the compounds found within the batch. The data packages associated with the compounds within the formula can be accessed by merchants or consumers who wish to verify the ingredients contained in the batch. This method collects data to assist with supply chain management while assuring the quality of products delivered to consumers.
US11770247B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). Embodiments herein provide method and system for end-to-end security over signaling plane in a mission critical data (MCData) communication system. The proposed method includes various ways of securing MCData data payload transmitted over signaling plane using short data service (SDS). The proposed method allows usage of multiple security keys to encrypt the MCData SDS message as per the requirements. Various Keys such as, signaling plane key or media plane key or a dedicated MCData data payload signaling key can be used independently or in a combination thereof to achieve the desired security context. The proposed method allows protection of all the application level components with the signaling plane security context.
US11770245B2
Disclosed is a quantum key distribution system using an RFI (reference frame independent) QKD (quantum key distribution) protocol, which includes a first signal processing circuit that generates transmission basis information and transmission bit information, a quantum channel transmitter that generates a single photon or coherent light, and modulates the single photon or the coherent light based on the transmission basis information and the transmission bit information to generate a quantum signal, a quantum channel receiver that receives the quantum signal through a quantum channel and detects reception bit information from the quantum signal based on reception basis information, and a second signal processing circuit that generates the reception basis information, transmits the reception basis information to the first signal processing circuit through a public channel, and receives the transmission basis information from the first signal processing circuit through the public channel.
US11770237B2
A hardware accelerator is arranged to perform cipher operations and comprises a first memory area arranged to store a first bit string and a second memory area arranged to store a second bit string. A calculation block is arranged to receive a round key and to perform a function on the first bit string. The function comprises combining the first bit string with the round key to produce a combined bit string and performing a non-linear mapping from the combined bit string to a mapped bit string. An addition block is arranged to add the mapped bit string to the second bit string to produce a resultant bit string. A controller is arranged to receive a control signal and, depending on the state of the control signal, provides the first bit string and the resultant bit string to the appropriate memory area.
US11770222B2
One general aspect of the present disclosure includes a device configured to operate in a wireless system. The device including: a transceiver configured with a plurality of E-UTRA operating bands; and a processor operably connectable to the transceiver. The processer may be configured to: control the transceiver to transmit an uplink signal via at least two bands among the plurality of E-UTRA operating bands; and control the transceiver to receive a downlink signal via three bands among the plurality of E-UTRA operating bands, wherein pre-configured MSD value is applied to a reference sensitivity for receiving the downlink signal based on the E-UTRA operating band 2.
US11770218B2
A method for mapping a physical hybrid automatic repeat request indicator channel (PHICH) is described. The method for mapping a PHICH includes determining an index of a resource element group transmitting a repetitive pattern of the PHICH, according to a ratio of the number of available resource element groups in a symbol in which the PHICH is transmitted and the number of available resource element groups in a first or second OFDM symbol, and mapping the PHICH to the symbol according to the determined index. In transmitting the PHICH, since efficient mapping is performed considering available resource elements varying with OFDM symbols, repetition of the PHICH does not generate interference between neighbor cell IDs and performance is improved.
US11770214B2
A method and system for use in an advanced wireless communication network is provided. The method comprises: providing, to a group of UEs, a resource multiplexing configuration defining resource multiplexing for cellular and non-cellular communication; and allocating resources to the group of UEs for cellular communication, according to the resource multiplexing configuration. Advantageously, the method enables collisions and interference between D2D and cellular transmissions to be reduced or avoided.
US11770211B2
The technologies described herein are generally directed to changing error mitigation protocols used for a connection based on the quality of a network connection in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. For example, a method described herein can include determining, by network equipment comprising a processor, that a quality of a connection between a user equipment and a network access point is below a connection quality threshold, with the connection employing a communications protocol using a first error mitigation process, and where the network access point enables respective access to services enabled via a communication network. The method can further include, based on the quality and the first error mitigation process, enabling, by the network equipment, a second error mitigation process of the communications protocol of the connection, the second error mitigation process being different than the first error mitigation process.
US11770202B2
A method for operating a user station for a mobile communication system, which includes at least one master station, using code division multiple access (CDMA), including the following steps: ascertaining a first timing advance value for a data transmission from the user station to the master station as a function of first pieces of position information characterizing a position of the user station, transmitting first data to the master station using the first timing advance value.
US11770200B2
The present disclosure provides an on-board synchronization device. The on-board synchronization device includes: a first circuit and at least one second circuit. The first circuit is configured to receive an initial signal containing Universal Time Coordinated (UTC), generate a first signal containing the UTC, and output the first signal to at least one on-board device, such that the at least one on-board device synchronizes its built-in clock with the UTC based on the first signal. The second circuit is configured to receive a Pulse Per Second (PPS) signal, generate a periodic second signal with a same phase as the PPS signal, and output the second signal or the PPS signal to the at least one on-board device, such that the at least one on-board device performs a predetermined action based on the second signal or the PPS signal.
US11770197B2
Methods, apparatus and systems for improving accuracy and efficiency of wireless monitoring are described. In one example, a described method comprises: transmitting a first wireless signal from a first wireless device with transmit antennas through a wireless multipath channel of a venue; receiving a second wireless signal by a second wireless device with receive antennas through the wireless multipath channel, wherein the second wireless signal differs from the first wireless signal due to the wireless multipath channel that is impacted by a motion of an object in the venue; obtaining a number of time series of channel information (TSCI) of the wireless multipath channel based on the second wireless signal, wherein each TSCI is associated with a respective one of the transmit antennas and a respective one of the receive antennas; preprocessing the number of TSCI; and monitoring the motion of the object based on the number of preprocessed TSCI.
US11770193B2
Systems and methods for stabilizing power levels from excessive oscillations in an optical line system of a communications network are provided. A method, according to one implementation, includes the step of detecting a perturbation of an optical power level in an optical line system having a plurality of cascaded optical power controllers. The method also includes the step of determining an estimated location to which a power controller of the plurality of cascaded optical power controllers is positioned downstream of the perturbation with respect to other power controllers of the plurality of cascaded optical power controllers. Based on the estimated location to which the power controller is positioned downstream of the perturbation, the method also includes the step of providing feedback in a control loop to reduce the effects of the perturbation.
US11770188B2
The present disclosure relates to an optical line terminal, OLT, which is enabled to range optical network units, ONUs, in a point-to-multipoint optical network by detecting interference burst sequences transmitted by one or more joining ONUs during transmission of upstream data traffic from transmitting ONUs. The present disclosure further relates to an optical network unit, ONU, which is enabled to transmit, at a selected transmission time, an interference burst sequence including a sequence of pulses allowing the OLT to identify the ONU as a joining ONU.
US11770182B2
A wireless device is operable to communicate with a network node of a communications network via a non-terrestrial communication path that includes satellites and satellite gateways. The wireless device determines that communication between the wireless device and the network node will experience a communication interrupting transition during a transition period in which the non-terrestrial communication path between the wireless device and the network node will be interrupted. The wireless device adjusts a PHY layer procedure of the wireless device to mitigate switching problems with one of the of satellites during and/or after the interruption.
US11770181B2
A source terminal, for communications with a destination terminal via satellite links to two clusters of satellites, comprises a transmitter and a multibeam antenna system. The transmitter includes a preprocessor and a bank of modulators. The preprocessor performs a K-muxing transform, which has an inverse transform, on M concurrent input data streams to generate concurrently M output data streams, M>1. Each output data stream is a linear combination of the M concurrent input data streams. The bank of modulators transforms N of the M output data streams into N signal streams, N≤M. The multibeam antenna system transforms the N signal streams into N shaped beams and radiating N1 of the N shaped beams towards the first cluster of satellites and N2 of the N shaped beams towards the second cluster of satellites, where N1 and N2 are positive integers and N1+N2=N.
US11770179B2
The described features generally relate to adjusting a native antenna pattern of a satellite to adapt communications via the satellite. For example, a communications satellite may include an antenna having a feed array assembly, a reflector, and a linear actuator coupled between the feed array assembly and the reflector. The feed array assembly may have a plurality of feeds for communicating signals associated with a communications service, and the reflector may be configured to reflect the signals transmitted between the feed array assembly and one or more target devices. The linear actuator may have an adjustable length, or otherwise provide an adjustable position between the feed array assembly and the reflector. By adjusting the position of the feed array assembly relative to the reflector, the communications satellite may provide a communications service according to a plurality of native antenna patterns.
US11770178B2
A method of communicating with multiple satellites includes allocating, based on one or more conditions corresponding to a plurality of spatial channels associated with multiple satellites, each subset of a plurality of subsets of antenna resources of a phased array antenna to a respective different satellite included in the multiple satellites. The method also includes commanding one or more transceivers to establish simultaneous communicative connections to the different satellites via the allocated subsets of antenna resources, and re-allocating, based on a detected change to at least one of the one or more conditions, at least one antenna resource to a respective another different satellite. The method also includes commanding the one or more transceivers to maintain the simultaneous communicative connections to the different satellites using the re-allocated at least one antenna resource.
US11770177B2
A first wireless device transmits one or more transmissions for a second wireless device to a repeater for repetition to the second wireless device; adjusts a repeater operation based on a phase noise in transmission between the first wireless device and the repeater; and communicates with at least one of the repeater or the second wireless device based on the adjusted repeater operation. A repeater receives from a first wireless device, a request for the repeater to report a phase noise in transmissions between the first wireless device and the repeater for repetition with a second wireless device; and transmits a report of the phase noise to the first wireless device based on the request. A repeater receives, from a first wireless device, a transmission for repetition with a second wireless device; and transmits the repetition of the transmission to the second wireless device with a phase noise compensation.
US11770176B2
An integrated repeater system that includes a repeater device having a first surface and a second surface that is opposite to the first surface. The repeater device further comprises phased array antenna receivers arranged on the first surface and receives a mmWave radio frequency signal from a base station, and one or more phased array antenna transmitters arranged on the second surface and transmits the received mmWave radio frequency signal through a glass structure to a user equipment. The integrated repeater system further comprises an impedance matching component between the second surface and the glass structure. Further, an impedance of the one or more phased array antenna transmitters is tuned in accordance with the glass structure based on the impedance matching component.
US11770167B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an antenna module, a memory, and at least one processor configured to, in response to modulating a signal for transmitting by a first carrier frequency, identify a first beam book corresponding to the first carrier frequency stored in the memory, the first beam book including information related to a first phase value corresponding to each of antenna elements included in the antenna module, perform beamforming based on the identified first beam book via the antenna module, in response to modulating the signal for transmitting by a second carrier frequency different from the first carrier frequency, identify a second beam book corresponding to the second carrier frequency, the second beam book including information related to a second phase value corresponding to each of the antenna elements, the second phase value is a value compensated from the first phase value based on the second carrier frequency, and perform beamforming based on the identified second beam book via the antenna module.
US11770159B2
This application discloses a frequency compensation method and apparatus, to improve performance of frequency compensation. The method includes: determining a change rate of a Doppler frequency shift value based on a weighted change rate of a change rate of a timing advance TA, determining the Doppler frequency shift value based on the change rate of the Doppler frequency shift value, and performing frequency compensation based on the determined Doppler frequency shift value; or determining a frequency offset value based on the Doppler frequency shift value with reference to pre-compensation and based on a reference signal, to further determine a frequency offset value, and performing frequency compensation based on the frequency offset value.
US11770157B2
In an embodiment, a semiconductor device is disclosed that comprises a multiplexer. The multiplexer is configured to receive signals from each of a plurality of transmission coils of a wireless power transmitter as inputs and to output an output signal based at least in part on one of the signals. The semiconductor device further comprises an attenuator connected to the multiplexer that is configured to adjust a voltage of the output signal. The attenuator comprises a variable resistance. The semiconductor device further comprises a plurality of pull down circuits each corresponding to one of the transmission coils. The pull down circuits are configured to selectively clamp the signals received from the corresponding transmission coils to ground.
US11770154B2
A system for increased safety levels at swimming venues includes an Ultra Wide Band (UWB) tag, a control terminal, and at least three base stations. The UWB tag transmits positioning data of the tag worn by a swimmer and transmits a signal to the at least three base stations. The base stations receive the signal and the positioning data, record time when receiving same, and send the signal, the positioning data, and the time to the control terminal. The control terminal calculates position of the swimmer's UWB tag according to the positioning data and the time when a period of attenuation or disappearance of the wireless connection signal from the immersed UWB tag exceeds a first preset time, generates alarm information, and sends the position of the UWB tag and the alarm information to notify a security officer.
US11770151B2
A signal receiver and a signal transceiver are provided, which may avoid unnecessary leakage current. The signal receiver includes a termination switch pair, a first resistor, a second resistor, and a pull-down circuit. The termination switch pair receives an operation power supply. The termination switch pair has a common control end. The first resistor is coupled between a first signal input end and the common control end. The second resistor is coupled between a second signal input end and the common control end. The pull-down circuit is coupled between the common control end and a reference voltage end. The pull-down circuit determines whether to pull down a first control voltage on the common control end to a reference voltage according to a power-on state or a power-off state of the signal receiver.
US11770150B2
Provided is a mobile phone shell with a camera protection device, comprising a mobile phone shell body, and further comprising a camera slide base fixed on the mobile phone shell body and a camera lens protection cover capable of sliding in the camera slide base; the camera slide base comprises two sliding slots arranged oppositely and positioning bulges arranged at two opposite ends in the sliding slot; and each side of the camera lens protection cover is provided with a positioning slot matched with the positioning bulge. The mobile phone shell achieves a function of protecting a mobile phone camera through an assembly structure of the camera lens protection cover and the camera slide base, thus preventing the camera from being scraped or smashed.
US11770142B2
A wireless communication apparatus includes a signal terminal which receives a transmitting signal, N antenna elements, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 2, a first amplifier including first input and output terminals, and N second amplifiers including N second input and output terminals coupled to the N antenna elements, respectively. The first amplifier amplifies the transmitting signal received from the signal terminal via the first input terminal with a gain which is weighted and adjustable according to a first weight. The N second amplifiers amplify the amplified transmitting signal received from the second output terminal via the N second input terminals with gains which are weighted and adjustable according to N second weights. The amplified transmitting signal, amplified by the N second amplifiers, is output to the N antenna elements via the N second output terminals.
US11770135B2
A low density parity check (LDPC) channel encoding method for use in a wireless communications system includes a communication device encoding an input bit sequence by using a LDPC matrix to obtain an encoded bit sequence for transmission. The LDPC matrix is obtained based on a lifting factor Z and a base matrix. The encoding method can be used in various communications systems including the fifth generation (5G) telecommunication systems, and can support various encoding requirements for information bit sequences with different code lengths.
US11770132B2
According to one embodiment, a compression device includes a coding information generation unit. The unit determines code lengths that are respectively associated with a plurality of symbols, based on a frequency of occurrence of each of the plurality of symbols. When the plurality of symbols include one or more first symbols that are respectively associated with one or more first code lengths exceeding an upper limit, the unit changes the first code lengths to the upper limit, selects, from one or more second symbols of the plurality of symbols that are respectively associated with one or more second code lengths shorter than the upper limit, at least one symbol in descending associated code length order, changes at least one code length associated with the symbol to the upper limit.
US11770131B2
The invention proposes a method and a device for arithmetic encoding of a current spectral coefficient using preceding spectral coefficients. Said preceding spectral coefficients are already encoded and both, said preceding and current spectral coefficients, are comprised in one or more quantized spectra resulting from quantizing time-frequency-transform of video, audio or speech signal sample values. Said method comprises processing the preceding spectral coefficients, using the processed preceding spectral coefficients for determining a context class being one of at least two different context classes, using the determined context class and a mapping from the at least two different context classes to at least two different probability density functions for determining the probability density function, and arithmetic encoding the current spectral coefficient based on the determined probability density function wherein processing the preceding spectral coefficients comprises non-uniformly quantizing absolutes of the preceding spectral coefficients for use in determining of the context class.
US11770116B1
A duty cycle correction circuit, and method of operating the same, to correct the duty cycle of an input clock signal having a frequency divided-down from a reference clock by an odd-valued integer. A delay stage outputs the input clock signal delayed by one half-cycle of the reference clock, and a logic circuit outputs an extended clock signal by a logical OR of the input and delayed clock signals. A latch latches the extended clock signal when enabled by the reference clock, and a flip-flop latches the extended clock signal responsive to the reference clock. A gate selects the latch output or the flip-flop output based on the state of the delayed clock signal as an intermediate signal. A multiplexer generates the output clock by selecting between the intermediate signal and the input clock signal in alternating reference clock phases.
US11770114B2
A noise reduction system includes sensors configured to generate an input signal, an adaptive filter configured to represent a transfer function of a path traversed by the input signal, one or more processing devices, and one or more transducers. The processing devices receive the input signal and generate an updated set of filter coefficients of the adaptive filter by separating the input signal into frequency subbands; determining for each subband, coefficients of a corresponding subband adaptive module; and combining the coefficients of multiple subband adaptive modules. Determining the coefficients of the corresponding subband adaptive module includes selecting a subset of a precomputed set of filter coefficients of the adaptive filter. The processing devices process a portion of the input signal using the updated set of filter coefficients of the adaptive filter to generate an output that destructively interferes with another signal traversing the path represented by the transfer function.
US11770104B2
Envelope tracking systems for power amplifiers are provided herein. In certain embodiments, an envelope tracker is provided for a power amplifier that amplifies an RF signal. The envelope tracker includes a multi-level switching circuit having an output that provides an output current that changes in relation to an envelope signal indicating an envelope of the RF signal when the envelope tracker is operating in an envelope tracking mode. The multi-level switching circuit includes a multi-level supply (MLS) modulator that receives multiple regulated voltages of different voltage levels, and an MLS control circuit that controls the selection of the MLS modulator over time based on the envelope signal. When transitioning the MLS modulator from selection of one regulated voltage level to another regulated voltage level, the MLS control circuit provides a soft transition to gradually switch the regulated voltage levels.
US11770095B2
An apparatus for harvesting energy, such as solar, wind, wave, thermal, and the like, including a solar panel and a duct supporting the solar panel at an operational angle. The duct comprises a bottom shroud and side shrouds, therein forming a large aperture, a small aperture, and an oblique frustum shaped cavity. The oblique frustum shaped cavity is configured to direct a flow of fluid from the large aperture to the small aperture. A flow energy generator, such as a turbine, located at the small aperture is configured to collect flow energy. Temperature differences between the solar panel and the environment may be used to harvest thermal energy with a thermoelectric generator. Fluid flow under the solar panel may decrease the panel temperature and increase the efficiency. Generators may be operated in reverse to lower the solar panel temperature and increase efficiency.
US11770094B2
A motor controller includes individual drive circuits, a plurality of energization systems, and a processing circuit that outputs a plurality of individual control signals. The processing circuit executes a first calculation process, a second calculation process, a third calculation process, and a fourth calculation process for each of the energization systems. The first calculation process is a process of calculating individual current command values. The second calculation process is a process of calculating the estimated temperatures of protection targets. The third calculation process is a process of calculating individual limit values. The fourth calculation process is a process of calculating the individual control signals based on the individual current command values that are limited by the individual limit values. The processing circuit calculates the estimated temperatures of the protection targets where current of a target system flows.
US11770093B2
According to some embodiments, AC chopping circuit includes a switching circuit, a synchronizing signal generating circuit, a switch driving circuit and an auxiliary power supplying circuit. In some examples, the switching circuit are coupled to an AC power source and a load. In certain examples, the synchronizing signal generating circuit provides a synchronizing signal which is related to a polarity of the AC power source. In some examples, the switching circuit is controlled based at least in part on the synchronizing signal.
US11770092B2
A bridge circuit includes a high-side transistor connected between a power supply terminal and an output terminal, and a low-side transistor connected between the output terminal and a ground terminal. A high-side pre-driver and a low-side pre-driver drive the high-side transistor and the low-side transistor. A first transistor is connected between the output terminal and the ground terminal in a manner to form the regenerative path parallel to the low-side transistor. In a regenerative state in which a current sinks from the output terminal, a regenerative control circuit controls the voltage of a control terminal of the first transistor in a manner that an output voltage of the output terminal approaches a target voltage higher than the power supply voltage of the power supply terminal by a first voltage width.
US11770088B2
An electric power tool includes: a brushless motor having a plurality of stator windings and configured to rotate in accordance with voltages applied to the plurality of stator windings, an induced voltage being generated in accordance with a rotation of the brushless motor; a rectifier circuit configured to rectify an AC voltage; a smoothing capacitor configured to smooth the AC voltage rectified by the rectifier circuit to a pulsation voltage having a maximum value larger than the induced voltage and a minimum value smaller than the induced voltage; and an inverter circuit configured to perform switching operations to output the pulsation voltage to the plurality of stator windings by rotation.
US11770080B1
A method for increasing a resolution by N bits performed by a processing circuit of a motor driving system, where N is a positive integer, and the method includes: performing a conversion upon an analog command, to generate a command count value; performing a first N-bit right-shifting operation upon the command count value, to generate an initial output value; performing a logical operation upon the command count value, to generate a low bit value; generating an overflow value according to the low bit value; and determining a final output value according to the initial output value and the overflow value.
US11770079B2
An electric working machine in one aspect of the present disclosure includes a motor and a controller. The motor is configured to be electrically coupled to a battery pack and to be driven with electric power from the battery pack. The controller is configured to acquire an internal resistance information of the battery pack and to change control of the motor based on the internal resistance information acquired.
US11770069B2
A controller used in a resonant converter having a switching circuit and a resonant tank. The switching circuit has a high side switch and a low side switch. The controller has a feedback processing circuit for providing a reference signal based on a feedback signal. The reference signal changes at a first slope based on the feedback signal when the feedback signal is higher than a first voltage threshold, and the reference signal changes at a second slope based on the feedback signal when the feedback signal is lower than the first voltage threshold. The turning off of the high side switch is controlled by a high side off signal, which is generated based on the reference signal and a voltage sampling signal indicative a voltage across a resonant capacitor of the resonant tank.
US11770066B2
A power converter can include a first line, a second line, a capacitor line disposed between the first line and the second line, a first capacitor and a second capacitor connected to the capacitor line in series between the first line and the second line, a midpoint line connected to a midpoint between the first capacitor and the second capacitor, and a protection circuit disposed between the first capacitor and the second capacitor and configured to provide protection to one or more portions of the power converter.
US11770065B2
A three-phase grid-connected inverter, a control system thereof and a control method therefor. The inverter is a three-phase three-leg grid-connected inverter, and a filter capacitor is connected to a negative electrode of a DC input bus to form a filter loop, so as to filter harmonic wave in the circuit, realizing high-quality grid-connected current at small power, without increasing an inductance value, so that the parallel inverter device in the system operates stably and thus is applicable to photovoltaic microinverters. Moreover, the three-phase three-leg grid-connected inverter operates in a discontinuous conduction mode, that is, in a switching cycle, the inductive current is reduced to 0, so that the switching loss of the three-phase three-leg grid-connected inverter is reduced.
US11770060B2
A vibration motor having an insulating housing, a bidirectional coil and a magnetic ring is provided. The insulating housing is of cylindrical shape and at least three position-limiting ribs are protruded from an internal surface thereof. Each position-limiting rib is extended parallel to a central axial line of the insulating housing. The insulating housing has a pair of end plates on two ends thereof. The end plates are made of insulating material. The bidirectional coil is accommodated in the insulating housing and spaced apart from the internal surface of the insulating housing. The magnetic ring is movably accommodated in the insulating housing, and the magnetic ring is arranged coaxially with the insulating housing to surround the bidirectional coil. The position-limiting ribs are disposed adjacent to the magnetic ring and surround an outer edge of the magnetic ring.
US11770050B2
The present application discloses a heat exchange system and a motor. The heat exchange system includes: a first heat exchange unit disposed in a to-be-cooled area of the motor for heat exchange, the first heat exchange unit including a plurality of first heat exchange branches connected in parallel; a second heat exchange unit disposed outside the motor, and being connected to the first heat exchange unit through a pipeline assembly to form a closed heat exchange loop. Each first heat exchange branch is connected with a first heat exchanger, a first valve group, and a first pressure information component, and the opening and closing of the first valve group is controlled according to the first pressure information of the first pressure information component.
US11770049B2
A robot device includes a first link and a second link coupled to the first link via an elbow. One or more of the first link or the second link rotates about an axis of the elbow. The robot device further includes a generator disposed in the elbow. The generator is configured to generate electrical power based on relative angular mechanical movement associated with the elbow. The robot device further includes an end effector configured to transport a substrate within a substrate processing system. The end effector is disposed at a distal end of the second link. The end effector is to receive the electrical power generated by the generator.
US11770043B2
An electric motor assembly includes an impeller, a guide vane disposed at a one side of the impeller along an axial direction, a stator disposed at one side of the guide vane along the axial direction, a rotor configured to rotate relative to the stator to thereby rotate the impeller, and a frame disposed at an outside of the stator in a radial direction and coupled to the stator. The frame includes a body that has a cylindrical shape, that is disposed at the outside of the stator, and that defines an air flow path, and a plurality of stator fixing parts that protrude from an inner surface of the body and are coupled to the stator. The plurality of stator fixing parts are inclined with respect to the axial direction.
US11770042B2
A hybrid drive assembly is provided having a hybrid drive housing with an electric motor and a disconnect clutch therein. A transmission is connected to the hybrid drive housing and a torque converter is provided between the electric motor and the transmission. A baffle extends radially between the torque converter and the hybrid drive housing. The baffle includes a ring-shaped body that is affixed to the hybrid drive housing and extends completely around a transmission side periphery of the hybrid drive housing. A fluid pathway is located on or in the baffle, and orifices extend from the fluid pathway toward the electric motor. A fluid inlet port is connected to the fluid pathway, and a fluid connection is provided from a pressurized fluid source to the fluid inlet port. This allows fluid circulated by a pump within the transmission, to be sprayed on the electric motor for cooling.
US11770040B2
A stator for an electric machine includes a plurality of pins arranged on concentric circles at different distances to a stator center in slots, each concentric circle forming a layer, wherein six pins in different layers are serially connected to one another and form a winding. A first pin is located in a first slot in the 6n-1 layer, wherein n is an integer. A second pin is located in a second slot in the 6n layer, wherein the second slot has a first radial distance to the first slot in a first circumferential direction of the stator. A third pin is located in a third slot in the 6n-2 layer. A fourth pin is located in a fourth slot in the 6n-3 layer. A fifth pin is located in the first slot in the 6n-5 layer. A sixth pin is located in the second slot in the 6n-4 layer.
US11770038B2
A rotor structure, a permanent magnet auxiliary synchronous reluctance motor and an electric vehicle. The rotor structure includes a rotor body, and permanent magnet slot groups are disposed on the rotor body; the permanent magnet slot groups each include an outer layer permanent magnet slot; and a third bent slot and a fourth bent slot are further disposed on the rotor body. A third angle is formed by a length directional geometric center line of the third bent slot and a length directional geometric center line of a first segment of the outer layer permanent magnet slot a fourth angle is formed between a length directional geometric center line of the fourth bent slot and a length directional geometric center line of a second segment of the outer layer permanent magnet slot.
US11770037B2
A motor includes a rotor configured to rotate with a shaft. The rotor includes a plurality of yoke portions and a plurality of holding portions each corresponding to a space portion provided between the adjacent yoke portions and configured to hold therein a magnet. At least one of the plurality of yoke portions includes a tab portion extending towards the holding portion and configured to hold the magnet held in the holding portion. The holding portion includes an insertion space provided between a first end portion of the yoke portion in an axial direction of the shaft and the tab portion. The insertion space allows the magnet to be inserted into the insertion space towards an inner side in a radial direction of the shaft.
US11770036B2
A synchronous reluctance motor includes a rotor and a stator surrounding the rotor. The rotator includes a rotatable shaft and magnetic flux barrier layers arranged radially. One of the magnetic flux barrier layers closest to the stator is filled with a conductor, and one of the magnetic flux barrier layers closest to the rotating shaft is a void.
US11770035B2
A laminated core for a rotor and/or a stator of a rotating electric machine includes teeth arranged adjacent to one another in a peripheral direction of the laminated core and delimiting slots for accommodating an electrical conductor that forms a winding. A cover unit is arranged on a side of an air gap between the rotor and the stator and delimits the slots in the radial direction. The cover unit has in a region of a respective one of the slots at least two tapering regions which are spaced apart from one another in the peripheral direction of the laminated core, with a material of the cover unit being thinner in the tapering regions in a radial direction of the laminated core than in a region of the cover unit adjoining the tapering regions.
US11770031B2
Wireless power transfer systems, disclosed, include one or more circuits to facilitate high power transfer at high frequencies. Such wireless power transfer systems include a transmission integrated circuit which includes a damping circuit and a transmitter controller, configured to dampen a wireless power signal such that communications fidelity is upheld at high power. The damping circuit includes at least a damping transistor that is configured to receive, from the transmitter controller, a damping signal for switching the transistor to control damping during transmission of the wireless data signals. Utilizing such systems enables wireless power transfer at high frequency, such as 13.56 MHz, at voltages over 1 Watt, while maintaining fidelity of in-band communications associated with the higher power wireless power signal.
US11770027B2
The present specification relates to a wireless power transmission device. The present specification provides a wireless power transmission device comprising: a power supply unit for supplying power to the wireless power transmission device; at least one first coil for transmitting power to a wireless power reception device; and first and second condensers configured so as to be connected respectively to different both ends of the power supply unit and the first coil.
US11770025B2
Provided are a wireless power transmission apparatus and a control method thereof. The apparatus includes a transmitting unit which includes an inverter circuit, a first compensation circuit, and a transmitting coil; a receiving unit which includes a receiving coil, a second compensation circuit, and a rectifier circuit; a power regulation unit configured to regulate an output signal of the wireless power transmission apparatus; and a control unit configured to: acquire a voltage-and-current phase difference of the transmitting unit, a detection signal, and a power detection value of the wireless power transmission apparatus; control an operating frequency of the inverter circuit according to the voltage-and-current phase difference and a preset phase difference, and generate a power derating signal according to the detection signal, and control, according to the power derating signal, the power detection value and a power reference signal, the power regulation unit to regulate the output signal.
US11770022B2
A nanocrystalline magnetic conductive sheet for wireless charging and a preparation method therefor are provided. The nanocrystalline magnetic conductive sheet includes a composition of Fe(100-x-y-z-α-β-γ)MxCuyM′zSiαBβXγ, saturation magnetic induction is greater than or equal to 1.25T. The preparation method includes preparing an alloy with a preset composition of into an alloy strip with an initial state of amorphousness by a single roll rapid quenching method, annealing an amorphous alloy strip according to a preset annealing process, to obtain a nanocrystalline strip, performing a magnetic fragmentation process on the nanocrystalline strip, to obtain the nanocrystalline magnetic conductive sheet for wireless charging.
US11770018B2
A method for charging a storage device, such as a capacitor or a supercapacitor, with energy from an energy harvester and using a voltage converter having a coldstart voltage convertor and a main voltage converter is provided. After charging a buffer capacitor with the coldstart voltage converter up to the first voltage V1, the method repetitively performs steps of a) charging the buffer capacitor with the main voltage converter up to a voltage V2>V1, followed by transferring charges from the buffer capacitor to the storage device, b) stopping transferring charges to the storage device when the voltage of the buffer capacitor is below a third voltage value V3, with V1
US11770012B1
A battery charging apparatus includes a battery charger having a housing and a battery mount plate for charging the battery. A contact block of the battery mount plate includes an electrical terminal configured to provide a charging voltage to the battery. The battery can operate in a first state in which the battery delivers a first delivery voltage or in a second state in which the battery delivers a second and higher delivery voltage. The battery can be charged in the first state or the second state. The battery charger switches the battery between the first state and the second state in which power is provided to the battery through the electrical terminal at the second and higher charging voltage to charge the battery.
US11770006B2
The system includes one or more busbars couple to an AC line, branch relays each coupled to a busbar and to a respective circuit breaker, and current sensors each corresponding to at least one respective branch relay of the plurality of branch relays. The system also includes a deadfront arranged in front of the plurality of branch relays, and including openings corresponding to the branch relays allowing an electrical terminal of each branch relay to protrude forward through a respective opening. A circuit breaker is engaged with each respective branch relay, on the deadfront to create an array of branch circuit breakers. The combination of relay and circuit breaker allows each branch circuit to be controllable. The relays may include current sensors, such as a shunt, used to determine a branch circuit current and control the relay. Control circuitry manages the relay on-off operation and monitors branch circuit operation.
US11770000B2
An electronic control unit includes a microcontroller. The microcontroller includes a power supply pin configured to receive power and at least one input/output (I/O) pin. A voltage regulator includes a power input configured to connect to a power source and to a regulated power output connected to the power supply pin via an I/O fault protection circuit.
US11769997B1
An automatic ground fault circuit interrupt (GFCI) circuit reset system and apparatus which attaches to a faceplate of an electrical outlet and includes a linear actuator. The linear actuator faces directly at a reset button on a GFCI outlet circuit and automatically actuates to depress the reset button after a predetermined amount of time after the GFCI outlet circuit becomes tripped and no longer transmits electrical power therefrom.
US11769994B2
A prefabricated electrical module and system along with fabrication and installation methods are provided. The prefab electrical module includes a circuit breaker panel casing that houses multiple circuit breakers, and a chase extending upwardly from the panel casing that stows coiled lengths of homerun wiring attached to the circuit breakers. During transport, a temporary panel casing front cover protects the panel casing front, and a forwardly protruding guard cover with an upwardly projecting hoisting handle shields the front and top of the chase and wiring. During installation, a hoisting bracket is attached at the top of the stud bay into which the prefab electrical module will be installed. A drill-powered winch is then used to lift the module to the proper height in the bay. The panel casing, chase, wiring, and breakers remain in the wall. The hoisting bracket, temporary panel casing front cover, guard cover, drill, and winch are reusable.
US11769966B2
An anti-attenuation apparatus has an electronic device and a cable assembly. The electronic device has a circuit board and a plurality of metal pads mounted on the circuit board as female connecting spots. The cable assembly has a cable main body and an inserting connector. The inserting connector is mounted at an end of the cable main body and has multiple elastic components as male connecting spots. The female connecting spots and the male connecting spots selectively contact each other and thus the electric connection is formed. Therefore, the electronic device needs no additional socket and no additional connector as female connecting spots. Similarly, the cable assembly needs no additional connector for connecting the elastic component and the cable main body. In other words, twice attenuations are skipped in a set that has the electronic device and the cable assembly.
US11769962B2
An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a rear base and a front tongue; plural contacts extending rearward through the base and exposing to the tongue; an outer cover enclosing the insulative housing to define a rear chamber therebetween; and a sealing member formed in the chamber to seal an interface between the base and the outer cover and an interface between the base and the contacts, wherein the base has a rear face and a rib protruding rearward from the rear face into the rear chamber.
US11769948B2
A dual-polarized antenna is presented for 5G mobile communications. The antenna includes two discrete elements—a folded dipole and a folded monopole, which generate two orthogonal polarizations. Parasitic elements are used to realize higher-band operation. In one example, the antenna covers both the 28 GHz band and the 39 GHz band. The entire structure is designed on an ultra-thin four-layer laminate and is intended to be incorporated along the edges of smartphones to enable 5G operation.
US11769944B2
Among other things, a reconfigurable antenna array (RAA) includes individual pattern reconfigurable antennas (PRA). Each of the PRAs has (a) an antenna, (b) components controllable to generate and effect any of two or more modes of the PRA, the modes having respectively different steered radiation patterns, and (c) inputs to receive drive signals for the antenna and control signals for the controllable components. Control circuitry has outputs coupled to the inputs of the PRAs to drive the antennas of the PRAs to form an array beam having an array peak in a particular direction and at the same time to deliver control signals for the controllable components to effect a selected mode of each of the PRAs for which the steered radiation pattern has a peak in the particular direction of the array beam and has one or more nulls in the directions of one or more of the side-lobes of the array beam.
US11769936B2
A method of manufacturing a secondary battery including a joining step of clamping a negative electrode core body stacked part and a negative electrode current collector by a horn and an anvil, and in a state where the anvil is in contact with the negative electrode current collector, ultrasonically joining the negative electrode core body stacked part and the negative electrode current collector to form a joint part; and an oxidation treatment step of oxidizing a portion, in contact with the anvil, of the negative electrode current collector in the joining step.
US11769928B2
Provided herein are ceramic nanofibers and processes for preparing the same. In specific examples, provided herein are ceramic nanofiber mats for use as separators in batteries, particularly lithium ion batteries. In some embodiments, the separators described herein may include a nanofiber mat including at least one nanofiber having a continuous matrix material.
US11769919B2
A system for thermal management and structural containment includes an enclosure, a heat source disposed within the enclosure; and a wick encompassing at least a portion of an outer surface of the heat source.
US11769900B2
A method for prelithiating an anode of lithium ion batteries includes the following steps: (a) charging the battery to a voltage from about 4.2 to about 4.5 V at a first temperature; and (b) discharging the battery to a voltage from about 2.5 to about 3.2 V at a second temperature which is about 20 to 40° C. lower than the first temperature. Also provided is a lithium ion battery having an anode prelithiated by the method.
US11769894B2
The invention relates to a biocell (1) with a biofuel reservoir intended to be brought into contact with a liquid medium and with a fluid medium comprising an oxidant. Said biocell comprises a first electrochemical cell having: an anode (5) comprising a first enzyme capable of catalyzing the oxidation of the biofuel; —a cathode (7) comprising a second enzyme capable of catalyzing the reduction of the oxidant; and —a separating and porous membrane (3), electrically insulating, and permeable to said liquid medium, placed between the anode (5) and the cathode (7). Said biocell (1) being characterized in that it comprises a means for storing the biofuel (3) and for providing the liquid medium to the anode (5), said means comprising a hydrophilic porous material in contact with said anode (5)) and having a basis weight of 500 to 900 g/m2.
US11769890B2
The present invention relates to an SOEC system (1), comprising a fuel cell stack (2) having a gas side (3) and an air side (4), and an ejector (5) for supplying a process fluid to a gas inlet (6) on the gas side (3), wherein the ejector (5) comprises a primary inlet (7), for introducing a water-containing primary process fluid through a primary line (8) of the SOEC system (1) into a primary portion (9) of the ejector (5), and a secondary inlet (10), for introducing recirculated secondary process fluid through a recirculation line (11) of the SOEC system (1) from a gas outlet (12) on the gas side (3) into a secondary portion (13) of the ejector (5), wherein the SOEC system (1) further comprises a control gas supply portion (14) for supplying control gas into the primary portion (9) and into the secondary portion (13) in order to control a pressure and/or mass flow in the primary portion (9) and in the secondary portion (13), and wherein the control gas supply portion (14) comprises a valve arrangement (19, 20) for controlling the pressure and/or the mass flow in the primary portion (9) and in the secondary portion (13). The invention further relates to a method for operating an SOEC system (1) according to the invention.
US11769889B2
A hydrogen storage system comprises a hydrogen tank and a system for controlling hydrogen evaporation in the hydrogen tank. This control system comprises a hydrogen discharge pipe connected to the hydrogen tank, on the one hand, and to a controllable valve, on the other hand, as well as a processing unit configured to control the valve as a function of the pressure in the tank. The hydrogen storage system further comprises a fuel cell permanently connected to the hydrogen tank and the processing unit being electrically powered by the fuel cell.
US11769885B2
An electrode layer can have an electrically conductive material, a catalyst, an ionomer binder, and a perfluorocarbon compound. The ionomer binder forms hydrophilic regions on the electrically conductive material to support proton and water transport. The perfluorocarbon compound forms hydrophobic regions on the electrically conductive material to support oxygen solubility and transport. The electrode can be used in making a membrane electrode assembly and can be configured as a cathode thereof. Fuel cells and fuel stacks can include such membrane electrode assemblies.
US11769878B2
A solid-state ion conductor includes a compound of Formula (I): Li4+xB7O12+0.5xX1aX21−a Formula (I) wherein, in Formula (I), 0≤x≤1; X1 is a pseudohalogen; X2 is a halogen; and 0
US11769873B2
The present application provides a method for producing an ion conductor containing Li2B12H12 and LiBH4, which includes obtaining a mixture by mixing LiBH4 and B10H14 at a molar ratio LiBH4/B10H14 of from 2.1 to 4.3; and subjecting the mixture to a heat treatment.
US11769862B2
A light emitting device includes: a first substrate including: a first lead, and a second lead positioned apart from the first lead; a second substrate disposed on an upper face of the second lead, the second substrate including: a base, and a first conducting part disposed on an upper face of the base; a light emitting element disposed on the second substrate and electrically connected to the first conducting part; a first wire electrically connecting the first lead and the first conducting part; and a wall part straddling and covering an upper face of the first lead and an upper face of the second lead. A height of the wall part is less than a height of the second substrate.
US11769861B2
A light-emitting diode packaging structure and a method for fabricating the same is disclosed. A semiconductor wafer is provided, which includes semiconductor substrates. Each semiconductor substrate is penetrated with a first through hole and three second through holes. An insulation layer is formed on the surface of each semiconductor substrate and the inner surfaces of the first through hole, the first sub-through hole, and the second sub-through hole. A patterned electrode layer is formed on the top surface of the semiconductor substrate. A conductive material covering the insulation layer is formed in the first through hole and the second through hole and electrically connected to the patterned electrode layer. Three light-emitting diodes are respectively formed in the first sub-through holes of the second through holes of each semiconductor substrate and respectively electrically connected to the conductive material within the second through holes.
US11769859B2
A mid-infrared light emitting diode is provided, including a graphene lower electrode layer, a black phosphorous layer, and a graphene upper electrode layer sequentially arranged along a thickness direction of the mid-infrared light emitting diode, in which the black phosphorous layer contacts the graphene lower electrode layer and the graphene upper electrode layer. A manufacturing method of the mid-infrared light emitting diode, a silicon photonic circuit and a manufacturing method thereof are also provided.
US11769854B2
Semiconductor lighting devices and associated methods of manufacturing are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a semiconductor lighting device includes a first semiconductor material, a second semiconductor material spaced apart from the first semiconductor material, and an active region between the first and second semiconductor materials. The semiconductor lighting device also includes an indentation extending from the second semiconductor material toward the active region and the first semiconductor material and an insulating material in the indentation of the solid state lighting structure.
US11769831B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide a floating body vertical field effect transistor with dielectric core and a method for fabricating the same. The floating body vertical field effect transistor can include a first semiconductor device including sidewall structures of a first gate metal sandwiched by dielectric layers, a first epitaxially grown channel surrounded by the sidewall structures and can include a second semiconductor device formed on the same substrate adjacent to the first semiconductor device; a salicide layer or doped layer formed between the first and second semiconductor devices and metallization contacting each of the S/D regions and the gate regions. The floating body vertical field effect transistor may include a P+ epitaxially grown channel formed on the same substrate adjacent to an N+ epitaxially grown channel, the P+ epitaxially grown channel separated from N+ epitaxially grown channel by a diffusion break.
US11769828B2
A power semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor layer structure comprising a drift region that comprises a wide band-gap semiconductor material and has a first conductivity type, a first gate structure and an adjacent second gate structure in an upper portion of the semiconductor layer structure, a deep shielding region in the drift region, and a connection region protruding upwardly from the deep shielding region and separating the first gate structure and the second gate structure from each other. The deep shielding region extends from underneath the first gate structure to underneath the second gate structure, and the deep shielding region has a second conductivity type that is different from the first conductivity type.
US11769825B2
Provided is a nitride semiconductor device 3 including a GaN electron transit layer 13, an AlGaN electron supply layer 14 in contact with the electron transit layer 13, a gate layer 15, formed selectively on the electron supply layer 14 and constituted of a nitride semiconductor composition effectively not containing an acceptor type impurity, and a gate electrode 16, formed on the gate layer 15, and satisfying the following formula (1): d g 2 E F q ( N DA + N A - N DD - N D ) ε 0 ε C + Φ B - d B P ε 0 ε C > 0. ( 1 )
US11769822B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a semiconductor fin, gate spacers, a gate structure. The semiconductor fin is on the substrate. The gate spacers are over the semiconductor fin. The gate structure is on the semiconductor fin and between the gate spacers. The gate structure includes a gate dielectric layer and a first work function metal over the gate dielectric layer, in which a top surface of the first work function metal is lower than a top surface of the gate dielectric layer, and a distance between the top surface of the first work function metal and the top surface of the gate dielectric layer is less than about 1 nm.
US11769821B2
A device includes a fin protruding from a semiconductor substrate; a gate stack over and along a sidewall of the fin; a gate spacer along a sidewall of the gate stack and along the sidewall of the fin; an epitaxial source/drain region in the fin and adjacent the gate spacer; and a corner spacer between the gate stack and the gate spacer, wherein the corner spacer extends along the sidewall of the fin, wherein a first region between the gate stack and the sidewall of the fin is free of the corner spacer, wherein a second region between the gate stack and the gate spacer is free of the corner spacer.
US11769818B2
The present disclosure describes a method includes forming a fin structure including a fin base portion and a stacked fin portion on a substrate. The stacked fin portion includes a first semiconductor layer on the fin base portion, a second semiconductor layer above the first semiconductor layer, and a sacrificial semiconductor layer between the first and second semiconductor layers. The method further includes replacing the sacrificial semiconductor layer with a negative capacitance (NC) layer and forming gate electrodes around the NC layer, the first semiconductor layer, and the second semiconductor layer. The NC layer includes an NC dielectric material.
US11769814B2
A device is disclosed. The device includes a gate conductor, a first source-drain region and a second source-drain region. The device includes a first air gap space between the first source-drain region and a first side of the gate conductor and a second air gap space between the second source-drain region and a second side of the gate conductor. A hard mask layer that includes holes is under the gate conductor, the first source-drain region, the second source-drain region and the air gap spaces. A planar dielectric layer is under the hard mask.
US11769813B2
Semiconductor devices include a first active pattern including a first lower pattern extending in a first direction and a first sheet pattern spaced apart from the first lower pattern; and a first gate electrode on the first lower pattern, the first gate electrode extending in a second direction different from the first direction and surrounding the first sheet pattern, wherein the first lower pattern includes a first sidewall and a second sidewall opposite to each other, each of the first sidewall of the first lower pattern and the second sidewall of the first lower pattern extends in the first direction, the first gate electrode overlaps the first sidewall of the first lower pattern in the second direction by a first depth, the first gate electrode overlaps the second sidewall of the first lower pattern in the second direction by a second depth, and the first depth is different from the second depth.
US11769812B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate and a gate structure over the substrate. The semiconductor device includes a source in the substrate on a first side of the gate structure. The semiconductor device further includes a drain in the substrate on a second side of the gate structure. The semiconductor device further includes a first well having a first dopant type, wherein the first well contacts at least two surfaces of the source. The semiconductor device further includes a second well having the first dopant type, wherein the second well contacts at least two surfaces of the drain. The semiconductor device further includes a deep well below the first well and below the second well, wherein the second well extends between the first well and the deep well. In some embodiments, the deep well has a second dopant type, and the second dopant type is opposite the first dopant type.
US11769805B2
A semiconductor device includes: a first insulating film provided in a trench reaching a second semiconductor layer from above the second semiconductor region; a second electrode provided in the trench, the second electrode facing the second semiconductor layer via the first insulating film; the second insulating film being provided between the side surface of the second electrode and a fifth insulating film provided between a side surface of the second electrode and the second semiconductor layer, the second insulating film containing a second insulating material having a higher dielectric constant than the first insulating material; a third electrode provided above the second electrode, the first insulating film and the second insulating film, the third electrode facing the first semiconductor region; an interlayer insulating film provided on the third electrode; and a fourth electrode provided above the interlayer insulating film.
US11769800B2
A semiconductor device of embodiments includes a first gate electrode, a second gate electrode, a third gate electrode extending in a first direction, and a gate wiring line extending in a second direction crossing the first direction and to which the first to the third gate electrodes are connected. Assuming distance between the first and the second gate electrode in the second direction in a first region is S1, distance between the first and the second gate electrode in the second direction in a second region closer to the gate wiring line than the first region is S2, distance between the second and the third gate electrode in the second direction in the first region is S3, and distance between the second and the third gate electrode in the second direction in the second region is S4, following Expressions are satisfied, S1
US11769796B2
A semiconductor device formed by forming a stack of alternating horizontal nanosheet layers, recessing the stack for an n-type field effect transistor (nFET), growing crystalline semiconductor adjacent to the stack, forming vertical nanosheets from the crystalline semiconductor, forming inner spacers between the vertical nanosheets, and forming a high-k metal gate structure around the horizontal nanosheets and the vertical nanosheets.
US11769788B2
A high-resolution display device is provided. The high-resolution display device includes a light-emitting layer including a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer, a plurality of transparent electrodes respectively formed on the second semiconductor layer in sub-pixel regions, a first electrode connected to the first semiconductor layer, a plurality of second electrodes connected to the plurality of transparent electrodes, a color-converting layer arranged over the light-emitting layer and configured to emit light of a predetermined color based on light generated by the light-emitting layer, which are sequentially stacked on a substrate including a plurality of sub-pixel regions. One or more ion injection regions corresponding to current injection regions corresponding to the plurality of the sub-pixel regions is formed in the second semiconductor layer.
US11769783B2
A thin film transistor array substrate for a digital X-ray detector device includes a base substrate; a driving thin film transistor disposed over the base substrate; a PIN (P type semiconductor-Intrinsic type semiconductor-N type semiconductor) diode configured to be connected to the driving thin film transistor, the PIN diode including a lower electrode, a PIN layer, and an upper electrode; and at least one leakage current blocking layer configured to cover a side surface of the PIN layer and contact the PIN layer to thereby minimize generation of the leakage current of the PIN diode and improve characteristics such as detective quantum efficiency (DQE) and signal to noise ratio (SNR) and improving an image quality of the digital X-ray detector device.
US11769775B2
A distance-measuring imaging device includes a light source that applies light according to timing of a light emission signal; a solid-state imager that performs, for an object, exposure according to timing of an exposure signal, and generates raw data corresponding to an exposure amount of the exposure; a signal amount comparator that determines a magnitude relationship in signal amount in the raw data; and a distance calculator that generates and outputs a distance signal based on a determination result. The solid-state imager accumulates, in each of different signal accumulation regions for accumulating signals detected in a same pixel, a signal by exposure in an exposure period that differs in exposure signal timing. The signal amount comparator determines the magnitude relationship between the signals accumulated in the signal accumulation regions. The distance calculator calculates the distance to the object using an arithmetic expression selected depending on the determination result.
US11769765B2
Apparatuses with a gate electrode in a semiconductor device are described. An example apparatus includes an active region, an isolation region surrounding the active region, a dielectric layer including a first portion above the active region and a second portion above the isolation region, and a protection layer on the isolation region.
US11769763B2
A package structure including a first die, an encapsulant, a first circuit structure, a second circuit structure, a conductive connector, a second die, and a filler is provided. The encapsulant covers the first die and has a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. The first circuit structure is disposed on the first surface. The second circuit structure is disposed on the second surface. The conductive connector penetrates the encapsulant. The second die is disposed on the second circuit structure. The second die has an optical signal transmission area. The filler is disposed between the second die and the second circuit structure. An upper surface of the second circuit structure has a groove. The upper surface includes a first area and a second area disposed on opposite sides of the groove. The filler directly contacts the first area. The filler is disposed away from the second area.
US11769762B2
A semiconductor package includes a lower redistribution layer having a plurality of lower ball pads forming a plurality of lower ball pad groups, a semiconductor chip on the lower redistribution layer, an expanded layer surrounding the semiconductor chip on the lower redistribution layer, and an upper redistribution layer on the semiconductor chip and the expanded layer and having a plurality of upper ball pads forming a plurality of upper ball pad groups. The number of the plurality of upper ball pad groups may be the same as the number of the of the plurality lower ball pad groups. Each of the upper ball pads in one of the plurality of upper ball pad groups, from among the plurality of upper ball pads, may be a dummy ball pad.
US11769756B2
Hybrid fanouts for semiconductor device assemblies, and associated methods and systems are disclosed. In one embodiment, at least one edge a first semiconductor die is attached to a molding including through mold vias (TMVs). Conductive traces may be formed on a first side of the first semiconductor die, where the first side includes integrated circuitry coupled to the conductive traces. Moreover, conductive pads may be formed on a surface of the molding, which is coplanar with the first side. The conductive pads are coupled to first ends of the TMVs, where second ends of the TMVs are coupled to bond wires connected to one or more second semiconductor dies that the first semiconductor die carries. Conductive bumps can be formed on the conductive traces and pads such that the first semiconductor die and the molding attached thereto can be directly attached to a printed circuit board.
US11769753B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include an electronics package and methods of forming such electronics packages. In an embodiment, the electronics package comprises a package substrate, and a first die coupled to the package substrate. In an embodiment, a cavity is formed through the package substrate. In an embodiment, the cavity is within a footprint of the first die. In an embodiment, the electronics package further comprises a thermal stack in the cavity. In an embodiment, the thermal stack contacts the first die.
US11769750B2
A substrate, assembly and method for bonding and electrically interconnecting substrates are provided. According to the method, two substrates are provided, each comprising metal contact structures that are electrically isolated from each other by a bonding layer of dielectric material. Openings are produced in the bonding layer, the openings lying within the surface area of the respective contact structures, exposing the contact material of the structures at the bottom of the openings. Then a layer of conductive material is deposited, filling the openings, after which the material is planarized, removing it from the surface of the bonding layer and leaving a recessed contact patch in the openings. The substrates are then aligned, brought into contact, and bonded by applying an annealing step at a temperature suitable for causing thermal expansion of the contact structures. Deformation of the conductive material of the contact structures through creep pushes the material into the openings from the bottom up, thereby bringing the contact patches into mutual and conductive contact.
US11769747B2
In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first insulator. The device further includes a first pad provided in the first insulator, and including first and second layers provided on lateral and lower faces of the first insulator in order. The device further includes a second insulator provided on the first insulator. The device further includes a second pad provided on the first pad in the second insulator, and including third and fourth layers provided on lateral and upper faces of the second insulator in order. The device further includes a first portion provided between an upper face of the first pad and a lower face of the second insulator or between a lower face of the second pad and an upper face of the first insulator, and including a metal element same as a metal element included in the first layer or the third layer.
US11769746B2
A semiconductor package includes a substrate, through-electrodes penetrating the substrate, first bumps spaced apart from each other in a first direction parallel to a top surface of the substrate and electrically connected to the through-electrodes, respectively, and at least one second bump disposed between the first bumps and electrically insulated from the through-electrodes. The first bumps and the at least one second bump constitute one row in the first direction. A level of a bottom surface of the at least one second bump from the top surface of the substrate is a substantially same as levels of bottom surfaces of the first bumps from the top surface of the substrate.
US11769744B2
A semiconductor device includes a first substrate having a first surface, and a second substrate having a second surface in contact with the first surface. The first substrate includes a first circuit, a first electrode having a first connection end on the first surface, and a first auxiliary electrode having a second connection end on the first surface. The first electrode is connected to the first circuit inside the first substrate, and the first auxiliary electrode is connected to the first electrode. The second substrate includes a second circuit and a second electrode having a third connection end on the second surface. The second electrode is connected to the second circuit. The third connection end is connected directly with the first connection end and the second connection end. The second electrode is connected directly with the first electrode and through the first auxiliary electrode to the first electrode.
US11769741B2
An organic interposer includes interconnect-level dielectric material layers embedding redistribution interconnect structures, at least one dielectric capping layer overlying a topmost interconnect-level dielectric material layer, a bonding-level dielectric layer overlying the at least one dielectric capping layer, and a dual-layer inductor structure, which may include a lower conductive coil embedded within the topmost interconnect-level dielectric material layer, a conductive via structure vertically extending through the at least one dielectric capping layer, and an upper conductive coil embedded within the bonding-level dielectric layer and comprising copper.
US11769740B2
Various embodiments include integrated approaches to detecting attempts to breach system-level or chip-level security using photo-generated currents induced by lasers or other radiation sources. Various embodiments integrate photo-detection circuits with a secure processor or other circuit in such a manner that the response to a security attack is fast enough to prevent loss of secure or private information are described. Various embodiments include circuits capable of providing a permanent record of photocurrent detection.
US11769737B2
A semiconductor package includes an upper conductive pattern and a redistribution layer on a first surface of a substrate, a semiconductor chip facing the first surface of the substrate, the semiconductor chip being spaced apart from the first surface of the substrate, a conductive bump bonding between the semiconductor chip and the upper conductive pattern, the conductive bump electrically connecting the semiconductor chip and the upper conductive pattern, and an upper passivation layer on the redistribution layer, a portion of the upper passivation layer facing an edge of a lower surface of the semiconductor chip.
US11769735B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include electronic packages and methods of forming such electronic packages. In an embodiment, the electronic package comprises a mold layer having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, and a plurality of first dies embedded in the mold layer. In an embodiment, each of the plurality of first dies has a surface that is substantially coplanar with the first surface of the mold layer. In an embodiment, the electronic package further comprises a second die embedded in the mold layer. In an embodiment, the second die is positioned between the plurality of first dies and the second surface of the mold layer.
US11769734B2
Microelectronic assemblies, and related devices and methods, are disclosed herein. For example, in some embodiments, a microelectronic assembly may include a package substrate including a dielectric material having a first surface and an opposing second surface, a first photodefinable material on at least a portion of the second surface, and a second photodefinable material on at least a portion of the first photodefinable material, wherein the second photodefinable material has a different material composition than the first photodefinable material.
US11769733B2
A package substrate includes: a glass frame having a through hole and a chip embedding cavity; an electronic component arranged in the chip embedding cavity; a dielectric layer filled on an upper surface of the glass frame and in the chip embedding cavity; a metal pillar passing through the through hole; a circuit layer arranged on the upper surface and/or a lower surface of the glass frame and connected to the electronic component and the metal pillar; and a solder mask arranged on a surface of the circuit layer and having a pad which is connected to the circuit layer.
US11769730B2
A semiconductor device has a substrate and a first conductive layer formed over the substrate. A second conductive layer is formed over the first conductive layer. The first conductive layer can be copper, and the second conductive layer can be nickel. A thickness of the second conductive layer is greater than a thickness of the first conductive layer. A flux material is deposited over the second conductive layer by a printing process. An electrical component is disposed over the flux material, and the flux material is reflowed to make electrical connection between the electrical component and second conductive layer. The flux material substantially vaporizes during the reflow to reduce the occurrence of short circuits. The electrical components can be placed over the substrate with narrow spacing and higher density given the use of the flux material to make electrical connection. An encapsulant is deposited over the electrical component.
US11769720B2
An electronic substrate connects to a semiconductor component via a plurality of front surface terminals disposed in an array on a front surface and connects to a main substrate via a plurality of back surface terminals disposed in an array on a back surface. The electronic substrate includes: a first wiring that electrically connects the front surface terminals and the back surface terminals in the electronic substrate and is supplied with power supply from the main substrate via the back surface terminals; and a second wiring that electrically connects the front surface terminals and the back surface terminals in the electronic substrate, is supplied with power supply having the same potential as the first wiring from the main substrate via the back surface terminals, and is not electrically connected to the first wiring in the electronic substrate.
US11769717B2
There is provided a semiconductor device that includes a wiring layer, a plurality of bonding layers arranged on the wiring layer and having conductivity, and a semiconductor element having a rear surface facing the wiring layer and a plurality of pads provided on the rear surface, and bonded to the wiring layer via the plurality of bonding layers, wherein the plurality of bonding layers are arranged in a grid shape when viewed along a thickness direction, wherein each of the plurality of pads is electrically connected to a circuit formed inside the semiconductor element and any of the plurality of bonding layers, and wherein at least one of the plurality of pads is located to be spaced apart from the plurality of bonding layers when viewed along the thickness direction.
US11769713B2
Lead frames for semiconductor device packages may include lead fingers proximate to a die-attach pad. A convex corner of the lead frame proximate to a geometric center of the lead frame may be rounded to include a radius of curvature of at least two times a greatest thickness of the die-attach pad. The thickness of the die-attach pad may be measured in a direction perpendicular to a major surface of the die-attach pad. A shortest distance between the die-attach pad and each one of the lead fingers having a surface area larger than an average surface area of the lead fingers may be at least two times the greatest thickness of the die-attach pad.
US11769704B2
A semiconductor structure including a first semiconductor die, a second semiconductor die, a passivation layer, an anti-arcing pattern, and conductive terminals is provided. The second semiconductor die is stacked over the first semiconductor die. The passivation layer covers the second semiconductor die and includes first openings for revealing pads of the second semiconductor die. The anti-arcing pattern is disposed over the passivation layer. The conductive terminals are disposed over and electrically connected to the pads of the second semiconductor die.
US11769693B2
A semiconductor structure includes a conductive feature, a first metal-based etch-stop layer over the underlying structure, a metal-free etch-stop layer over the first metal-based etch-stop layer, a second metal-based etch-stop layer over the metal-free etch-stop layer, an interlayer dielectric layer over the second metal-based etch-stop layer, and an interconnect structure extending through the first metal-based etch-stop layer, metal-free etch-stop layer, and the second metal-based etch-stop layer, wherein a bottom portion of the conductive interconnect structure directly contacts the conductive feature. The first metal-based etch-stop layer may include a first metallic component having one of aluminum, tantalum, titanium, or hafnium, and the second metal-based etch-stop layer may include a second metallic component the same as or different from the first metallic component. The first metal-based etch-stop layer and the second metal-based etch-stop layer may both be free of silicon.
US11769691B2
The method includes providing a to-be-etched layer including an first region and a second region adjoining the first region, forming a first mask layer on the to-be-etched layer, forming a patterned core layer on the first mask layer of the first region, forming a sidewall spacer on the core layer and the first mask layer, forming a first sacrificial layer on the sidewall spacer on the surface of the first mask layer of the second region, forming a second sacrificial layer on the sidewall spacer, removing the first sacrificial layer, the sidewall spacer on the surface of the first mask layer of the second region, and the sidewall spacer on a top of the core layer, removing the core layer, etching the first mask layer of the first region to form a first trench, and etching the first mask layer of the second region to form a second trench.
US11769689B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method may include forming a stack, forming a preliminary stepped structure by patterning the stack, forming a first stepped structure, a second stepped structure, and an opening located between the first stepped structure and the second stepped structure by etching the preliminary stepped structure, forming a passivation layer that fills the opening and covers the first stepped structure, and forming a third stepped structure by etching the second stepped structure using the passivation layer as an etching barrier.
US11769684B2
Substrate supports comprising a plurality of bonded plates forming a single component support body and methods of forming the substrate supports are described. The single component support body has an outer peripheral edge, a top surface and a bottom surface. A pocket is formed in the top surface and has a bottom surface, a depth and an outer peripheral edge. A purge ring is spaced a distance from the outer peripheral edge and comprises at least one opening in the top surface in fluid communication with a purge gas line within the body thickness.
US11769683B2
A coated chamber component comprises a body and a protective ceramic coating deposited over a surface of the body, the protective ceramic coating being amorphous and comprising about 8-20% by weight yttrium, about 20-32% by weight aluminum, and about 60-70% by weight oxygen.
US11769678B2
A lithography includes a storage tank that stores process chemical fluid, an anti-collision frame, and an integrated sensor assembly. The storage tank includes a dispensing port positioned at a lowest part of the storage tank in a gravity direction. The anti-collision frame is coupled to the storage tank. An integrated sensor assembly is disposed on at least one of the anti-collision frame and the storage tank to measure a variation in fluid quality in response to fluid quality measurement of fluid.
US11769674B2
A semiconductor interconnect structure and a fabricating method thereof are disclosed. The method comprises: providing a stacked structure comprising bonded multiple layers of wafer or die, each bonded layer comprises a substrate and a wiring layer, and the wiring layer comprises metal wires; vertically forming, in the stacked structure, a first blind hole having a first diameter and a first length and penetrating each bonded layer between adjacent metal wires, the first diameter is less than a space between the adjacent metal wires, and the first length is less than a height of the stacked structure; forming a second blind hole having a second diameter and the first length coaxially with the first blind hole, a sidewall of the second blind hole exposes the metal wires, and the second diameter is larger than the space between the adjacent metal wires; and filling a conductive material in the second blind hole.
US11769671B2
Exemplary etching methods may include flowing a fluorine-containing precursor and a hydrogen-containing precursor into a remote plasma region of a semiconductor processing chamber. The hydrogen-containing precursor may be flowed at a flow rate of at least 2:1 relative to the flow rate of the fluorine-containing precursor. The methods may include forming a plasma of the fluorine-containing precursor and the hydrogen-containing precursor to produce plasma effluents. The methods may include flowing the plasma effluents into a substrate processing region housing a substrate. The substrate may include an exposed region of a tantalum or titanium material and an exposed region of a silicon-containing material or a metal. The methods may include contacting the substrate with the plasma effluents. The methods may include removing the tantalum or titanium material selectively to the silicon-containing material or the metal.
US11769670B2
Methods for forming a rhenium-containing film on a substrate by a cyclical deposition are disclosed. The method may include: contacting the substrate with a first vapor phase reactant comprising a rhenium precursor; and contacting the substrate with a second vapor phase reactant. Semiconductor device structures including a rhenium-containing film formed by the methods of the disclosure are also disclosed.
US11769664B2
A method for depositing a hafnium lanthanum oxide film on a substrate by a cyclical deposition in a reaction chamber is disclosed. The method may include: depositing a hafnium oxide film on the substrate utilizing a first sub-cycle of the cyclical deposition process and depositing a lanthanum oxide film utilizing a second sub-cycle of the cyclical deposition process.
US11769663B2
To dry a substrate formed with a pattern on a front surface satisfactorily and with excellent drying performance, a substrate processing method comprises: a liquid film formation step of forming a liquid film of a processing liquid, in which cyclohexanone oxime is dissolved in a solvent, on a front surface of a substrate formed with a pattern by supplying the processing liquid to the front surface of the substrate; a solidified film formation step of forming a solidified film of the cyclohexanone oxime by solidifying the liquid film of the processing liquid; and a sublimation step of removing the solidified film from the front surface of the substrate by sublimating the solidified film.
US11769661B2
A substrate processing method includes a first cleaning process and a second cleaning process. In the first cleaning process, a substrate is cleaned with a first cleaning solution. In the second cleaning process, the substrate is cleaned with a second cleaning solution having a lower cleanliness than the first cleaning solution after the first cleaning process.
US11769657B2
A system for powering an excimer bulb includes a first inductor configured to be coupled to a first terminal of the excimer bulb. The system further includes a first transistor coupled to the first inductor and having an on state configured to allow current to flow through the first inductor and an off state. The system further includes a second transistor configured to be coupled to the first terminal of the excimer bulb and having an on state configured to allow current to flow through the excimer bulb and an off state. The system further includes a controller coupled to the first transistor and the second transistor, and to control operation of the first transistor and the second transistor to power the excimer bulb.
US11769655B2
A method of performing targeted multiplexed mass spectrometry includes performing, at a mass spectrometer, a targeted MS3 analysis of an isobaric tag-labeled target analyte included in a multiplex sample eluting from a column. The targeted MS3 analysis is performed during an acquisition segment scheduled based on an expected retention time of the isobaric tag-labeled target analyte. The method further includes performing, during the acquisition segment, a plurality of MS2 analyses of product ions derived from components included in the multiplex sample and eluting from the column. The method further includes determining, based on MS3 mass spectra acquired by the targeted MS3 analysis and MS2 mass spectra acquired by the plurality of MS2 analyses, a relative quantity of the isobaric tag-labeled target analyte in the multiplex sample.
US11769640B2
A touch sensor unit, that is installed on one of an opening provided in a vehicle and an opening and closing body configured to open and close the opening, includes: a touch sensor having a long sensor body; and a bracket configured to hold the touch sensor in a longitudinal direction of the sensor body and fixed to one of the opening and the opening and closing body. One of the touch sensor and the bracket includes an inserting portion including a locking piece, the other of the touch sensor and the bracket includes a holding portion including a locking portion locked to the locking piece and configured to accommodate the inserting portion, and one of the inserting portion and the holding portion is made of an elastomer having an elastic modulus lower than that of the other.
US11769633B2
An electronic component includes a board having first and second electrode pads on one surface of the board; and a multilayer capacitor. The multilayer capacitor comprises: a capacitor body comprising a dielectric layer and a plurality of internal electrodes, disposed horizontally with respect to a mounting surface of the capacitor body facing the one surface of the board, and external electrodes disposed on both end portions of the capacitor body and connected to exposed portions of the internal electrodes, respectively. The electronic component satisfies Lp/Lc≤1.35, where a distance between outer edges of the first and second electrode pads is defined as Lp, and a length of the multilayer capacitor is defined as Lc.
US11769625B2
A transformer apparatus reducing magnetic field interference includes an iron core, a first side coil unit, a second side coil unit, a first current transmission line, a second current transmission line and a third current transmission line. Both the first side coil unit and the second side coil unit are wound around the iron core. The first side coil unit is connected to the first current transmission line and the second current transmission line. The second current transmission line is connected to the third current transmission line. The first current transmission line includes a first current conduction segment and a first insulation layer. The first insulation layer coats the first current conduction segment. The third current transmission line includes a second current conduction segment and a second insulation layer. The second insulation layer coats the second current conduction segment. The second insulation layer touches the first insulation layer.
US11769618B2
An electrical induction device includes a housing and a contact arrangement in the housing of the electrical induction device for electrically contacting an electrical conductor. The contact arrangement includes a conductor tube, a receiver contact which is fastened to the conductor tube and configured to receive and electrically connect with the electrical conductor, and a resilient suspension arrangement fastened to the housing and connected to an outside of the conductor tube such that the receiver contact is resiliently movable in a plane which is parallel to a cross section of the conductor tube while being substantially immovable in an axial direction of the conductor tube.
US11769615B2
A superconducting joint arrangement for superconducting magnets, having an elongate joint arranged between superconducting filaments of superconducting wires of one or more superconducting coils, and excess wire provided between the elongate joint and the one or more superconducting coils.
US11769612B2
A chip resistor includes a resistor body, a first upper surface electrode, a second upper surface electrode, and an upper surface protection film on an upper surface of a substrate. The upper surface protection film covers the entire surface of the resistor body and the entire surface of the first upper surface electrode and the second upper surface electrode. The upper surface protection film includes a peripheral portion that is entirely in contact with the upper surface of the substrate.
US11769610B2
A device for flaring an end section of a braided tubular structure of an electrical conductor defines a reception volume having a peripheral boundary for receiving the end section of the braided tubular structure. The device further includes one or more rotatable rollers of which each has at least one peripheral roller surface facing the peripheral boundary of the reception volume. The one or more rollers are adapted to move relative to the reception volume in a peripheral direction about the reception volume for flaring the end section.
US11769607B2
A resin composition comprising a maleimide compound, a cyanate ester compound, a silane compound having a styrene skeleton and a hydrolyzable group or a hydroxy group, and an inorganic filler.
US11769601B2
A light-weight radiation protection panel comprising radiation protection layer and a flexible material. The radiation protection layer comprises a plurality of a shielding material distributed in repeated and adjacent units of geometrical shapes, the light-weight radiation protection panel being able to be embodied in a wearable garment providing flexibility.
US11769600B2
A heat transfer module can include an envelope sealed to define an internal volume that contains a working fluid and a wick disposed on an internal surface of the envelope. The wick and envelope each has a first portion extending through an evaporator region and a second portion extending through adiabatic and condenser regions. The first portion of the wick is a metal hydride. The first portion of the envelope includes a metal liner surrounding the first portion of the wick, a first diffusion barrier layer disposed between the first portion of the wick and the metal liner, and a ceramic matrix composite cladding surrounding the metal liner. The second portions of the wick and envelope each includes a refractory metal and/or stainless steel.
US11769596B2
The invention provides biomarkers and combinations of biomarkers useful in diagnosing non-small cell lung cancer. Measurements of these biomarkers are inputted into a classification system such as Random Forest to assist in determining the likelihood that an individual has non-small cell lung cancer. Kits comprising agents for detecting the biomarkers and combination of biomarkers, as well as systems that assist in diagnosing non-small cell lung cancer are also provided.
US11769582B2
Computer-implemented methods and systems are provided for managing one or more images. An example method for indexing involves operating a processor to, divide an image portion of an image of the one or more images into a plurality of patches, for each patch of the image: detect one or more features of the patch; and assign the patch to at least one cluster of a plurality of clusters of the image, based on the one or more features of the patch. The processor is operable to, for each cluster of the image, select at least one patch from the cluster as at least one representative patch for the cluster; for each representative patch, generate an encoded representation based on one or more features of the representative patch; and generate an index identifier for the image based on the encoded representations of the representative patches of the image.
US11769571B2
Mechanisms are provided for determining values to associate with medical conditions of a patient. A patient assessment is received that comprises a natural language question and a corresponding answer, about a patient, provided in response to the question. Cognitive natural language processing is performed on the patient assessment to extract features from the natural language question and corresponding answer. The extracted features are evaluated within a context of a pre-existing electronic medical record of the patient. A value for a medical condition of the patient is determined based on results of the evaluation and stored in the electronic medical record for the patient.
US11769562B2
The present application discloses an electronic fuse control circuit, a semiconductor device and a method for forming a semiconductor device including an electronic fuse control circuit. The electronic fuse control circuit includes a program voltage pad, a fuse element, a latch, an operation switch unit, resistor selection pads, and bonding option units. The fuse element includes a first terminal coupled to the program voltage pad, and a second terminal. The operation switch unit forms an electrical connection between the second terminal of the fuse element and a ground terminal during a program operation, and forms an electrical connection between the second terminal of the fuse element and an input terminal of the latch during a read operation. Each of the bonding option units includes a resistor and a selection switch coupled in series between the input terminal of the latch and a resistor selection pad.
US11769557B2
Techniques for preventing read disturb in NAND memory devices are described. In one example, reads are tracked for sub-groups. When the number of reads to a sub-group meets a threshold, the data at the wordline on which the threshold was met is moved along with the data at neighboring wordlines to an SLC block without moving the entire block. The performance impact and write amplification impact of read disturb mitigation can be significantly reduced while maintaining some data continuity.
US11769533B2
A semiconductor chip is provided. The semiconductor chip includes a SRAM cell, a logic cell, a signal line and a ground line. The SRAM cell includes a storage transmission gate, a read transmission gate and a latch circuit. The latch circuit is serially connected between the storage and read transmission gates, and includes a first inverter, a second inverter and a transmission gate connected to an output of the first inverter, an input of the second inverter and an output of the storage transmission gate. The logic cell disposed aside the SRAM cell is connected with the SRAM cell by first and second active structures. The signal and ground lines extend at opposite sides of the SRAM and logic cells, and are substantially parallel with the first and second active structures. The SRAM and logic cells are disposed between and electrically connected to the signal and ground lines.
US11769532B2
A system for generating and distributing a digital mixtape. In one example, the system can receive a user command to generate a digital mixtape including a user-defined compilation of music. The user command identifies a recipient of the digital mixtape and identifies one or more media content items to be included in the music compilation for the recipient. The digital mixtape can also include audio recordings from the user to be added to the digital mixtape.
US11769528B2
Provided are systems and methods for automatic video processing that employ machine learning models to process input video and understand user video content in a semantic and cultural context. This recognition enables the processing system to recognize interesting temporal events, and build narrative video sequences automatically, for example, by linking or interleaving temporal events or other content with film-based categorizations. In further embodiments, the implementation of the processing system is adapted to mobile computing platforms which can be distributed as an “app” within various app stores. In various example, the mobile apps turn everyday users into professional videographers. In further embodiments, music selection and dialog based editing can likewise be automated via machine learning models to create dynamic and interest professional quality video segments.
US11769524B2
A multi-layer piezoelectric microactuator assembly has at least one poled and active piezoelectric layer and one poled but inactive piezoelectric layer. The poled but inactive layer acts as a constraining layer in resisting expansion or contract of the first piezoelectric layer thereby reducing or eliminating bending of the assembly as installed in an environment, thereby increasing the effective stroke length of the assembly. Poling only a single layer would induce stresses into the device; hence, polling both piezoelectric layers even though only one layer will be active in use reduces stresses in the device and therefore increases reliability.
US11769521B1
Providing a condition-specific data collection includes displaying, via a user interface of a user device and based on a computing application being accessed, one or more selectable parameters, and receiving, based on a user of the user device providing one or more user inputs, a selection of the one or more selectable parameters, the selection indicating a physical location about which a condition-specific data collection sequence is to be provided. Further, the condition-specific data collection sequence associated with the physical location is provided, where the condition-specific data collection sequence comprises a series of user interface input controls that are displayed, via the user interface, to facilitate obtaining condition-specific data related to a condition at a physical location.
US11769517B2
This invention provides a signal processing apparatus capable of obtaining an output signal of sufficiently high quality if the phase of an input signal is largely different from the phase of a true voice. The signal processing apparatus includes a voice detector that receives a mixed signal including a voice and a signal other than the voice and obtains existence of the voice as a voice flag, a corrector that receives the mixed signal and the voice flag and obtains a corrected mixed signal generated by correcting the mixed signal in accordance with a state of the voice flag, and a shaper that receives the corrected mixed signal and shapes the corrected mixed signal.
US11769516B2
An encoding system encodes an N-channel audio signal (X), wherein N≥3, as a single-channel downmix signal (Y) together with dry and wet upmix parameters ({tilde over (C)}, {tilde over (P)}). In a decoding system, a decorrelating section outputs, based on the downmix signal, an (N−1)-channel decorrelated signal (Z); a dry upmix section maps the downmix signal linearly in accordance with dry upmix coefficients (C) determined based on the dry upmix parameters; a wet upmix section populates an intermediate matrix based on the wet upmix parameters and knowing that the intermediate matrix belongs to a predefined matrix class, obtains wet upmix coefficients (P) by multiplying the intermediate matrix by a predefined matrix, and maps the decorrelated signal linearly in accordance with the wet upmix coefficients; and a combining section combines outputs from the upmix sections to obtain a reconstructed signal ({circumflex over (X)}) corresponding to the signal to be reconstructed.
US11769501B2
Embodiments of the present invention determine a curiosity of a user based on data received from an electronic device associated with the user, where the data includes audible speech captured from user and one or more facial expressions of the user. Embodiments of the present invention identify a first wavelength for audible speech from the user to initiate a command detection mode based on a plurality of wavelengths associated with a user profile for the user. Embodiments of the present invention identify a topic for the audible speech from the user and responsive to determining an intelligent virtual assistant is an intended recipient based on the topic, suspend an activation word for the intelligent virtual assistant.
US11769497B2
Embodiments provide a context-aware digital assistant at multiple user devices participating in a video communication session by using context information from a first user device to determine a digital assistant response at a second user device. In this manner, users participating in the video communication session may interact with the digital assistant during the video communication session as if the digital assistant is another participant in the video communication session. Embodiments further describe automatically determining candidate digital assistant tasks based on a shared transcription of user voice inputs received at user devices participating in a video communication session. In this manner, a digital assistant of a user device participating in a video communication session may proactively determine one or more tasks that a user of the user device may want the digital assistant to perform based on conversations held during the video communication session.
US11769478B1
A digital signal processing system for multiplying a digital value and a digital signal. The digital signal processing system receives the digital value in an encoded format, and multiplies the digital value with the digital signal. The digital value in the encoded format has an offset, which is encoded as a floating point. The disclosure provides a digital processing system that can carry out a multiplication operation with a smaller area, less complexity and/or reduced power usage compared with known multipliers.
US11769471B1
A barre chord device can include a strip of rubber, elastomeric or other resilient material with heat formed creases and protruding shims. A guitar player attaches the strip at discrete places to the index finger of his fretting hand. When the guitar musician performs a barre chord, the strip concentrates barre force to the strings. Shims press into the concave mid-finger keeping the strip straight on a string side to provide uniform barre pressure. Muscular effort is minimized. Creases cause the strip to fold neatly to a thumb side when the index finger is curled to perform non-barre chords and scales.
US11769459B2
A display device includes a control circuit. By setting an intermediate point between a start point and an end point of a lighting period as a start point of the lighting cycle, and setting an intermediate point between a start point and an end point of a lighting period of the next lighting period as an end point of the lighting cycle, the control circuit controls a backlight such that an absolute value of a difference value between a first ratio of a sum of a length of a first lighting period in the first lighting cycle and a length of the next second lighting period in the first lighting cycle to a length of the first lighting cycle and the target duty ratio is 0.1 or less.
US11769455B2
Disclosed is a shift register unit set, a gate driving circuit and a display apparatus, the shift register set including: cascaded n shift register units, and an ith stage of shift register unit in the shift register unit set includes: a first input sub-circuit and a second input sub-circuit, wherein the first input sub-circuit includes: a charging sub-circuit, a storing sub-circuit, an isolating sub-circuit, an output sub-circuit, a first electric leakage prevention sub-circuit configured to input an operation potential to the isolating sub-circuit under the control of the blanking pull-up control node, and a second electric leakage prevention sub-circuit configured to input the operation potential to a second electrode of the isolating transistor under the control of the first pull-up node, wherein there is an overlap among n composite output signals output by the n shift register units, n and i are positive integers, and 1≤i≤n.
US11769454B2
A display panel and a display device having an emission control driver are discussed. The display device can include a display panel for displaying an image through sub pixels, and an emission control driver configured to supply a plurality of emission control signals to the sub pixels. The emission control driver can include a plurality of emission control stages configured to supply the plurality of emission control signals, respectively. Each emission control stage can include an output buffer including a first pull-up transistor configured to output a first high potential power supply voltage to an output line by a Q node, and a first pull-down transistor configured to output a first low potential power supply voltage to the output line by a QB node.
US11769450B2
The present disclosure relates to a pixel circuit including an optical fingerprint sensing circuit, a method for driving a pixel circuit including the optical fingerprint sensing circuit, and a display device including the pixel circuit including the optical fingerprint sensing circuit. The pixel circuit includes: a self-light emitting element which displays images by a driving current controlled by a driving transistor; and a light-receiving element which receives light emitted from the self-light emitting element and reflected through a fingerprint of a user and converts it into a photocurrent. The driving transistor functions as a buffer which transmits an output voltage of the light-receiving element to an output line of the pixel circuit.
US11769448B2
A display device and a display panel including a first display region and a second display region. The light transmittance of the first display region is greater than the light transmittance of the second display region. At least one first display unit is disposed in the first display region. At least one second display unit, at least one drive unit, and at least one gating switch unit are disposed in the second display region. The at least one drive unit is connected to the input end of the at least one gating switch unit in a one-to-one manner. The first output end of each gating switch unit is connected to one of a first display unit and a second display unit and the second output end of the each gating switch unit is connected to the other one of the first display unit and the second display unit.
US11769434B2
A display driver circuit receives externally-encoded image data and processes the data using a memory (graphic RAM), an internal encoder, and an external decoder configured to operate on the externally-encoded image data. The processed data is provided to a display device by a source driver of the display driver circuit. Data is processed through the graphic RAM and an internal decoder or the external decoder depending on whether a slice of the data is a currently received update slice, a recently received standby slice, or a still slice.
US11769427B2
A training system to teach use of an ultrasound probe, the training system having a chamber defining an orifice, a shaft insertable into the orifice of the chamber, a marker positioned on the shaft at a distal end, a camera positioned to view the marker when inserted inside the chamber, and a processor operatively connected to the camera for processing a position and an orientation of the shaft based on the marker. The system provides a method for visualizing movement of the shaft from inside the chamber.
US11769426B2
Provided herein is a computer system for creating driving challenges for drivers. The computer system may include a processor in communication with a memory device, and the processor may be programmed to: (i) receive driving data associated with a driver, (ii) generate a first model that models the driving data associated with the driver, (iii) calculate a predicted driving score for the driver based at least in part upon the first model, (iv) generate a second model that predicts a confidence of the predicted driving score, (v) calculate a confidence value of the predicted driving score, wherein the confidence value is a squared error of the predicted driving score, and (vi) generate at least one driving challenge for the driver based at least in part upon the predicted driving score and the confidence value for that predicted driving score.
US11769421B2
The present invention is a simulator for skill-oriented training. The simulator includes a work piece platform having a sensor, a head-mounted display unit (HMDU) including a camera, a speaker and a sensor providing visual and audio output to an operator, and a controller having a controller sensor. The simulator includes a processor that executes algorithms to simulate a virtual training environment depicting a work piece rendered on the work piece platform. The controller sensor, the HMDU sensor and the platform sensor output signals to the processor representing spatial positioning, angular orientation and movement data of the controller relative to the work piece to render a virtual powder coating spray pattern including a stream having particles charged and emitted from the controller and a powder coating coverage as applied to the work piece during one or more passes of a powder coating spray process performed by the operator.
US11769413B2
A method for cut in maneuver alert, the method may include receiving by a vehicle computerized system of a vehicle, one or more cut in maneuver predictors, each cut in maneuver predictor is (a) indicative of a predicted cut in maneuver initiated by another vehicle, and is (b) generated by a machine learning process; obtaining sensed information regarding an environment of the vehicle; processing the sensed information, wherein the processing comprises searching for a cut in maneuver predictor; and finding the cut in maneuver predictor.
US11769408B2
A method of tracking at least one emergency service provider is disclosed. An electronic history is compiled that includes at least one identifier of a service provider, at least one identifier of an event to which the service provider responded, and GPS data identifying the geographic location of the service provider at each time interval within the duration of the event. A user interface within which is displayed a first identifier of a first event is generated to a display device. A selection of the event identifier is received from a user. In response to the selection of the identifier, an aerial view of a geographic region within which the first event took place is generated. At least one icon is displayed in the aerial view representing the service provider at the geographic location corresponding to at least one time interval during the event.
US11769407B1
A system and method for using a mobile device to capture the proper execution of a series of one or more tasks with pre-assigned constraints that are associated with a specific set of assets, where those assets have certain known physical attributes and characteristics and are configured in a known manner is disclosed herein. The assets are preferably vehicles such as trucks.
US11769405B2
An object is to share information of detected obstacles on a road among communication devices, using efficient communication. A communication device according to the present disclosure includes: a wireless receiving unit for receiving wireless information including first obstacle information of a first obstacle which is at least one obstacle, from outside; a first obstacle extraction unit for extracting the first obstacle information from the wireless information; a second obstacle detection unit for detecting second obstacle information of a second obstacle which is at least one obstacle present in an own surrounding area by a sensor; and an overlap information removing unit which, if there is overlap obstacle information between the first obstacle information and the second obstacle information, removes the overlap obstacle information from the second obstacle information, to generate difference obstacle information.
US11769403B2
A device may receive fiber sensing data identifying vehicles traveling on a roadway associated with a fiber optic network and location data identifying geographical locations of the vehicles traveling on the roadway. The device may process the fiber sensing data, with a machine learning model, to identify a particular vehicle, of the vehicles, that is traveling in a wrong direction on the roadway. The device may process the location data, with the machine learning model, to identify locations of the roadway, a cellular network associated with the roadway, and vehicle devices of the vehicles traveling on the roadway, other than the particular vehicle, and a nearest camera device to the particular vehicle. The device may perform one or more actions based on the locations of the roadway, the cellular network associated with the roadway, and the vehicle devices of the vehicles traveling on the roadway, other than the particular vehicle.
US11769400B2
A traffic analysis system analyzes location data from a plurality of vehicles to determine journeys made by the vehicles. Vehicles may make one or more rest stops during a journey. The traffic analysis system compares rest periods to journey criteria to determine whether a rest period delineates the end of a journey, or whether a rest period is still within the journey. In this way, a plurality of trips can be chained together into a journey to provide more accurate analysis of traffic patterns.
US11769397B2
In response to a detected presence of an intended target appliance within a logical topography of controllable appliances identity information associated with the intended target appliance is used to automatically add to a graphical user interface of a controlling device an icon representative of the intended target appliance and to create at a Universal Control Engine a listing of communication methods for use in controlling corresponding functional operations of the intended target appliance. When the icon is later activated, the controlling device is placed into an operating state appropriate for controlling functional operations of the intended target appliance while the Universal Control Engine uses at least one of the communication methods to transmit at least one command to place the intended target appliance into a predetermined operating state.
US11769393B1
A system includes a plurality of remote addressable devices, each remote addressable device of the plurality of remote addressable devices being individually programmed with configuration data of the respective addressable device. Each remote addressable device includes a radio frequency (RF) transceiver to transmit a RF signal encoded with an address and a physical location of the remote addressable device transmitting the RF signal. The system further includes a plurality of bases. Each base of the plurality of bases includes a RF sensor for receiving the RF signal from the RF transceiver of the corresponding remote addressable device subsequent to the remote addressable device being positioned in the base.
US11769382B2
Methods and apparatus for smart distribution of restaurant items and notification of order readiness
A Smartserv platform system and methods are provided. When a restaurant item order is placed via a smart device app interface, the order is transmitted to computer server which notifies a preparer. The order is also transmitted to a Smartserv platform, which generates a user identifiable area, such as a color-coded area of a Smartserv platform surface within which an ordered restaurant item will be distributed, thereby enabling simpler and more organized restaurant item ordering and distribution. The computer server may also notify the customer that the customer's order is ready for pickup at the area designated by the appropriately colored lights. This improves known customer-notification methods.
US11769381B2
Disclosed herein are apparatuses and methods for managing building pathway information. A building and/or security management system can detect, based on receiving input from multiple sensor devices, a possible safety issue in a first pathway to an egress of a building, determine, based on detecting the possible safety issue and based on information regarding other pathways in the building, a second pathway to the egress of the building, and indicate at least the second pathway to another system.
US11769377B2
Gaming systems and methods that, upon an occurrence of a designated triggering event, associated with a keno game, provide wild ball feature for one or more keno cards of the keno game.
US11769357B2
The technology involves operation of a self-driving truck or other cargo vehicle when it is being inspected at a weigh station. This may include determining whether a weigh station is open for inspection. Once at the weigh station, the vehicle may follow instructions of an inspection officer or autonomous inspection system. The vehicle may perform predefined actions or operations so that various vehicle systems and safety issues can be evaluated, such as the brakes, lights, tires, connections between the tractor and trailer, exposed fuel tanks, leaks, etc. A visual inspection may be performed to ensure the load is secured, vehicle and cargo documents meet certain criteria, and the carrier's safety record meets any requirements. In addition, the weigh station itself may be operated in a partly or fully autonomous mode when dealing with autonomous and manually driven vehicles.
US11769354B2
A system for digital twinning a telehandler and a controller. The telehandler includes a sensor, a device, and an electronic control system. The controller is configured to receive multiple datasets from at least one of the sensor, the device, or the electronic control system of the telehandler. The controller is also configured to generate a virtual telehandler based on the datasets. The virtual telehandler includes a visual representation of the telehandler and the datasets. The controller is also configured to operate a display of a user device to provide the visual representation of the telehandler and one or more of the datasets to a user.
US11769349B2
A data accumulation apparatus has: a detecting device that detects, based on a face image in which a face of a human is included, a first landmark of the face; an obtaining device that obtains a state information indicating a state including at least one of an action unit, an emotion and a physical condition of the human included in the face image; and a database generating device that generates a landmark database that includes first landmarks with each of which the state information is associated and which are categorized by a unit of the facial part. A data generation apparatus has: a selecting device that selects at least one first landmark with which the state information indicating that the state is a desired state is associated for each facial part as a second landmark from the landmark database; and a face data generating device that generates a face data that represents a characteristic of a face of a virtual human by using second landmarks by combining the second landmarks that correspond to the facial parts, respectively.
US11769347B2
An eye center localization method includes performing an image sketching step, a frontal face generating step, an eye center marking step and a geometric transforming step. The image sketching step is performed to drive a processing unit to sketch a face image from the image. The frontal face generating step is performed to drive the processing unit to transform the face image into a frontal face image according to a frontal face generating model. The eye center marking step is performed to drive the processing unit to mark a frontal eye center position information on the frontal face image. The geometric transforming step is performed to drive the processing unit to calculate two rotating variables between the face image and the frontal face image, and calculate the eye center position information according to the two rotating variables and the frontal eye center position information.
US11769345B2
An apparatus for capturing an image of an object on a platen and including a platen having a surface for receiving the object, wherein the platen is transmissive to an optical wavelength of light, an illumination module configured to illuminate at least a portion of the object with light from an illumination source, and an optical sensing module configured to receive the light from the illumination source after the light interacts with the at least a portion of the object. The light from the illumination source is spatially patterned prior to reaching the object. The illumination module can be configured to create the spatially patterned illumination and/or the platen may include a patterned optical coating creating the spatially patterned illumination. The spatially patterned illumination can include a plurality of discrete areas (e.g., a stepped pattern) of different illumination intensity and/or a gradient of different illumination intensity.
US11769342B2
An optical fingerprint identification system includes a base, a photo sensor, a light emitting layer and a cover. The photo sensor is disposed on the base. The light emitting layer is disposed above the photo sensor, and the light emitting layer includes a light emitting element. The cover is disposed above the light emitting layer. The optical fingerprint identification system further includes a light path adjusting element between the photo sensor and the cover. The light emitting element is disposed away from the light path adjusting element and the photo sensor in a sideway direction that is different from a stack direction of the optical fingerprint identification system.
US11769338B2
An image processor includes an edge detection portion for scanning an image and detecting, as edges, an arrangement of pixels in which brightness value difference or color parameter difference between the pixels is equal to or greater than a threshold; a grouping portion for grouping the detected edge based on edge length, a distance between endpoints of the edges, and an angle between the edges; a determination portion for determining the grouped edges as a dashed line edge group when a pattern, in which the brightness value difference or the color parameter difference between the pixels is detected, matches a predetermined pattern; a correction portion for performing a linear approximation process on the dashed line edge group to correct a coordinate value of an endpoint of the dashed line edge; and a parking frame setting portion for setting a parking frame using the corrected dashed line edge.
US11769324B2
A system includes a plurality of sensors distributed about a space. Each sensor generates sensor data associated with properties of one or more people in the space. A gateway device receives the sensor data from each of the plurality of sensors and provides the sensor data to an automated response subsystem over a network. The automated response subsystem receives the sensor data. A first feature value is determined based on the received sensor data. An event score is determined based on the first feature value. The event score is compared to predefined response criteria. Based on the comparison of the event score to the predefined response criteria, an actionable event is detected, and an automated response to initiate for the detected actionable event is identified. One or both of an alert and instructions are provided in order to initiate the automated response.
US11769321B2
A risk prediction method is executed by a computer of a risk predictor using a convolutional neural network. The method includes making the convolutional neural network acquire an input image taken by an in-vehicle camera installed on a vehicle. The method also includes making the convolutional neural network estimate a risk area and a feature of the risk area, the risk area being in the acquired input image. The risk area has a possibility that a moving object may appear from the risk area into a travelling path of the vehicle, and the moving object may collide with the vehicle in a case where the vehicle simply continues running. The method further includes making the convolutional neural network output the estimated risk area and the estimated feature of the risk area as a risk predicted for the input image.
US11769316B2
This disclosure relates to the use of “pseudo-images” to perform image recognition, e.g., to perform facial image recognition. In an embodiment, the pseudo-image is obtained by starting with a real world image and, after optional preprocessing, subjecting the image to a non-linear transformation that converts the image into a pseudo-image. While real world objects (or, more generally, real world patterns) may be perceivable in the starting image, they cannot be perceived in the pseudo-image. Image recognition takes place by comparing the pseudo-image with a library of known pseudo-images, i.e., image recognition takes place in pseudo-image space without a return to real world space. In this way, robust image recognition is achieved even for imperfect real world images, such as, real world images that have been degraded by noise, poor illumination, uneven lighting, and/or occlusion, e.g., the presence of glasses, scarves, or the like in the case of facial images.
US11769314B2
A display method, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: determining a current application scenario in a case that an input of triggering display of a fingerprint icon is received; determining a target light spot based on a target parameter of the application scenario, where target light spots corresponding to different target parameters have different proportions of a red light component, different proportions of a green light component, and different proportions of a blue light component; and displaying a fingerprint icon formed by the target light spot.
US11769298B2
The disclosure introduces polar stroking for representing paths. A system, method, and apparatus are disclosed for representing and rendering stroked paths employing polar stroking. In one example, a method of approximating a path is provided that includes: (1) evaluating, in parallel, multiple links of a path, wherein each link of the multiple links is evaluated in steps based on tangent angle changes of the link, and (2) providing a polar stroked representation of the path employing the steps. A computing system for rendering is also provided. In one example, the computing system includes one or more processing units to perform one or more operations including generating, in parallel, a polar stroked representation of individual links of a path, and rendering a stroked tessellation of the path based on the polar stroked representations of the individual links.
US11769292B2
A system and method for planning surgical procedure including a treatment zone setting view presenting at least one slice of a 3D reconstruction generated from CT image data including a target. The treatment zone setting view presenting a treatment zone marker defining a location and a size of a treatment zone and configured to adjust the treatment zone marker in response to a received user input. The system and method further including a volumetric view presenting a 3D volume derived from the 3D reconstruction and a 3D representation of the treatment zone marker relative to structures depicted in the 3D volume.
US11769286B2
Provided are a beauty processing method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining an original face image, and extracting original parameter information corresponding to a site feature of a to-be-beautified site; determining, based on the original parameter information, a site beauty parameter corresponding to the to-be-beautified site; and processing the to-be-beautified site based on the site beauty parameter to generate a target face image. Thus, the personalized beauty parameters can be generated to meet the user's personalized beauty needs, improving the accuracy of the beauty parameter and enhancing the beauty effect.
US11769283B2
Systems, methods and non-transitory computer readable media for generating looped video clips are provided. A still image may be received. The still image may be analyzed to generate a series of images. The series of images may include at least first, middle and last images. The first image may be substantially visually similar to the last image, and the middle image may be visually different from the first and last images. The series of images may be provided. Playing the series of images in a video clip that starts with the first image and finishes with the last image, and repeating the video clip from the first image immediately after completing the playing of the video clip with the last image may create visually smooth transaction in which the transition from the last image to the first image is visually indistinguishable from the transactions between frames within the video clip.
US11769274B2
An image processing apparatus according to the present invention including a first acquisition unit configured to acquire color information of a first object obtained by capturing an image of the first object illuminated with light emitted by a light source, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire color information of a second object based on a condition determined by a direction of capturing the image of the first object, a direction of illuminating the first object with light from the light source, and a direction of a normal of the first object, and an output unit configured to output information according to the color information of the first object and the color information of the second object.
US11769273B2
This disclosure provides a parameter obtaining method and a terminal device, and relates to the field of communications technologies, to resolve a problem that calibration of a distance sensor is relatively complex. The method includes: obtaining a preview image of a target object in a shooting preview screen; obtaining a first measurement value of a distance sensor when a degree of coincidence between the preview image and a calibration area in the shooting preview screen exceeds a threshold; and obtaining a calibration offset corresponding to the target object based on the first measurement value and the calibration distance.
US11769272B2
In a point cloud data set represented by an image, a first object can be caused to be distinguished from a second object. Current positions of points in the point cloud data set can be arguments for functions of a set of functions. The set of functions can include attraction functions for the points and repulsion functions for the points. Results of the set of functions can be calculated. Based on the results, at least some of the points can be caused to move from the current positions to new positions. In the point cloud data set represented by the image with the at least some of the points being at the new positions, the first object can be distinguished from the second object.
US11769255B2
An image processing method in a diagnosis assisting device that diagnoses lesions from a picked-up image, the method including A) performing an image correction on the picked-up image for diagnosis, and B) obtaining an input image to an identifier that identifies diseases based on the picked-up image having undergone the image correction. In A), when a brightness correction is performed as the image correction, a peripheral area other than a diagnosis area that has a high probability as diseases in the picked-up image is set to be a measuring area, a brightness histogram is created relative to the measuring area, a correction gain value is calculated based on a peak value of the created brightness histogram, and each of pixels in a color space is corrected by using the calculated correction gain value.
US11769250B2
A medical care support device includes an acquisition unit that acquires medical information including medical image data representing a medical image obtained by imaging a bone of a subject and age information representing an age of the subject in a case where the medical image is imaged, a derivation unit that derives presence or absence of a fracture in a growth plate of the subject, based on the medical information acquired by the acquisition unit and a learned model learned in advance using a plurality of pieces of learning medical information including the medical image data and the age information, and a warning information output unit that outputs warning information representing a warning in a case where the growth plate of the subject is fractured.
US11769246B2
A pistachio sorting device capable of accurately detecting BGY fluorescence emitted from a fluorescent material adhered to a shell of an in-shell pistachio to perform pass/fail determination and sort out defective products at high speed is provided. The pistachio sorting device comprises a lighting device 11 for irradiating in-shell pistachios which are objects to be sorted in an inspection region with ultraviolet light having a maximum peak wavelength within a range of 345 nm to 390 nm, an optical filter 12 for selectively transmitting light within a wavelength range of 500 nm to 600 nm, a sensor 13 for detecting a two-dimensional intensity distribution of the fluorescence transmitted through the optical filter 12 to generate two-dimensional image data indicating a two-dimensional intensity distribution of fluorescence in the inspection region, and a determining device for determining a pass/fail of for each object to be sorted 10 based on the two-dimensional image data.
US11769240B2
A neural network system for generating a value estimation is provided. A computing device analyzes one or more digital media streams. A computing device identifies one or more parameters of the object in one or more digital media streams. A computing device collects information of an object in one or more digital media streams. A computing device generates a precited value estimation of the object via invocation of additional multi-level input collection in a distributed cognitive system. A computing device communicates a report associated with the predicted value estimation of the object to a user of a computing device.
US11769237B2
A multimodal medical image fusion method based on a DARTS network is provided. Feature extraction is performed on a multimodal medical image by using a differentiable architecture search (DARTS) network. The network performs learning by using the gradient of network weight as a loss function in a search phase. A network architecture most suitable for a current dataset is selected from different convolution operations and connections between different nodes, so that features extracted by the network have richer details. In addition, a plurality of indicators that can represent image grayscale information, correlation, detail information, structural features, and image contrast are used as a network loss function, so that the effective fusion of medical images can be implemented in an unsupervised learning way without a gold standard.
US11769233B1
A computer-implemented method for video redaction of disclosure-protected objects is disclosed. A system for video redaction of disclosure-protected objects is also disclosed. A computer program product video redaction of disclosure-protected objects is also disclosed. A video interval may be broken into a plurality of sub-intervals, and unique random image substitution may be carried out over each of the sub-intervals in connection with the video redaction.
US11769232B2
Systems and methods for identifying clouds and cloud shadows in satellite imagery are described herein. In an embodiment, a system receives a plurality of images of agronomic fields produced using one or more frequency bands. The system also receives corresponding data identifying cloud and cloud shadow locations in the images. The system trains. a machine learning system to identify at least cloud locations using the images as inputs and at least data identifying pixels as cloud pixels or non-cloud pixels as outputs. When the system receives one or more particular images of a particular agronomic field produced using the one or more frequency bands, the system uses the one or more particular images as inputs into the machine learning system to identify a plurality of pixels in the one or more particular images as particular cloud locations.
US11769227B2
This disclosure describes methods, non-transitory computer readable storage media, and systems that generate synthetized digital images via multi-resolution generator neural networks. The disclosed system extracts multi-resolution features from a scene representation to condition a spatial feature tensor and a latent code to modulate an output of a generator neural network. For example, the disclosed systems utilizes a base encoder of the generator neural network to generate a feature set from a semantic label map of a scene. The disclosed system then utilizes a bottom-up encoder to extract multi-resolution features and generate a latent code from the feature set. Furthermore, the disclosed system determines a spatial feature tensor by utilizing a top-down encoder to up-sample and aggregate the multi-resolution features. The disclosed system then utilizes a decoder to generate a synthesized digital image based on the spatial feature tensor and the latent code.
US11769222B2
An image processor and a method therein to provide a target image for evaluation with an object detector. The method comprises: obtaining a source image captured by a camera and depicting an object, and applying an inverse pixel transform to each target pixel of a target image to determine one or more source pixels located at a position in the source image corresponding to a position of each target pixel in the target image. The method further comprises assigning, to each target pixel, a target pixel value determined based on one or more source pixel values of the determined one or more source pixels located at the corresponding position, thereby is a size c in the target image of the depicted object of a specific object type normalized in at least one size dimension. Thereafter, the target image is fed to an object detector for evaluation.
US11769217B2
A system, apparatus and method for automatic entity classification based on social media data is disclosed. An example system may include a social network data collection circuit to collect information about at least one entity involved in a bond transaction, and a condition classifying circuit to classify a condition of the at least one entity in accordance with a model and based on information from the social network data collection circuit, where the model is trained using a training data set of a plurality of outcomes related to the at least one entity. The system may further include an automated bond management circuit to manage an action related to the bond in response to the classified condition of the at least one entity.
US11769205B2
A system and methods for controlled market data delivery are described. According to one example embodiment, upon detecting a preset threshold of updates in a queue at a gateway, a predetermined number of market updates may be processed before any data is sent to a client terminal. According to one method, update types may be used to control how many updates are processed before any data is sent. Also, once the number of updates to be processed is set, a market update having a higher priority update type may be used to trigger a change in the number of market updates that was set for processing.
US11769202B2
Various embodiments are directed to a trading system and method for indicating trading interests. A wrapped liquidity notice may be provided to a user, in which the wrapped liquidity notice provides first information about a trading interest of at least one other user. The user may request to unwrap the liquidity notice. Responsive to the request, the liquidity notice may be at least partially unwrapped to provide to the user second information about the trading interest. The liquidity notice may be unwrapped additional times to reveal additional information about the trading interest. Exemplary information that may be unwrapped for the user comprises information about the buy/sell side, trading product, price, and quantity of the trading interest.
US11769198B1
An example system creates a video based on a user's financial profile for a specified time period and displays the video on a virtual reality device to help the user visualize the user's financial decisions resulting in the user's current financial status as well as visualize the user's predicted financial status in the future. The system analyzes the user's historical financial transactional data, profile information and relevant market and peer information to extract and predict one or more data points regarding the user's financial profile from the past, present and the future. The system generates a video about the user's financial profile by creating a storyline based on the one or more data points.
US11769197B2
Information about participants in an auction are received and analyzed along with information about products to be auctioned and other information to generate an interest gauge. The interest gauge may reflect the interest of a buyer, a seller, an auction house or any other entity in the auctioning event. Based on the interest gauge, the operations of the auction can be augmented and/or modified to be optimal in view of revenue generation, products moved, and a balance between the two. For instance, the buyer interest gauge could be used to create packages of items to be auctioned in a combinatorial auction.
US11769193B2
A computer-implemented method includes determining a set of target listings, retrieving a seed image associated with the seed listing, the seed listing is categorized within a first item category, and generating a seed item feature vector for the seed image using a convolutional neural network (CNN) trained with images of items. The method also includes identifying a plurality of feature vectors associated with the first item category, comparing the seed item feature vector to the plurality of feature vectors using a k-nearest neighbors (kNN) algorithm, and generating a set of nearest neighbor listings to the seed listing. The method further includes storing the set of nearest neighbor listings as associated with the seed listing, selecting one or more nearest neighbor listings from the set of nearest neighbors, and presenting the one or more nearest neighbor listings as a recommendation to a user of the online e-commerce system.
US11769192B2
Several systems, apparatuses, and methods are described. A data transmission that includes data indicating a first search query for an item of a publication system is received from a client machine. A first plurality of search results is determined from listed items based, at least in part, on the first search query, and the first plurality of search results are each associated with a price. A range of prices associated with a first subset of the search results is determined based on a price distribution range including a median price associated with the first search results, or a utility cost function using a plurality of price quantiles and a plurality of price values included in different price quantiles. The determined first search results and the range of prices associated with the first subset of the first search results are transmitted to the client machine for display.
US11769190B2
An image search apparatus includes a search processing unit and a display processing unit. The search processing unit extracts one or more images that meet a search condition, from a plurality of images associated with user accounts. The display processing unit displays the one or more images extracted by the search processing unit in such a manner that types of user accounts corresponding to the images can be discriminated.
US11769177B2
A system for evaluating health risk is provided. The system may be configured for requesting first data from a merchant associated with a user and second data from an activity tracking service associated with the user. The system may also comprise analyzing the item to determine a first health impact for the item based on the item and demographic information associated with the user. The system may further comprise analyzing the level of activity to determine a second health impact from the level of activity based on the level of activity and the demographic information associated with the user. The system may further comprise selecting an advertisement based on medical data, and at least one of the first health impact, the second health impact and the demographic information associated with the user.
US11769162B2
A prediction of the performance of a movie is generated in response to receiving an identifier of the movie. Features of the movie are identified and a set of similar movies is identified based on the features. Performance statistics are calculated for the set of similar movies that indicate the average financial performance of those movies and a prediction of performance for the movie is generated based on the performance statistics. The prediction is provided for presentation to a user.
US11769159B2
Disclosed is a distributed profile building system, gathering video data, audio data, electronic device identification data, and spatial position data from multiple input devices, performing human emotion and identity detection, and gaze tracking, and forming user profiles. Also disclosed is a method for building user profiles using a distributed profile building system by gathering video data, audio data, electronic device identification data, and spatial position data from multiple input devices, performing human emotion and identity detection, and gaze tracking, and forming user profiles. Also included is a targeted promotion system, which includes software for making real-time promotions for select products based on retail customers' individual characteristics. Additionally, a targeted digital coupon management system creates, delivers and facilitates redemption of various types of digital coupons according to the business rules set by the retailers.
US11769154B1
A portable token device is described, the token device useable to request transactions performed over an interchange system. The token device authenticates a user through the use of biometric data such as a fingerprint. When in proximity to a point of sale (POS) terminal, the token device communicates with the POS terminal over a wireless network to authorize a transaction involving the user. The interchange system employs blockchain elements that can be used in a payment apparatus for managing payments or other types of transactions, and for managing user accounts. The interchange system enables users to enroll in the system, and enables the various users' computing devices to be used as confirmation centers for new transactions and/or funds transfers between users.
US11769151B2
A computer-implemented system and method of dynamically switching between a full checkout process and a partial checkout process based on a payment processor load condition. An e-commerce platform may receive checkout requests in connection with a merchant account and may complete, for each of at least one of the checkout requests, an authorization operation and a capture operation via a payment processor. If the platform detects a first payment throughput limit event with regard to the payment processor then it completes a respective authorization operation for each new checkout request, and delays a respective capture operation for the new checkout request until after a second payment throughput limit event is detected.
US11769150B2
An example operation may include one or more of identifying a transaction from a blockchain node to be committed to a blockchain, determining a current amount of block space reserved by other blockchain nodes of the blockchain from a schedule, determining whether there is enough block space available for the transaction, and creating a block space reservation for the transaction.
US11769144B2
This application relates to electronic devices, and other systems, methods, and processes for conducting electronic transactions. The electronic transactions may involve a vendor transaction platform and a credential provisioning application. The credential provisioning application, when determined to be compatible with the vendor transaction platform, may prompt for input of a credential to be provisioned during the electronic transaction. The vendor transaction platform is kept active or otherwise prevented from performing a time-out operation while the provisioning is conducted. The provisioned credential may be submitted as payment to complete the electronic transaction and may be stored on the electronic device for use in a subsequent electronic transaction.
US11769143B1
Systems and methods for providing high performance access to NFT metadata including ownership information. An example method requests NFT metadata from a server that has cached NFT metadata extracted from a mirror NFT blockchain. Periodically, new blocks that have been added to an NFT blockchain are added to the mirror blockchain and processed to update a cache with metadata modifications. Additionally, the method includes requests for NFT ownership information. An ownership transaction table is generated and updated from the mirror blockchain. Ownership request can include requests for all the NFTs owned by a crypto-wallet address.
US11769138B2
A donation processing system receives a text message from a donor indicating that they would like to make a donation to a non-profit organization. In response to the text message, a response message indicating the particulars of the donation including the donation amount and the non-profit organization is sent to the user. The donor reviews the information and, if the information is correct, a confirmation message is sent from the donor in response to the response message. The confirmation message confirms the donation. The donation is then made to the non-profit organization in response to the confirmation message.
US11769132B1
The current disclosure relates to systems, apparatuses, and methods of for performing an electronic transfer, including determining recipient information for the electronic transfer using a first user interface of the electronic banking platform, in response to determining the recipient information, two or more user interactive elements are displayed in a second user interface of the electronic banking platform, each of the two or more user interactive elements corresponds to a different one of a plurality of electronic P2P transfer platforms, receiving user input corresponding to a selected user interactive element of the two or more user interactive elements, the selected user interactive element corresponds to a selected electronic P2P transfer platform of the plurality of electronic P2P transfer platforms, and processing the electronic transfer using the electronic banking platform and the selected P2P transfer platform.
US11769117B2
One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive data corresponding to a first condition of a building component within a building, determine, based on the data, an actual or anticipated fault state of the building component, retrieve, from a graph data structure including a number of entities and a number of relationships between the entities, and wherein the graph data structure represents at least one of a space, person, component, or event, first context information corresponding to the building component and second context information corresponding to the building, and determine, based on the first and second context information, a service action for the building component.
US11769115B1
Systems and methods provide measures of user workload when generating units of work based on chat sessions between users of a collaboration environment are described herein. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment, obtain content information characterizing content of chat sessions between users, identify potential units of work, identify potential assignees of the potential units of work, obtain the user records of the potential assignees, generate views of a workload display pane, and/or perform other operations.
US11769110B1
Systems and methods are provided herein for performing one or more actions based on kinematic data. An operator management module may obtain video input data depicting a two-dimensional representation of a subject during performance of an activity. A set of points of the subject may be identified based at least in part on a machine-learning model. A 3D representation of the subject may be generated based at least in part on the points identified. Kinematic data related to the subject may be generated utilizing the 3D representation of the subject. Any suitable number of suggested actions may be performed based at least in part on the kinematic data.
US11769105B2
A system and methods for network-enabled cannabis product delivery and driver release of funds, comprising at least a plurality of network-enabled portals for data entry, legality and identification checks, and more, allowing a user to order delivery of cannabis products from local retailers using third-party drivers that register with the system, for compensation, and allowing for feedback and automated communication between a retailer, driver, and customer using the system, with a driver being able to release funds to a retail outlet after pickup of the order.
US11769102B2
A server according to the present disclosure includes a communication interface for acquiring ordered product information and vehicle information that are input to an input terminal, wherein the ordered product information relates to an article that is ordered by a user, and the vehicle information relates to a vehicle that the user is scheduled to board, and a controller for determining a delivery schedule for delivery of the article indicated by the ordered product information to the vehicle by a date/time when the user will board the vehicle indicated by the vehicle information.
US11769090B2
A system includes a memory configured to store a first acoustic profile associated with a device. The first acoustic profile includes at least two of the following acoustic characteristics: frequency, amplitude, and time. The system further includes a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and an acoustic sensor. The processor is configured to receive, from the acoustic sensor, an acoustic signal comprising one or more of the frequency and amplitude, compare the received acoustic signal to the first acoustic profile, and determine that the received acoustic signal matches the first acoustic profile based on the comparison of the received acoustic signal to the first acoustic profile.
US11769081B2
An optimum sampling search system and method with risk assessment, and a graphical user interface are provided. The optimum sampling search system includes a data acquisition unit, an objective satisfaction score calculation unit, a constraint satisfaction probability calculation unit, a sampling risk evaluation unit, and an adjusting unit. If the constraint satisfaction probability of a recommended sampling parameter is between a first predetermined value and a second predetermined value, the recommended sampling parameter is adjusted, by the adjusting unit, to optimize a constraint satisfaction probability model.
US11769079B2
A method for decoding data by an electronic device is provided. The method includes receiving, by the electronic device, encoded data, determining, by the electronic device, a sparsity of a plurality of Machine Learning (ML) models of a turbo decoder of the electronic device for decoding the encoded data based on Quality-of-Service (QoS) parameters, and decoding, by the electronic device, the encoded data using the turbo decoder based on the determined sparsity.
US11769075B2
The disclosed technology relates to a process of providing dynamic machine learning on premise model selection. In particular, a set of machine learned models are generated and provided to an on premise computing device. The machine learned models are generated using a cluster of customer data (e.g. telemetric data) stored on a computing network having different ranges of computational complexity. One of the machine learned models from the set of machine learned models will be selected based on the current available computational resources detected at the on premise computing device. Different machine learned models from the set of machine learned models can then be selected based on changes in the available computational resources and/or customer feedback.
US11769071B2
As system is provided for performing a method of receiving a superposition state defined by a sum of a plurality of addends, wherein each addend of the plurality of addends is a product between a corresponding coefficient of a plurality of coefficients and a corresponding state of a plurality of states encoded with block unary encoding. The system may identify at least one error state, of the plurality of states, having a string value that is not a block unary code string of a set of block unary code strings. The system may compute an updated superposition state based on the plurality of states without the error state.
US11769062B2
A computer-implemented method is disclosed for a first (P(TM)) to gain knowledge. The method includes: performing a first P(TM(i)) to interact with a P(TM(thing)) to set a first Thing that is representative of content, performing a second P(TM(i)) to interact with the P(TM(thing)) to parse the content of the first Thing as a second Thing that is representative of a statement, performing a third P(TM(i)) to interact with the P(TM(thing)) to evaluate the statement of the second Thing to compute a third Thing that is representative of a performable statement, and performing a fourth P(TM(i)) to interact with the P(TM(thing)) to perform the performable statement of the third Thing, The fourth P(TM(i)), in performing the performable statement, interacts with P(TM(thing)) to set one or more Things that are representative of posterior knowledge.
US11769057B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for learning visual concepts using neural networks. One of the methods includes receiving a new symbol input comprising one or more symbols from a vocabulary; and generating a new output image that depicts concepts referred to by the new symbol input, comprising: processing the new symbol input using a symbol encoder neural network to generate a new symbol encoder output for the new symbol input; sampling, from the distribution parameterized by the new symbol encoder output, a respective value for each of a plurality of visual factors; and processing a new image decoder input comprising the respective values for the visual factors using an image decoder neural network to generate the new output image.
US11769046B2
Variable resistance devices and neural network processing systems include a first phase change memory device that has a first material that increases resistance when a set pulse is applied. A second phase change memory device has a second material that decreases resistance when a set pulse is applied.
US11769037B2
Provided are a method of performing a convolution operation between a kernel and an input feature map based on reuse of the input feature map, and a neural network apparatus using the method. The neural network apparatus generates output values of an operation between each of weights of a kernel and an input feature map, and generates an output feature map by accumulating the output values at positions in the output feature map that are set based on positions of the weights in the kernel.
US11769036B2
An apparatus for optimizing a computational network is configure to receive an input at a first processing component. The first processing component may include at least a first programmable processing component and a second programmable processing component. The first programmable processing component is configured to compute a first nonlinear function and the second programmable processing component is configured to compute a second nonlinear function which is different than the second nonlinear function. The computational network which may be a recurrent neural network such as a long short-term memory may be operated to generate an inference based at least in part on outputs of the first programmable processing component and the second programmable processing component.
US11769027B1
A system for monitoring the conditions of a plurality of storm drains, comprising the steps of installing scannable codes at or near storm drains, using computerized devices with scanning capabilities to scan said codes, processing the scanned code through a computer application in computerized devices and processing user's added information describing the conditions of said storm drains, uploading the scanned code along with the user's added information to a server through a computer network computer application in said computerized device and processing the scanned code to match the information stored in said server and storing information and making it available to user via different output media. Processing the information to anticipate the needs of the storm drains.
US11769015B2
Systems, methods, and computer programming products for alleviating ambiguity amongst the terms and language displayed by the user interface of software products and services. The disclosed solutions catalog terms displayed by the UI of software and services and identify where overlapping terms with the same or substantially similar term names are presented by the UI but have different meanings than the software most familiar to the user. Natural language processing is leveraged to derive meanings of software terms using the context of the surrounding words and text elements within the UI, as well as product documentation, error messages, sentiment and other textual clues. Ambiguity among overlapping terms is alleviated by modifying the UI, highlighting differences in term definitions from the software or services a user is most familiar with using, and updating the UI in a manner that differentiates the overlapping terms displayed by accessed products or services.
US11769012B2
A system and method for updating computerized language models is provided that automatically adds or deletes terms from the language model to capture trending events or products, while maximizing computer efficiencies by deleting terms that are no longer trending and use of knowledge bases, machine learning model training and evaluation corpora, analysis tools and databases.
US11769010B2
A method including accessing an electronic document from a source of electronic documents; determining if the electronic document is redaction protected; and when the electronic document is redaction protected, allowing the electronic document to be opened only if a redaction application is available to allow opening of the electronic document with a redaction.
US11769003B2
A computer readable medium comprising a plurality of instructions stored thereon that are executable by a computer processor to perform steps to identify a changed element within a target web page is disclosed. A pre-region longest matching segment that matches a pre-region segment of a pre-region of a source web page is identified within a pre-region of the target page. A post-region longest matching segment that matches a post-region segment of a post-region of a source web page is identified within a post-region of the target page. The changed element in the target web page is identified that is between the pre-region longest matching segment and the post-region longest matching segment in response to the pre-region longest matching segment being determined to be within a pre-defined distance of the post-region longest matching segment.
US11768987B2
A system to facilitate communication of a critical signal between functional circuitries of a system-on-chip utilizes a dynamic pattern to securely communicate the critical signal. The system includes selection and comparison circuits. The selection circuit is configured to select and output a set of dynamic pattern bits or a set of fixed reference bits, based on a logic state of the critical signal that is received from one functional circuitry. The comparison circuit is configured to output an output signal based on the set of dynamic pattern bits, and a set of intermediate bits that is derived from the set of dynamic pattern bits or the set of fixed reference bits. The output signal is provided to the other functional circuitry when a logic state of the output signal matches the logic state of the critical signal, thereby securely communicating the critical signal to the other functional circuitry.
US11768984B2
A method includes receiving measurement data from multiple sensors positioned along a delivery line that delivers a liquid as a gas to one of a gas panel or a processing chamber; simulating, using a computer-generated model, one or more process parameters associated with the delivery line and a plurality of heater jackets positioned around the delivery line; comparing the measurement data with values of the one or more process parameters; and determining, based on at least a threshold deviation between the measurement data and the values of the one or more process parameters, that a fault exists that is associated with maintaining temperature within the delivery line consistent with a gaseous state of the liquid.
US11768982B1
Disclosed are a hybrid density abrupt interface inversion method based on machine learning constraints. The inversion method includes constructing an initial basin interface and randomly generating a disturbed basin interface data set; obtaining a basin interface data set through Hadamard product operation on the initial basin interface and the disturbed basin interface data set; obtaining a high-resolution density interface model data set through filling the basin interface data set with advanced functions; performing forward calculation to obtain a simulated gravity data set; carrying out mathematical transformation on the simulated gravity data set and weighting to obtain a low-resolution migration density interface model data set; optimizing a migration model-based deep learning network and mapping to obtain a high-resolution constrained density interface prior model; and constructing a stable nonlinear loss function and performing regularization inversion to obtain a high-resolution density interface model.
US11768981B2
A method of determining a device behavior, wherein the method includes using a first procedure. The first procedure includes discretizing a user specified nano-device structure for at least one quantum method. Additionally, the first procedure includes solving the at least one quantum method, thereby having a solution of the at least one quantum method. Moreover, the first procedure includes extracting a parameter out of the solution of the at least one quantum method. Next, the first procedure includes applying at least one approximate method to the user-specified nano-device structure using the parameter. The first procedure additionally includes solving the at least one approximate method to the user-specified nano-device structure using the parameter. The first procedure also includes extracting the device behavior of the user-specified nano-device structure. Next, the method of determining the device behavior includes iterating the first procedure until a condition is satisfied.
US11768977B2
Systems and methods for guided installation of building equipment are provided. A request for a wiring diagram for wiring a first piece of building equipment to a second piece of building equipment is received from a user device. One or more first wiring configurations associated with the first piece of building equipment and one or more second wiring configurations associated with the second piece of building equipment are identified. Based on the one or more first wiring configurations and the one or more second wiring configurations, an equipment-specific wiring configuration for wiring the first piece of building equipment to the second piece of building equipment is automatically selected. A graphical user interface including a wiring diagram illustrating the equipment-specific wiring configuration is provided to the user device.
US11768973B2
A platform for design of a lighting installation generally includes an automated search engine for retrieving and storing a plurality of lighting objects in a lighting object library and a lighting design environment providing a visual representation of a lighting space containing lighting space objects and lighting objects. The visual representation is based on properties of the lighting space objects and lighting objects obtained from the lighting object library. A plurality of aesthetic filters is configured to permit a designer in a design environment to adjust parameters of the plurality of lighting objects handled in the design environment to provide a desired collective lighting effect using the plurality of lighting objects.
US11768971B2
It is described a tamper detection device for detecting tampering with respect to a packaging, the device comprising: i) a first electrode comprising a first patterned structure, and ii) a second electrode comprising a second patterned structure. The first electrode and the second electrode are arranged so that the first patterned structure and the second patterned structure are at least partially opposite to each other. In a first arrangement state of the first patterned structure and the second patterned structure with respect to each other, a first capacitance is measurable, in a second arrangement state of the first patterned structure and the second patterned structure with respect to each other, a second capacitance is measurable, wherein the first capacitance is different from the second capacitance, and wherein the first arrangement state is different from the second arrangement state. The device further comprising: iii) a detection unit, wherein the detection unit is configured to: a) measure the capacitance between the first electrode and the second electrode, b) obtain, based on the measured capacitance, an information indicative of the arrangement state, and c) evaluate, based on the information indicative of the arrangement state, if a tampering with respect to the packaging is detected.
US11768967B2
An example apparatus can receive a DMA request from a device, where the DMA request comprises an address and an ID of the device that uniquely identifies the device and wherein the device is a bus mastering device. The example apparatus can access a range of addresses using the ID of the device. An example apparatus can determine whether the address is in the range of addresses and can process the DMA request responsive to verifying that the address is in the range of addresses.
US11768965B2
Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for analyzing a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card, ascertaining multiple distally separated storable sections, and then securely storing data as an ordered list of storable sections representing a concatenated available storage on the SIM.
US11768958B2
A system and method for objective quantification and mitigation of privacy-risk of a dataset is disclosed. These include an input-output (IO) interface for receiving at least one input dataset, and a configuration file governing the anonymization; a scoring engine including: a uniqueness sub-engine for determining uniqueness scores at data and data-subject level across both individual columns and combinations of columns; a similarity sub-engine that calculates the overlap, reproducibility and similarity by comparing all columns and subsets of columns between at least two datasets, modified, anonymized or synthetic version of original dataset; a statistical sub-engine that calculates statistics that are an indication of privacy-risks and re-identification risks; a contextual sub-engine for quantifying contextual factors by considering weighted approaches and producing a single context-centric score; and a recommendation engine identifying mitigating measures to reduce the privacy-risks by taking in to account the factors that are contributing to higher risk.
US11768944B2
This disclosure relates to a non-intrusive method of detecting security flaws of a computer program APP. The method comprises a step of installing and executing an executable and non-instumentalized version of the program APP in a computer system 1, the computer system 1 comprising at least one cryptographic function able to be called by the program APP. It also comprises, in the course of the execution of the program, a step of recording in a tracing file the modalities of calls to the cryptographic function and, after the execution of the program, a step of analyzing the tracing file so as to devise a data structure of the states taken by the cryptographic object manipulated in the course of the execution of the program. The data structure is analyzed to detect calls to the cryptographic function that are liable to form a security flaw.
US11768929B2
A lockout system for a metering pump is provided. The lockout system can include a user interface that is used to switch the pump between a locked configuration and an unlocked configuration. In the locked configuration, the operation of the pump cannot be adjusted through the user interface. In the unlocked configuration, the operation of the pump can be adjusted through the user interface. The lockout system can include a passkey notice that provides information regarding how to use the user interface to switch the pump between the locked and unlocked configurations.
US11768922B2
A license issuing means issues a license file to an application program using a library containing a plurality of functions. The license file contains licensed function information for specifying a function allowed to be used among the plurality of functions contained in the library. An authentication means performs license authentication based on the license file. A function activation means activates a function specified by the licensed function information among the plurality of functions in the library based on a result of the license authentication. A program execution means executes the application program by using the activated function.
US11768919B2
Disclosed is a multi-modal convolutional neural network (CNN) for fusing image information from a frame based camera, such as, a near infra-red (NIR) camera and an event camera for analysing facial characteristics in order to produce classifications such as head pose or eye gaze. The neural network processes image frames acquired from each camera through a plurality of convolutional layers to provide a respective set of one or more intermediate images. The network fuses at least one corresponding pair of intermediate images generated from each of image frames through an array of fusing cells. Each fusing cell is connected to at least a respective element of each intermediate image and is trained to weight each element from each intermediate image to provide the fused output. The neural network further comprises at least one task network configured to generate one or more task outputs for the region of interest.
US11768911B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for execution of a neural network. An exemplary method can be implemented by a processing unit. The processing unit can include a command parser configured to dispatch commands and computing tasks and at least one core communicatively coupled with the command parser and configured to process the dispatched computing task. Each core can include a convolution unit, a pooling unit, at least one operation unit and a sequencer communicatively coupled with the convolution unit, the pooling unit, and the at least one operation unit and configured to distribute instructions of the dispatched computing task to the convolution unit, the pooling unit, and the at least one operation unit for execution. The method can include: reading, by the convolution unit, data from a local memory of the at least one operation unit; performing, by the convolution unit, a convolution operation on the data to generate a feature map; and performing, by the pooling unit, a pooling operation on the feature map.
US11768902B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for providing content to a user. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises intercepting a search request and a site-name in a browser, and sending to a content-provision tool, the intercepted search request and site name, computing a hash of the intercepted search request and site-name, determining a type of the intercepted search request and site name, and transmitting the computed hash and the type of intercepted search request and site-name to a cloud server, transmitting the intercepted request and site-name to the cloud server in plain form, receiving, from the cloud server, content based on a categorization of the intercepted request and site-name and rules for establishing a category of the content, and when the rules are executed, displaying to the user, the content on the computing device of the user in accordance with a category established based on the rules.
US11768900B2
A facility for processing a search query is described. The facility identifies one or more items that satisfy the query, at least one of which is a media sequence. For each identified media sequence, the facility identifies an advertising message based upon the contents of the query. In response to the query, the facility returns a search result that indicates the identified items. When one of the identified media sequences is selected in the search result, the selected media sequence is provided in conjunction with the advertising message identified for it.
US11768899B2
Methods and systems for curating notifications from unfollowed accounts are described herein. The system tracks that a first account previously followed a second account and subsequently unfollowed the second account. The system identifies an interest of the first account and monitors the activities of the second account for activity that matches the interest. If there is a match between the interest and an activity of the second account, the system notifies the first account of the activity. These methods and systems provide the user with relevant information from unfollowed accounts.
US11768895B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content providing, searching and/or hosting systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework that provides an optimized ranking methodology for query suggestion and auto-completion tasks that messaging systems can implement and embed into their functionality. The disclosed framework can leverage the mail query logs on a personal level or on the aggregate (e.g., across all or a set of users on a network), and the mailbox content of each user to produce a comprehensive ranking function that generates ranked search suggestions for a mail search query for both person and company entities.
US11768893B2
Systems and methods for concept based searching or recommendation based on a concept networks are disclosed. More particularly, embodiments of a concept based approach to the search and analysis of data, including the creation, update or use of concept networks in searching and analyzing data are disclosed, including embodiments of the usage of such concept networks in artificial intelligence systems that are capable of utilizing concepts expressed by users to return or evaluate associated entities or content.
US11768892B2
The present application discloses a method and apparatus for extracting the name of a POI, a device and a computer storage medium, and relates to the field of big data. An implementation includes: acquiring two or more text fragments identified from image data of the POI; constructing two or more candidate names using the text fragments; and ranking the candidate names using a pre-trained name ranking model, and determining the name of the POI according to the result of the ranking; wherein the name ranking model determines the probability of each candidate name as the name of the POI using at least one of a search web page feature, a document statistical feature and a semantic feature extracted from each candidate name, and ranks the candidate names according to the probabilities. With the present application, the name of the POI is automatically extracted with high accuracy. Compared with the manual review and annotation way in the prior art, a human cost is reduced.
US11768886B2
The present disclosure may be directed to systems and methods for managing and monitoring services and modules. The system may include receiving, from a user device, a request to perform a test on a target application programming interface; calling the target application programming interface; and retrieving a search result page associated with the target application programming interface. The system may include retrieving a rule based on the target application programming interface and applying the rule to the retrieved search result page associated with the target application programming interface. The system may include determining whether to implement the target application programming interface based on the results of the applied rule.
US11768883B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for enabling in-place record content management. A records management agent within a content management system can communicate with a records management system in an asynchronous manner, such as in response to a request or prompt, or in combination with check-in of content into the content management system. The records management agent can fetch a records folders hierarchy from the records management system for use in selecting record policies to be applied to content. The records management agent can associate content with selected records folders within the records folders hierarchy, and can update metadata corresponding to the content. The records management agent can send the updated metadata to the records management system. In an embodiment, the records management agent can be provided as a reusable, pluggable component within an existing content management system.
US11768877B2
To provide search capabilities in a process control system, a contextual knowledge repository is generated that organizes process plant-related data according to semantic relations between the process plant-related data and the process plant entities. When a user submits a process plant search query related to process plant entities within a process plant, search results are obtained by identifying a data set from the contextual knowledge repository which is responsive to the process plant search query. The search results are then presented on a user interface device based on the identified data set. To allow for searches to be performed by user interface devices external to the process plant, a data diode is disposed between a field-facing component and an edge-facing component of the process plant so that data flows from the field-facing component to the edge-facing component without flowing from the edge-facing component to the field-facing component.
US11768875B2
A method to provide an interface for asset tee determination includes performing a search of data, the search including user-supplied criteria information, causing display of results of the search, receiving user input providing classifications for the results of the search, the classifications indicating asset identifier and asset parent identifier fields in the results of the search, identifying, based on the user input and the results of the search, a plurality of unique assets identifiers and corresponding asset parent identifiers, and automatically generating a computer representation of an asset hierarchy comprising an asset node for each asset identifier, an asset parent node for each asset parent identifier, and a representation of hierarchical relationships between asset nodes and asset parent nodes.
US11768874B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system applies a first set of hash functions to a first entity identifier (ID) for a first entity to generate a first set of hash values. Next, the system produces a first set of intermediate vectors from the first set of hash values and a first set of lookup tables by matching each hash value in the first set of hash values to an entry in a corresponding lookup table in the first set of lookup tables. The system then performs an element-wise aggregation of the first set of intermediate vectors to produce a first embedding. Finally, the system outputs the first embedding for use by a machine learning model.
US11768870B2
A metadata extraction machine accesses an image that depicts an item. The item depicted in the image may have an attribute that describes a characteristic of the item and an attribute descriptor that corresponds to the attribute of the item and specifies a value of the attribute. The metadata extraction machine performs an analysis of the image. The analysis may include identifying the attribute descriptor corresponding to the attribute based on image segmentation of the image. The metadata extraction machine transmits a communication to a device of a user based on the identifying of the attribute descriptor corresponding to the attribute of the item depicted in the image.
US11768865B2
The present invention provides a method and system for storing and retrieving tags. Each tag is associated with a resource, upon a user's request. A tagging GUI is displayed which presents the available tags for one particular resource and/or a tag cloud GUI is displayed which presents tags for more than one resource. The tagging GUI allows to assign new tags to single resources. The tag cloud GUI enables users to search for resources which have been assigned certain tags. In the tag cloud GUI the relevancy of each single tag is visually reflected by its weighting factor which is determined by the frequency of occurrence. The method is characterized by the further steps: determining a quantitative weighting factor for each single tag by invoking a quantitative-engine, and/or determining a reputation weighting factor for each single tag by invoking a reputation-engine, and/or determining a context weighing factor for each single tag by invoking of a context-engine, determining a expiry weighting factor for each single tag by invoking a expiry-engine, and/or determining a overall weighting factor for each of said single tag by calculating the average of all the weighting factors, and visually reflecting the relevance of each single tag in the tag cloud based on said determined overall weighting factor.
US11768863B2
Systems and methods are described that provide measures of uncertainty for map features provided in association with a vehicle map service. A vehicle map service may include a vehicle map model that is configured to provide map data for a geographic area in association with a vehicle map service. The vehicle map model can have an entity schema that includes a first address space configured to represent a plurality of entities associated with the vehicle map model. The vehicle may service may include an uncertainty model that is configured to represent a plurality of uncertainties associated with the plurality of entities. The uncertainty model can have an uncertainty schema that includes a second address space that is separate from the first address space. Uncertainties in the second address space can point to one or more entities in the first address space.
US11768860B2
An embodiment establishes a designated attribute value as a semantic criterion for grouping records in a bucket, identifies a first set of records having attribute values that satisfy the semantic criterion, and adds the first set of records to the bucket. The embodiment detects that the first set of records represent a first series of events that occurred in succession at respective times. The embodiment derives a temporal attribute value representative of a time pattern formed by the times of the first series of events and designates the temporal attribute value as a temporal criterion for grouping records in the bucket. The embodiment identifies a second set of records that represent a second series of events and satisfy the temporal criterion and adds the second set of records to the bucket based at least in part on the second set of records satisfying the temporal criterion.
US11768845B2
A method and system for dynamically determining a minimum support for automation mining is provided. The method and system include modifying the minimum support pattern such that the minimum support can result pattern mining algorithms finding a sufficient number of patterns in a practical duration.
US11768842B2
A search engine for objects in a corpus of document dynamically evaluates search rank of the objects through Natural Language Processing and machine learning. When a search query is received for a first object, the search engine identifies search results including a plurality of source values that are tied to the first object in the corpus of published documents. A search rank is computed for each identified search result based on content of direct textual references to each of the plurality of source values within the corpus of published documents, as well as a weight assigned to each published document. The identified search results are returned according to the computed search rank.
US11768841B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for generating an optimal solution for determining a value for one or more base data objects. A plurality of solutions include one or more composite data objects transacted by a transaction system processor. The composite data objects include the one or more base data objects. An optimal solution is generated by using data indicative of a level of activity and a number of sources for each of the plurality of composite data objects.
US11768840B2
An automated method for search and generation of relevant search results includes: receiving both discrete parameters and freeform search characters input by a user; simultaneously searching a first freeform entry source and a second freeform entry source to obtain corresponding first and second suggested freeform entries; ranking the first suggested freeform entries according to first rules of relevancy to the user, and generating first ranked suggested freeform entries; ranking the second suggested freeform entries according to second rules of relevancy to the user, and generating second ranked suggested freeform entries; combining the first and second ranked freeform entries into a combined set of suggested freeform entries, and ranking the combined set of suggested freeform entries according to combined rules of relevancy to the user, and generating combined ranked suggested freeform entries; and transmitting the combined ranked suggested freeform entries to the user for selection of a desired type ahead entry.
US11768828B2
Described herein is a computer implemented method and computational system for a project management service. Issues of a project are defined by data entities stored in a tree structure including a root node. The tree structure may include one or more siblings to the root node, one or more child nodes and one or more siblings to the child node. The root node references each child node and references each of its sibling nodes. Each child node references each of its sibling nodes.
US11768817B2
In an example embodiment, shards of a database are each stored in in-memory storage as multiple redundant distinct shard instances, but rather than a leader-follower paradigm each redundant shard instance is independent from one another. Each shard contains only an odd number of shard instances, and the number of shard instances is greater than or equal to three. This helps to ensure that enough shard instances are available at any one time to service requests.
US11768809B2
Methods, systems and computer program products for computer system data management. A leader node that is in a leader-follower relationship with a follower node is deployed to manage metadata across a plurality of interconnected computing nodes of the computer system. Upon a failure of any sort that results in a loss of operation or a disconnection of the leader node, the followers undertake steps to bring up a new leader. Such steps to bring up a new leader include electing a new leader to replace the lost or disconnected leader and initializing the data state of the new leader node by causing the leader to request incremental snapshots from followers. Additional metadata that might have changed since closing the incremental snapshots can also be retrieved from the followers. The metadata that might have changed since the time of closing the incremental snapshot is subjected to verification using a consensus algorithm.
US11768805B2
A mass file retrieval method and apparatus based on an AI training platform, and a device. The method includes: an AI training platform acquiring a retrieval task issued by a user, the AI training platform generating a retrieval thread flow according to the retrieval task, and controlling a service logic of a retrieval process according to the retrieval thread flow; and the AI training platform, performing sequential encoding on files in a database in units of folders, generating ordered queue folders, extracting retrieval key words from the retrieval task, and performing keyword retrieval on each ordered queue folder by combining a binary search and depth-first traversal.
US11768801B2
According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for identifying cloud storage destination. The embodiment may include identifying content of a data file being created or updated. The embodiment may include identifying cloud storage criteria of the data file. The embodiment may include determining whether an existing storage solution within a cloud storage service provider (CSSP) knowledge corpus is applicable to the data file. In response to determining that an existing storage solution is not applicable to the data file, the embodiment may include creating a new storage solution for the data file based on the identified content and cloud storage criteria of the data file.
US11768798B2
Multi-level hierarchical routing matrices for pattern-recognition processors are provided. One such routing matrix may include one or more programmable and/or non-programmable connections in and between levels of the matrix. The connections may couple routing lines to feature cells, groups, rows, blocks, or any other arrangement of components of the pattern-recognition processor.
US11768791B2
A flattening portal bridge (FPB) is provided to support addressing according to a first addressing scheme and a second, alternative addressing scheme. The FPB comprises a primary side and a secondary side, the primary side connects to a first set of devices addressed according to a first addressing scheme, and the secondary side connects to a second set of devices addressed according to a second addressing scheme. The first addressing scheme uses a unique bus number within a Bus/Device/Function (BDF) address space for each device in the first set of devices, and the second bus addressing scheme uses a unique bus-device number for each device in the second set of devices.
US11768787B2
This application relates to methods and apparatus for transfer of data between a host device (400) and a peripheral device (300) via a USB Type-C connector (100; 304) of the host device. A data controller is described that has a path controller (309, 310; 706) for establishing signal paths between circuitry of the host device and contacts (101) of said USB Type-C connector. The path controller is operable in at least first and second modes. In the first mode the path controller establishes separate signal paths to each of at least first, second, third and fourth contacts (A6, A7, B6, B7) of the USB Type-C connector and a plurality of the established signal paths are for transfer of analogue audio data. In the second mode the path controller establishes a pair of signal paths to only a subset of said first to fourth contacts to provide a differential digital data path.
US11768771B2
The techniques described herein improve cache traffic performance in the context of contended lock instructions. More specifically, each core maintains a lock address contention table that stores addresses corresponding to contended lock instructions. The lock address contention table also includes a state value that indicates progress through a series of states meant to track whether a load by the core in a spin-loop associated with semaphore acquisition has obtained the semaphore in an exclusive state. Upon detecting that a load in a spin-loop has obtained the semaphore in an exclusive state, the core responds to incoming requests for access to the semaphore with negative acknowledgments. This allows the core to maintain the semaphore cache line in an exclusive state, which allows it to acquire the semaphore faster and to avoid transmitting that cache line to other cores unnecessarily.
US11768762B2
A method for allocating memory in a computing device having a non-volatile main memory is described. The method comprises receiving, by a memory allocator, a request for non-volatile memory allocation of an object from a program executing on the computing device, the request comprising a requested memory size and registration data from the program. The method comprises finding an available address of one of a plurality of portions of a page of the non-volatile memory and searching an active page table in the non-volatile main memory to find the page and if the page is not found in the active page table: inserting the page into the active page table; and waiting for a memory write for inserting the page into the active page table to complete.
US11768758B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for path-coverage directed black box application programming interface (API) testing are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes determining constraints based on inputs and corresponding outputs of an API in a production environment; generating initial test inputs based at least in part on the constraints; creating a program dependency graph based on trace sequences and request-response data obtained in response to providing the initial test inputs to an endpoint of the API; enhancing the program dependency graph by generating additional test inputs directed to one or more paths of the dependency graph; identifying, based on the enhanced program dependency graph, at least a portion of the API that is not covered by an existing test suite; and using the enhanced program dependency graph to generate new test cases for the test suite based on the identifying.
US11768747B2
The system determines data which indicate memory usage by a process and information related to a number of instances of the process. The system determines for the process: a first average amount of memory; a first standard deviation; a first value indicating a difference between a current amount of memory used by the process and the first average amount; a second average number of process instances; a second standard deviation; and a second value indicating a difference between a current number of process instances and the second average number. The system performs a corrective action to address a memory spike associated with the process responsive to comparing at least one of: the current amount of memory used by the process with a watermark; the first value with the first standard deviation scaled; the current number of instances with a watermark; and the second value with the second standard deviation scaled.
US11768739B2
Scalable architectures, systems, and services are provided herein for creating manifest-based snapshots in distributed computing environments. In some embodiments, responsive to receiving a request to create a snapshot of a data object, a master node identifies multiple slave nodes on which a data object is stored in the cloud-computing platform and creates a snapshot manifest representing the snapshot of the data object. The snapshot manifest comprises a file including a listing of multiple file names in the snapshot manifest and reference information for locating the multiple files in the distributed database system. The snapshot can be created without disrupting I/O operations, e.g., in an online mode by various region servers as directed by the master node. Additionally, a log roll approach to creating the snapshot is also disclosed in which log files are marked. The replaying of log entries can reduce the probability of causal consistency in the snapshot.
US11768733B2
An apparatus includes a central processing unit (CPU) core and a cache subsystem coupled to the CPU core. The cache subsystem includes a memory configured to store a line of data and an error correcting code (ECC) syndrome associated with the line of data, where the ECC syndrome is calculated based on the line of data and the ECC syndrome is a first type ECC. The cache subsystem also includes a controller configured to, in response to a request from a master configured to implement a second type ECC, the request being directed to the line of data, transform the first type ECC syndrome for the line of data to a second type ECC syndrome send a response to the master. The response includes the line of data and the second type ECC syndrome associated with the line of data.
US11768730B2
A storage unit (14) stores a service procedure constituting business, a service support system used in the service procedure, and a service function constituting the service support system in association with each other, and stores a status determination checklist in which a plurality of conditions for determining whether the service procedure, the service support system, and the service function are normal are represented by a logical combination. A service function determination section (15d) determines whether a service function corresponding to the service support system is functioning normally, by using failure information of a service support system and the status determination checklist. When it is determined that the service function is not functioning normally, a service activity determination section (15e) determines whether a service procedure corresponding to the service function is normally executed, by using the status determination checklist.
US11768728B2
An apparatus, system, and method are provided for routing multiple diagnostic pathways. A protocol data unit (PDU) router may receive a diagnostic response. The PDU router may identify a diagnostic request corresponding to the diagnostic response, based on a comparison of a first PDU identifier associated with the diagnostic request and a second PDU identifier associated with the diagnostic response. The identify a routing path between the diagnostic target and a diagnostic client associated with the diagnostic request, based on the first PDU identifier and the second PDU identifier. The PDU router may route the diagnostic response to the diagnostic client, based on the routing path. The routing path may overlap at least a portion of a second routing path between the diagnostic target and a second diagnostic client.
US11768721B2
The invention provides a technology for suppressing a delay in communication between a plurality of cores that perform parallel processing. In the invention, an ECU 302 of a vehicle control system 2 includes a plurality of cores 401 and a shared memory 405. When transmitting data in the inter-core communication, a transmission side core 401-1 writes a counter value updated according to the data and a writing order to a buffer unit 901 which is determined by a counter value managed for each communication system, which is stored in each of the plurality of buffer units 901 provided in the shared memory 405. When receiving data in the inter-core communication, a reception side core 401-2 reads data from the buffer unit 901 in which the latest data for each communication system is stored, which is determined by the counter value stored in each of the plurality of buffer units 901.
US11768719B2
Examples disclosed herein provide systems, methods, and software for attaching an application to a computing system. In one example, a method of attaching at least one application to the computing system includes identifying an application attach triggering event, and identifying at least one application based on the application attach triggering event. The method further includes attaching an application volume to the computing system that contains the at least one application, and filtering one or more applications from the application volume that are not the at least one application.
US11768715B1
A system and method that detects that a group of threads has executed a spin-inducing branch in a single-instruction multithreaded processor and scheduling groups of threads based on the detection, marking the group as backed-off and deprioritizing the group for scheduling. When the group is scheduled a back-off counter is initialized and decremented each clock cycle. The group of threads is prevented from being scheduled if the spin-inducing branch is executed again before the counter reaches zero. A hardware system and method for labeling spin-inducing branches that determines that a profiled thread is in a spinning state and detects that a backward branch is executed while spinning. The detection is based on executions of a loop where the operand values for the exit condition don't change. A confidence level can be used that increases with each execution of a backward branch while in the spinning state.
US11768712B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and system for optimizing a parameter configuration of a distributed computing job. The method includes: obtaining job programs of different distributed computing jobs, and determining a key parameter configuration set; obtaining a cluster status during execution of the distributed computing job, randomly generating a sample data set based on the key parameter configuration set and the cluster status, and establishing a performance prediction model; correcting the performance prediction model by using a multi-objective genetic algorithm and an optimization module configured with an optimal configuration selection strategy; obtaining a job program of a to-be-optimized distributed computing job and a cluster status during execution of the to-be-optimized distributed computing job, and determining a to-be-optimized key parameter configuration item combination; and inputting, to the performance prediction model, the to-be-optimized key parameter configuration item combination and the cluster status during execution of the to-be-optimized distributed computing job, and outputting a key parameter configuration item combination with a shortest execution time. The present disclosure can rapidly and effectively optimize the key parameter configuration.
US11768710B2
A data processing system includes at least one pooled memory node, at least one processing node, and a switch node coupled to the at least one pooled memory node and the at least one processing node. The data processing system also includes a master node configured to transmit task information to a first processing node among the at least one processing node through the switch node and configured to transmit a memory address range of a first pooled memory node among the at least one pooled memory node to the switch node. The switch node processes a first memory access request transmitted by the first processing node based on the task information, for the first pooled memory node, based on the memory address range.
US11768708B2
To provide a media data processing system that can suppress a decrease in a request processing rate while suppressing an increase in response time in media data recognition processing where it is difficult to properly estimate the load. A first load estimation unit 5 estimates range of processing load of media data recognition processing based on header information of media data. A determination unit 31 determines whether to allow or disallow execution of the media data recognition processing, or to estimate the processing load, based on the range of the processing load. A second load estimation unit 6 estimates the processing load of the media data recognition processing based on content of the media data when it is determined to estimate the processing load. The determination unit 31 determines whether to allow or disallow the execution of the media data recognition processing based on the processing load.
US11768694B2
A content sharing method includes: in response to a sharing trigger operation to a target content in a user interface, displaying a sharing trigger page in the user interface, wherein the sharing trigger page comprises at least one sharing entrance, and the sharing entrance is configured to invoke an application for content sharing; in response to a selection operation to the sharing entrance, determining n target sharing entrances, wherein n is an integer greater than or equal to 2; displaying n target sharing windows corresponding to the n target sharing entrances; in response to a sharing operation received in at least one of the n target sharing windows, sharing the target content to a target application. A terminal and a storage medium are further provided.
US11768693B2
Methods and systems for managing configurable devices are disclosed. A configurable device may be a type of hardware device that may be configured for various purposes. The operation of the configurable device may depend on its configuration. To manage the configurable device, the system may track the configuration of configurable devices and associate the configurations with visual indicators of the configurable devices that are present prior to configuration. The visual indicators may not indicate the configuration of the configurable devices.
US11768684B2
Disclosed is a method for rebalancing blocks of a register file. The method comprises allocating a first set of entries in a first register file to a first hardware thread of a processor core. The method further comprises allocating a second set of entries in a second register file to a second hardware thread of the processor core. The register tags in the first and second register files are compacted such that register tags associated with the first hardware thread are compacted into the first set of entries, and register tags associated with the second hardware thread are compacted into the second set of entries.
US11768682B2
A physical quantity detection device that can improve arithmetic resolution while preventing an increase in memory capacity is obtained. A physical quantity detection device 100 according to the present invention includes: a physical quantity detection sensor that detects a physical quantity of a measurement target gas; a storage unit that records a correction amount corresponding to a detection value of the physical quantity detection sensor; and an arithmetic unit 110 that performs output adjustment of the detection value using the detection value and the correction amount. Resolution of the storage unit 120 is lower than arithmetic resolution of the arithmetic unit 110.
US11768675B2
An appliance includes a wireless communication module in wireless communication with a remote server through an external network and a controller operably coupled to the wireless communication module. A method of ensuring that the appliance is using the latest operating software includes detecting a software verification trigger (such as the replacement or maintenance of a control board), obtaining a current software version and a latest software version, determining that the current and latest software versions do not match, and initiating a software update process to update the controller to the latest software version.
US11768670B2
A container stack configurator can build customized software applications and deploy the applications to a wellbore computing network or through offline installer devices. The stack configurator can receive a selection from a user of a configuration repository. The stack configurator can determine available branches of the configuration repository including images, tags, and container names. The stack configurator can present a list of services associated with the container names to the user using a user interface. The stack configurator can receive a selection of an installer type and generate a customized build of the installer type. The customized build of the installer can be an offline installer that is deployable on an offline target machine using a first communication media or an online installer that is deployable to an online target machine using a second communication media.
US11768667B2
A Flutter-based compiling method, a compiling device, an executing method, a computer-readable storage medium, and a computer device are provided. The Flutter-based compiling method includes: receiving configuration content; in response to the configuration content, compiling and generating an executable file, where the executable file includes at least two of a Native component, a Flutter Native component and a Flutter dynamic component, and is configured to generate a routing table during operation, to enable the Native component, the Flutter Native component and the Flutter dynamic component to communicate with each other through the routing table.
US11768664B2
A graphics processing unit (GPU) implements operations, with associated op codes, to perform mixed precision mathematical operations. The GPU includes an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) with different execution paths, wherein each execution path executes a different mixed precision operation. By implementing mixed precision operations at the ALU in response to designate op codes that delineate the operations, the GPU efficiently increases the precision of specified mathematical operations while reducing execution overhead.
US11768660B2
A processor or other device, such as a programmable and/or massively parallel processor or other device, includes processing elements designed to perform arithmetic operations (possibly but not necessarily including, for example, one or more of addition, multiplication, subtraction, and division) on numerical values of low precision but high dynamic range (“LPHDR arithmetic”). Such a processor or other device may, for example, be implemented on a single chip. Whether or not implemented on a single chip, the number of LPHDR arithmetic elements in the processor or other device in certain embodiments of the present invention significantly exceeds (e.g., by at least 20 more than three times) the number of arithmetic elements, if any, in the processor or other device which are designed to perform high dynamic range arithmetic of traditional precision (such as 32 bit or 64 bit floating point arithmetic).
US11768652B2
A portable computing device may comprise an internal central processing unit (CPU), an internal graphics processing unit (GPU), a communications port to communicate with an external computing device, a first electronic display connected to the internal GPU, a second electronic display connected to the internal GPU, a touch input device to receive touch inputs from a user, and a display mode control unit. The control unit may cause the portable computing device to selectively operate in a dual display operational mode, a direct input operational mode, and an indirect input operational mode.
US11768647B2
A recording apparatus includes a recording unit, first and second holding units, and a generation unit. The recording unit records an image on a recording medium, conveyed in a second direction, by using recording elements arranged along a first direction. The generation unit generates first correction data based on an input recording job and image data and a first adjustment value indicating a conveyance position, in the first direction, of a recording medium from the first holding unit, and generates second correction data based on the recording job and the image data and a second adjustment value indicating a conveyance position, in the first direction, of a recording medium from the second holding unit. The recording unit records an image on the first holding unit recording medium based on the first correction data, and records an image on the second holding unit recording medium based on the second correction data.
US11768618B2
A data storage device is provided. The data storage device includes: a first function block of a device controller configured to receive user data and perform a first data processing; a first buffer memory connected to the first function block and configured to store user data subjected to the first data processing as first process data; a second function block of the device controller configured to receive a data write command determined based on the first process data; and a non-volatile memory connected to the second function block, and configured to receive and store data stored in the first buffer memory. The user data is provided to the first function block before the data write command is provided to the second function block.
US11768617B2
A managing method for a flash storage includes: sorting a plurality of blocks within the flash storage into precise blocks and imprecise blocks; and managing the sorted blocks as a plurality of free block pools. The management includes performing garbage collection and wear leveling, and the wear leveling is performed based on CEW (Cumulative Effective Wearing), the CEW indicating cumulative cell damage induced by performing a plurality of operations on a specific block. A storage system includes a memory array; and a memory controller sorting a plurality of blocks of the memory array based on error rates, applying erase voltages corresponding to the error rates, respectively, when data stored in the blocks are erased, controlling each of the erase voltages to have a value scaled down from a standard voltage, and performing incremental step pulse programming on one or more of the blocks.
US11768612B2
A system for managing composed information handling systems to provide data protection services for data generated by applications hosted by the composed information handling systems, includes a processor that executes applications and a system control processor manager that obtains a composition request for a composed information handling system, identifies a compute resource set having compute resources specified by the composition request, identifies a hardware resource set having hardware resources specified by the composition request, sets up storage management services for managing reads and writes of data the hardware resource set using a control resource set, which performs deduplication on data generated by the applications, to obtain logical hardware resources, and presents the logical hardware resources using the control resource set to the compute resource set as bare metal resources to instantiate a composed information handling system to service the composition request.
US11768606B2
A data storage device includes a memory device and a controller coupled to the memory device. The controller is configured to receive a plurality of fetch requests, determine a first number of requests, second number of requests, and a third number of requests of the plurality of fetch requests, and balance an execution of the first number of requests, the second number of requests, and the third number of requests so that a first ratio of the data requests to the PRP requests and a second ratio of the data requests to the HMB requests is about 1. The plurality of fetch requests includes PRP requests, HMB requests, and data requests. The first number of requests corresponds to a number of the PRP requests. The second number of requests corresponds to a number of the HMB requests. The third number of requests corresponds to a number of the data requests.
US11768599B2
The present disclosure describes a method to manage an enterprise data storage system, the method including: dividing storage disks of the enterprise data storage system into multiple virtual storage subsystems, wherein each virtual storage subsystem hosts a non-overlapping subset of the storage disks, and wherein each virtual storage subsystem includes a level-2 cache memory dedicated thereto; establishing a communication path between the level-2 cache memory dedicated to each virtual storage subsystem and a main cache of the enterprise-level data storage system; and maintaining a copy of transaction data from the non-overlapping subset of the storage disks hosted by each virtual storage subsystem in the level-2 cache memory dedicated thereto such that when the main cache searches for the copy of the transaction data, the main cache fetches, over the communication path, the copy of the transaction data from the level-2 cache memory of the virtual storage subsystem.
US11768597B2
A method and system for editing a video on the basis of a context obtained using artificial intelligence. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method for editing a video may comprise the steps of: establishing a plurality of contexts for an input video by analyzing the video through an artificial intelligence model, and taking, from the video, a plurality of clips corresponding to the established plurality of contexts; generating a user interface through which to receive a certain context selected from the plurality of contexts; providing, through the generated user interface, a plurality of clips that has been taken from the video for the context selected from the plurality of contexts through the generated user interface; and generating a highlight image for the selected context for the video by merging clips together that have been selected from the plurality of clips provided through the user interface.
US11768595B2
A method of cohorting data sets can include accessing a plurality of data sets each associated with a different target item and a plurality of test items and receiving from a user a selection of a plurality of the data sets. For each of the selected data sets, the method may include determining one or more of the test items interacting with the respective target within a threshold parameter and identifying one or more matching test items of the plurality of test items associated with interactions with each of the targets of the selected data sets. The method can include generating a graphical user interface to display a representation of the matching test items, the selected data sets, or both and receiving a filter selection for reducing a number of the matching test items to a filtered one or more test items smaller than the number of matching test items.
US11768592B1
The present disclosure relates to a method for resizing a window, an electronic device, and a readable storage medium. The method includes: obtaining, in response to an operation triggered for rotating a roll-up shaft being detected, a stretching rate and duration of the roll-up screen; and resizing the window of a current application displayed by the roll-up screen based on the stretching rate and duration of the roll-up screen.
US11768590B2
In some implementations, a method includes obtaining a set of preselected attribute values for an objective-effectuator. In some implementations, the method includes while displaying a user interface including a plurality of configuration control affordances provided to effect configuration of one or more attributes characterizing the objective-effectuator, in response to receiving an input indicative of manipulation of a first configuration control affordance, setting a corresponding first attribute to a particular preselected attribute value, and modifying display of the plurality of configuration control affordances in order to change the number of the plurality of configuration control affordances displayed. In some implementations, the method includes configuring the objective-effectuator at least based on the particular preselected attribute value of the first attribute. In some implementations, the objective-effectuator is associated with a set of predefined actions.
US11768589B2
Techniques are disclosed for creating digital flash cards that include links to content from one or more digital content sources, referred to herein as a flash card mode. The mode allows a user to create a digital flash card by selecting a portion of a digital content source and performing a create command. The created flash card includes at least two virtual sides and a first side of the flash card identifies the location of the selected portion of digital content. The location may be identified, for example, by a canonical fragment identifier (CFI). Text can then be entered for a second side of the flash card. Flash cards can be shared with other users, and because the flash cards only identify locations of content within digital content sources, the mode is well-suited to handle sources including digital rights management (DRM) protection, for example.
US11768583B2
A computer readable media, a method, and a system registering a third party application providing an available communication system between a local user and a remote user identity, storing information related to the available communication system in a first database, obtaining contact information for the remote user identity from the third party application, determining a communication type for the third party application, pairing the remote user identity with a contact, and updating a graphical representation of contact information.
US11768582B1
A system can generate a graphical user interface that includes a first graphical visualization depicting a first set of form values input by a first entity on a first client device in relation to a set of form fields for a record. The graphical user interface can also include a second graphical visualization positioned adjacent to the first graphical visualization, the second graphical visualization depicting a second set of form values input by a second entity on a second client device in relation for the set of form fields for the record. The graphical user interface can also include a graphical marker indicating a mismatch between the first values and the second values. The graphical user interface can include a graphical object selectable by a user to initiate a verification process for the record based on the first values and the second values.
US11768578B2
In some embodiments, an electronic device present user interfaces for initializing a remote locator object. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents notifications when a remote locator object is separated from the user. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents notifications when an unknown remote locator object is tracking the user. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents a user interface for a short distance locator user interface for finding a remote locator object. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents user interfaces for finding a remote locator object using a map user interface or using a short distance locator user interface.
US11768577B1
Systems and methods for providing and/or presenting, to a user, a user interface for an environment that includes virtual objects are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain, from electronic storage, information regarding virtual objects in a virtual three-dimensional space that has a virtual three-dimensional volume; determine a subset of voxels from the set of voxels such that the subset of voxels encompasses a three-dimensional volume that includes at least part of a first external surface of the first virtual object; determine proximity information for the first virtual object; determine a manipulation granularity; adjust the manipulation granularity based on the proximity information; receive particular user input from the user having a particular input magnitude; manipulate the first virtual object within the virtual three-dimensional space in accordance with the received particular user input; and effectuate presentation of the user interface to the user through a client computing platform.
US11768564B2
An apparatus includes a global baseliner circuit coupled with sensing channels of a sensing device. The global baseliner circuit has a signal generator to generate a rectified sinusoidal signal and a square wave having a frequency matching that of an excitation sinusoidal signal, and is to use the square wave to modulate the excitation sinusoidal signal provided at an output of the global baseliner circuit. A channel baseliner circuit is coupled between the global baseliner circuit and a sensing channel and that includes a switched capacitor coupled between the output of the global baseliner circuit and the sensing channel; a sigma-delta modulator coupled with the signal generator and to generate, from the rectified sinusoidal signal, a density-modulated bit stream; and a pair of AND gates to use the density-modulated bit stream and non-overlapping clock signals to generate outputs including density-modulated clock signals sent to switches of the switched capacitor.
US11768560B2
A system and method for mitigating interference within a sensing device. The sensing device may be part of an input device that also includes a display device. The display device may include a display panel having a plurality of display electrodes, and a display driver configured to drive the plurality of display electrodes. The sensing device may include a plurality of sensor electrodes disposed over the display panel, and a sensor driver communicatively coupled to the plurality of sensor electrodes and the display driver. The sensor driver may be configured to acquire sensor data from the plurality of sensor electrodes, receive a display signal from the display driver, and reduce interference within the sensor data at least partially based on the display signal.
US11768553B2
An input device has an operative member on which switches are arranged to receive a pushing force. The input device has a control unit which is configured to store both a first correction coefficient and a second correction coefficient. The first correction coefficient may correct variations in displacement caused by differences in pushing positions on the operative member. The second correction coefficient may correct differences in sensitivity among a plurality of sensors. The control unit is configured to perform: correcting a plurality of displacements by the first correction coefficient and the second correction coefficient; and determining whether presence or absence of a push operation by comparing a summation of corrected values with a predetermined threshold value.
US11768544B2
A method for evaluating gesture input comprises receiving input data for sequential data frames, including hand tracking data for hands of a user. A first neural network is trained to recognize features indicative of subsequent gesture interactions and configured to evaluate input data for a sequence of data frames and to output an indication of a likelihood of the user performing gesture interactions during a predetermined window of data frames. A second neural network is trained to recognize features indicative of whether the user is currently performing one or more gesture interactions and configured to adjust parameters for gesture interaction recognition during the predetermined window based on the indicated likelihood. The second neural network evaluates the predetermined window for performed gesture interactions based on the adjusted parameters, and outputs a signal as to whether the user is performing one or more gesture interactions during the predetermined window.
US11768540B2
The present invention concerns a method and apparatus for the modulation of an acoustic field for providing tactile sensations. A method of creating haptic feedback using ultrasound is provided. The method comprises the steps of generating a plurality of ultrasound waves with a common focal point using a phased array of ultrasound transducers, the common focal point being a haptic feedback point, and modulating the generation of the ultrasound waves using a waveform selected to produce little or no audible sound at the haptic feedback point.
US11768529B2
The present disclosure relates to a system and method for enabling power sharing in a multi-port power sourcing device. The system comprises of a multiport power sourcing device having a plurality of ports and a plurality of pre-defined resistances configured to each port of the plurality of ports and is configured to receive input parameters related to plurality of ports, total power capacity of the device and maximum power of each port, determine a second set of parameters associated with pre-defined resistances, execute a first set of instructions based on the input parameters and the second set of parameters, execute a second set of instructions based on the executed first set of instructions to facilitate implementation via a request-response communication interface to discover and track any or a combination of number and status of the plurality of ports based on the determined second set of parameters.
US11768528B2
Examples provide a method and apparatus for a multi-domain computing device providing physical separation of computing domains and network isolation. The multi-domain computing device includes a user facing panel with a shared display device and a keyboard, video mouse (KVM) switch. A set of domain-specific devices which are not shared between domains may include one or more processors, card readers, network devices, headset jacks, and power switches. The devices shared by the different domains include a display screen, power supply, the KVM switch and/or touchscreen. Each domain is configured to power up, boot and operate independently within a single physical unit.
US11768521B2
A multi-display monitor bracket designed to allow a user to mount two auxiliary monitors to a laptop (or tablets or phones), plus a camera, and easily manipulate the angle of the monitors including rotation away from the user to allow another individual sitting across a table from the user to easily see what is on the laptop monitor. The bracket attaches by tongue-and-groove fit to a mounting plate adhered to the back face of a laptop.
US11768520B2
A window includes: a substrate including a folding area, a non-folding area, an upper surface, and a lower surface, wherein the folding area is configured to fold about a folding axis; and a plurality of groove patterns arranged in the folding area along a first direction crossing the folding axis, wherein each of the plurality of groove patterns includes: a bottom surface recessed from the upper surface of the substrate and substantially parallel to the upper surface of the substrate; and a side surface, wherein each side surface of the plurality of groove patterns connects each bottom surface of the plurality of groove patterns to the upper surface of the substrate, and wherein the side surface includes at least one curved surface.
US11768503B2
A device is for estimating a position of a vehicle equipped with a laser scanner capable of acquiring point cloud data by scanning a laser beam and a camera capable of acquiring an image in a predetermined direction. The device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire the point cloud data and the image, an estimation unit configured to estimate the position based on the point cloud data or the image, and an extraction unit configured to extract, from the point cloud data, valid point cloud data that is usable for estimating the position. The estimation unit is configured to estimate the position using: (i) the valid point cloud data if a number of pieces of valid point cloud data is equal to or greater than a predetermined number; and (ii) the image if the number of pieces of valid point cloud data is less than the predetermined number.
US11768484B2
A cooling controller receives, from one or more sensors, wafer information associated with a wafer. The cooling controller determines a pattern mask area for the wafer based on the wafer information. The cooling controller determines a cooling time for the wafer based on the pattern mask area. The cooling controller causes a cooling plate to cool the wafer for a time duration equal to the cooling time. Determining the cooling time for a wafer based on a pattern mask area provides stable and consistent wafer temperatures for wafers having different mask and layout properties, which reduces mask overlay variation and increases wafer yield.
US11768482B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processing portion configured to perform information processing. The processing portion is configured to obtain definition information in which a first mnemonic and a second mnemonic different from the first mnemonic are associated with each other.
US11768473B2
Methods and systems of monitoring and managing a facility including a plurality of end point devices. One system includes a first gateway device. The first gateway device includes a first electronic processor configured to receive fixture data from at least one electro-mechanical element of a fixture associated with the facility, the fixture data related to an operation of the fixture, and enable transmission of the fixture data to a remote device for virtual processing. The system also includes a second gateway device communicatively coupled with the first gateway device. The second gateway device includes a second electronic processor configured to receive, from the first gateway device, the processed fixture data. The second electronic processor configured to convert the processed fixture data pursuant to a networking protocol associated with a building management system and transmit the converted fixture data for display via a visual dashboard associated with the building management system.
US11768467B2
The invention concerns a watch 1 comprising a watch case 2, the watch case 2 containing a watch movement 6 and two dials 8a, 8b. The watch 1 further includes a casing ring 3 arranged inside the watch case 2, the watch movement 6 being mounted in the casing ring 3 so as to be suspended in a cantilever arrangement inside the watch case 2, said casing ring 3 supporting the two dials 8a, 8b.
US11768465B2
A substrate for forming timepiece components includes a first part based on photostructurable glass and at least a second part based on at least one second material. One surface of the first part is made integral with a surface of the second part so as to form a one-piece timepiece component.
US11768464B2
A horological torque limiting mechanism, including a first wheel with a first elastic arm projecting from a first felloe, a second wheel including a second surface to engage in frictional pressure with the first wheel for the relative actuation thereof, a travel limiter fastened to a structure to hold the first and second wheels in frictional pressure in certain angular positions, the second wheel and/or the travel limiter and/or the structure including a relief forming a ramp, to, in certain angular positions relative to the first wheel, engage in frictional pressure with the first elastic arm, and, in further positions, allow a frictionless travel between the first wheel and the component bearing the relief, the second wheel includes a second arm forming a ramp projecting from a second felloe.
US11768454B2
An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a circuit including both a circuit within a fixing unit and a power control circuit, provided with a first circuit which supplies power to a heater from an AC power supply, a second circuit electrically insulated from the first circuit, and a third circuit electrically insulated from both the first circuit and the second circuit, all of the first to third circuits are provided on at least one surface of a circuit board, and the first to third circuits are disposed on at least one straight line on which all of the first to third circuits are present on the one surface of the circuit board in the order of the first circuit, the third circuit and the second circuit.
US11768448B2
A toner container includes a container body, an opening, a cover, a toner discharge port, a shutter, a cylindrical structure, protrusions, and an identifier. The shutter is attached to the cover and includes a main shutter covering the toner discharge port. The main shutter moves between a closed position to close the toner discharge port and an open position to open the toner discharge port. The protrusions are on both sides of the cover and protrude in a direction orthogonal to a toner container mounting direction. The identifier is on the cover to indicate a toner color. The cylindrical structure's leading end is downstream of leading ends of the protrusions in the mounting direction. The main shutter's leading end is downstream of the protrusions' leading ends in the mounting direction when the main shutter is in the closed position. The protrusions are downstream of the identifier in the mounting direction.
US11768446B2
A method for producing a toner, including aggregating and coalescing resin particles and colorant particles. The resin particles contain a composite resin containing a polyester resin segment, an addition polymer resin segment which is an addition polymerized product of a raw material monomer containing a styrenic compound, and a structural unit derived from a bireactive monomer bonding to the polyester resin segment and the addition polymer resin segment via a covalent bond. The colorant particles contain a colorant and an addition polymer of a raw material monomer containing a styrenic compound. The addition polymer contains a structural unit derived from the styrenic compound in the main chain. A ratio by mass of the colorant to the addition polymer in the colorant particles is 50/50 or more and 95/5 or less.
US11768442B2
A method including: obtaining an image of at least part of a substrate, wherein the image includes at least one feature of a device being manufactured in a layer on the substrate; obtaining a layout of features associated with a previous layer adjacent to the layer on the substrate; calculating one or more image-related metrics in dependence on: 1) a contour determined from the image including the at least one feature and 2) the layout; and determining one or more control parameters of a lithographic apparatus and/or one or more further processes in a manufacturing process of the device in dependence on the one or more image-related metrics, wherein at least one of the control parameters is determined to modify the geometry of the contour in order to improve the one or more image-related metrics.
US11768440B2
A method including: obtaining data based an optical proximity correction for a spatially shifted version of a training design pattern; and training a machine learning model configured to predict optical proximity corrections for design patterns using data regarding the training design pattern and the data based on the optical proximity correction for the spatially shifted version of the training design pattern.
US11768437B2
A photolithography system utilizes tin droplets to generate extreme ultraviolet radiation for photolithography. The photolithography system irradiates the droplets with a laser. The droplets become a plasma and emit extreme ultraviolet radiation. The photolithography system senses contamination of a collector mirror by the tin droplets and adjusts the flow of a buffer fluid to reduce the contamination.
US11768434B2
The present invention is a polymer having a polyamide structural unit, a polyamide-imide structural unit, or a polyimide structural unit, selected from a polyamide, a polyamide-imide, a polyimide, a polyimide precursor, a polybenzoxazole, and a polybenzoxazole precursor, including a reaction product of a diamine containing at least one of a diamine shown by the following general formula (1) and a diamine shown by the following general formula (2), together with at least one of a tetracarboxylic dianhydride shown by the following general formula (3) as well as a dicarboxylic acid and a dicarboxylic halide shown by the following general formula (4). This provides a polymer which is soluble in a safe organic solvent used widely, and is usable as a base resin of a positive photosensitive resin composition that is soluble in an aqueous alkaline solution and capable of forming a fine pattern to give higher resolution.
US11768428B2
The laser source includes a light-emitting assembly, a phosphor wheel, a converging lens group, and a combining component. The light-emitting assembly is configured to emit at least a first laser beam and a second laser beam. The phosphor wheel includes a fluorescence-exciting region and a laser-reflecting region. The converging lens group is disposed between the light-emitting assembly and the phosphor wheel, and is configured to converge the first laser beam and the second laser beam to the phosphor wheel. The first laser beam and the second laser beam are asymmetric with respect to an optical axis of the converging lens group. The combining component is disposed between the light-emitting assembly and the converging lens group. The combining component includes a first reflecting region and a second reflecting region that are arranged at an interval.
US11768427B2
A projector includes first and second cooling targets and a cooling device. The cooling device includes a first compressor, a condenser, a first expander configured to decompress a part of the working fluid condensed by the condenser, a first evaporator configured to change the working fluid in a liquid phase flowing from the first expander into the working fluid in a gas phase by using heat from the first cooling target, a second expander configured to decompress the other part of the working fluid condensed by the condenser, a second evaporator configured to change the working fluid in a liquid phase flowing from the second expander into the working fluid in a gas phase by using heat from the second cooling target, and a second compressor configured to compress the working fluid in a gas phase flowing from the second evaporator.
US11768424B2
A fixing device for accurately fixing an optical assembly to a rear housing of an electronic device fixes the optical assembly in a predetermined position and includes a cover plate. The cover plate defines a hole and a limiting portion. The hole corresponds to a photosensitive portion of the optical assembly and the photosensitive portion is configured to protrude out of the cover plate. The limiting portion is configured to limit a movement of the optical assembly away from the rear housing before being fixed in position. The fixing device fixes the optical assembly in the predetermined position so that the assembly accuracy and efficiency are improved. An optical module including the fixing device, and an electronic device including the optical module are also provided.
US11768414B2
A display device includes first and second gate lines extending in a first direction; first and second data lines extending in a second direction and crossing the first and second gate lines; and a first horizontal pixel row including first, second, and third sub-pixels sequentially arranged in the first direction, wherein the first sub-pixel is connected to the first gate line and the first data line, the second sub-pixel is connected to the second gate line and the first data line, and the third sub-pixel is connected to the first gate line and the second data line.
US11768413B2
Provided are an array substrate, a display panel, a display device, and a driving method. The array substrate includes a plurality of pixel circuit rows arranged in sequence in a column direction, where each pixel circuit row includes a plurality of pixel circuits arranged in a row direction; and a plurality of scan line groups arranged in sequence in the column direction, where the scan line groups are in one-to-one correspondence with the pixel circuit rows. The each pixel circuit row includes a plurality of pixel circuit groups. Each scan line group includes a plurality of scan lines. Each scan line extends in the row direction. The pixel circuit groups are in one-to-one correspondence with the scan lines in a scan line group corresponding to the pixel circuit groups.
US11768403B2
A backlight assembly, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The backlight assembly includes: a substrate, an anode trace and a cathode trace of an LED on the substrate, a planarization layer on a layer where the anode trace and the cathode trace of the LED are located, and an anode connection pad and a cathode connection pad on the planarization layer. The anode trace of the LED is coupled to the anode connection pad through a first via hole penetrating through the planarization layer, and the cathode trace of the LED is coupled to the cathode connection pad through a second via hole penetrating through the planarization layer. An exhaust channel is further arranged on the planarization layer to discharge gas accumulated in the planarization layer.
US11768401B2
A display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel, a substrate, and a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) provided on one side of the substrate and configured to emit light towards the liquid crystal panel. Each of the plurality of LEDs includes a first reflection layer, a second reflection layer, and a light emitting layer provided between the first reflection layer and the second reflection layer. The second reflection layer is provided between the substrate and the light emitting layer. A first reflectivity of the first reflection layer for a first light entering at a first incident angle is different from a second reflectivity of the second reflection layer for the first light entering at the first incident angle.
US11768400B2
Provided is a backlight unit, a display apparatus, and a method of manufacturing the display apparatus capable of securing a uniform and wide illumination area with a small number of light sources through reflection of a reflective layer. The backlight unit includes a plurality of light sources configured to emit light; a first reflective layer configured to reflect the light emitted from the plurality of light sources; and a second reflective layer configured to reflect the light reflected from the first reflective layer, wherein an amount of reflection from the first reflective layer and an amount of transmission through the first reflective layer are different from each other according to an angle of incidence of light incident on the first reflective layer.
US11768398B2
Systems and methods for IR readable transmissive and reflective displays are disclosed that do not suffer from a mirror-like appearance or undesirable dimming of the display due to sequential stacks of polarizers. The disclosed systems and methods use available IR LEDs in addition to, or in place of, visible light LEDs. An illuminator or integrator, which is a lightguide, is designed to maintain the polarization state of the light. The display can use a regular visible light, front polarizer and hence does not suffer from brightness reduction caused by an IR capable polarizer.
US11768397B2
A touch display panel has a first region and a second region. The touch display panel includes a first touch unit located in the first region, and a plurality of second touch units located in the second region, wherein the plurality of second touch units is arranged in a matrix in a first direction and a second direction, the first direction intersecting the second direction. An area of an orthographic projection of the first touch unit on a plane of the touch display panel is smaller than an area of an orthographic projection of one second touch unit of the plurality of second touch units on the plane of the touch display panel. An absolute value of a difference between an impedance of the first touch unit and an impedance of the one second touch unit is smaller than a first preset threshold.
US11768393B2
A liquid crystal antenna substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a liquid crystal antenna and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The manufacturing method of the liquid crystal antenna substrate includes: forming a conductive pattern on a base substrate; coating a liquid photo-curable material at a side of the conductive pattern away from the base substrate; and using the conductive pattern as a mask to perform an exposure process from a side of the base substrate away from the conductive pattern, a portion of the liquid photo-curable material corresponding to the conductive pattern is cured to form spacers.
US11768391B2
A carrier depletion-based Silicon Photonic (SiP) modulator using capacitive coupling includes a high-k dielectric material in or on slabs, between a rib. A capacitance (Ck) of the high-k dielectric material is larger than a capacitance (Cpn) of the rib, thereby reducing the high frequency impedance and improving bandwidth of the modulator. A modulator includes a first electrode; a first slab connected to the first electrode at a first end; a rib connected to the first slab at a second end of the first slab; a second slab connected to the rib at a first end; a second electrode connected to the second slab at a second end of the second slab; and a high-k dielectric material disposed in or on a portion of each of the first slab and the second slab, thereby enabling capacitive coupling.
US11768374B1
A system includes a vehicle cockpit and a processor. The vehicle cockpit includes imperceptible cockpit reference fiducials and a head wearable display (HWD) device. The imperceptible cockpit reference fiducials are imperceptible to a naked eye of a user in the vehicle cockpit. The HWD device includes a display and an optical sensor configured to: capture images of the imperceptible cockpit reference fiducials; and output optical sensor image data. The processor is configured to: receive the optical sensor image data; and based at least on the optical sensor image data, determine a position and orientation of the head wearable display device. The display is configured to display the images aligned with the field of view of the user based at least on the determined position and the determined orientation of the head wearable display device.
US11768372B2
A head up display arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a head up display module having a picture generation unit emitting a light field. A polarizing device is rotatable between at least a first rotational position and a second rotational position. The polarizing device receives the light field from the picture generation unit and emits the light field regardless of whether the polarizing device is in the first rotational position or the second rotational position. More of the light is emitted by the polarizer in a P-polarization state in the second rotational position than in the first rotational position. A windshield reflects the light field from the polarizing device such that the reflected light field is visible to a human driver of the motor vehicle as a virtual image.
