US11805418B2
Methods, systems and computer readable media for location-based endpoint security are described.
US11805415B2
In embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for authenticating an access point. In the method, a request for joining a network is received from an access point. A neighbor authentication notification is transmitted to the access point for obtaining an authentication code from a neighbor access point that is connected in the network in accordance with a determination that the access point is verified. The authentication code that is generated by the neighbor access point is received from the access point. The access point is accepted to join the network in accordance with a determination that the authentication code is valid. Embodiments of the present disclosure present a safe and effective way for authenticating the access point that is requesting to join the network, which provides enhanced authentication and increases the security level of the network.
US11805414B2
Systems and methods are provided that may be implemented to use angle of arrival (AoA) of a signal transmitted between two Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) wireless devices to initially authenticate a connection between the two BLE devices. In one example, bonding or pairing with a first BLE device may be restricted to only those other BLE devices having an antenna currently positioned to transmit a signal to the first BLE device from an allowed direction and within a predefined permitted range of AoA relative to the first BLE device.
US11805413B2
A medical device of a medical system is configured for communicating with an external programmer over a wireless communications link. The medical device comprises a wireless communications module configured for receiving a first unencrypted version of a random number and a first encrypted version of the random number from the external programmer over the wireless communications link. The medical device further comprises control circuitry configured for performing an authentication procedure on the external programmer based on the first unencrypted version of the random number and the first encrypted version of the random number, and preventing the external programmer from commanding the medical device to perform an action unless the authentication procedure is successful.
US11805411B2
A method by a WiFi AP for setting-up a WiFi connection with a wireless device, includes sending WiFi service credentials to a Light Fidelity (Li-Fi) AP for transmission through Li-Fi signaling that is broadcast for reception by wireless devices. The method receives and authenticates an authentication request that is received via a RF transceiver of the WiFi AP from the wireless device, which is responding to the WiFi service credentials that were broadcast through the Li-Fi signaling. The method then establishes a WiFi RF connection with the wireless device responsive to the authentication.
US11805403B2
Systems and methods are provided for managing updates to user devices, and in particular, SIM-based OTA updates. In some cases, SIMOTA updates need to be made while a user device has a cellular connection (e.g., 4G/LTE, 5G). As such, an instruction is transmitted to the user devices that need a SIM-based update but that currently have a non-cellular connection. The instruction is for the user devices to deregister from the non-cellular connection and to reregister using a cellular connection. An indication is received that at least a portion of those user devices now currently have a cellular connection. The SIM-based updates are then transmitted to those user devices.
US11805397B2
This Application sets forth techniques for binding and dynamic provisioning of international mobile equipment identifier (IMEI) values with cellular wireless service profiles, such as subscriber identity modules (SIMS) on physical SIM (pSIM) cards and electronic SIMs (eSIMs) on an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC) of the mobile wireless device. When pSIMs and/or eSIMs change on the mobile wireless device, e.g., based on installation, activation, deactivation, de-installation, etc., IMEI binding logic accounts for the changes and maps IMEI values to pSIMs and/or eSIMs as required. IMEI values can be assigned based on a history of bindings between IMEI values and ICCID values of one or more eSIMS on an eUICC. A most recently used or a newly assigned IMEI value can be associated with an eSIM. Whether to assign an identical IMEI value to multiple eSIMs depends on requirements of associated cellular wireless service subscriptions.
US11805396B2
Described herein are techniques for improving the signal-to-noise ratio of a wireless sensor platform. The device that interrogates a wireless sensor node (an interrogator) may be configured to determine the quantity to be measured by extracting information from multiple echoes produced in response to multiple interrogation pulses or produced due to multi-path propagation. Although different echoes may have been transformed to different extents, the echoes may share unique characteristics that are specific to the wireless sensor node that produced them. Accordingly, the SNR may be improved by keeping only portions of the received signal that exhibit such characteristics. The SNR may be further improved by summing the echoes together. In some embodiments, the echoes may be summed together in a coherent fashion, thereby producing an echo having an amplitude greater than the amplitude of each of the received echoes.
US11805392B2
An electronic device may be provided with control circuitry, wireless transceiver circuitry, and a display. The control circuitry may determine where nearby devices are located relative to the electronic device. When a wireless communications link is established with a nearby device, the control circuitry may use the display to inform a user of the status of the wireless communications link and the location of the nearby device. The display may produce images such as a line extending in the direction of the nearby device. The line may move on the display in response to movement of the nearby device. In an environment with multiple devices that are in range for wireless communications, the display may show a notification for each nearby device. The location and size of each notification on the display may be based on the location and proximity of the nearby device.
US11805389B2
A placement of a set of devices in an environment is evaluated. At least a plurality of neighboring locations is selected for a target location in the environment. A probability of an estimated location conditioned on the target location is calculated for each of at least the plurality of neighboring locations as the estimated location by using an observation model for obtaining a set of observation values given a location under the placement. An evaluation metric is computed by using the probability calculated for each of at least the plurality of neighboring locations.
US11805383B2
The present technology relates to a signal processing device, method, and program that can improve encoding efficiency. A signal processing device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires reverb information including at least one of space reverb information specific to a space around an audio object or object reverb information specific to the audio object and an audio object signal of the audio object; and a reverb processing unit that generates a signal of a reverb component of the audio object on the basis of the reverb information and the audio object signal. The present technology can be applied to a signal processing device.
US11805373B2
The present disclosure discloses a MEMS chip which includes a substrate, a back plate fixed on the substrate, and a membrane fixed on the substrate and located above the back plate. A sealed space is formed between the membrane and the back plate. A support pillar is received in the sealed space. Two ends of the support pillar along a vibration direction of the membrane are separately fixed on the membrane and the back plate. As a result, when decreasing the volume of the back cavity, the resonance frequency of the MEMS chip has been effectively improved and the SNR is simultaneously high. Furthermore, the support pillar can effectively improve the reliability and crack resistance of the membrane.
US11805365B2
An electroacoustic diaphragm comprises a membrane, and an electrically conductive circuit carried by the membrane, such that a segment of the electrically conductive circuit is divided into two or more separate subcircuits. An electroacoustic transducer assembly comprises a frame, the novel diaphragm supported on the frame, and a magnetic element disposed adjacent the novel diaphragm whereby the transducer achieves uniform force distribution across the novel diaphragm. An audio device comprises a housing having an acoustic opening and the electroacoustic transducer including the novel diaphragm. Methods for constructing a transducer comprises determining the flux density of a magnetic field and configuring a diaphragm with separate subcircuits to correlate or inversely correlate to the flux density.
US11805354B2
The present disclosure discloses a loudspeaker apparatus. The loudspeaker apparatus may include a circuit housing accommodating a control circuit or a battery; an ear hook and a rear hook connected to both ends of the circuit housing, respectively. The ear hook may be at least partially covered by a first protective housing. The rear hook may be at least partially covered by a second protective housing. The first protective housing and the second protective housing at least partially cover a periphery of the circuit housing from both ends of the circuit housing in a sleeve manner, respectively. The loudspeaker apparatus may further include a speaker connected to one end of the ear hook, the speaker including an earphone core and an earphone core housing for accommodating the earphone core. The earphone core housing may include a housing panel facing the human body and a housing back opposite to the housing panel. A vibration of the earphone core may result in vibrations of the housing panel and the housing back. The vibration of the housing panel may have a first phase, and the vibration of the housing back may have a second phase. When vibration frequencies of the housing panel and the housing back may be in a range of 2000 Hz to 3000 Hz, an absolute value of a difference between the first phase and the second phase may be less than 60 degrees. The loudspeaker apparatus of the present disclosure can avoid damage to the control circuit or the battery caused by high temperature.
US11805351B2
An eartip comprises a central tube part and a cone, the central tube part is in the shape of a column, the cone wraps around the central tube part, the cone comprises a first portion and a second portion, the first portion has a first hardness, the second portion has a second hardness less than the first hardness, a first upper end of the first portion is connected to a top end of the central tube part, and a bottom end of the first portion overlaps with a second upper end of the second portion to form a transition. The invention aims to solve the problems in the prior art that a hardness of eartip materials is too hard to cause discomfort to users, and too soft that may cause the structure to collapse.
US11805348B2
A damping system for an ear cup headphone design. The damping system introduces a completely enclosed inner acoustic volume in the rear volume of the ear cup by way of supporting a baffle damper spaced apart from the driver of the ear cup, wherein the density of the baffle damper diffuses acoustic wave rearwardly emanating from the driver. Additional damper masses of different relative densities may occupy the rear volume rearward of baffle damper.
US11805346B1
The pilot microphone cover for reducing ambient noise comprises an enclosure, an audio aperture, and a pair of sound redirection ridges. The pilot microphone cover may attenuate ambient noise to reduce interference with voice communication within a cockpit of an airplane. The pilot microphone cover may be used for anyone who wears a headset in a high wind environment, including but not limited to, ground support, staff, crew, etc. The enclosure may be adapted to cover a microphone of a headset. The enclosure may block the ambient noise while allowing the microphone to pick up sounds that originate in front of the microphone and that enter the enclosure through the audio aperture. The pair of sound redirection ridges may further attenuate the ambient noise originating above and below the microphone.
US11805334B2
An apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to obtain a signal indicating an address of a pixel in which a change in luminance has occurred and time of the change and a generation unit configured to generate a time-series image indicating a position of at least one pixel in which a change in luminance has occurred and a direction of the change in luminance based on the signal, wherein, when the time-series image is to be displayed in reverse chronological order, the generation unit generates the time-series image in which the direction of the change in luminance is reversed.
US11805329B1
Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for real-time adjustment of image quality parameters. The system includes a controller configured to: acquire an image frame, having a fixed-pixel region that defines a region-of-interest, from one or more imaging devices; apply image processing techniques to determine a modified fixed-pixel region that excludes non-relevant object pixels; alter one or more image quality parameters based on statistics of pixels in the modified fixed-pixel region; and provide the altered one or more image quality parameters to the one or more imaging devices for use with subsequent image frames; wherein the one or more imaging devices produce an image that is tuned, based on the altered one or more image quality parameters, to the portions of the image in the region-of-interest that does not include the non-relevant object pixels.
US11805328B2
An electronic device receives a first plurality of images of a scene captured by an image sensor of an electronic device, receives an ambient light level proximate to the electronic device, and determines whether the ambient light level is less than a first threshold value. In accordance with a determination that the ambient light level is less than the first threshold value, the electronic device detects motion in the scene based on one or more of the first plurality of images. In accordance with detecting motion in the scene, the electronic device receives a second plurality of images of the scene captured by the image sensor of the electronic device, forms a composite image from two or more of the second plurality of images, and causes the composite image to be presented for display on a user device.
US11805308B2
There are provided an imaging apparatus and an imaging method that enable operation in which a display unit is brought into a turn-off state when a predetermined time elapses after start of capturing a moving image, a command from a remote commander is accepted and executed, and the captured moving image is output to an external apparatus. In a case where a manipulation unit that outputs a command depending on content of a user manipulation is manipulated and a command causing a moving image to be recorded on a recording medium is output, recording of the moving image is started and the display unit is controlled to a turn-off state in which an image is not displayed.
US11805296B2
Per-viewer engagement-based video optimization is disclosed. A request for content associated with a first client is received. A model associated with the first client is obtained. The obtained model comprises at least one of behavior and playback preferences of a viewer associated with the first client. The obtained model is used to determine, for the first client, an optimal set of instructions usable to obtain content. A different set of instructions is determined to be optimal for a second client. The optimal set of instructions determined for the client is provided as output. The first client is configured to obtain content according to the optimal set of instructions determined for the first client.
US11805291B2
Tag data is created from in-band data in a media content item by a remote location while the media content item is being broadcasted by a content provider and received by the remote location. The tag data identifies locations in the media content item which enables media devices to accurately jump to particular locations in the media content item based on the tag data.
US11805280B2
A video processing method includes performing a conversion between a video and a bitstream of the video. The bitstream conforms to a format rule specifying a condition that controls whether or how one or more syntax elements related to picture order counts for a long term reference picture are included in a reference picture list syntax structure in the bitstream.
US11805274B2
Methods, systems and device for hash-based motion estimation in video coding are described. An exemplary method of video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a current block of a video and a bitstream representation of the video, motion information associated with the current block using a hash-based motion search, a size of the current block being M×N, M and N being positive integers and M being not equal to N, applying, based on the motion information and a video picture comprising the current block, a prediction for the current block, and performing, based on the prediction, the conversion.
US11805273B2
An encoder includes circuitry and memory connected to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry corrects a base motion vector using a correction value in a fixed direction; and encodes a current partition by using the corrected base motion vector corrected. The correction value is specified by an index indicating one of correction values included in a table. The table is selected from among a plurality of tables, wherein the correction values in one of the plurality of tables have different increments from the correction values in another one of the plurality of tables.
US11805263B2
A video decoding method according to the present document comprises a step of deriving transform coefficients for a current block on the basis of residual information, wherein the step of deriving the transform coefficients comprises a step of deriving a zero-out block indicating a region in which effective transform coefficients may exist in the current block, wherein the zero-out block is derived on the basis of flag information indicating whether multiple transform selection (MTS), in which a plurality of transform kernels are used, can be applied to the current block.
US11805261B1
A method and apparatus for enabling compression of a stream of pictures according to a target bit rate are described. A first configuration parameter for a first portion is determined based at least in part on a first relative weight of the first portion with respect to a first set of N portions, where the first set of N portions includes the first portion and N-1 portions which succeed the first portion. A second configuration parameter for a second portion of a second picture is determined based at least in part on a second relative weight of the second portion with respect to a second set of M portions of pictures, where the second set of M portions includes a subset of the N-1 portions from the first set and zero or more additional portions of pictures from the stream of pictures.
US11805257B2
An image decoding method includes a step of deriving a modified transform coefficient, wherein the step of deriving the modified transform coefficient includes the steps of: deriving a first variable indicating whether the transform coefficient exists in an area excluding a DC location of the current block; parsing an LFNST index based on the derivation result; and deriving the modified transform coefficient based on the LFNST index and an LFNST matrix, and based on the fact that the current block is divided into a plurality of sub-partition blocks, the LFNST index can be parsed without deriving the first variable.
US11805252B2
Non-power-two-partition tree in video compression is described. In an exemplary aspect, a method for video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a first block of video and a bitstream representation of the first block of video, whether a use of non-power-of-two partition trees (NPT-T) is enabled or disabled, wherein the NPT-T includes splitting the first block to multiple smaller sized child blocks of the first block, and at least one child block's width and/or height have a dimension that is a non-power-of-two integer; and performing the conversion based on the NPT-T in response to the determination that the NPT-T is enabled.
US11805251B2
A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for video coding. Video data comprising a chroma component and a luma component is received. Luma samples are extracted from the luma component of the received video data. The chroma component is filtered based on the extracted luma samples using a cross-component adaptive loop filter (CC-ALF). Coefficients associated with the CC-ALF are constrained to be less than a sum of a bit-depth value associated with the luma samples and a positive offset value.
US11805249B2
A filter for video coding is provided, where the filter is configured for processing a block for generation of a filtered block, and the block comprises a plurality of pixels. The filter includes one or more processor configured to: obtain a quantization parameter (QP) of the block; obtain a threshold (THR) based on the QP; and obtain a look up table based on QP, so as to generate a filtered block based on the threshold and the look up table. The filter is provided allowing improving the efficiency for video coding.
US11805248B2
Disclosed are a method for decoding a video signal and a device therefore. More particularly, a method for decoding an image based on an intra prediction mode, may comprise the steps of: acquiring a most probable mode (MPM) flag for indicating whether an MPM is applied to a current block, the MPM representing a mode in which an intra prediction mode of the current block is induced from an intra predicted block neighboring the current block; configuring an MPM list, on the basis of whether intra prediction modes of a left neighboring block and an above neighboring block of the current block satisfy predefined conditions, if the MPM is applied to the current block; acquiring an MPM index for indicating, within the MPM list, a specific intra prediction mode; and generating a prediction block for the current block by using the intra prediction mode specified by the MPM index.
US11805235B2
A three-dimensional imaging apparatus includes: a housing having a first opening and a second opening; a first imaging device configured to collect a first set of image data, the first imaging device being mounted within the housing and having an optical axis through the first opening of the housing and a first field of view configured with respect to the optical axis; and a second imaging device configured to collect a second set of image data, the second imaging device being mounted within the housing and having a scanning plane through the second opening of the housing and a second field of view configured with respect to the scanning plane. The optical axis of the first imaging device and the scanning plane of the second imaging device form an angle. The first field of view and the second field of view do not overlap.
US11805220B2
Embodiments of the present application are an image fusion method and a bifocal camera. The method includes: acquiring a thermal image captured by the thermal imaging lens and a visible light image captured by the visible light lens; determining a first focal length when the thermal imaging lens captures the thermal image and a second focal length when the visible light lens captures the visible light image; determining a size calibration parameter and a position calibration parameter of the thermal image according to the first focal length and the second focal length; adjusting a size of the thermal image according to the size calibration parameter, and moving the adjusted thermal image to the visible light image according to the position calibration parameter for registration with the visible light image, to obtain to-be-fused images; and fusing the to-be-fused images to generate a bifocal fused image.
US11805217B2
An image recording device comprises a conveyance mechanism, a head, a sensor configured to detect a position of an orthogonal edge of recording medium in a direction orthogonal to a conveyance direction, and a controller. The controller tentatively determines, for each of a plurality of unit areas aligned in the conveyance direction on the recording medium, a recording position of an image for the unit area based on image data and a size of the recording medium, derives a correction amount for the tentatively determined recording position, and determines whether the correction amount exceeds a first upper limit for each unit area. When it is determined that the correction amount does not exceed the first upper limit, the controller determines the recording position based on the correction amount, and causes the head to record an image at the recording position determined in the determining.
US11805212B2
A multifunction apparatus includes a reading mechanism including a document discharge port configured to discharge a document, a recording mechanism including a medium discharge port configured to discharge a recording medium, and a control unit, and a path through which a leading end of the recording medium discharged from the medium discharge port passes and the document discharged from the document discharge port have such a positional relationship to intersect with each other at an intersecting position, and when the leading end of the recording medium is discharged from the medium discharge port in a stop state where the document discharged from the document discharge port blocks the path of the leading end of the recording medium discharged from the medium discharge port, the control unit performs a predetermined operation for canceling the stop state before causing the leading end of the recording medium to reach the intersecting position.
US11805189B1
An example operation may include one or more of receiving an audio file from a public safety answering point (PSAP), the audio file comprising a recording of a telephone call, converting the audio file into a text file that comprises a transcript of the telephone call, identifying a keyword within the text file that is associated with a topic, and transmitting a portion of the text file of the telephone call to one or more subscribers that have registered with the topic.
US11805184B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a CDN utilizing a Direct Server Return (DSR) request command to create a tunnel from one content server to another content server of the CDN. Through the DSR tunnel, a request for content may be served from a content server that is more advantageous for the CDN for any number of reasons, such as from a content server that is logically closer to the content server. In determining when a DSR tunnel is created to provide the content, the CDN may access a database storing various information concerning the CDN, such as the location of egress gateways of the CDN in relation to one or more content servers, connecting network location information, the capabilities of one or more content servers, and/or load information of available content servers.
US11805175B2
A processor may analyze an external device for one or more activity data collection devices. A processor may identify an activity the external device will perform in a protected boundary using the one or more activity data collection devices. A processor may deactivate the one or more activity data collection devices associated with the external device. A processor may generate activity data based, at least in part, on the activity and the protected boundary. A processor may output the activity data to the external device. In some embodiments, the external device may perform the activity using the activity data.
US11805173B2
Systems and methods disclosed herein include a wireless horticultural system, which includes a computer, an adapter configured to receive an input from the computer, in which the input is formatted in a first native communications protocol of the computer, convert the input from the first native communications protocol into a first wireless signal, and transmit the first wireless signal to one or more controllers. The system further includes the one or more controllers, in which a first controller in the one or more controllers is connected to the adapter and configured to receive the first wireless signal from the adapter, and provide the input encoded in the first wireless signal to a device connected to the first controller.
US11805167B2
Sharing data in a data exchange across multiple cloud computing platforms and/or cloud computing platform regions is described. An example computer-implemented method can include creating a listing in a data exchange, the listing including a data set hosted by a first cloud computing entity. The data set can be shared with a second cloud computing entity. The method further includes receiving a request associated with a customer account of the second cloud computing entity to access the data set of the listing hosted by the first cloud computing entity and replicating at least a subset of the data set of the listing from the first cloud computing entity to a provider account at the second cloud computing entity to be accessible by the customer account at the second cloud computing entity.
US11805162B2
Systems and methods for delivering content to user equipment are described. The content may be delivered using Internet Protocol (IP) delivery, Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) delivery, or another delivery format. For example, the system may receive content including a plurality of segments. The system may use manifest data to identify each of the plurality of segments. The system may also use the manifest data to generate index data for the plurality of segments, and the index data may be delivered to user devices with the plurality of segments. In some aspects, the system may use location information (e.g., timestamps, such as program clock references) for one or more data packet of the one of the plurality of segments to generate location information for other data packets.
US11805153B2
Techniques for location based security in service provider networks (e.g., service provider networks for mobile subscribers) are disclosed. A system/process/computer program product for location based security in service provider networks includes monitoring network traffic on a service provider network at a security platform to identify a location for a new session; associating the location with the new session at the security platform; and determining a security policy to apply at the security platform to the new session based on the location.
US11805140B2
A device may receive training data simulating different types of software-defined network (SDN) attacks or anomalies and may train a machine learning model with the training data to generate a trained machine learning model. The device may receive SDN data from multiple SDN controllers and multiple SDN devices of an SDN network and may perform natural language processing on the SDN data to clean the SDN data and generate clean SDN data. The device may process the clean SDN data, with the trained machine learning model, to identify an attack on the SDN network or one or more anomalies in the SDN data and may perform one or more actions based on the attack on the SDN network or the one or more anomalies in the SDN data.
US11805139B1
A multiclass classifier generates a probability vector for individual data units of an input data stream. The probability vector has prediction probability values for classes that the multiclass classifier has been trained to detect. A class with the highest prediction probability value among the classes in a probability vector is selected as the predicted class. A confidence score is calculated based on the prediction probability value of the class. Confidence scores of the class are accumulated within a sliding window. The class is declared to be the detected class of the input data stream when the accumulated value of the class meets an accumulator threshold. A security policy for an application program that is mapped to the class is enforced against the input data stream.
US11805138B2
Systems and methods for Data Loss Prevention (DLP) on images include detecting an image in monitored user traffic; scanning the image to identify any text and extracting any identified text therein; responsive to the extracting, scanning the extracted text with a plurality of DLP techniques including one or more DLP engines where the extracted text is checked to trigger the one or more DLP engines, Exact Data Matching (EDM) where the extracted text is matched to see if it matches specific content, and Indexed Data Matching (IDM) where the extracted text is matched to some part of a document from a repository of documents; and performing one or more actions based on results of the plurality of DLP techniques.
US11805134B2
A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes: authenticating a user for login to a service for a first authenticated user session; in response to authenticating the user, generating a first data string associated with a first validity period; sending, to a client device associated with the user, the first data string; receiving, from the client device, a data access request to access a first data set at a remote data source, the data access request including the first data string; determining that the first authenticated user session has been terminated at a time of receiving the data access request; validating the first data string based on checking the first validity period; and in response to determining that the first authenticated user session has been terminated and that the first data string is valid, transmitting, to the client device, a data access response including at least a subset of the first data set.
US11805111B2
A method, apparatus and system for secure one-way RFID tag identification is provided. The method comprising generating, at an RFID tag, an auxiliary identifier; generating, at an RFID tag, a secure representation based on the auxiliary identifier; transmitting, from the RFID tag and receiving at an RFID reader, one or more representations of the auxiliary identifier and the tag identifier including the secure representation; and verifying the identity of the RFID tag based on the received representations.
US11805108B2
Examples of scheduled and on-demand volume encryption suspension are described. In some examples, volume encryption is to be suspended for a client device. A suspension limit is identified for a volume encryption suspension for the client device. A suspend encryption command is generated to include instructions for the client device to apply the volume encryption suspension according to the suspension limit. The suspend encryption command is transmitted to the client device for execution.
US11805103B2
Examples of dynamically selecting tunnel endpoints are described. In an example, a request for authenticating a client device connected to an edge device via a wired link is received. The request includes information indicative of a port of the edge device at which the client device is connected and a type of the client device. Based on at least one of the port, the type, resource availability of a plurality of network devices, and location of the plurality of network devices, a network device is identified as a tunnel endpoint. A message indicative of a successful authentication of the client device is sent to the edge device. The message includes a network address of the network device identified as the tunnel endpoint.
US11805101B2
Some embodiments provide a novel secure method for suppressing address discovery messaging. In some embodiments, the method receives an address discovery record that provides a network address associated with a machine connected to a network. The method then identifies a set of one or more rules for evaluating the received address discovery record to determine whether the address discovery record or its provided network address should be distributed to one or more hosts and/or devices associated with the network. The method then processes the set of rules to determine whether the received address discovery record violates a rule in the set of rules so as to prevent the distribution of its provided network address. When the address discovery record violates a rule, the method discards it in some embodiments. On the other hand, when the address discovery record does not violate any rule in the identified set of rules, the method distributes the address discovery record or its provided network address to one or more hosts and/or devices associated with the network.
US11805096B2
A system that communicates information is described. This system includes: a network interface, a proxy device coupled to the network interface, and an interface node coupled to the proxy device and configured to couple to a channel. Note that the network interface is configured to transmit outbound messages from the system to a location and to receive inbound messages to the system from the location, and the channel is configured to convey the outbound messages and the inbound messages. Moreover, the proxy device is configured to inspect a given message inbound or outbound based on a pre-determined profile of the location and pre-defined communication rules. Then, the proxy device is configured to restrict the given message based on a result of the inspection, where the restriction occurs after the system begins a communication session with the location and is performed for the duration of the communication session.
US11805090B1
A delayed messaging application that allows a user to leave future messages for one or more recipients. The application maintains regular contact with the user and release of the messages is initiated upon a failure to confirm the continued existence of the user. A user first writes one or more messages they would like delivered to one or more recipients at some point in the future, based on a triggering event. For each message, a ping controller configurable in a secure message mode wherein the message is inaccessible and the ping controller periodically pings an electronic device according to the settings and receives responses to pings. Responsive to a lack of one or more responses to one or more pings the ping controller is configured to enter an unsecured message mode wherein the message is accessible.
US11805088B2
Disclosed embodiments herein related to a message management server that provides a platform for message publishers to build message series with different messages that are transmitted to message recipients via different channels. A message publisher may specify triggering conditions for a message series. The message management server may automatically identify message recipients to receive an initial message. The message management server may continue to monitor event notifications related to the message recipients and send subsequent messages in the series to the message recipients when conditions are met. Each message may be sent via a different channel as specified by the message recipients. The platform may include a graphical user interface to provide previews of the messages as rendered in various end user device models when the messages are delivered via the specified channels.
US11805087B2
Disclosed is a method for controlling the unauthorized transmission of a messaging thread in a messaging platform. The method includes the step of receiving first user addresses of intended recipients through an address module. The method then includes the step of initiating a messaging thread by entering textual information and/or attaching a media file through a messaging module or both. Further, the method includes the step of pre-storing second user addresses intended to be removed from the messaging thread through a listing module. The method then includes the step of matching the first user addresses of intended recipients with the second user addresses stored in the listing module through a matching module. The method includes the step of preventing transmission of the messaging thread to the matched second user addresses pre-stored in the listing module through a filter module.
US11805081B2
Packets received non-contiguously from a network are processed by a network interface controller by coalescing received packet payload into receive buffers on a receive buffer queue and writing descriptors associated with the receive buffers for a same flow consecutively in a receive completion queue. System performance is optimized by reusing a small working set of provisioned receive buffers to minimize the memory footprint of memory allocated to store packet data. The remainder of the provisioned buffers are in an overflow queue and can be assigned to the network interface controller if the small working set of receive buffers is not sufficient to keep up with the received packet rate. The receive buffer queue can be refilled based on either timers or when the number of buffers in the receive buffer queue is below a configurable low watermark.
US11805080B2
A buffered switch system for end-to-end data congestion and traffic drop prevention. More specifically, and without limitation, the various aspects and embodiments of the invention relates to the management of buffered switch to prevent the balancing act of buffer sizing, latency, and traffic drop.
US11805079B2
The presentation invention relates to methods and apparatus for coordinating the buffering and transmission of data between a Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) and a wireless base station. An exemplary method in accordance with one embodiment includes the steps of: receiving a buffer management mode message at a CMTS from a wireless base station; switching, by the CMTS, from operating in a first mode of operation to operating in a second mode of operation with respect to buffering and communicating downlink data to the wireless base station; and while operating in the second mode of operation: (i) creating a plurality of CMTS downlink data buffers, each of the plurality of CMTS downlink data buffers corresponding to a different user equipment device to which the wireless base station is actively providing services; and (ii) storing a received downlink data packet in one of the plurality of CMTS downlink data buffers.
US11805074B2
A control apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires application information related to at least one of a plurality of sessions at a plurality of timings for each of the plurality of sessions related to a plurality of types of applications that are communicating in a network, a search unit that searches for an allocation band of each of the plurality of sessions at the plurality of timings based on a QoE prediction value of each of the plurality of sessions derived from the application information and a condition for a band of the network, and a control unit that controls allocation of a band for each of the plurality of sessions at the plurality of timings based on the allocation band searched by the search unit.
US11805073B2
A technique is directed toward controlling placement of workloads of an application within an application environment. The technique involves, while a first placement of workloads of the application is in a first deployment of resources within the application environment, generating a set of resource deployment changes that accommodates a predicted change in demand on the application. The technique further involves adjusting the first deployment of resources within the application environment to form a second deployment of resources within the application environment, the second deployment of resources being different from the first deployment of resources. The technique further involves providing a second placement of workloads of the application in the second deployment of resources to accommodate the predicted change in demand on the application, the second placement of workloads being different from the first placement of workloads.
US11805060B2
Systems and methods are provided for a new type of quality of service (QoS) primitive at a network device that has better performance than traditional QoS primitives. The QoS primitive may comprise a token bucket with active queue management (TBAQM). Particularly, the TBAQM may receive a data packet that is processed by the token bucket; adjust tokens associated with the token bucket, where the tokens are added based on a configured rate and subtracted in association with processing the data packet; determine a number of tokens associated with the token bucket, comprising: when the token bucket has zero tokens, initiating a first action with the data packet, and when the token bucket has more than zero tokens, determining a marking probability based on the number of tokens and initiating a second action based on the marking probability.
US11805052B2
A method including receiving, by an infrastructure device in communication with a first device in a mesh network, a binding request from a meshnet local port associated with the first device that is dedicated for communicating meshnet data associated with the first device, the binding request requesting the infrastructure device to determine a currently allocated public port associated with the first device; and transmitting, by the infrastructure device to the first device, a response indicating the currently allocated public port associated with the first device. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11805051B2
Some embodiments provide policy-driven methods for deploying edge forwarding elements in a public or private SDDC for tenants or applications. For instance, the method of some embodiments allows administrators to create different traffic groups for different applications and/or tenants, deploys edge forwarding elements for the different traffic groups, and configures forwarding elements in the SDDC to direct data message flows of the applications and/or tenants through the edge forwarding elements deployed for them. The policy-driven method of some embodiments also dynamically deploys edge forwarding elements in the SDDC for applications and/or tenants after detecting the need for the edge forwarding elements based on monitored traffic flow conditions.
US11805050B2
The system and methods discussed herein provide for filtering out noisy application signatures to improve the precision of first packet application classification. In some implementations, the system receive application signatures from devices along with their network identifiers. Based upon the frequency at which identical application signatures appear as originating from distinct network environments, the system determines the validity of application signatures and avoids storing irrelevant information for routing network traffic.
US11805049B2
A communication method and a communications device are provided. The communication method includes: a first device receives a first BGP update packet from a second device. The first BGP update packet includes a route target and a first address family identifier. The first device determines a first route associated with the route target and the first address family identifier. The first device sends the first route to the second device.
US11805048B1
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving network performance metrics for a plurality of paths through a network, each path extending from a customer equipment to an application server for data communication by the customer equipment with an application running on the application server, selecting a selected path among the plurality of paths, wherein the selecting is based on the network performance metrics, and communicating between the customer equipment and the application server according to the selected path. Border gateway protocol (BGP) community values (BGP CV) add BGP performance metrics community values (BPM CV) to convey network performance metrics to provider edge routers and customer premises equipment for network selection. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11805047B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for controlling a network traffic path. The method includes: receiving routing advertisement information from a first network to a second network; determining all routing nodes included in a path through which data pass when flowing from the second network to the first network according to the routing advertisement information; and configuring a next hop routing node for each determined routing node, where the next hop routing node is a node in all the routing nodes included in the path and is adjacent to the routing node for which the next hop routing node is configured, and the routing node for which the next hop routing node is configured does not include a routing node of the first network or a routing node of the second network.
US11805043B2
Techniques for real-time encrypted over-the-top (OTT) data quality analysis are presented. For instance, the present disclosure includes an example method performed by a device in a recurrent neural network (RNN) implemented in a data communication system. The method includes periodically obtaining information corresponding to one or more OTT data sessions in the data communication system, the information being obtained from one or more of a packet probe, a test terminal, and a network node. The method also includes generating at least one quality metric associated with the one or more OTT data sessions based on the periodically obtained information. Related devices, processor and memory arrangements, methods, and computer programs are also presented.
US11805042B2
Technologies for timestamping data packets with forward error correction is disclosed. Alignment markers may be inserted in a data stream in order to assist with synchronization on the receiving end. After insertion of the alignment markers, a start of frame delimiter or other trigger may be detected, triggering a timestamp corresponding to the start of frame delimiter or other trigger. The data and the timestamp are sent to a remote compute device, which may timestamp the data before removing the alignment markers. With this approach, insertion of the alignment markers does not lead to a deviation in the timestamp of the sending compute device or the receiving compute device.
US11805041B2
Provided are an in-memory management system and method using user traffic. According to embodiments thereof, traffic bandwidth is monitored for an ERP user who has left an LAN coverage area, by using an OpenFlow-based SDN WAN, and loading or unloading of a table partition set, an SQL Plan cache, and an SQL view cache in an in-memory is managed depending on a result of monitoring, so that the in-memory can be efficiently managed. The user traffic for the ERP user and the user can be monitored through the local network, and loading or unloading of table partitions of the in-memory can be managed on the basis of the monitored user traffic so that the in-memory can be managed regardless of Internet access. Data transmission rate and security can be enhanced because distributed communication is performed over an LAN and a WAN for each user and each ERP user.
US11805040B2
Methods and apparatus to exclude network communication traffic from media monitoring records are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes a first communication radio to collect records of network traffic on a communication network and a second communication radio to transmit the records identifying a portion of the network traffic to an audience measurement entity. The example apparatus further includes a MAC address determiner to determine the MAC address of the second communication radio and a record filter to remove the network communication associated with the MAC address from the records.
US11805018B2
An example system includes a vehicle having a first network zone and a second network zone of a different type than the first network zone; a gatekeeper interface circuit interposed between the first network zone and a transceiver selectively couplable to an external device, and further interposed between the second network zone and the transceiver; a policy manager circuit structured to interpret a policy comprising an external data routing description; and a configuration circuit structured to configure the gatekeeper interface circuit in response to the external data routing description; wherein the gatekeeper interface circuit is structured to regulate communications between end points of the first network zone and the transceiver, and to regulate communications between end points of the second network zone and the transceiver.
US11805017B2
A method for determining third party network compliance with a host entity network is provided. The method may include generating a scanning file that includes host entity network compliance standards and transferring the scanning file to an intermediary entity network. The method may further include generating an executable file that may run a plug-in scanning file to scan hardware and software resident at the third-party network for compliance. The method may further include transferring the executable file from the intermediary entity network to the third party network. The method may further include executing the executable file, generating a log file upon the completion of the running of the plug-in scanning file and digitally signing the log file. The method may further include deciphering the log file at the intermediary entity network, generating a readable report based on the deciphering and transferring the readable report to the host entity network.
US11805015B2
A method for network slice assignment including: defining an intent for at least one network slice; selecting at least one network slice instance has capability to meet the intent; monitoring the selected network slice instance to determine whether the selected network slice instance is achieving the intent; and if the intent is not being met, reprioritizing at least one network slice instance in order to prioritize the selected network slice instance; if the intent is being met, continue monitoring the selected network slice instance. A system for network slice assignment including: a selection module configured to define an intent for at least one network slice and select at least one network slice; a monitoring module configured to monitor the selected network slice instance; an analysis module configured to determine if the intent is being met; and a reprioritization module configured to reprioritize at least one network slice.
US11805014B2
Mesh network resiliency technology, in which a first routing configuration for nodes of a mesh network is determined, the first routing configuration being appropriate when a first power source of the mesh network is available. Routing data that indicates routing responsibilities within the first routing configuration is provided to first nodes of the mesh network. An interruption of the first power source for the mesh network is detected by nodes of the mesh network. In response to detecting the interruption, a second routing configuration for nodes of the mesh network is determined, the second routing configuration being appropriate when the first power source of the mesh network is unavailable. Routing data that indicates routing responsibilities within the second configuration is provided to second nodes of the mesh network, each of the second nodes including a second power source that is different than the first power source.
US11805010B2
In general, techniques are described for signaling IP path tunnels for traffic engineering using constraints in an IP network. For example, network devices, e.g., routers, of an IP network may compute an IP path using constraint information and establish the IP path using, for example, Resource Reservation Protocol, to signal the IP path without using MPLS. As one example, the egress router generates a path reservation signaling message that includes an egress IP address that is assigned for use by the routers on the IP path to send traffic of the data flow by encapsulating the traffic with the egress IP address and forwarding toward the egress router. As each router in the IP path receives the path reservation signaling message, the router configures a forwarding state to forward traffic encapsulated with the egress IP address to a next hop along the IP path toward the egress router.
US11805006B2
A Quality of Service (QoS) improvement system and method for transport network fault detection and QoS improvement so that a telecommunication network service provider can analyze the root cause on chronic performance issues and recommend potential solutions is disclosed. The system runs performance analysis on each AAV (mobile backhaul) or other transport networks and collects performance related metrics data. The system then selects a subset of the data related to certain key performance indicators (KPIs), such as latency, jitter, packet loss ratio, and availability. On this subset of KPI-related data, the system applies clustering techniques to identify clusters with similar performance issues. For each cluster, the system binds the AAV performance KPI data with one or more of the following site features—health, location, vendor, market, service type, etc.—to create a cluster map. The system can then generate inferences on root causes of the performance issues.
US11805002B2
Systems and methods are provided for deriving, based on a service for which an entity is to be selected or provisioned, a query to determine, from candidate nodes, one or more node instances within a topology that fulfill one or more criteria provided by one or more classes; and an additional criterion. The candidate nodes represent respective entities. The evaluation of the query includes determining the classes that satisfy or fulfill the one or more criteria, determining one or more second classes that match, or inherit from, the one or more classes, partially evaluating the additional criterion within respective contexts of the candidate nodes and each of the one or more second classes, based on the partial evaluation, processing the query to determine the node instances, and provisioning or presenting an entity represented by a node instance of the node instances to the service.
US11805001B2
A method for migrating a data schema comprising combining a first deterministic finite automaton with a second deterministic finite automaton to generate a modified deterministic finite automation. Identifying a state of the modified deterministic finite automaton without computed followers. Computing a new vector of original states for each state of the modified deterministic finite automaton corresponding to the identified state.
US11804999B2
A method of determining reserved tones to be used for reduction of a peak to average power ratio (PAPR) of a signal includes: randomly selecting carrier indices for the reserved tones and generating a kernel signal based on the randomly selected carrier indices for the reserved tones; calculating a comparison reference average value of the kernel signal, comparing the calculated comparison reference average value with a prestored comparison reference average value, and preliminarily determining carrier indices of the reserved tones based on the comparison; re-arranging an order of the preliminarily determined carrier indices of the reserved tones; calculating comparison reference average values of kernel signals generated by changing each of the re-arranged carrier indices of the reserved tones, and finally determining carrier indices of the reserved tones which generate a kerneal signal having the smallest comparison reference average value among the comparison reference average values as indices of the reserved tones.
US11804988B2
In one aspect, A computerized method of a gateway distributing routes learned through routing protocols (RP) into a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) includes the step of providing a first gateway that receives a route over a routing protocol. The method includes the step of with the first gateway, redistributing the route to one or more peer routers as a BGP route based on one or more specified criteria. The method includes the step of setting a gateway precedence based on the redistribution of the route to the one or more peer routers as the BGP route. The method includes the step of, based on the gateway precedence, setting a second gateway to automatically redistribute the route with different priorities to influence steering of traffic to a preferred gateway.
US11804980B2
An extension module for function extension of a network assembly is provided, wherein the network assembly has a communication bus for providing communication between a logic unit of a base module of the network assembly and one or more extension modules, in particular one or more function devices and/or communication modules, and wherein the extension module is designed to be connected to the communication bus of the network assembly for function extension or function provision of the network assembly in order to provide at least one additional function of an electrical load connected to the network assembly.
US11804976B2
Techniques are described for using information from a knob sensor of an appliance in a property monitoring system. In some implementations, a monitoring system may be configured to receive sensor information from a knob, receive monitoring device information from a monitoring device and, based on the sensor information from the knob, identify a knob event. The monitoring system may integrate the knob event with the monitoring device information and analyze the integrated knob event and monitoring device information against one or more rules related to usage of the appliance in view of the state of the property. Based on analyzing the integrated knob event and monitoring device information, the monitoring system may determine whether to perform an action, such as notifying a user or activating an appliance.
US11804970B2
Baseboard management controller (‘BMC’) group administration includes: receiving, by a member BMC from a leader BMC, a leader certificate and a request to join a group of the leader BMC, where the request is signed by the leader BMC and the leader certificate is signed by a certificate authority; authenticating, by the member BMC, the leader certificate and the request; and sending, by the member BMC, an acknowledgement to the leader BMC to join the leader BMC's group.
US11804968B2
An area efficient architecture for lattice based key encapsulation and digital signature generation having a co-processor with a polynomial arithmetic submodule configured to process polynomial arithmetic and generate integer values representing polynomial coefficients, a hash submodule operably configured to perform hash operations and to generate pseudorandom numbers, a polynomial format submodule communicatively coupled to the polynomial arithmetic submodule and the hash submodule and operably configured to encode polynomials and decode polynomials, a memory bank communicatively coupled with and operably configured to receive and store temporary values from the polynomial arithmetic submodule, the hash submodule, the polynomial format submodule, and a data interface, and with a control unit operably configured to manage the data interface at selectively controlled time intervals and to utilize the polynomial arithmetic submodule, the hash submodule, and the polynomial format submodule to perform the plurality of cryptographic algorithms for Dilithium-DSA and for Kyber-KEM with the temporary values.
US11804946B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for syntonizing machines in a network. A coordinator accesses probe records for probes transmitted at different times between pairs of machines in the mesh network. For different pairs of machines, the coordinator estimates the drift between the pair of machines based on the transit times of probes transmitted between the pair of machines as indicated by the probe records. For different loops of at least three machines in the mesh network, the coordinator calculates a loop drift error based on a sum of the estimated drifts between pairs of machines around the loop and adjusts the estimated absolute drifts of the machines based on the loop drift errors. Here, the absolute drift is defined relative to a drift of a reference machine.
US11804940B2
Devices and systems of sensing, resource selection and control signaling for feedback-less and feedback-based NR-V2X sidelink communication are described. Resource reservation and selection for sidelink retransmissions based on HARQ feedback are described for unicast, groupcast, and broadcast blind retransmissions. After exchanging HARQ feedback capability information for different types of communications, a HARQ-dependent or HARQ-independent resource selection occurs. Look-ahead and/or chain-based resource selection and reservation signaling is used, in which a single resource or some or all of the resources selected are signaled as reserved. Further resource selection of a single additional resource may occur after an initial resource selection. The resource selection for retransmissions may be adapted using a RSRP or distance threshold.
US11804929B2
The disclosure relates to a communication technique and a system for integrating a 5G communication system with IoT technology to support a higher data transmission rate after a 4G system. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services, based on 5G communication technology and IoT-related technologies (e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail, security and safety related services, etc.).
US11804928B2
A method for data transmission, applied to a transmitting end user equipment (UE), includes acquiring an indication with respect to a logical channel; determining a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) retransmission without requiring feedback or requiring feedback of data to be transmitted based on the indication with respect to the logical channel on HARQ retransmission of the data to be transmitted; and transmitting, according to the HARQ retransmission mode, the data to be transmitted to a receiving end UE.
US11804921B2
Disclosed is a method of determining time in a digital processing system, comprising, in a present cycle of a first digital clock: accessing a reference time counter for a reference digital clock, wherein the reference time counter increments in value by a fixed amount at every cycle of the reference digital clock, the reference digital clock being of a higher accuracy than the first digital clock; accessing a first time counter for the first digital clock, wherein the first time counter increments in value by an updatable increment amount at each cycle of the first digital clock; and comparing at least one part of the reference time counter with at least one corresponding part of the first time counter. Based on the comparing, an adjustment is made to one or more attributes of the first time counter, so that first time counter at least approximates the reference time counter.
US11804912B2
One example includes a self-synchronizing TDD antenna system. The system includes an antenna system to communicate transmit and receive signals and an antenna control circuit coupled to a user communication system. The antenna control circuit includes a transmission line measurement circuit to determine signal loss through a transmission line cable coupled to the antenna system and an amplitude adjustment circuit to adjust amplitude of the transmit and/or receive signals based on the signal loss. A transmit detection circuit monitors signal power of the transmit signal, and a controller switches the amplitude adjustment circuit from a receive mode to a transmit mode in response to the monitored signal power exceeding a predetermined threshold. In the receive mode, the adjustment circuit applies a receive amplitude adjustment to the receive signal, and in the transmit mode the adjustment circuit applies a transmit amplitude adjustment to the transmit signal.
US11804904B1
A beam steering subsystem is provided in an optical communication system. The beam steering subsystem is configured for steering a free-space optical (FSO) beam from a first transceiver to a second transceiver disposed remotely from the first receiver. The beam steering subsystem includes a beam steering device disposed between the first transceiver and the second transceiver, and an optical tracking unit in optical communication and electrical communication with the beam steering device. The wherein the beam steering device is further configured to (i) receive the FSO beam from the first transceiver, (ii) receive an optical tracking signal from the second transceiver, (iii) optically relay the received optical tracking signal to the optical tracking unit, and (iv) steer the FSO beam to the second transceiver based on an electrical feedback control signal from optical tracking unit.
US11804902B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, implementing an Optical Line Terminal (OLT) that successfully communicates with Optical Network Terminals having various ONT Management Control Interface (OMCI) parameter configurations. The OLT is configured to perform operations including determining that two different sets of OMCI parameters are required to communicate with two different ONTs and registering both of the two different ONTs using two different sets of OMCI parameters. The registration includes configuring communications with a first ONT using a first set of OMCI parameters and configuring communications with a second ONT using a second set of OMCI parameters that differs from the first set of OMCI parameters. After completing the registering, the OLT exchanges network traffic with each of the two different ONTs according to their respective configurations.
US11804893B2
Within a satellite communications system, a base station communicates with standard compliant user equipment (UE) via a satellite having a field of view. The base station has a processor that instructs the satellite to generate a wide beam signal covering a plurality of cells in the field of view, and detects an access request from a user equipment within the plurality of cells over the wide beam signal. The base station, comprising a processing device such as an eNodeB, then generates one or more network broadcast/access signals that is uplink to a satellite and broadcasted via one or more nominal beams generated by the satellite, covering all the inactive cells, one of the plurality of cells having the access request.
US11804891B2
A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) is configured to receive an identifier of a beam. The WTRU is configured to measure a downlink quality associated with at least one beam. The WTRU is configured to determine whether the measured downlink quality is below a threshold value. The WTRU is configured to receive at least one control channel transmission using the beam of the identifier in response to a determination that the measured downlink quality is below the threshold value, wherein the beam used to receive the at least one control channel transmission is a same beam used to receive an associated data channel transmission.
US11804884B2
This application discloses a precoding processing method and an apparatus. The method includes: A base station determines first downlink channel information based on a pilot signal received from a terminal device. The base station receives a precoding matrix indication PMI from the terminal device, determines second downlink channel information based on the PMI, determines a precoding matrix of a downlink channel based on the first downlink channel information and second downlink channel information, and performs precoding processing by using the precoding matrix. In this method, when calculating a downlink BF weight, the base station combines the downlink channel information obtained based on the pilot signal with the precoding matrix indicated by the PMI, to compensate for a quantization error caused by feedback of a single PMI indication. This method improves accuracy of beamforming weights.
US11804881B2
A characteristic variable antenna configured to be able to select or switch antenna characteristics in accordance with a predetermined periodic variable timing, an RF unit configured to perform a reception process on a signal received by the characteristic variable antenna, an ADC unit configured to sample the analog signal input from the RF unit at a sampling period corresponding to the variable timing of the antenna characteristics of the characteristic variable antenna, a signal dividing unit configured to divide the digital signal input from the ADC unit into different digital signals in accordance with the antenna characteristics and output the divided different digital signals, a MIMO-OFDM demodulation unit configured to receive inputs of the different digital signals divided by the signal dividing unit and perform a demodulation process of predetermined MIMO-OFDM, and a control unit configured to periodically select or switch the antenna characteristics of the characteristic variable antenna in accordance with the sampling period of the ADC unit are included.
US11804876B2
A wireless power transmission system includes a transmitter antenna, transmission controller, and an amplifier. The transmitter controller is configured to provide a driving signal for driving the transmitter antenna based on, at least, an operating mode for transmission of AC wireless signals and determine the operating mode for transmission of the AC wireless signals, wherein the operating mode includes a power level for the wireless power signals and a data rate for the wireless data signals, the power level chosen from a series of available power levels and the data rate chosen from a series of available data rates, each of the series of available power levels corresponding to one of the series of available data rates, wherein corresponding pairs of available power levels and available data rates are inversely related.
US11804875B2
A wireless power-transmission apparatus includes at least one antenna element disposed at a specific position in a three-dimensional space having a predetermined shape and size, to transmit a power transmission beam, an acquirer to acquire an inclination angle of the antenna element to a plane direction of a reference plane and a height of the antenna element to the reference plane, and a controller to control at least one of antenna power and a power transmission direction of the power transmission beam so that interference power of the power transmission beam toward an outside of the three-dimensional space becomes equal to or smaller than a predetermined allowable value when the antenna element is disposed at the acquired inclination angle and height.
US11804871B2
Aspects of the present disclosure describe a system and method for synchronizing time, frequency, and phase among a plurality of devices.
US11804868B2
A radio frequency circuit includes: a plurality of input terminals including a first input terminal through which a first Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) transmission signal is received and a second input terminal through which a 5th Generation New Radio (5G NR) transmission signal is received; a power amplifier; a first switch connected to an input side of the power amplifier and switches a connection of the power amplifier between the plurality of input terminals; and a variable phase circuit connected to an output side of the power amplifier and changes the impedance matching between the power amplifier and the load in accordance with a connection status of the first switch.
US11804866B2
A circuit arrangement capable of adjusting signal parameters of a plurality of signals that is transmitted between one or more terminals and one or more antennas is provided. The circuit arrangement is configured to separate a common signal path for the plurality of signals into a plurality of individual signal paths, wherein two or more signal paths of the plurality of signal paths are configured to carry different single signals. A signal adjusting section is configured to independently adjusting one or more signal parameters for two or more single signals.
US11804856B2
A digital system, components and method are configured with nonvolatile memory for storing digital data using codewords. The data is stored in the memory using multiple bits per memory cell of the memory. A code efficiency, for purposes of write operations and read operations relating to the memory, can be changed on a codeword to codeword basis based on input parameters. The code efficiency can change based on changing any one of the input parameters including bit density that is stored by the memory. Storing and reading fractional bit densities is described.
US11804855B2
Decoding sequentially received vector signaling codewords to obtain sequential sets of data bits, wherein elements of each vector signaling codeword are received in parallel over a plurality of wires, generating an incremental update of a plurality of error correction syndrome values based on each sequential set of data bits according to a check matrix, and upon decoding of a final vector signaling codeword, performing a final incremental update of the plurality of error correction syndrome values and responsively modifying data bits within the sequential sets of data bits by selecting a set of data bits from the sequential sets of data bits according to a symbol position index determined from the plurality of error correction syndrome values, the selected set of data bits altered according to a bit error mask determined from a first error correction syndrome value of the plurality of error correction syndrome values.
US11804854B1
In some examples, a system groups a plurality of blocks of encoded data into first segments, each first segment comprising multiple blocks of the plurality of blocks, and the encoded data being based on application of erasure correction coding on input data. The system stores the first segments in respective failure domains of a first quantity of failure domains in a first erasure correction configuration, where the first erasure correction configuration enables error recovery in response to lost encoded data in a specified number of failure domains. The system changes from the first erasure correction configuration to a second erasure correction configuration by reorganizing the first segments into second segments, each second segment comprising a different quantity of blocks of encoded data than a first segment.
US11804840B2
An integrated circuit with self-reference impedance includes an input/output pin provided for connection to an external impedance, a local impedance, a reference power circuit, a switching circuit, and a control circuit. The switching circuit is configured to conduct a connection between the input/output pin and the reference power circuit in a first state and to conduct a connection between the local impedance and the reference power circuit in a second state. The control circuit is configured to detect whether the external impedance is connected to the input/output pin or not and to generate a detection signal. The control circuit controls the switching circuit into the first state or the second state according to the detection signal. In the first state, the reference power circuit generates a reference signal according to the external impedance. In the second state, the reference power circuit generates the reference signal according to the local impedance.
US11804837B1
A switch circuit electrically connected to a power source and a first control source and including a plurality of switch bridge arms is provided. Each of the plurality of switch bridge arms includes a first switch and a second switch electrically connected in series. A loop formed by the first switch, the second switch and the power source is defined as a power loop. A loop formed by the first control source and the first switch is defined as a first control loop. A first mutual inductance is formed between the power loop and the first control loop. Among all the first switches, the first switch with the longer power loop has the smaller first mutual inductance.
US11804825B1
A system and method compensate for voltage and temperature variations in a pseudo synchronous communication link. The method includes receiving a data signal at a DLL through first and second variable delay circuits for performing eye tracking, keeping a sample point of the data signal in the center of a data eye having a UI; initially determining a tap size for taps of the first and second variable delay circuits; automatically selecting a number of taps of a third variable delay circuit that provides a specified delay time equal to a time value of the UI; automatically adjusting the number of taps in response to changes in the tap size; determining how many taps are equal to one half of the time value of the UI; and adjusting the number of the taps of the first and second variable delay circuits using the adjusted number of taps.
US11804809B2
In the field of audio amplifiers, the prior art for high output power levels is now to use class D technology. In this technology, audio signals are converted into a pulsed signal. An audio amplifier 1 is proposed, with a modulator section 4 for accepting an input signal and outputting two intermediate signals, wherein the modulator section 4 is designed to generate the intermediate signals by modulating the input signal, with an amplifier section 8 for accepting the two intermediate signals and outputting two amplified signals, wherein the amplifier section 8 is designed to generate the two amplified signals by amplifying the two intermediate signals, the amplifier section having two power stages 11;12, with an end section 21 for accepting the two amplified signals and for outputting an output signal for a loudspeaker device 2, wherein the audio amplifier 1 can be switched between parallel operation and bridge operation.
US11804808B2
An exemplary audio enhancement system substantially eliminates latency by returning audio input signals in amplified form directly in the analog domain to the source, thereby reducing signal degradation and removing redundancy from digital and analog audio transmission and processing architectures.
US11804803B2
A system-on-chip may include an inductor-capacitor oscillator monolithically integrated into the system-on-chip The inductor-capacitor oscillator may be configured to improve frequency stability and reduce noise when compared to a resistor-capacitor oscillator. Methods of making integrated oscillators may involve forming an inductor at least partially while forming a BEOL structure on a substrate. A capacitor supported on and/or embedded within the semiconductor material of the substrate may be formed before or while forming the BEOL structure. The inductor may be connected to the capacitor in parallel at least partially utilizing the BEOL structure to form an integrated inductor-capacitor oscillator.
US11804802B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit has a first output node and a second output node that complementarily outputs an oscillation signal, a capacitance circuit, an inductor, a first inverter and a second inverter connected in parallel and in opposite directions, a bias circuit that supplies a bias voltage to the capacitance circuit, and a control circuit that controls the bias circuit and supplies a reference voltage for controlling an oscillation frequency of the oscillation signal to the capacitance circuit. The capacitance circuit includes a first variable capacitance element and a second variable capacitance element connected in series, and the control circuit controls the bias voltage based on a change in an oscillation frequency of the oscillation signal when a voltage level of the reference voltage supplied to a connection node of the first variable capacitance element and the second variable capacitance element is changed in a plurality of ways.
US11804793B2
A method of speed control based on a self-learning model of load torque and a moment inertia is applied to a controller of controlling a motor. The method includes steps of: establishing a relationship between the load torque and the moment inertia by a self-learning manner, correspondingly acquiring a value of the moment inertia according to a value of the load torque, and adjusting parameters of the controller to control rotation of the motor according to the value of the moment inertia.
US11804786B2
A power converting apparatus includes: a bridge circuit that includes at least two legs each including switching elements connected in series, and converts an alternating-current voltage output from an alternating-current power supply into a direct-current voltage; a power-supply current detecting unit that detects a current from the alternating-current power supply; a zero crossing detecting unit that detects a voltage polarity of the alternating-current power supply; and a control unit that controls ON and OFF of the switching elements depending on outputs of the power-supply current detecting unit and the zero crossing detecting unit, in which a dead time that is set for switching and includes a change in the voltage polarity of the alternating-current power supply is longer than a dead time that is set for switching and does not include a change in the polarity.
US11804785B2
A power electronic arrangement has a plurality of single-phase power semiconductor modules and one multi-phase power semiconductor module, wherein each single-phase power semiconductor module has a first, at least frame-like housing, two first DC voltage terminal elements, a first AC voltage terminal element, first auxiliary terminal elements and a first switching device. The multi-phase power semiconductor module has a second, at least frame-like housing, two second DC voltage terminal elements, at least two second AC voltage terminal elements, second auxiliary terminal elements and a second switching device. The first and second DC voltage terminal elements each form a stack in a section of their length and on the terminal sections are designed identically. All the power semiconductor modules are arranged in a row in the direction of the normal vectors of the respective first longitudinal side. The first and second DC voltage terminal elements of all power semiconductor modules are arranged on the same, a first, narrow side.
US11804777B2
A power supply includes a storage component to store an output current value representative of a magnitude of output current supplied by an output voltage of a power converter to power a load. The power supply further includes an offset reference generator and a controller. The offset reference generator produces an offset reference signal, the output current value being offset by the offset reference signal. The controller controls generation of the output voltage of the power converter as a function of the offset output current value with respect to a threshold signal (value). Additionally, the controller is configured to detect a startup mode of a power converter operative to convert an input voltage into an output voltage. During the startup mode, the controller: i) produces a threshold signal having a magnitude that varies over time, and ii) controls operation of switches in the power converter as a function of the threshold signal while the power converter is operated in a diode emulation mode. Implementation of the startup mode monotonically increases a magnitude of the output voltage without dips.
US11804775B2
In some examples, a device includes a selector circuit configured to deliver power to a first driver circuit, where the first driver circuit is configured to activate and deactivate a first switch of a postregulator. The device also includes a startup regulator and a controller configured to cause the selector circuit to deliver power from the startup regulator to the first driver circuit. The controller is also configured to determine that a boost regulator is operational after delivering power from the startup regulator to the first driver circuit. The controller is further configured to cause the selector circuit to deliver power from the boost regulator to the first driver circuit in response to determining that the boost regulator is operational.
US11804770B2
An example a circuit for controlling a power converter comprises a first power domain circuit including a first control circuit and a first driver circuit, wherein the first control circuit controls the first driver circuit to drive a first semiconductor device, wherein a second power domain circuit includes a second control circuit and a second driver circuit. The first control circuit is configured to receive a control signal for controlling the second driver circuit to drive a second semiconductor device; and identify, based on the control signal, a future electrical characteristic of a second power domain output of the power converter. Additionally, the first control circuit is configured to determine, based on the future electrical characteristic of the second power domain output of the power converter, whether to adjust one or more control parameters for controlling the first driver circuit to drive the first semiconductor device.
US11804753B2
A motor includes a stator, a rotor, and a bearing. The stator includes a shaft that extends in a vertical direction. The rotor is rotatable around the shaft. The bearing supports the rotor in a rotatable manner. The rotor includes a magnet, a case, and a tooth groove. The magnet is radially outward of the stator and opposes the stator in a radial direction. The case covers a radially outer end of the magnet. The tooth groove is provided in a radially outer surface of the case.
US11804742B2
The invention relates to a rotor (1) of an electromagnetic motor or generator having a body comprising an inner hub (2) which is concentric to a central axis (7) of rotation of the rotor (1), branches (3) extending radially with respect to the central axis (7) of rotation from the inner hub (2) towards a hoop (8) forming a circular outer periphery of the rotor (1), at least one magnet (10) being housed in each space delimited between two adjacent branches (3), each having a width which decreases with distance from the inner hub (2) and terminates by a tapered tip (3b) against the hoop (8). Each magnet is in the form of a magnet structure (10) consisting of a plurality of individual magnets (4) which are secured together by a fiber-reinforced insulating material, each individual magnet (4) being elongated in shape by extending in the axial direction of the rotor (1).
US11804740B2
A brushless electrical machine with permanent magnet excitation, designed for propulsion, in particular of boats, pumps, electric vehicles, for operation as a servomotor, etc. The brushless electrical machine provides increased power at significant reduction of the weight and the inertia moment of its rotor. The rotor (11) comprises an outer (12), intermediate (13) and inner (14) steel rings. The surface of the poles of the rotor (11) is formed by interconnected cut-out parts (15). In the rotor (11), above the permanent magnets (17) are formed elongated axial slots (20). By number of poles 2 p less than 16 and at a diameter of the rotor (11) greater than 0.15 m, the axial slots (16) are divided into two equal parts by a third radial rib (25) with maximum width 0.0025 m, which is located under the middle of the cut-out part (15) and is connecting the intermediate ring (13) to the outer ring (12).
US11804737B2
According to some embodiments, a wireless power transmitter is presented. In some embodiments, a wireless power transmitter includes a charging table; a plurality of movable transmitter coils incorporated into the charging table; and a control circuit coupled to sensors in the charging table and to the plurality of movable coils. In some embodiments, the control circuit is configured to detect a device placed on the charging table, determine a position of the device, move at least one of the plurality of movable transmitter coils to engage the device, communicate with the device to determine device characteristics, further configure the plurality of movable coils to engage with the device, and engage the device according to the device characteristics.
US11804735B2
A power transmission apparatus wirelessly communicates with a power reception apparatus using an antenna, wirelessly transmits power to the power reception apparatus using the antenna, measures, in a period during which the transmission of the power is stopped, one or both of a voltage and a current output from the antenna, performs, based on a measurement result obtained by the measurement, a determination process for determining that an object different from the power reception apparatus is present, restricts, in a case where it is determined that an object different from the power reception apparatus is present as a result of the determination process performed by the first determination unit, the transmission of the power, and controls the first determination unit not to use in the determination process the measurement result obtained by the measurement in a period during which communication is performed.
US11804732B2
A wireless power transmission device, and a transmission power control method therefor are provided. A wireless power transmission device for wirelessly transmitting power to a wireless power receiving device can comprise: a primary core comprising at least one primary coil and transmitting a power signal to the wireless power receiving device by being coupled, through magnetic induction or magnetic resonance, to a secondary core provided at the wireless power receiving device; an inverter connected to the primary core so as to apply an alternating voltage necessary for transmitting the power signal; and a controller connected to the inverter, and controlling a direct voltage to be applied to the wireless power transmission device and/or a gate voltage of the inverter on the basis of the information on the power received at the wireless power receiving device by the power signal.
US11804719B1
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium in an energy control system includes instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by a processor, cause the processor to receive a request for station power from a requesting power plant of a plurality of power plants, determine a burden score associated with supplying the station power to the requesting power plant from two or more supplier power plants of the plurality of power plants, allocate available power from the supplier power plant having the lowest burden score to the requesting power plant, and provide a notification to an operator of the supplier power plant having the lowest burden score. The notification indicating the amount of power expected to be supplied to the requesting power plant.
US11804707B2
A system-in-package includes a function circuit and a protection circuit that protects the function circuit by preventing an instantaneous transient voltage from being applied to the function circuit. Here, the protection circuit includes a TVS diode and a capacitor. The TVS diode includes an anode that receives a ground voltage and a cathode that is connected to a first external connection terminal. The capacitor includes a first terminal that is connected to a second external connection terminal electrically separated from the first external connection terminal and a second terminal that receives the ground voltage.
US11804700B2
A sheath structure includes an outer member, and an inner member formed in a cylindrical shape in a state in which a first portion and a second portion are engaged with an engaging portion, and capable of being fitted into the outer member from an end portion of the outer member. In the inner member, the first portion and the second portion are not engaged with the engaging portion but interfere with the end portion of the outer member and are not capable of being fitted into the outer member, when a maximum insertable number of the predetermined routed members insertable into the outer member are inserted therein. The first portion and the second portion are engaged with the engaging portion and capable of being fitted into the outer member, when the predetermined routed members of a prescribed number smaller than the maximum insertable number are inserted therein.
US11804698B2
A switchboard is provided having a rotating shutter structure that comprises: a switchboard body that is provided with a circuit breaker chamber into which a circuit breaker is inserted, and an open hole formed in the rear surface to expose a conductor part of a bushing assembly to the circuit breaker chamber; a shutter part that is rotatably installed in the switchboard body and opens/closes the open hole by rotating; and an operation unit that is installed in the switchboard body and rotates the shutter part when the circuit breaker is inserted into the circuit breaker chamber.
US11804696B2
A semiconductor laser (1) is provided that includes a semiconductor layer sequence in which an active zone for generating laser radiation is located. A ridge waveguide is formed as an elevation from the semiconductor layer sequence. An electrical contact layer is located directly on the ridge waveguide. A metallic electrical connection region is located directly on the contact layer and is configured for external electrical connection of the semiconductor laser. A metallic breakage coating extends directly to facets of the semiconductor layer sequence and is arranged on the ridge waveguide. The breakage coating is electrically functionless and includes comprises a lower speed of sound for a breaking wave than the semiconductor layer sequence in the region of the ridge waveguide.
US11804695B2
In some implementations, an emitter module may include an emitter layer including a first emitter array configured to produce a first beam that provides flood illumination, and a second emitter array configured to produce a second beam that provides spot illumination. The emitter module may include a first optics layer, positioned in front of the emitter layer, that includes a first collimating lens positioned in front of the first emitter array, and a second collimating lens positioned in front of the second emitter array. The emitter module may include a second optics layer, positioned in front of the first optics layer, that includes an optical diffuser positioned in front of the first collimating lens, and a beamsplitter grating positioned in front of the second collimating lens.
US11804692B2
A laser device based on silicon photonics with an in-cavity power monitor includes a gain chip mounted on a silicon photonics substrate and configured to emit light in an active region bounded between a frontend facet with low reflectivity and a backend facet with anti-reflective characteristics. The laser device further includes a wavelength tuner formed with waveguides in the silicon photonics substrate optically coupled to the backend facet to receive light from the gain chip and configured to have a reflector with high reflectivity to reflect the light in an extended cavity formed with the frontend facet through which a laser with a tuned wavelength and amplified power is outputted. Additionally, the laser device includes a photodiode formed in the silicon photonics substrate and coupled to the waveguides in the extended cavity right in front of the reflector to measure power of light thereof.
US11804684B2
A method including an electric wire placing step for inserting a core-wire exposing portion of a terminal end of an electric wire between inner wall surfaces of a pair of piece portions of a terminal fitting that has a core wire connector composed of a bottom portion and the piece portions projected from two opposite ends of the bottom portion; and an electric wire holding-down step for holding down, by use of a holding-down jig made of a laser-transmissive material having a higher melting point than the core-wire exposing portion and the core wire connector have, the core-wire exposing portion from one sides of free ends of the piece portions and pressing the core-wire exposing portion against an inner wall surface of the bottom portion by use of the holding-down jig.
US11804672B2
The present technology describes systems and methods for power coupling of a tractor-trailer system. The technology may include a robotic arm, an end effector, a coupling tool, and a tool resting rack. An electrical outlet on a trailer may be coupled with a tool under control of the end effector and positioning of the robotic arm. The end effector may include a housing, a motor, a clutch, and a drive shaft. A tool coupled to the end effector may include an electro-mechanical (EM) coupler. The EM coupler may include a housing, an electric plug, a lid lifter, a lead screw, and a servomotor.
US11804669B2
An electronic equipment comprises a case and a connector which is attached to the case. The connector comprises a housing and a waterproofing member. The waterproofing member is sandwiched by a mating connector and a side portion of the housing in a second direction when the connector is mated with the mating connector. The waterproofing member has at least one first contact portion, at least one second contact portion, at least one third contact portion and at least one fourth contact portion. The third contact portion is pressed against the side portion in the second direction by elasticity of the waterproofing member upon the mating of the connector with the mating connector. The fourth contact portion is pressed against and in contact with the mating connector in the second direction by the elasticity of the waterproofing member upon the mating of the connector with the mating connector.
US11804666B2
An electrical connector mountable to a substrate (e.g. a Printed Circuit Board, PCB) can include a terminal housing having a front wall and an opposing back wall. An opening is provided in the front wall for receiving a plug inside the terminal housing, opposing side walls, and a top wall and an opposing bottom wall. The bottom wall has an inner surface facing the inside of the terminal housing and an outer surface facing away from the inside of the terminal housing. The outer surface (can have at least two retention pins projecting from the outer surface for being inserted into corresponding holes in the PCB. A first retention pin can be positioned on the outer surface so as to be arranged asymmetrically with respect to a second retention pin.
US11804663B2
A connector 10 includes two connection terminals 30 to be respectively connected to ends of two wires 20 extending side by side and having through holes in tip parts, and a housing 70 for accommodating the two connection terminals 30 separated from each other with the respective tip parts caused to project out. The tip parts of the two connection terminals 30 are overlapped each other while being spaced apart in an orthogonal direction Z, and the through holes of the two connection terminals 30 are located on the same axis along the orthogonal direction Z.
US11804661B2
Wiring and a wiring path of a feed line for feeding power to a radiation element is simplified. An array antenna includes a first conductive pattern layer, first dielectric layer, conductive ground layer, second dielectric layer, second conductive pattern layer, third dielectric layer, and radiation element pattern layer that are layered in this order. The radiation element pattern layer includes radiation element pairs arranged in a two-dimensional array pattern. Each of the radiation element pairs includes a first radiation element and a second radiation element arranged side by side with an interval therebetween. The second conductive pattern layer includes branch feed lines arranged in a two-dimensional array pattern to correspond to the radiation element pairs, respectively. The first conductive pattern layer includes feed lines corresponding to the branch feed lines, respectively.
US11804660B2
The disclosed systems, structures, and methods are directed to antennas for integration with a display structure which has a plurality of pixels arranged in pixel rows with an inter-pixel spacing, and a feeding line located in the inter-pixel spacing. The display structure also has an antenna which comprises a slotted waveguide and a substrate. The slotted waveguide is located in the inter-pixel spacing and defines a plurality of slots configured to radiate electromagnetic waves. The substrate is attached to the slotted waveguide and is located between the feeding line and the slotted waveguide. The antenna may also include a plurality of slotted waveguides superposing on different feeding lines of the display structure.
US11804658B2
An apparatus and method for mitigating polarization mismatch in reflector antenna systems. A feed unit is configured to determine a polarization mismatch between a first polarization associated with a first wave and a second polarization associated with a reflector unit. The feed unit pre-distorts the first wave to achieve a compensated polarization for reducing and/or eliminating a polarization mismatch. The pre-distorted first wave having the compensated polarization is used to illuminate the reflector unit. A re-radiated wave is reflected by the reflector unit. Furthermore, the level of the re-radiated wave is increased as a result of the pre-distortion.
US11804655B2
A Wi-Fi antenna device is disclosed. The Wi-Fi antenna device comprises a ground plane, a plurality of first inverted-F antennas, a plurality of second inverted-F antennas and a plurality of third inverted-F antennas, thereby being capable of transceiving multi-band wireless signals. Particularly, there is an included angle between any two of the first inverted-F antennas. In the same way, any two of the second inverted-F antennas and any two of the third inverted-F antennas are both arranged to have said included angle therebetween. By such an arrangement, an omni radiation pattern can be measured on X-Y plane, X-Z plane and Y-Z plane in case of this novel Wi-Fi antenna device being applied in an environment. Therefore, the Wi-Fi antenna device according to the present invention has a significant potential for replacing the conventional multi-band antenna so as to be applied in a Wi-Fi router.
US11804651B2
A remotely controllable antenna mount for use with a wireless telecommunication antenna provides mechanical azimuth and tilt adjustment using AISG compatible motor control units and AISG control and monitoring systems to remotely adjust the physical orientation of the antenna. An AISG compatible mount azimuth control unit drives rotatable movement of the antenna through a range of azimuth angle positions. An AISG compatible mount tilt control unit drives linear movement of an actuator assembly and corresponding pivoting of the antenna through a range of tilt angle positions. Antennas can be remotely controlled relative to each other or in tandem.
US11804642B2
Disclosed are embodiments of microstrip and substrate integrated waveguide circulators/isolators which can be integrated with a substrate. This composite structure can serve as a platform for other components, allowing for improved miniaturization of components. Embodiments of the disclosure can be particular advantageous in the high frequency ranges, such as above 1.8 GHz or above 3 GHz, which allows devices to be used in the 5G space.
US11804613B2
A method of controlling a fuel battery system of the present disclosure is a method of controlling a fuel battery system, including a measurement process in which a power generation voltage at a predetermined current density of a fuel battery cell is measured, a first calculation process in which a poisoning rate of an electrode catalyst at the power generation voltage measured in the measurement process is calculated from a predetermined relationship between the power generation voltage at the predetermined current density and the poisoning rate of the electrode catalyst of the fuel battery cell, and a second calculation process in which a generation rate of hydrogen peroxide at the poisoning rate of the electrode catalyst calculated in the first calculation process is calculated from a predetermined relationship between the poisoning rate of the electrode catalyst and the generation rate of hydrogen peroxide of the fuel battery cell.
US11804601B2
Provided is a positive electrode active material for a lithium-ion battery, the positive electrode active material including a blend of a doped lithium manganese iron phosphate (dLMFP) according to the formula: LiMnxFeyM1−x−yPO4, wherein 0.9
US11804594B2
Provided is carbonaceous substance-coated graphite particles that exhibit excellent battery properties when used as a negative electrode material for a lithium ion secondary battery. The carbonaceous substance-coated graphite particles includes: graphite particles; and carbonaceous coatings covering at least part of surfaces of the graphite particles, and the carbonaceous substance-coated graphite particles have a specific surface area SBET determined by BET method of 4.0 to 15.0 m2/g, and a pore volume Vs of pores with a pore size of 7.8 to 36.0 nm is 0.001 to 0.026 cm3/g, and in a pore size distribution graph with the pore size being plotted on a horizontal axis and a dV/dP value obtained by differentiating the pore volume with the pore size being plotted on a vertical axis, a pore size Pmax with which the dV/dP value is maximized is 2.5 to 5.5 nm.
US11804590B2
A secondary battery and a preparation method thereof, and a battery module, battery pack, and apparatus containing a secondary battery are provided. In some embodiments, the secondary battery includes a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate, and an electrolyte, where the positive electrode plate includes a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode film layer that is disposed on at least one surface of the positive electrode current collector and that includes a positive electrode active material, and the negative electrode plate includes a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode film layer that is disposed on at least one surface of the negative electrode current collector and that includes a negative electrode active material; and the positive electrode active material includes a first material and a second material.
US11804588B2
Stabilized layered lithium metal oxide cathode materials are described which include excess lithium, Ni, Mn, and at least one other metal ion. The materials comprise a layered LiMO2-type material in which M comprises a combination of Ni, Mn, and at least one other metal ion that includes less than about 6 mol % Co; and which has about 1 to 6 percent excess lithium. In one embodiment, the stabilized lithium metal oxide cathode material comprises a composition having the empirical formula xLi2MnO3·(1−x)LiNi0.5+δ/2Mn0.5−δCoδ/2O2, wherein 0
US11804587B2
A cooling system for a light emitting diode (“LED”) assembly includes a fluid configured to absorb heat at the LED assembly, a heat exchanger coupled to one or more substrates of the LED assembly, where the heat exchanger is configured to exchange heat between the LED assembly and the fluid, and a pump configured to circulate the fluid along the LED assembly and the heat exchanger, where the fluid exhibits a turbulent flow at the LED assembly, the heat exchanger, or both, while circulated by the pump.
US11804586B2
High-voltage solid-state transducer (SST) devices and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. An SST device in accordance with a particular embodiment of the present technology includes a carrier substrate, a first terminal, a second terminal and a plurality of SST dies connected in series between the first and second terminals. The individual SST dies can include a transducer structure having a p-n junction, a first contact and a second contact. The transducer structure forms a boundary between a first region and a second region with the carrier substrate being in the first region. The first and second terminals can be configured to receive an output voltage and each SST die can have a forward junction voltage less than the output voltage.
US11804578B2
A micro light-emitting device includes a micro light-emitting diode and a light-emitting structure. The micro light-emitting diode includes a semiconductor light-emitting unit that emits an excitation light having a first wavelength. The light-emitting structure is disposed on the micro light-emitting diode, and is configured to be excited by the excitation light to emit an excited light having a second wavelength. The light-emitting structure is a multiple quantum well structure. A display including the micro light-emitting device is also disclosed.
US11804571B2
A light emitting device including a substrate, a light emitting structure disposed on the substrate and having a first light emitting region, a second light emitting region, and a third light emitting region, and an insulation layer to block unintended electrical connection between the first light emitting region and the second light emitting region, or between the second light emitting region and the third light emitting region, in which each of the first light emitting region, the second light emitting region, and the third light emitting region comprises a first conductivity type semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second conductivity type semiconductor layer, and a center of the first light emitting region overlaps a center of the second light emitting region and a center of the third light emitting region.
US11804569B2
A micro semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a dissociative layer, a protective layer and a micro semiconductor. The dissociative layer is located on one side of the substrate. The protective layer is located on at least one side of the substrate. The micro semiconductor is located on the side of the substrate. The transmittance of the protective layer for a light source with wavelength smaller than 360 nm is less than 20%.
US11804563B2
Method for binding photovoltaic cells to a substrate impregnated with crosslinkable polymer material
A method for binding photovoltaic cells to a substrate, each photovoltaic cell comprising a rear face and a front face, comprises: providing the substrate, said substrate being flexible and impregnable; impregnating portions of the substrate with a crosslinkable polymer material, said portions being impregnated along the thickness of the substrate, with a view to bonding the photovoltaic cells to the substrate; bringing the rear faces of the photovoltaic cells into contact with the impregnated portions of the substrate; crosslinking the crosslinkable polymer material.
US11804562B2
Various embodiments relate to a superlattice photodetector and a method of manufacturing the same. The superlattice photodetector includes an absorption layer for absorbing incident light and a waveguide layer coupled with the absorption layer and enabling the incident light to be waveguided within the absorption layer. The waveguide layer may include a periodic structure in which a plurality of metal patterns and a plurality of dielectric patterns are repeatedly arranged. According to various embodiments, the superlattice photodetector can be thinned while having improved performance.
US11804560B2
A solar cell including: a semiconductor substrate having a first conductivity type; a first conductivity type layer having a conductivity type equal to the first conductivity type and a second conductivity type layer having a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type, which are located on a first main surface of the substrate; a first collecting electrode on the first conductivity type layer located on the first main surface; and a second collecting electrode on the second conductivity type layer located on the first main surface. In the solar cell, a second conductivity type layer having the second conductivity type is formed on a side surface of the semiconductor substrate and continuously from the second conductivity type layer located on the first main surface. Consequently, it is possible to provide a solar cell having excellent conversion efficiency and being capable of efficiently collecting carriers.
US11804558B2
Methods of fabricating conductive contacts for polycrystalline silicon features of solar cells, and the resulting solar cells, are described. In an example, a method of fabricating a solar cell includes providing a substrate having a polycrystalline silicon feature. The method also includes forming a conductive paste directly on the polycrystalline silicon feature. The method also includes firing the conductive paste at a temperature above approximately 700 degrees Celsius to form a conductive contact for the polycrystalline silicon feature. The method also includes, subsequent to firing the conductive paste, forming an anti-reflective coating (ARC) layer on the polycrystalline silicon feature and the conductive contact. The method also includes forming a conductive structure in an opening through the ARC layer and electrically contacting the conductive contact.
US11804557B2
A high efficiency configuration for a solar cell module comprises solar cells arranged in an overlapping shingled manner and conductively bonded to each other in their overlapping regions to form super cells, which may be arranged to efficiently use the area of the solar module.
US11804554B2
A diode of the present disclosure includes a stacked structure, and a first connection section and a second connection section provided at respective ends of the stacked structure in a length direction. The stacked structure includes a first structure and a second structure each having a nanowire structure or a nanosheet structure and stacked alternately in a thickness direction. The first connection section has a first conductivity type, and the second connection section has a second conductivity type. The diode further includes a control electrode section formed to extend at least from a top portion to a side surface of the stacked structure and spaced apart from the first connection section and the second connection section. The first connection section and the control electrode section or the second connection section and the control electrode section are connected electrically.
US11804551B2
A semiconductor device having favorable electrical characteristics is provided. The semiconductor device in which first to third conductors are placed over a first oxide; first and second oxide insulators are placed respectively over the second and third conductors; a second oxide is placed in contact with a side surface of the first oxide insulator, a side surface of the second oxide insulator, and a top surface of the first oxide; a first insulator is placed between the first conductor and the second oxide; and the first oxide insulator and the second oxide insulator are not in contact with the first to third conductors, the first insulator, and the first oxide.
US11804539B2
The present disclosure is directed to method for the fabrication of spacer structures between source/drain epitaxial structures and metal gate structures in nanostructure transistors. The method includes forming a fin structure with alternating first and second nanostructure elements on a substrate. The method also includes etching edge portions of the first nanostructure elements in the fin structure to form spacer cavities, and depositing a spacer layer on the fin structure to fill the spacer cavities. Further, treating the spacer layer with a microwave-generated plasma to form an oxygen concentration gradient within the spacer layer outside the spacer cavities and removing, with an etching process, the treated portion of the spacer layer. During the etching process, a removal rate of the etching process for the treated portion of the spacer layer is based on an oxygen concentration within the oxygen concentration gradient.
US11804537B2
Methods for fabricating SiC MOSFETs using channeled ion implants are disclosed. By aligning the workpiece such that the ions pass through channels in the SiC hexagonal crystalline structure, it is possible to achieve deeper implants than are otherwise possible. Further, it was found that these channeled implants can be tailored to achieve box-like dopant concentrations. This allows channeled ion implants to be used to create the current spreading layer of the MOSFET, which is conventional fabricated using epitaxial growth. Further, these channeled implants can also be used to create the shields between adjacent transistors. Additionally, the use of channeled implants allows a reduction in the number of epitaxially growth processes that are used to create super junction MOSFETs.
US11804536B2
A thin film structure including ferroelectrics and anti-ferroelectrics and a semiconductor device including the same are provided. The thin film structure includes a first anti-ferroelectric layer comprising anti-ferroelectrics, a second anti-ferroelectric layer disposed apart from the first anti-ferroelectric layer and including anti-ferroelectrics, and a ferroelectric layer between the first anti-ferroelectric layer and the second anti-ferroelectric layer and including ferroelectrics.
US11804535B2
A semiconductor device with improved reliability and a method for fabricating the same are provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first spacer defining a gate trench on the substrate, and a gate electrode in the gate trench, wherein a height of an upper surface of the gate electrode adjacent to the first spacer increases in a direction away from the first spacer.
US11804534B2
A semiconductor device includes plurality of fin structures extending in first direction on semiconductor substrate. Fin structure's lower portion is embedded in first insulating layer. First gate electrode and second gate electrode structures extend in second direction substantially perpendicular to first direction over of fin structures and first insulating layer. The first and second gate electrode structures are spaced apart and extend along line in same direction. First and second insulating sidewall spacers are arranged on opposing sides of first and second gate electrode structures. Each of first and second insulating sidewall spacers contiguously extend along second direction. A second insulating layer is in region between first and second gate electrode structures. The second insulating layer separates first and second gate electrode structures. A third insulating layer is in region between first and second gate electrode structures. The third insulating layer is formed of different material than second insulating layer.
US11804533B2
Techniques for reducing the specific contact resistance of metal-semiconductor (group IV) junctions by interposing a monolayer of group V or group III atoms at the interface between the metal and the semiconductor, or interposing a bi-layer made of one monolayer of each, or interposing multiple such bi-layers. The resulting low specific resistance metal-group IV semiconductor junctions find application as a low resistance electrode in semiconductor devices including electronic devices (e.g., transistors, diodes, etc.) and optoelectronic devices (e.g., lasers, solar cells, photodetectors, etc.) and/or as a metal source and/or drain region (or a portion thereof) in a field effect transistor (FET). The monolayers of group III and group V atoms are predominantly ordered layers of atoms formed on the surface of the group IV semiconductor and chemically bonded to the surface atoms of the group IV semiconductor.
US11804530B2
Disclosed are a semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the same. The device may include a substrate, an active pattern in an upper portion of the substrate and is extending in a first direction, a gate electrode crossing the active pattern and extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, a first gate spacer covering a side surface of the gate electrode, a first inhibition layer between the gate electrode and the first gate spacer, and a gate insulating layer between the gate electrode and the active pattern. The gate insulating layer may include a high-k dielectric layer and a gate oxide layer. The gate oxide layer may be between the high-k dielectric layer and the active pattern. The high-k dielectric layer may be between the gate oxide layer and the gate electrode.
US11804529B2
A method includes depositing a gate dielectric film over a substrate. A floating gate layer and a control gate layer are deposited over the gate dielectric film. The control gate layer is patterned to form a control gate over the floating gate layer. A top portion of the floating gate layer is patterned. A spacer structure is formed on a sidewall of the control gate and over a remaining portion of the floating gate layer. The remaining portion of the floating gate layer is patterned to form a bottom portion of a floating gate. A ratio of the bottom width of the bottom portion to the middle width of the bottom portion is in a range between about 103% and about 108%. The gate dielectric film is patterned form a gate dielectric layer.
US11804528B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a gate structure on the substrate, a source/drain pattern on the substrate, the source/drain pattern being at a side of the gate structure, a source/drain contact filling on and connected to the source/drain pattern, an entire top surface of the source/drain contact filling being lower than a top surface of the gate structure, and a connection contact directly on and connected to the source/drain contact filling, a top surface of the connection contact being higher than the top surface of the gate structure.
US11804526B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a gate structure, a source region, a drain region, and a plurality of field plates. The gate structure is disposed on the semiconductor substrate. The source region and the drain region are disposed in the semiconductor substrate and located at two opposite sides of the gate structure in a first direction respectively. The field plates are disposed on the semiconductor substrate. Each of the field plates is partly located above the gate structure and partly located between the gate structure and the drain region. The gate structure is electrically connected with at least one of the field plates, and the source region is electrically connected with at least one of the field plates.
US11804519B2
A crystalline multilayer structure having a high-quality crystalline layer and a semiconductor device employing such a crystalline multilayer structure are provided. A crystalline multilayer structure, including a first crystalline layer having a first crystal, and a second crystalline layer stacked on the first crystalline layer and having a second crystal, wherein the first crystal includes polycrystalline κ-Ga2O3 and the second crystal is a single crystal of a crystalline oxide.
US11804518B2
A semiconductor device includes a capacitor including a lower electrode an upper electrode, and a dielectric layer between the lower electrode and the upper electrode. The lower electrode includes ABO3 where ‘A’ is a first metal element and ‘B’ is a second metal element having a work function greater than that of the first metal element. The dielectric layer includes CDO3 where ‘C’ is a third metal element and ‘D’ is a fourth metal element. The lower electrode includes a first layer and a second layer which are alternately and repeatedly stacked. The first layer includes the first metal element and oxygen. The second layer includes the second metal element and oxygen. The dielectric layer is in contact with the lower electrode at a first contact surface the first contact surface corresponding to the second layer.
US11804516B2
A semiconductor device is provided including a resistor structure, the semiconductor device including a substrate having an upper surface perpendicular to a first direction; a resistor structure including a first insulating layer on the substrate, a resistor layer on the first insulating layer, and a second insulating layer on the resistor layer; and a resistor contact penetrating the second insulating layer and the resistor layer. The tilt angle of a side wall of the resistor contact with respect to the first direction varies according to a height from the substrate. The semiconductor device has a low contact resistance and a narrow variation of contact resistance.
US11804510B2
An image sensor is provided to include an active region which comprises: a floating diffusion region; a transfer transistor gate region; transistor active regions; and a well-tap region. The transfer transistor gate region may have a diagonal bar shape to isolate the floating diffusion region in a first corner of the active region. The well-tap region may be positioned between the transfer transistor gate region and the transistor active regions, and isolate the transfer transistor gate region from the transistor active regions.
US11804500B2
A solid-state image pickup apparatus according to a first aspect of the present technology includes a photoelectric conversion section that generates and holds a charge in response to incident light, a transfer section that includes a V-NW transistor (Vertical Nano Wire transistor) and transfers the charge held in the photoelectric conversion section, and an accumulation section that includes a wiring layer connected to a drain of the transfer section including the V-NW transistor and accumulates the charge transferred by the transfer section. The present technology is applicable to a CMOS image sensor, for example.
US11804498B2
The present invention has an object to reduce the number of necessary masks to reduce manufacturing cost. A method of manufacturing a display device includes: forming electrodes or first lines; forming a first insulating film covering the electrodes or the first lines; forming a second insulating film covering the first insulating film; collectively forming first contact holes through the first insulating film and the second insulating film so as to expose parts of the electrodes or parts of the first lines; planarizing a surface of the second insulating film; and forming a first conductive layer to be connected from the surface of the second insulating film to the exposed parts of the electrodes or the exposed parts of the first lines via the first contact holes.
US11804497B2
A gate driver on array (GOA) circuit, a display panel, and a repair method are provided. Connecting lines connecting GOA units, and grid lines disposed corresponding to disposed positions of the connecting lines albeit in a different layer from the connecting lines are included. When a short circuit or open circuit occurs in the connecting lines, by adopting one or more of methods: melting and disconnecting a part of the grid lines near a malfunction, melting and disconnecting a part of the connecting lines near the malfunction, or welding together the part of the grid lines and the part of the connecting lines, it is possible to repair the circuit by repairing or replacing the part of the connecting lines.
US11804491B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to devices with staggered body contacts and methods of manufacture. The device includes: a gate structure on a semiconductor substrate material, the gate structure comprising a gate body with a width and a length; a plurality of body contacts electrically contacting a channel region under the gate body on at least one side of the gate body along its width; and isolation structures isolating the plurality of body contacts from a source region and a drain region associated with the gate structure.
US11804487B2
A semiconductor device includes: a first fin and a second fin extending from a substrate and an epitaxial source/drain region. The epitaxial source/drain region includes a first portion grown on the first fin and a second portion grown on the second fin, and the first portion and the second portion are joined at a merging boundary. The epitaxial source/drain region further includes a first subregion extending from a location level with a highest point of the epitaxial source/drain region to a location level with a highest point of the merging boundary, a second subregion extending from the location level with the highest point of the merging boundary to a location level with a lowest point of the merging boundary, and a third subregion extending from the location level with the lowest point of the merging boundary to a location level with a top surface of an STI region.
US11804486B2
A semiconductor device according to the present disclosure includes a bottom dielectric feature on a substrate, a plurality of channel members directly over the bottom dielectric feature, a gate structure wrapping around each of the plurality of channel members, two first epitaxial features sandwiching the bottom dielectric feature along a first direction, and two second epitaxial features sandwiching the plurality of channel members along the first direction.
US11804483B2
A semiconductor device includes active fins on a substrate, a first isolation pattern on the substrate, the first isolation pattern extending on a lower sidewall of each of the active fins, a third isolation pattern including an upper portion extending into the first isolation pattern and a lower portion extending into an upper portion of the substrate, the lower portion contacting the upper portion of the third isolation pattern, and having a lower surface with a width greater than that of an upper surface thereof, and a second isolation pattern extending in the substrate under the third isolation pattern, contacting the third isolation pattern, and having a rounded lower surface.
US11804482B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device comprises a substrate of a first type, a first doped region embedded within the substrate and having a first portion and a second portion, and a first gate electrode disposed above the substrate. The semiconductor device further comprises a well region of a second type and embedded within the substrate. The well region is in contact with the second portion of the first doped region.
US11804476B2
A light emitting device module including a printed circuit board, upper and lower electrodes disposed on opposing surfaces of the printed circuit board, light emitting devices configured to emit light in a direction away from the printed circuit board, and a molding layer surrounding the light emitting devices, in which each light emitting device includes a light emitting structure, a substrate disposed on the light emitting structure, and bump electrodes disposed between the light emitting structure and the printed circuit board, the molding layer covers side surfaces of the substrates, a number of the lower electrodes is less than a number of the bump electrodes of the plurality of light emitting devices, and each of the light emitting devices is configured to be driven independently.
US11804460B2
Structures, methods and devices are disclosed, related to improved stack structures in electronic devices. In some embodiments, a stack structure includes a pad implemented on a substrate, the pad including a polymer layer having a side that forms an interface with another layer of the pad, the pad further including an upper metal layer over the interface, the upper metal layer having an upper surface. In some embodiments, the stack structure also includes a passivation layer implemented over the upper metal layer, the passivation layer including a pattern configured to provide a compressive force on the upper metal layer to thereby reduce the likelihood of delamination at the interface, the pattern defining a plurality of openings to expose the upper surface of the upper metal layer.
US11804459B2
Disclosed are semiconductor devices and methods of fabricating the same. The semiconductor device includes a first dielectric layer including a first pad, a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer, a through electrode that penetrates the second dielectric layer and is electrically connected to the first pad, an upper passivation layer on the second dielectric layer, a second pad on the upper passivation layer, and an upper barrier layer between the upper passivation layer and the second pad. The first pad and the through electrode include a first material. The second pad includes a second material that is different from the first material of the first pad and the through electrode. The second pad includes a first part on the upper passivation layer, and a second part that extends from the first part into the upper passivation layer and is connected to the through electrode.
US11804456B2
A microelectronics package, comprising a substrate comprising a first bondpad and a second bondpad over a dielectric. An inductor comprising at least one wire extends over the dielectric. The at least one wire has a first end coupled to the first bondpad and a second end coupled to the second bondpad, and an inductor core layer over the dielectric. The inductor core layer comprises a magnetic material. At least a portion of the inductor extends within the inductor core layer.
US11804454B2
A semiconductor package and a packaged electronic device are described. The semiconductor package has a foundation layer and a planar filtering circuit. The circuit is formed in the foundation layer to provide EMI/RFI mitigation. The circuit has one or more conductive traces that are patterned to form an equivalent circuit of inductors and capacitors. The one or more conductive traces include planar metal shapes, such as meanders, loops, inter-digital fingers, and patterned shapes, to reduce the z-height of the package. The packaged electronic device has a semiconductor die, a foundation layer, a motherboard, a package, and the circuit. The circuit removes undesirable interferences generated from the semiconductor die. The circuit has a z-height that is less than a z-height of solder balls used to attach the foundation layer to the motherboard. A method of forming a planar filtering circuit in a foundation layer is also described.
US11804442B2
A method for forming an electronic chip assembly. A first metal plate is coupled to a first side of a substrate to form a backing plate. A first cavity is created extending through the substrate to extend at least to the first metal plate. An electronic component is bonded to the substrate such that the electronic component is located within the first cavity. A second metal plate, having a second cavity, is disposed to a second side of the substrate, and over the first cavity such that the electronic component is encased within the first and second cavities by the first and second metal plates.
US11804440B2
Disclosed are chip module structures, each having a robust in-package interconnect for reliable performance. Some of the chip module structures achieve interconnect robustness through the use of vias in a spiral step pattern within the interconnect itself. Some chip module structures achieve interconnect robustness through the use of an interconnect stabilizer (referred to herein as a stabilization structure, fence or cage)), which includes vias in a repeating step pattern encircling the in-package interconnect, which is electrically isolated from back side solder balls, front side collapse chip connections (referred to herein as C4 connections), and the interconnect itself, and which is optionally connected to ground. Some chip module structures achieve interconnect robustness through the use of a combination of both vias in a spiral step pattern within the interconnect itself and an interconnect stabilizer.
US11804437B2
A semiconductor device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include: a stack structure including a plurality of first conductive patterns and a plurality of dielectric layers, which are alternately stacked, the stack structure having a stepped structure such that any one of the first conductive patterns further protrudes than the first conductive pattern positioned immediately above it; a plurality of second conductive patterns which are respectively formed over protrusions of the first conductive patterns; a plurality of contact plugs which overlap the plurality of second conductive patterns, respectively, and pass through the overlapping second conductive patterns and the stack structure; and a sealing layer pattern which is interposed between the first conductive patterns and the contact plugs and separates the first conductive patterns from the contact plugs.
US11804428B2
Disclosed is a package and method of forming the package with a mixed pad size. The package includes a first set of pads having a first size and a first pitch, where the first set of pads are solder mask defined (SMD) pads. The package also includes a second set of pads having a second size and a second pitch, where the second set of pads are non-solder mask defined (NSMD) pads.
US11804421B2
A semiconductor package assembly having a connecting clip disposed on both a first material stack and a second material stack having different thicknesses and disposed on a conducting substrate. This connecting clip has a first portion disposed on to the first material stack and second portion disposed on the second material stack, such that the surfaces of the first portion and second portion opposite the conducting substrate are at the same perpendicular distance from the conducting substrate. For example, in some implementations, when the thickness of the second material stack is smaller than the thickness of the first material stack, the second portion of the connecting clip may include a vertical support disposed on the second material stack to equalize the heights of the surfaces of the first portion and second portion of the connecting clip.
US11804420B2
A package substrate may include a build-up layer. The build-up layer may include a dielectric material and one or more microspheres. The one or more microspheres may include a magnetic core that includes a first material that is a first oxidation-resistant material. Further, the one or more microspheres may include a shell to encapsulate the core, and the shell may include a second material that is a second oxidation-resistant material. The package substrate may further include a metal layer coupled with the build-up layer.
US11804412B2
A circuit and method for detecting crack damage of a die are provided. The circuit comprises: a test circuit located within a seal ring of the die for outputting a pulse detection signal; a crack detection loop arranged outside a guard ring of an internal processing circuit of the die, having an input end connected to an output end of the test circuit and an output end connected to an output pin of the die; and a relay driving unit arranged between the input end and output end for increasing a capability of transmission of the pulse detection signal, wherein the seal ring surrounds the whole die; in a test mode, the test circuit outputs the pulse detection signal to the crack detection loop, and a test machine determines whether the die is damaged by a crack by reading a signal on the output pin of the die.
US11804406B2
An interconnect structure including a top via with a minimum line end extension comprises a cut filled with an etch stop material. The interconnect structure further comprises a line formed adjacent to the etch stop material. The interconnect structure further comprises a top via formed on the line adjacent to the etch stop material, wherein the top via utilizes the etch stop material to achieve minimum line extension.
US11804404B2
A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes forming a bitline on a semiconductor structure comprising a conductive feature therein. A spacer is formed adjacent to a sidewall of the bitline, and the spacer has a dielectric contact in a range of about 2 to about 3. A sacrificial layer is formed over the semiconductor structure and covering the spacer. A portion of the sacrificial layer over the bitline is etched to form a first trench to expose a top surface of the bitline. A dielectric layer is formed in the first trench and over the bitline. After forming the dielectric layer, a remaining portion of the sacrificial layer is removed to form a second trench over the semiconductor structure and an outer sidewall of the first spacer is exposed. A contact is formed in the second trench and connected to the conductive feature of the semiconductor structure.
US11804401B2
One or more embodiments described herein include systems, and/or methods that facilitate fabrication of a semiconductor device using a spacer lithography-etch process. According to an embodiment, a method can comprise performing a first lithography exposure and etch over a first layer of a semiconductor device, where the first lithography exposure and etch comprises forming one or more mandrels on a first region of a second layer by employing a first photoresist layer. The method can further comprise forming one or more spacers on a sidewall of the one or more mandrels and covering a second region of the second layer, where the second region is adjacent to the one or more mandrels. The method can further comprise forming a cut over a third region of the second layer and filling the third region with first material.
US11804395B2
A substrate processing method includes: carrying out a substrate from a substrate transfer container by a substrate transfer device; placing the substrate in a first position of a substrate holder; moving the substrate holder into a reaction container and processing the substrate in the reaction chamber; obtaining a film thickness measurement result of the substrate processed in the reaction container; creating a model from the film thickness measurement result; determining a second position where the substrate is placed in the substrate holder and a transfer position setting value obtained from the model; adjusting the first position of the substrate to the second position; calculating an eccentricity state of the substrate from a newly obtained film thickness measurement result; calculating an optimization such that the eccentricity state is minimized; and determining a third position to which a new substrate is placed from the transfer position setting value.
US11804379B2
An etching method of forming, on a substrate having a base film; a stacked film in which a first film and a second film are alternately stacked on the base film; and a mask on the stacked film, a recess in the stacked film through the mask by using plasma includes preparing the substrate; and etching the stacked film until the recess of the stacked film reaches the base film by plasma formed from a gas containing hydrogen, fluorine and carbon, while maintaining a substrate temperature equal to or less than 15° C.
US11804370B2
The invention generally relates to two-dimensional mass spectrometry using ion micropacket detection. In certain aspects, the invention provides systems including a mass spectrometer having an ion trap and one or more detectors. The system includes a central processing unit (CPU), and storage coupled to the CPU for storing instructions that when executed by the CPU cause the system to: apply one or more scan functions to the ion trap that excite a precursor ion and eject a product ion from the ion trap; and determine a secular frequency of the product ion by detecting micropackets of the product ion as the micropackets are ejected from the ion trap.
US11804362B2
Plasma processing and power supply systems and methods are disclosed. The plasma processing system comprises a high-frequency generator configured to deliver power to a plasma chamber and a low-frequency generator configured to deliver power to the plasma chamber. A filter is coupled between the plasma chamber and the high-frequency generator, and the filter suppresses mixing products of high frequencies produced by the high-frequency generator and low frequencies produced by the low-frequency generator. The plasma processing system also comprises means for frequency tuning the high-frequency generator using a probe signal that is concurrently applied with the power applied to the plasma chamber at the primary frequency.
US11804358B2
An improved particle beam inspection apparatus, and more particularly, a particle beam inspection apparatus including a thermal conditioning station for preconditioning a temperature of a wafer is disclosed. The charged particle beam apparatus may scan the wafer to measure one or more characteristics of the structures on the wafer and analyze the one or more characteristics. The charged particle beam apparatus may further determine a temperature characteristic of the wafer based on the analysis of the one or more characteristics of the structure and adjust the thermal conditioning station based on the temperature characteristic.
US11804349B2
A circuit interrupter movable among ON, OFF, and TRIP positions includes a housing, a latch situated on the housing, a number of mechanisms situated on the housing, each mechanism of the number of mechanisms including a contact arm that is movable with respect to the housing, a set of separable contacts including a stationary contact and further including a movable contact situated on the contact arm, a handle, a pin, a first spring that extends between the contact arm and the handle in at least one of the OFF position and the ON position, a second spring that extends between the handle and the pin, and the pin being movable among a position engaged with the latch in at least one of the ON position and the OFF position and another position engaged with the handle in the TRIP position.
US11804347B2
Provided is a protecting device that can prevent damage of the device by releasing the pressure inside the housing by providing openings in the housing and can secure appropriate insulation. The protecting device includes: a meltable conductor 3; first and second external connection terminals 7, 8 connected to both ends of the meltable conductor 3; and a housing 6 having a lower case 4 and an upper case 5, wherein one end of the first external connection terminal 7 and one end of the second external connection terminal 8 are led out from the housing 6, and the housing is provided with a first opening 24 formed facing a front surface of the first external connection terminal 7 and a second opening 25 formed facing a front surface of the second external connection terminal 8.
US11804346B2
An arc shield surrounding an outer peripheral side of a fixed electrode and a movable electrode is provided, in addition to a fixed-side insulating unit in which a fixed-side insulator is provided to be connected coaxially with the arc shield on the fixed side in the axial direction of the arc shield, and a movable-side insulating unit in which movable-side insulators are provided to be connected coaxially with the arc shield on the movable side in the axial direction of the arc shield. The movable-side insulating unit has an insulator group in which movable-side insulators are provided to be connected in the axial direction, an insulator-group-side sub shield surrounding the outer peripheral side of a movable-side energizing shaft, and an insulator-group-side sub shield support part which is on the outer peripheral surface of the insulator-group-side sub shield and interposed between two adjacent movable-side insulators of the insulator group.
US11804332B2
A multilayer electronic component includes: a body including a dielectric layer and a plurality of internal electrodes stacked on each other interposing the dielectric layer therebetween, and external electrodes respectively disposed on the body, wherein the external electrode includes: a first electrode layer connected to the internal electrode; and a second electrode layer disposed on the first electrode layer, and including a conductive portion including an silver (Ag)-tin (Sn) alloy and a resin, and a ratio of an area of the Ag—Sn alloy to an area of the conductive portion satisfies 3 to 50% in at least a portion of a cross-section of the second electrode layer.
US11804327B2
A coil component includes: a body including a magnetic material and a coil of which both ends are externally exposed; intermetallic compounds disposed on the exposed both ends of the coil; and external electrodes disposed on the body to cover the intermetallic compounds. The external electrodes include: conductive resin layers disposed on outer surfaces of the body to contact the exposed both ends of the coil and including base resins, a plurality of metal particles disposed in the base resins, and conductive connecting parts surrounding the plurality of metal particles and contacting the intermetallic compounds. The coil component further includes electrode layers disposed on the conductive resin layers and contacting the conductive connecting parts.
US11804324B2
A coil component includes a body including a coil having a top coil and a bottom coil connected to each other through a via and an external electrode disposed on an external surface of the body to be connected to the coil. A first insulating layer is disposed on a surface of the top coil, and a second insulating layer is disposed on a surface of the bottom coil. The first and second insulating layers are disposed to extend between the top coil and the bottom coil.
US11804315B2
A charging system for an electric energy storage includes a cable assembly and a plug transition between the cable assembly and the electric energy storage. The cable assembly includes a cable provided with at least two separate power conductors and at least one earth conductor. The power conductors are spaced apart from each other within the cable, with each surrounding at least one tube and including a plurality of intertwisted wires stranded around the tube. The cable assembly also includes at least two separate cooling circuits within the cable, namely a first cooling circuit having a cooling fluid in the tubes surrounded by the power conductors, and a second cooling circuit having a cooling fluid in auxiliary tubes to cool the plug transition. Systems and methods are also provided for charging an electrical energy storage on basis of such a cable assembly.
US11804314B2
Electrical cables and processes for making and using same. In some examples, the electrical cable can include one or more insulated electrical conductors and one or more metallic elements cabled together and a metallic layer disposed about the one or more insulated electrical conductors and the one or more metallic elements. The one or more metallic elements can partially fill a space located between the one or more insulated electrical conductors and the metallic layer. The one or more insulated electrical conductors can each include an electrically conductive core, a layer of electrically insulating material disposed about the electrically conductive core, and a layer of metallic strands disposed about the layer of electrically insulating material.
US11804308B2
A system and method for planning a pathway through an anatomical luminal network of a patient including a computing device having at least one processor; a display device in communication with the computing device; and a user interface configured for display on the display device and configured to guide a user through a pathway planning procedure. The user interface includes a patient selection window configured to receive a user input to select a patient having CT image data on which to perform pathway planning; a target selection window configured to receive a user input to select at least one target from the CT image data; and an airway finder window configured to generate at least one pathway from the at least one target to an entry point of the anatomical luminal network in response to a user input.
US11804298B2
The present invention relates to a cancer diagnostic apparatus for checking a cancer incidence by allowing an antibody (captured antibody), which reacts with an rpS3 (ribosomal protein S3; antigen) capable of checking a phenomenon of a cancer, to react with the rpS3, and performing concentration measurement after extracting an emission signal of the reacted antigen (rpS3), and a cancer diagnostic system using the cancer diagnostic apparatus. The cancer diagnostic system includes: the cancer diagnostic apparatus for irradiating an ultraviolet ray (UV) from a bottom of a bio-chip provided with an antibody reacting with an antigen (ribosomal protein S3; rpS3), making an image from a visible ray obtained from the ultraviolet ray, which is converted by the antigen and the antibody bound to each other while passing through the bio-chip, and extracting only a specific frequency color from the visible ray to generate cancer diagnosis information; and a user terminal.
US11804290B2
Highblood levels of very low density lipoprotein lipids (VLDLs) and glycoprotein acyl (Glyc A) are known to increase risk of diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, inflammations, cognitive impairments, cancers and premature deaths in sedentary persons. The invention determines physical activity thresholds of daily steps and accelerations to reduce plasma concentrations of VLDLs and Glyc A. The method and device is an accelerometer recording and classifying numbers of steps and accelerations and comparing the person's steps and accelerations with those shown to reduce VLDLs and Gly A. The invention is characterized in that if the daily number of accleration maxima exceeds the given en threshold of 2980 steps in the acceleration range 1.3-1.7 g, the person has performed physical activity, typically known to reduce circulating VLDLs and Glyc A.
US11804287B2
A method for calculating a subject's state or condition comprises integrating data that are captured from multiple sources, storing the integrated data in a first database, calculating time intervals in which to collect an optimal amount of data to predict the subject state, developing a predictive model using a recorded diary or electronic data capture information, testing the model against a portion of the captured data, and applying the predictive model to new data from other sources. The predictive model may determine a subject state that may be a digital bio-marker for a disease condition. A system for predicting subject state is also disclosed.
US11804284B2
A modulo based alignment system for aligning genetic material sequences is provided. The modulo based alignment system reduces the size of data required for the genetic material sequence alignment, reduces the number of the registers required for processing, reduces the power requirements, and reduces the amount of heat generated during processing. The modulo based alignment system provides methods of performing dynamic programs for global, overlapping and local alignments using modular arithmetic. The methods produce smaller parameters requiring fewer processor register bits. In addition, with customized hardware optimized for 8-bit arithmetic, the dynamic programs are sped up.
US11804277B2
Many error correction schemes fail to correct for double-bit errors and a module must be replaced when these double-bit errors occur repeatedly at the same address. This helps prevent data corruption. In an embodiment, the addresses for one of the memory devices exhibiting a single-bit error (but not the other also exhibiting a single bit error) is transformed before the internal memory arrays are accessed. This has the effect of moving one of the error prone memory cells to a different external (to the module) address such that there is only one error prone bit that is accessed by the previously double-bit error prone address. Thus, a double-bit error at the original address is remapped into two correctable single-bit errors that are at different addresses.
US11804274B2
A circuit includes a first transistor whose gate is connected to a set terminal and whose source or drain is connected to an internal node, a second transistor connected such that one of a source and a drain is electrically connected to the internal node and the other one of the source and the drain is electrically connected to a reference voltage source, a third transistor connected such that a gate is connected to the internal node, one of a source and a drain is connected to a clock terminal, and the other one of the source and the drain is connected to a first output terminal, a bootstrap capacitor which is connected to the internal node and the first output terminal, and a stabilization circuit that suppresses a drop in potential at the internal node in a charging period of the bootstrap capacitor.
US11804270B2
A non-volatile memory device includes a memory cell region including a first metal pad and a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells, and a peripheral circuit region including a second metal pad and an output driver to output a data signal, and vertically connected to the memory cell region by the first metal pad and the second metal pad. The output driver includes a pull-up driver and a pull-down driver. The pull-up driver includes a first pull-up driver having a plurality of P-type transistors and a second pull-up driver having a plurality of N-type transistors. The pull-down driver includes a plurality of N-type transistors. One or more power supply voltages having different voltage levels are selectively applied to the pull-up driver. A first power supply voltage is applied to the first pull-up driver, and a second power supply voltage is applied to the second pull-up driver.
US11804265B2
Provided herein may be a resistive memory device and a method of operating the resistive memory device. The resistive memory device may include strings coupled between one or more source lines and one or more bit lines, each string including a set of one or more resistive memory cells, one or more word lines respectively coupled to the set of one or more resistive memory cells; and a voltage generator configured to control a level of a turn-on voltage to be applied to one or more unselected word lines among the one or more word lines depending on a program target state of a subset of resistive memory cells including one or more resistive memory cells selected from among the set of one or more resistive memory cells.
US11804258B2
A semiconductor memory apparatus includes a first memory cell array, a second memory cell array, and a hammering control circuit. The first memory cell array includes a first row hammer memory cell. The second memory cell array includes a second row hammer memory cell. The hammering control circuit controls the number of active operations on a first word line to be stored in the second row hammer memory cell and controls the number of active operations on a second word line to be stored in the first row hammer memory cell.
US11804255B2
A memory device includes a voltage generator configured to generate a reference voltage for transmission to at least one component of the memory device. The voltage generator includes a first input to receive a first signal having a first voltage value. The voltage generator also includes a second input to receive a second signal having a second voltage value. The voltage generator further includes a first circuit configured to generate third voltage and a second circuit coupled to the first circuit to receive the third voltage value, wherein the second circuit receives the first signal and the second signal and is configured to utilize the third voltage value to facilitate comparison of the first voltage value and the second voltage value to generate an output voltage.
US11804252B2
Methods, systems, and devices for word line structures for three-dimensional memory arrays are described. A memory device may include word line structures that support accessing memory cells arranged in a three-dimensional level architecture. The word line structures may be arranged above a substrate and be separated from each other by respective dielectric layers. Each word line structure may include word line members and a word line plate that is connected to each word line member. Each word line plate may include a contact that may be coupled with a word line decoder operable to bias the word line plate. To couple the word line plate to the word line decoder, the memory device may include first vias that extend through holes in the word line plates and are coupled with second vias that extend from a respective contact through openings in the word line plates above the contact.
US11804251B2
A memory device includes a command interface configured to receive a two-cycle command from a host device via multiple command address bits. The memory device also includes a command decoder configured to decode a first portion of the multiple command address bits in a first cycle of the two-cycle command. The command decoder includes mask circuitry. The mask circuitry includes mask generation circuitry configured to generate a mask signal. The mask circuitry also includes multiplexer circuitry configured to apply the mask signal to block the command decoder from decoding a second portion of the multiple command address bits in a second cycle of the two-cycle command.
US11804243B2
It is an object of the present technology to provide a magnetic recording medium that has a small total thickness and achieves excellent travelling stability. The present technology provides a tape-shaped magnetic recording medium including a magnetic layer, an underlayer, a base layer, and a back layer, in which a servo pattern is recorded in the magnetic layer, a statistical value σSW indicating non-linearity of a servo band and being obtained from a reproduction waveform of a servo signal of the servo pattern is 24 nm or less, the base layer contains polyester as a main component, an average thickness tT of the magnetic recording medium is 5.6 μm or less, the magnetic recording medium contains a lubricant, pores are formed in the magnetic recording medium, and an average diameter of the pores of the magnetic recording medium that is measured in a state where the lubricant has been removed from the magnetic recording medium and the magnetic recording medium has been dried, is 6 nm or more and 11 nm or less.
US11804237B2
A conference terminal and an echo cancellation method for a conference are provided. In the echo cancellation method, a synthetic speech signal is received. The synthetic speech signal includes a user speech signal of a speaking party corresponding to a first conference terminal of multiple conference terminals and an audio watermark signal corresponding to the first conference terminal. One or more delay times corresponding to the audio watermark signal are detected in a received audio signal. The received audio signal is recorded through a sound receiver of a second conference terminal of the conference terminals. An echo in the received audio signal is canceled according to the delay time.
US11804233B2
A device includes one or more processors configured to perform signal processing including a linear transformation and a non-linear transformation of an input signal to generate a reference target signal. The reference target signal has a linear component associated with the linear transformation and a non-linear component associated with the non-linear transformation. The one or more processors are also configured to perform linear filtering of the input signal by controlling adaptation of the linear filtering to generate an output signal that substantially matches the linear component of the reference target signal.
US11804232B2
An apparatus for processing an audio signal includes a configurable first audio signal processor for processing the audio signal in accordance with different configuration settings to obtain a processed audio signal, wherein the apparatus is adapted so that different configuration settings result in different sampling rates of the processed audio signal. The apparatus furthermore includes n analysis filter bank having a first number of analysis filter bank channels, a synthesis filter bank having a second number of synthesis filter bank channels, a second audio processor being adapted to receive and process an audio signal having a predetermined sampling rate, and a controller for controlling the first number of analysis filter bank channels or the second number of synthesis filter bank channels in accordance with a configuration setting.
US11804231B2
In some implementations, a user device may receive input that triggers transmission of information via sound. The user device may select an audio clip based on a setting associated with the device, and may modify a digital representation of the selected audio clip using an encoding algorithm and based on data associated with a user of the device. The user device may transmit, to a remote server, an indication of the selected audio clip, an indication of the encoding algorithm, and the data associated with the user. The user device may use a speaker to play audio, based on the modified digital representation, for recording by other devices. Accordingly, the user device may receive, from the remote server and based on the speaker playing the audio, a confirmation that users associated with the other devices have performed an action based on the data associated with the user of the device.
US11804228B2
The present disclosure relates to a speaker model adaptation method and device for enhancing text-independent speaker recognition performance. Specifically, the disclosure relates to a method and a device whereby, for the adaption of a speaker model pre-stored in an electronic device, text-independent speaker recognition performance is improved by considering variations in the amount of speaker characteristics information per phoneme unit.
US11804220B2
This voice processing device is provided with: an utterer's position detection unit which specifies, as position microphones of an utterer, microphones that receive a voice signal of WuW on the basis of the characteristics of each voice signal for a prescribed time, when the WuW voice is detected, the voice signal being held in a voice signal buffer unit; and a CTC unit (one example of a voice processing unit) which outputs a voice uttered by the utterer and suppress a voice uttered by an occupant, who is not the utterer, by using the voice signal for the prescribed time, which is held in the voice signal buffer unit, and information relating to the utterer's position microphones.
US11804216B2
Systems and methods for generating training data for a supervised topic modeling system from outputs of a topic discovery model are described herein. In an embodiment, a system receives a plurality of digitally stored call transcripts and, using a topic model, generates an output which identifies a plurality of topics represented in the plurality of digitally stored call transcripts. Using the output of the topic model, the system generates an input dataset for a supervised learning model by identify a first subset of the plurality of digitally stored call transcripts that include the particular topic, storing a positive value for the first subset, identifying a second subset that do not include the particular topic, and storing a negative value for the second subset. The input training dataset is then used to train a supervised learning model.
US11804209B2
Methods and systems are described herein for generating an audible presentation of a communication received from a remote server. A presentation of a media asset on a user equipment device is generated for a first user. A textual-based communication is received, at the user equipment device from the remote server. The textual-based communication is transmitted to the remote server by a second user and the remote server transmits the textual-based communication to the user equipment device responsive to determining that the second user is on a list of users associated with the first user. An engagement level of the first user with the user equipment device is determined. Responsive to determining that the engagement level does not exceed a threshold value, a presentation of the textual-based communication is generated in audible form.
US11804207B1
A transportation vehicle provides a workspace in a passenger cabin to support a teleconference with a remote party. External sensors are configured to scan the exterior of the vehicle and detect a pedestrian. A sound exciter is configured to generate a masking noise directed to the exterior. A control circuit which enhances privacy of the teleconference is configured to A) detect the audio content of the teleconference being present in the interior of the vehicle, B) quantify an interior sound level of the audio content, C) estimate a discernibility of the audio content at an external location corresponding to the detected pedestrian, and D) activate the sound exciter such that the masking noise is adapted to mask the audio content at the external location.
US11804205B2
An injection moulded acoustic filter comprising a foil piece or filter structure having a plurality of micro-slits configured to act as acoustic channels through the foil piece for filtering sound waves impinging the foil piece. The micro-slits have a maximum slit width across a surface of the foil piece of less than one hundred micrometres and a combined slit length along the surface of the foil piece of at least five millimetres. An earplug comprising the acoustic filter. A method and mould for manufacturing the acoustic filter.
US11804203B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel configured to display an image, a vibration generating device at a rear surface of the display panel to vibrate the display panel, and a supporting member at the rear surface of the display panel and including a first hole. The first hole may be disposed at a whole region or periphery of the vibration generating device.
US11804201B2
Provided is a device for reporting a tuning status by sound on the basis of an audio signal acquired. The device includes: a signal acquisition means for acquiring the audio signal; a comparison means for comparing the frequency of the audio signal with a reference frequency corresponding to the audio signal; and a generation means for generating a first sound signal when the frequency of the audio signal is lower than the reference frequency and generating a second sound signal different from the first sound signal when the frequency of the audio signal is higher than the reference frequency.
US11804199B2
Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to technology for controlling diodes and producing colored light displays. More specifically, some embodiments of the present technology relate to controlling one or more diodes individually capable of producing multiple colors of light and producing various colors of light in said diodes. In some embodiments, a color control software instructs a set of diodes to produce smooth gradients between adjacent colors in a color sequence. In additional embodiments, a color control system instructs the set of diodes to display smooth transitions between color sequences.
US11804198B2
An information processing apparatus, a display control method, and an imaging apparatus for shortening a switching time of a display device that displays a video. The information processing apparatus includes a display control unit that, in a case where display of a video is switched from a first display unit to which a first video signal is input via a first bus to a second display unit to which a second video signal is input via a second bus, causes the first display unit to transition from an activated state in which operation is performed in a light-emitting state to a standby state in which operation is performed in a non-light-emitting state or a stopped state in which operation is stopped in the non-light-emitting state, and causes the second display unit to transition from the standby state or the stopped state to the activated state.
US11804189B2
A method for generating offset current values includes: setting a current setting sequence which includes multiple current setting values; driving a light emitting unit and measuring a current value of the light emitting unit; establishing a recurrent neural network (RNN) including an input layer, a hidden layer and an output layer; and inputting the current value into the hidden layer, inputting the current setting values into the input layer sequentially, and obtaining offset values from the output layer sequentially. The offset values correspond to the current setting values respectively.
US11804186B2
A display apparatus includes a power supply device. The power supply device includes a power supply part and an integrated circuit chip. The power supply part outputs a first power to drive a backlight and a second power to drive a main circuit. The integrated circuit chip increases, based on a control signal to adjust a brightness of the backlight being received, a current value of the second power, and reduces, based on the control signal not being received for a first threshold time, the current value of the second power.
US11804185B2
Provided is a display device including a display panel configured to display an image, a data driving circuit configured to supply a data voltage to the display panel, and a timing controller configured to control the data driving circuit, in which the data driving circuit includes a first converter configured to divide and output a voltage based on a plurality of resistors, a gain circuit configured to selectively receive at least two different voltages from the first converter, and amplify voltages input through input terminals to output the voltages to at least two output terminals or output the voltages without amplification and without change, and a second converter configured to interpolate and output at least two voltages output from the gain circuit.
US11804184B2
A source driver includes a plurality of shift register groups cascaded in sequence, an enable control circuit and at least one switching circuit electrically connected to the enable control circuit. Each shift register group includes a plurality of stages of shift registers, and is configured to sample digitized image data; a first start signal of an n-th shift register group is output by an (n−1)-th shift register group, n is a positive integer greater than 2. The enable control circuit is configured to output a first turn-on signal or a first turn-off signal. In two adjacent shift register groups, a last-stage shift register in a present shift register group is electrically connected to a first-stage shift register in a next shift register group through a switching circuit.
US11804183B2
A display panel, a driving method of a display panel, and a display device are provided. The display panel includes pixel circuits and a gate driving circuit including cascaded first shift register units. A trigger signal input terminal of the first stage first shift register unit is connected to a trigger signal terminal through a first switch element. A signal output terminal of the i-th stage first shift register unit is connected to a trigger signal input terminal of the (i+1)-th stage first shift register unit through a second switch element. A trigger signal input terminal of the N-th stage first shift register unit is connected to the trigger signal terminal through a third switch element. A signal output terminal of the j-th stage first shift register unit is connected to a trigger signal input terminal of the (j−1)-th stage first shift register unit through a fourth switch element.
US11804181B2
A display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate lines, and a plurality of pixels connected to the plurality of data lines and the plurality of gate lines; a data driving circuit configured to supply data signals to the plurality of data lines; a gate driving circuit configured to supply gate signals to the plurality of gate lines; and a power supply circuit configured to supply a first body voltage and a second body voltage having a voltage level that is less than the first body voltage to the plurality of pixels, the plurality of pixels being selectively supplied with the first body voltage and the second body voltage.
US11804180B2
The present disclosure provides a pixel driving circuit, a method for driving the same, and a display device. A first reset sub-circuit included in the pixel driving circuit is used to control to connect or disconnect a gate electrode of a driving transistor and a common node, and to connect or disconnect the common node and the first initialization voltage input terminals; control to connect or disconnect the common node and a second initialization voltage input terminal under the control of a first control terminal; a difference between a potential of a second initialization signal inputted by the second initialization signal input terminal and a potential of a gate electrode of the driving transistor during a light emission period is smaller than a threshold value.
US11804176B2
A display substrate and a display device, the display substrate includes a first side for displaying and a second side, and includes: a base substrate; a display region including first and second display regions, the first display region including multiple pixel unit groups, each pixel unit group including multiple first pixel units, and each first pixel unit including a pixel region and an opening region; multiple first power lines located in the pixel region; a shielding layer including a hollow region and a shielding region; for one pixel unit group, the opening region of each first pixel unit at least partially overlaps with the shielding region, the opening region of at least one first pixel unit includes a first shielding connecting portion at least partially overlapping with the shielding region, the shielding layer is connected with at least one first power line through the first shielding connecting portion.
US11804166B2
The present disclosure relates to a signal processing device and an image display apparatus including the same. The signal processing device includes: an input interface to receive an image signal; a first image processor to generate first image frame data based on the image signal; a second image processor including a scaler to generate second image frame data scaled down in comparison with the first image frame data; and an output interface to output the first image frame data and the second image frame data, wherein the scaler generates at least one super pixel or super block and outputs the scaled down second image frame data including the super pixel or the super block. Accordingly, it is possible to generate the scaled down second image frame data with reduced error as compared to the first image frame data.
US11804153B2
A medium is configured to be mounted in and printed with a printer. The medium includes: a release material; and a printing label. The release material is provided with a cut-out area. The cut-out area is surrounded by a hole or a cut or a series of holes or a series of cuts and has at least a first side and a second side. The first side and the second side oppose each other. The printing label is affixed to the release material so as to extend across the first side and the second side of the cut-out area. The first side and the second side are configured to include different types of the holes or the cuts or the series of holes or the series of cuts from each other.
US11804149B2
Devices, systems, and methods appropriate for use in medical training that include materials that better mimic natural human tissue are disclosed. In one aspect, multi-layer tissue simulations are provided. In another aspect, male genitalia models are provided. In another aspect, abdominal surgical wall inserts are provided. Systems and methods associated with these devices are also provided.
US11804147B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for managing an individual's weight, which operates in an Internet of Things environment over a 5G communication network and is capable of effectively managing an individual's weight, and a personalized weight management method using the apparatus. The present disclosure is directed to learning a predicted weight of an individual calculated based on weight information of the individual, information on a type and an amount of food ingested by the individual, and information on exercise performed by the individual, received on the present day, and predicting information on food to be ingested and information on exercise to be performed in order to achieve a target weight received from the individual, based on the learned predicted weight.
US11804145B2
A method for providing learning information is provided. The method includes the steps of: combining achievements of one or more learner groups for a plurality of learning units to derive learning achievement characteristic information of the one or more learner groups; combining achievements of a target learner for the plurality of learning units to derive learning achievement characteristic information of the target learner; comparing the learning achievement characteristic information of the target learner and the learning achievement characteristic information of the one or more learner groups; and providing learning information to the target learner according to a learning path of the one or more learner groups, on the basis of a result of the comparison.
US11804144B2
A method of managing an interaction of a student with a class about a subject, the subject having at least one lesson having at least one topic, the topic having at least one of exposition content, demonstration content and test content, the test content having a query and a scheme for mapping a response to a result, comprising: presenting content to the student and storing the interaction of the student with the content presented.
US11804142B2
The present invention relates to apparatus for simulating visual impairment of a person 10. The apparatus for simulating visual impairment of a person 10 comprises a headset 14 and a position sensor 16. The headset 14 is worn by a user and displays a scene 20 to the user. The position sensor 16 senses the position of the headset. The headset 14 changes the scene 20 displayed to the user in dependence on an output from the position sensor 16. The headset 14 also changes an extent of obscuration of the scene 20 displayed to the user in dependence on an output from the position sensor 16.
US11804133B2
The present technology utilizes vehicles in a fleet of vehicles to record weather data samples at many locations in a service area. Each vehicle in the fleet becomes a weather station that can record weather data at many locations and frequently. The weather data can be used to make intelligent decisions regarding fleet management.
US11804127B2
A premises control unit in communication with at least one battery operated sensor of a premises security system is provided. The premises control unit includes processing circuitry configured to configure at least one parameter for the at least one battery operated sensor where the configuration of the at least one parameter is based at least on data collected by the premises security system, and the at least one parameter includes at least sleep cycles for the at least one battery operated sensor.
US11804122B2
An example method is disclosed, the method comprising: (i) detecting, via a first sensor of an alert system configured for use with a vehicle, a living being inside the vehicle; (ii) measuring, via a second sensor, an environmental feature inside the vehicle; (iii) based at least on the detection of the living being and the measured environmental feature, determining, an alert condition inside the vehicle; (iv) selecting a first computational action based at least on the determined alert condition; (v) transmitting an instruction that causes a component of the vehicle to perform the selected first computational action; (vi) selecting a second computational action based at least on the determined alert condition; and (vii) transmitting, via a network interface, to at least one computing device that is remote from the alert system, an instruction that causes at least one remote computing device to perform the selected second computational action.
US11804120B2
A monitor system with dual audio or multiple audio feature for simultaneously monitoring one or more target subjects is disclosed. The monitor system includes a plurality of camera devices and a base station. The plurality of camera devices is arranged to capture video data and sound data of the one or more target subjects independently and simultaneously. The base station is configured to receive the video data and the sound data from the plurality of camera devices, and present the video data and the sound data uninterruptedly. The base station comprises a display panel partitioned into a plurality of regions for displaying multiple views simultaneously using a split-screen technique. The base station outputs an audio signal by combining the sound data from the plurality of camera devices into a single audio signal.
US11804112B2
Disclosed is a mobile electronic device platform for automated visual product recognition. As part of the platform, a mobile electronic device comprising a processing element and computer-readable media performs automated product-recognition processes based on input image frames received from a photographic element. The non-transitory computer-readable media may include computer-readable instructions stored thereon, the instructions instructing the processing element of the mobile electronic device to complete the following data processing steps without sending or receiving the processed data over an active data connection to any other computing device: (1) pass an input image frame of the input image frames depicting a product through a convolutional neural network stored on the computer-readable media; (2) generate a product classification for the product based at least in part on passage of the image frame through the convolutional neural network; and (3) record product metadata corresponding to the product to a record of the automated product-recognition process. The convolutional neural network may be trained through adjustment of model parameters according to the output of multiple classification arms sharing upstream convolutional features and utilize network compression and/or quantization techniques described herein, resulting in significant performance gains.
US11804110B2
Systems and methods for ATM fraud detection are presented. ATM fraud detection may be provided in the context of including a currency sensor in the ATM to count currency notes. ATM fraud detection may be obtained by using a currency sensor, such as a scanner, to image and count any currency notes that remain after being dispensed to a user, and determining if the count is correct for the currency notes dispensed. A count discrepancy resulting from removal of some but not all dispensed currency notes would indicate attempted theft or fraud.
US11804108B2
An automatic feeder system may include: an input bin configured to store at least one physical request slip; a feeder unit; and a support frame. The feeder unit may include a feed neck operable to automatically obtain a physical request slip from the input bin and convey it out from an outlet of the feed neck. The support frame may support the feeder unit so that the outlet is configured to engage with an input of a retailer system engaged with the automatic feeder system such that conveyance of the physical request slip out from the outlet causes the physical request slip to enter the input of the retailer system and cause the retailer system to generate a physical ticket for the game of chance based on the physical request slip.
US11804105B2
A gaming system and method that offers different sporting event wagering interfaces for different users based on each user's respective expertise with placing wagers on outcomes of sporting events.
US11804102B2
A casino credit access instrument comprises a source of funds for a player, such as for placing wagers to play casino-style games or to purchase other goods or services. The instrument defines a period of timed during which credit may be accessed up to a predetermined amount, defines a redemption period during which any accessed credit may be re-paid, and defines settlement terms if the instrument is not redeemed. Credit may be granted based upon financial collateral, which collateral may be executed upon to settle the instrument. The instrument provides a convenient source of funding for player at low risk to the casino or other lender.
US11804096B2
A system for automatic filling of medication organizers comprises i) a storage unit for medication containers that is accessible from a first side thereof ii) a plurality of medication organizer filling units, each having a temporary storage rack that is accessible from a side of the medication filling units that faces the storage unit, and iii) a container handling system that is positioned between the storage unit and the temporary storage racks and that is movable between the storage unit and each of the temporary storage racks for transferring selected medication containers therebetween. The system allows minimizing idle times by moving medication containers between the storage unit and temporary storage racks simultaneously to the filling process.
US11804094B2
While a bill controller is moving a bill press and a pool guide from accumulation positions to delivery positions, a time period from a time point to a time point for moving both the bill press and the pool guide and a time period from the time point to a time point for moving only the pool guide are given.
US11804078B2
An information processing apparatus (2000) receives a request for registration of a substitute person. The request includes at least a face image of the substitute person who picks up a picked-up target as a substitute. The information processing apparatus (2000) registers the substitute person using the face image of the substitute person shown in the request. In addition, the information processing apparatus (2000) performs notification related to registration of the substitute person with respect to an authorized picking-up person associated with the picked-up target. The authorized picking-up person is determined using an authorized picking-up person information storage unit that stores the picked-up target in association with the authorized picking-up person of the picked-up target.
US11804075B2
An emotion determination device includes a memory and a processor connected to the memory. The processor is configured to acquire a facial image of a user, set an evaluation value for each of plural emotion classifications including a neutral state based on the acquired facial image, compute a correction value using an evaluation value set based on a neutral facial image acquired at a timing corresponding to a neutral state, and determine an emotion of the user by applying the computed correction value to the set evaluation values.
US11804067B1
A fingerprint sensing device and a wearable electronic device are provided. The fingerprint sensing device includes an image sensor and a processor. The image sensor is arranged below a fingerprint sensing area. The processor is coupled to the image sensor. The processor senses a finger placed above the fingerprint sensing area through the image sensor during a fingerprint sensing period to obtain a first fingerprint image. The processor continuously senses the finger placed above the fingerprint sensing area through the image sensor during a physiological information sensing period, so as to obtain a physiological characteristic signal.
US11804063B2
A photosensitive apparatus includes an operating circuit, a first electrode, multiple first photosensitive patterns, a dielectric layer, a second electrode, a spacer layer, a light shielding layer, and at least one micro lens. The first electrode is electrically connected to a first terminal of the operating circuit. The first photosensitive patterns are separated from each other and disposed on the first electrode. Multiple first surfaces of the first photosensitive patterns are electrically connected to the first electrode. The dielectric layer is disposed on the first photosensitive patterns. The second electrode is disposed on the dielectric layer and electrically connected to multiple second surfaces of the first photosensitive patterns through multiple first contact holes of the dielectric layer. The spacer layer is disposed on the second electrode. The light shielding layer is disposed on the spacer layer. The at least one micro lens is disposed above the light shielding layer.
US11804028B2
A method includes accessing a web-based property over a network; storing a plurality of images or videos from the web-based property and associations between the plurality of images or videos and a target audience identifier responsive to the web-based property having a stored association with the target audience identifier; retrieving the plurality of images or videos from the database responsive to each of the plurality of images or videos having stored associations with the target audience identifier; executing a neural network to generate a performance score for each of the plurality of images or videos; calculating a target audience benchmark; executing the neural network to generate a first performance score for a first image or video and a second performance score for a second image or video; comparing the first performance score and the second performance score to the benchmark; and generating a record identifying the first image or video.
US11804026B2
A device for processing data sequences by means of a convolutional neural network is configured to carry out the following steps: receiving an input sequence comprising a plurality of data items captured over time using a sensor, each of said data items comprising a multi-dimensional representation of a scene, generating an output sequence representing the input sequence processed item-wise by the convolutional neural network, wherein generating the output sequence comprises: generating a grid-generation sequence based on a combination of the input sequence and an intermediate grid-generation sequence representing a past portion of the output sequence or the grid-generation sequence, generating a sampling grid on the basis of the grid-generation sequence, generating an intermediate output sequence by sampling from the past portion of the output sequence according to the sampling grid, and generating the output sequence based on a weighted combination of the intermediate output sequence and the input sequence.
US11804023B1
Disclosed is a virtual dressing room that allows a user to virtually try on clothing, clothing accessories, and/or other related items on a model of the user's own body, and a virtual stylist that automatically selects and curates items to match, accentuate, and/or otherwise complement the body type, physical features, look, and/or style of the user. The virtual stylist may receive images of the user over a data network, may determine attributes of the user by analyzing the images, may input the user attributes into a relationship model, and may receive item preferences as output from the relationship model. The virtual stylist may select a set of items from a plurality of items based on the set of items comprising tags that satisfy the item preferences, and may generate and present generate a site with the selected set of items.
US11804022B1
Disclosed is a system and associated methods for the generative drawing and customization of three-dimensional (“3D”) objects in 3D space using hand gestures. The system adapts the hand gestures as intuitive controls for rapidly creating and customizing the 3D objects to have a desired artistic effect or a desired look. The system selects a 3D model of a particular object in response to a first user input, sets a position in a virtual space at which to generate the particular object in response to a mapped position of a first hand gesture tracked in a physical space, and generates a first state representation of the particular object at the position in the virtual space in response to a second hand gesture. The first state representation presents the particular object at one of different modeled stages of the particular object lifecycle.
US11804017B2
Systems and methods are provided for displaying supplemental content for print media using augmented reality. A user profile for a user of an augmented reality device is determined. Content of the print media is searched to identify a first portion of the print media that matches the user profile and a second portion of the print media that does not match the user profile. Supplemental content is obtained based on content of the first portion of the print media. A display of the supplemental content is positioned over the second portion of the print media.
US11804005B2
This application is directed to system and methods that facilitate communications within virtual environments. Types of communications contemplated include non-verbal, pictographic communications. For example, the inventive subject matter can facilitate allowing users to use gesture-based inputs to apply writing to aspects of a virtual environment. When writing is applied to, e.g., a wall within a virtual environment, systems and methods of the inventive subject ensure that writing can be made visible to other users within that virtual environment, thereby facilitating a wide variety of new modes of in-game communications.
US11804004B1
A system prioritizes the rendering and streaming of image data based on risk maps that predict change in a three-dimensional (“3D”) environment. The system receives primitives that are distributed across a 3D space to represent the 3D environment. The system generates a first image based on primitives that fall within a first view frustum, and generates a risk map with a risk value for each particular pixel of the first image. Each risk value quantifies a probability that a pixel of the first image associated with that risk value changes as a result of changing the first view frustum to a second view frustum. The system then performs an out-of-order rendering of primitives that fall within the second view frustum based on the risk value for each first image pixel that is replaced in a second image with a rendered primitive from the second view frustum.
US11804001B2
Aspects comprise systems implementing 3-D graphics processing functionality in a multiprocessing system. Control flow structures are used in scheduling instances of computation in the multiporcessing system, where different points in the control flow structure serve as points where deferral of some instances of computation can be performed in favor of scheduling other instances of computation. In some examples, the control flow structure identifies particular tasks, such as intersection testing of a particular portion of an acceleration structure, and a particular element of shading code. In some examples, the aspects are used in 3-D graphics processing systems that can perform ray tracing based rendering.
US11804000B2
Methods and systems are described in some examples for changing the traversal of an acceleration data structure in a highly dynamic query-specific manner, with each query specifying test parameters, a test opcode and a mapping of test results to actions. In an example ray tracing implementation, traversal of a bounding volume hierarchy by a ray is performed with the default behavior of the traversal being changed in accordance with results of a test performed using the test opcode and test parameters specified in the ray data structure and another test parameter specified in a node of the bounding volume hierarchy. In an example implementation a traversal coprocessor is configured to perform the traversal of the bounding volume hierarchy.
US11803998B2
An image generator generates images of a set of virtual fibers and effects thereon by processing representations of the set of fibers and computing representation of a virtual surface for a fiber clump in the set of virtual fibers from an artist parameter representing a desired artist effect, computing correlations of the vertices from a set of vertices based on associations of the vertices corresponding to the artist parameter, computing a set of relevant vertices using the correlations of the vertices, computing orthogonal gradients to produce a plurality of gradients using a selected vertex and the set of relevant vertices for the fiber clump, and computing the virtual surface of the fiber clump from the plurality of gradients.
US11803993B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for generating a content page having a plurality of layers. The technique includes detecting a first application event associated with a first layer included in a plurality of layers of a content page and accessing, via a template file, at least one parameter of the first layer that corresponds to the first application event. The technique further includes modifying at least one aspect of the first layer based on the first application event and the at least one parameter to generate a first modified layer, and outputting the first modified layer for display.
US11803991B1
A data visualization tool and a method of using the tool for managing resources in a set of server clusters is disclosed. The visualization tool displays the allotment of computational resources among various categories, including currently allocated resources, resources reserved for pending requests and available resources. The resources include CPUs, memory, and storage. The visualization tool is configured to visually indicate the difference between server clusters where new resources can be allocated and other clusters where one or more resources are capped and prevent any new allocations. The visualization tool is also configured to show current utilization of each resource for comparison with the amount allocated.
US11803987B2
A method for point cloud decoding includes receiving a bitstream. The method also includes decoding the bitstream into multiple frames that include pixels. Certain pixels of the multiple frames correspond to points of a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud. The multiple frames include a first set of frames that represent locations of the points of the 3D point cloud and a second set of frames that represent attribute information for the points of the 3D point cloud. The method further includes reconstructing the 3D point cloud based on the first set of frames. Additionally, the method includes identifying a first portion of the points of the reconstructed 3D point cloud based at least in part on a property associated with the multiple frames. The method also includes modifying a portion of the attribute information. The portion of the attribute information that is modified corresponds to the first portion of the points.
US11803985B2
An information processing apparatus includes circuitry to: divide an image into a first block and a second block; encode the first block using fixed-length coding based on a determination that a first data size is equal to or greater than a threshold, the first data size being a data size for the first block in a case where the first block is encoded using variable-length coding; and encode the first block using variable-length coding based on a determination that the first data size is less than the threshold.
US11803977B2
Techniques are described for determining whether a point cloud registration (e.g., alignment) between two sets of data points is valid. Such techniques can include determining voxelized representations of the sets of data points, and comparing characteristics of spatially aligned voxels within the voxelized representations. Characteristics of voxels to be compared can include classification labels of data points associated with voxels, including whether or not voxels correspond to free space. Point cloud registrations determined to be invalid can be given a weighting to be used in a subsequent high definition (HD) map building process. Generated maps can then be deployed for use in autonomous vehicles.
US11803967B2
Various methods and systems are provided for bicuspid valve detection with ultrasound imaging. In one embodiment, a method comprises acquiring ultrasound video of a heart over at least one cardiac cycle, identifying frames in the ultrasound video corresponding to at least one cardiac phase, and classifying a cardiac structure in the identified frames as a bicuspid valve or a tricuspid valve. A generative model such as a variational autoencoder trained on ultrasound image frames at the at least one cardiac phase may be used to classify the cardiac structure. In this way, relatively rare occurrences of bicuspid aortic valves may be automatically detected during regular cardiac ultrasound screenings.
US11803959B2
Implementations are described herein for training and applying machine learning models to digital images capturing plants, and to other data indicative of attributes of individual plants captured in the digital images, to recognize individual plants in distinction from other individual plants. In various implementations, a digital image that captures a first plant of a plurality of plants may be applied, along with additional data indicative of an additional attribute of the first plant observed when the digital image was taken, as input across a machine learning model to generate output. Based on the output, an association may be stored in memory, e.g., of a database, between the digital image that captures the first plant and one or more previously-captured digital images of the first plant.
US11803958B1
The disclosure relates to methods and systems for determining muscle fascicle fracturing in a meat sample. In one embodiment, the methods and systems disclosed herein use automated methods to determine muscle fascicle fracturing. Methods and systems disclosed herein comprise imaging a meat sample with an imaging device to obtain one or more images; and using an iteratively trained training detection model to determine an objective classification, including the presence or absence of muscle fascicle fracturing in the images of the meat sample.
US11803954B2
Systems and methods for detecting the cracks in illuminated electronic device screens are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving an image of an electronic device screen and retrieving a plurality of kernels, each having values corresponding to a line region and a non-line region, with the orientation of the line region and the non-line region differing for each kernel. At least some of the kernels are applied to the image to obtain, at various locations of the image, values corresponding to the line regions and the non-line regions. Based on the values corresponding to the line regions and the non-line regions, cracks are automatically identified in the electronic device screen.
US11803941B2
A method for removing fringe noise in an image includes: acquiring an original image; acquiring an original frequency spectrum of one-dimensional signal of the original image; determining a noise frequency band in the original frequency spectrum, and the noise frequency band is a frequency band including a central frequency of the fringe noise; denoising the noise frequency band to obtain a denoised frequency spectrum, wherein a denoising intensity used in the denoising is gradually increased from a start frequency position of the noise frequency band, and the denoising intensity is gradually reduced from the central frequency until a stop frequency position of the noise frequency band; and generating a denoised image according to the denoised frequency spectrum.
US11803934B2
One embodiment provides an apparatus comprising an interconnect fabric comprising one or more fabric switches, a plurality of memory interfaces coupled to the interconnect fabric to provide access to a plurality of memory devices, an input/output (IO) interface coupled to the interconnect fabric to provide access to IO devices, an array of multiprocessors coupled to the interconnect fabric, scheduling circuitry to distribute a plurality of thread groups across the array of multiprocessors, each thread group comprising a plurality of threads and each thread comprising a plurality of instructions to be executed by at least one of the multiprocessors, and a first multiprocessor of the array of multiprocessors to be assigned to process a first thread group comprising a first plurality of threads, the first multiprocessor comprising a plurality of parallel execution circuits.
US11803933B2
Disclosed are an image data processing method and a sensor device performing the same. The sensor device includes an image sensor configured to acquire image data, an image buffer configured to store the image data, and an image processor configured to generate image-processed data by applying a filter corresponding to a storage pattern of the image buffer to the image data stored in the image buffer.
US11803930B2
The present invention makes it possible to supply transportation capacity suitable for movement demand in numerous circumstances. A timetable modification device for changing a timetable representing a train control target, in accordance with a movement demand prediction result indicating, for each time period, the number and destination of passengers at each station at which the train stops, the timetable modification device having a violation position extraction program P01a for calculating the degree of congestion of a train on the basis of predicted demand information representing a movement demand prediction result and extracting a violation position at which the degree of congestion is outside a predetermined allowed range, and a timetable correction program P01b for changing a timetable so as to include a change in the destination of the train so that the degree of congestion of the violation position is within the allowed range or so that the degree of congestion of the violation position approaches the allowed range.
US11803929B1
A digital identity, which may include a user interface that may be displayed on a mobile computing device, may be generated to include information extracted from a physical identification card (e.g., driver license or passport), as well as information regarding validation of the physical identification card and of the consumer's identity. The digital identity may be used in place of the physical identification card.
US11803921B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus embodiments for electric power grid and network registration and management of physical and financial settlement for participation of active grid elements in supply and/or curtailment of power. Settlement is provided for grid elements that participate in the electric power grid following initial registration of each grid element with the system, preferably through network-based communication between the grid elements and a coordinator, either in coordination with or outside of an IP-based communications network router. A multiplicity of active grid elements function in the grid for supply capacity, supply and/or load curtailment as supply or capacity, and are compensated through settlement for their functional participation in the electric power grid. Also, messaging related to settlement is managed through a network by a Coordinator using IP messaging for communication with the grid elements, with the energy management system (EMS), and with the utilities, market participants, and/or grid operators.
US11803917B1
Disclosed herein a system having an artificial intelligence model, which is executed to generate and display valuation reports on an interactive graphical user interface. The valuation reports include valuation information of companies. The valuation reports include multiple variables associated with the valuation information of the companies whose values are dynamic, and the values may be updated in real-time. The swift turnaround time of the valuation reports on the interactive graphical user interface may allow the client user to trade swiftly and efficiently.
US11803911B2
A computer implemented method for assigning values to objects includes receiving a plurality of values for each of a plurality of base objects including a first and second base object; receiving a plurality of values for a first composite object associated with the first and second base objects; generating and storing in the memory a solution set including combinations of values of the first and second base objects; for each combination in the solution set, generating first transaction results by computing transactions between the values of the first and second base objects; comparing each of the first transaction results to a first range of values including the values of the first composite object; and removing, from the solution set and from the memory, the combinations of the values of the first and second base objects corresponding to the first transaction results that are outside of the first range of values.
US11803907B2
Computer-implemented methods and computer systems for an electronic transaction platform that enables the buying and/or selling of securities by users. The methods and systems relate to the identification and selection of one or more financial instruments to trade during an electronic communication session for trading a financial instrument between an initiating user and one or more invitee users with the assistance of a dealer user or other intermediate entity. The selected financial instrument is identified based on a degree of match between the preferred yield risk profile of the initiating user and the risk profiles associated with the financial instruments that are available to be traded.
US11803904B2
A smart device comprising: a blockchain application module to blockchain data obtained by the smart device, the smart device configured to transmit blockchained data to a blockchain data system. A smart tracking system comprising the smart device and a blockchain data system comprising a number of blockchain nodes each configured to receive and store a copy of the blockchained data transmitted from the smart device.
US11803900B2
A user terminal including a graphical user interface (GUI) for providing secure data communication with a server in a communication network is proposed. The user terminal may include a GUI configured to receive one or more user inputs and display data received from the server. The GUI may include a first screen configured to display a first instruction set for converting a private account to a group account and a second screen configured to display a group account information set received from the server. The user terminal may cause the server to generate the group account, control a first database of the server to store a second information set relating to the group account, generate a second virtual database of the server different from the first database, and copy the second information set stored in the first database and record the copied second information set in the second virtual database.
US11803898B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to identity management and recommendation. A computing platform may receive a request to access information associated with one or more user accounts. The computing platform may send a biometric authentication prompt for identifying a user. The computing platform may receive biometric input of the user. The computing platform may retrieve one or more biometric enrollment templates from a database. The computing platform may compare the biometric input to the one or more biometric enrollment templates to determine if a match exists between the biometric input and one of the one or more biometric enrollment templates. Responsive to the user being authenticated based upon a match, the computing platform may retrieve and send information associated with the one or more user accounts. The computing platform may generate and send one or more recommendations associated with usage of the one or more user accounts.
US11803893B2
A service provider system may implement an enterprise catalog service that manages software products and portfolios of software products on behalf of service provider customer organizations. A graph processing service of the enterprise catalog service may create a graph representation of the enterprise catalog service data, including principals, product listings, portfolios, and constraints (and the relationships between them) that may be used to manage access control, launch contexts, and searches within the enterprise catalog service. A primary (key-value) store may maintain an adjacency list and a secondary index of de-normalized edges. A secondary (document) store may maintain the de-normalized edges. In response to various queries directed to the graph processing service, the service may query the adjacency list or the secondary index. For example, one query may return a list of products that an end user can access, and another may return a count of products within a portfolio.
US11803888B2
Method and apparatus are disclosed for processing meat. An example system comprises a database that includes estimates of meat weight associated with characteristics of an animal. The system also includes a server that, after receiving first characteristics of a first animal, generates a first meat weight of the first animal using the estimates in the database. Additionally, in some examples, the system includes an application that is downloadable onto a mobile device. The application (i) receives, via a first presented interface, a selection of the first animal, (ii) receives, via a series of second presented interfaces, the first characteristics of the first animal, (iii) sends the first characteristics to the server and receives the first meat weight, (iv) receives, via a series of third presented interfaces, an allocation of the first meat weight to goods offered by a processor, and (v) composes an order based on the allocation.
US11803887B2
An agent selection component that selects and activates artificial agents for interacting with a user on behalf of various entity based on user interaction with a real environment. The agent selection component detects user interaction with the real environment, and evaluates the detected user interaction. Based on that evaluation, the agent selection component selects an artificial agent that acts for an entity from amongst multiple artificial agents that act for different entities (e.g., to answer questions, to place orders, to schedule, or the like). The agent selection component then causes the selected artificial agent to activate to interact with the entity. Thus, different interactions with a real environment may result in the agent selection component permitting the user to interface with artificial agents for different entities.
US11803886B2
Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure enables corporate entities to connect with each other and enables social networking interactions, credibility rating, identity verification, and/or business transactions between the corporate entities.
US11803885B2
A process generates a certificate of authenticity for a virtual item. Further, the process sends, with the processor, the certificate of authenticity to a decentralized network of computing devices such that two or more of the computing devices store the certificate of authenticity. The two or more of the computing devices receive, from a user device that provides a virtual reality experience in which a virtual item is purchased, a request for authentication of the certificate of authenticity. In addition, the two or more computing devices authenticate the certificate of authenticity based on one or more consistency criteria for the certificate of authenticity being met by the two or more computing devices.
US11803883B2
Methods, systems, apparatus, and tangible non-transitory carrier media encoded with one or more computer programs for classifying an item. In accordance with particular embodiments, a labeling task is issued to workers participating in a crowdsourcing system. The labeling task includes evaluating an inferred classification that includes one or more of the class labels in a hierarchical classification taxonomy based at least in part on a description of the item and the class labels in the classification. Evaluation decisions are received from the crowdsourcing system. The classification is validated based on the evaluation decisions to obtain a validation result. The validating includes applying at least one consensus criterion to an aggregation of the received evaluation decisions. Data corresponding to one or more of the class labels in the classification is routed to respective destinations based on the validation result.
US11803881B2
A method and system is provided for facilitating affiliate link generation using a web browser application. A publisher enables the system by identifying a webpage on an affiliate web site. The system performs an initial assessment of the page to extract webpage information, which is compared to information stored in a database. If the extracted information matches stored information, a record of the webpage is displayed and an affiliate link is dynamically generated for immediate use. If the extracted information does not match stored information, a new record of the webpage is created. If the webpage contains product-specific data, a product-specific record is stored. If the webpage does not contain product-specific data, a non-product record is stored. An affiliate link is then dynamically created. The new record of the product and dynamically created affiliate link is added to the database for immediate use.
US11803876B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for creating, editing, sharing and distributing high-quality, media-rich web-based communications. The communications are created in a layered fashion that integrates user-selected text, colors, background patterns, images, sound, music, video, or other media. The systems and methods are used to generate, edit, broadcast, and track electronic presentations, brochures, advertisements (such as banner advertisements on highly trafficked media websites), announcements, and interactive web pages, without the need for the user to understand complex programming languages.
US11803874B2
A promotion server may generate the promotion campaigns based on input from a merchant. The input may include a request to generate the promotion campaign, a merchant preference, or other information shared between the merchant and the promotion server. The promotion campaign may include promotions, such as coupons, discounts, or the like, to encourage transactions with a merchant. The promotions may be generated based on merchant specified criteria, a merchant transaction history, customer preferences, a customer transaction history, and/or other information processed by the promotion server. The promotions of the promotion campaign may be distributed via one or more channels, such as electronic mail, website publication, receipts, etc. Each promotion of the promotion campaign may be linked to a particular customer, thereby limiting the number of times a particular customer can take advantage of the promotion campaign.
US11803873B1
Embodiments of system are disclosed in which selection strategies for a direct marketing campaign that identify consumers from a credit bureau or other consumer database can be planned, tested, and/or refined on a stable subset of the credit database. In some embodiments, once refined, consumer selection criteria may be used to execute the direct marketing campaign on the full consumer/credit database, which is preferably updated approximately twice weekly. In one preferred embodiment, the data for the test database represents a random sampling of approximately 10% of the full database and the sampling is regenerated approximately weekly in order to provide a stable set of data on which campaign developers may test their campaign. For each consumer in the sampling, the environment may allow a client to access and use both attributes calculated by the credit bureau and proprietary attributes and data owned by the client. The system allows for a plurality of clients to use the system substantially simultaneously while protecting the privacy and integrity of the client's proprietary data and results.
US11803871B2
A method may include generating a feature table, hierarchical segments, and a graph network based on raw interaction data of a set of users. The method may further include generating a set of rankings for features in the feature table. The method may further include targeting hierarchical segments of the set of users through marketing campaigns and calculate a set of elasticity scores for the set of users in response to the marketing campaigns in the hierarchical segments. The method may further include generating item recommendations for the set of users based on the graph network. The method may further include executing a machine learning model to generate an uplift score for each user from the set of users based on at least one of the raw interaction data, the set of rankings, hierarchical segments, the set of elasticity scores, or the item recommendations.
US11803867B2
A computer-implemented method for using a machine-learning trained predictive engine to predict failures includes receiving electronic prior transaction data corresponding to a plurality of prior successful transactions and a plurality of prior unsuccessful transactions, and training a machine learning predictive engine based on the plurality of prior successful transactions and the plurality of prior unsuccessful transactions. Electronic transaction data may be received, the electronic transaction data being associated with a user, an item, and candidate transaction terms, the electronic transaction data being associated with a candidate transaction. The machine learning predictive engine may determine a likelihood of success of the candidate transaction based on the electronic transaction data, and display the likelihood of success of the candidate transaction.
US11803863B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of a system, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for generating sampling plans for a selected agriculture area and providing a user interface configured to display sampling plan information to a user to allow for validation and traceability of sample collection in the agriculture area. One or more embodiments allow for sample plan information to be based in part on food safety audit information, some or all of which may have been collected using the system.
US11803860B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a method for reporting or graphically representing communications in a computer system including at least one processor and at least one electronic storage device coupled to the at least one processor. The method includes storing computer readable electronic files of the communications in the at least one electronic storage device. The method further includes grouping a plurality of communication addresses by mapping the plurality of communication addresses associated with one or more communicators of the communications to a single communication party. The grouped plurality of communication addresses associated with the one or more communicators is represented as the single communication party. The method further includes reporting or graphically displaying the communications. The communications involving the grouped plurality of communication addresses are treated as involving the single communication party.
US11803858B2
The disclosure includes systems and methods for disabling a payment function of a transaction card. The system receives payment account data from a transaction card and transmits a payment authorization request message to a card issuer associated with the transaction card. The system receives, from the card issuer, an authorization request response message. The authorization request response message declines the transaction and includes a status response code corresponding to a status of the transaction card. The system determines whether the status response code indicates that the transaction card is to be captured, and if so, disables the payment function of the transaction card via activation of a disabling system.
US11803852B1
Disclosed are methods, systems, and devices for identifying anomalous and/or problematic payments based on past payment patterns of a user, past experiences with the user, and the user's circumstances, and implementing intervention mechanisms for proactively resolving account issues before downstream impacts, such as collections calls, inbound calls, and complaints. Anomalous payments may be detected using clustering and prediction. Interventions may include phone calls, emails, notifications, etc. An alert or notification may be sent to the user's mobile application, and various selectable response options suited to the situation may be presented to the user.
US11803847B2
Technologies are shown for controlling a transaction on a digitally stored blockchain by creating a contract data block for a transaction involving entities and by event code executed after receipt of digital signatures from the entities. A refund transaction may be digitally signed by entities and linked to the contract block within the blockchain. A payment transaction block may also be digitally signed by entities and linked to the contract block. Code authorized to execute by the blocks executes based on receipt of digital signature events.
US11803845B2
A transaction system can include a computing device with a communication port, a processor device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage memory. The communication port can communicate data with other computing devices. The non-transitory computer-readable storage memory includes code that is executable by the processor device to perform operations. The operations include receiving parameters of a transfer, verifying the transfer using a multi-factor authentication process, in response to verifying the transfer, using a private key to countersign the transfer and return, via the communications port, a signed transfer package for execution of the transfer, and providing, via the communications port, the parameters of the transfer and countersign data to an immutable ledger.
US11803841B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for discovery of and communication with nearby devices using direct radio signal communication. One of the methods includes receiving, by a payment service system, a message authorizing a payment from a user account to a merchant account, wherein the message was sent by a user device using direct radio signal communication to a nearby merchant device and forwarded to the payment service system by the merchant device. The message is decrypted to obtain a session token that authenticates the user device as being associated with the user account. If the session token is valid a payment transaction is conducted between the user account and the merchant account.
US11803838B2
Application management services for simulated contactless cards support applying payment when a provisioned card (cardholder profile) is stored in volatile memory of a computing device by maintaining a first channel open between a payment application and a provisioning service while communicating payment information to a point of sale terminal over a second channel.
US11803834B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing enhanced mobile transactions and payments are disclosed. A computer-implemented method may include receiving a request to provide an enhanced merchant experience available for a merchant to one or more consumers participating in mobile transactions with the merchant, receiving a merchant identifier from a system involved in processing a mobile transaction for the merchant, determining whether to provide the enhanced merchant experience to a user involved in the mobile transaction with the merchant, determining when to provide the enhanced merchant experience to the user involved in the mobile transaction with the merchant, and providing the enhanced merchant experience to the user involved in the mobile transaction with the merchant during the transaction, at completion of the transaction, or after completion of the transaction.
US11803825B2
The W-CONNECTOR (“W-CONNECTOR”) facilitates the enrollment of payment accounts in a consumer's virtual wallet. The consumer may be logged into their payment account issuer's web site and designate one or more payment accounts for enrollment in a virtual wallet. The issuer may then share account, billing and/or other relevant information with the virtual wallet provider to facilitate the enrollment of the designated payment accounts in the virtual wallet. The W-CONNECTOR may also be configured to facilitate the creation and funding of pre-paid accounts in a consumer's virtual wallet.
US11803822B2
An information management apparatus, including an electronic control unit including a microprocessor and a memory connected to the microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform acquiring an information on a component to be dismantled within a predetermined period, setting a demand value representing a degree of a demand for a predetermined material, determining whether the demand value is greater than or equal to a predetermined value, and whether the predetermined material is included in the component based on the information, if it is determined that the demand value is greater than or equal to the predetermined value, and registering the component as an object of a recycle or a reuse, if it is determined that the predetermined material is included in the component.
US11803812B1
A supply chain management system is provided that includes a label having a first side with an adhesive and a second side with a plurality of information units printed thereon. The plurality of information units are printed in visible ink or invisible ink and the invisible ink is activated by environmental conditions such as temperature or light spectrum. The label is affixed to an object being processed and the visible appearance of one or more information elements originally printed in invisible ink is used for further processing or the object.
US11803811B2
Validated tracking of events associated with equipment during the course of a resource arrangement. The events include location-changing events, which provide for a physical change in location of the equipment. The verified tracking of the events is provided by a distributed trust computing network, which through convergence by one or more decentralized nodes provides for authenticating/validating data stored within distributed registers/ledgers. Specific to the invention, once a location-changing event is determined/detected, the location-changing event is registered in the distributed trust computing network by creating and validating a data block within a distributed register/ledger that includes information pertaining to the location-changing event. In this regard, the existence of the data block within the distributed register/leger serves as a verified source of truth of the occurrence of the location-change event, which is capable of identifying the verified current location of the equipment at any point in time.
US11803810B2
Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for dynamically assorting merchandise. For example, a method may include receiving or generating a plurality of cells defined by one or more dimensions, receiving a total number of resources for allocation to the plurality of cells, allocating the total number of resources among the plurality of cells, determining one or more stock keeping units for each cell, determining a quantity of each of the one or more stock keeping units in each cell, assigning one or more launch dates for each of the one or more stock keeping units for each cell, and stocking the one or more inventories with one or more articles corresponding to the stock keeping units in each cell, based on the determined quantity and the assigned one or more launch dates of each of the stock keeping units in each cell.
US11803809B1
Systems and methods which provide physical task interaction control with respect to fulfilment management systems used in order fulfilment management are described. A physical task interaction controller may be provided in association with a fulfilment management system, whereby a user interface is configured to provide physical task interaction control for one or more functions of the fulfilment management systems by shipper personnel. A physical task interaction controller of embodiments may comprise a natural protocol engine, an augmented reality engine, and an artificial intelligence engine. The physical task interaction control of embodiments facilitates shipper personnel interacting with, and controlling operations of, the fulfilment management system relevant to a fulfilment physical task currently being performed by the shipper personnel without either the need for separate personnel to perform the digital tasks or the shipper personnel having to leave the fulfilment physical tasks.
US11803801B1
Described are example systems and methods that utilize simulated and/or actual flight data to determine an aerial delivery time estimate between a source location and a delivery destination, based on current flight conditions. For example, multiple flight simulations along a flight path between a source location and a delivery destination may be performed based on various different flight conditions and the flight time determined from the simulations may be maintained in a data store, associated with the flight path and simulated flight conditions. When a request for item information is received, current flight conditions may be determined and used to determine an estimated flight time based on stored simulated flight data having similar flight conditions to the current flight conditions.
US11803790B2
A device may generate a shortest path tree based on a passenger starting point identified in driving data. The device may generate a graph with a first layer and a second layer that correspond to the shortest path tree and may add paths from nodes in the first layer to corresponding nodes in the second layer. The device may identify a first shortest path that starts from a driver starting node in the first layer and ends at a passenger end node in the second layer and a second shortest path that starts from the passenger end node and ends at a driver end node in the second layer. The device may calculate a shared cost associated with the driver and the passenger sharing a ride based on the first shortest path and the second shortest path. The device may generate a recommendation based on the shared cost.
US11803783B2
An embodiment for dynamically assigning vehicle parking is provided. The embodiment may include receiving one or more preferences regarding parking. The embodiment may also include in response to determining a detector vehicle detects a vacant parking spot, creating a network of vehicles within a pre-defined threshold of the vacant parking spot. The embodiment may further include notifying each vehicle in the network about the vacant parking spot and receiving one or more requests for the vacant parking spot from one or more requestor vehicles. The embodiment may also include identifying real-time information associated with roads within the pre-defined threshold of the vacant parking spot. The embodiment may further include assigning the vacant parking spot to a particular requestor vehicle in the network of vehicles. The embodiment may also include displaying an indicator placed adjacent to the particular requestor vehicle that is assigned the vacant parking spot.
US11803781B2
Systems and methods of the present disclosure use one or more processor(s) to receive a consumable preference and a daily score intake value associated with a user and to obtain a content data regarding consumable item including an amount of a first nutrient found in the consumable item. The processor(s) utilizes, in real-time, a nutrient prediction machine learning model to ingest the content data regarding the consumable item and predict an amount of a second nutrient in the consumable item based on the content data and a decision tree library of thousand nutrient decision trees. The processor(s) determines zero-scored consumable item based on the daily score intake value, the amount of the first nutrient, the amount of the second nutrient, and the consumable preference. The processor(s) instructs a computing device to utilize a graphical user interface element to identify the zero-scored consumable item on a screen of the computing device.
US11803776B2
Aspects of the invention perform an operation comprising receiving a plurality of rules associated with a first seat in a mass-transit vehicle, determining a plurality of physical attributes for a first passenger, of a plurality of passengers, based on data describing the first passenger received from a plurality of data sources, determining a plurality of non-physical attributes for the first passenger based on the received data describing the first passenger, determining that at least one of the plurality of physical attributes and the plurality of non-physical attributes of the first passenger satisfy each rule in the set of rules associated with the first seat, computing, based on a machine learning (ML) model a score for the first passenger, determining that the score exceeds a threshold score associated with the first seat, and allocating the first passenger to the first seat in the mass-transit vehicle.
US11803772B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for training a machine learning model to route received computational tasks in a system including at least one quantum computing resource. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a first set of data, the first set of data comprising data representing multiple computational tasks previously performed by the system; obtaining input data for the multiple computational tasks previously performed by the system, comprising data representing a type of computing resource the task was routed to; obtaining a second set of data, the second set of data comprising data representing properties associated with using the one or more quantum computing resources to solve the multiple computational tasks; and training the machine learning model to route received data representing a computational task to be performed using the (i) first set of data, (ii) input data, and (iii) second set of data.
US11803761B2
The present disclosure pertains to processing a data model having hierarchical data. A front-end computer sends a request to a back-end computer for dimension candidates for the data model, which is visualized by the front-end computer. The front-end computer is configured score and rank such dimension candidates in order to determine statistics from the data model. The back-end computer determines dimension candidates based on their cardinality and hierarchical information and sends the dimension candidates to the front-end computer. The front-end computer performs the scoring and ranking of dimension candidates and determines statistics for a set of the dimension candidates. The statistics may be presented to a user along with charts and graphs representing the data model.
US11803755B2
A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a rehearsal network service is provided that enables generalized learning for all types of input patterns ranging from one-shot inputs to a large set of inputs. The rehearsal network service includes using biological memory indicator data relating to a user and the input data. The rehearsal network service includes calculating a normalized effective salience for each input data, and generating a new set of input data in which the inclusion of input data is proportional to its normalization effective salience. The rehearsal network service provides the new set of input data to a learning network, such as a neural network or a deep learning network that can learn the user's taste or preference.
US11803747B2
A method for determining a placement for machine learning model operations across multiple hardware devices is described. The method includes receiving data specifying a machine learning model to be placed for distributed processing on multiple hardware devices; generating, from the data, a sequence of operation embeddings, each operation embedding in the sequence characterizing respective operations necessary to perform the processing of the machine learning model; processing the sequence of operation embeddings using a placement recurrent neural network in accordance with first values of a plurality network parameters of the placement recurrent neural network to generate a network output that defines a placement of the operations characterized by the operation embeddings in the sequence across the plurality of devices; and scheduling the machine learning model for processing by the multiple hardware devices by placing the operations on the multiple devices according to the placement defined by the network output.
US11803737B2
The present disclosure relates to a neural network system comprising: a controller including a processing unit configured to execute a spiking neural network, and an interface connecting the controller to an external memory. The controller is configured for executing the spiking neural network, the executing comprising generating read instructions and/or write instructions. The interface is configured for: generating read weighting vectors according to the read instructions, coupling read signals, representing the read weighting vectors, into input lines of the memory, thereby retrieving data from the memory, generating write weighting vectors according to the write instructions, coupling write signals, representing the write weighting vectors, into output lines of the memory, thereby writing data into the memory.
US11803736B1
A systolic array can implement an architecture tailored to perform matrix multiplications on constrained fine-grained sparse weight matrices. Each processing element in the systolic array may include a weight register configured to store a weight value, and a multiplexor configured to select a feature map (FMAP) input element from multiple FMAP input data buses based on metadata associated with the weight value. Each processing element may also include a multiplier configured to multiply the selected feature map input element with the weight value to generate a multiplication result, and an adder configured to add the multiplication result to a partial sum input to generate a partial sum output.
US11803727B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for managing baggage and a method for managing baggage with which improved usability can be obtained. In order to solve the problem, an apparatus for managing baggage is provided with: a reader unit which reads tag information of a wireless tag attached to a baggage; a storage unit in which the tag information read by the reader unit is stored; and a control unit which makes a determination of a forgotten baggage by comparing the tag information stored in the storage unit with tag information newly read by the reader unit.
US11803726B2
A method of configuring a contactless communication device is provided. The contactless communication device includes integrated circuits hosting at least two applications compatible with different communication protocols or the same communication protocol and using different communication parameters and a contactless communication circuit. The method includes stopping, by the contactless communication circuit, the transmission of answers of the contactless communication device to requests transmitted by a proximity coupling reader during a transaction initiated by the reader to cause the initiation by the reader of a new transaction.
US11803721B2
A printing system includes an estimation system that stores the dot count value and a stored consumable use value for a recurring print job. The dot count value relates to the dot count of a rendered image for the print job for use in printing operations using estimate settings of the printing device. For a later instance of the print job, the estimation system retrieves the dot count value. It also obtains the current settings for the printing device and applies these settings to the dot count value to determine a current consumable use value. Based on the current consumable use value, the estimation system determines whether use of the current settings will result in an increase of ink or toner use.
US11803715B2
An information processing apparatus includes a first reader, a touch panel, and a processor. The first reader has a first reading function which electrically reads first information, stored in a communication medium, in a non-contact manner. The touch panel electrically detects contact or proximity of an object as an input detection function. The processor is electrically connected to the first reader and the touch panel, turns OFF the first reader in response to the input detection function of the touch panel being turned ON, and turns OFF the input detection function of the touch panel in response to the first reader being turned ON.
US11803712B2
The present disclosure provides a method and control apparatus for burning an address code of LED lamp beads, and relates to the technical field of LEDs. The method for burning the address code of the LED lamp beads described by the present disclosure is applied to a burner and includes: generating, by the burner, an optical signal; and sending the optical signal to the LED lamp beads such that the LED lamp beads sense the optical signal, convert the optical signal into an address code and store the address code. The present disclosure makes use of a light sensing effect of the LED lamp beads, sends the optical signal to the LED lamp beads through the burner such that the LED lamp beads generate an address code according to the optical signal, and burn the address code into the LED lamp beads.
US11803709B2
A method, computer program product and computer system to provide topic guide during document drafting is provided. A processor retrieves at least one section of text from a document. A processor receives a target topic for the document. A processor extracts at least one local topic from the at least one section of text. A processor generates a semantic network comprising the at least one local topic and the target topic. A processor determines a deviation value for the at least one local topic based on a distance between the at least one local topic and the target topic in the semantic network. A processor, in response to the deviation value exceeding a threshold value, alerts a user that the at least one section of text from the document is off-topic from the target topic.
US11803699B1
A computer-implemented method, computer program product and system for annotating messages with a parsed time expressions is provided. A processor detects a time expression in a message. A processor establishes a time zone associated with the time expression, based upon the message body, the sending client's real-time location and the sending client's pre-determined time zone settings. A processor establishes a time zone of the receiving client based upon the receiving client's real-time location and the receiving client's pre-determined time zone settings. A processor compares the time zone of the time expression and the time zone of the receiving client to determine whether a parsing of the time expression in the message is required. A processor creates an annotation of the time expression based on the comparison of the time zones of the sending client and the receiving client. A processor appends the annotation of the time expression to the message.
US11803692B2
Disclosed herein is a web user experience improvement for digital magazines. A digital magazine viewing platform is integrated with a digital magazine publishing platform including features that leverage the integration including user interface arrangement based on viewing habits and ripped content that is insertable into draft digital magazine documents. In some embodiments, a machine learning model categorizes magazine styles and present publishing features based on those magazines viewed or subscribed to by a given user.
US11803691B2
In implementations of text wrap modification using variable inset, a display screen of a device displays lines of text wrapped to an inset space maintained between an object boundary and the lines of text. The device implements a text wrap modification module to determine that a penalty value associated with a line of text is reduced if the line of text is extended to include one or more words from a subsequent line of text, determine that the one or more words fit within an additional space for the line of text based on a variable overlap of the line of text into the inset space, and display the one or more words from the line of text as extended to include the one or more words from the subsequent line of text.
US11803689B2
A method (and system) includes retrieving a dataset from a database, creating, on a first platform, a report including a visual representation of the dataset, automatically formatting the report to a second platform and displaying the report on a graphical user interface of the second platform. The first platform is a desktop computer or a laptop computer and the second platform is a tablet device or a handheld mobile device. The visualization of the dataset includes data containers in a first arrangement. The data containers are automatically formatted into a second arrangement to fit the graphical user interface of the second platform.
US11803684B1
Various embodiments described herein provide for a method and system for relative placement of components for a circuit layout by retrieving a data structure of a first circuit design, the data structure including a location of each component, determining a component characteristic for each component, and selecting a first group of two or more components having a shared component characteristic. Additionally, the method and system can instantiate a second circuit design and retrieve the data structure after the second circuit design is instantiated. The method and system include, for the second circuit design, calculating a first scaling factor and scaling each of the components of the first group from the first circuit design and placing the first group at a location in the second circuit design corresponding to location of the first group within the first circuit design.
US11803681B1
The embodiments herein rely on cross reticle wires (also referred to as cross die wires) to provide communication channels between programmable dies already formed on a wafer. Using cross reticle wires to facilitate x-die communication can be three to four orders of magnitude faster than using general purpose I/O. With a wafer containing cross reticle wires, various device geometries can be generated at dicing time by cutting across different reticle boundaries. This allows up to full wafer-size devices, or several smaller sub-wafer devices to be derived from one wafer. Although the programmable dies can contain defects, these defects can be identified and avoided when generating a bitstream for configuring programmable features in the programmable dies.
US11803672B2
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.
US11803659B2
A system and method for sharing information on a network-based social platform is provided. An indication is received from a first user to share information regarding an item on a network-based social platform. The network-based social platform is a platform that allows the first user to communicative couple with other users of the network-based social platform. Profile information of the first user is accessed. A determination of whether the first user is authorized to share the information is made. Based on the first user being authorized, an identifier for the item is added to a list of recommended items that is accessible view the network-based social platform.
US11803651B2
A document source that generates, maintains, or distributes electronic documents receives a policy that defines for an electronic document, a set of guidelines for access to the electronic document. Based on the policy, the document source generates a smart contract including a set of rules that when executed change a user's access rights with respect to the document and publishes the smart contract to a blockchain. An oracle is triggered to input a user request related to an electronic document to the smart contract. Based on execution of at least one of the rules, the document source receives an indication of an access right for the user and enforces the access right with respect to the electronic document.
US11803645B2
Embodiments provide a system and method for modeling a shared resource in a multi-layer reasoning graph based on configuration security. During operation, the system can obtain a multi-layer graph for a system with a plurality of components that can include a set of subgroups of components. The system can generate, based on the multi-layer graph, an abstract component to represent a shared resource model for a respective subgroup of components. The shared resource model can be associated with a set of resource constraints. The system can generate a set of values for resource configuration parameters that satisfy the resource constraints. The system can map the shared resource model to a respective component and can then determine, based on the mapping and the set of values for the resource configuration parameters, a set of values for the component configuration parameters thereby facilitating optimization of a security objective function.
US11803640B2
An out-of-order and speculative execution microprocessor that mitigates side channel attacks includes a cache memory and fill request generation logic that generates a request to fill the cache memory with a cache line implicated by a memory address that misses in the cache memory. At least one execution pipeline receives first and second load operations, detects a condition in which the first load generates a need for an architectural exception, the second load misses in the cache memory, and the second load is newer in program order than the first load, and prevents state of the cache memory from being affected by the miss of the second load by inhibiting the fill request generation logic from generating a fill request for the second load or by canceling the fill request for the second load if the fill request generation logic has already generated the fill request for the second load.
US11803635B2
A computing device includes a memory and a processor configured to receive credentials stored on a client device for a website responsive to the client device initiating a launch of the website through a first browser at the client device. The processor runs a second browser to launch the website for display at the client device using the received credentials and some state information is synchronized between them for the duration of the session. The second browser isolates the website from access to other data of the client device.
US11803634B2
Described are techniques for a secure roles-based access control (RBAC) setup during boot of a connected computational system. The techniques include a method comprising deploying a preconfigured default user profile during booting of a computational system. The techniques further include creating, using the preconfigured default user profile, a plurality of user profiles having administrator and/or root authorities, where each of the plurality of user profiles is associated with a respective custom password. The techniques further include completing booting of the computational system using the plurality of user profiles having the administrator and/or root authorities.
US11803633B1
Biometric data are obtained from biometric sensors on a stand-alone computing device, which may contain an ASIC, connected to or incorporated within it. The computing device and ASIC, in combination or individually, capture biometric samples, extract biometric features and match them to one or more locally stored, encrypted templates. The biometric matching may be enhanced by the use of an entered PIN. The biometric templates and other sensitive data at rest are encrypted using hardware elements of the computing device and ASIC, and/or a PIN hash. A stored obfuscated Password is de-obfuscated and may be released to the authentication mechanism in response to successfully decrypted templates and matching biometric samples. A different de-obfuscated password may be released to authenticate the user to a remote or local computer and to encrypt data in transit. This eliminates the need for the user to remember and enter complex passwords on the device.
US11803628B2
The disclosure relates to systems and methods for authorization of a user in a spatial 3D environment. The systems and methods can include receiving a request from an application executing on a mixed reality display system to authorize the user with a web service, displaying to the user an authorization window configured to accept user input associated with authorization by the web service and to prevent the application or other applications from receiving the user input, communicating the user input to the web service, receiving an access token from the web service, in which the access token is indicative of successful authorization by the web service, and communicating the access token to the application for authorization of the user. The authorization window can be a modal window displayed in an immersive mode by the mixed reality display system.
US11803627B2
Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be implemented, in whole or in part, using one or more processing devices to facilitate and/or support one or more operations and/or techniques for authenticating an identity of a human subject. In particular, some embodiments are directed to techniques for authentication of an identity of a human subject as being an identity of a particular unique individual based, at least in part, on involuntary responses by the human subject to sensory stimuli.
US11803626B2
A system comprising: a wireless kill switch and a computer; said wireless kill switch comprising: a housing, a radio transmitter, a microcontroller, an operable button, and a battery; said housing encasing the radio transmitter, the microcontroller, and the battery and allowing for operation of the operable button; the radio transmitter transmitting a continuous service signal to be received by a receiver on said computer and a heartbeat signal generated as a data packet on a first predetermined time basis; wherein said system maintains an operational state upon receipt of the continuous service signal and receipt of the heartbeat signal at a second predetermined time basis; and wherein the system modifies the computer to a different state than the operational state upon omission of the continuous service signal or the heartbeat signal.
US11803619B2
A verification computer system is provided that provides for content certification and verification using cryptography and a blockchain.
US11803615B2
An image processing device includes an extraction unit configured to extract a two-dimensional feature regarding a part of a person in an image, a conversion unit configured to convert the two-dimensional feature into a three-dimensional feature regarding a human body structure, and a training data generation unit configured to generate training data using the three-dimensional feature and a label indicating a physical state of the person.
US11803611B2
Techniques of facilitating improved computational efficiency in Variational Quantum Eigensolver calculations by quantum computing devices. In one example, a system can comprise a processor that executes computer executable components stored in memory. The computer executable components can comprise: a distribution component; and a feedback component. The distribution component can set a Pauli-dependent sample budget for a Pauli term of an operator to unevenly distribute a total sample budget for evaluating an expected value of the operator among a plurality of Pauli terms composing the operator. The plurality of Pauli terms can comprise the Pauli term. The feedback component can evaluate compatibility between a prescreening variance for the Pauli term and a production variance of the Pauli term generated using the Pauli-dependent sample budget.
US11803605B2
In an example, an article may be analyzed to identify entity terms. Entity term relevance scores associated with the entity terms may be determined based upon the article and the entity terms. One or more first entity terms may be selected based upon the entity term relevance scores. One or more sets of reference position information associated with the one or more first entity terms may be determined. A first set of reference position information is based upon one or more positions, in the article, of one or more references to a first entity term. One or more second entity terms of the one or more first entity terms may be selected based upon the one or more sets of reference position information. A set of one or more salient entity tags associated with the article may be generated based upon the one or more second entity terms.
US11803597B2
Embodiments of present application provide a data updating method, an apparatus, a search server, a terminal and a storage medium. A search server provides a terminal with a search result webpage including one or more webpages associated with a search keyword, where the search result webpage also includes a pre-stored webpage summary obtained by the search server by crawling webpage content of each webpage in advance; then the terminal crawls a target webpage triggered by a user to obtain a current webpage summary, and the terminal sends comparison information of consistency comparison between the current webpage summary and the pre-stored webpage summary to the search server; and finally the search server updates the pre-stored webpage summary of the target webpage according to the comparison information of the target webpage.
US11803592B2
Provided is a method for developing at least one dialogue template for an intelligent industrial assistant. The method may include receiving first group identification data associated with a first group of features. First feature identification data associated with a first feature of the first group of features may be received. First sequence identification data associated with a first sequence performable by an intelligent industrial assistant based on the first feature may be received. Expected dialogue data associated with expected dialogue of the first sequence may be received. Action data associated with at least one action of the first sequence may be received. A first dialogue template based on the first group identification data, the first feature identification data, the first sequence identification data, the expected dialogue data, and the action data may be generated. A system and computer program product are also disclosed.
US11803583B2
Documents from a set of related documents in a domain are processed to identify keywords associated with each document. The documents are then further processed to identify the documents that are the most similar to each other. For each document, some or all of the keywords that are associated with the similar documents, but not the document itself, are selected as semantic tags for the document. These semantic tags determined for a document represent novel or hidden concepts and contexts that may relate to the document, but that do not actually appear in the document. The documents are used to train a model that generate semantic tags for a document or for keywords associated with the document. The generated model can then be used for a variety of purposes such the creation of an index for a set of documents or for query expansion.
US11803581B2
The present invention discloses a system for linking first type of entities and second type of entities in a page. The system is configured to generate a feature vector for each of the first type of entities and each of the second type of entities. Further, the system is configured to receive into a neural network, a pair of the feature vectors, wherein one of the pair of the feature vector corresponds to a feature vector of a first type of entity and another feature vector corresponds to a feature vector of a second type of entity. The entities corresponding to the pair of feature vectors are neighboring each other. The neural network is configured to generate an output, indicating the likelihood of the pair of entities being linked.
US11803577B1
Systems and methods are described for indexing related documents to provide more robust search functionality within an index. In one aspect, a first document, such as a comment or status update associated with a second document or ticket item, may be obtained. As a result of the first document including first data that is linked to second data of the second document, an instance of the second document may be modified to include at least a portion of the first data. An index, which indexes a corpus of documents, such as ticket items, may be updated to include the modified second document, such that the first data is associated with the modified second document in the index. Responsive to a query for the first data in the index, the modified second document and any included first data may be returned.
US11803576B1
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for constructing and implementing a network management plan are provided. Baseline classifications are assigned to a set of locations. Sub-locations at the set of locations are evaluated to determine whether to override any of the baseline classifications. A model is used to evaluate images depicting the set of locations to generate predicted classifications for the set of locations. Classifications are assigned to the set of locations by implementing conflict resolution rules to selectively retain or replace baseline classifications with predicted classifications. The classifications are used to construct and/or implement a network management plan.
US11803575B2
An apparatus for classifying and neutralizing bias, wherein the apparatus includes a computing device configured to receive candidate data items as a function of a candidate application, identify a potential bias of the candidate data items, and block the potential bias by removing the candidate data item associated with the potential bias from the candidate application.
US11803572B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for schema-based spatial partitioning in a time-series database are disclosed. A time-series database divides elements of time-series data of a plurality of time series into partitions according to a clustering scheme. The time series are associated with respective schemas. The schemas comprise dimension names and measure names. The clustering scheme is determined based (at least in part) on the schemas and dimension values, and the schemas are determined based (at least in part) on the elements of time-series data. The time-series database stores the elements of time-series data from the plurality of partitions into one or more storage tiers. The time-series database performs a query of the time-series data in one or more of the storage tiers. The query is performed based (at least in part) on the clustering scheme.
US11803570B1
Systems and methods described herein provide selective synchronization of DNS records. A synchronization data store is synchronized by: obtaining a complete set of domain name system (DNS) records for a first data center; and copying the complete set of DNS records to the synchronization data store. After the synchronization data store is initialized, at a particular time interval, a snapshot of the complete set of DNS records is repeatedly collected. Differences between the copied complete set of DNS records of the synchronization data store and the snapshot of the complete set of DNS records are identified. The synchronization data store is updated with the differences and a determination is made as to whether the differences should be implemented at a second data center. When the differences should be implemented at the second data center, the differences are propagated to the second data center, otherwise they are not.
US11803560B2
A system and computer implemented method of patent mapping are provided. The method comprises maintaining a database of patent portfolios and a database of patents, each patent stored in the database of patents associated. with one or more patent portfolios stored in the database of patent portfolios; maintaining a database of ontologies, the ontologies including one or more patent concepts in defined groups; receiving a search query associated with a first patent portfolio; searching the first portfolio as a function of the search query; generating search results, the search results including one or more patent claims associated with the search query; and mapping the one or more patent claims to a patent concept in a defined group.
US11803558B2
Technologies for generating relevance-independent position effects estimates for a set of ranked digital items are described. Embodiments include creating an input data set that includes request tracking data and associated activity tracking data. A relevance-independent position effects estimator generates an output data set. An item of the output data set includes user interface position data associated with a pair of adjacently positioned items of the input data set. The user interface position data indicates that a change in user interface activity probability data relating to a change in position between the items of the pair is greater than a change in the user interface activity probability data relating to a difference in the relevance score between the items of the pair. The output data set is stored in a searchable data store. Data from the searchable data store is provided to a downstream service.
US11803556B1
A system creates and searches knowledge base (KB) articles inside an organization while supporting operation as a SaaS (Software as-a-Service) across a plurality of organizations. The system implements a real-time online learning-to-rank (L2R) algorithm for learning relevance scoring that is customized to each organization. This algorithm incorporates rich lexical features using a query similarity kernel. A scoring function includes a pairwise static module, which may be trained off-line using training data, and a lexical adaptive module, which is trained on-line based on user feedback. The scoring function makes the system easy to deploy, modify, and suitable for handling events that naturally happen over the lifecycle of any KB deployment, without manual training.
US11803540B2
Some embodiments process data as defined by a polymorphic data model. A server may provide the polymorphic data model to a client application from a datastore. The functionality or features of the client application may be controlled as a function of the polymorphic data model. The client application may thus provide different functionalities when provided with different polymorphic data models. Updates to the polymorphic data model may be used to update the client application's functionality without any updates to the client application's executable code.
US11803537B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing an SQL query and filter mechanism for blockchain stored data using Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) in conjunction with a cloud based computing environment include operating a blockchain interface to the blockchain on behalf of a plurality of tenants of the host organization, in which each one of the plurality of tenants operate as a participating node with access to the blockchain. The system receives input for adding a plurality of authorized network participants to a declared application, updates a blockchain asset on the blockchain containing metadata for the declared application, deploys an executable install package to each of the plurality of authorized network participants for the declared application, retrieves the metadata for the declared application from the blockchain, and displays GUIs specific to the declared application which are auto generated by the executable install package based on the retrieved metadata.
US11803531B1
Intelligence production suffers from inadequate collaboration, poor information sharing, and lack of visibility into a complex production process, resulting in intelligence reports that are not aligned to the user's needs. This exacerbates decision-making problems by preventing critical data from reaching the appropriate staff, which prevents commanders from achieving their desired mission requirements due to incomplete or inadequate information. Using Object-Based Production, Adaptive Process Management, and Entity Management technologies, a new wiki-like capability was created that provides a wiki's ease of use and understanding while addressing weaknesses such as lack of multi-level security, no enforcement of publishing standards, and lack of product currency, providing an intelligence production solution addressing the above needs.
US11803522B2
A database storing data associated with an identifier unique to each sample, the data including first data representative of at least one of composition data, processing data, and property data for the each sample, and second data representative of microstructure data for the each sample. The microstructure data includes a feature determined based on a temperature dependence of magnetization for the each sample.
US11803520B2
Provided is a server device that acquires user attribute information indicating an attribute of a user boarding on a mobility that travels from a departure place to a destination in response to an instruction of the user, acquires location information indicating a location of the mobility during traveling, and generates a database in which a predetermined place existing between the departure place and the destination of the mobility, the predetermined place being specified based on the location information, is associated with the user attribute information.
US11803517B2
A file system is implemented in a system comprising an anonymous-write storage device. A request for a file system operation that comprises semantics of the file system to receiving the request is received. The file system translates the file system operation to one or more commands that effect the file system operation while maintaining consistency with operation of the anonymous-write storage device. The one or more commands comprise one or more of updating file system metadata, sending a request to the anonymous-write storage device, or receiving a response from the anonymous-write storage device. The anonymous-write storage device is configured to write data in an append-only format and determine locations of data write operations agnostic of input of a write location from the file system. Metadata is updated to indicate results of the file system operation.
US11803508B2
Systems and methods of propagating data within an integrated circuit includes: identifying a coarse data propagation path for distinct subsets of data of an input dataset that includes: setting inter-core data movements for the distinct subsets of data, the inter-core data movements defining a predetermined propagation of a given subset of data between two or more of a plurality of cores of an integrated circuit array of the integrated circuit; identifying a granular data propagation path for each distinct subset of data that includes: setting intra-core data movements for each distinct subset of data, the intra-core data movements defining a predetermined propagation of the given subset of data within one or more of the plurality of cores of the integrated circuit array of the integrated circuit; enabling a flow of the input dataset within the integrated circuit based on the coarse data propagation path and the granular propagation path.
US11803501B2
The systems and methods described herein relate to a bi-directional data path (DQ) symbol map generated based on error correction operations. A device may include sub-wordline drivers and bi-directional data paths (DQs) that couple between the sub-wordline drivers and input/output (I/O) interface circuitry based on assignments indicated by the DQ symbol map. The assignments may be generated based on error correction operations performed on data of the memory bank. In particular, the DQ symbol map may be generated to avoid some conditions that, if occurring, may render one or more data errors uncorrectable. These systems and methods may reduce a likelihood of a data error associated with a DQ being uncorrectable.
US11803491B1
A programmable circuit that is configured to control a target memory is used to detect a number and types of a plurality of target events in real time. In the event a trigger condition associated with a triggered preset state in a plurality of preset states is satisfied by the detected number and types of the plurality of target events, an action execution circuit module corresponding to the triggered preset state is selected to run, where the trigger condition is based on at least one of the plurality of target events. Using the action execution circuit module corresponding to the triggered preset state, one or more actions corresponding to the triggered preset state are executed, where at least one of the one or more actions corresponding to the triggered preset state is associated with controlling the target memory.
US11803484B2
A processor applies a software hint policy to a portion of a cache based on access metrics for different test regions of the cache, wherein each test region applies a different software hint policy for data associated with cache entries in each region of the cache. One test region applies a software hint policy under which software hints are followed. The other test region applies a software hint policy under which software hints are ignored. One of the software hint policies is selected for application to a non-test region of the cache.
US11803483B2
Example implementations relate to storing manifest portions in a metadata cache. An example includes receiving, by a storage controller, a read request associated with a first data unit. In response to receiving the read request, the storage controller stores a manifest portion in a metadata cache, the stored manifest portion comprising a plurality of records, the plurality of records including a first record associated with the first data unit. The storage controller determines storage information of the first data unit using pointer information included in the first record of the stored manifest portion, and replaces the pointer information in the first record with the determined storage information of the first data unit.
US11803469B2
The disclosure herein describes storing data using a capacity data storage tier and a smaller performance data storage tier. The capacity data storage tier includes capacity data storage hardware configured to store log-structured leaf pages (LLPs), and the performance data storage tier includes performance data storage hardware. A virtual address table (VAT) includes a set of virtual address entries referencing the LLPs. A tree-structured index includes index nodes referencing the set of virtual address entries of the VAT. Data to be stored is received, and at least a first portion of metadata associated with the received data is stored in the LLPs using the VAT, and at least a second portion of metadata associated with the received data is stored in the performance data storage tier. The architecture reduces space usage of the performance data storage tier.
US11803464B2
Methods and systems disclosed herein describe an experimentation platform that identifies one or more proxy metrics for testing a configuration and/or new design of a product. The experimentation platform may receive an input identifying one or more configurations, components, and/or products to test and/or optimize. The experimentation platform may identify one or more performance metrics used to test and/or optimize the one or more configurations, components, and/or products. Based on the one or more identified performance metrics, the experimentation platform may identify one or more proxy metrics to represent the one or more performance metrics. The one or more identified proxy metrics may be one or more engagement metrics or a combination of engagement metrics. The experimentation platform may then use the one or more proxy metrics to analyze the one or more configurations, components, and/or products and recommend a configuration, component, and/or product for deployment.
US11803461B2
Examples include a blockchain system for managing and validating log files generated corresponding to transactions of a plurality of computing resources. Some examples include creating a block, in the blockchain system, corresponding to a log file generated corresponding to a transaction of a computing resource of the plurality of computing resources. Some examples include performing checksum validation of log files generated corresponding to transactions of a plurality of computing resources, using a blockchain system.
US11803454B2
Establishing a diagnostic OS for an information handling system platform performing a UEFI BIOS boot to place the platform in a pre-OS state. Upon detecting a particular POST error and/or a platform configuration policy, an embedded OS kernel may be launched into a DRTM-authenticated measured launch environment (MLE). Additional objects for the diagnostic OS may be downloaded. The additional objects may include an initial ramdisk (initrd) module and one or more applications specific to the particular diagnostic OS. The diagnostic OS may be launched as follows: for each diagnostic OS application, launching the application and extending a measurement of the application into a DRTM PCR. Launching the diagnostic OS may include launching an initrd module and extending a measurement of the initrd module into the DRTM PCR. A measurement of embedded OS kernel may be extended into the TPM and the embedded OS kernel may validate the UEFI BIOS sequence.
US11803452B2
A duplex operation system including: a plurality of general-purpose devices on each of which a plurality of virtual machines are mounted; and a virtual machine controller that controls a duplex operation performed by two systems, an active system and a standby system, of the virtual machines. When detecting a failure of the active system, the virtual machine controller stops the virtual machine of the active system, activates the virtual machine of the standby system corresponding to the stopped active system, and reconfigures the standby system of the activated virtual machine on the hardware of the stopped virtual machine, and when detecting a failure in the virtual machine of the reconfigured standby system, the virtual machine controller reconfigures the standby system of the failed virtual machine on the general-purpose device 13 different from the general-purpose device 11 in which the virtual machine of the active system has been stopped.
US11803451B2
An application exception recovery method, an electronic device, a storage medium storing the recovery method, and a recovery apparatus, the method including, storing page information of an exception page, in response to that an exception occurs in at least one application installed on an electronic device, wherein the exception page is a page displayed by the at least one application in response to the exception occurring, displaying a mask, wherein the mask is a picture displayed on at least a window of the at least one application during restart of the at least one application, restarting the at least one application, wherein restarting the at least one application comprises creating the exception page, and removing the mask.
US11803447B2
Embodiments of this specification provide a transaction processing method, apparatus, and electronic device for a blockchain. The method includes: executing, by a blockchain node in the blockchain, a consensus protocol for an N-th round of consensus, wherein the consensus protocol comprises reaching a consensus on a blockchain transaction of the N-th round of consensus and upon the consensus being reached, executing the blockchain transaction of the N-th round of consensus; writing, by the blockchain node after the execution of the blockchain transaction, a block comprising the blockchain transaction of the N-th round of consensus into the blockchain; and concurrently with the writing of the block, executing, by the blockchain node, the consensus protocol for an (N+1)-th round of consensus in the blockchain.
US11803443B2
A storage apparatus includes a plurality of drives and has a parity group constituted by a plurality of drives. The storage apparatus stores a hash management table to manage hash values of a prescribed data unit of data of the drives constituting the parity group and a hash value of a prescribed data unit of data stored in another drive other than the drives constituting the parity group. A processor is configured to determine whether a same data unit as a data unit included in data stored in a replacement target drive exists in the other drive on a basis of the hash values, and copy the same data unit of the other drive to a replacement destination drive when the same data unit exists.
US11803442B2
Methods, systems, and devices for error caching techniques for improved error correction in a memory device are described. An apparatus, such as a memory device, may use an error cache to store indications of memory cells identified as defective and may augment an error correction procedure using the stored indications. If one or more errors are detected in data read from the memory array, the apparatus may check the error cache, and if a bit of the data is indicated as being associated with a defective cell, the bit may be inverted. After such inversion, the data may be checked for errors again. If the inversion corrects an error, the resulting data may be error-free or may include a reduced quantity of errors that may be correctable using an error correction scheme.
US11803437B1
A memory includes a link training circuit with a pseudo-random bit sequence (PRBS) generator and a burst error detection counter. The burst error detection counter including a comparator, a first input coupled to the data input, a second input coupled to the PRBS generator, and a counter operable to increase an error count value by one responsive to detecting any number of errors greater than zero in a sequence of symbols including a predetermined number of symbols.
US11803433B2
In some examples, a system identifies a potential issue based on comparing measurement data acquired at different hierarchical levels of a computing environment. Within a hierarchical level of the different hierarchical levels, the system determines, based on measurement data acquired for objects in the hierarchical level, whether the potential issue is localized to a subset of the objects.
US11803431B2
Examples described herein include systems and methods for brokerless reliable totally ordered many-to-many inter-process communication on a single node. A messaging protocol is provided that utilizes shared memory for one of the control plane and data plane, and multicast for the other plane. Readers and writers can store either control messages or message data in the shared memory, including in a ring buffer. Write access to portions of the shared memory can be controlled by a robust futex, which includes a locking mechanism that is crash recoverable. In general, the writers and readers can control the pace of communications and the crash of any process does not crash the overall messaging on the node.
US11803429B2
Managing alert messages and access permissions for applications. In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes determining that one or more errors have occurred in a set of applications executing in a set of containers. The method also includes identifying a set of users in view of one or more of the set of containers and a set of files for the set of applications. The method further includes sending, via a set of messaging systems, a set of messages to the set of users to indicate that the one or more errors have occurred in the set of applications.
US11803427B2
The present invention relates to a method of contentions mitigation for an operational application implemented by an embedded platform comprising a plurality of cores and a plurality of shared resources. This method comprises the steps of executing the operational application by one of the cores of the embedded platform, executing a stressor application on at least some other cores of the embedded platform in parallel with the operational application, the stressor application being composed of a set of contention tasks generating a maximum contention on interference channels, and determining contentions generated by the stressor application on the operational application.
US11803421B2
Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for monitoring a health status of a computing system. The method includes one or more processors deploying a respective monitoring prediction agent in each of a plurality of worker nodes of a computing system. The method further includes determining, for each of the plurality of worker nodes by the respective monitoring prediction agent, a single binary health status value by comparing a time-dependent function of performance metric data values of the respective worker node to upper and lower threshold values. The method further includes receiving the binary health status values together with respective identity information from each of the plurality of worker nodes. The method further includes generating a dataset indicative of a health status of the computing system by feeding the received respective identity information to hash functions of a Counting Bloom Filter.
US11803420B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for execution of replicated tasks using redundant resources are disclosed. Replicas of a task are generated. Computing resources are selected from at least one pool of computing resources of a provider network. The provider network includes a plurality of pools of computing resources that vary in a characteristic, and the computing resources are selected based (at least in part) on the characteristic. Concurrent execution of the replicas of the task is initiated using the selected computing resources. Input data for the concurrent execution does not vary from one of the replicas to another of the replicas, and at least a portion of the replicas produce individual results for the input data. Based (at least in part) on a policy, an individual result of one or more of the replicas is selected as a final result of the task.
US11803418B2
Systems and methods for implementing robotic process automation (RPA) in the cloud are provided. An instruction for managing an RPA robot is received at an orchestrator in a cloud computing environment from a user in a local computing environment. In response to receiving the instruction, the instruction for managing the RPA robot is effectuated.
US11803414B2
Methods and systems for scaling computing processes within a serverless computing environment are provided. In one embodiment, a method is provided that includes receiving a request to execute a computing process in the serverless computing environment. A first node may be created within the serverless computing environment to execute the computing process. A first amount of computing resources may be assigned to the first node. It may be determined later that the first amount of computing resources are not sufficient to implement the first node. A second amount of computing resources may be determined with a vertical autoscaling process and a second node may be created within the serverless computing environment using a horizontal autoscaling process. The second node may be assigned the second amount of computing resources. The computing process may then be executed using both the first and second nodes within the serverless computing environment.
US11803406B2
A candidate extraction apparatus, a candidate extraction method, and a candidate extraction program extract appropriate candidates for an input into a processing module. The processing module is associated with first metadata indicating a condition of the input data. A plurality of devices are each associated with second metadata indicating an attribute of the input data output from the device. The candidate extraction apparatus includes a first obtaining unit, a second obtaining unit, and an extraction unit. The first obtaining unit obtains the first metadata. The second obtaining unit obtains the second metadata associated with each of the plurality of devices. The extraction unit extracts the candidates greater in number than at least one input port from the plurality of devices based on the first metadata and the second metadata.
US11803392B2
Apparatuses and methods for preventing accidental-shutdown in a robot-assisted surgical device are disclosed. An exemplary control apparatus includes an on/off key configured to trigger a start action or a shutdown action, an on/off control module configured to detect the shutdown action of the on/off key and obtain a shutdown intention through man-machine interaction, and an on/off hardware circuit configured to detect the start action and send a signal to a power supply. The on/off hardware circuit is configured to detect the shutdown action of the on/off key and a shutdown control signal sent by the on/off control module and send a signal to cut off the power supply. The control apparatus can reduce the probability of accidental shutdown caused by system software and hardware failure or man-made mis-operation and improve the operating reliability of the robot-assisted surgical device without significantly increasing cost.
US11803390B1
There is provided an apparatus, method and medium. The apparatus comprises processing circuitry to perform data processing in response to decoded instructions and prediction circuitry to generate a prediction of a number of iterations of a fetching process. The fetching process is used to control fetching of data or instructions to be used in processing operations that are predicted to be performed by the processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to tolerate performing one or more unnecessary iterations of the fetching process following an over-prediction of the number of iterations and, for at least one prediction, to determine a class of a plurality of prediction classes, each of which corresponds to a range of numbers of iterations. The prediction circuitry is also arranged to signal a predetermined number of iterations associated with the class to the processing circuitry to trigger at least the predetermined number of iterations of the fetching process.
US11803388B2
An apparatus and method are provided for processing instructions. The apparatus has execution circuitry for executing instructions, where each instruction requires an associated operation to be performed using one or more source operand values in order to produce a result value. Issue circuitry is used to maintain a record of pending instructions awaiting execution by the execution circuitry, and prediction circuitry is used to produce a predicted source operand value for a chosen pending instruction. Optimisation circuitry is then arranged to detect an optimisation condition for the chosen pending instruction when the predicted source operand value is such that, having regard to the associated operation for the chosen pending instruction, the result value is known without performing the associated operation. In response to detection of the optimisation condition, an optimisation operation is implemented instead of causing the execution circuitry to perform the associated operation in order to execute the chosen pending instruction. This can lead to significant performance and/or power consumption improvements.
US11803382B2
A digital data processor includes a multi-stage butterfly network, which is configured to, in response to a look up table read instruction, receive look up table data from an intermediate register, reorder the look up table data based on control signals comprising look up table configuration register data, and write the reordered look up table data to a destination register specified by the look up table read instruction.
US11803379B2
A method to classify source data in a processor in response to a vector floating-point classification instruction includes specifying, in respective fields of the vector floating-point classification instruction, a source register containing the source data and a destination register to store classification indications for the source data. The source register includes a plurality of lanes that each contains a floating-point value and the destination register includes a plurality of lanes corresponding to the lanes of the source register. The method further includes executing the vector floating-point classification instruction by, for each lane in the source register, classifying the floating-point value in the lane to identify a type of the floating-point value, and storing a value indicative of the identified type in the corresponding lane of the destination register.
US11803360B2
A compilation method, a compilation apparatus suitable for an In-Memory Computing apparatus, a computing device and a storage medium. The compilation method includes: acquiring calculation information of an algorithm to be compiled; converting the algorithm to be compiled into the first intermediate representation according to the calculation information; mapping the first intermediate representation to the second intermediate representation; and compiling the algorithm to be compiled into instruction information recognized by the In-Memory Computing apparatus according to the hardware information, to make the In-Memory Computing apparatus execute the instruction information. The compilation method may compile the calculation information into instructions that may be directly executed by the In-Memory Computing apparatus, so as to realize the effect of accelerating the operations of various algorithms by using the In-Memory Computing apparatus.
US11803350B2
Example techniques facilitate calibration of a playback device. An example implementation involves a computing device capturing, via a microphone, data representing multiple iterations of a calibration sound as played by a playback device. The computing device identifies multiple sections within the captured data. Two or more sections represent respective iterations of the calibration sound as played by the playback device. Based on the multiple identified sections, the computing device determines a frequency response of the playback device, the frequency response of the playback device representing audio output by the playback device and acoustic characteristics of an environment around the playback device. Based on the frequency response of the playback device and a target frequency response, the computing device determines one or more parameters of an audio processing algorithm and sends, to the playback device, the one or more parameters of the audio processing algorithm.
US11803345B2
A machine includes a processor and a memory connected to the processor. The memory stores instructions executed by the processor to receive a message and a message parameter indicative of a characteristic of the message, where the message includes a photograph or a video. A determination is made that the message parameter corresponds to a selected gallery, where the selected gallery includes a sequence of photographs or videos. The message is posted to the selected gallery in response to the determination. The selected gallery is supplied in response to a request.
US11803342B2
An image information transmission method includes receiving, determining, requesting, causing, and cancelling. In the receiving, an instruction to transmit image information to an image forming apparatus is received from an information communication terminal. In the determining, information relating to a location of an operator of the information communication terminal that is stored in storage is referenced upon execution of the receiving. In the determining, whether or not the operator is in a site where the image forming apparatus is installed. In the requesting, when the operator is not in the site where the image forming apparatus is installed, the information communication terminal requests the operator to determine whether to transmit the image information to the image forming apparatus.
US11803325B2
Systems and methods for specifying storage media types in write commands executable by storage devices are disclosed. An example system comprises: a plurality of memory devices and a controller operatively coupled to the memory devices, the controller configured to: receive a write command specifying a data item and an identifier of a data stream comprising the data item; determine, by parsing the identifier of the data stream, a data stream attribute shared by data items comprised by the data stream; identify, based on the data stream attribute, a memory device managed by the controller; and transmit, to the memory device, an instruction specifying the data item.
US11803324B2
A transaction management system includes a storage circuit and a processing circuit. The storage circuit stores a current tag value of a tag ID of a device and a tag value associated with a transaction initiated by the device. The processing circuit receives a reset query to determine an availability of the device for reset. When the device is to be reset, the current tag value of the tag ID is updated. Further, the processing circuit generates an acknowledgment in response to the reset query such that the device is reset based on the acknowledgment. The updated tag ID ensures that responses for transactions that are initiated by the device before the reset are discarded.
US11803320B2
A controller of a memory system according to an embodiment manages, for each of a plurality of blocks, first information indicating whether a corresponding block is in use which indicates a state where the data is stored, second information indicating the number of erasures, and third information indicating a waiting time until next erasure. The controller executes first sequential write received from a host, and determines whether to execute processing of leveling the number of erasures for each of the plurality of blocks based on a first difference, a second difference, and a third difference when executing second sequential write received from the host.
US11803309B2
Described herein are techniques for managing replication in a data storage environment. The techniques including selectively compressing and selectively encrypting, by a production site, a set of files for replication from the production site to a remote site. Files can be selectively compressed based on a compression ratio satisfying a compression threshold, and files can be selectively encrypted based on a file content satisfying an encryption criteria. The techniques can further include updating, by the production site, metadata associated with selectively compressed files and updating metadata associated with selectively encrypted files. The techniques can further include replicating the set of files for replication from the production site to the remote site, the set of files for replication including the selectively compressed and the selectively encrypted files.
US11803305B1
An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to monitor input/output (IO) operations for storage objects stored on storage devices of a storage system for a designated period of time, to identify IO patterns associated with the storage objects, wherein the IO patterns are associated with different wear level impacts on the storage devices of the storage system, and to determine a wear status of each storage device of the storage system. The processing device is also configured to select one or more storage objects to move from a first to a second storage device of the storage system based at least in part on the monitored input/output operations, the identified IO patterns, and the determined wear status of each storage device. The processing device is further configured to move the selected storage objects from the first to the second storage device to perform wear level balancing for the storage system.
US11803298B2
A system for use in controlling operating functions of a controllable device includes a hand-held device and an intermediate device in communication with the hand-held device and the controllable device. The hand-held device is adapted to receive a gesture based input and to transmit a signal having data representative of the gesture based input. The intermediate device has programming for translating the data representative of the gesture based input in a signal received from the hand-held device into a command signal to be communicated to the controllable device wherein the command signal has a format appropriate for controlling an operating function of the controllable device that is associated with the gesture based input.
US11803294B2
An electronic device includes a display; and a processor operatively connected to the display, wherein the processor is configured to receive, from a user, a smart capture request for capturing a plurality of screens including a screen of an application being displayed on the display and a screen of an application not being displayed on the display, to smart capture the plurality of screens according to the request, and to generate a smart capture image based on the plurality of captured screens.
US11803293B2
In various implementations, a method includes obtaining a first virtual object kit that corresponds to a first virtual object type. In various implementations, the method includes obtaining a second virtual object kit corresponding to a second virtual object type that is different from the first virtual object type. In various implementations, the method includes merging the first virtual object kit and the second virtual object kit in order to form a third virtual object kit. In some implementations, the third virtual object kit includes a set of virtual object templates of a third virtual object type that is different from the first virtual object type and the second virtual object type. In some implementations, the third virtual object kit includes a plurality of groups of components associated with respective portions of a virtual object.
US11803292B2
An embodiment facilitates user control of user interface layouts. A layout diagram visually and diagrammatically represents a current layout. The layout diagram includes layout diagram regions which correspond to user interface component regions in the current layout; the user interface component regions have user interface components as occupants. The embodiment gets a choice identifying a traveler component and a destination region, with the traveler component being an occupant of a source region. The embodiment modifies the current layout of the user interface to produce a modified layout in response to the choice, and updates the layout diagram to match the modified layout. Interaction is improved by diagrammatically showing the user the results of possible layout changes before performing any of them.
US11803288B1
Disclosed embodiments may include a system for sharing data. The system may direct a first user device to establish a respective wireless connection with second user devices. The system may cause the first user device to display, via a GUI, icons respectively corresponding to the second user devices. The system may track respective locations of the second user devices relative to the first user device, and may modify the GUI by repositioning the icons in the GUI based on the respective locations of each second user device relative to the first user device. The system may receive a request, from the first user device, to transfer data to a second user device of the second user devices based on a current position of an icon associated with the second user device in the modified GUI. The system may then transfer the data to the second user device.
US11803281B2
Provided are a touch display screen and a driving method therefor, and a display apparatus. A common electrode layer is divided into a plurality of mutually independent self-capacitance electrodes, and the self-capacitance electrodes are connected to a driving chip via corresponding touch-control traces; and each self-capacitance electrode is connected to a common voltage line via a switching transistor, and a gate electrode of each switching transistor is connected to a control line.
US11803280B2
Disclosed are a touch panel and an electronic device, the touch panel is provided with a touch area and a non-touch area surrounding the touch area, a plurality of first touch electrodes and a plurality of second touch electrodes are all located in the touch area, a plurality of connecting portions include a first connecting portion, a second connecting portion, and a third connecting portion sequentially away from the non-touch area in a first direction, and a distance between a center of an orthographic projection of the first connecting portion on a substrate and a center of an orthographic projection of the second connecting portion on the substrate is less than a distance between the center of the orthographic projection of the second connecting portion on the substrate and a center of an orthographic projection of the third connecting portion on the substrate.
US11803277B2
A glazing unit of a vehicle or building, which has at least one glass pane or polymer film, wherein a capacitive sensor is arranged on a first surface of the or a glass pane or polymer film, which sensor includes a first sensor section and a second sensor section spaced at a distance therefrom on the first surface, which second sensor section acts as a signal readout section, wherein during operation of the sensor, an electrical field is generated between the first and second sensor section, which field partially penetrates the glass pane or polymer film, wherein a material property compensation electrode is provided on the second surface of the same glass pane or polymer film, opposite the second sensor section.
US11803262B2
An electronic apparatus includes an electronic module which outputs or receives a signal, an electronic panel that is divided into a first area overlapping the electronic module, a second area which surrounds at least a portion of the first area, and a third area adjacent to the second area in a plan view, a window on the electronic panel, an anti-reflection member between the window and the electronic panel, and an adhesive layer between the window and the anti-reflection member. A hole which overlaps at least a portion of the first area is defined in the anti-reflection member, and the adhesive layer fills the hole.
US11803251B2
A split wireless keyboard for communicating with a host device includes first and second keyboard halves. Each keyboard half communicates wirelessly with the host device to communicate that a key has been depressed or released. The keyboard halves communicate wirelessly with each other to signal key status changes. The two keyboard halves alternate serving as master and slave depending upon which keyboard half has most recently detected a change of key status, and only the keyboard half designated as the master actively communicates with the host. Wireless communications among the two keyboard halves and the host may use Bluetooth short-range wireless technology protocol. One keyboard half initially pairs with the host, and then shares a wireless link key with the other keyboard half during a setup phase. A Y-shaped hardwired connection cable may be used to interconnect the two keyboard halves to the host device instead of using wireless communications.
US11803247B2
A computer-implemented method includes: predicting, by a computing device, devices for inclusion in an interface; generating, by the computing device, the interface including areas corresponding to the devices; detecting, by the computing device, a user selection of one of the areas of the interface; detecting, by the computing device, a hand gesture associated with the selected one of the areas; and transmitting, by the computing device, data defining the hand gesture to a respective one of the devices corresponding to the selected one of the areas, thereby causing the respective one of the devices to execute a command based on the hand gesture.
US11803242B2
A vehicle display control device including a housing that constitutes a body and is fixed to an instrument panel, an LCD cover whose outer circumference surface is disposed to be spaced apart from an inner circumference surface of the housing and that is accommodated in the housing, an LCD module that is accommodated in the LCD cover and covered by the LCD cover, a haptic actuator that is mounted on a rear of the LCD cover and transfers vibration to the LCD cover, and a support member that is disposed between the LCD cover and the housing.
US11803240B2
With respect to a video display apparatus, a technology capable of improving the operability and usability for a user in relation to a generated image such as AR (Augmented Reality) is provided. An HMD as a video display apparatus displays an AR image on a display screen, configures an ID image including identification information (ID) for supporting an operation of a user to the AR image, detects a sight line direction of the user to set a sight line region, and displays the ID image so as to be associated with the AR image when the AR image falls within a range of the sight line region. The HMD receives an operation to select the ID image from the user, selects the AR image associated with the ID image when receiving the operation to select the ID image, and executes a predetermined process associated with the AR image.
US11803238B1
Eye and hand tracking systems in head-mounted display (HMD) devices are arranged with lensless camera systems using optical masks as encoding elements that apply convolutions to optical images of body parts (e.g., eyes or hands) of HMD device users. The convolved body images are scrambled or coded representations that are captured by a sensor in the system, but are not human-recognizable. A machine learning system such as a neural network is configured to extract body features directly from the coded representation without performance of deconvolutions conventionally utilized to reconstruct the original body images in human-recognizable form. The extracted body features are utilized by the respective eye or hand tracking systems to output relevant tracking data for the user's eyes or hands which may be utilized by the HMD device to support various applications and user experiences. The lensless camera and machine learning system are jointly optimizable on an end-to-end basis.
US11803232B2
A touch display system and a control method thereof are provided. The touch display system includes a touch display panel and a controller. The touch display panel includes a touch area and is configured to sense a touch operation of a user. The controller is coupled with the touch display panel and is configured to acquire a physical sign information of the user who is to operate the touch display panel, and adjust a touch range for the user to perform the touch operation in the touch area according to the physical sign information of the user.
US11803230B2
Obtaining a periodic test signal, sampling the periodic test signal using a sampling element according to a sampling clock to generate a sampled periodic output, the sampling element operating according to a supply voltage provided by a voltage regulator, the voltage regulator providing the supply voltage according to a supply voltage control signal, comparing the sampled periodic output to the sampling clock to generate a clock-to-Q measurement indicative of a delay value associated with the generation of the sampled periodic output in response to the sampling clock, generating the supply voltage control signal based at least in part on an average of the clock-to-Q measurement, and providing the supply voltage to a data sampling element connected to the voltage regulator, the data sampling element being a replica of the sampling element, the data sampling element sampling a stream of input data according to the sampling clock.
US11803225B2
In a method of operating a system-on-chip (SOC), the SOC includes a plurality of processor cores. An operating frequency of the plurality of processor cores is set to a first operating frequency based on permitted power consumption of the SOC and an operating status of the plurality of processor cores. The first operating frequency is within a maximum operating frequency of the plurality of processor cores. At least one of the plurality of processor cores performs at least one processing operation based on the first operating frequency. When present power consumption of the SOC is determined as exceeding the permitted power consumption, a warning signal is activated, and a first control operation for reducing the present power consumption is performed immediately thereafter.
US11803221B2
An electronic device includes an AI power controller that predicts future load transients within a system and that dynamically alters power settings in anticipation of the predicted future load transients. To predict a future load transients, the AI power controller receives as an input application signature data from an application executing on the device. The application signature data includes at least media frame data generated by the application during a time interval. The AI power controller executes logic to compare the received application signature data to historical application signature data, where the historical application signature data includes media frame data generated by the application during one or more past execution instances of the application. Based on the comparison, the AI power controller predicts a load transient of the application at a future point in time and dynamically adjusts a power control setting of the device in anticipation of the predicted load transient.
US11803217B2
Methods and apparatus for thermal management in data storage devices are provided. One such data storage device includes a non-volatile memory (NVM), at least one ambient temperature sensor configured to detect an ambient temperature of the data storage device, at least one component temperature sensor configured to detect one or more component temperatures of one or more components of the data storage device, and a processor coupled to the NVM, the at least one ambient temperature sensor, and the at least one component temperature sensor. The processor is configured to determine a composite temperature of the data storage device based on the one or more component temperatures and the ambient temperature. The processor is further configured to determine whether the composite temperature exceeds a threshold and perform a thermal management operation if the composite temperature exceeds the threshold.
US11803214B2
A display device includes a display panel including a front surface, a rear surface, and a folding axis; a support member disposed on the rear surface of the display panel, the support member including a first support member and a second support member; a hinge connected to the first support member and the second support member to each other; a hinge cover disposed over the hinge; a first rear cover disposed on a rear surface of the first support member; a second rear cover disposed on a rear surface of the second support member; a first blocking member disposed on a first cover surface of the first rear cover; and a second blocking member disposed on a second cover surface of the second rear cover.
US11803201B1
A method and apparatus for performing dynamic current scaling of an input current of a voltage regulator are provided. The method and apparatus allow tuning current consumption in various applications, calculating a duration of an activity phase in which various algorithms are executed and activating dynamic current scaling of a regulator if the activity duration is shorter than a programmable threshold. A controller receives a threshold for an activity duration and a window size in which to evaluate the activity duration.
US11803200B2
Thermostatic cartridge for a mixing valve for mixing a cold incoming fluid and a hot incoming fluid in a determined proportion to form a mixture. A head includes a housing extending along a central axis, and a thermostatic regulating assembly. A regulating system defines an abutment surface adjustable in axial translation with respect to the head. A thermostatic system includes a heat sensitive first portion over which the mixture can flow, and a second portion to abut axially against the abutment surface. The first portion can move the second portion axially between plural positions relative to the first portion, the relative positions determined by the mixing temperature. A slide mounted on the first portion moves axially relative to the head for modifying the determined proportion, and may slide between a normal position and plural overtravel positions axially closer to the head than the normal position.
US11803197B2
A system for controlling a flight boundary of an aircraft. The system includes a flight controller communicatively connected to the aircraft. The flight controller is configured to receive a plurality of flight data linked with the aircraft, determine a flight boundary for the aircraft as a function of the plurality of flight data, set an aircraft movement limit as a function of the flight boundary, receive a pilot instruction, and generate a control signal for the aircraft as a function of the aircraft movement limit and the pilot instruction. The control signal is limits the aircraft to remain within the flight boundary. A method for controlling a flight boundary of an aircraft is also provided.
US11803194B2
A monolithic attitude control motor frame includes a monolithic structure including an outer surface of revolution and a plurality of side walls defining a plurality of cavities extending from the outer surface of revolution. Adjacent cavities of the plurality of cavities share a side wall or side wall portion therebetween. Each of the cavities is configured to receive an attitude control motor. A monolithic attitude control motor system includes a monolithic frame including an outer surface of revolution and a plurality of side walls defining a plurality of cavities extending radially from the outer surface of revolution. The system further includes a plurality of attitude control motors corresponding to the plurality of cavities, such that an attitude control motor of the plurality of attitude motors is disposed in each cavity of the plurality of cavities.
US11803188B1
An autonomous mobile device (AMD) may move around a physical space performing various tasks. Most of the sensors on the AMD may be directed towards the front and sides of the AMD to facilitate autonomous navigation, interactions with users, and so forth. The AMD may return to a dock to recharge batteries, replenish consumables, transfer payload, and so forth. The AMD uses the sensors to approach the vicinity of the dock. Once in the vicinity, the AMD turns around and backs into the dock. This orientation allows the AMD to continue to operate the forward-facing sensors and interact with users while docked. The AMD uses inductive sensors to detect metallic targets located at particular positions in the dock. Output from the inductive sensors provides information about the relative position of the AMD with respect to the dock and is used to steer the AMD into a desired docked position.
US11803179B2
A SCADA Web HMI system includes a drawing generation device (1) and an HMI terminal device (32). A drawing editor (11) generates SVG data (21) and part runtime attribute data (22). The HMI terminal device (32) includes a Web browser (321) that reads SVG data (21) and displays an HMI screen, and an HMI Web runtime (322) that reads the part runtime attribute data (22) as setting parameters and operates on the Web browser (321). When receiving signal data corresponding to unique signal names from a monitoring target device (7), the HMI Web runtime (322) changes display of parts corresponding to the unique signal names on the HMI screen.
US11803170B2
A graph display device according to one aspect of the present invention generates a first directed graph, which contains a plurality of first nodes respectively representing device variables, edges representing the existence of a dependency relation, and a block representing a function, and a second directed graph, which contains a plurality of first nodes, edges, a block, and a plurality of second nodes arranged in the block and respectively representing function parameters. In response to an instruction from a user the display device switches between displaying the generated first directed graph and displaying the generated second directed graph.
US11803166B2
A fixture that includes an electro-mechanical (EM) element; a communication interface; a processor; and a computer-readable storage media coupled to the processor and having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising: receiving, from a service via the communication interface, parameters for scheduling an operation of the fixture; determining, based on the parameters, a plurality of commands for the EM element and a respective time to execute each of the commands; providing, at the respective time, each of the commands to the respective EM element for execution; providing, via the communication interface, an indication of completion of the operation of the fixture to the service.
US11803161B2
The invention discloses a physical system of strontium optical clock applied for space station, relating to the field of optical atomic clocks, comprising a special-shaped cavity and a MOT cavity. A Zeeman slower is arranged between the special-shaped cavity and the MOT cavity, and the special-shaped cavity and the MOT cavity are provided with a plurality of interfaces that communicate with their interiors; an internal heating atomic oven is arranged in the special-shaped cavity, and an anti-Helmholtz coil and a remanence compensation coil are arranged on the outer wall of the MOT cavity; the two cavities are both connected with a vacuum device for forming a vacuum, and both the special-shaped cavity and the MOT cavity are provided with optomechanical components. The system integrates the internal heating atomic oven in the special-shaped cavity to reduce the space occupied by the heating atomic oven.
US11803160B2
There is provided a solar panel including: solar cells each of which is formed in a belt-shape extending in a predetermined direction on a plate-shaped surface and which are disposed in rows in a cell-width direction; a partition area that divides the solar cells from each other; and a connecting part that connects adjoining solar cells among the solar cells electrically in series at respective ends in the extending direction. The solar cells have, across at least two of the solar cells, a transparent power generation area in which a power generation area and a transparent area are alternately disposed in the extending direction. The transparent power generation area extends over an entire cell width of at least one of the solar cells, and the connecting part is disposed at each of opposite ends in the extending direction of the at least one solar cell.
US11803154B2
A developing cartridge includes a developing electrode and a supply electrode. The developing electrode includes a first electrical contact in contact with a developing roller shaft, and a second electrical contact positioned closer to the developing roller shaft than a second agitator gear is to the developing roller shaft. The second electrical contact is positioned farther from the developing roller shaft than the first electrical contact is from the developing roller shaft. The supply electrode includes a first electrical contact in contact with the supply roller shaft, and a second electrical contact positioned closer to the developing roller shaft than the second agitator gear is to the developing roller shaft. The second electrical contact of the supply electrode is positioned farther from the developing roller shaft than the second electrical contact of the developing electrode is from the developing roller shaft.
US11803150B2
A cover that covers side surfaces of a document conveyance path and a paper feeder in a direction orthogonal to a document conveyance direction and a notifier that notifies information on a document placement section are included. The cover has a first side surface disposed along the document conveyance direction and a second side surface disposed from an end of the first side surface on the paper feeder side toward the document placement section. The notifier includes a displayer that displays the information by light. The displayer includes a first displayer disposed on the first side surface and a second displayer disposed on the second side surface toward the document placement section. The first displayer and the second displayer each have a horizontal length that is longer than a vertical length.
US11803147B2
An endless belt includes a loop-shaped support and a surface layer formed on the support. The surface layer contains a polymer including, as monomer units, a first monomer having a polymerizable group and an aliphatic ring, a second monomer having a polymerizable group and a fluorine atom, and a third monomer having 4 or more polymerizable groups.
US11803146B2
A heater includes an insulator substrate, a heat generating section in which a plurality of divided regions are formed in a longitudinal direction on a first surface of the insulator substrate, electrodes formed at both end portions of the heat generating section to correspond to the plurality of divided regions, and electric conductors connected to at least one of the electrodes and formed over a surface different from the first surface of the insulator substrate.
US11803141B2
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device and a control unit. The fixing device includes a heating resistor formed of a positive temperature coefficient material. The control unit energizes the heating resistor with a first energization amount if a temperature of the heating resistor is lower than a predetermined temperature, and energizes the heating resistor with a second energization amount that is higher than the first energization amount if the temperature of the heating resistor is higher than the predetermined temperature.
US11803127B2
A method for determining a root cause affecting yield in a process for manufacturing devices on a substrate, the method including: obtaining yield distribution data including a distribution of a yield parameter across the substrate or part thereof; obtaining sets of metrology data, each set including a spatial variation of a process parameter over the substrate or part thereof corresponding to a different layer of the substrate; comparing the yield distribution data and metrology data based on a similarity metric describing a spatial similarity between the yield distribution data and an individual set out of the sets of the metrology data; and determining a first similar set of metrology data out of the sets of metrology data, being the first set of metrology data in terms of processing order for the corresponding layers, which is determined to be similar to the yield distribution data.
US11803125B2
There is provided a method of forming a patterned structure on a substrate. The method includes: forming a resist layer on the substrate, the resist layer being a negative tone resist; exposing a first portion of the resist layer to a focused electron beam to form a modified first portion, the modified first portion defining a boundary of a second portion of the resist layer; performing a plasma treatment on a surface of the resist layer, including on a surface of the second portion of the resist layer to form a modified surface portion of the second portion of the resist layer, resulting in a plasma treated resist layer; and performing development of the plasma treated resist layer to form the patterned structure on the substrate corresponding the second portion of the resist layer.
US11803124B2
Provided are a planographic printing plate precursor including a support and an image recording layer on the support, in which the image recording layer contains an organic particle containing a resin that has a constitutional unit A having a cation moiety and a constitutional unit B having an anion moiety; and a method of preparing a planographic printing plate using the planographic printing plate precursor.
US11803121B2
Method for manufacturing a master pattern for a mold for a horology component, wherein the method includes manufacturing a first structure from a first photosensitive resin comprising at least one layer of photosensitive resin comprising a first pattern obtained by polymerizing the first photosensitive resin by irradiation through at least one mask, then developing the first photosensitive resin; and transforming the first structure into a second structure by structuring at least one surface of the first structure by the addition of a second photosensitive resin to the at least one surface.
US11803114B2
An illumination system includes first and second red light sources, first and second green light sources, first and second blue light sources, and a first light-splitting device. The first red light source, the first green light source, and the first blue light source respectively provide a first red light beam, a first green light beam, and a first blue light beam with a first polarization state. The second red light source, the second green light source, and the second blue light source respectively provide a second red light beam, a second green light beam, and a second blue light beam with a second polarization state. The first light-splitting device is disposed on transmission paths of the first and second red light beams, the first and second green light beams, and the first and second blue light beams to form an illumination beam.
US11803110B2
A projection device configured to provide multiple projection modes is provided. The projection device includes a housing module and a projection module. The housing module includes a display screen and multiple protective walls. The display screen includes a display curved surface. The projection module includes an optomechanical assembly and a light guide assembly. In a first projection mode, the optomechanical assembly projects an image light beam to the light guide assembly along a first axis. The light guide assembly projects the image light beam to the display curved surface along a second axis, where the first axis and the second axis are not parallel to each other. In a second projection mode, the light guide assembly is moved out of a transmission path of the image light beam, so that the image light beam is directly projected out of the projection device.
US11803101B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a method for setting the focus of a film camera. In one embodiment, for example, the method includes the steps of: obtaining distance information from a measuring device arranged in a region of the film camera, the measuring device producing a real image and a depth image; setting the focus of the film camera using the obtained distance information; producing a real image which is augmented with depth information from the measuring device; and calculating the real image into the image of the film camera by means of an image transformation.
US11803097B1
A self-seeded optical parametric amplifier (OPA) system includes a cavity mirror, a wavelength conversion unit, and a dichroic filter. The cavity mirror is configured to allow high transmission for an input laser beam and high reflection for a feedback beam. The wavelength conversion unit is configured to convert the input laser beam into a signal laser beam and an idler laser beam. The dichroic filter is configured to allow one of the signal laser beam and the idler laser beam to pass through the dichroic filter and reflect the other one onto a feedback path.
US11803096B2
An all-fiber supercontinuum (SC) optical source utilizes a combination of a seed pulse supply of short-duration optical pulses with a highly non-linear optical medium in the form of two or more concatenated sections of highly non-linear optical fiber (HNLF) of different dispersion values and lengths. The two or more sections of HNLF are configured to include at least one section that exhibits a positive dispersion value and one section that exhibits a negative dispersion value. Non-linear effects such as self-phase modulation (SPM), cross-phase modulation (XPM), Raman amplification, and the like, cause the seed pulses to broaden as they propagate through each section of HNLF, where the differences between the dispersion values, as well as the lengths of each fiber section, are particularly configured to create an SC output that is wide and smooth, exhibiting a stable intensity and high coherence level.
US11803086B2
An electronic device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The manufacturing method of the electronic device includes: providing a substrate; providing an adjustable element, including a liquid crystal layer; and bonding the adjustable element onto the substrate.
US11803083B2
A backlight unit and a display device are disclosed. There may be provided a backlight unit and a display device with enhanced light absorption of light of an absorption wavelength band and enhanced color gamut, by including a color conversion layer (or color conversion film) for converting the wavelength band of the light emitted from a light source and a light absorption layer (or light absorption film) for absorbing light of a specific absorption wavelength band, in an area adjacent the light source.
US11803064B1
The invention relates to the technical field of head-mounted devices, in particular provides an AI headset computer with a freely adjustable cantilever, comprising a head-mounted device and a computer main body connected to the head-mounted device; the computer main body is connected to the head-mounted device by an extendable arm; the computer main body is communicatively connected to at least one set of camera units and indicator lights; the camera units are embedded on at least two opposite sides of the opaque display modules of the computer main body; the indicator lights are provided for pointing in the same direction of the captured viewpoints of at least one set of camera units; the camera units are provided to transmit the captured viewpoint position data to the computer main body; and the equivalent video generated after processing is projected on the realistic screen of the opaque display module.
US11803061B2
Provided herein are augmented reality visual aid systems, software, and methods which enhance vision, to simulate natural vision, by utilizing hybrid see through occlusion enabled hardware, and software through image manipulation, reprocessing, blending, for presentation and display to the eyes thus enabling a range of tasks previously lost or impacted.
US11803051B1
A freeform optical surface includes, in part, an off-axis optical surface and a departure optical module. The off-axis optical surface may be an off-axis conic optical surface. The departure optical module may be substantially perpendicular to the off-axis conic optical surface.
US11803050B2
An optical scanning device and an electronic imaging apparatus are provided. The optical scanning device includes a light source, a first optical unit, an optical deflector, and an imaging optical system for guiding a light beam deflected by the optical deflector to a scanned surface for imaging. The imaging optical system includes an F-θ lens satisfying fc/fs≤0.6, X1−X1c>0, and X2−X2c>0, where fs is a focal length of the F-θ lens, fc is an fθ coefficient of the F-θ lens; X1 is a distance between a projection of one incident point on the main optical axis and the scanning origin, X2 is a distance between a projection of one exit point on the main optical axis and the scanning origin, X1c is a distance between the central incident point and the scanning origin, and X2c is a distance between the central exit point and the scanning origin.
US11803038B2
A camera optical lens includes from an object side to an image side: a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens and a sixth lens. The camera optical lens satisfies: −1.00≤f2/f≤−0.60; 1.50≤R6/R5 and 2.00≤d4/d5≤10.00, where f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens, f2 denotes a focal length of the second lens, R5 denotes a central curvature radius of an object side surface of the third lens, R6 denotes a central curvature radius of an image side surface of the third lens, d4 denotes an on-axis distance from an image side surface of the second lens to an object side surface of the third lens, and d5 denotes an on-axis thickness of the third lens. The camera optical lens of the application has good optical performance and meets the design requirement for a long focal length.
US11803037B2
A camera optical lens includes first to fifth lenses from an object side to an image side, the first, third, and fourth lenses having positive refractive power, the second and fifth lenses having negative refractive power, and satisfies: −6.00≤f2/f≤−3.00; −20.00≤(R7+R8)/(R7−R8)≤−2.00; and 1.60≤d2/d4≤6.00, where f denotes focal length of the camera optical lens, f2 denotes focal length of the second lens, R7 denotes central curvature radius of an object side surface of the fourth lens, R8 denotes central curvature radius of an image side surface of the fourth lens, d2 denotes on-axis distance from an image side surface of the first lens to an object side surface of the second lens, and d4 denotes on-axis distance from an image side surface of the second lens to an object side surface of the third lens, thereby having good optical performance while meeting design requirements of a wide angle and ultra-thinness.
US11803032B2
A camera optical lens includes a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens having a positive refractive power, and a fifth lens having a negative refractive power, which are sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side. 0.90≤f1/f≤1.20, 5.00≤(R3+R4)/(R3−R4)≤30.00, 3.00≤d5/d6≤10.00, and −15.00≤(R5+R6)/(R5−R6)≤−3.00. f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens, f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens, R3 denotes a curvature radius of an object-side surface of the second lens, R4 denotes a curvature radius of an image-side surface of the second lens, and R5 denotes a curvature radius of an object-side surface of the third lens. The camera optical lens has good optical performance and meets the design requirements of a large aperture, a wide angle, and ultra-thinness.
US11803030B2
The imaging lens consists of, in order from the object side, a front group that includes a stop and has a positive refractive power, and a rear group. During focusing, the entire front group integrally moves, and the rear group remains stationary with respect to an image plane. The rear group includes one or more air lenses formed by two concave lens surfaces facing toward each other. The imaging lens satisfies Conditional Expressions: 0.1
US11803028B2
The present invention relates to a lens driving apparatus, comprising: a cover member which comprises an upper plate and a side plate extending downwardly from the upper plate; a housing which is located in an inner space formed by the upper plate and the side plate; a base which is positioned below the housing; a first driving unit which is positioned in the housing; a second driving unit which is located in the base and has an electromagnetic interaction with the first driving unit; and a side support member which elastically supports the housing with respect to the base, wherein the cover member comprises a first round portion formed to be rounded in at least a part of portion at which the upper plate and the side plate meet, and the housing comprises a second round portion which is formed in a part of the housing corresponding to the first round portion and has a curvature radius which is smaller than or equal to a curvature radius of the first round portion.
US11803025B2
A fiber optic telecommunications tray is provided with features that improve accessibility and handling of fibers and/or cables in the tray. The tray may include a combination of a fiber storage device, a fiber splice device, and a fiber termination device, which are arranged in a particular order. Alternatively, the tray may include a plurality of fiber termination devices. Further, the tray may include a fiber funneling structure that make is easy to route and retain fibers in the tray.
US11803023B2
An optical module includes a housing, a printed circuit board, an optical assembly, an optical interface joined with the optical assembly, the printed circuit board, the optical assembly, and the optical interface being disposed in the housing, an adapter to be mated with an external optical connector and disposed on an end of the housing, and first and second connecting part disposed on the adapter and the housing, respectively. The adapter and the housing are secured together through the first and second connecting parts. The optical interface and the adapter are configured to correspond to each other.
US11803018B2
A light intensity modulator includes an input optical fiber; an output optical fiber; an optical arrangement having a lens, where the optical arrangement is configured to receive light from the input optical fiber, pass the light through the lens, and direct the light to the output optical fiber; and a piezoelectric device coupled to the lens, where the piezoelectric device is configured for moving the lens to alter overlap of the output optical fiber and the light directed to the output optical fiber to modulate intensity of light in the output optical fiber.
US11803015B2
An optical probe for optoelectronic integrated circuits is provided, applicable to a test environment for testing a plurality of optical chips on a wafer. The optical chips include at least one optical waveguide, and the optical probe includes a substrate and an optical fiber. The facet of the optical fiber has a first angle, and the first angle causes the optical signal transmitted by the optical fiber to generate total reflection, and the optical signal after total reflection enters the optical waveguide of the optical chip. Thereby, an optical probe able to perform testing before wafer cutting and polishing is provided, and a high-speed, effective and reliable detection is achieved.
US11803013B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to fabrication of large-footprint chips having integrated photonic components comprising low-loss optical waveguides. The large footprint chips require the use of multiple reticles during fabrication. Stitching adjacent reticle fields seamlessly is accomplished by overlaying into adjacent reticle fields, tapering waveguide ends, and using strategically placed alignment marks in the die.
US11802998B2
An optical processor is presented for applying optical processing to a light field passing through a predetermined imaging lens unit. The optical processor comprises a pattern in the form of spaced apart regions of different optical properties. The pattern is configured to define a phase coder, and a dispersion profile coder. The phase coder affects profiles of Through Focus Modulation Transfer Function (TFMTF) for different wavelength components of the light field in accordance with a predetermined profile of an extended depth of focusing to be obtained by the imaging lens unit. The dispersion profile coder is to configured in accordance with the imaging lens unit and the predetermined profile of the extended depth of focusing to provide a predetermined overlapping between said TFMTF profiles within said predetermined profile of the extended depth of focusing.
US11802993B2
An optical element for modifying an incident laser beam propagated through the optical element from an input face to an output face via a geometric phase birefringent effect, the optical element comprising: a substrate of a transparent amorphous material with an input face and an opposite output face; and a structural modification in a volume of the substrate between the input face and output face comprising a plurality of randomly positioned nanostructures; wherein each nanostructure has a oblate spheroidal shape with an elliptical cross section in a plane parallel to the input face, the elliptical cross-section having a minor axis substantially not larger than 30 nm and a major axis greater than the minor axis, and each nanostructure having a length in a direction perpendicular to the input face which is substantially not larger than 100 nm.
US11802986B2
Methods for performing a marine survey of a subterranean formation using a hybrid combination of ocean bottom seismic (“OBS”) receivers, wide towed sources, and moving streamers are described herein. In one aspect, a sail line separation in a crossline direction is determined based on an average streamer separation and number of streamers. An array of OBS receivers are deposited on a surface of a subterranean formation with an OBS receiver separation that is based on the sail line separation. Wide towed sources and streamers are towed above the array of OBS receivers behind a survey vessel that travels sail lines separated by the sail line separation. The wide towed sources may be activated above the array of OBS receivers. Wavefields reflected from the subterranean formation are recorded at the OBS receivers and receivers located in the streamers as seismic data.
US11802985B2
The present invention belongs to the field of treatment for data identification and recording carriers, and specifically relates to a method and system for analyzing filling for a karst reservoir based on spectrum decomposition and machine learning, which aims to solve the problems that by adopting the existing petroleum exploration technology, the reservoir with fast lateral change cannot be predicted, and the development characteristics of a carbonate cave type reservoir in a large-scale complex basin cannot be identified. The method comprises: acquiring data of standardized logging curves; obtaining a high-precision 3D seismic amplitude data body by mixed-phase wavelet estimation and maximum posteriori deconvolution and enhancing diffusion filtering. According to the method and the system, the effect of identifying the development characteristics of the carbonate karst cave type reservoir in the large-scale complex basin can be achieved, and the characterization precision is improved.
US11802979B2
Structures operable to detect radiation are described. An imaging system is also described having the structures. For example, a structure may include two screens and a photosensor array between the two screens. One of the screens is comprised of a scintillating glass substrate. The scintillating glass substrate may serve two purposes. The scintillating glass substrate converts incident x-rays into light photons. Additionally, the scintillating glass substrate is a substrate for the photosensor array. The photosensor array is configured to detect light photons that reach the photosensor array from both screens.
US11802977B2
Aspects concern a method for correcting position estimates of a movable object. According to various embodiments, the method comprises establishing (1001) a hidden Markov model, HMM, instance for a movable object and, for positioning times of a sequence of positioning times, receiving (1002) a position estimate from a positioning device of the movable object for a respective positioning time, determining (1003) a set of candidate path segments for the positioning time, determining (1004) likelihoods for the candidate path segments to correspond to the position estimate by application of the Viterbi algorithm to the HMM instance, expanding (1005) the HMM instance by the determined likelihoods for the candidate path segments for the positioning time and determining (1006) a corrected position estimate from a candidate path segment of the set of candidate path segments with the highest likelihood.
US11802969B2
Techniques are discussed for controlling a vehicle, such as an autonomous vehicle, based on occluded areas in an environment. An occluded area can represent areas where sensors of the vehicle are unable to sense portions of the environment due to obstruction by another object. An occlusion grid representing the occluded area can be stored as map data or can be dynamically generated. An occlusion grid can include occlusion fields, which represent discrete two- or three-dimensional areas of driveable environment. An occlusion field can indicate an occlusion state and an occupancy state, determined using LIDAR data and/or image data captured by the vehicle. An occupancy state of an occlusion field can be determined by ray casting LIDAR data or by projecting an occlusion field into segmented image data. The vehicle can be controlled to traverse the environment when a sufficient portion of the occlusion grid is visible and unoccupied.
US11802965B2
Techniques for Doppler correction of chirped optical range detection include obtaining a first set of ranges based on corresponding frequency differences between a return optical signal and a first chirped transmitted optical signal with an up chirp that increases frequency with time. A second set of ranges is obtained based on corresponding frequency differences between a return optical signal and a second chirped transmitted optical signal with a down chirp. A matrix of values for a cost function is determined, one value for each pair of ranges that includes one in the first set and one in the second set. A matched pair of one range in the first set and a corresponding one range in the second set is determined based on the matrix. A Doppler effect on range is determined based on combining the matched pair of ranges. A device is operated based on the Doppler effect.
US11802959B2
A vehicle safety system performs close-in incipient collision detection that combines high sample rate near-field sensors with advanced real-time processing to accurately determine and report risky driver behavior.
US11802957B2
A synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) antenna emits radar pulses and receives their reflections. SAR is typically used on a moving platform, such as an aircraft, drone, or spacecraft. Since the position of the antenna changes between the time of emitting a radar pulse and receiving the reflection of the pulse, the synthetic aperture of the radar is increased, giving greater accuracy for a same (physical) sized radar over conventional beam-scanning radar. The pulse data is processed, using a backprojection algorithm, to generate a two-dimensional image that can be used for navigation. The order in which the SAR data is processed can impact the likelihood of cache hits in accessing the data. Since accessing data from cache instead of memory storage reduces both access time and power consumption, devices that access more data from cache have greater battery life and range.
US11802956B2
A method in a first wireless device (WD) is described. The method includes determining a plurality of expected response signals, each having a scrambling seed number and an expected sequence of time domain symbols; receiving a plurality of response signals; determining a plurality of frequency shifted time domain samples, cross-correlating each frequency shifted time domain sample with the expected sequence of time domain symbols, for each scrambling seed number of each expected response signal; determining a maximum correlation value for each frequency shift and each frequency shifted time domain sample; summing the maximum correlation value for each frequency shift, each frequency shifted time domain sample, and each response signal; determining a peak correlation value based on the summed maximum correlation value; and determining at least the round trip time associated with the plurality of ranging signals based at least in part on the peak correlation value.
US11802952B2
The position detecting apparatus repeatedly acquires, from a radar apparatus, object information including at least an object distance as a distance between the radar apparatus and a reflecting object and a relative speed between the radar apparatus and a reflecting object. The position detecting apparatus calculates a speed ratio as a ratio between the relative speed and the travelling speed. The position detecting apparatus calculates, based on the speed ratio, a projection distance between a projected position of the reflecting object projected onto a projection plane and a position of the radar apparatus on the projection plane, the projection plane having a predetermined angle with respect to a center axis indicating a direction along which the radar waves are transmitted by the radar apparatus and including the radar apparatus. The position detection apparatus calculates the position of the reflecting object based on the calculated projection distance.
US11802944B2
Provided is a lidar device for a vehicle including an optical transmitter configured to transmit an outgoing optical signal, an optical receiver configured to receive a plurality of return optical signals incident in different directions, at least one temperature sensor configured to identify a temperature of the lidar device, and a processor operatively coupled with the optical transmitter, the optical receiver, and the at least one temperature sensor. The processor is configured to control the optical transmitter to transmit the outgoing optical signal configured to detect an object, receive an object optical signal, reflected by the object, through the optical receiver, identify a temperature of the lidar device through the temperature sensor in response to the identifying of intensity of the object optical signal being less than reference intensity, and adjust a bandpass of an optical filter of the optical receiver based on the temperature of the lidar device.
US11802943B2
A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system includes an optical transmitter comprising a plurality of lasers, where each of the plurality of lasers illuminates a field-of-view. A transmitter controller is configured to pulse desired ones of the plurality of lasers so that the plurality of lasers generate light in a desired illumination region. An optical receiver comprises a plurality of detectors positioned to detect light over the desired illumination region. The plurality of detectors generates an electrical detection signal. A time-of-flight measurement circuit measures the time-of-flight of light from the plurality of lasers to the plurality of detectors. The optical receiver calculates range information from the time-of-flight measurements. A receiver controller is electrically connected to the transmitter controller and is configured to bias at least some of the plurality of detectors at a bias point that achieves a desired detection signal noise level.
US11802942B2
One example system includes a light source that emits light. The system also includes a waveguide that guides the emitted light from a first side of the waveguide toward a second side of the waveguide opposite the first side. The waveguide has a third side extending between the first side and the second side. The system also includes a mirror that reflects the guided light toward the third side of the waveguide. At least a portion of the reflected light propagates out of the waveguide toward a scene. The system also includes a light detector, and a lens that focuses light from the scene toward the waveguide and the light detector.
US11802929B2
Disclosed herein is a magnetic resonance imaging system (100) controlled by a processor (130). The execution of the machine executable instructions causes the processor to sort (200) multiple preparatory scan commands (142) into fixed duration preparatory scan commands (144) and indeterminate duration preparatory scan commands (146). The execution of the machine executable instructions further causes the processor to first control (202) the magnetic resonance imaging system with the indeterminate duration preparatory scan commands and then (204) with the fixed duration preparatory scan commands. The execution of the machine executable instructions further causes the processor to calculate (206) a gradient pulse starting time (160). The execution of the machine executable instructions further causes the processor to provide (208) the warning signal at a predetermined time (162) before the gradient pulse starting time. The execution of the machine executable instructions further causes the processor to control (210) the magnetic resonance imaging system with pulse sequence commands to acquire the k-space data such that the execution of the gradient coil pulse commands begins at the pulse starting time.
US11802928B2
The present disclosure relates to magnetic resonance imaging technology for simultaneously measuring a plurality of magnetic resonance imaging parameters. According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a data collector for alternately collecting a steady-state-free-precession (SSFP)-FID signal and an SSFP-ECHO signal within a time of repetition to obtain AUSFIDE (alternating unbalanced SSFP-FID & SSFP-ECHO) image data; a data processor for reconstructing a magnitude image and a phase image for each of the SSFP-FID signal and the SSFP-ECHO signal in the AUSFIDE (alternating unbalanced SSFP-FID & SSFP-ECHO) image data and processing the AUSFIDE (alternating unbalanced SSFP-FID & SSFP-ECHO) image data using the reconstructed magnitude images and phase images; and a parameter measuring device for measuring a plurality of magnetic resonance imaging parameters using a plurality of echo data based on the processed AUSFIDE (alternating unbalanced SSFP-FID & SSFP-ECHO) image data.
US11802915B2
An uncertain noisy filtering-based fault diagnosis method for a power battery management system is described. The method includes establishing an electro-thermal coupling model of the power battery system; extending an output vector of the system according to a state constraint of a power battery, and expanding a state vector of the system according to a fault of the power battery system to obtain an augmented system of the power battery system; obtaining an estimation interval of a power battery sensor fault by using a zonotope Kalman filtering method; judging whether the power battery management system has a fault according to upper and lower bounds of fault estimation; if a fault occurs, determining a fault type and a fault time according to a result.
US11802914B1
The All Test Platform (ATP) provides provides a safe and easy way to test batteries within an environmental test chamber. The ATP enables rapid changing of batteries and battery types between tests, and provides the highest density per square foot of environmental test chamber space available for battery testing. The ATP combines multiple components critical for battery testing into a configurable, scalable, safe, and high density battery testing platform.
US11802913B2
A diagnostic system for a resolve of a motor and a method of diagnosing the resolver. The diagnostic system includes an x-phase winding, a y-phase winding, and a processor. The x-phase winding generates an x-phase voltage and the y-phase winding generates a y-phase voltage. The processor obtains the x-phase voltage and the y-phase voltage, determines an adaptive cosine envelope from the x-phase voltage and an adaptive sine envelope from the y-phase voltage, determines an adaptive magnitude from the adaptive sine envelope and the adaptive cosine envelope, determines a magnitude average based on the adaptive magnitude, determines a fault of the resolver when a ratio of the adaptive magnitude and the magnitude average is greater than a threshold, and transmits a signal based on the fault.
