US11819090B2
Buffing of a footwear component allows for an alteration of the component surface to achieve an intended surface for aesthetics and/or manufacturing purposes. The buffing is performed in a system having a vision module, a sidewall buffing module, an up surface buffing module, and a down surface buffing module. Each of the buffing modules are adapted for the unique shape and sizes of a footwear component to effectively and automatically buff the footwear component.
US11819088B2
An outsole for an article of footwear with a forefoot region, a midfoot region, a heel region, a medial side, and a lateral side. The outsole can include a ground engaging surface with a plurality of cleats and a plurality of circular ridges including a first set of circular ridges and a second set of circular ridges. The first set of circular ridges can be concentrically aligned about a first epicenter in the forefoot region and the second set of circular ridges can be concentrically aligned about a second epicenter in the heel region. The plurality of cleats can include a first set of cleats in the forefoot region that can be aligned along a first circular ridge of the first set of circular ridges.
US11819076B2
Fabrics and garments are disclosed that have dual protection against molten metal splashes and electrical arc flashes. The fabrics can be made from spun yarns containing an intimate blend of fibers. The fibers contained in each yarn can include wool fibers, flame resistant cellulose fibers, and nylon fibers. In one aspect, relatively long wool fibers are incorporated into the yarns.
US11819065B2
Examples of a fastener integrated with a fabric spacer are disclosed. The fastener comprises a first part with a first fastening member that has an eyelet with a base secured to a top surface of a first tape. The bottom surface of the tape is bonded to a fabric spacer. The fastener further comprises a second part with a second fastening member that has a hooking end. The second fastening member is secured to a second fabric. The hooking end of the second fastening member is configured to releasably engage the eyelet of the first fastening member to bring close together the first part and the second part of the fastener.
US11819058B2
Disclosed are an electronic cigarette and a vaporizer thereof which are suitable for adjusting air inflow with a single hand. The electronic cigarette vaporizer includes a vaporizer base and a liquid reservoir connected to the vaporizer. An atomizing cavity is formed by an internal cavity obtained by the connection of the liquid reservoir and the vaporizer base. An air inlet passage communicated with the atomizing cavity is arranged at the liquid reservoir. An adjusting knob at the entrance of the air inlet passage for adjusting air inflow is also arranged at the liquid reservoir. An air inlet is arranged at the adjusting knob. By rotating the adjusting knob, the air inflow can be adjusted by relative position changes of the air inlet and the entrance of the air inlet passage.
US11819056B2
The method includes first defining chambers within a housing, the chambers including a first chamber and a second chamber, providing at least one aligning element within the housing, the at least one aligning element being configured to align a first consumable and a second consumable in a fixed orientation within the first chamber and the second chamber, respectively; and configuring a mouthpiece to be selectively connected to the housing on a first side of the chambers in at least a first position or a second position, the first position aligning an inlet opening of the mouthpiece to direct at least one first airflow in a first direction through the first chamber while circumventing the second chamber, the second position aligning the inlet opening to direct the at least one first airflow in the first direction through the second chamber while circumventing the first chamber.
US11819053B2
A smoking article comprises a tobacco rod and a filter connected to the tobacco rod. The filter comprises a first filter segment and a hollow tube segment downstream of the first filter segment. The hollow tube segment defines a cavity at the mouth end of the filter providing an unrestricted flow channel that extends from the downstream end of the first filter segment to the mouth end of the filter. The length of the hollow tube segment is at least about 25 percent of the overall filter length. Further, the smoking article comprises a ventilation zone comprising at least one circumferential row of perforations provided at a location around the first filter segment.
US11819044B2
Provided herein is a method of reducing the off-taste of a food or beverage wherein the off-taste is selected from the group consisting of licorice, astringency, bitterness and sweet lingering comprising adding about 10 to about 40 ppm, phloretin to the food or beverage wherein the phloretin is provided in the substantial absence of a bitterness-masking aroma substance selected from the groups consisting of homoeriodictylol, homoeriodictyol sodium salt, homoeriodictylol potassium salt or mixtures thereof and wherein the phloretin does not significantly enhance the sweetness of the article or composition.
US11819041B2
This document relates to ground meat replicas, and more particularly to plant-based products that mimic ground meat, including the fibrousness, heterogeneity in texture, beefy flavor, and red-to-brown color transition during cooking of ground meat.
US11819038B2
The invention relates to a method for making a cheese product comprising: — subjecting ripened packed cheese to an anti-microbial treatment; — thereafter removing the packing material from the treated cheese; and — thereafter extruding the treated cheese to form a shaped cheese product or shredding the treated cheese to form a shredded cheese product. The cheese product accordingly obtained is also claimed.
US11819023B2
A natural liquid composition is provided for disinfectant, antibacterial or anticorrosion applications. The natural liquid composition is an electrospun solubilized composition of natural chitosan (CS) and an FDA approved polymer polyvinyl alcohol (PVA). Two fillers, citric acid (CA) and ascorbic acid (AA), added anti-corrosion property to the composite nanofiber solution without affecting the other properties (disinfectant and antibacterial) and have a final synergistic effect of all components together in a final solution form. Embodiment of the invention advances the art by providing a natural solution to overcome at least some of the problems with the currently used agents.
US11819015B2
A directional guide for a spreader bar includes a body extending along a longitudinal axis. The body includes a first fin and a second fin spaced apart from the first fin. The first and second fins are coupled to the body and are configured to control a vertical position of the body in water through which the body is moving. Grooves are formed in the body. The grooves include a first groove extending along the longitudinal axis of the body, a second groove crossing the first groove and a third groove crossing the first groove. A keel is rotatably coupled to the body. The keel is configured to rotate between the first groove, the second groove, and the third groove. The keel is configured to control a lateral position of the body in water through which the body is moving.
US11819011B1
A fishing apparatus including a shank, a hook extending from the shank, one or more extendable barbs, and a spring. Each extendable barb has first and second ends and is disposed for angular movement with respect to the hook from the first end, from a first barb position in which the barb second end is proximate the hook to a second barb position in which the second end of the barb extends outwardly from the hook. The spring forcibly urges each extendable barb from first to second barb positions. A band may be included, circumferentially encircling the hook, slidably movable from first to second band positions. When in the first band position, each barb is held in a slot by the band. When in the second band position, each barb is urged by the spring into its second barb position. Fixed barbs may also be included.
US11818999B2
A soybean cultivar designated 04420349 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 04420349, to the plants of soybean cultivar 04420349, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 04420349, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 04420349. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 04420349. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 04420349, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 04420349 with another soybean cultivar.
US11818995B2
A novel canola variety designated S00630 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a canola plant that comprise crossing canola variety S00630 with another canola plant. Methods for producing a canola plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into S00630 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the canola seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid canola seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the canola variety S00630 or a locus conversion of S00630 with another canola variety.
US11818994B2
The present invention relates to endophytes, in particular endophytes associated with plants of the Brachiaria-Urochloa species complex, plants infected with the endophytes, products produced by the endophytes, and related methods.
US11818992B1
Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a plant lamp. The plant lamp may include one or more light-emitting units and a lamp holder. Each of the one or more light-emitting units may include a light-emitting side and a non-light-emitting side oppositely disposed. The one or more light-emitting units may be mounted on the lamp holder. The plant lamp may further include one or more dynamic connection components. Each of the one or more dynamic connection components may be configured to connect at least one of the one or more light-emitting units to the lamp holder, and may enable the at least one light-emitting unit to rotate relative to the lamp holder to adjust a light-emitting direction of the at least one light-emitting unit.
US11818986B1
A growing system includes a tub having a lid attached thereto, the tub having an interior area; a tubing system secured within the interior area of the tub; a fluid reservoir housing a fluid pump, the fluid pump in fluid communication with the tubing system; a water tank positioned within the interior area of the tub and having a water level sensor therein; one or more lights configured to emit light into the interior area; a heat pump to emit heat into the interior area; a thermocouple and hygrometer to measure temperature and humidity within the interior area of the tub; and a controller having one or more controls to receive user commands to operate the fluid pump, the one or more lights, and the heat pump; the controller operates to control a microclimate within the interior area of the tub based on user preferences.
US11818983B2
A harvester for harvesting guayule shrubs from the soil in which they are grown. The harvester can include a wheeled frame, a pair of laterally spaced sidewalls on the frame, a front conveyor positioned between the pair of laterally spaced sidewalls, a forward projecting digger blade positioned forward of the front conveyor, and an agitator for separating residual soil from uprooted guayule shrubs. Processes for harvesting guayule shrubs using the harvester to uproot the guayule shrubs.
US11818981B2
In an embodiment, a method comprises determining, in received yield data, one or more passes, each pass including a plurality of observations. For each pass of the one or more passes, one or more discrete derivatives are determined, and based on the one or more discrete derivatives first outlier data is generated. First filtered data is generated by removing the first outlier data from the yield data. Furthermore, for each observation in the yield data, a plurality of nearest neighbor observations is determined, and used to determine a plurality of absolute differences in yield values. Based on the plurality of absolute differences, second outlier data is determined. Second filtered data is generated by removing the second outlier data from the first filtered data. Using a presentation layer of a computer system, a graphical representation of the second filtered data is generated and displayed on the computing system.
US11818978B2
Planting apparatus includes: (i) a housing that defines: a primary guide; and first and second opposed branch guides extending laterally from the primary guide; (ii) a first runner slidably secured to, and movable along the primary guide; (iii) a second runner securable to, and movable along a first branch guide; and (iv) a third runner securable to, and movable along a second branch guide. The first, second and third runners are configured such that: the second runner is receivable from the first branch guide on to the first runner; and the third runner is receivable from the second branch guide on to the first runner. Actuators move: (i) the second runner along the first branch guide and on to the first runner; (ii) the third runner along the second branch guide and on to the first runner; and (iii) the first runner, together with either of the second or third runners received thereon, along the primary guide.
US11825755B2
The present invention relates to a non-volatile memory device and a method of fabricating the same. The non-volatile memory device according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a first electrode; a second electrode; a first oxide layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and having a reversible filament formed therein; and an oxygen reservoir layer disposed between the first oxide layer and the second electrode, and absorbing oxygens of the first oxide layer to form oxygen vacancy constituting the reversible filament in the first oxide layer. The concentration of the oxygen vacancy may increase from the first oxide layer toward the oxygen reservoir layer.
US11825752B2
The present disclosure discloses a device and a method for fabricating a superconducting circuit including a superconducting qubit. The superconducting circuit comprises a bottom electrode interconnecting a superconducting qubit and a first part of the superconducting circuit. The bottom electrode comprises a bottom electrode of the superconducting qubit and a bottom electrode of the first part of the superconducting circuit. The bottom electrode of the superconducting qubit and the bottom electrode of the first part of the superconducting circuit are formed in a first superconducting layer.
US11825751B2
A manufacturing method of a memory device includes the following steps. Memory units are formed on a substrate. Each of the memory units includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a memory material layer. The second electrode is disposed above the first electrode in a vertical direction. The memory material layer is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode in the vertical direction. A conformal spacer layer is formed on the memory units. A non-conformal spacer layer is formed on the conformal spacer layer. A first opening is formed penetrating through a sidewall portion of the non-conformal spacer layer and a sidewall portion of the conformal spacer layer in the vertical direction.
US11825745B2
A thermoelectric element can comprise a thermoelectric body and a multi-layer contact structure. The multi-layer contact structure can contain a first metal layer overlying a surface of the thermoelectric body and a second metal layer directly overlying the first metal layer, wherein the first metal layer and the second metal layer include the same metal, and the first metal layer has a different phase than the second metal layer.
US11825743B2
An organic molecule is disclosed comprising: a first chemical unit having a structure according to Formula I and two second chemical units, which are respectively the same or different in each occurrence, and have a structure according to Formula II, wherein, in each case, the first chemical unit is connected to the two second chemical units via a single bond.
US11825740B2
An organic light-emitting device and an amine compound, the organic light-emitting device including a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode and including an emission layer, wherein the organic layer includes at least one amine compound represented by Formula 1:
US11825739B2
Provided is a boron-containing compound suitable for the material of a blue light-emitting diode and an organic light-emitting diode using the same. The boron-containing compound has a structure represented by the formula (1): X is each independently —NR1—, —CR2R3—, —O— or —S—. In the —NR1— and —CR2R3—, R1 to R3 are each independently hydrogen, deuterium, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or an aryl group having 5 to 30 core atoms, and R2 and R3 may connect with each other to form a ring. Cy1 is an aryl group having 5 to 30 core atoms. All or part of hydrogen atoms in the formula (1) may be substituted by deuterium, a halogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an aryl group having 5 to 30 core atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted silyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted amino group, or cyano group.
US11825738B2
An organic light-emitting diode device and a display panel are provided. The display panel includes the organic light-emitting diode device. The organic light-emitting diode device includes a light-emitting material layer. The light-emitting material layer includes a red light-emitting unit, a green light-emitting unit, and a blue light-emitting unit; wherein the blue light-emitting unit includes a blue light-emitting layer and a charge connecting layer arranged in a stack.
US11825737B2
An organometallic compound represented by Formula 1: wherein, in Formula 1, groups and variables are the same as described in the specification. Organometallic compounds represented by Formula 1 may be suitable for use in an organic layer of an organic light emitting device.
US11825731B2
A display device including a display panel having a folding area and a bending area, a support member disposed on a bottom surface of the display panel and including a plurality of openings formed in the folding area, an elastic member disposed on a bottom surface of the support member and overlapping the openings in the folding area, and a first adhesive member disposed between the support member and the elastic member.
US11825729B2
Provided is a terminal device, including a photosensitive element, a display panel provided with a light-transmitting region, and a circuit board disposed between the photosensitive element and the display panel and being provided with a light-transmitting hole. The light-transmitting region is a region where light is able to pass through the display panel. The light-transmitting hole is disposed between the photosensitive element and the light-transmitting region of the display panel in a direction perpendicular to a light-exiting surface of the display panel.
US11825719B2
A light emitting display device comprises a subpixel having a light emitting element disposed in a light emission area on a substrate and a circuit area in which a circuit for driving the light emitting element is disposed, a gate line disposed in the circuit area in a first direction, and at least one power line disposed in a second direction crossing the first direction, the at least one power line including a first power bridge line and a second power bridge line which are spaced apart from each other in the first direction.
US11825713B2
According to one embodiment, a display device comprises a flexible substrate, a first insulating film disposed on the flexible substrate, a switching element disposed on the first insulating film, a signal wiring electrically connected with the switching element, a first organic film disposed on the signal wiring, a connection wiring disposed on the first organic film, a second organic film disposed on the connection wiring and a pad electrode disposed on the second organic film. The connection wiring is located between the first organic film and the second organic film and is in contact with the first organic film and the second organic film.
US11825710B2
A display device according to an embodiment includes a substrate including a display area, a first peripheral area disposed outside the display area, and a second peripheral area disposed between the display area and the first peripheral area; a common voltage supply line disposed on the first peripheral area and the second peripheral area of the substrate; and a common electrode electrically connected to the common voltage supply line, wherein the common voltage supply line includes a first opening disposed in the first peripheral area; and a second opening disposed in the second peripheral area, and the first opening and the second opening are different in size or arrangement.
US11825709B2
A display device including a transmission area, a display area at least partially surrounding the transmission area, and a non-display area between the transmission area and the display area, in which the display device includes a driving voltage line extending in a first direction and arranged in the display area, a data line extending in the first direction and arranged in the display area, an auxiliary data line connected to the data line and extending along an edge of the transmission area in the non-display area, and a conductive pattern arranged in the non-display area and connected to the driving voltage line.
US11825698B2
A display substrate is described that comprises: a display area, a retaining wall surrounding the display area, and a thin film encapsulation layer comprising a first inorganic barrier layer, an organic barrier layer, and a second inorganic barrier layer. The display area has a corner portion being a portion of the display area surrounded by the retaining wall. Convex dams are provided at a position on the substrate corresponding to the corner portion. A portion of the first inorganic barrier layer corresponding to the corner portion covers the convex dams, and a portion of the first inorganic barrier layer between the two adjacent convex dams forms a diversion trench. The organic barrier layer comprises cured organic material, and the organic material is provided on the portion of the first inorganic barrier layer at the corner portion under a capillary action of the diversion trench before curing.
US11825693B2
A transparent display device includes a substrate on which a pixel including an emission area and a first transparent area is defined, and a light-emitting diode provided in the emission area and including a first electrode, a light-emitting layer, and a second electrode. The transparent display device further includes an anti-deposition layer provided in the first transparent area. The height of the light-emitting layer at an edge area of the emission area is higher than the height of the light-emitting layer at a center area of the emission area. Further, the second electrode is disposed over the entire surface excluding the first transparent area, and the height of the anti-deposition layer at an edge area of the first transparent area is higher than the height of the anti-deposition layer at a center area of the first transparent area.
US11825691B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a display panel and a fabricating method thereof. In the solution, on one hand, water-absorbing magnetic nanoparticles in a packaging layer are distributed along a direction perpendicular to the cover plate at a side far away from an OLED component, or distributed along an extension direction of the packaging layer at a periphery of a region in which the OLED component is located, thus reducing the damage to the OLED component of a display substrate. On the other hand, since the water-absorbing magnetic nanoparticles have magnetic property, the water-absorbing magnetic nanoparticles can be doped in the packaging layer material in a packaging and waterproofing process, and a magnetic field is applied to induce the magnetic nanoparticles to move to the side far away from the OLED component or to the periphery of the region in which the OLED component is located.
US11825685B2
A display device includes a first layer having a display area including pixels and a non-display area surrounding the display area; a second layer disposed on the first layer and including an intermediate inorganic film and an intermediate organic film; a third layer disposed on the second layer and including display elements; a first dam structure disposed outside an edge of the intermediate organic film and extending along the edge of the intermediate organic film; a fourth layer including first and second encapsulation inorganic films; a fifth layer in disposed on the fourth layer; a sixth layer disposed on the fifth layer and including a light blocking layer, a plurality of color filters, and a seventh layer covering the light blocking layer and the plurality of color filters; and a second dam structure disposed on the non-display area and defining a boundary of the seventh layer.
US11825684B2
A display panel includes: a substrate including a front display area, where a first display element is in the front display area, a first side display area connected in a first direction to the front display area, a second side display area connected in a second direction to the front display area, a corner display area between the first side display area and the second side display area, where a second display element is in the corner display area, an intermediate display area located between the front display area and the corner display area, where a third display element is in the intermediate display area, and a groove is defined on the substrate; and an inorganic pattern layer on opposing sides of the groove and including a pair of protruding tips protruding toward a center of the groove, where the groove is between the second and third display elements.
US11825680B2
An electronic device may have a hinge that allows the device to be flexed about a bend axis. A display may span the bend axis. To facilitate bending about the bend axis, the display may have layers such as a display cover layer with grooves or other recesses. The recesses form a flexible portion in the display layer. The display layer may be formed from glass or other materials that are transparent. Elastomeric material, fluids, and other materials may be placed in the recesses in the display layer. The material in the display layer may have an index of refraction that is matched to the index of refraction of the display layer. A hinge may be formed between rigid planar layers that are separated by a gap. Flexible layers that lie flush with opposing surfaces of the rigid planar layers may be used to span the gap.
US11825666B2
An imaging element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first electrode including a plurality of electrodes; a second electrode opposed to the first electrode; a photoelectric conversion layer including an organic material provided between the first electrode and the second electrode; a first semiconductor layer provided between the first electrode and the photoelectric conversion layer, and including an n-type semiconductor material; and a second semiconductor layer provided between the second electrode and the photoelectric conversion layer, and including at least one of a carbon-containing compound having an electron affinity larger than a work function of the first electrode or an inorganic compound having a work function larger than the work function of the first electrode.
US11825663B2
A nonvolatile memory device is provided, the device comprising a ferroelectric memory capacitor arranged over a first active region contact of a first transistor and a gate contact of a second transistor, whereby the ferroelectric memory capacitor at least partially overlaps a gate of the first transistor.
US11825660B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, an electrode stack disposed on the substrate, the electrode stack including an interlayer insulation layer and a gate electrode structure that are alternately stacked in a direction perpendicular to the substrate, a trench penetrating the electrode stack to expose sidewall surfaces of the interlayer insulation layer and the gate electrode structure, a gate dielectric layer disposed along a sidewall surface of the trench, the gate dielectric layer including a ferroelectric portion and a non-ferroelectric portion, and a channel layer disposed to adjacent to the gate dielectric layer. The ferroelectric portion is in contact with the gate electrode structure, and the non-ferroelectric portion is in contact with the interlayer insulation layer.
US11825636B2
An electronic rack includes condensing, coolant distribution, and server regions. The condensing region includes a condensing container housing condensing coils and a coolant container to contain two phase coolant. The coolant distribution region includes a set of rack manifolds having at least a rack liquid supply line to receive coolant from the coolant distribution region, and a vapor line to return vapor to the coolant distribution region, a liquid return line. The server region is coupled to the condensing region and the coolant distribution region, the server region includes a number of server slots to receive a number of servers, where each of the servers is at least partially submerged within two phase liquid coolant, where, when the servers operate, the servers generate heat that is extracted by the two phase liquid coolant thereby causing at least some of the two phase liquid coolant to turn into a vapor.
US11825634B2
A cooling unit includes a unit inlet and open-loop, and closed-loop outlets. A fluid bypass line is fluidly coupled to the unit inlet and to the open-loop and closed-loop outlets. A main cooling loop is fluidly coupled to the fluid bypass line includes a heat exchanger having an inlet and an outlet. The inlet of the heat exchanger is fluidly coupled by a supply line to the fluid bypass line, and the outlet of the heat exchanger is coupled by a return line to the fluid bypass line. A pump is fluidly coupled in the return line and a two-way line is fluidly coupled to the bypass line and to the return line upstream of the pump. Different system loop designs and operation modes are configured by adjusting three way valves and bidirectional loops.
US11825619B2
A display device comprising a flexible display panel, a panel roller, a frame, a first foldable link comprising one end pivotably coupled to the frame and another end pivotably coupled to a lower side of the flexible display panel, a second foldable link having one end pivotably coupled to the frame and the other end pivotably coupled adjacent to the lower side of the flexible display panel, wherein the second foldable link is located opposite to the first foldable link, a motor, a first gear box and comprising at least one gear configured to cause the first foldable link to pivot, a second gear and comprising at least one gear configured to pivot with respect to the second foldable link, and a driving shaft configured to transmit power to at least one gear of the first gear box or to the at least one gear of the second gear box.
US11825618B2
An exterior display system can be configured and arranged around a structure. The exterior display system includes a mechanical supporting structure configured and arranged about the exterior surface of the structure. This mechanical supporting structure can include various supporting structures and/or mounting structures which are configured and arranged to form a mechanical lattice framework. An electronic visual display device can be connected to the mechanical lattice framework to form the exterior display system. The electronic visual display device can include multiple electronic visual display panels which are connected to the mechanical lattice framework. Each of these multiple electronic visual display panels can include multiple groups of multiple light-emitting diodes (LEDs), also referred to electronic LED disc assemblies, that are configured and arranged in a series of one or more rows and/or a series of one or more columns.
US11825616B2
A drawn portion having a shape protruding from a side face to a space inside a housing is provided at an end to which a rear surface cover is fastened of the side face. On a side to which the rear surface cover is fastened of the drawn portion, a bent portion having a shape bent toward a space outside the housing is provided. A screw receiving portion including a screw hole includes a first receiving surface, which is a flat surface portion on an end of the bent portion, and a second receiving surface having a shape protruding from a base of the bent portion.
US11825614B2
A housing is provided, the housing includes a housing substrate and at least one double-sided composite texture film located on one side of an inner surface of the housing substrate. The double-sided composite texture film includes a first substrate, a first texture layer located on a first surface of the first substrate, and a second texture layer located on a second surface of the first substrate. The first surface of the first substrate is close to the housing substrate, and the second surface is away from the housing substrate. The first texture layer has a first texture pattern that includes a plurality of grooves and a plurality of bosses. The second texture layer has a second texture pattern that includes a plurality of grooves and a plurality of bosses.
US11825613B2
A method includes preparing a substrate including a display area and a non-display area disposed adjacent to the display area, forming first panel magnetic patterns overlapping the non-display area and extending in a first direction on the substrate, forming first film magnetic patterns extending in the first direction on a film, inputting a first magnetism to the first panel magnetic patterns so that the first panel magnetic patterns have a first magnetic property, inputting a second magnetism to the first film magnetic patterns so that the first film magnetic patterns have a second magnetic property, and aligning the film on the substrate so that the first film magnetic patterns overlap the first panel magnetic patterns in a plan view.
US11825606B2
A surface mounted technology (SMT) process prediction tool for intelligent decision making on PCB quality is disclosed. A data fusion tool automatically reads size parameters and component information on design conditions of a printed board to be assembled from a database and creates a design condition list for different components for a software execution layer; a printing parameter decision-making toolkit and a soldering parameter decision-making toolkit in the software execution layer perform comparisons on printing and soldering data according to design conditions of components on the printed board to be assembled, perform automatic decision making on printing and soldering parameters with a multi-objective optimization algorithm and a deep learning algorithm, predict printing quality and soldering quality, and send decided printing and soldering process parameters and corresponding predicted quality results to a human-computer interaction toolkit, to visually display the printing and soldering process parameters and the predicted quality values.
US11825605B2
One aspect of the invention provides an interconnect between a stretchable electronic element and a circuit on a rigid or flexible printed circuit board (PCB Circuit), the stretchable electronic element is operable to be mechanically coupled to a substrate which deforms, and the stretchable electronic element will deform with the substrate and may or may not change an electrical characteristic as a result, the stretchable electronic element comprising one or more electrical pathways; the PCB Circuit configured to communicate electronically with the stretchable electronic element and comprising at least one circuit board extending from the stretchable electronic element to an electrical circuit on the PCB Circuit; wherein the interconnect comprises an electrical coupling between the electrical pathways of the stretchable electronic element and the PCB Circuit; and wherein the interconnect simultaneously prevents the connection between the stretchable electronic element from failing when the stretchable substrate is stretched in normal operation, minimizes the bulk of support material required to support the interconnect, and minimizes any reduction in the stretch capabilities of the stretchable substrate.
US11825599B2
The present invention relates to an electrical device including a printed circuit board (PCB) accommodated in a case, and more particularly, to an air-pocket prevention PCB, an air-pocket prevention PCB module, an electrical device including the same, and a manufacturing method of an electrical device including the same with improved fluidity of a resin material so that air pockets that may occur when the case is filled with the resin material are easily discharged and the resin material may be evenly filled inside the case.
US11825598B2
A wiring circuit board includes an alignment mark layer. The alignment mark layer includes a first alignment mark and a second alignment mark. The condition A or the condition B is satisfied. Condition A: The first alignment mark has a first portion (a first starting point portion or a first center of gravity portion). The second alignment mark has a second portion (a second starting point portion or a second center of gravity portion). Condition B: The first alignment mark has the first portion, and the second alignment mark does not have the second portion, or the first alignment mark does not have the first portion, and the second alignment mark does not have the second portion.
US11825590B2
A drift tube may include a middle portion, arranged as a hollow cylinder, and coupled to receive an RF voltage signal. The drift tube may include a first end portion, adjacent to and electrically connected to the middle portion. The middle portion and the first end portion may define a central opening to conduct an ion beam therethrough, along a direction of beam propagation. The first end portion may include a first focus assembly, and a second focus assembly, where the first focus assembly and the second focus assembly are movable with respect to one another along the direction of beam propagation, from a first configuration to a second configuration.
US11825587B2
A viewing panel (30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80) for a domestic appliance includes a substrate (33, 43, 53, 63, 73, 83) and a conductive layer (35, 45, 55, 65, 75, 85) disposed on the substrate; the conductive layer having conductive lines (31, 41, 51, 61, 71, 81) forming a pattern. The substrate contains a polymeric material; the conductive lines have a height (H) of 0.5 micrometers to 10 micrometers determined by an Olympus MX61 microscope; and the pattern has an average pore area of 0.008 square millimeters to 0.06 square millimeters determined by an Olympus MX61 microscope. The viewing panel has: a total transmission of greater than 70% of light having a wavelength in the range of 360 nanometers to 750 nanometers; and an electromagnetic shielding efficiency of greater than 30 dB at 2.45 GHz.
US11825585B2
The present invention relates to a method for controlling a cooking zone (16) of an induction cooking hob, wherein said cooking zone (16) comprises at least one induction coil (16) and is supplied by a generator (14) including a power switch. The method is performed by controlling the power switch by a gate driving signal (18) including a deactivation pulse length (Toff) and an activation pulse length (Ton). A switching period (T) of the gate driving signal (18) is given by the sum of the activation pulse length (Ton) and deactivation pulse length (Toff). A driving frequency (f) of the power switch is the reciprocal value of said switching period (T). The deactivation pulse length (Toff) depends on the resistance (28) and the inductance (30) of the induction coil (16). The activation pulse length (Ton) is varied according to a requested power for the cooking zone (16). A series of constant activation pulse length (Ton) is activated in order to determine the optimal deactivation pulse length (Toff).
US11825583B1
Methods and systems for the management of the electric lighting circuits are disclosed. The method includes monitoring one or more lighting circuits connected to a controller through one or more sensors. The one or more sensors are connected to the one or more lighting circuits and the controller. Further, the method includes detecting a change in current of a lighting circuit of the one or more lighting circuits. Furthermore, the method includes determining an anomaly in the lighting circuit based on the detected change in current of the lighting circuit. Thereafter, the method includes transmitting a report including at least the anomaly to a server for verification of the anomaly, in response to the determination.
US11825576B1
An LED illuminating device without using a capacitor includes a surge absorber group, a three-phase rectifier bridge module, an LED chip group and a current-limiting chip group. The surge absorber group includes a first surge absorber electrically connected between the first and the second AC power input terminal, and a second surge absorber electrically connected between the second and the third AC power input terminal, and a third surge absorber electrically connected between the third and the first AC power input terminal. The three-phase rectifier bridge module is electrically connected to the first, the second and the third AC power input terminal. The LED chip group is electrically connected to the three-phase rectifier bridge module. The current-limiting chip group is electrically connected to the bridge rectifier group. The LED illuminating device can generate a lighting source through a three-phase power provided by a three-phase power supply.
US11825574B2
Systems, methods, and modes for commissioning of a building control system comprising a plurality of electronic devices installed in a building each adapted to communicate over a communication network and comprising at least one light source adapted to emit light of a plurality of colors. The system comprises at least one controller in communication with the plurality of electronic devices over the communication network, wherein the at least one controller is adapted to iteratively select one or more of the plurality of electronic devices to commission, command the selected electronic devices to emit a plurality of different assigned colors, and receive an identification of at least one illuminated color of an electronic device to be commissioned until the electronic device to be commissioned is identified.
US11825570B2
An embodiment of the disclosure provides a heater package including a substrate, a first barrier layer, at least one heater, and a second barrier layer. The first barrier layer is disposed on a surface of the substrate and has a first treatment layer on a side away from the substrate. The heater is disposed on the substrate and includes a heating layer and at least one electrode. The at least one electrode and the heating layer contact with each other. The second barrier layer covers an upper surface and a sidewall of the heater and has a second treatment layer on an opposite side or the side away from the substrate. A ratio of a thickness of the first treatment layer to a thickness of the first barrier layer and a ratio of a thickness of the second treatment layer to a thickness of the second barrier layer range from 0.03 to 0.2.
US11825565B2
An electronic vaporizer including a heating element for heating a fluid to produce a vapor; a power source to provide electrical power to the heating element for heating the fluid; and a power control circuit configured to regulate a supply of electrical power from the power source to the heating element based at least in part on an operating temperature of the heating element and a temperature setting to prevent the operating temperature of the heating element from exceeding the temperature setting.
US11825564B2
The disclosure proposes a resource determination method performed by a communication node in a wireless communication system and a communication node using the method. The method may be a method performed for an IAB system.
US11825562B2
A communication device may execute a specific wireless communication of object data via a first wireless network with a mobile device using a second type of interface after executing a specific process of sending a first wireless setting for causing the mobile device to belong to the first wireless network using a first type of interface in a first case where the communication device operates in a first state which is a parent station state or a child station state in the first wireless network and execute the specific wireless communication of the object data with the mobile device using the second type of interface after executing another process different from the specific process in a second case where the communication device operates in a second state which is different from the first state.
US11825548B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). Embodiments herein provide a method, an MSGin5G server, and non-MSGin5G gateway for providing messaging service in 5th generation system. The provided method provides a TRF which can assist the MSGin5G server to determine a transport service(s), a GWSF which can assist the MSGin5G server to determine appropriate gateway for the determined transport service(s). Further, the provided method includes a TF to translate the MSGin5G message to a legacy 3GPP message format or a non-3GPP message format.
US11825539B2
A BLUETOOTH connection method includes an electronic device establishing basic rate (BR)/enhanced data rate (EDR) connection to an accessory device. The electronic device determines that the electronic device supports a dual-mode connection and that the accessory device also supports the dual-mode connection. The dual-mode connection includes the BR/EDR connection and a BLUETOOTH Low Energy (BLE) connection. The electronic device disconnects the BR/EDR connection to the accessory device, and establishes the BLE connection to the accessory device.
US11825538B2
In a radio communication system, a split bearer that passes from a core network to a secondary cell group and branches from gNB 100B included in the secondary cell group to eNB 100A included in a master cell group is set, and data is transmitted to a user equipment via thus set split bearer. The gNB 100B transmits, to the eNB 100A, Use of SCG Radio Resource that indicates whether to configure a split bearer that uses a radio resource between the user equipment and the gNB 100B. The eNB 100A sets the split bearer based on the received Use of SCG Radio Resource.
US11825536B2
Systems and methods described herein use pairing to associate a wireless sensor with a patient monitoring device such as a bedside patient monitor or a mobile device. A signal emitted by a patient monitoring device can be detected by a wireless sensor. The wireless sensor can be associated with the detected signal and pair the wireless sensor with the patient monitoring device. The wireless sensor can be configured to enter into a patient parameter sensing mode of operation after the association of the wireless sensor with the patient monitoring device.
US11825534B2
An Access Gateway Function (AGF) node can receive requests to join a multicast stream from a computing device. If the request is the first request to join the multicast stream, the AGF can forward the request to the UPF node. The multicast stream is then received via a tunnel between the AGF node and UPF node that is associated with the computing device. The tunnel associated with the first computing device to request joining the multicast stream can be a primary tunnel for the multicast stream. Subsequent requests to join the same multicast stream can cause the AGF node add tunnels associated with the requesting computing devices as secondary tunnels. The multicast stream is received via the primary tunnel and replicated to computing devices associated with the secondary tunnels. A secondary tunnel may be promoted to a primary tunnel in response to a failure or disconnection of the primary tunnel.
US11825526B2
The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for providing devices access to wireless base stations. An exemplary method embodiment includes the steps of: receiving over the air at a wireless base station a plurality of random access preamble signals from a plurality of devices; and determining, by the wireless base station, the order in which to respond to the received random access preamble signals based on an access priority list. The access priority list being determined based on customer premises equipment devices characteristics, attributes and/or properties.
US11825520B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for random access channel (RACH) occasion assignment. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a base station (BS), a plurality of synchronization signal blocks (SSBs), each SSB associated with a different transmit beam of the BS. The method further includes transmitting a random-access preamble on a first RACH occasion associated with a first SSB of the plurality of SSBs, wherein the first RACH occasion is one of a plurality of RACH occasions associated with the plurality of SSBs, wherein the first SSB is associated with a first number of the plurality of RACH occasions and a second SSB of the plurality of SSBs is associated with a second number of the plurality of RACH occasions, wherein the first number is different than the second number.
US11825511B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine that multiple physical uplink channels scheduled for the UE overlap. The multiple physical uplink channels may include a first physical uplink channel and a second physical uplink channel that are associated with different priority levels. The UE may transmit at least one of the first physical uplink channel or the second physical uplink channel according to a prioritization or a multiplexing of the first physical uplink channel and the second physical uplink channel. The prioritization or the multiplexing is based at least in part on whether the UE is enabled to perform simultaneous physical uplink control channel and physical uplink shared channel transmissions. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11825507B2
An apparatus and a method for performing vehicle to everything (V2X) communication are provided. A method for performing the V2X communication of a user equipment includes receiving a network configuration of a plurality of configured grant-free (GF) resources within a network scheduled sidelink resource from a base station, and performing the V2X communication using the configured GF resources.
US11825504B2
A wireless device receives a downlink control information (DCI) indicating uplink resources in scheduled consecutive subframes of an unlicensed cell. The DCI comprises: a first field and a second field. The first field indicates a number of the scheduled consecutive subframes for transmission of transport blocks (TBs) by the wireless device. The second field indicates which subframe, of the scheduled consecutive subframes, is for transmission of a sounding reference signal (SRS). The SRS is transmitted in the subframe of the unlicensed cell.
US11825492B2
Aspects of the disclosure further provide an apparatus and a method for wireless communication. The apparatus includes processing circuitry that receives, from a base station (BS), a downlink (DL) grant scheduling an uplink (UL) transmission to the BS. The DL grant indicates a first type of channel access procedure for the UL transmission. The processing circuitry further receives channel occupancy information for a channel occupancy that is initiated by the BS. The processing circuitry switches, from the first type of channel access procedure, to a second type of channel access procedure for the UL transmission according to the first type of channel access procedure and the channel occupancy information.
US11825483B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a transmitter user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a receiver UE, a stage one sidelink control information (SCI) message that indicates one or more sub-channels occupied by the transmitter UE. The transmitter UE may transmit, to the receiver UE, a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) using the one or more sub-channels occupied by the transmitter UE according to a configured grant associated with the transmitter UE. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11825477B2
Provided is a base station capable of suppressing increase of overhead of allocation result report in frequency scheduling in multi-carrier communication and obtaining a sufficient frequency diversity effect. In the base station, encoding units (101-1 to 101-n) encode data (#1 to #n) to mobile stations (#1 to #n), modulation units (102-1 to 102-n) modulate the encoded data so as to generate a data symbol, a scheduler (103) performs frequency scheduling according to a CQI from each mobile station so as to uniformly allocate data to the respective mobile stations for a part of RB extracted from a plurality of RB, and an SCCH generation unit (105) generates control information (SCCH information) to report the allocation result in the scheduler (103) to the respective mobile stations.
US11825468B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques provide for a user equipment (UE) receiving a first transmission scheduling resources for a second transmission having a first priority. The UE may determine that one or more symbols of the second transmission are to be unused due to receipt of a cancellation indication or due to identifying a conflict, for example, with higher priority resources. Based on determining that the symbols are to be unused, the UE may determine that the base station will not reschedule the unused resources for another transmission, for example, having the first priority. The UE and the base station may communicate based on the determination.
US11825454B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described that provide for reduced timing between certain downlink communications and responsive uplink communications relative to certain legacy systems (e.g., legacy LTE systems). A user equipment (UE) or base station may be capable of operating using two or more timing configurations that each include an associated time period between receipt of a downlink communication (e.g., a grant of uplink resources or shared channel data) and a responsive uplink communication (e.g., an uplink transmission using the granted uplink resources or feedback of successful reception of the shared channel data). In cases where a UE or base station are capable of two or more timing configurations, a timing configuration for a transmission may be determined and the responsive uplink communication transmitted according to the determined timing configuration.
US11825451B2
Provided in an embodiment of the present disclosure are a sidelink transmission method and a terminal. The sidelink transmission method includes receiving SCI through a PSCCH of a sidelink. The SCI includes an information field, and the information field is used to indicate physical layer information of the sidelink.
US11825448B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for prioritization of sidelink communications of a user equipment (UE) with one or more access link communications. A prioritization scheme may provide inter-UE and intra-UE prioritization that may be used to prioritize sidelink communications and one or more access link communications. Inter-UE prioritization may be used at the UE to determine whether to cancel all or a portion of a sidelink communication that uses resources indicated in a cancellation indication from a base station, or to transmit the sidelink communication irrespective of the cancellation indication. Intra-UE prioritization may be used at the UE to determine which of one or more access link communications or a sidelink communication is to be maintained or canceled in the event of overlapping resources between the access link and sidelink communications.
US11825445B2
A method and apparatus for group paging in a wireless communication system is provided. A wireless device acquires a specific paging subgroup identifier (ID) related to the wireless device. A wireless device joins a multicast session. A wireless device receives, from a network, a paging early indication (PEI) which does not include the specific paging subgroup ID. A wireless device monitors a paging occasion associated with the PEI, to receive an activation notification for the multicast session.
US11825444B2
Methods and apparatuses are described herein for paging procedures in wireless systems. For example, a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) may monitor one or more physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) for paging resources associated with a first subset of synchronization signal (SS) blocks that corresponds to a first beam tracking area (BTA). On a condition that at least one measurement of at least one beam associated with the first subset of SS blocks is less than a predetermined threshold, the WTRU may transmit, to a base station (BS), a signal indicating a second BTA that is associated with a second subset of SS blocks. The signal includes a physical random access channel (PRACH) resource associated with a second group of SS blocks that corresponds to the second BTA.
US11825443B2
A method for a terminal receiving a signal in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, may comprise: receiving a specific signal giving an early indication of whether paging DCI will be provided in a PO configured for a paging operation in an idle mode or deactivation mode; and, on the basis of the specific signal, determining whether to skip a paging DCI detection procedure, wherein the specific signal may be a PDCCH signal carrying specific DCI configured for the idle mode or deactivation mode, and even if the specific DCI indicates that the paging DCI will be provided in at least one PO, on the basis that the specific DCI may be connected to a plurality of POs, a terminal may decide to skip the paging DCI detection procedure if the at least one PO in which the paging DCI is provided is not configured in the terminal.
US11825439B2
Disclosed are techniques for training a position estimation module. In an aspect, a first network entity obtains a plurality of positioning measurements, obtains a plurality of positions of one or more user equipments (UEs), the plurality of positions determined based on the plurality of positioning measurements, stores the plurality of positioning measurements as a plurality of features and the plurality of positions as a plurality of labels corresponding to the plurality of features, and trains the position estimation module with the plurality of features and the plurality of labels to determine a position of a UE from positioning measurements taken by the UE.
US11825438B2
A positioning signal processing method at a user equipment includes: operating the user equipment in a discontinuous reception mode including time interleaved ON times of the discontinuous reception mode, during which the user equipment is in an active mode monitoring for a positioning signal measurement trigger signal, and OFF times of the discontinuous reception mode, during which the user equipment is in an inactive mode; receiving a wake-up signal at the user equipment; and determining, at the user equipment, whether to measure a positioning signal based on whether the wake-up signal indicates to implement the active mode during a scheduled discontinuous reception mode ON time or to skip the scheduled discontinuous reception mode ON time.
US11825433B2
The present disclosure describes devices, systems, and methods for synchronizing multiple-input/multiple-output (“MIMO”) signals or other signals in telecommunication systems. Some aspects may involve transmitting signals between a head-end unit and remote units of a telecommunication system. A first delay of a signal path between the head-end unit and a first remote unit of the remote units may be determined to be greater than each delay of signal paths between the head-end unit and other remote units. Based on the first delay, the telecommunication system may be configured to delay transmission of additional signals such that the additional signals are simultaneously transmitted to another unit by either the head-end unit or the remote units.
US11825426B2
A radio communication apparatus is provided, which includes a receiver and a controller. The receiver, in operation, receives a first power headroom (PHR), which is obtained by subtracting a transmit power for a data channel from a maximum transmit power at a mobile station and which is transmitted from the mobile station, and receives a second PHR, which is obtained by subtracting the transmit power for the data channel and a transmit power for a control channel from the maximum transmit power at the mobile station and which is transmitted from the mobile station. The controller, in operation, selectively sets a simultaneous transmission of the data channel and the control channel in different frequency bands to be performed by the mobile station. When the data channel and the control channel are simultaneously transmitted in different frequency bands from the mobile station, the second PHR is obtained and transmitted from the mobile station.
US11825423B2
Some disclosed devices include an inertial sensor system, a proximity sensor system, an antenna system configured to transmit and receive radio signals and a control system. The control system may be configured for receiving inertial sensor data from the inertial sensor system and controlling the proximity sensor system and/or the antenna system based, at least in part, on the inertial sensor data. In some examples, the control system may be configured for controlling the proximity sensor system and/or the antenna system based, at least in part, on whether the inertial sensor data indicates that the device is being held, is being carried or is on a person's body (e.g., is in the person's pocket).
US11825418B2
Technology for a Next Generation NodeB (gNB) operable to encode a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource indicator field length for transmission to a user equipment (UE) for enhanced Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC) (eURLLC) is disclosed. The gNB can determine the PUCCH resource indicator field length that indicates a length of a PUCCH resource indicator field, wherein the PUCCH resource indicator field length is related to transmission of a number of PUCCH symbols for eURLLC. The gNB can encode the PUCCH resource indicator field length for transmission in downlink control information (DCI) to the UE.
US11825415B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE). The UE starts a first timer (such as a discontinuous reception (DRX) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) round-trip-time (RTT) timer), after sending an uplink (UL) data transmission to a network entity. The UE then starts a second timer (such as a DRX retransmission timer) when the first timer expires. The UE then determines whether to wake up or sleep for a duration of the second timer based on a prior block error rate (BLER).
US11825414B2
This disclosure describes methods, apparatuses, and wireless stations related to waking up low power radios. In particular, a wireless station is disclosed that may identify a first management frame from a first wireless station a first management frame from a first wireless station. The wireless station may cause to allocate one or more group identifications (IDs) to the first wireless station. The wireless station may cause to generate a bitmap corresponding to the allocation of the one or more group IDs to the first wireless station. The wireless station may cause to send a second management frame to the first wireless station of one or more wireless stations, wherein the second management frame comprises the bitmap.
US11825401B2
Example systems, methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for wirelessly modifying detection characteristics of portable devices are disclosed herein. Example portable devices include example radio circuitry and example processor circuitry. In disclosed examples, the example processor circuitry is to cause the radio circuitry to scan for radio frequency beacons. The example processor circuitry is also to trigger activation of audio monitoring via a microphone of the portable device in response to establishment of a first connection with a first radio frequency beacon, the audio monitoring to at least one of detect an audio code or generate an audio signature. The example processor circuitry is further to cause the audio monitoring to stop in response to establishment of a second connection with a second radio frequency beacon different from the first radio frequency beacon.
US11825398B2
A communication system includes a central cloud server that gradually decreases a gain of a currently active path, which corresponds to a primary communication path between a radio access network (RAN) node and one or more user equipment (UEs) via a first set of edge devices of a plurality of edge devices, until the currently active path becomes dormant. The central cloud server then gradually increases a gain of a dormant path, which corresponds to a secondary communication path between the RAN node and the one or more UEs via a second set of edge devices of the plurality of edge devices, until the dormant path becomes a new active path. Further, the central cloud server periodically checks whether the new active path has a signal strength greater than a threshold in order to maintain a continuity in service to the one or more UEs for an uplink and downlink communication.
US11825397B2
Aspects of the present disclosure describe indicating per-packet quality of service (QoS) in communications by a wireless communications device. A packet from an application generated for a first radio access technology (RAT) can be obtained, where the packet includes a first QoS value associated with the first RAT, and/or the first QoS value can be mapped to a second QoS value associated with the second RAT. In another example, the QoS value can be indicated in the packet along with a reflective indicator indicating to use the QoS value in transmitting a response to the packet.
US11825393B2
The present image forming apparatus selects an appropriate connection method in accordance with circumstances from a plurality of connection methods when communication with an information processing apparatus is established by short-range wireless communication, and notifies information necessary for performing communication by the selected connection method to the information processing apparatus via short-range wireless communication.
US11825375B2
A method includes determining a device location of an electronic device, transmitting a request to a content source, the request including the device location of the electronic device, and receiving, from the content source in response to the request, a content item that is associated with display location information that describes a content position for the content item relative to a physical environment. The content item is selected by the content source based on the content position for the content item being within an area that is defined based on the device location. The method also includes displaying a representation of the content item as part of a computer-generated reality scene in which the representation of the content item is positioned relative to the physical environment according to the content position for the content item from the display location information for the content item.
US11825372B2
Network environment health monitoring is provided by receiving an alert indicating that a first station (STA) is experiencing a connection with a first Access Point (AP) below a quality threshold; identifying a set of APs connected to a shared network with the first AP within one hop of the first AP; aggregating signal metrics for the first STA from the first AP and each AP of the set of APs; identifying a cause for the connection performing below the quality threshold based on the signal metrics as aggregated; and performing a remediation strategy based on the cause as identified.
US11825369B2
A method for handover between base stations of an access system for access to a core network including interconnections in a tree structure having wireless links and a single wired link. The wired link connects only one of the base stations, known as a donor node, to the core network. The interconnections between the base stations are solely wireless links. The method includes: transmitting, by a source base station of the access system, to which a terminal is attached, a handover request to a target base station of the access system, the source and target base stations being interconnected via at least one base station known as a decision-making node, which is different from the donor node; intercepting the handover request by the decision-making node; transmitting, by the decision-making node, an agreement message to the source base station; and transmitting a handover trigger message to the target base station.
US11825368B2
A method for cell selection, a user equipment and a network side device are provided. The method includes: reading, by a UE, first system information of a first cell on a first frequency; in a case that the first system information of the first cell indicates that camping on the first cell is not allowed and an intra-frequency reselection is not allowed and in a case that a set condition is met, the UE not selecting, or not reselecting, or neither selecting nor reselecting a cell on the first frequency.
US11825363B2
A resource processing method, an apparatus, and a system are disclosed. The resource processing method comprises: receiving, by UE, first signaling from a base station, wherein the first signaling is used to instruct to deactivate a first cell that provides a service for the UE, or used to instruct the UE to switch from a source bandwidth part (BWP) to a target BWP; and processing, by a media access control (MAC) entity in the UE, a first target resource by using a first target processing manner, wherein the first target resource is a resource in the first cell or the source BWP.
US11825358B2
Provided is a method, performed by a user equipment (UE), of performing conditional handover, including: receiving measurement configuration information including list information including a plurality of measurement identifications (IDs) and report configuration information associated with the plurality of measurement IDs; performing measurement corresponding to the plurality of measurement IDs, based on the measurement configuration information; and performing conditional handover or reporting a measurement result, based on the measurement result and report configuration information associated with a measurement ID corresponding to the measurement result.
US11825355B1
A method for mitigating delay in availability of data in a communication network includes predicting an amount of data to egress a first communication device; modifying the predicted amount of data to egress the first communication device according to a data delay profile, to generate a first signal representing anticipated upcoming data transmission by the first communication device, where the data delay profile represents delay in availability of data at the first communication device; transmitting the first signal from the first communication device to the second communication device; generating one or more Grants at the second communication device at least partially in accordance with the first signal, each Grant authorizing the first communication device to transfer data via the network; and transmitting the one or more Grants from the second communication device to the first communication device.
US11825354B2
Systems, devices and methods, for customer specific network slicing include a virtual network operator (“VNO”) server, a first node, and a virtualized network. The VNO server instantiates a solution manager engine which identifies a Solution, communicates the Solution to the first node, and upon acceptance of the Solution by the first node, instructs the virtualized network to couple the first node with a second node in accordance with the Solution. The virtualized network may include network function virtualization infrastructure and the Solution may include a slice of the virtualized network. The slice satisfies a Service Level Requirement (SLR), such as one that specifies a maximum latency for the slice. The SLR is specified in a Need received by the VNO server from the first node. The SLR is determined based upon an application program the first Node is at least one of currently executing and expected to later execute.
US11825347B2
For switching between packet duplication operating modes, methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed. One apparatus includes a processor and a transceiver that communicates with a mobile communication network via a radio bearer. The processor determines whether PDCP packet duplication associated with the PDCP protocol entity is to be activated and, if so, communicates with a mobile communication network according to a packet duplication mode of operation. Otherwise, the processor determines whether a split threshold value of the PDCP protocol entity is set to a predefined value, communicates with the mobile communication network according to a first split bearer mode of operation in response to determining that the split threshold value is set to the predefined value, and communicates with the mobile communication network according to a second split bearer mode of operation in response to determining that the split threshold value is not set to the predefined value.
US11825329B1
Techniques for configuring a network system that includes a cellular network and a Wi-Fi network to support location-based resource allocation are discussed herein. To cover regions with weak cellular signal and/or with densely packed devices (e.g., a stadium during a football game), a network may use both cellular and Wi-Fi networks to provide coverage. In some examples, the system may configure a base station and a user device to enable automatic authentication of the user device to access a new Wi-Fi network. In response to a service request from the user device, the system may determine whether the Wi-Fi network can handle the service or switch a serving connection. The system may also determine whether the Wi-Fi network includes location-based applications that should be rendered at the user device.
US11825327B2
An apparatus is provided which comprises at least one processor, at least one memory including computer program code, and the at least one processor, with the at least one memory and the computer program code, being arranged to cause the apparatus to at least perform providing information concerning multiple networks to at least one application, receiving instructions from the application, and managing traffic relating to the at least one application on the multiple networks based on the instructions received from the application.
US11825324B2
A large-scale radio frequency signal collection and processing system comprising a plurality of sensor systems mounted on a plurality of collection platforms that integrates a plurality of overlapping datasets with differing characteristics (e.g., different resolutions, different view angles, different heights, different time periods, unrelated types of data) to generate an enriched dataset or datasets using a variety of processing techniques (e.g., statistical analysis, signal processing, image processing) that allows for more comprehensive analysis of the radio frequency signal landscape than would be possible using any of the datasets individually, or in combination but without such integration.
US11825323B2
A method for measuring beams includes determining a measurement period duration in accordance with periods of one or more periodic beam failure detection (BFD) reference signals (RSs) of a BFD RS set, wherein the BFD RSs of the one or more BFD RSs of the BFD RS set have a quasi-co-located (QCL) relationship with demodulation RSs (DMRSs) of PDCCH receptions monitored by a user equipment (UE), monitoring a subset of the one or more BFD RSs having the QCL relationship with the DMRSs of PDCCH receptions monitored by the UE that occur during a measurement period, and determining that measures of all BFD RSs in the subset of the one or more BFD RSs do not meet a specified threshold, and based thereon, reporting a beam failure (BF) instance.
US11825321B2
Aspects presented herein may improve the performance and/or efficiency of a BFD procedure for a UE, where the UE may use DMRS to perform the BFD to reduce the occasion(s) of configuring multiple or frequent CSI-RS resources sets for the UE. In one aspect, an apparatus measures RSRP of one or more reference signals in a reference signal set for a BFD, the one or more reference signals include at least one DMRS. Then the apparatus compares the measurement for the at least one DMRS to a threshold. Then the apparatus initiates or restarts a BFD timer or a BFR procedure based at least in part on the measurement.
US11825319B2
A computer device may include a memory storing instructions and processor configured to execute the instructions to provide a test configuration to a plurality of multi-access edge computing (MEC) devices; collect test results associated with the provided test configuration from the plurality of MEC devices; and obtain capability information associated with particular ones of the plurality of MEC devices. The computer device may be further configured to generate a test report that relates one or more parameters included in the test results and the obtained capability information to particular ones of the plurality of MEC devices; and use the generated test report to select a MEC device from the plurality of MEC devices for a user equipment (UE) device requesting an application session.
US11825311B2
A method of checking the integrity of a wireless distributed communication packet using a trust field in a wireless distributed communication system may comprise: allowing a first terminal to acquire a trust-field-generation-specific secret key of a second terminal; allowing the second terminal to generate a trust field utilizing all bits to be transmitted to the first terminal; allowing the second terminal to generate a first packet using the trust field and all the bits to be transmitted; allowing the second terminal to transmit the first packet to the first terminal; and allowing the first terminal to check the integrity of the first packet using the trust-field-generation-specific secret key and the trust field included in the first packet.
US11825310B2
Roaming spoofing attacks can be initiated during N32-c handshake procedure used for inter-PLMN communication in 5G network. One example solution described herein uses the SEPP to mitigate the N32-c roaming spoofing attacks by cross validating the sender attribute present in N32-c handshake security capability exchange messages against the endpoint identity in the X.509v3 certificate shared during TLS handshake and the remote SEPP identity configured in the SEPP's local database.
US11825309B2
Systems and methods described herein enforce access controls for network slices via proxy in a secure enclave of a user equipment (UE) device. A UE device executes, in a rich execution environment (REE), a function or application designated for using one or more secure network slices of a telecommunications network. The UE device executes, in a trusted execution environment (TEE), a slice admission control proxy (SACP) to perform admission control for the one or more secure network slices, and forces network traffic for the function or application through the SACP.
US11825308B2
A hydrocarbon control system includes a base device, a field device, and a mobile device. The base device includes a key generator configured to generate a temporary key. The field device is configured to restrict or allow access based on verification of a received key. The mobile device is configured to communicate with the base device to receive the temporary key when in proximity of the base device, communicate with the field device to provide the temporary key to the field device when in proximity of the field device, and exchange data with the field device in response to the field device verifying the temporary key.
US11825303B2
A method and an apparatus for performing verification using a shared key are disclosed. The method includes: receiving, by a first network element, a registration request message from a second network element, where the registration request message includes a user identifier, first network identifier information, and second network identifier information, the second network identifier information is obtained by processing the first network identifier information by using a shared key, and the shared key is a key used between the first network element and the second network element; verifying, by the first network element, the registration request message by using the shared key; and sending, by the first network element, a registration response message to the second network element. When receiving a registration request from a visited network, a home network verifies the registration request message by using a shared key, to avoid a spoofing attack from the visited network.
US11825297B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed. In an example from the perspective of a first User Equipment (UE), the first UE generates a message requesting inter-UE coordination information, wherein the message includes information associated with a first priority value. The first UE generates a Medium Access Control (MAC) Protocol Data Unit (PDU) including the message. The first UE sets a value of a priority field in a first sidelink control information (SCI) based on a second priority value of the message, wherein the second priority value of the message is a configured value and/or a lowest priority value among a defined set of priority values. The first UE transmits the first SCI to one or more UEs including a second UE, wherein the first SCI schedules a first Physical Sidelink Shared Channel (PSSCH) transmission for transmitting the MAC PDU.
US11825296B2
Information transmission and reception methods and apparatus are disclosed, where the transmission method includes: carrying configuration information of a control resource set on a physical broadcast channel; where the configuration information is used to indicate to a terminal at least one of the following of the control resource set: time domain position information and frequency domain position information; and transmitting the control resource set to the terminal according to the configuration information.
US11825290B2
Example techniques relate to playback based on acoustic signals in a system including a first network device and a second network device. A first network device may detect a presence of a user using a camera and/or infrared sensors. The first network device sends, in response to detecting the presence of the user, a particular signal via the first network interface. The second network device receives data corresponding to the particular signal and plays back an audio output corresponding to the particular signal.
US11825289B2
Example techniques relate to playback based on acoustic signals in a system including a first network device and a second network device. A first network device may detect a presence of a user using a camera and/or infrared sensors. The first network device sends, in response to detecting the presence of the user, a particular signal via the first network interface. The second network device receives data corresponding to the particular signal and plays back an audio output corresponding to the particular signal.
US11825288B2
An example method of operation includes identifying a venue geometry from a stored value, determining a venue polar representation based on the venue geometry, selecting one or more loudspeaker types to place in the venue based on the venue geometry and one or more target sound pressure levels (SPLs), selecting one or more locations in the venue to place the one or more loudspeakers, identifying one or more angles to position the one or more loudspeakers in the venue at the selected locations, and generating a display model of a loudspeaker arrangement comprising a selected number of speakers and one or more filters to apply to the one or more loudspeakers.
US11825279B2
A method for sound source localization in a digital system having at least two audio capture devices is provided that includes receiving audio signals from the two audio capture devices, computing a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for each frequency band of a plurality of frequency bands in a processing frame of the audio signals, determining a frequency band weight for each frequency band of the plurality of frequency bands based on the SNR computed for the frequency band, computing an estimated time delay of arrival (TDOA) of sound for the processing frame using the frequency band weights, and converting the estimated TDOA to an angle representing sound direction.
US11825276B2
An apparatus with a selector input device to transmit an audio signal comprises a microphone, a communication interface, and a selector input device. The apparatus can also comprise a processor and a memory having instructions stored thereon, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform operations comprising detecting an activation of the selector input device. In response to detecting the activation, the processor captures the audio signal via the microphone and transmits the audio signal via the communication interface to a first client device. Other embodiments are described herein.
US11825275B2
An electronic device may comprise audio processing circuitry and a universal serial bus (USB) connector having a first contact and a second contact. In a first mode of operation, the audio processing circuitry is configured to output one or more audio signals carrying music and/or voice via the first contact and the second contact. In a second mode of operation, the audio processing circuitry is configured to output a signal for delivering supply current via the first contact and the second contact. While the electronic device is in the first mode of operation, a gain and/or volume limit of the audio processing circuitry may be set to a first level, and while the electronic device is in the second mode of operation, the gain and/or volume limit of the audio processing circuitry may be set to a second level that is higher than the first level.
US11825271B2
A system, including a first microphone of a non-body carried device and a processor configured to receive input based on sound captured by the first microphone and analyze the received input to determine whether the sound captured by the first microphone is indicative of an attempted communication between humans, which humans are located in a structure where the microphone is located, upon a determination that the sound is indicative of an attempted communication between humans, evaluate the success of that communication.
US11825268B2
A method, including capturing first sound with a hearing prosthesis, classifying the first sound using the hearing prosthesis according to a first feature regime, capturing second sound with the hearing prosthesis, and classifying the second sound using the hearing prosthesis according to a second feature regime different from the first feature regime.
US11825267B2
A microphone has a MEMS device, a driver, and a control unit. The MEMS device outputs a first electrical signal according to an acoustic pressure. The driver vibrates the MEMS device by a drive signal. The control unit calculates a correction value for correcting the first electric signal based on a second electric signal output from the MEMS device when the MEMS device is vibrated by the drive signal.
US11825266B2
Microphones including a housing defining a cavity, a plurality of conductors positioned within the cavity, at least one dielectric bar positioned within the cavity, and a transducer diaphragm. The conductors are structured to move in response to pressure changes while the housing remains fixed. A first conductor generates first electrical signals responsive to the pressure changes resulting from changes in an atmospheric pressure. A second conductor generates second electrical signals responsive to the pressure changes resulting from acoustic activity. The dielectric bar is fixed with respect to the cavity and remains fixed under the pressure changes. The dielectric bar is adjacent to at least one of the conductors. In response to an applied pressure that is an atmospheric pressure and/or an acoustic pressure, the transducer diaphragm exerts a force on the housing and displaces at least a portion of conductors with respect to the dielectric bar.
US11825262B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include a headphone device which operates in various modes applying different gesture profiles based on various operational, playback, or environmental conditions. An example headphone device includes a first earbud and a second earbud communicatively coupled to each other. One or both of the earbuds include a touch-sensitive interface and a processor. The earbuds are configured to interpret a first set of gestures to the touch-sensitive interface as respective commands while operating in a first mode. Upon detecting a change in an operational condition, one or both earbuds transition to a second mode where the earbuds are configured to interpret a second set of gestures to the touch-sensitive interface as respective commands, different from the respective commands correlating to the first set of gestures to the touch-sensitive interface.
US11825260B2
An earphone includes a housing, a first eartip, and a second eartip. The earphone has a first use state and a second use state. In the second state, the second eartip engages with the housing and a vent channel is provided to communicate with an inner space of the housing and an exterior of the earphone. In the first state, the first eartip engages with the housing and the vent channel is blocked. A distance of the first eartip inserted into an auditory meatus in the first state is less than a distance of the second eartip inserted into the auditory meatus in the second state.
US11825250B2
A sensor assembly includes a housing that defines an interior space. The sensor assembly includes a sensor connected to the housing at the aperture. The sensor assembly includes a wireless power source disposed within the interior space. The sensor assembly includes electronics disposed within the interior space and configured to receive power from the wireless power source. The electronics include a communication board and a sensor connector, and the sensor is configured to transmit data to the communication board via the sensor connector.
US11825249B2
A method includes determining a first power level by performing a first series of measurements based on a first series of burst transmissions from an optical transmitter of an optical network unit (ONU) in an optical network. Bursts in the first series of burst transmissions include a first modified preamble. A second power level is determined by performing a second series of measurements based on a second series of optical burst transmissions. Bursts in the second series of burst transmissions include a second modified preamble. A first power level (P0) and a second power level (P1) are determined based on the first power level and the second power level and one or more additional parameters associated with transmissions from the optical transmitter are determined based on P0 and P1. Based on the additional parameters, it is determined whether the optical transmitter complies with specifications of the optical network.
US11825241B2
There is provided a camera and a method therein for facilitating installation of the camera. The method comprises capturing a video stream of a scene when the camera is installed with a first FOV, which scene comprises an object. A size in the video stream of at least one part of the object is estimated. As long as the estimated size is above a first threshold and below a second threshold, providing a first, edge-filtered, version of the video stream to secure privacy of the object. In response to the estimated size being above the second threshold indicating that the privacy is at risk of being revealed, entering an enhanced secure privacy mode comprising generating an alert to prompt an installer to re-install the camera with a second FOV different from the first FOV, and disabling provision of the first, edge-filtered, version of the video stream.
US11825235B2
An electronic device according to an embodiment of the disclosure includes: a memory, and a processor electrically connected to the memory, wherein the memory stores a high dynamic range image and dynamic metadata including dynamic tone mapping information corresponding to a plurality of frames included in the high dynamic range image, and wherein the memory stores instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to: control the electronic device to transmit a packet including data obtained by combining one frame among the plurality of frames and a part of the dynamic metadata corresponding to the one frame among the dynamic metadata to an external electronic device in response to an image request from the external electronic device.
US11825225B2
An imaging element comprising: an imaging unit that has: a plurality of groups each including at least one pixel; and a plurality of signal readout units that are each provided to each of the groups and read out a signal from the pixel; and a control unit that controls the signal readout unit in at least one group among the plurality of groups is provided. Each of the plurality of groups may include a plurality of the pixels. The control unit may select at least one group among the plurality of groups and control the signal readout unit by using a control parameter that is different from a control parameter that is used for another group among the plurality of groups.
US11825218B2
An event based pixel sensor system employs regions of interest or regions of non-interest, which are preferably dynamic, to isolate change events and reduce data from non-interesting events.
US11825212B2
An embodiment for creating a tiled image using different zoom levels based on user interests is provided. The embodiment may include receiving one or more photographs captured by a user. The embodiment may also include analyzing features associated with the one or more photographs. The embodiment may further include identifying one or more known objects of interest. The embodiment may also include in response to determining the user wants to take a tiled zoom photograph, capturing a photographic image. The embodiment may further include scanning the photographic image for identifying features of the one or more known objects of interest. The embodiment may also include in response to determining at least one object of interest is found in the scanned photographic image, assembling the tiled zoom photograph with a plurality of tiles.
US11825205B2
The present disclosure relates to a computer implemented method and system for obtaining an image sensor exposure setting for use in capturing an image using a main flash. The method comprises the steps of obtaining first pre-image data related to a first pre-image captured using a predetermined first image sensor pre-image exposure setting, wherein the first pre-image is captured while emitting a flash of a predetermined first pre-flash energy; obtaining second pre-image data related to a second pre-image captured using a predetermined second image sensor pre-image exposure setting, wherein the second pre-image is captured while emitting a flash of a predetermined second pre-flash energy different than the first pre-flash energy; determining a flash effected area in the second pre-image in which a predetermined ratio of the image sensor pixel values have changed from the first pre-image; and determining the image sensor exposure setting for use in capturing the image based on the first and the second set of image senor pixel values in the flash affected area, the predetermined first and second image sensor pre-image exposure setting and a relation between a predetermined main flash energy, the energy of the predetermined first pre-flash and the energy of the predetermined second pre-flash, respectively.
US11825201B2
Disclosed herein is a method of using an image sensor comprising N sensing areas for capturing images of a scene, the N sensing areas being physically separate from each other, the method comprising: for i=1, . . . , P, and j=1, . . . , Q(i), positioning the image sensor at a location (i,j) and capturing a partial image (i,j) of the scene using the image sensor while the image sensor is at the location (i,j), thereby capturing in total R partial images, wherein R is the sum of Q(i), i=1, . . . , P, wherein P>1, wherein Q(i), i=1, . . . , P are positive integers and are not all 1, wherein for i=1, . . . , P, a location group (i) comprises the locations (i,j), j=1, . . . , Q(i), and wherein a minimum distance between 2 locations of 2 different location groups is substantially larger than a maximum distance between two locations of a same location group; and determining a combined image of the scene based on the R partial images.
US11825198B2
A drive device that reduces a returning force to return to the center when moving a movable unit with respect to a fixed unit and suppresses a load of an actuator driving the movable unit is provided. The drive device includes a fixed unit, a movable unit that is disposed so as to be capable of relatively moving in a predetermined range within a plane with respect to the fixed unit, a plurality of rolling members that are disposed between the fixed unit and the movable unit, an actuator configured to drive the movable unit, and an urging unit configured to urge the movable unit to the fixed unit via the rolling members. The urging unit includes a magnet and a magnetic body. One of the magnet and the magnetic body is held by the movable unit, and another of the magnet and the magnetic body is held by the fixed unit. A range, in which the magnet can move when the actuator is driven to move the movable unit, does not protrude from an end of the magnetic body when viewed from a direction orthogonal to the plane.
US11825196B2
An image sensor comprising a plurality of microlenses, and a pixel array having, with respect to each of the microlenses, a pair of first regions formed at a first depth from a surface on which light is incident, a pair of second regions formed at a second depth deeper than the first depth, and a plurality of connecting regions that connects the pair of first regions and the pair of second regions, respectively. A direction of arranging the pair of second regions corresponding to each microlens is a first direction, and a direction of arranging the pair of first regions is either the first direction or a second direction which is orthogonal to the first direction.
US11825195B2
An image capturing apparatus comprises an image sensor and a focus detection unit configured to, based on an image signal obtained by the image sensor while performing a scan operation that causes a focus lens to move along an optical axis of the imaging optical system, calculate a focus evaluation value and detect a position of the focus lens at which the focus evaluation value is a maximum, wherein the focus detection unit, in a case where the imaging optical system includes a reflective optical system in which a part of a light beam is blocked, sets a calculation method of the focus evaluation value or a control method of the focus lens during the scan operation based on information relating to a shape of the reflective optical system.
US11825191B2
A method for assisting the acquisition of a media content at a scene provided with at least one main acquisition unit connected to a server is disclosed. The method includes performing by a processing unit of the server: receiving, from an electronic device including a secondary acquisition unit, a request for acquiring a media content at the scene, the request including data representative of acquisition conditions at the secondary acquisition unit; and providing in response a first media content generated as a function of data representative of acquisition conditions at the secondary acquisition unit from generic media content outputted by the at least one main acquisition unit.
US11825176B2
A video packaging and origination service can process requests for content segments from requesting user devices. The video packaging and origination service can processing video attributes, audio attributes and social media feeds to dynamically determine insertion points for supplemental content. Additionally, the video packaging and origination service can identify supplemental content utilizing the same attribute information.
US11825171B2
A device for enabling content selection is configured to display a program guide that presents a plurality of icon groupings. Each icon grouping corresponds to one of a plurality of sub-categories within a category of media content. An icon in an icon grouping representing a media content item within a sub-category of the plurality of sub-categories. The device is further configured to receive a first input indicative of a selection of the icon grouping and based on the received first input, update the programming guide to present the icon grouping for selection. The updating of the program guide includes changing a manner in which the icons of the icon grouping are organized within the icon grouping. The device is further configured to perform an operation associated with the icon from the icon grouping based on a second input indicative of a selection of the icon.
US11825167B2
Apparatus, systems, articles of manufacture, and methods for viewer authentication are disclosed. An example system comprises memory, first instructions, and processor circuitry to execute the first instructions to send one or more second instructions to the device, the second instructions to cause the device to trigger collection of audio metering data from a sensed audio signal based on a programming schedule that is to identify when the program is to be broadcast, the program associated with a first time duration, the audio metering data associated with a second time duration, accept voting data from the user for a ballot presented in the program, and transmit the audio metering data and the voting data, determine a level of exposure of the user to the program based on the first time duration and the second time duration, and adjust the voting data based on the level of exposure.
US11825165B2
A method of determining video resolution is provided. The method of determining video resolution includes: determining a CDN corresponding to a video to be played in response to a video loading signal; acquiring a history network speed corresponding to the CDN; and determining an initial resolution of the video to be played according to the history network speed corresponding to the CDN. A computing device, and a non-transitory computer-program product are also provided.
US11825162B2
Provided is a system that includes a circuit to generate an interactive item based on a request received from a first distribution network or a second distribution network. The interactive item is overlaid over a media item present in media content. The circuit then activates the generated interactive item overlaid over the media item of the media content. Further, the circuit receives an event trigger, from a client application engine operational on a user device associated with a user, for a selection of the activated interactive item. A personalized list is generated for the event trigger for the selection of the interactive item. Further, the generated personalized list is transmitted for a display for a defined time duration, to one of the first distribution network, the second distribution network or the client application engine operational on the user device.
US11825159B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to identify an episode number based on fingerprint and matched viewing information are disclosed. An example method includes processing meter data to identify a presented media based on a bumper included in a media, filtering the meter data based on the identification of the media, selecting a candidate episode, the candidate episode not associated with a known episode label, determining whether the candidate episode appears sequentially after a known episode for a threshold number of presentation locations, and labeling the candidate episode as the next sequential episode after the known episode in response to determining that the candidate episode appears sequentially after the known episode for the threshold number of presentation locations.
US11825158B2
A content delivery system includes a computing platform having processing hardware and a system memory storing software code, a user account database, and a content database. The processing hardware executes the software code to receive, from a user device utilized by a user, a request for access to a first content of a plurality of contents, the request including an identifier of a sponsor of the request, to verify, using the identifier, an authorization status of the sponsor, and transmit to the user device, based on verification of the authorization status of the sponsor, content access data enabling access to the first content by the user. The processing further executes the software code to detect that the user is accessing the first content, and to offer, in response to detecting that access, an opportunity to the user to obtain access to the plurality of contents.
US11825152B2
An example first playback device includes programming to perform functions including receiving a first request to associate with a first playback queue that is stored remotely from, and persists unassociated with, any playback device of the media playback system. The functions also include associating with the first playback queue and designating the first playback queue as an active queue of the first playback device. The functions also include receiving a second request to enter into a group with a second playback device that is associated with a second playback queue, entering into the group with the second playback device, associating with the second playback queue, and designating the second playback queue as the active queue of the first playback device. The functions also include receiving a third request to leave the group, and after receiving the third request, de-designating the second playback queue as its active queue.
US11825150B2
An electronic apparatus and a controlling method thereof are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a display, a memory configured to store at least one instruction, and a processor configured to control the electronic apparatus by executing at least one instruction stored in the memory, and the processor is configured to receive a user input for entering a first mode, perform a search based on a search word corresponding to a user history in a first application related to the first mode in response to the user input, and display a first image provided by the first application on a first area of the display based on a result of the search, and control the display to display a second image obtained through a camera connected to the electronic apparatus on a second area of the display.
US11825144B2
A method and apparatus for recognizing and synchronizing to in-band data at a multimedia device is provided. A content stream includes in-band data. The in-band data is processed and in-band data pattern data associated with the content stream are created. Metadata are attached to the event identification data. The event identification data are provided to multimedia devices which receive broadcasted multimedia content streams containing video programs with in-band data. The in-band data are processed and compared to the event identification data. If a match occurs, the multimedia device uses the metadata to perform specified actions.
US11825143B2
Systems and methods for providing personalized media content by a personalized media content delivery system are disclosed. One method includes identifying a user of an information handling device associated with the personalized media content delivery system utilizing user identification data. A user profile that is associated with the identified user may then be accessed. The user profile may contain one or more content viewing preferences of the user. One or more articles of media content stored in a content database associated with the user's content viewing preferences may be determined. A personalized media stream containing these articles of media content may then be assembled and subsequently provided to the user on a digital channel of an application platform running on the information handling device.
US11825131B2
Techniques are described for using ATSC 3.0 to augment in-stadium (including in-arena) video feeds. In addition to a central stadium large screen view, spectators can use their mobile devices or view wall-mounted TVs around the stadium to receive in-stadium special feeds broadcast using ATSC 3.0, but not necessarily broadcast beyond the stadium and its environs.
US11825127B2
An encoder includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. The circuitry determines whether to split a current luma virtual pipeline decoding unit (VPDU) into smaller blocks. When it is determined not to split the current luma VPDU into smaller blocks, the circuitry predicts a block of chroma samples without using luma samples. When it is determined to split the luma VPDU into smaller blocks, the circuitry predicts the block of chroma samples using luma samples. The circuitry encodes the block using the predicted chroma samples.
US11825115B2
This application discloses image coding methods and apparatuses. One method comprises obtaining a plurality of groups of human skeleton data associated with performing an action by a human body, wherein each group of the plurality of groups of human skeleton data comprises joint data associated with a joint for performing the action. Based on joint data comprised in at least a portion of the plurality of groups of human skeleton data, a motion feature corresponding to the plurality of groups of human skeleton data is extracted, and the motion feature is encoded to obtain a motion feature image.
US11825098B2
Devices, systems and methods for digital video coding, which includes inter prediction with refinement, are described. An exemplary method of video processing includes determining to use, for a conversion between a current block of a video and a bitstream representation of the video, a first linear optimization model for the conversion using a first coding mode, the first linear optimization model being derived from a second linear optimization model that is used for the conversion using a second coding mode, and performing, based on the determining, the conversion. Another exemplary method of video processing includes determining to use, for a conversion between a current block of a video and a bitstream representation of the video, a gradient value computation algorithm for a bi-directional optical flow tool, and performing, based on the determining, the conversion.
US11825097B2
A method for video processing is provided. The method includes determining, for a conversion between a current video block of a video that is a chroma block and a coded representation of the video, multiple sets of parameters, wherein each set of parameters defines a cross-component linear model (CCLM) and is derived from a corresponding group of chroma samples at corresponding chroma sample positions; determining, based on the multiple sets of parameters, parameters for a final CCLM; and performing the conversion based on the final CCLM.
US11825096B2
A video decoding method performed by a video decoding apparatus, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: obtaining image information from a bitstream, wherein the image information includes a picture header associated with a current picture, and the current picture includes a plurality of slices; parsing at least one of a first flag and a second flag from the picture header; generating prediction samples by performing at least one of intra prediction and inter prediction on a current block in the current picture on the basis of at least one of the first flag and the second flag; generating reconstructed samples on the basis of the prediction samples; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of the reconstructed samples.
US11825086B2
An image signal decoding method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises the steps of: partitioning the current picture into a plurality of tiles; decoding partition information indicating a slice type, the partition information indicating whether a rectangular slice is to be applied; determining the number of slices in the current picture; and defining the slices using the tiles.
US11825082B2
Provided is a decoding method, including: acquiring coded data of a current block; determining size information of subblocks based on subblock partition information of the current block in response to the current block satisfying a subblock partition condition and determining, based on the coded data of the current block, that the current block activates intra subblock partition; determining, based on the size information of each subblock, a transform pair corresponding to the subblock; and performing an inverse transform on inversely quantized data of the subblocks based on the transform pairs corresponding to the subblocks.
US11825078B2
A method for luma-based chroma intra-prediction in a video encoder or a video decoder is provided that includes down sampling a first reconstructed luma block of a largest coding unit (LCU), computing parameters α and β of a linear model using immediate top neighboring reconstructed luma samples and left neighboring reconstructed luma samples of the first reconstructed luma block and reconstructed neighboring chroma samples of a chroma block corresponding to the first reconstructed luma block, wherein the linear model is PredC[x,y]=α·RecL′[x,y]+β, wherein x and y are sample coordinates, PredC is predicted chroma samples, and RecL′ is samples of the down sampled first reconstructed luma block, and wherein the immediate top neighboring reconstructed luma samples are the only top neighboring reconstructed luma samples used, and computing samples of a first predicted chroma block from corresponding samples of the down sampled first reconstructed luma block using the linear model and the parameters.
US11825077B2
An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. An image encoding method performed by an image encoding apparatus may comprise determining an intra-prediction mode of a current block, configuring a reference sample of intra prediction by using at least one of a neighbor pixel of the current block in a current picture and a pixel of a reference picture, and performing intra prediction for the current block based on the intra-prediction mode and the reference sample.
US11825070B1
A measurement system for measuring intrinsic parameters of a camera includes an arrangement of inclined mirrored surfaces to extend the field of view of the camera.
US11825065B2
The subject technology receives, at a client device, a selection of a selectable graphical item from a plurality of selectable graphical items, the selectable graphical item comprising an augmented reality content generator including a 3D effect. The subject technology applies, to image data and depth data, the 3D effect based at least in part on the augmented reality content generator, the applying the 3D effect. The subject technology generates a depth map using at least the depth data, generates a segmentation mask based at least on the image data, and performs background inpainting and blurring of the image data using at least the segmentation mask to generate background inpainted image data. The subject technology generates a 3D message based at least in part on the applied 3D effect.
US11825054B2
An image processing device includes a communication interface, an operation interface, and a controller. The communication interface is configured to communicate with a server. In a case that an agreement is not established for subscription service using the server, the controller performs an operation disabling process to disable a specific operation using the operation interface. The specific operation is to cause the communication interface to communicate with the server. In a case that the agreement is established, the controller performs an operation enabling process to enable the specific operation using the operation interface.
US11825049B2
A conveying path for a document (D) includes a first conveying path (R1) that turns back midway, and a second conveying path (R2) that does not turn back midway. When the first conveying path (R1) is used, a first side is read and the document (D) is discharged with the first side facing downward. When the second conveying path (R2) is used, a second side is read and the document (D) is discharged with the second side facing downward. When the second conveying path (R2) is used, a warning message (MS1) is displayed.
US11825026B1
The present invention relates to a device and a computerized process for creating a virtual spatial audio representation of sound sources within a conference call application, which processes individual user voice or audio inputs according to a host or user selected spatial position, combining it with other users virtualized spatial audio positions, to simulate the sound properties of a real world in-person meeting, conference, convention, or event. This computerized process is embodied by software that can be used to process multiple incoming audio sources from multiple platform participants with different spatial audio filters to create a unique spatial positioning for each participant. It should be further noted that a single host could control the spatial positioning of all participants on the platform, or each participant could select from a defined set of available seats or positions based on their own personal preferences.
US11825024B1
In some implementations, a system may identify, based on an account status of an account, one or more phone numbers associated with the account. The system may determine a confidence score of each phone number, based on historical call data and one or more phone number attributes, a rank of the phone number(s) based on corresponding confidence scores, and a quality score for each phone number based on a relative comparison of confidence scores of phone numbers of at least a subset of a plurality of users. The system may determine a daily call schedule, which may include a total frequency to call the user, based on the account status, a phone number frequency to call each phone number, based on one or more conditions related to corresponding quality scores, and a call order in which to call each phone number, based on the rank of the phone number(s).
US11825020B2
Systems and methods for processing emergency communications are provided. A system may receive an emergency communication initiated by an emergency communicator. The system may detect a data field action in response to an emergency receiver entering a data input based on the emergency communication. The system may capture a timestamp of when the data field action occurred. The system may generate a communication snippet based on the action timestamp and a snippet length. The communication snippet may be configured to provide context from the emergency communication to the data input. The system may transmit the communication snippet and the data input to an emergency responder.
US11825018B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for client-based control of revising caller identifications (IDs) for communications between a private network and a public network. An apparatus including a communications provider server and processing circuit that communicates client-specific sets of data over an interface protocol. The telecommunications-providing server revises a caller ID for a data communication (aka call) based on the client-specific sets of data, an identifier that corresponds to a requesting endpoint, and a geographic region determined from the call request. Further, the telecommunications-providing server connects the VoIP call by accessing and passing a provisioned number. The provisioned number includes the revised caller ID which is a local number identified by the determined geographic region that the endpoint is located.
US11825014B1
A processor-implemented method includes receiving, at a first mobile compute device of a user, a service request. Curated service information associated with the service request is retrieved in response to the user input, and displayed via a graphical user interface (GUI) of the first mobile compute device. A user selection of a subset of the curated service information is received via the GUI, and a phone number is received in response to the user populating a phone number field of the GUI. A send icon is displayed via the GUI in response to receiving at least one of the selection or the phone number. In response to a user selecting the send icon, a communication with the subset of service information is sent to a second mobile compute device having the phone number and associated with a service recipient, without including any self-identifying information associated with the user.
US11825009B2
An in-vehicle entertainment system having functionality of operation interface switchable is disclosed. The system comprises an in-vehicle host electronic device and a hub having a host-to-host transmission function. After at least two mobile electronic devices are coupled to the hub, the in-vehicle host electronic device firstly prioritizes a communication order between the two mobile electronic devices, and then lets a display unit show an operation interface (like CarPlay operation interface) corresponding to the mobile electronic device that is prioritized with a first ranked communication order. Moreover, in case of a peripheral electronic device being coupled to the hub as well as the display unit being showing the operation interface, the in-vehicle host electronic device is allowed to access a peripheral electronic device through the hub.
US11825005B2
The present application proposes a display device, which includes middle frame and a display panel disposed in the middle frame, wherein the display device includes a first non-display area between the middle frame and a display area of the display panel, and at least one perforated area enclosed by a first arc and a second arc; and wherein at least one first through hole is provided in the perforated area. In the present application, the perforated area is arranged in the first non-display area, which reduces the visibility of the perforated area when the display device is used, increases the screen-to-body ratio of the display device, and improves the product quality.
US11824995B2
A system and method for integrating FIDO authentication systems and user verification systems. The system is provided in one configuration as a mobile app that allows access to highly sensitive information via a mobile device while simultaneously ensuring a highly secured environment authenticating both the mobile device and the user via a highly reliable authentication process.
US11824991B2
Methods and systems are provided for performing a secure transaction. In an embodiment, users register biometric and/or other identifying user information. A private encryption key is generated from the biometric information and/or other user information and/or information obtained from a unpredictable physical process and are stored in a secure area of a device and a public key is transmitted to the blockchain network which acts as a service provider. In some embodiments, the execution and integrity of transactions by using transaction signatures, based on visual images is disclosed. In an embodiment, a blockchain network verifies and executes the transaction.
US11824985B2
In a particular embodiment, blockchain-based hybrid authentication is disclosed that includes receiving, by a smart contract controller, an invocation of a smart contract and accessing, by the smart contract controller, one or more parameters associated with a client account. In this embodiment, the smart contract determines whether the one or more parameters fulfill the smart contract. In response to determining that the one or more parameters fulfill the smart contract, the smart contract provides an attestation of an identity associated with the client account.
US11824968B2
Techniques regarding privacy preservation in a federated learning environment are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a system, which can comprise a memory that can store computer executable components. The system can also comprise a processor, operably coupled to the memory, and that can execute the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a plurality of machine learning components that can execute a machine learning algorithm to generate a plurality of model parameters. The computer executable components can also comprise an aggregator component that can synthesize a machine learning model based on an aggregate of the plurality of model parameters. The aggregator component can communicate with the plurality of machine learning components via a data privacy scheme that comprises a privacy process and a homomorphic encryption process in a federated learning environment.
US11824964B2
A method for transmitting a set of conforming data frames in a specialized data network, the method comprising providing, from a data source, at least one specialized header frame to a data destination by way of the specialized data network, generating, at the data source, a set of conforming data frames, and providing at least a subset of the conforming data frames to the data destination by way of the specialized data network.
US11824954B2
A communication protocol system is provided for reliable transport of packets. Transport of packets includes transmitting, by a sender entity over a connection to a receiver entity, a plurality of packets in a first order, maintaining, by the sender entity, one or more sliding windows including a plurality of bits, wherein each bit of the sliding window represents a respective packet of the plurality of packets, receiving, by the sender entity, one or more acknowledgments indicating that one or more of the plurality of packets have been received by the receiver entity, each of the acknowledgments referencing a respective packet of the plurality of packets and modifying, by the sender entity, values of one or more of the plurality of bits in the sliding window corresponding to the one or more acknowledgments received.
US11824949B2
A computer implemented method is described for validation of a service. A graph data structure is statically analyzed beginning prior to deployment of the service and continues after deployment. The method uses the static analysis to determine that a build exposing the service deviates from a pre-declared whitelist of dependencies. The method rejects insertion of the build into the graph data structure responsive to the determination in accord with a deny-by-default security posture.
US11824942B2
A communication system, an information processing apparatus, and an information processing method each of which: connects an information terminal connected to a first network to a connection-destination device connected to a second network different from the first network, and transmits a message to the information terminal connected to the connection-destination device, based on information related to a use state of the connection-destination device.
US11824938B1
Described herein are techniques for integrating external sensors to an edge device, such as for ingesting data into a data intake and query system. The edge device has an internal message broker for communicating with internal (e.g., preconfigured, recognized) sensors, and an external message broker for communicating with external (e.g., customer-configured, otherwise unrecognized) sensors. The external message broker provides access to customer configuration of external sensors, but is logically quarantined from the internal message broker to prevent unwanted customer access to internal configurations. The internal and external message brokers interface only via a bridging service that transforms external sensor data into data based on customer-configurable transformations. The transformed data can be handled by the edge device and/or downstream components (e.g., a data intake and query system) in the same manner as internal sensor data.
US11824933B2
A system and method in a building or vehicle for an actuator operation in response to a sensor according to a control logic, the system comprising a router or a gateway communicating with a device associated with the sensor and a device associated with the actuator over in-building or in-vehicle networks, and an external Internet-connected control server associated with the control logic implementing a PID closed linear control loop and communicating with the router over external network for controlling the in-building or in-vehicle phenomenon. The sensor may be a microphone or a camera, and the system may include voice or image processing as part of the control logic. A redundancy is used by using multiple sensors or actuators, or by using multiple data paths over the building or vehicle internal or external communication. The networks may be wired or wireless, and may be BAN, PAN, LAN, WAN, or home networks.
US11824925B1
In some implementations, a node may receive one or more communications, wherein the one or more communications include time information, and wherein the one or more communications are associated with a peer-to-peer network. The node may identify a primary node associated with the peer-to-peer network based on an indicator included in a communication, from the one or more communications, that is associated with the primary node. The node may synchronize a time stored by the node based on time information included in the communication that is associated with the primary node. The node may receive an indication that the node has successfully joined the peer-to-peer network based on synchronizing the time to the time information. The node may selectively update the time stored by the node based on a reference time included in periodic data transfer communications that are associated with the primary node.
US11824921B2
A system and method that supports an integrated user interface experience with third party hosted applications selected and installed by a user within a user-installed native application of a user communication device.
US11824919B2
An apparatus for force running of remote support according an embodiment includes a remote support server configured to receive a remote support service request from an administrator, and transmit a generation request of code information for connection to a client to a relay server based on the remote support service request and a relay server configured to generate the code information based on the generation request received from the remote support server, transmit the code information to the client based on a transmission scheme set according to the remote support service request, and relay a remote support service between the client and the remote support server by being connected to the client that has received the code information.
US11824904B1
A system for verifying delivery of a graphical object to a device receives a session initiation protocol (SIP) request including a rich call data (RCD) extension with a URL to a graphical object stored at a content delivery network (CDN). The graphical object indicates the originating source of the SIP request and is to be presented on a display of the device upon receiving the SIP request. The system modifies the URL to include a unique identifier and sends the SIP request message with the modified URL to the device. The system receives a delivery confirmation message including a copy of the unique identifier from the CDN indicating that the graphical object was delivered to the device. The system verifies delivery of the graphical object to the device based on the copy of the unique identifier in the delivery confirmation message.
US11824888B1
An apparatus and method for assessing security risk for digital resources are described. The apparatus includes at least a processor and a memory communicatively coupled to the at least a processor. The memory includes instructions configuring the at least a processor to receive digital resource data about a plurality of digital resources in a digital environment, calculate a resource significance score for each digital resource based on the digital resource data, determine at least one critical resource as a function of the resource significance score, and analyze a digital security risk associated with the at least one critical resource.
US11824881B2
The disclosed embodiments include a method performed by a wireless network to dynamically provision security resources during runtime execution of a service environment. The security resources are distributed across cell sites that provide coverage areas for multiple wireless devices (WDs) in multiple service environments. The cell sites are monitored during runtime execution of the multiple service environments to detect risk levels that indicate a vulnerability to the wireless network. When an elevated risk level is detected for a particular cell site, security resources of the security layer are dynamically provisioned for the particular cell site to safeguard the entire wireless network. Hence, the provisioned security resources can include a security resource from a different cell site.
US11824877B2
A system and method for anomaly interpretation and mitigation. A method includes extracting at least one input feature vector from observation data related to an observation; applying an isolation forest to the at least one input feature vector, wherein the isolation forest includes a plurality of estimators, wherein each estimator is a decision tree, wherein the output of each estimator is a split-path of a plurality of split-paths, each split-path having a path-length and including name and a corresponding value for a respective output feature of a plurality of output features; generating a mapping object based on the application of the isolation forest to the at least one feature vector, wherein the mapping object includes the plurality of split-paths; clipping the mapping object based on the path-length of each split-path; and determining at least one mitigation action based on the clipped mapping object.
US11824872B1
A system and method for detecting an anomaly based on user interaction with a mobile computing device is disclosed. The method includes activating, on the mobile computing device, an application, which is configured to store the machine learning model and the behavioral profile generated by the machine learning model in the memory of the mobile computing device; receive, track, and store in the memory of the mobile computing device an input pattern including navigation information and identification information inputted from the user during the user interaction with the mobile computing device; detect anomaly based on the user interaction with the mobile computing device by comparing the stored behavioral profile with the stored input pattern; and prohibit user to have further access to the financial application including user accounts in response to detection of the anomaly.
US11824862B1
In one aspect, an illustrative methodology implementing the disclosed techniques includes, by a computing device, receiving input via an application of the computing device, the input to initiate navigation to an electronic resource, and determining that navigation to the electronic resource via the application is insecure. The method also includes, by the computing device, responsive to the determination that the navigation is insecure, modifying the navigation to the electronic resource so as to prevent navigation to the electronic resource via the application.
US11824856B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for chaining of authorizations in an authorization framework. In one embodiment, a service receives an authorization request for access by a relying party service operated by a first entity to obtain information associated with a user account. The service determines that the authorization request requires a consent of a second entity. The service then obtains a first authorization token representing the consent of the second entity. The service generates a second authorization token based at least in part on the first authorization token. The service sends the second authorization token to the relying party service.
US11824855B1
A network system is provided that enables a user to record media in connection with a user operating a service application to participate in a transport service. In examples, the network system includes a user computing device on which media is recorded and stored in an unrenderable state. The user can elect to make a media recording submission for a particular service activity (e.g., trip provided or received by user). In response to the media recording submission, the user computing device identifies one or more media files that contain media data which depict the service activity. The identified media files are transmitted to a service computing system where the media files can be rendered.
US11824851B2
Computer systems and methods are provided for determining authenticity of a document. A computer system receives first image data from a remote third party. The first image data includes a first image of a document. The computer system generates an image hash based on at least a portion of the received image data. The computer system compares the generated image hash with a stored image hash to determine whether the generated image hash meets image matching criteria. The stored image hash is associated with a first predetermined authentication decision. In accordance with a determination that the generated image hash meets the image matching criteria, the computer system transmits the first predetermined authentication decision to the remote third party.
US11824850B2
The disclosed systems and methods may receive a first salted password having a first password, a first user device identifier, and a first browser identifier, extract the first password, the first user device identifier, and the first browser identifier from the first salted password, and determine whether the first password, the first user device identifier, and the first browser identifier respectively match a stored first password, a stored first user device identifier, and a stored first browser identifier. The systems may grant the request to access the one or more resources for the first user device or perform other actions depending on whether the first password, the first user device identifier, and the first browser identifier respectively match the stored first password, the stored first user device identifier, and the stored first browser identifier.
US11824846B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for facilitating online storage of files (e.g., audio tracks, video, etc.) for playback/access or sale/exchange by the owners of the files without violating copyrights that copyright holders have in the files. For example, by providing a playback service that does not store additional versions of an audio file when the file is transmitted to, and immediately played on, a user device without buffering, the present invention avoids violating copyright laws by not making copies of the file. Numerous other aspects are disclosed.
US11824845B2
Techniques for routing service mesh traffic based on whether the traffic is encrypted or unencrypted are described herein. The techniques may include receiving, from a first node of a cloud-based network, traffic that is to be sent to a second node of the cloud-based network and determining whether the traffic is encrypted or unencrypted. If it is determined that the traffic is encrypted, the traffic may be sent to the second node via a service mesh of the cloud-based platform. Alternatively, or additionally, if it is determined that the traffic is unencrypted, the traffic may be sent to the second node via an encrypted tunnel. In some examples, the techniques may be performed at least partially by a program running on the first node of the cloud-based network, such as an extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) program, and the like.
US11824837B2
Methods and systems are used for end user creation of trusted integration pathways between different enterprise systems. As an example, a set of identity information associated with an end user is determined. A set of systems and a set of configurable trusted integration pathways that the end user is authorized to create a trusted integration pathway between two systems is determined. A selection of a source system and a destination system from the set of systems is received. A set of information from the source system that is allowed to be shared with the destination system based on pre-defined metadata is identified. A trusted integration pathway between the source system and the destination system is generated, based on a selection of at least a portion of the set of information and the pre-defined metadata.
US11824828B2
A system for providing a directory service for generating web presence pages made available on a network may include a computer processor and memory having instructions stored thereon. The instructions may instruct the computer processor to parse registration information of a registrant domain name to obtain keywords and to search the network using the keywords for information about the registrant. Registrant information may be created based on information obtained, and a trusted web presence page may be generated. The trusted web presence page may include at least a first portion of the registrant information as read only content. A link may be created between a profile page and the trusted web presence page. The profile page may include at least a customizable second portion of the registrant information. The trusted web presence page may be published on the network.
US11824821B2
Systems and methods are provided for facilitating the presentation of expressive intent and other status information with messaging and other communication applications. The expressive intent is based on expressive effect data associated with the message recipients and/or message senders. The expressive intent can be conveyed through avatars and modified message content. The avatars convey gestures, emotions and other status information and the presentation of the avatars can be reactive to detected state information of the message recipient(s), message sender(s) and/or corresponding messaging device(s).
US11824817B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first wireless node may transmit, to a second wireless node, a cross-link interference (CLI) management configuration message including information identifying a time division duplexing configuration of a mobile terminal of a third wireless node; and communicate with one or more wireless nodes in accordance with the time division duplexing configuration of the mobile terminal based at least in part on transmitting the CLI management configuration message to the second wireless node. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11824812B2
Disclosed is a method for transmitting an ACK/NACK signal for an HARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest) in a CA (Carrier Aggregation) system, the method including obtaining at least one transmission resource among first and second transmission resources; configuring a first table showing a relationship in which a combination of at least one of the first and second transmission resources and modulation symbols is mapped to an ACK/NACK signal, and transmitting modulation symbols corresponding to a transmission target ACK/NACK signal in the first table by using transmission resource corresponding to the transmission target ACK/NACK signal in the first table.
US11824811B2
The present application relates to a method and apparatus for fallback operation for a semi static HARQ-ACK codebook determination. One embodiment of the present disclosure provides an apparatus including a receiver that receives at least one downlink (DL) transmission within a DL association set. The apparatus also includes a processor that determines whether to use a fallback hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) transmission and a transmitter that transmits a first HARQ-ACK codebook on a first resource for the DL association set in response to the fallback HARQ-ACK transmission being used or a second HARQ-ACK codebook on a second resource for the DL association set in response to the fallback HARQ-ACK transmission being used.
US11824796B2
A software-defined network (SDN) system, device and method comprise one or more input ports, a programmable parser, a plurality of programmable lookup and decision engines (LDEs), programmable lookup memories, programmable counters, a programmable rewrite block and one or more output ports. The programmability of the parser, LDEs, lookup memories, counters and rewrite block enable a user to customize each microchip within the system to particular packet environments, data analysis needs, packet processing functions, and other functions as desired. Further, the same microchip is able to be reprogrammed for other purposes and/or optimizations dynamically.
US11824788B2
An apparatus connected to a Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) switch in a TSN network is provided. The apparatus includes a transceiver, a storage medium, and a controller. The storage medium stores a first mapping of a traffic class to a time slot, and a second mapping of a frame type of a TSN stream to the traffic class. The controller is coupled to the transceiver and the storage medium, and is configured to determine a routing path and a Gate Control List (GCL) corresponding to the TSN stream based on a network topology of the TSN network, the first mapping, and the second mapping, and deploy the GCL to each TSN switch in the routing path via the transceiver.
US11824775B2
Techniques are described in which a centralized controller constructs a service chain between a bare metal server (BMS) and a virtual execution element (e.g., virtual machine or container), or in some instances a remote BMS, across a plurality of networks. In some examples, the controller may construct a service chain between a BMS and a virtual execution element or remote BMS using Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN)-Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (VXLAN) and Internet Protocol Virtual Private Networks (IP VPNs) such as BGP/Multiprotocol Label Switching (BGP/MPLS) IP VPNs.
US11824771B2
A system and network devices for packet processing, a network device including a processor and instructions for receiving a first packet sent by a second network node, the first packet including a format of a segment identifier of the second network node describing a length and a location of each field in the segment identifier, obtaining the format based on the first packet, the segment identifier having a first field, and including a determined value of the first field in the segment identifier in a second packet sent to the second network node, the value of the first field in the segment identifier being determined based on a segment routing policy and the format, and the determined value of the first field indicating to the second network node to process the second packet.
US11824768B2
In one aspect, a system for managing data processes in a network of computing resources is configured to: receive, from an instructor device, a parent request for execution of at least one parent data process executable by a plurality of computing resources at least one computing resource; generate at least one child request for execution of at least one corresponding child data process for routing to at least one corresponding destination device, each of the at least one child data process for executing at least a portion of the at least one parent data process, and each of the at least one child request including a respective destination key derived from at least one instructor key; and route each of the at least one child request to the at least one corresponding destination device. The at least one child request can be obtained by a supervisor server via the routing.
US11824764B1
Automatic load-balancing techniques in a network device are used to select, from a multipath group, a path to assign to a flow based on observed state attributes such as path state(s), device state(s), port state(s), or queue state(s) of the paths. A mapping of the path previously assigned to a flow or group of flows (e.g., on account of having then been optimal in view of the observed state attributes) is maintained, for example, in a table. So long as the flow(s) are active and the path is still valid, the mapped path is selected for subsequent data units belonging to the flow(s), which may, among other effects, avoid or reduce packet re-ordering. However, if the flow(s) go idle, or if the mapped path fails, a new optimal path may be assigned to the flow(s) from the multipath group.
US11824759B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for scalable and secure transmission of multicast data over a public communication network. In exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, a virtual overlay network can be presented as a single virtual interface to a computing device, for the receipt and transfer of multicast data in a secure and scalable manner across a public insecure communication network.
US11824758B2
The present invention is directed to a system and a method for facilitating the consistent update of routing tables across the routers of a routing layer in a distributed messaging system. The routers are configured to send together with the outbound message the routing table version used to route the outbound message, which is compared, at the level of the enqueue layer, with the latest deployed routing table version and/or the latest routing table version used to route messages to the requested message queue. If the routing table version of the outbound message is older than the latest deployed routing table version and/or the latest routing table version used to route messages to the requested message queue, then the outbound message is rejected, otherwise, the message is enqueued to the requested message queue.
US11824755B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to tracking a usage metric for each of a plurality of communication assets, determining whether the usage metric fails to meet a threshold for each of the plurality of communication assets, and in response to determining that the usage metric fails to meet the threshold for at least one of the plurality of communication assets, causing the at least one of the plurality of communication assets to be disabled.
US11824747B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer-readable media, for enhanced network communication using multiple network connections. In some implementations, a networking apparatus concurrently maintains connectivity to a network through each of multiple network transports. The networking apparatus receives one or more packets to be transmitted over the network and classifies the one or more packets to determine a class of service. The networking apparatus selects one of the multiple network transports to transmit the one or more packets based on (i) the class of service for the one or more packets and (ii) measures of expected latency for transmission of the one or more packets over the respective multiple network transports. The networking apparatus transmits the one or more packets using the selected network transport.
US11824742B2
A method includes receiving one or more characteristics associated with a server of a datacenter. The method further includes analyzing, by a processing device, the one or more characteristics to determine a classification of the server. The method further includes, in view of the determined classification of the server, modifying one or more configurations of the server to increase performance for one or more functionalities corresponding to the determined classification.
US11824734B2
Disclosed is a system providing management of services. The system comprises a database configured to store details of one or more services and one or more micro-services associated with each service of the one or more services. The database is also configured to store one or more Configuration Items (CIs) facilitating operation of the one or more services in an application. The one or more micro-services are mapped with one or more CIs for facilitating the operation of the one or more services in the application.
US11824729B2
In accordance with some implementations of the present disclosure, a cityscape generator is disclosed herein that may generate a three-dimensional cityscape including at least one neighborhood that represents the at least one stack of the cloud computing system, the at least one neighborhood includes a cluster of nodes associated with a set of compute resources of the at least one stack. The cluster of nodes may be located within a subdivision of the at least one neighborhood and may include a plurality of worker nodes associated with compute resources that provide services and one or more administrative nodes associated with one or more compute resources that monitor and manage the compute resources associated with the worker nodes. The subdivision further includes a beacon to indicate overall health of the subdivision.
US11824726B2
Systems and methods are provided for identifying an available infrastructure network topology consisting of a set of available network links and a set of available network nodes of a communication network. In the systems and methods, a network node of the communication network is operative to transmit a learning schedule to a plurality of network nodes interconnected by a set of network links of the communication network. The network node receives from each of the plurality of network nodes a communication node record including network performance observations observed by that network node based on the learning schedule transmitted to that network node. Based on the received communication node records, the network node identifies a set of available network links from the set of network links and the set of available network nodes corresponding to the set of available network links.
US11824719B2
An example method for discovering and grouping application endpoints in a network environment is provided and includes discovering endpoints communicating in a network environment, calculating affinity between the discovered endpoints, and grouping the endpoints into separate endpoint groups (EPGs) according to the calculated affinity, each EPG comprising a logical grouping of similar endpoints for applying common forwarding and policy logic according to logical application boundaries. In specific embodiments, the affinity includes a weighted average of network affinity, compute affinity and user specified affinity.
US11824718B2
A central cloud computing account may aggregate events (e.g., configuration change events, policy change events, computing resource-based events, AWS resource policy modification events, etc.) from a plurality of non-centralized (e.g., distributed across various geographic regions, etc.) cloud computing accounts. The central cloud computing account may implement standardized and/or common formatting for configuration information (e.g., computing resource policy information, AWS resource policy information, etc.) indicated by each of the aggregated events. The standardized and/or common formatting may facilitate versioning to indicate changes to the configuration information for each of the non-centralized cloud computing accounts.
US11824713B2
This application provides a configuration method. The method includes: receiving, by a network repository network element, a request message from a second network element, where the request message includes information about a network slice, and the request message is used to request to obtain status information of a system feature supported by the network slice; and sending, by the network repository network element based on the request message, the status information of the system feature supported by the network slice to the second network element. Based on this solution, the second network element may obtain, from the network repository network element, the status information of the system feature supported by the network slice. The status information of the system feature supported by the network slice includes status information of an NF service corresponding to the system feature.
US11824709B2
A network management method includes a control device that receives information indicating that a device goes online, where the information indicating that a device goes online includes position information of an online device. The control device determines, based on the position information of the online device, that the online device belongs to a first fabric plane of a network topology within a network range managed by the access control device, where the network topology is planned as at least one fabric plane, and a forwarding resource associated with the first fabric plane is isolated from a forwarding resource outside the first fabric plane. The control device determines, based on the first fabric plane, configuration information of the online device, and sends the configuration information to the online device, where the configuration information is used by the online device to perform automatic online configuration.
US11824707B1
A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes defining a network resilience construct of an internet-based network. The network resilience construct includes rankings for nodes of the internet-based network. The nodes of the internet-based network are manipulated to determine an Activated Core Affluence (ACA) of the internet-based network, and the ACA defines a likelihood, for each node, of retaining the ranking for the node upon a first group of the nodes losing connection with the internet-based network. The method further includes determining, based on the ACA, a resilient portion of the network that includes an activated core of the nodes. The nodes of the activated core retain connection with one or more other nodes of the internet-based network upon the first group of the nodes losing connection.
US11824704B2
A device is configured to detect a triggering event within a network that is associated with a communication error between a first network device and a second network device. The device is further configured to identify a first node in a computer network map corresponding with the first network device and to identify node properties for the first node. The device is further configured to identify the error correction instructions in the node properties for the first node that include an address for rerouting data traffic to a third network device. The device is further configured to apply the error correction instructions where applying the error correction instructions suspends data traffic to the second network device and reroutes data traffic to the third network device.
US11824695B2
An equalizing transmitter coupled to a serial transmission line has a driver circuit coupled between an input signal and the serial transmission line, the driver circuit being configured to receive power at a first voltage level. The equalizing transmitter has one or more helper circuits, each helper circuit being configured to receive a control signal and to pull the serial transmission line to a second voltage level when a pulse is present in the control signal. The second voltage level may be greater than the first voltage level. The equalizing transmitter has one or more pulse generation circuits, each pulse generation circuit being configured to receive the input signal and a delayed version of the input signal and to provide the pulse in the control signal when a difference in voltage state is detected between the input signal and the delayed version of the input signal.
US11824677B2
A smart home device control method, a medium, a terminal, and an apparatus. By approaching a target home device and obtaining device information thereof, and executing a device control program of a corresponding target home device according to the device information, the user operation is simplified, and the user experience of the home device is improved. The use of hardware multiplexing of a mobile terminal can enrich the function of the home device without significantly increasing the hardware cost of the home device, and reduce the design difficulty and complexity of the home device. The method includes: obtaining a distance between a target home device and a mobile terminal, and obtaining device information of the target home device when the distance is less than or equal to a preset distance.
US11824675B2
An integrated security system integrates broadband and mobile access and control with conventional security systems and premise devices to provide a tri-mode security network that with remote connectivity and access. The integrated security system includes a touchscreen providing security keypad functionality as well as content management and presentation, and is used as a security system interface and an interface for interacting with a network. The integrated security system delivers remote premise monitoring and control functionality to conventional monitored premise protection and complements existing premise protection equipment. The integrated security system integrates into the premise network and couples wirelessly with the conventional security panel, enabling broadband access to premise security systems. Automation devices can be added, enabling users to remotely see live video or pictures and control home devices via a personal web portal, mobile phone, or other client device. Users can receive notifications of detected events via electronic message.
US11824674B2
Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for participating in a meeting through an application provider using application-specific network slices. A method includes transmitting a request to a mobile network operator (MNO) for setup of a data connection with a device for a meeting provided by an application provider; receiving allowed network slices for the data connection that are generated by the MNO for the meeting; identifying a network slice from the allowed network slices for the meeting based on one or more characteristics specific to the meeting; and establishing the data connection with the mobile network operator based on the network slice.
US11824671B2
A conferencing system transmits a first graphical output associated with a conference to a client device for display without requiring the client device to connect to the conference. Prior to the client device connecting to the conference, the conferencing system receives a request for participant information of the conference. The conferencing system determines the participant information based on the request. The conferencing system transmits a second graphical output to the client device to display the participant information on a display of the client device.
US11824668B2
A redundant system for processing at least one signal is described wherein the redundant system has N+1 devices include N operational devices and one reserve device. The N operational devices and the reserve device are interconnected with each other. The redundant system includes a system control integrated within one of the devices of the redundant system. The redundant system further includes switches that are associated with the operational devices. In case of a failure of a respective operational device, the system control is configured to cause at least one of the devices to operate the switch associated with the respective operational device having the failure. Further, a method of operating a redundant system for processing at least one signal is described.
US11824661B2
The present disclosure relates to a user equipment, a network node and respective communication methods for a user equipment and a network node. A according to some embodiments, a user equipment comprises a transceiver which, in operation, receives data on a plurality of downlink shared channels, the data received on the plurality of downlink shared channels being respectively the same data, and circuitry which, in operation, decodes the data, generates an indicator which indicates whether or not the data has been successfully decoded using the plurality of downlink shared channels. The transceiver, in operation, transmits the indicator on at least one of a plurality of uplink control channels associated respectively with the plurality of downlink shared channels.
US11824657B2
A frame processing method and apparatus are provided, to implement selective receiving in a redundant transmission scenario. According to a method, a destination device receives a first Ethernet frame from a first intermediate node through a first interface, where the first Ethernet frame includes a first time point, and the first time point is a processing time point of the first Ethernet frame on the first intermediate node. The destination device receives a second Ethernet frame from a second intermediate node through a second interface, where the second Ethernet frame includes a second time point, and the second time point is a processing time point of the second Ethernet frame on the second intermediate node. The destination device determines, based on the first time point and the second time point, whether the second Ethernet frame is a duplicate frame of the first Ethernet frame.
US11824655B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission in one or more of a half-duplexing mode or a full-duplexing mode. The UE may attempt to decode the PDSCH transmission using a low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoder. The UE may transmit, to the base station, feedback that indicates a difference between a half-duplex channel quality and a full-duplex channel quality based at least in part on one or more decoding parameters associated with the LDPC decoder. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11824645B2
There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: a hardware platform including a processor, a memory, and a network interface; and instructions encoded within the memory to instruct the processor to: receive an incoming packet via the network interface; extract from the incoming packet a source port and a source internet protocol (IP) address; correlate the source port and source IP to a device identifier (ID); receive a network policy for the device ID; and apply the network policy to the incoming packet.
US11824640B2
Example implementations relate to a method for reconfiguring a network based on network traffic comparison. The first network supports multicast Domain Name Service (mDNS) query with multicast query-response messages. The method includes determining a client type for each client device and a first average packet count for each client type in a first network. The method includes receiving a second average packet count for each corresponding client type from a second network. The second network supports mDNS query with unicast query-response messages. A difference between the first average packet counts and the second average packet counts for corresponding client types is computed. The first network is reconfigured to respond to mDNS query with unicast query-response messages when the difference computed for at least one client type in the first network and each corresponding client type in the second network is above a predefined threshold.
US11824638B2
A cryptographic system comprising an encryption device to generate a ciphertext; a master re-encryption key generation device to generate a master re-encryption key that cannot decrypt a ciphertext generated by the encryption device, but can generate a re-encryption key for changing an access range for a ciphertext generated by the encryption device; re-encryption device to generate a re-encryption key for re-encrypting a target ciphertext generated by the encryption device, using the master re-encryption key, and re-encrypts the target ciphertext to generate a re-encrypted ciphertext, using the generated re-encryption key; and a decryption device to decrypt at least one of the ciphertext generated by the encryption device and the re-encrypted ciphertext generated by the re-encryption device.
US11824632B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating, transmitting, directing, receiving, and processing optical subcarriers. In some implementations, a system includes a Tier 1 switch that supplies a plurality of data channels; a transmitter that receives the plurality of data channels, the transmitter including an optical modulator that supplies a plurality of optical subcarriers based on the plurality of data channels; an optical platform that receives the plurality of optical subcarriers, the optical platform having a plurality of outputs, each of which supplying at least one of the plurality of subcarriers; a plurality of receivers, each receiving one or more of the plurality of optical subcarriers and supplying one or more of the plurality of data channels; and a plurality of servers, each of which receiving one or more of the plurality of data channels.
US11824628B2
A hub node may or have a capacity greater than that of associated leaf nodes. Accordingly, inexpensive leaf nodes may be deployed to receive data carrying optical signals from, and supply data carrying optical signals to, the hub node. One or more connections may couple each leaf node to the hub node, each connection including one or more segments of optical fibers, optical amplifiers, optical splitters/combiners, and optical add/drop multiplexer. Optical subcarriers may be transmitted over such connections, each carrying a data stream. The subcarriers may be generated by a combination of a laser and a modulator. As the capacity requirements of the leaf nodes change, the number of subcarriers associated with, and thus the amount of data provided to, each node, may be changed accordingly.
US11824627B2
Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for utilizing a flexible slot indicator in wireless communication. A base station (BS) may establish communication with a first user equipment device (UE). The BS may determine a transmission direction for each of a plurality of symbols included in one or more slots. The BS may transmit a slot format indicator (SFI) to the UE. The SFI may indicate the transmission direction for each of the plurality of symbols included in one or more slots. The BS and the UE may perform communication during the one or more slots according to the determined transmission direction.
US11824624B2
An operation method of a first communication node in a communication system may comprise receiving one or more transport blocks (TBs) from a second communication node based on transmission parameters in an aggregated transmission period #n; generating decoding results for the one or more TBs; generating information required for changing the transmission parameters based on the decoding results; and transmitting the required information to the second communication node, wherein n is a natural number.
US11824621B2
According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising at least one processing core, at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured to, with the at least one processing core, cause the apparatus at least to receive, from a first beam, information concerning frequency adjustment of a second beam, the second beam being different from the first beam, and apply the information when synchronizing with the second beam, and/or in transmitting to the second beam in an uplink transmission.
US11824618B2
The present disclosure provides a beam failure recovery method, a beam failure recovery device and a terminal device. The beam failure recovery method includes: judging whether it is necessary to delay initiating a BFR procedure when a beam failure occurs for the terminal device in a DRX inactive state; directly initiating, by the terminal device, the BFR procedure when it is unnecessary to delay initiating the BFR procedure; and determining an initiation time point for the BFR procedure when it is necessary to delay initiating the BFR procedure, and initiating the BFR procedure at the initiation time point.
US11824617B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a base station, a report that includes measurements associated with one or more downlink reference signals that are received using a set of candidate downlink beams. The UE may transmit one or more uplink reference signals using a set of candidate uplink beams. The UE may receive, from the base station, information that indicates, among the set of candidate downlink beams and the set of candidate uplink beams, a best uplink beam to use for one or more uplink transmissions. For example, the base station may select the best uplink beam based at least in part on the measurements associated with the one or more downlink reference signals and measurements associated with the one or more uplink reference signals. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11824614B2
A method of performing, by a user equipment (UE), a beam failure recovery (BFR) procedure in a wireless communication system comprises performing a detection of a beam failure, transmitting a beam failure recovery request (BFRQ), and receiving a response to the BFRQ. The detection of the beam failure is related to at least one specific RS, and the at least one specific RS is related to a specific control resource set (CORESET) group of a plurality of CORESET groups.
US11824613B2
Methods and apparatuses for a multi-beam downlink and uplink wireless system. A method of a user equipment includes receiving configuration information for one or more transmission configuration indication (TCI) states and corresponding TCI state identifiers (IDs) and receiving one or more TCI state IDs. The method also includes determining, based on the one or more TCI state IDs, at least one of one or more first spatial domain filters for reception of one or more layers, respectively, of a downlink channel and one or more second spatial domain filters for transmission of one or more layers, respectively, of an uplink channel. The method further includes at least one of receiving the one or more layers of the downlink channel using the one or more first spatial domain filters, respectively, and transmitting the one or more layers of the uplink channel using the one or more second spatial domain filters, respectively.
US11824610B2
Embodiments of a method in a base station configured to transmit and receive wireless signals to and from a user equipment, UE. A downlink channel response of a first UE antenna is determined, based on uplink signals received from the UE. First preceding weights are calculated based on the determined channel response of the first UE antenna. Orthogonal or quasi-orthogonal preceding weights are determined based on the first preceding weights. First and second downlink signal layers are transmitted using the first preceding weights and the orthogonal or quasi-orthogonal preceding weights.
US11824607B2
The disclosure relates to an electronic device and method for a wireless communication system, and a storage medium. Various embodiments regarding beam management are described. In one embodiment, an electronic device for a terminal device side in a wireless communication system can comprise a processing circuit system. The processing circuit system can be configured to obtain random access configuration information, and send a random access preamble based on the random access configuration information, so as to indicate one or more transmission beams of a base station side, in a downlink, paired with one or more receiving beams at the terminal device side.
US11824606B2
A first communication device that simultaneously transmits to a group of two or more second communication devices using multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) communication performs beamforming training with a selected second communication device of said group of second communication devices by transmitting one or more training units, wherein an analog beamforming training matrix and/or a digital beamforming training matrix adapted for beamforming training with the selected second communication device are applied on the one or more training units, receiving from the selected second communication device feedback in response to the transmitted transmit packets, and determining, for use in the simultaneous transmission of data to a group of two or more second communication devices including the selected second communication device, an updated analog beamforming matrix and/or an updated digital beamforming matrix based at least on the received feedback.
US11824601B2
Distributed antenna systems over general use network infrastructures are provided. In one embodiment, a distributed antenna system comprises: a central area node (CAN) coupled to a backbone network, wherein the CAN is configured to communicatively couple to at least one base station via the network, and to communicatively couple to at least one wireless access point via the network. The distributed antenna system is configured to use virtual cables implemented using the network, each of the virtual cables defined by a respective dedicated data channel on the network. The CAN is coupled to the base station and wireless access point using at least some of the virtual cables. Downlink and uplink transport signals are transported between the CAN and the wireless access point through said virtual cables. The downlink transport signals are generated from base station downlink signals and base station uplink signals are generated from the uplink transport signals.
US11824588B1
System, method, and instrumentalities are described herein for transmitting information optically. The optical source may be configured to generate a beam. The beam may include a series of light pulses. The beam of light may be modulated. A modulator may be configured to modulate the series of light pulses in response to a data transmission signal, thereby encoding transmission data into the series of light pulses. The modulated beam of light may be received and both amplified and filtered. The filtered beam of light may be transmitted from to a detector having a photoreceiver. The photoreceiver may be configured to extract the transmission data from the filtered beam of light.
US11824587B1
Systems and methods are described for transmitting information optically. For instance, a system may include an optical source configured to generate a beam of light. The system may include at least one modulator configured to encode data on the beam of light to produce an encoded beam of light/encoded plurality of pulses. The system may include a spectrally-equalizing amplifier configured to receive the encoded beam of light/encoded plurality of pulses from the at least one modulator and both amplify and filter the encoded beam of light/encoded plurality of pulses to produce a filtered beam of light/filtered plurality of pulses, thereby spectrally equalizing a gain applied to the encoded beam of light. In some cases, the system may slice the beam of slight, to ensure a detector has impulsive detection. In some cases, the system may include a temperature controller to shift a distribution curve of wavelengths of the optical source.
US11824568B2
An antenna structure includes a ground element, a first radiation element, a second radiation element, a third radiation element, and a dielectric substrate. The first radiation element has a feeding point. The first radiation element is coupled to a first grounding point on the ground element. The second radiation element is coupled to the feeding point. The third radiation element is coupled to a second grounding point on the ground element. The third radiation element is adjacent to the second radiation element. The ground element, the first radiation element, the second radiation element, and the third radiation element are all disposed on the dielectric substrate.
US11824562B2
A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: generating an N-ary tree structure of three-dimensional points included in three-dimensional data, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 2; generating first encoded data by encoding a first branch using a first encoding process, the first branch having, as a root, a first node included in a first layer that is one of layers included in the N-ary tree structure; generating second encoded data by encoding a second branch using a second encoding process different from the first encoding process, the second branch having, as a root, a second node included in the first layer and different from the first node; and generating a bitstream including the first encoded data and the second encoded data.
US11824560B2
An ECC decoder includes a syndrome calculation block, a fast path controller, a KES block, a CSEE block, an UED, and a multiplexer. The KES block includes a plurality of KES-stages to calculate and output an error location/magnitude polynomial of a syndrome outputted from the syndrome calculation block. Each of a second to last KES-stages of the plurality of KES-stages receives the error location/magnitude polynomial from the previous KES-stage to output an error location/magnitude polynomial generated by an additional calculating operation. The additionally calculated error location/magnitude polynomial is not transmitted to the next KES-stage but directly outputted when an error location and an error magnitude are identified by the additionally calculated error location/magnitude polynomial.
US11824556B1
An apparatus and method for error correction based on soft decision bits and multiple hypotheses includes: maintaining a plurality of previous single bit-flip hypotheses, each hypothesis including a respective bit-flip, a respective pre-flip bit confidence, and a respective hash responsive to the respective bit-flip; receiving a bit and a corresponding bit confidence; comparing the received bit confidence with a highest pre-flip bit confidence of the maintained plurality of single bit-flip hypotheses; and if the received bit confidence is less than the highest pre-flip bit confidence, forming a new single bit-flip hypothesis and replacing a prior bit-flip hypothesis having the highest pre-flip bit confidence with the new hypothesis.
US11824555B2
A digital-to-analog converter device including a set of components, each component included in the set of components including a number of unit cells, each unit cell being associated with a unit cell size indicating manufacturing specifications of the unit cell is provided by the present disclosure. The digital-to-analog converter device further includes a plurality of switches, each switch included in the plurality of switches being coupled to a component included in the set of components, and an output electrode coupled to the plurality of switches. The digital-to-analog converter device is configured to output an output signal at the output electrode. A first unit cell size associated with a first unit cell included in the set of components is different than a second unit cell size associated with a second unit cell included in the set of components.
US11824554B2
An analog-to-digital converter is disclosed that converts an input analog potential to a digital conversion value. An analog-to-digital converter according to one or more embodiments may include a comparator that compares the input analog potential with a reference potential; and a conversion circuit that measures comparison operation time from a start to an end of a comparison operation by the comparator and outputs the digital conversion value according to the measured comparison operation time and a comparison result by the comparator.
US11824552B2
A real-time digital sparkle filter for processing high-speed analog to digital converter (ADC) data is disclosed. The real-time digital sparkle filter for processing a continuous stream of digital data, comprising a high-speed data interface, a digital sparkle filter, and a buffer sequencer. The high-speed data interface receives sample data from an analog to digital converter (ADC). The digital sparkle filter operates continuously on the sample data without losing any samples. The digital sparkle filter comprises one or more logic implemented using field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) configured to continuously process the data without degrading the signal content. The buffer sequencer comprises an input buffer and an output buffer. The input buffer receives the digital data stream data using a first in first out buffer mechanism. The output buffer receives the processed output of the sparkle filter, thereby eliminating the sparkle noise without degrading data content.
US11824548B2
A multiplication injection locked oscillator (MIILO) circuitry includes a ring injection locked oscillator (ILO) circuitry that outputs clock signals, a first switching circuitry and a second switching circuitry. The ring ILO circuitry includes a first path having first delay stages, and a second path having a second delay stages. The first switching circuitry is connected to the first path and a voltage supply node. The first switching circuitry receives a first control signal and a second control signal and selectively connects the voltage supply node to the first path. The second switching circuitry is connected to the second path and a reference voltage node. The second switching circuitry receives the first control signal and the second control signal and selectively connects the reference voltage node to the second path.
US11824546B2
Disclosed are an apparatuses and methods for minimum energy tracking loop that includes an oscillator to imitate a threshold path of a load system and automatically adjust a clock frequency as a supply voltage to the load system is changed, a voltage regulator configured to supply a power, an energy sensing unit which is connected to the oscillator and the voltage regulator and calculates a proportional energy proportional to a total energy consumed by the load system at a specific supply voltage, a minimum energy finder to find a minimum energy point of the load system by monitoring the calculated proportional energy proportional to the total energy at a plurality of supply voltages, a buck converter to supply a power to the load system with a supply voltage at which the load system operates with a minimum energy when the minimum energy point is found in the minimum energy finder.
US11824537B2
An interleaved ring oscillator includes a first ring oscillator having n stages, and a second ring oscillator having n stages, wherein each stage includes a nth first gated inverter in the first ring oscillator and a nth second gated inverter in the second ring oscillator, such that output from the nth first gated inverter enables the nth second gated inverter, and output from the nth second gated inverter enables the nth first gated inverter.
US11824533B1
Voltage level conversion circuits include PMOS pull-down devices or NMOS pull-up devices, and inverters with outputs that determine gate voltages of these devices. The inverters are powered by moving supply voltages, for example complementary supply voltages generated from a pair of cross-coupled inverters. The cross-coupled inverters may implement a data storage latch with the moving supply voltages generated from the internal data storage nodes of the latch.
US11824530B2
An interface circuit may convert an input electrical signal at an input node in a first power domain having a first ground or reference voltage into an output electrical signal at an output node in a second power domain having a second ground or reference voltage. Notably, a level-shifting circuit in the interface circuit may selectively electrically couple to the input node and the output node. Then, when there is electrical coupling, the level-shifting circuit may perform level shifting between the first power domain and the second power domain. The level shifting may involve: passing, using a first filter, frequencies in the input electrical signal below a first corner frequency; passing, using a second filter in parallel with the first filter, frequencies in the input electrical signal above a second corner frequency; and combining outputs of the first filter and the second filter as the output electrical signal.
US11824527B2
An electric circuitry for signal transmission comprises a transmission gate having an input node to apply an input signal. The transmission gate includes a first transistor having an electric conductive channel of a first type of conductivity and a second transistor having an electric conductive channel of a second type of conductivity. The electric circuitry comprises a control circuit to control the signal transmission of the transmission gate. The control circuit is configured to generate a first and second control signal to control the conductivity of the first and second transistor in dependence on a voltage level of the input signal.
US11824520B2
Acoustic resonators and filter devices. An acoustic resonator includes a piezoelectric plate having front and back surfaces, a portion of the piezoelectric plate forming a diaphragm, and a conductor pattern on the front surface, the conductor pattern including an interdigital transducer (IDT), fingers of the IDT on the diaphragm. A thickness of the interleaved fingers is greater than or equal to 0.85 times a thickness of the piezoelectric plate and less than or equal to 2.5 times the thickness of the piezoelectric plate. The IDT comprises a first portion having a first pitch and a first mark and a second portion having a second pitch and a second mark not equal to the first pitch and first mark.
US11824519B2
An acoustic wave device uses a longitudinal acoustic wave, and includes a piezoelectric layer including first and second principal surfaces opposite to each other, an IDT electrode directly or indirectly on the first principal surface, and a high acoustic velocity member directly or indirectly on the second principal surface and including a 4H-type or 6H-type crystal polytype silicon carbide.
US11824518B2
An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate including a crystal axis and an IDT electrode. When an acoustic wave propagation direction is a first direction and a direction perpendicular to the first direction is a second direction, the crystal axis of the piezoelectric substrate is inclined toward the second direction with respect to the thickness direction. The IDT electrode includes first and second electrode fingers interdigitated with each other. The portion where the first and second electrode fingers overlap in the first direction is a crossing region. The crossing region includes a center region that is centrally located in the second direction and first and second low-acoustic-velocity regions that are located on both sides of the center region in the second direction and in which the acoustic velocity is lower than the acoustic velocity in the center region. The first and second low-acoustic-velocity regions are asymmetrical.
US11824516B2
A piezoelectric device includes a container and an AT-cut crystal element. The AT-cut crystal element has at least one side surface intersecting with a Z′-axis of the crystallographic axis of the crystal constituted of three surfaces. The first surface is a surface equivalent to a surface formed by rotating the principal surface by 4°±3.5° with an X-axis of the crystal as a rotation axis. The second surface is a surface equivalent to a surface formed by rotating the principal surface by −57°±5° with the X-axis. The third surface is a surface equivalent to a surface formed by rotating the principal surface by −42°±5° with the X-axis. When two corner portions on a side of a second side opposed to the first side of the AT-cut crystal element are viewed in plan view, each of the two corner portions have an approximately right angle.
US11824511B2
Methods for depositing bulk layer crystalline material having a predetermined c-axis tilt on a substrate include a first step of depositing a first portion of bulk layer material at a first incidence angle to achieve a predetermined c-axis tilt, and a second step of depositing a second portion of the bulk material layer onto the first portion at a second incidence angle that is smaller than the first incidence angle. The second portion has a second c-axis tilt that substantially aligns with the first c-axis tilt.
US11824508B2
An integrated circuit device is provided. In some examples, the integrated circuit device includes an amplifier stage that receives an input signal and a control signal and provides an amplified signal in response. A main path is coupled to the amplifier stage that receives the amplified signal and provides a first feedback signal corresponding to a signal strength of a data-bearing portion of the input signal. A control path also receives the amplified signal and provides a second feedback signal corresponding to a signal strength of the data-bearing portion and an interference component. A gain control circuit is coupled to the main path and the control path that receives the first and second feedback signals and provides the control signal in response to the feedback signals. In some such examples, the control path and main path include separate mixer stages with different performance characteristics.
US11824493B2
A power converter box and at least one junction box are integrated on a backplane of the photovoltaic module as a whole, and there is a cable for connecting the power converter and the junction box. In this case, relative to the conventional technology in which a junction box is independent of a power converter, a length of a cable used when the junction box and the power converter box are taken as a whole is shorter than a length of a cable used in the conventional technology. In this case, compared with the conventional technology in which a cable is connected to an independently placed power converter, the power converter only needs to establish a connection relationship by using a solder ribbon, a circuit board cable, and the like with low costs, so that production costs are low.
US11824491B2
A support structure for a solar panel includes a beam disposed above a post. The beam includes a first side recessed inwards to form a first rectilinear groove extending in a longitudinal direction of the beam. The first rectilinear groove includes a groove opening having two opposite edges each of which inclines downwards to form a slant face connected to the first side. A spacing between two opposite inclined groove walls of the first rectilinear groove gradually decreases towards the groove opening. A U-shaped saddle is disposed between the post and the beam and straddles a top portion of the post. Two sides of the saddle respectively abut two outer faces of the post and are secured to the post. A top portion of the saddle is secured to the beam by a fastener unit.
US11824486B2
A system including a plurality of photovoltaic modules and a plurality of roofing shingles installed on a roof deck. Each of the photovoltaic modules includes a plurality of solar cells. Each of the plurality of roofing shingles includes a core layer and a cap layer composed of a first polymer material and having a first surface and a pattern printed on the first surface. The pattern includes a depiction of a plurality of solar cells that extends between the first end and the second end.
US11824484B2
A solar energy roof tile, thermally and/or electrically conductively connected to an adjacent solar energy roof tile, includes a lower face for placing on at least some regions of a roof construction, an upper face opposite the lower face formed at least in some regions by a solar energy utilisation module, two opposite lateral walls, a rear face connecting the lateral walls, and a front face opposite the rear face that connects the lateral walls. The two lateral walls, the rear face and front face together connect the lower and upper faces, such that a cavity is formed between the two lateral walls, the rear face, front face, and lower and upper faces. The lower face has, in the region of the front face, a lower opening for providing access. The upper face has, in the region of the rear face, an upper opening for providing access into the cavity.
US11824478B2
A sensor device includes a first sensor element that generates a first sensor signal based on a varying magnetic field; a second sensor element that generates a second sensor signal based on the varying magnetic field; a signal processing circuit configured to generate a first pulsed signal based on the first sensor signal and generate a second pulsed signal based on the second sensor signal; a fault detector that detects a fault and generates an error signal indicating the fault; and an output generator that receives the error signal based on a first condition that the fault detector detects the fault, and simultaneously outputs a first output signal and a second output signal. In response to the first condition being satisfied, the output generator maintains the first output signal in a steady state and outputs the second pulsed signal as the second output signal.
US11824477B2
A rotary electric machine control device includes: a plurality of mutually-independent motor system lines, each having a motor with a servomechanism and a drive controller for driving and controlling the motor (3); and a cooperative controller which, when occurrence of a failure of the drive controller is detected in one motor system line in the plurality of the motor system lines, establishes a connection path for causing the motor of the one motor system line where the occurrence of the failure has been detected, to be driven using at least one part of the drive controller in another motor system line in that motor system lines.
US11824472B2
A motor drive apparatus includes a motor, a power converter, and a controller that controls the voltage supplied to the motor by the power converter. The power converter converts a voltage of a 400 V-class AC power supply to a voltage with an effective value lower than an effective value of the 400 V-class AC power supply. The power converter converts the voltage by a switching operation of a plurality of switching elements. The motor is configured so that a value of φ×Vx/Ld is greater than Pmax when an effective value voltage Vx=200 V. A d-axis inductance of the motor is Ld. A flux linkage of the motor is φ. A maximum output of the motor in a device where the motor is mounted is Pmax. The controller has a control mode in which an effective value voltage higher than Vx is applied to the motor.
US11824467B2
An actuator has a flexible electrode that has flexibility and a base electrode of which an opposing surface facing the flexible electrode is covered with an insulation layer, and is configured such that, when a voltage is applied between flexible electrode and the base electrode, the flexible electrode deforms so as to approach the opposing surface. The actuator includes a restraining member that restrains the flexible electrode on the base electrode. The flexible electrode has a deforming portion that deforms when a voltage is applied between the electrodes. The deforming portion deforms in a direction of approaching the opposing surface, with the restraining member serving as a support point.
US11824464B2
The present invention is directed to provide a semiconductor device capable of protecting a switching element even though having a capacitor connected to a control signal input terminal of the switching element. Semiconductor device includes an IGBT including a gate configured to be input a gate signal and a current detection terminal used to detect at least one of overcurrent or short-circuit current, a gate capacitor arranged between the gate and a reference potential terminal, the gate capacitor being disconnected from the gate as needed, and a disconnection unit configured to disconnect a connection between the gate capacitor and the gate when a detection current being a current output from the current detection terminal is equal to or larger than a first current set on a basis of a minimum current causing oscillation in a loop circuit formed by including the IGBT and the gate capacitor.
US11824463B1
A multiple output voltage generator includes a voltage divider and first and second voltage converters. The voltage divider receives a power voltage and divides the power voltage to generate a first output voltage. The first and second voltage converters are coupled to the voltage divider in parallel. The first voltage converter and the second voltage converter converting the first output voltage to respectively generate a second output voltage and a third output voltage.
US11824461B2
Various examples are provided related to modular multilevel converter (MMC) scale-up control methodologies which can be applied for MV and HV DC applications. In one example, an MMC includes first and second legs each with submodule (SM) groups connected in series, where each SM group includes a plurality of SMs; local group controllers that can control a corresponding SM group; and a central controller that can control output voltage of the MMC via the local group controllers. The local group controllers can provide capacitor voltage balancing (CVB) control of corresponding SM groups.
US11824460B2
A power converter includes a power module, a terminal block, a housing that houses the power module and the terminal block, and a bus bar that electrically connects the power module and a conductive member connected to an electric component outside the housing. The terminal block is a member that electrically connects the bus bar and the conductive member, has a first surface, a second surface facing the first surface, and a connection surface that connects the first surface and the second surface, and includes a fastening member provided on the second surface to be movable with respect to the terminal block. The bus bar is formed between the power module and the conductive member to surround the first surface, the connection surface, and the second surface of the terminal block, and is connected to the conductive member on the second surface via the fastening member.
US11824459B2
A synchronous average harmonic current controller for a bidirectional resonant power converter provides efficient load invariant voltage gain. The controller includes a switched capacitor filter which averages and compensates a current signal over each half of the synchronous switching period. The control signal encodes an independent modulated phase and non-modulated differential duty cycle error response. The error response signals provide negative feedback to a pulse width modulation stage which results in reduction of the synchronous average harmonic current. At this operating point, the harmonic voltage gain is related closely to the commanded bridge duty cycles.
US11824452B2
According to the integrated power conversion apparatus and method according to the exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the on-board battery charger (OBC), the lower voltage battery charger (LDC), and the traction converter (TC) are integrated to convert the power so that all the functions which need to be performed by the power conversion system of the related art can be performed. Further, the number of switches is reduced to increase a power density and not only the number of switches, but also the number of controllers is reduced to improve feasibility.
US11824447B2
An example redundant power supply system comprises a power supply input to receive power from a power supply; a buck-boost converter coupled to the power supply input; and a controller coupled to the buck-boost converter. The controller is to receive a power supply identification signal from the power supply. The controller is also to enable or disable the buck-boost converter based on the power supply identification signal.
US11824444B1
A driver chip for a half-bridge circuit includes a drive module and a programming module. The drive module is configured to receive an enabling signal and at least one input signal. The drive module outputs a high-side output signal to a high-side switch and a low-side output signal to a low-side switch, respectively. The programming module includes a decoding unit configured to receive the enabling signal and the at least one input signal. The programming module further includes a preset unit coupled to the decoding unit. The decoding unit outputs decoded data to the preset unit, and the preset unit outputs a circuit parameter.
US11824440B2
A power factor correction circuit comprising: a global voltage input; and means for deriving a reference current from the global voltage; whereby the means for deriving the reference current comprises a digital leading phase admittance cancellation, DLPAC, transfer function and a filter, whereby the reference current is derived from a sum of an output of the DLPAC transfer function and an output of the filter, and further comprising means for compensating for delays in the DLPAC function.
US11824438B2
A controller includes first and second half bridge sense circuits coupled to a half bridge node. The half bridge node is coupled between a high side switch and a low side switch coupled to an input. A rising slew detection circuit is coupled to the first half bridge sense circuit to output a first slew detection signal in response to a rising slew event at the half bridge node. A falling slew detection circuit is coupled to the second half bridge sense circuit to output a second slew detection signal in response to a falling slew event at the half bridge node. A control circuit coupled to output a high side drive signal to the high side switch and a low side drive signal to the low side switch in response to the first slew detection signal, the second slew detection signal, and a feedback signal.
US11824434B2
An integrated driver applied to a voltage converter having a switched capacitor conversion circuit, the integrated driver including: a first die having a first-type power transistor; a second die including at least one second-type power transistor, where a withstand voltage of the first-type power transistor is higher than a withstand voltage of the second-type power transistor; and where the first die and the second die are coupled in series between a high potential terminal and a low potential terminal of the voltage converter, such that the first-type power transistor receives a high voltage signal.
US11824426B2
The motor cooling member includes: an oil feed port to which oil is fed; a plurality of discharge ports that discharge oil toward a motor; a basis oil passage connected to the oil feed port; and a plurality of derived oil passages each of which is formed by branching from the basis oil passage so as to correspond to each of the plurality of discharge ports and is formed so as to connect the basis oil passage to each of the discharge ports, and which are formed in different shapes from each other.
US11824417B2
An actuator with a multipolar magnet structure includes a carrier configured so that a lens is loaded thereon, the carrier being configured to linearly move along an optical axis direction, a housing configured to accommodate the carrier, a coil unit provided in the housing and having an n number of coils arranged along the optical axis direction in the same side of the housing, where n is a natural number of 2 or above, and a magnet mounted to the same side of the carrier to face the coil unit, the magnet having an n+1 number of magnetic poles facing the coil unit.
US11824416B2
A linear actuator, comprising: a base; a fixed part support mechanism attached to the base; a fixed part elastically supported by the fixed part support mechanism; and a movable part driven to reciprocate in a predetermined drive direction with respect to the fixed part, wherein the fixed part support mechanism comprises: a movable block attached to the fixed part; a linear guide that couples the movable block with the base to be slidable in the predetermined drive direction; and an elastic member that is disposed between the base and the movable block and prevents transmission of a high frequency component of vibration in the predetermined drive direction.
US11824409B2
The present disclosure provides a direct starting synchronous reluctance motor rotor, a motor and a rotor manufacturing method. The direct starting synchronous reluctance motor rotor comprises: a rotor core provided with a plurality of slit grooves, two ends of each of the slit grooves being provided with a filling groove respectively to form a magnetic barrier layer, a first end of the filling groove being disposed adjacent to the slit groove, a second end of the filling groove being extended towards an outside of the rotor core, and an outer peripheral surface of the rotor core being provided with a notch communicated with the second end of the filling groove. By disposing notches and bevels at the end of the filling grooves, a reluctance torque of the motor can be increased, and then torque ripples generated by rotor and stator slots can be weakened mutually, thereby achieving the purpose of reducing the torque ripple of the motor and vibration noise of the motor, while improving an efficiency of the motor with the rotor and a starting capability of the motor.
US11824404B2
A motor with an outer rotor, including an inner stator, an outer rotor with a cylindrical structure having an open end, a controller, and a cooling fan. The outer rotor is rotatably sleeved at one end of the inner stator in an axial direction of the inner stator; the controller is arranged at the other end of the inner stator; the cooling fan is annularly arranged in a circumferential direction of the outer rotor at one end of the outer rotor close to the controller, and is located in an avoidance space formed between the controller and the outer rotor, so as to convey air to the controller and the outer rotor.
US11824402B2
An apparatus for cooling a coil of a motor includes a cooling cap unit covering an end coil of a stator coil bundle, coupled to a stator, and having, formed therein, a flow path through which fluid is able to flow; an inlet flow path unit formed at one part of the cooling cap unit, and forming an inlet path through which fluid is introduced into the cooling cap unit; an outlet flow path unit formed at the other part of the cooling cap unit, and forming an outlet path through which fluid is discharged to an outside of the cooling cap unit; and a cap fixing unit fixing the cooling cap unit to the stator or a motor housing.
US11824401B2
In the stator core, recessed surface portions uniformly recessed toward an inner side in a radial direction over a range wider than a width of each of pole teeth are respectively formed on an outer peripheral surface where an annular back yoke and each of the pole teeth provided to protrude on the inner side in the radial direction cross each other.
US11824394B2
There are provided a battery management apparatus, a battery management method and a battery pack. The battery management apparatus generates a first data set including a first current value, a first voltage value and a first temperature value indicating a current, a voltage and a temperature of a battery. The battery management apparatus generates a second data set from the first data set using an error generator. The battery management apparatus determines a first candidate value, a second candidate value and a third candidate value for a state of charge (SOC) respectively from the first current value, the first data set and the second data set. The control unit updates a correction value when a second difference value between the first candidate value and the third candidate value is smaller than a first difference value between the first candidate value and the second candidate value.
US11824393B2
A power supply device for providing a driving voltage of an encryption/decryption device. When the encryption/decryption device is in operation and its driving voltage falls within the voltage range formed by an upper limit voltage and a lower limit voltage, only a supply voltage provided by a secure power supply device is used as the driving voltage for the encryption/decryption device. When the encryption and decryption device is in operation and its driving voltage falls outside the voltage range formed by the upper limit voltage and the lower limit voltage, the supply voltage and a stable voltage provided by the stable voltage source are used as the driving voltage at the same time, the supply voltage is further adjusted until the driving voltage falls within the voltage range formed by the upper limit voltage and the lower limit voltage, and then continue to use only the supply voltage as the driving voltage.
US11824391B2
A device includes an amplifier having inverting and non-inverting inputs and an output. The device includes a capacitor coupled to a first node and to ground, a resistor coupled to the first node and the amplifier output, and a first switch coupled to the first node and a current sink, which is coupled to ground. The device includes AND gate having inputs and an output coupled to control terminal of first switch. The device includes a first comparator having non-inverting and inverting inputs and an output coupled to an AND gate input; a second comparator having a non-inverting input coupled to the amplifier output, an inverting input coupled to a transistor stack, and an output coupled to an AND gate input; and a second switch coupled to the transistor stack and to a current source, the second switch having a control terminal coupled to the first comparator output.
US11824389B2
A loudspeaker includes an enclosure defining an open front side, and an audio transducer positioned within the enclosure and configured to emit sound in a forward direction from the open front side of the enclosure. A battery receptacle is provided by the enclosure, and a removable battery pack assembly is selectively received within the battery receptacle along a longitudinal direction. The removable battery pack assembly includes a battery pack having a plurality of electrochemical cells to generate an output voltage configured to power the audio transducer. A connector at an insertion end of the battery pack electrically connects the electrochemical cells with the audio transducer. A battery door is secured with a plurality of removable fasteners to a base end of the battery pack opposite the insertion end. The battery door is further secured to the enclosure with a threaded fastener configured to be tightened parallel to the longitudinal direction.
US11824386B2
A magnetic wireless charging holder includes a holder body and a main body. The main body is disposed on the holder body. The main body includes a housing, a wireless charging module, and a first magnet configured to attract a built-in magnet of a mobile phone. A magnetic shield is fixed in the housing for attracting and positioning the first magnet. With the first magnet, the product has a magnetic attraction function. The first magnet and the built-in magnet of the mobile phone are mutually attracted each other to achieve a rapid and accurate alignment.
US11824383B2
A multi-functional, portable device for use in situations where electricity is not available or convenient is disclosed. A portable safety device includes a power charger and air compressor that may safely jump start a vehicle and recharge portable electronic devices, such as phones and laptop computers, as well as inflate vehicle tires or other inflatable objects, when a standard external power source is not convenient. It may also be used for providing an emergency light source.
US11824377B2
Methods and devices useful in performing magneto-inductive charging and communication in the absence of a cellular and/or internet network connection are provided. By way of example, an electronic device includes inductive charging and communication circuitry configured to receive a signal configured to induce a charging function based at least in part on an inductive coil coupled to the inductive charging and communication circuitry. Inducing the charging function includes charging an energy storage component of the electronic device. The inductive charging and communication circuitry is also configured receive an indication to switch from the charging function to a communication function. The communication function is based at least in part on the inductive coil. The inductive charging and communication circuitry is further configured establish a communication link between the electronic device using the inductive coil to transmit and receive communication signals.
US11824369B2
A wireless power transmission system includes a transmission line, one end of which is connected to a power reception unit configured to receive AC power, a splitting unit, one end of which is connected to an other end of the transmission line and an other end of which is split into a plurality of transmission lines, a first rectification unit connected to a second transmission line of the splitting unit, and a second rectification unit connected to a third transmission line. A transmission line length of the second transmission line and a transmission line length of the third transmission line are each substantially equal to one fourth of a wavelength of the AC power.
US11824356B1
A system and a method of black start for a combined operation of wind power, photovoltaic power, energy storage, and thermal power includes a renewable energy alternating current microgrid module, a power transmission and distribution module, and a thermal power generation module, the power transmission and distribution module is coupled to the renewable energy alternating current microgrid module and the thermal power generation module respectively. The renewable energy alternating current microgrid module includes a photovoltaic unit, a wind power unit, and an energy storage unit. The power transmission and distribution module is configured to transmit the electrical energy generated by the renewable energy alternating current microgrid module to the thermal power generation module. The thermal power generation module is configured to start an auxiliary equipment using the electrical energy transmitted by the power transmission and distribution module.
US11824355B2
A system may include a flywheel including one or more plates and coupled at a central axis of rotation to a flywheel bearing, the flywheel being adapted to rotate about the central axis. A system may include a flywheel housing providing vertical support to the flywheel bearing. A system may include the flywheel bearing coupling the flywheel to the flywheel housing. A system may include a motor assembly including a motor adapted to convert an input electrical current to rotational momentum by spinning up the flywheel, the motor further being adapted to convert the rotational momentum of the flywheel into an output electrical current. A system may include a flywheel coupling adapted to couple the motor assembly with the flywheel and impart rotational force between the motor and the flywheel.
US11824347B2
The present invention discloses parallel, series and hybrid ESD protection circuits. A preferred parallel ESD protection circuit comprises a plurality of ESD devices connected in parallel, with each comprising a resistor and an OTS component connected in series. A preferred series ESD protection circuit comprises a plurality of ESD devices connected in series, wherein the OTS components in all ESD devices are disposed on a same level. A preferred hybrid ESD protections circuit comprises ESD devices connected in parallel, as well as in series.
US11824335B2
The present invention aims to suppress a case in which paths of linear transmission members are disturbed on a sheet-shaped member or linear transmission members separate from a sheet-shaped member when a wiring member obtained by fixing linear transmission members on a sheet-shaped member is folded. The wiring member includes a sheet-shaped member and multiple linear transmission members that are fixed on the sheet-shaped member. The plurality of linear transmission members are fixed on the sheet-shaped member such that a portion of the plurality of linear transmission members branches with respect to another said linear transmission member at a branching portion. An intersection location of the plurality of linear transmission members is located at only the branching portion.
US11824320B2
An optical amplifier uses, in a gain medium, a multicore optical fiber having a plurality of cores, and comprises: an input-light power monitor that monitors the optical power of input light to the plurality of cores of the multicore optical fiber; an output-light power monitor that monitors the optical power of medium-passed output light from the plurality of cores that has passed through the multicore optical fiber; a crosstalk monitor that monitors the amount of inter-core crosstalk among the plurality of cores; and a controller that controls the pump-light power of pump light superimposed on the input light to the plurality of cores on the basis of the monitored optical power of input light, the monitored optical power of output light, and the monitored amount of inter-core crosstalk.
US11824317B2
This present invention relates to an electric testing assistance tool in the form a wire nut or electrical connector. The tool is a funnel shaped flame resistant and insulating device and has a top end and a bottom end with curved walls. The top end includes a central hole to receive a testing probe of a tester device. The device has an internal metal spiral thread connected to a metal ball connector. The metal spiral thread twistable about a plurality of wire end leads. The leads extending from the bottom end opening are connected to a target wiring whose electrical parameters and continuity is to be measured using the electric testing assistance tool. The testing probe can be inserted through the central hole to contact the metal ball to measure the electric parameters and continuity of the target wiring.
US11824315B2
A coaxial connector and a coaxial cable forming a cable assembly. The coaxial connector includes a cable entry side for entry of the coaxial cable and an opposite coupling side for coupling with the coaxial counter connector along the connector axis. The coaxial connector includes an inner contact element electrically connected with an inner conductor of the coaxial cable; an outer contact element electrically connected with an outer conductor of the coaxial cable; a dielectric connector element radially arranged between the inner contact element and the outer contact element; a connector housing arranged around the outer contact element; wherein the inner contact element is axially locked against the dielectric connector element and the dielectric connector element is axially locked against the connector housing such that the coaxial cable is strain relieved in an axial direction with respect to the connector housing.
US11824314B2
A coaxial cable connector includes a body configured to engage a coaxial cable having a conductive electrical grounding property, a post configured to engage the body and the coaxial cable when the connector is installed on the coaxial cable, and a non-threaded coupler coupled with the body and the post. The coupler is configured to engage an interface port at a retention force, and the non-threaded coupler houses a spring basket that bow radially inward relative to an internal surface of the threaded coupler so as to engage an interface port in order to provide an electrical ground connection between the interface port and the coupler.
US11824312B2
Electromagnetic shielding about both of electric connectors, which are in a mutually mated state, can be sufficiently carried out by a simple configuration. Shield wall portions composed of electrically-conductive members opposed to contact connecting portions (board connecting portions) of a plurality of contact members arranged in multipolar shapes are provided; electromagnetic shielding functions with respect to the contact connecting portions in the respective electric connectors are obtained well by the respective shield wall portions; and, when both of the electric connectors are mated with each other, the shield wall portions are configured to be in an inner/outer double disposition relation in which they are opposed to each other and efficiently block the gaps between the shield wall portions and wiring boards so that sufficient EMI measures can be expected.
US11824311B2
A modular electrical connector facilitates low loss connections to components on a printed circuit board. A portion is of the connector is formed of one or more first type units with conductive elements designed to be attached to a printed circuit board. Signals passing through those units may be routed to components on the printed circuit board through traces in the board. One or more second type units may be integrated with the connector. Those units may be designed for attachment to a cable, which may provide signal paths to a location on the printed circuit board near relatively distant components.
US11824307B2
The presentation invention relates to a first electrical connector element for a modular construction element and/or system, including a first connector part having a plurality of electrical contacts electrically connected to a plurality of electrical conductors. The first electrical connector is adapted to connect with a second electrical connector element, and includes a strain relief part to securely hold the plurality of electrical conductors thereby securing the plurality of electrical conductors to the first electrical connector element. The first electrical connector also includes a number of lock and release elements for engaging with the second electrical connector element when mechanically and electrically coupled together and releasing the coupling of the first and the second electrical connector elements when subjected to one or more pull forces above a predetermined release threshold.
US11824305B2
An electrical connector assembly including an electrical connector and a shell partially surrounding an insulative housing of the electrical connector. The insulative housing has a mating face with a socket formed therein. The socket can receive a first printed circuit board of a first electronic device such as a solid state drive (SSD). The shell includes a die cast body that has an outer shell and an inner shell separated by a slot. The inner shell includes an opening and the insulative housing is disposed within the opening. The slot receives an edge of a housing of the first electronic device. The shell includes features attached to a second electronic device such as a second printed circuit board (e.g., a motherboard). The shell includes a latching mechanism movably mounted to the body. Such configuration enables a robust and reliable electrical connection between the first electronic system and the second electronic system.
US11824304B2
An electrical connector includes a male connector and a female connector. The male connector has a housing, a first tubular conductor, a second tubular conductor, and an inner conductor. The first tubular conductor is carried by the housing and has an exposed first cylindrical contact surface. The second tubular conductor has an exposed second cylindrical contact surface of a smaller diameter than the first cylindrical contact surface. The inner conductor has an exposed contact surface that has a smaller diameter than the second cylindrical contact surface. The female connector has a non-conductive female connector housing and three electrical contacts carried by the female connector housing. Each of the three electrical contacts electrically connect, with the male connector engaged with the female connector, to a respective one of the contact surfaces of the male connector.
US11824303B2
A test adapter assembly for an interface. The test adapter assembly has a test adapter frame having a first pair of opposing sides, a second pair of opposing sides and an engagement mechanism support member, the second pair of opposing sides being shorter than the first pair of opposing side, the first and second pairs of opposing sides forming a test adapter face; and a collar support member, the collar support member having plate portion mounted to one of the second pair of opposing sides of the test adapter frame and a collar mounting portion extending from the plate portion at an angle of 40-50° relative to the face of the test adapter frame.
US11824287B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for electrically contacting a control/evaluation electronics of a field device of automation technology with an external energy supply and/or a controller, wherein the control/evaluation electronics of the field device is arranged on a circuit card, wherein at least one terminal box is provided, in which a plurality of adjoining electrical connection terminals are provided, wherein the electrical connection terminals serve, in each case, for accommodating an electrical connecting element, wherein the electrical connecting elements are connected mechanically and electrically with the circuit card, in each case, via a solder pad, and wherein there are provided between each two solder pads vacancies in the circuit card, which are so embodied that the length of the leakage preventing distance between the solder pads satisfies a predetermined ignition protection type.
US11824282B2
An antenna element according to an embodiment includes a radiation body formed in a mesh structure, a first transmission line and a second transmission line connected to the radiation body and formed in a mesh structure, and a first signal pad and a second signal pad which are respectively connected to the first transmission line and the second transmission line and are formed in a bent shape with a solid structure.
US11824279B2
Systems and methods are provided for a digital beamformed phased array feed. The system may include a radome configured to allow electromagnetic waves to propagate; a multi-band software defined antenna array tile; a power and clock management subsystem configured to manage power and time of operation; a thermal management subsystem configured to dissipate heat generated by the multi-band software defined antenna array tile; and an enclosure assembly. The multi-band software defined antenna array tile may include a plurality of coupled dipole array antenna elements; a plurality of frequency converters; and a plurality of digital beamformers.
US11824274B2
Phase shifters for communication systems are provided herein. In certain embodiments, a phase shifter includes a plurality of phase shifting sections and a plurality of selection switches each coupled to a corresponding one of the phase shifting sections. The selection switches are formed on a semiconductor die, and are operable to connect one or more selected phase shifting sections between an input terminal and an output terminal, thereby controlling an overall phase shift provided by the phase shifter.
US11824269B2
A monitor system is provided for wireless communication between a message source and a wearer needing guidance or information from the message source. The monitor system includes a wireless earpiece speaker device. A short-range radio receiver is coupled to the earpiece device. A transceiver in the system includes a long-range radio frequency receiver to receive a long-range radio frequency signal from an ultrahigh frequency (UHF) band source or a very high frequency (VHF) band source. The transceiver also includes a short-range transmitter module that converts the long-range radio frequency signal into a short-range radio frequency signal and communicates the short-range frequency signal to the earpiece speaker device.
US11824265B2
An antenna module is an array antenna in which an array of antenna elements extends in at least a first direction. The array of antenna elements in the first direction includes a first antenna group in a middle portion and a second antenna group in two end portions adjacent to the middle portion. The antenna elements in the first antenna group are unequally spaced. The spacing between adjacent antenna elements in the second antenna group is greater than the maximum spacing between adjacent elements in the first antenna group. The amplitude distribution in the antenna module as a whole in the first direction is in a unimodal form in which the amplitude of a radio-frequency signal fed to the antenna elements in the second antenna group is smaller than the amplitude of a radio-frequency signal fed to the antenna elements in the first antenna group.
US11824264B2
Methods for constructing multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) antenna arrays, may include: variable doping of the MWCNTs, forming light pipes with layers of variable dielectric glass, forming geometric diodes on full-wave rectified devices that propagate both electrons and holes, using clear conductive ground plans to form windows that can control a building's internal temperature, and generating multiple lithographic patterns with a single mask.
US11824263B2
A system includes a first antenna and a second antenna. The first antenna includes an antenna section. The antenna section includes a first antenna segment, a second antenna segment adjacent to the first antenna segment, and a notch circuit disposed within a notch between the first antenna segment and the second antenna segment. The notch circuit prevents a first frequency of a signal from passing from the first antenna segment to the second antenna segment while allowing a second frequency from the signal to pass from the first antenna segment to the second antenna segment. The second antenna is disposed proximate to the first antenna. The first antenna occupies a second near field region of the second antenna and the second antenna occupies a first near field region of the first antenna.
US11824255B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to using cobalt (Co) to fine tune the magnetic properties, such as permeability and magnetic loss, of nickel-zinc ferrites to improve the material performance in electronic applications. The method comprises replacing nickel (Ni) with sufficient Co+2 such that the relaxation peak associated with the Co+2 substitution and the relaxation peak associated with the nickel to zinc (Ni/Zn) ratio are into near coincidence. When the relaxation peaks overlap, the material permeability can be substantially maximized and magnetic loss substantially minimized. The resulting materials are useful and provide superior performance particularly for devices operating at the 13.56 MHz ISM band.
US11824244B2
A fuel cell stack includes: a substrate; a first fuel cell including a fuel side electrode, an electrolyte, and an oxygen side electrode on the substrate, the first fuel cell being a single fuel cell; a second fuel cell including a fuel side electrode, an electrolyte, and an oxygen side electrode on the substrate, the second fuel cell being a single fuel cell; an interconnector film electrically connecting the fuel side electrode of the first fuel cell and the oxygen side electrode of the second fuel cell; and a porous ceramic film covering at least the interconnector film in a region between the fuel side electrode of the first fuel cell and the fuel side electrode of the second fuel cell.
US11824238B2
An illustrative example system for managing hydrogen utilization in a fuel cell power plant includes a first hydrogen concentration sensor that provides an indication of a first concentration of hydrogen in a fluid flowing into an anode inlet of the power plant. A second hydrogen concentration sensor provides an indication of a second concentration of hydrogen in a fluid flowing out of an anode exit of the power plant. A processor determines a utilization of hydrogen by the power plant based on the first and second concentrations.
US11824237B2
A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack, a circulation circuit, a gas liquid separator section, a purge channel, a purge valve and an ECU. In a method of operating the fuel cell system at low temperature, after start-up of the fuel cell system, the ECU performs a freezing determination processing step of determining freezing or non-freezing of the gas liquid separator, and in the case where freezing of the gas liquid separator is determined in the freezing determination step, the ECU performs a freezing confirmation processing step of immediately opening the purge valve for predetermined time.
US11824226B2
In a battery module, a plurality of unit batteries in which positive electrode terminals and negative electrode terminals are arranged at one-side ends are arranged in a staggered pattern while the one-side ends are arrayed on the same side, n pieces of battery blocks in which m pieces of the unit batteries adjacent to one another are connected in parallel to one another are connected in series to one another, two or more rows in which the unit batteries are arranged in a direction perpendicular to a series current direction are present on one battery block, the number of the unit batteries in each row is less than or equal to (m−1), an electrically insulating plate is arranged above the one-side ends of the plurality of arrayed unit batteries, the plate is provided with holes from which the positive electrode terminals and the negative electrode terminals of the respective unit batteries are exposed, and is provided with a plurality of conductive members on a surface opposite to a surface facing the unit batteries, and the conductive members extend along the rows in which the unit batteries in the battery blocks are arrayed, two conductive members are arranged with respect to one battery block, and the conductive members are provided with terminal connecting portions connected through the holes to the same-polarity terminals of the respective unit batteries included in one battery block.
US11824213B2
The present application provides a battery unit, a battery module, and a vehicle. The battery unit includes a housing, a cover plate, a first battery post, a second battery post, and an electrode core. The housing is provided with an opening. The cover plate covers the opening. The electrode core is disposed inside the housing. The cover plate includes a cover plate body and a concave cavity portion that is concave inward relative to an outer surface of the cover plate body. The first battery post is accommodated in the concave cavity portion. A first electrode tab of the electrode core is electrically connected to the first battery post. The second battery post is electrically connected to the cover plate body. A second electrode tab of the electrode core is electrically connected to the cover plate body.
US11824207B2
Fuel cell electrocatalysts and support structures thereof are described herein. The support structures include a suboxide core comprising an oxygen deficient metal oxide and a dopant, and an outer shell covering the suboxide core. The outer shell comprises the dopant in oxide form. The dopant of the suboxide core provides for the suboxide core to be conductive. Methods of forming fuel cell electrocatalysts and support structures thereof are also described herein.
US11824202B2
A secondary battery includes: a positive electrode having a positive-electrode current collector and a positive-electrode active-material layer; a negative electrode having a negative-electrode current collector and a negative-electrode active-material layer; a electrolyte; and an insulating tape covering a portion of the positive electrode. Furthermore, the positive-electrode current collector has an exposed section that the positive-electrode active-material layer is not disposed. In addition, at least a portion of the exposed section is covered with the insulating tape; the insulating tape has a substrate material layer and an adhesive layer; and the adhesive layer includes an adhesive agent and an insulating inorganic material.
US11824200B2
A conductive material dispersion includes a carbon-based conductive material, a main dispersant, an auxiliary dispersant, and a dispersion medium, wherein the main dispersant is a nitrile-based copolymer and the auxiliary dispersant is a copolymer including an oxyalkylene unit and at least one selected from the group consisting of a styrene unit and an alkylene unit.
US11824196B2
A negative electrode slurry includes a negative active material including a first active material in an amount of greater than or equal to about 5 wt % and less than or equal to about 100 wt %, a binder for binding the negative active material, and a solvent for dispersing the negative active material and the binder in the negative electrode slurry, wherein the first active material contains silicon atoms in an amount of greater than or equal to about 20 wt % and less than or equal to about 100 wt %, the binder includes a particulate dispersed body and a water-soluble polymer containing an acrylic acid-acrylonitrile-based copolymer, and when a sum of an amount of the negative active material and an amount of the binder is 100 wt %, an amount of the water-soluble polymer is greater than or equal to about 0.5 wt % and less than or equal to about 2 wt %.
US11824193B2
Provided is a method of manufacturing a positive electrode active material, which includes: (A) preparing a positive electrode active material precursor which includes a core portion including randomly aggregated primary particles and a shell portion surrounding the core portion and formed of primary particles oriented in a direction from a particle center to the outside and in which a ratio of a crystal grain size in the (100) plane to a crystal grain size in the (001) plane of the primary particles forming the shell portion is 3 or more; and (B) mixing the positive electrode active material precursor with a lithium-containing raw material and firing the mixture, wherein the lithium transition metal oxide has an average particle diameter (D50) that is 0.01% to 20% reduced as compared to an average particle diameter (D50) of the positive electrode active material precursor.
US11824190B2
Disclosed are a cathode material for a lithium secondary battery and a method of manufacturing the same. For instance, the lithium secondary battery may have a high energy density by using only a single cathode material. Particularly, the cathode material for a lithium secondary battery includes a Li—[Mn—Ti]—Al—O-based cathode active material; and a carbon nanotube (CNT) attached to the surface of the cathode active material in an acid-treated state to be formed as a composite.
US11824187B2
A negative electrode active substance is used for a negative electrode layer of an all-solid battery and contains a plurality of secondary particles. The plurality of secondary particles contain impregnated particles which are secondary particles having a polymer solid electrolyte region impregnated with the polymer solid electrolyte therein and an active material region.
US11824185B2
The present disclosure aims to provide a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having excellent discharge load characteristics and excellent long-term cycle characteristics. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery which is one example of an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode (30), separators, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode (30) includes a negative electrode collector (31) and a negative electrode mixture layer (32) formed on the negative electrode collector (31). The negative electrode mixture layer (32) includes a first mixture layer primarily composed of a carbon-coated graphite (35) and a second mixture layer (34) primarily composed of a graphite (36), the first mixture layer (33) is disposed at a surface side of the negative electrode mixture layer (32), and the second mixture layer (34) is disposed at a side of the negative electrode collector (31).
US11824179B2
A power supply device includes: a battery; an electric device; a case accommodating the battery and the electric device; and a cover covering a case opening. The cover is provided with a first exhaust port and a second exhaust port. A first exhaust member having a first exhaust passage through which air discharged from the first exhaust port flows is connected to the first exhaust port. A second exhaust member having a second exhaust passage through which air discharged from the second exhaust port flows is connected to the second exhaust port. The first exhaust port is provided so as to overlap at least a part of the electric device when viewed from an opening direction and has a larger opening area than the second exhaust port. A minimum cross-sectional area of the first exhaust passage is smaller than a minimum cross-sectional area of the second exhaust passage.
US11824177B2
The present application relates to a battery pack, a method for manufacturing a battery pack and a vehicle. The battery pack includes a case assembly including a case, a thermally conductive beam and a temperature control component, the thermally conductive beam being disposed in the case and connected to the case, and the temperature control component being disposed in a bottom region of the case; a thermally conductive cover connected to the thermally conductive beam and located above the thermally conductive beam along a height direction of the battery pack, where the thermally conductive cover, the case and the thermally conductive beam enclose and form a first chamber; and a plurality of battery cells integrally forming a battery assembly, the battery assembly being disposed in the first chamber and located above the temperature control component.
US11824175B2
An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a battery module including: battery cells including negative and positive electrodes on the same side; a first conductive plate provided at end portions of the battery cells and adjacent to the negative and positive electrodes, the first conductive plate including first through-holes through which the negative and positive electrodes are respectively exposed and first stepped portions which are adjacent to the first through-holes and recessed toward the battery cells; an insulative plate arranged on the first conductive plate and including second through-holes which at least partially overlap the first through-holes; a second conductive plate on the insulative plate, the second conductive plate including third through-holes which at least partially overlap the second through-holes and second stepped portions which are adjacent to the third through-holes and recessed toward the insulative plate; first connection tabs electrically connecting the positive electrodes or the negative electrodes to the first stepped portions; and second connection tabs electrically connecting the others of the positive electrodes and the negative electrodes to the second stepped portions.
US11824172B2
A method for producing a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, and a production system therefor, that allow forming a SEI film in a shorter time. The method includes assembly, initial charging, and high-temperature aging steps. At least one from the initial charging and the high-temperature aging has the following sub-steps: a step of performing an AC impedance measurement on the battery and, on the basis of the AC impedance measurement, calculating an ionic conductivity of an SEI film that is formed the surface of a negative electrode of the battery; and a step of determining whether the calculated ionic conductivity falls within a predetermined range or not, and terminating the initial charging step or the high-temperature aging step when the ionic conductivity falls within the predetermined range, and continuing the initial charging step or the high-temperature aging step when the ionic conductivity does not fall within the predetermined range.
US11824161B2
The present disclosure relates to an electrochemical cell which may be used, for example, in a rechargeable battery based on the reversible transfer of halide anions, and a method for making an electrolyte composition for use in the same. The electrochemical cell includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte composition positioned between the two electrodes, where the electrolyte composition contains a crown ether-metal halide complex in a solvent.
US11824159B2
An anode-free solid-state battery includes a cathode layer having transient anode elements and a bare current collector devoid of non-transitory anode material and configured to accept thereon the transient anode elements. The battery also includes a solid-state electrolyte layer defining voids and arranged between the current collector and the cathode layer. The battery additionally includes a gel situated within the solid-state electrolyte and cathode layers, to permeate the electrolyte voids and form a gelled solid-state electrolyte layer, coat the cathode layer, and facilitate ionic conduction of the anode elements between the cathode layer, the solid-state electrolyte layer, and the current collector. Charging the battery diffuses the anode elements from the cathode layer, via the gelled solid-state electrolyte layer, onto the current collector. Discharging the battery returns the anode elements, via the gelled solid-state electrolyte layer, to the cathode layer. A particular method is used to fabricate the anode-free solid-state battery.
US11824158B2
A gel electrolyte composite containing a nonvolatile electrolyte and a zwitterionic polymer scaffold in which the non-volatile electrolyte is a non-lithium-containing ionic liquid, a sodium-containing ionic liquid, or a lithium-containing ionic liquid and the zwitterionic polymer scaffold is formed from one or more zwitterionic monomers only or both one or more zwitterionic monomers and one or more non-zwitterionic monomers. The zwitterionic polymer scaffold contains 8 mol % or higher of zwitterions relative to the total content of the gel electrolyte composite when the nonvolatile electrolyte is a non-lithium-containing ionic liquid, and contains 1 mol % or higher of zwitterions relative to the total content of the gel electrolyte composite when the nonvolatile electrolyte is a sodium-containing ionic liquid or a lithium-containing ionic liquid. Also disclosed are a method of preparing the above-described gel electrolyte composite and an electrochemical energy storage device containing same.
US11824157B2
To provide an electrical storage device in which a positive electrode material and a negative electrode material are each impregnated with a different type of electrolytic solution and a method for making the same. An electrical storage device (1) includes a negative electrode (2) including an organic electrolytic solution (21), a positive electrode (3) including an aqueous electrolytic solution (31), and a solid electrolyte (4) disposed between the negative electrode (2) and the positive electrode (3). The negative electrode (2) is entirely sealed. The electrical storage device (1) includes a sealing member (5), which is provided at the periphery of the negative electrode (2) and seals the negative electrode (2). The solid electrolytes (4) form a pair including a sealing material and together with the sealing member (5) seal the negative electrode (2) so that the negative electrode (2) is disposed between the solid electrolytes (4).
US11824151B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a main circuit board, a battery, a battery protection module disposed on one side surface of the battery, a protective holder that surrounds at least part of the battery protection module, and a flexible printed circuit board that extends from one side surface of the battery protection module and that is connected to the main circuit board. The flexible printed circuit board includes a first portion extending from the battery protection module in a second direction perpendicular to a first direction toward the main circuit board, a second portion extending from the first portion while being bent, a third portion extending from the second portion in a third direction opposite to the second direction, a fourth portion extending from the third portion in the first direction, and a connector connected to an end portion of the fourth portion and connected to the main circuit board.
US11824142B2
A radiation-emitting component (1) is specified with a carrier (2) having a cavity (9), a radiation-emitting semiconductor chip (3) which is arranged on a bottom surface delimiting the cavity (9) and which is configured to generate primary electromagnetic radiation, and a first reflector layer (6) arranged above a top surface of the semiconductor chip (3), wherein the carrier (2) is transparent in places to the primary electromagnetic radiation, and the semiconductor chip (3) is spaced apart from at least one side surface delimiting the cavity (9).
US11824138B2
There is provided a display device. The display device includes an optical structure disposed to increase the amount of light emitted from a light-emitting diode; and a bank coupled with the optical structure.
US11824133B2
A device includes a semiconductor fin, an isolation structure, a gate structure, source/drain structures, a sensing contact, a sensing pad structure, and a reading contact. The semiconductor fin includes a channel region and source/drain regions on opposite sides of the channel region. The isolation structure laterally surrounds the semiconductor fin. The gate structure is over the channel region of the semiconductor fin. The source/drain structures are respectively over the source/drain regions of the semiconductor fin. The sensing contact is directly on the isolation structure and adjacent to the gate structure. The sensing pad structure is connected to the sensing contact. The reading contact is directly on the isolation structure and adjacent to the gate structure.
US11824127B2
When a solar wavelength conversion material (solar spectral wavelength converter) produced based on a low-cost aluminum material having an ultraviolet ray absorption spectrum and a visible light emitting spectrum is positioned between a solar cell and an encapsulant of the front surface of the solar cell on which solar light is incident, photocurrent conversion efficiency of the solar cell may be improved by inducing a down-conversion effect and an anti-reflective coating effect at the same time, thereby increasing light-generated current.
US11824124B2
An object is to provide favorable interface characteristics of a thin film transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer without mixing of an impurity such as moisture. Another object is to provide a semiconductor device including a thin film transistor having excellent electric characteristics and high reliability, and a method by which a semiconductor device can be manufactured with high productivity. A main point is to perform oxygen radical treatment on a surface of a gate insulating layer. Accordingly, there is a peak of the oxygen concentration at an interface between the gate insulating layer and a semiconductor layer, and the oxygen concentration of the gate insulating layer has a concentration gradient. The oxygen concentration is increased toward the interface between the gate insulating layer and the semiconductor layer.
US11824120B2
A device including a gate stack over a semiconductor substrate having a pair of spacers abutting sidewalls of the gate stack. A recess is formed in the semiconductor substrate adjacent the gate stack. The recess has a first profile having substantially vertical sidewalls and a second profile contiguous with and below the first profile. The first and second profiles provide a bottle-neck shaped profile of the recess in the semiconductor substrate, the second profile having a greater width within the semiconductor substrate than the first profile. The recess is filled with a semiconductor material. A pair of spacers are disposed overly the semiconductor substrate adjacent the recess.
US11824099B2
A method includes forming a gate structure over a silicon on insulator (SOI) substrate. The SOI substrate comprising: a base semiconductor layer; an insulator layer over the base semiconductor layer; and a top semiconductor layer over the insulator layer. The method further includes depositing a gate spacer layer over a top surface and along a sidewall of the gate structure; etching the gate spacer layer to define a gate spacer on the sidewall of the gate structure; after etching the gate spacer layer, etching a recess into the top semiconductor layer using a first etch process; and after the first etch process, extending the recess further into the top semiconductor layer using a second etch process. The first etch process is different from the second etch process. The method further includes forming a source/drain region in the recess after the second etch process.
US11824094B2
Silicon carbide (SiC) junction field effect transistors (JFETs) are presented herein. A deep implant (e.g., a deep p-type implant) forms a JFET gate (106). MET gate and MET source (108) may be implemented with heavily doped n-type (N+) and heavily doped p-type (P+) implants, respectively. Termination regions may be implemented by using equipotential rings formed by deep implants (e.g., deep p-type implants).
US11824081B2
Provided are a dielectric thin film, an integrated device including the same, and a method of manufacturing the dielectric thin film. The dielectric thin film includes an oxide having a perovskite-type crystal structure represented by Formula 1 below and wherein the dielectric thin film comprises 0.3 at % or less of halogen ions or sulfur ions. A2-xB3-yO10-z
US11824077B2
In some embodiments, a semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes an epitaxial structure having a group IV chemical element disposed in a semiconductor substrate, where the epitaxial structure extends into the semiconductor substrate from a first side of the semiconductor substrate. A photodetector is at least partially arranged in the epitaxial structure. A first capping structure having a first capping structure chemical element that is different than the first group IV chemical element covers the epitaxial structure on the first side of the semiconductor substrate. A second capping structure is arranged between the first capping structure and the epitaxial structure, where the second capping structure includes the group IV chemical element and the first capping structure chemical element.
US11824076B2
Disclosed are a semiconductor package and a method of fabricating the same. The semiconductor package may include a semiconductor chip structure, a transparent substrate disposed on the semiconductor chip structure, a dam placed on an edge of the semiconductor chip structure and between the semiconductor chip structure and the transparent substrate, and an adhesive layer interposed between the dam and the semiconductor chip structure. The semiconductor chip structure may include an image sensor chip and a logic chip, which are in contact with each other, and the image sensor chip may be closer to the transparent substrate than the logic chip.
US11824074B2
Manufacture of an imaging element in which light entering a pixel without being transmitted through a color filter arranged in the pixel is attenuated is simplified. An imaging element includes a pixel and an incident light attenuating section. The pixel includes a color filter through which light having a predetermined wavelength of light from a subject is transmitted, and a photoelectric conversion section generating charges responding to the light transmitted through the color filter. The incident light attenuating section is arranged between the subject and the color filter, and attenuates the light entering the photoelectric conversion section without being transmitted through the color filter arranged in the pixel.
US11824069B2
An image sensing device is provided to include a pixel array including unit pixels. Each unit pixel includes a substrate including a sensing region that generates charge carriers in response to incident light, first and second signal detectors configured to receive control signals for generating a charge current in the sensing region of the substrate and capture the charge carriers moving by the charge current, a lens layer disposed to direct incident light toward the substrate in the unit pixel, and a noise blocking structures disposed over a peripheral region of the sensing region and underneath the lens and structured to leave space above the sensing region open to allow the incident light from the lens layer to reach the sensing region while shield a peripheral region of the sensing region in the substrate from the incident light.
US11824068B2
A display device in which a peripheral circuit portion has high operation stability is provided. The display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate. A first insulating layer is provided over a first surface of the first substrate. A second insulating layer is provided over a first surface of the second substrate. The first surface of the first substrate and the first surface of the second substrate face each other. An adhesive layer is provided between the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer. A protective film in contact with the first substrate, the first insulating layer, the adhesive layer, the second insulating layer, and the second substrate is formed in the vicinity of a peripheral portion of the first substrate and the second substrate.
US11824066B2
A display device may include a source electrode disposed on a substrate; a drain electrode disposed on the substrate; an insulating layer disposed on the source electrode and the drain electrode, the insulating layer including an opening overlapping the drain electrode; and a first electrode disposed on the insulating layer and electrically contacting the drain electrode in the opening of the insulating layer, wherein an angle between a side surface of the opening of the insulating layer and a plane parallel to the substrate is in a range of about 70 degrees to about 85 degrees.
US11824061B2
A display device includes a plurality of pixels respectively coupled to scan lines and data lines intersecting the scan lines, wherein at least some of the pixels includes a driving transistor including a substrate, a first insulating layer disposed on the substrate, a first active layer disposed on the first insulating layer, a first gate electrode disposed on the first active layer, and a first source electrode and a first drain electrode electrically connected to the first active layer, the first drain electrode being spaced apart from the first source electrode by a first distance, and a switching transistor including a second gate electrode disposed between the substrate and the first insulating layer, a second active layer disposed on the same layer as the first active layer, and a second source electrode and a second drain electrode electrically connected to the second active layer, the second drain electrode being spaced apart from the second source electrode by a second distance different from the first distance.
US11824059B2
A semiconductor device includes first and second active patterns respectively on the first and second active regions of a substrate, a gate electrode on the first and second channel patterns, active contacts electrically connected to at least one of the first and second source/drain patterns, a gate contact electrically connected to the gate electrode, a first metal layer on the active and gate contacts and including a first and second power line, and first and second gate cutting patterns below the first and second power lines. The first active pattern may include first channel pattern between a pair of first source/drain patterns. The second active pattern may include a second channel pattern between a pair of second source/drain patterns. The first and second gate cutting patterns may cover the outermost side surfaces of the first and second channel patterns, respectively.
US11824058B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a semiconductor device and a method for forming the semiconductor device. The method for forming a semiconductor device includes forming a first stack of channel structures that extends between a source terminal and a drain terminal of a first transistor in a first region of the semiconductor device. The first stack of channel structures includes a first channel structure and a second channel structure. The method further includes forming a first gate structure that wraps around the first stack of channel structures with a first metal cap between the first channel structure and the second channel structure. The first metal cap has a different work function from another portion of the first gate structure.
US11824056B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor part, first and second electrodes, a control electrode and a control interconnect. The semiconductor part includes first to sixth layers and is provided between the first and second electrodes. The second layer is provided between the first layer and the second electrode. The third layer is provided between the second layer and the second electrode. The fourth and fifth layers are arranged between the first layer and the first electrode. The second electrode and the control interconnect are arranged on the semiconductor part. The control electrode is provided between the second electrode and the semiconductor part. The sixth layer is provided between the first layer and the control interconnect. The fifth semiconductor layer is provided between the first electrode and the sixth layer. The first semiconductor layer includes a carrier trap provided between the fifth and sixth layers.
US11824054B2
A package structure includes an insulating encapsulation, a semiconductor die, and a filter structure. The semiconductor die is encapsulated in the insulating encapsulation. The filter structure is electrically coupled to the semiconductor die, wherein the filter structure includes a patterned metallization layer with a pattern having a double-spiral having aligned centroids thereof.
US11824053B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a display panel, and a camera device. The housing may have an inner space. The display panel may be disposed in the inner space of the housing to be visible from an outside and may include a transmission area formed as a part of an active area thereof. The camera device may be disposed under the display panel such that the transmission area of the display panel is overlapped with an angle of view of the camera device. The transmission area contains a plurality of pixels or a plurality of wirings having an arrangement density lower than in a surrounding active area when the display panel is viewed from above. The display panel may include an opaque layer disposed thereunder, having a plurality of openings, and overlapped with the transmission area when the display panel is viewed from above.
US11824041B2
Hyperchip structures and methods of fabricating hyperchips are described. In an example, an integrated circuit assembly includes a first integrated circuit chip having a device side opposite a backside. The device side includes a plurality of transistor devices and a plurality of device side contact points. The backside includes a plurality of backside contacts. A second integrated circuit chip includes a device side having a plurality of device contact points thereon. The second integrated circuit chip is on the first integrated circuit chip in a device side to device side configuration. Ones of the plurality of device contact points of the second integrated circuit chip are coupled to ones of the plurality of device contact points of the first integrated circuit chip. The second integrated circuit chip is smaller than the first integrated circuit chip from a plan view perspective.
US11824030B2
An electronics package includes an electrically insulating substrate having a first surface and a second surface, an adhesive layer positioned on the first surface of the electrically insulating substrate, and an electrical component having a top surface coupled to the adhesive layer on a surface thereof opposite the electrically insulating substrate, the electrical component having contact pads on the top surface. Vias are formed through the electrically insulating substrate and the adhesive layer at locations corresponding to the contact pads by way of a mechanical punching operation, with each of the vias having a via wall extending from the second surface of the electrically insulating substrate to a respective contact pad. At each via, the electrically insulating substrate comprises a protrusion extending outwardly from the first surface thereof so as to cover at least part of the adhesive layer in forming part of the via wall.
US11824022B2
The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to an integrated chip. The integrated chip includes a bond pad disposed over a substrate and a passivation structure disposed over the substrate and the bond pad. The passivation structure has one or more sidewalls directly over the bond pad. A protective layer is disposed directly between the passivation structure and the bond pad. The passivation structure extends from directly over the protective layer to laterally past a sidewall of the protective layer that faces a central region of the bond pad.
US11824017B2
A semiconductor package has central region and peripheral region surrounding central region. The semiconductor package includes dies, encapsulant, and redistribution structure. The dies include functional die and first dummy dies. Functional die is disposed in central region. First dummy dies are disposed in peripheral region. Redistribution structure is disposed on encapsulant over the dies, and is electrically connected to functional die. Vacancy ratio of central region is in the range from 1.01 to 3.00. Vacancy ratio of the peripheral region is in the range from 1.01 to 3.00. Vacancy ratio of central region is a ratio of total area of central region to total area occupied by dies disposed in central region. Vacancy ratio of peripheral region is a ratio of total area of peripheral region to total area occupied by first dummy dies disposed in peripheral region.
US11824011B2
According to one embodiment, a memory device includes: a first layer stack provided in a first area of a substrate; second and third layer stacks provided in a second area of the substrate; a memory cell provided in the first layer stack; a first mark portion provided in the second layer stack; a second mark portion provided in the third layer stack; and a first portion provided between the second layer stack and the third layer stack.
US11824003B2
A semiconductor device includes a first wiring extending in a first direction and a second wiring extending in a second direction crossing the first direction and having an end that faces the first wiring and is a predetermined distance away from the first wiring. The predetermined distance is approximately equal to a width of the second wiring, and the end of the second wiring is formed into one or more loops.
US11823996B2
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor module, especially a power semiconductor module, in which the heat dissipation is improved and the power density is increased. The semiconductor module may include at least two electrically insulating substrates, each having a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface. On the first main surface of each of the substrates, at least one semiconductor device is mounted. An external terminal is connected to the first main surface of at least one of the substrates. The substrates are arranged opposite to each other so that their first main surfaces are facing each other.
US11823991B2
A semiconductor device includes a circuit substrate, at least one semiconductor die, a first frame, and a second frame. The at least one semiconductor die is connected to the circuit substrate. The first frame is disposed on the circuit substrate and encircles the at least one semiconductor die. The second frame is stacked on the first frame. The first frame includes a base portion and an overhang portion. The base portion has a first width. The overhang portion is disposed on the base portion and has a second width greater than the first width. The overhang portion laterally protrudes towards the at least one semiconductor die with respect to the base portion. The first width and the second width are measured in a protruding direction of the overhang portion.
US11823983B2
A package comprising a substrate and an integrated device coupled to the substrate. The substrate comprises at least one dielectric layer; a plurality of interconnects comprising plurality of pad-on-pad interconnects, wherein the plurality of pad-on-pad interconnects is embedded through a first surface of the substrate. The plurality of pad-on-pad interconnects includes a first pad-on-pad interconnect comprising a first pad and a second pad coupled to the first pad. The package further comprising a solder resist layer located over the first surface of the substrate. The solder resist layer comprises a first solder resist layer portion comprising a first thickness; and a second solder resist layer portion comprising a second thickness that is less than the first thickness. The second solder resist layer portion is located between the at least one dielectric layer and the integrated device.
US11823965B2
Implementations of a substrate carrier may include: a top ring configured to enclose an edge of a first side of a substrate; and a bottom support configured to enclose an entire second side and an edge of the second side of the substrate.
US11823962B2
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to sensing integrated circuit (IC) Back End Of Line (BEOL) process corners. In one aspect, an apparatus for sensing IC BEOL process corners includes a ring oscillator including a plurality of ring oscillator stages configured to generate an output waveform with a frequency state; and a shield net circuit including a plurality of shield net stages corresponding to the plurality of ring oscillator stages, the shield net circuit having a toggle input. And, a method includes generating an output waveform with a frequency state using a ring oscillator that includes a plurality of ring oscillator stages; modifying a plurality of ring oscillator stage time delays through a coupling between a plurality of shield net stages and the plurality of ring oscillator stages; and selecting the frequency state using a toggle input of a shield net circuit which includes the plurality of shield net stages.
US11823955B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device includes: forming a gate structure over a fin, where the fin protrudes above a substrate; forming an opening in the gate structure; forming a first dielectric layer along sidewalls and a bottom of the opening, where the first dielectric layer is non-conformal, where the first dielectric layer has a first thickness proximate to an upper surface of the gate structure distal from the substrate, and has a second thickness proximate to the bottom of the opening, where the first thickness is larger than the second thickness; and forming a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer to fill the opening, where the first dielectric layer is formed of a first dielectric material, and the second dielectric layer is formed of a second dielectric material different from the first dielectric material.
US11823949B2
An embodiment is a device including a first fin extending from a substrate, a first gate stack over and along sidewalls of the first fin, a first gate spacer disposed along a sidewall of the first gate stack, and a first source/drain region in the first fin and adjacent the first gate spacer. The first source/drain region including a first insulator layer on the first fin, and a first epitaxial layer on the first insulator layer.
US11823944B2
A substrate processing apparatus including a frame, a first SCARA arm having an end effector and being configured to extend and retract along a first axis, a second SCARA arm having an end effector and being configured to extend and retract along a second axis, a drive section including a splitting drive pulley rotatably mounted to rotate at an axis of rotation of the drive section that is shared by the first and second SCARA arms, the splitting drive pulley being coupled to at least two idler pulleys by respective segmented transmission loops of separate band segments so that the splitting drive pulley is a common pulley splitting one degree of freedom of the drive section between the at least two idler pulleys so as to commonly drive the at least two idler pulleys, wherein at least one band of each respective transmission loop share a common band interface level.
US11823941B2
A substrate having a first side and a second side opposite the first side is processed by providing a protective film having a front surface and a back surface opposite the front surface and providing a holding frame for holding the substrate. The holding frame has a central opening. The holding frame is attached to the back surface of the protective film so as to close the central opening of the holding frame by the protective film, and the first side of the substrate or the second side of the substrate is attached to the front surface of the protective film. The substrate is processed from the side of the substrate which is opposite the side of the substrate attached to the front surface of the protective film, and/or the side of the substrate which is attached to the front surface of the protective film.
US11823939B2
Methods for aligning a processing chamber using a centering ring and processing chambers having the centering ring are describes. The method includes determining an average central position for the centering ring based on the concentricity of the centering with the support surfaces and adjusting average position of centering ring to a final position based on the average central position.
US11823935B2
A stacking apparatus that stacks substrate and a second substrate includes: a plurality of holding members that hold the first substrate, wherein the plurality of bolding members correct positional misalignment of the first substrate relative to the second substrate by preset amounts of correction, and the plurality of holding members include holding members having the amounts of correction that are different from each other. The stacking apparatus may further include a carrying unit that carries a holding member that is selected from among the plurality of holding members and holds the first substrate from a position here the holding member is housed to a position where the first substrate is held.
US11823934B2
A wafer stocker capable of further improving an environment around wafers is provided. The wafer stocker includes a housing, a loading device provided on a front surface of the housing, a wafer cassette shelf arranged in the housing, a wafer transfer robot configured to move the wafers from a transfer container mounted on the loading device to a wafer cassette in the wafer cassette shelf, a wafer cassette delivery device configured to move the wafer cassette in the wafer cassette shelf to a stage having a different height, and a fan filter unit configured to generate a laminar flow in a wafer transfer space and in a wafer cassette transfer space.
US11823933B2
A side storage pod includes an outer enclosure having a sealing surface configured to couple to an EFEM and a side storage pod chamber having a body coupled to vertically-spaced storage members. Each of the vertically-spaced storage members is configured to support a corresponding substrate within the body. The side storage pod further includes a removable door. The removable door and the body are to seal relative to each other responsive to the removable door being in a closed position. A load-unload robot of the EFEM is to access the vertically-spaced storage members responsive to the removable door being in an open position. An environment within the side storage pod chamber is to be controlled to be one or more of: at first environmental conditions responsive to the removable door being in the closed position; or at second environmental conditions responsive to the removable door being in the open position.
US11823930B2
A wafer storage container and a cap assembly according to an embodiment include a storage container having a space accommodating at least one wafer therein, a fastening portion having a fastening space capable of fastening a cap, and the cap having a locking portion which is formed linearly on a first side of the cap and which has an end portion provided with a first protrusion portion, the cap being configured in a structure in which the locking portion is fastened to the fastening portion. The fastening portion includes an inner wall, and a fastening hole which is formed in a first side of the fastening portion such that the locking portion is fastened thereto. The cap includes a fixing wall in close contact with the inner wall, thereby fixing the cap to the fastening portion.
US11823926B2
Provided is a method of managing a target process. The method performed by a process management apparatus includes: generating a reference pattern indicating a normal state based on reference observed data on a process factor measured while the target process is maintained in the normal state; obtaining observed data on the process factor measured for a specified observation period; calculating a dissimilarity between the reference pattern and the observed data; and constructing a regression tree for the target process by using the observed data and the dissimilarity, wherein the process factor is set as an independent variable of the regression tree, and the dissimilarity is set as a dependent variable of the regression tree.
US11823922B2
A substrate inspection apparatus includes: a storage configured to store inspection image data obtained from a captured image of a periphery of a substrate on which a film is formed, and an inspection recipe; an edge detector configured to detect a target edge as an edge of an inspection target film on the basis of the inspection image data stored in the storage by using the inspection recipe stored in the storage; a periphery calculator configured to calculate a position of a theoretical periphery of the substrate; and a width calculator configured to calculate a width between the theoretical periphery of the substrate and the target edge on the basis of position data of the theoretical periphery of the substrate obtained by the periphery calculator and position data of the target edge obtained by the edge detector.
US11823911B2
The present invention relates to a process of a package-then-etch three-dimensional package structure electrically connected by plated copper pillars. The process comprises the following steps: taking a metal carrier; preplating a surface of the metal carrier with a copper layer; forming an outer metal pin by means of electroplating; performing plastic packaging with epoxy resin; forming a metal circuit layer by means of electroplating; forming a conductive metal pillar by means of electroplating; surface-mounting a chip; performing plastic packaging; surface-mounting a passive device; performing plastic packaging; etching and windowing the carrier; forming an anti-oxidant metal layer by means of electroplating; and performing cutting to obtain a finished product. The integration level and the reliability can be improved.
US11823899B1
A high-temperature silicon carbide device, along with an integrated circuit including the device and method of fabricating the device are described. For example, the method includes forming one of a source region and a drain region of a silicon carbide metal-oxide-semiconductor device. The method may include forming a gate structure adjacent to either one of the source region and the drain region. The gate structure may include an insulating layer. The method may further include forming the insulating layer with a first growth step performed in a pure oxygen environment and with a second growth step performed in a nitrous oxide environment.
US11823890B2
A multi-zone heater with a plurality of thermocouples such that different heater zones can be monitored for temperature independently. The independent thermocouples may have their leads routed out from the shaft of the heater in a channel that is closed with a joining process that results in hermetic seal adapted to withstand both the interior atmosphere of the shaft and the process chemicals in the process chamber. The thermocouple and its leads may be enclosed with a joining process in which a channel cover is brazed to the heater plate with aluminum.
US11823889B2
A sensor may be provided, including a substrate having a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and a buried insulator layer arranged between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer. The sensor may further include a photodiode arranged in the first semiconductor layer; and a quenching resistive element electrically connected in series with the photodiode. The quenching resistive element is arranged in the second semiconductor layer, and the quenching resistive element is arranged over the photodiode but separated from the photodiode by the buried insulator layer.
US11823886B2
There is included (a) loading a substrate where a conductive metal-element-containing film is exposed on a surface of the substrate into a process chamber under a first temperature; (b) supplying a reducing gas to the substrate while raising a temperature of the substrate to a second temperature higher than the first temperature in the process chamber; (c) forming a first film on the metal-element-containing film, by supplying a first process gas, which does not include an oxidizing gas, to the substrate under the second temperature in the process chamber; and (d) forming a second film on the first film such that the second film is thicker than the first film, by supplying a second process gas, which includes an oxidizing gas, to the substrate under a third temperature higher than the first temperature in the process chamber.
US11823880B2
A target structure includes a target, a cooling jacket having a flow path through which a heat exchange medium flows, and a backing plate. The target is bonded to one surface of the cooling jacket. A remaining surface of the cooling jacket and the backing plate are bonded in a peripheral portion, and are not bonded in a non-bonding region inside the peripheral portion.
US11823877B2
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided a substrate processing system for processing a plurality of substrates including: a processor configured to perform a process on the substrate; a transport device configured to repeatedly transport the plurality of substrates with respect to the processor; and a controller configured to control the process of the substrate in the processor, wherein the controller is configured to: execute the process based on a process recipe, which is a control program for executing the process; and set an offset time, which is a function corresponding to a number of the substrates processed by the processor or a function corresponding to a parameter equivalent to the number of the processed substrates, with respect to a step time for a step of the process recipe.
US11823876B2
A substrate processing apparatus capable of processing a thin film to have improved quality through uniform exhaustion includes: a substrate supporting unit; a processing unit on the substrate supporting unit; an exhaust unit connected to a reaction space between the substrate supporting unit and the processing unit; an exhaust port connected to at least a portion of the exhaust unit; and a flow control unit disposed in an exhaust channel from a space inside the exhaust unit to the exhaust port.
US11823874B2
Disclosed is a substrate treating apparatus, which includes a chamber having a space for treating a substrate in an interior thereof, a substrate support assembly including a support plate situated in the chamber and which supports the substrate, a gas supply unit which supplies a gas into the interior of the chamber, a plasma generating unit which excites the gas in in the interior of the chamber into a plasma state, and a substrate temperature control unit which controls a temperature of the substrate, and the substrate temperature control unit includes a plurality of heaters installed in different areas of the support plate, a power supply part which supplies electric power to the plurality of heaters, a ferrite core which interrupts a low-frequency signal introduced to the power supply part, and a plurality of air cores which interrupts a high-frequency signal introduced into the power supply part.
US11823859B2
A method of sputtering a layer on a substrate using a high-energy density plasma (HEDP) magnetron includes positioning the magnetron in a vacuum with an anode, cathode target, magnet assembly, substrate, and feed gas; applying unipolar negative direct current (DC) voltage pulses from a pulse power supply with a pulse forming network (PFN) to a pulse converting network (PCN); and adjusting an amplitude and frequency associated with the plurality of unipolar negative DC voltage pulses causing a resonance mode associated with the PCN. The PCN converts the unipolar negative DC voltage pulses to an asymmetric alternating current (AC) signal that generates a high-density plasma discharge on the HEDP magnetron. An increase in amplitude or pulse duration of the plurality of unipolar negative DC voltage pulses causes an increase in the amplitude of a negative voltage of the asymmetric AC signal in response to the PCN being in the resonance mode, thereby causing sputtering discharge associated with the HEDP magnetron to form the layer from the cathode target on the substrate. A corresponding apparatus and computer-readable medium are disclosed.
US11823854B2
The invention relates to a cut-off device comprising: a conductive element and a movable piston, the piston being able to move between a first position in which the current passes in the conductive element and a second position in which the current is cut off, the piston being configured to break the conductive element when moving from its first position to its second position, the piston being positioned in a receiving cavity of a receiving element when said piston is in its second position, characterized in that the receiving element further comprises at least one additional cavity separate from the receiving cavity and linked to said receiving cavity by at least one channel, said at least one channel being open when the conductive element is broken by the piston.
US11823850B1
An information handling system keyboard backlight illuminates with a single mini-LED disposed under each of plural keyboard keys and having a penta directional illumination that illuminates directly at the key and coplanar a light guide material around the perimeter of the mini-LED. The light guide material in cooperation with a reflector below and a mask above provides indirect illumination at the periphery of the key for a more uniform key illumination. A substrate carried with circuits below the mini-LED powers the mini-LED so that a more bulky flexible printed circuit is not needed.
US11823849B2
The disclosure provides an efficient and stable inorganic lead-free perovskite solar cell and a method for preparing the same. The solar cell includes a conductive substrate, a PEDOT: PSS layer, an inorganic lead-free CsSnI3 perovskite layer, a C60 layer, a BCP layer, and a metal counter electrode layer arranged in order from bottom to top, wherein the inorganic lead-free CsSnI3 perovskite layer is a CsSnI3 perovskite layer passivated by a thioureas small-molecule organic compound.
US11823844B2
A capacitor component includes a body including a dielectric layer and an internal electrode layer; and an external electrode disposed on one surface of the body, wherein the external electrode includes first electrode layers disposed on the one surface of the body to be spaced apart from each other, and covering a region of the one surface of the body through which the internal electrode layer is exposed; a second electrode layer including a base resin and a conductive connection portion disposed in the base resin, and disposed on the one surface of the body to cover the first electrode layers; and an intermetallic compound disposed only between each of the first electrode layers and the second electrode layer.
US11823836B2
A method of fabricating a capacitor that includes: forming a three-dimensional structure over a substrate, the three-dimensional structure having a region with elongated pores extending towards the substrate from a top surface of the three-dimensional structure remote from the substrate or elongated columns extending away from the substrate towards the top surface of the three-dimensional structure remote from the substrate; forming a first electrode layer over a surface of the region of the three-dimensional structure, the first electrode conformal to the surface of the region; forming an intermediate layer over the first electrode layer; and forming a second electrode layer over the intermediate layer, the second electrode layer conformal to the intermediate layer, wherein forming the intermediate layer includes: forming a solid-state electrolyte layer partially conformal to the first electrode layer; and forming a dielectric layer conformal to the first electrode layer.
US11823831B2
A substrate that includes at least one dielectric layer and an inductive coupler formed in the at least one dielectric layer. The inductive coupler includes a first inductor and a second inductor. The first inductor is formed in the at least one dielectric layer. The first inductor is configured to be coupled to a transmitter filter and an antenna. The second inductor is formed in the at least one dielectric layer. The second inductor is configured to be coupled to the transmitter filter and ground. The second inductor is configured to provide a path to ground for a rejected signal having a rejected frequency. The second inductor is configured such that the rejected signal traveling through the second inductor causes the first inductor to generate an induced signal that counteracts a leakage signal traveling through the transmission filter.
US11823830B2
A coil component comprising a core including a winding core having a shape extending in a constant direction, a first flange disposed at a first end in an extending direction of the winding core, and a second flange disposed at a second end in the extending direction of the winding core; first and second electrodes disposed on the first flange; third and fourth electrodes disposed on the second flange; and a coil including a first wire wound around the winding core and electrically connected to the first and third electrodes, and a second wire electrically connected to the second and fourth electrodes. The first and second flanges each have an inner surface facing the winding core, an outer surface facing toward the side opposite to the inner surface, a lower surface connecting the inner and outer surfaces, and an upper surface facing the side opposite to the lower surface.
US11823829B2
[Problem] To prevent peeling of a terminal electrode from a base portion and to improve precision in assembling a terminal electrode on a base portion. [Solution] Provided is a coil component comprising: a base portion having a first surface and a second surface connected to the first surface, a first virtual plane including the first surface and a second virtual plane including the second surface intersecting at an obtuse first angle; a coil portion formed by a conductor wound around the base portion; and a first terminal electrode connected electrically to the coil portion, the terminal electrode being made of a plate-shaped first metal plate having a first portion fixed to the first surface of the base portion by a first bonded portion, and a second portion bent towards the first portion and coming into contact at the leading end with the second surface of the base portion.
US11823826B2
An improved latching device that secures a lift-style hood is described with inherent properties for providing increased accessibility, functionality, stability, security and safety as compared to traditional designs.
US11823820B2
A PTC starter is provided. A first pin is electrically connected to a first electrode of a thermistor. The thermistor and an elastic element are arranged in respective mounting cavities. The elastic element is provided with a connecting piece, through which a second pin is electrically connected to or disconnected from a second electrode of the thermistor. In a normal state of the thermistor, the elastic element is in an elastic deformation state, a first contact part and a second contact part of the elastic element are in electrical contact with the second electrode of the thermistor and the second pin respectively. After the thermistor ruptures, the elastic element resets, which causes the connecting piece to move so that the second contact part of the elastic element detaches from the second pin. An isolation structure is provided between the thermistor mounting cavity and the elastic element mounting cavity.
US11823818B2
A power and data connectivity micro grid includes a first power sourcing equipment device having first and second power ports and first and second data ports, and configured to deliver DC power signals to the first and second power ports. The micro grid further includes first and second remote distribution nodes, and first and second splice enclosures, each splice enclosure having a power input port, a data input port, a power tap port, a data tap port, a power output port and a data output port. A first composite power-data cable is coupled between the first power port and the first data port of the first power sourcing equipment device and the power input port and the data input port of the first splice enclosure. A second composite power-data cable is coupled between the second power port and the second data port of the first power sourcing equipment device and the power input port and the data input port of the second splice enclosure. The power tap port and the data tap port of the first splice enclosure are coupled to a power input port and a data input port of the first remote distribution node, respectively.
US11823816B2
An insulating tape, for coating a connection portion of a power cable, includes a resin material which includes polyethylene at least partially modified by a molecule imparting hydrophilicity, an antioxidant, and a crosslinking agent. The antioxidant has a molecular weight in a range of 190 or more and less than 1050. The antioxidant has a content in a range of 0.05 parts by mass or more and 0.8 parts by mass or less, with respect to 100 parts by mass of the polyethylene. The insulating tape has a thickness in a range of 50 μm or more and 250 μm or less.
US11823798B2
A mechanism is provided in a data processing system comprising least one processor and at least one memory, the at least one memory comprising instructions executed by the at least one processor to cause the at least one processor to implement a clinical decision support system. The mechanism receives a plurality of patient electronic medical records (EMRs) for a patient from a plurality of different sources. For a portion of a patient EMR record of the plurality of patient EMRs, the mechanism detects entities and analyzes a document structure of the portion of the patient EMR to identify a hierarchical structure of the portion of the patient EMR. The mechanism generates a container representation of the portion of the patient EMR based on the hierarchical structure. The mechanism placing each of the one or more sentences within the container representation based on relative position within the hierarchical structure. The mechanism generates a knowledge graph using the detected entities and the container representation.
US11823793B2
At a service device (102), a user interface (106) is provided via which a user submits an order request (117) to order a requested part (X) via the at least one user input device (103). Co-replacement information (116) for the requested part (X) is identified using a co-replacements database (114), and is displayed on the display. For example, a second part (Y) commonly co-replaced with requested part (X) may be identified and recommended for replacement with part (X); or, if two parts (X) and (Y) are ordered then the co-replacement information may be to recommend ordering only one of these parts. At a server hosting the database (114), the order request is received from a service device and the co-replacement information (116) for the requested part is generated using the co-replacements database (114), and the co-replacement information is sent to the service device.
US11823790B2
In an embodiment, a method includes accessing, by a processor configured within a device, a central system that provides trained data and crowd-sourced data to be used to schedule a plurality of medical services and treatment options. A module is configured to receive the trained data and crowd-sourced data from the central system, and pass the trained data and crowd-sourced data to an application, and provide predictive capabilities to the application based on the trained data and the crowd-sourced data. The processor uses the application to provide scheduling intervals for a series of medical services and treatments at one or more medical stations in real-time. Another device is connected to the first device, wherein the other device is configured to access the application and identify the scheduling intervals, and request updates and changes to the scheduling intervals in real-time.
US11823789B2
The invention includes remote-participation of a medical device manufacturing company representative in a medical procedure, whereby the device representative uses a variety of components to track and monitor devices in an operating room in “real-time,” while checking on device status and advising a surgeon through Wearable Video Technology rather than being physically present in the operating room. A system allows for a remote surgeon to advise surgeons, prepares for surgeries, chooses and tracks implant devices, evaluates and reports on device implantation, calibration and performance, evaluates surgeries and staff, prepares for and concludes procedures, trains medical staff members, performs billing functions, performs legal compliance functions, performs inventory restocking functions, and various other functions.
US11823777B2
A computing platform configured to receive and process an on-demand real-time patient-specific data analysis order is provided. The computing platform can receive an order, determine the viability of the order, and then perform the desired analysis based on parameters provided within the order. As part of the analysis, the computing platform can mine one or more data sources to collect data relevant to the ordered diagnostic. Once the data is collected, the computing platform can analyze the data according to one or more pre-programmed algorithms. The selection of which algorithms to apply to the data set can be determined by the type of on-demand real-time patient-specific data analysis ordered. The on-demand real-time patient-specific data analysis in some examples can be ordered using an external ordering user interface.
US11823770B1
The present disclosure discloses a memory access interface device. A data processing circuit receives a data signal including 2M pieces of data from a memory device. A sampling clock generation circuit receives a data strobe signal from the memory device to generate a valid data strobe signal having P valid strobe pulses and further generate a sampling clock signal accordingly, in which P is larger than M. A sampling circuit samples the data signal according to the sampling clock signal to generate sampling results. A control circuit determines valid sampling results according to a time difference between the valid data strobe signal and the data signal and outputs valid data generated according to the valid sampling results as a read data signal to a memory access controller.
US11823767B2
Methods, systems, and devices for dynamic random access memory speed bin compatibility are described. For instance, a device (e.g., a memory device, a host device) may combine a first parameter with a second parameter to generate a third parameter, where the first parameter may be associated with a duration for a clock that is coupled with a memory array to perform a clock cycle and the second parameter may be associated with a timing constraint associated with initiating an access operation for the memory array. The device may determine a latency of a column address strobe based on the third parameter relative to (e.g., satisfying) a threshold value and may access one or more memory cells of the memory array based on the latency of the column address strobe.
US11823761B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus to evaluate read margin when reading memory cells in a memory device. In one approach, a controller of a memory device applies an initial read voltage of an initial polarity to memory cells. Errors from the read are used to determine whether read retry is needed. If so, a pre-read voltage of an opposite polarity is applied, and errors determined. Based on the errors from applying the pre-read voltage, a polarity is selected for the read retry voltage. The read retry voltage of the selected polarity is then applied to the memory cells.
US11823759B2
A system-on-chip includes first and second devices. An interconnect segment couples between the first and second devices. A bridge is coupled between the first and second devices and coupled to the interconnect segment. At least one of the bridge or interconnect segment include first and second multiplexers, a monitor circuit, and exclusive-OR logic. The first multiplexer has first and second multiplexer inputs and a first multiplexer output. The second multiplexer has third and fourth multiplexer inputs and a second multiplexer output. The monitor circuit has a first and second monitor circuit outputs. The first monitor circuit output is coupled to the second multiplexer input and the second monitor circuit output is coupled to the fourth multiplexer input. The exclusive-OR logic has first and second exclusive-OR logic inputs. The first exclusive-OR logic input couples to the first multiplexer output and the second exclusive-OR logic input couples to the second multiplexer output.
US11823758B2
Performing a built-in self-test (BIST) on a memory macro includes generating a plurality of input vectors such that at least one input vector of the plurality of input vectors is transmitted to the memory macro in each of a plurality of cycles, receiving in each of the plurality of cycles, an output data from the memory macro. The output data is generated by the memory macro in response to processing the at least one input vector. The BIST also includes comparing the output data in each of the plurality of cycles with a signature value and determining whether the memory macro is normal or faulty based upon the comparison.
US11823754B2
A semiconductor device or the like with a novel structure that can change the orientation of the display is provided. A semiconductor device or the like with a novel structure, in which a degradation in transistor characteristics can be suppressed, is provided. A semiconductor device or the like with a novel structure, in which operation speed can be increased, is provided. A semiconductor device or the like with a novel structure, in which a dielectric breakdown of a transistor can be suppressed, is provided. The semiconductor device or the like has a circuit configuration capable of switching between a first operation and a second operation by changing the potentials of wirings. By switching between these two operations, the scan direction is easily changed. The semiconductor device is configured to change the scan direction.
US11823753B2
A method of programming a nonvolatile memory device includes performing a single-pulse program operation in a program loop, determining whether a condition is satisfied in the a program loop, and performing a multi-pulse program operation in a next program loop when the condition is satisfied. The single-pulse program operation includes applying a first program pulse and applying plural verification pulses, the multi-pulse program operation includes applying a second program pulse, applying a third program pulse, and applying plural verification pulses, and each of the second program pulse and the third program pulse has a level lower than a level of the first program pulse.
US11823750B2
A method for writing into a one-time programmable memory of an integrated circuit includes attempting, by a memory control circuit of the integrated circuit, to write data in at least one first register of the one-time programmable memory; verifying, by the memory control circuit, whether the data has been correctly written in the at least one first register; and, in case the data has not been correctly written in the at least one first register, attempting, by the memory control circuit, to write the data in at least one second register of the one-time programmable memory.
US11823746B2
A memory sector with trimmed reference currents, including eight unit cells corresponding to an even word line and eight unit cells corresponding to an odd word line, and each unit cell has erased state and programmed state, wherein the logic state of unit cell corresponding to the odd word line is determined by a first reference current based on cell currents of the 8 unit cells corresponding to the even word line in programmed state and cell currents of the eight unit cells corresponding to the odd word line in erased state, and the logic state of unit cell corresponding to the even word line is determined by a second reference current based on cell currents of the eight unit cells corresponding to the even word line in erased state and cell currents of the 8 unit cells corresponding to the odd word line in programmed state.
US11823745B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses, methods, and systems for predicting and compensating for degradation of memory cells. An embodiment includes a memory having a group of memory cells, and circuitry configured to, upon a quantity of sense operations performed on the group of memory cells meeting or exceeding a threshold quantity, perform a sense operation on the group of memory cells using a positive sensing voltage and perform a sense operation on the group of memory cells using a negative sensing voltage, and perform an operation to program the memory cells of the group determined to be in a reset data state by both of the sense operations to the reset data state.
US11823732B2
The embodiments described herein describe technologies for using the memory modules in different modes of operation, such as in a standard multi-drop mode or as in a dynamic point-to-point (DPP) mode (also referred to herein as an enhanced mode). The memory modules can also be inserted in the sockets of the memory system in different configurations.
US11823730B2
An integrated circuit includes: first and second pattern generation circuits generating first and second pattern signal for a sampling section; a first section control part generating a coarse section signal for a first section of the sampling section, according to the first pattern signal; a first filter part generating a first section extract signal by filtering the second pattern signal according to the coarse section signal; a second section control part generating a fine section signal for a second section of the sampling section, according to the first section extract signal; a second filter part generating a second section extract signal by filtering the second pattern signal according to the fine section signal; an output control circuit generating a sampling enable signal according to the first and second section extract signals; and a sampling circuit suitable for sampling an input signal according to the sampling enable signal.
US11823723B2
A memory device includes a first terminal and a second terminal; a magnetic tunnel junction coupled to the second terminal; wherein the magnetic tunnel junction comprises a magnetic free layer, and the magnetic tunnel junction is configured to be displaced by a plurality of distances from a center position of the device; a nonmagnetic metallic spin harvesting conductor coupled to the magnetic tunnel junction; wherein the nonmagnetic metallic spin harvesting conductor has a lateral dimension that is larger than that of the magnetic tunnel junction; an electrically insulating spin conductor coupled to the nonmagnetic metallic spin harvesting conductor; wherein the electrically insulating spin conductor has relatively less electrical conductivity than the nonmagnetic metallic spin harvesting conductor; wherein the nonmagnetic metallic spin harvesting conductor collects spin current from the electrically insulating spin conductor; and a spin orbit conduction channel coupled to the electrically insulating spin conductor and to the first terminal.
US11823720B2
A voice coil motor yoke having a magnet bonding surface includes an annular groove inside a bonding region on the magnet bonding surface, the bonding region having substantially the same shape as a contour of a magnet to be bonded on the magnet bonding surface of the yoke. A region surrounded by the annular groove on the magnet bonding surface is an adhesive application region. A voice coil motor includes: a pair of the voice coil motor yokes; an adhesive applied to the adhesive application region of each of the pair of yokes; and a pair of rare earth magnets bonded via the adhesive to the bonding region of each of the pair of yokes.
US11823707B2
An audio spotting system configured for various operating modes including a regular mode and sensitivity mode is described. An example cascade audio spotting system may include a high-power subsystem including a high-power trigger and a transfer module. This high-power trigger includes one or more detection models used to detect whether a target sound activity is included in the one or more audio streams. The one or more detection models are associated with a first set of hyperparameters when the cascade audio spotting system is in a regular mode, and the one or more detection models are associated with a second set of hyperparameters when the cascade audio spotting system is in a sensitivity mode. The transfer module provides at least one of one or more processed audio streams for further processing in response to the high-power trigger detecting the target sound activity in the one or more audio streams.
US11823702B2
To generate substantially condition-invariant and speaker-discriminative features, embodiments are associated with a feature extractor capable of extracting features from speech frames based on first parameters, a speaker classifier capable of identifying a speaker based on the features and on second parameters, and a condition classifier capable of identifying a noise condition based on the features and on third parameters. The first parameters of the feature extractor and the second parameters of the speaker classifier are trained to minimize a speaker classification loss, the first parameters of the feature extractor are further trained to maximize a condition classification loss, and the third parameters of the condition classifier are trained to minimize the condition classification loss.
US11823698B2
A method of cropping a portion of an audio signal captured from a plurality of spatially separated audio sources in a scene, the method comprising: capturing the audio signal with one or more recording devices; separating the audio signal into a plurality of components each associated with one or more of the plurality of audio sources; selecting a spatial region in the scene; determining which of the plurality of components are associated with an audio source positioned outside of the selected spatial region; and cropping the plurality of components associated with an audio source positioned outside of the selected spatial region out of the audio signal.
US11823689B2
An apparatus includes a receiver and a decoder. The receiver is configured to receive a bitstream that includes a first frame and a second frame. The first frame includes a first portion of a mid channel and a first quantized stereo parameter. The second frame includes a second portion of the mid channel and a second quantized stereo parameter. The decoder is configured to generate a first portion of a channel based on the first portion of the mid channel and the first quantized stereo parameter. The decoder is configured to, in response to the second frame being unavailable for decoding operations, estimate the second quantized stereo parameter based on stereo parameters of one or more preceding frames and generate a second portion of the channel based on the estimated second quantized stereo parameter. The second portion of the channel corresponds to a decoded version of the second frame.
US11823685B2
A method includes receiving acoustic features of a first utterance spoken by a first user that speaks with typical speech and processing the acoustic features of the first utterance using a general speech recognizer to generate a first transcription of the first utterance. The operations also include analyzing the first transcription of the first utterance to identify one or more bias terms in the first transcription and biasing the alternative speech recognizer on the one or more bias terms identified in the first transcription. The operations also include receiving acoustic features of a second utterance spoken by a second user that speaks with atypical speech and processing, using the alternative speech recognizer biased on the one or more terms identified in the first transcription, the acoustic features of the second utterance to generate a second transcription of the second utterance.
US11823681B1
This disclosure describes techniques and systems for encoding instructions in audio data that, when output on a speaker of a first device in an environment, cause a second device to output content in the environment. In some instances, the audio data has a frequency that is inaudible to users in the environment. Thus, the first device is able to cause the second device to output the content without users in the environment hearing the instructions. In some instances, the first device also outputs content, and the content output by the second device is played at an offset relative to a position of the content output by the first device.
US11823676B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for resuming a partially completed action that is to be performed by an automated assistant. The action can require the automated assistant to prompt the user to provide information that the automated assistant can use to complete the action. During a dialog session in which the user is providing the information, an event can occur that interferes with the completion of the action. In response, the automated assistant can cause any information obtained during the dialog session to be stored locally, in order that the automated assistant can resume completing the action at a later time. For instance, the user can be prompted by the automated assistant to complete the action, or the user can independently invoke the automated assistant to complete the action at a time that is convenient for the user.
US11823662B2
The present disclosure discloses a control method and a control apparatus for speech interaction. The detailed implementation solution of the control method for the speech interaction includes: collecting an audio signal; detecting a wake-up word in the audio signal to obtain a wake-up word result; and playing a prompt tone and/or executing a speech instruction in the audio signal based on the wake-up word result.
US11823660B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method, apparatus and device for training a network, and a storage medium, relate to the field of artificial intelligence technology such as deep learning and speech analysis. A semantic prediction network comprises: an encoder network and at least one decoder network; and a particular solution is: acquiring a first speech feature of a target speech sample; the target speech sample being a synthesized speech sample or a real speech sample, the synthesized speech sample being attached with a sample syllable label and a semantic label comprising a value of the domain, and the real speech sample being attached with a sample syllable label; and jointly training an initial semantic prediction network and a syllable classification network using the first speech feature of the target speech sample, to obtain a trained semantic prediction network.
US11823655B2
A speech-processing system receives both text data and natural-understanding data (e.g., a domain, intent, and/or entity) related to a command represented in the text data. The system uses the natural-understanding data to vary vocal characteristics in determining spectrogram data corresponding to the text data based on the natural-understanding data.
US11823640B2
The present disclosure provides a display substrate and a display device. The display substrate includes: a gate driving circuitry arranged at a peripheral region of the display substrate; n clock signal leads coupled to the gate driving circuitry, each clock signal lead extending in a first direction; and n clock signal lines arranged sequentially in the first direction, each clock signal line extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, where n is a positive integer greater than 1. The clock signal leads have a same length in the first direction, each clock signal lead extends from a first clock signal line to an nth clock signal line, and each clock signal lead is coupled to a corresponding clock signal line at a position where the clock signal lead intersects the clock signal line.
US11823638B2
A display circuit device includes a CPU, a display control circuit, and a drive signal generation circuit. The drive signal generation circuit includes a generation circuit that generates a first CRC value that is a CRC value of command data received from the CPU, and a transmission circuit that transmits the first CRC value to the CPU. The CPU includes an expected value generation circuit that generates a second CRC that is a CRC value of command data before being input to the drive signal generation circuit, a reception circuit that receives the first CRC value, a comparison circuit that compares the first CRC value with the second CRC value, and a control circuit that executes control based on a comparison result obtained by the comparison circuit.
US11823630B2
Discussed is a display apparatus including a substrate including a display portion, a plurality of pixels connected to a gate line and a data line disposed in the display portion, and a gate driving circuit disposed in the display portion to drive the gate line. The gate driving circuit includes a stage circuit unit including a plurality of stage circuits respectively disposed in a plurality of division regions defined in the display portion, and a circuit repair portion configured to repair at least one of the plurality of stage circuits and including a plurality of repair patterns. Further, at least one of the plurality of repair patterns is configured to be electrically disconnected from the at least one of the plurality of stage circuits.
US11823606B2
Provided are a mura compensation circuit which prevents a change in color of a pixel upon mura compensations for the pixel and a driving apparatus for a display applying the same. The mura compensation circuit includes a mura memory configured to store mura information including location information of a pixel having mura and compensation values for colors thereof, a gain adjustment unit configured to provide adjustment compensation values generated by applying an adjustment gain having an identical ratio to the compensation values for the colors of the pixel, and a mura compensation unit configured to receive display data of the colors of the pixel and to perform mura compensations on the display data of the colors of the pixel using the adjustment compensation values corresponding to the location information.
US11823605B2
An electronic device including a plurality of pixels and a driving element is provided. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, and a third sub-pixel. The driving element drives each first sub-pixel of the plurality of pixels.
US11823591B2
The disclosure herein describes an emotional insight management system that provides user-configured prompts and insights to the user. In some examples, an insights application provides personalized, recurring prompts to encourage users to provide current emotional state updates to a well-being journal. The user's responses over time are aggregated within a historical trends report, which provides emotional response data over time. The insights application generates insights into potential reasons for the user's emotional states on a given day. The system analyzes the user-provided emotion response data with integrated work-related data to identify reasons for the user's mood and make recommendations for actions to be taken by users to reduce stress and improve the user's emotional well-being.
US11823587B2
A virtual reality system with an inspecting function of assembling and disassembling and an inspection method of assembling and disassembling based on virtual reality are presented. A learning-end acquires an inspection data and a teaching assembling-disassembling record being set with a plurality of checkpoints, plays the teaching assembling-disassembling record, modifies a learning assembling-disassembling status of a plurality of virtual objects based on user's operations for assembling or disassembling. The learning-end issues an assembling-disassembling error reminder when the learning assembling-disassembling status is inconsistent with a teaching assembling-disassembling status at any of the checkpoints.
US11823583B2
A system for optimization of a recharging flight plan for an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The system includes a recharging infrastructure. The recharging infra structure includes a computing device. The computing device is configured to receive an aircraft metric from a flight controller of an eVTOL aircraft, generate a safe approach plan for the eVTOL aircraft as a function of the aircraft metric, and transmit the safe approach plan to the eVTOL aircraft for execution by the eVTOL aircraft. A method for optimization of a recharging flight plan for an eVTOL aircraft is also provided.
US11823581B2
A drone flight plan between an origin and destination is evaluated with respect to planned routes of connected vehicles. The drone flight path is calculated such that it includes one or more docking segments on one or more vehicles. For multiple vehicles, multiple permutations of docking segments may be evaluated and assigned scores according to risk, drone flying time, timing issues, and other factors. A permutation having a score indicating higher desirability may be selected. The one or more vehicles may be autonomous and routes of the one or more vehicles may be adjusted in order to provide suitable docking segments for the drone flight path. The destination of the drone flight path may also be adjusted in order to permit docking on one or more vehicles.
US11823580B2
Time slot specifying unit reads out facility information of a facility to be inspected (specifically, a base station ID of a base station whose previous inspection day is included in a past predetermined period) from facility information storage unit. Daytime information acquiring unit acquires daytime information at positions at which base stations to be inspected are installed. Time slot specifying unit specifies non-backlight time slots based on the read-out facility information and the acquired daytime information. Operation plan generating unit generates an operation plan of drone in which facilities are shot in the specified non-backlight time slots. Operation plan outputting unit outputs the generated operation plan.
US11823574B2
A method and apparatus for predicting a road condition, a device and a computer storage medium are disclosed. The method includes: determining at least two continuous road segments obtained by dividing a navigation path; and performing the following processing on each road segment one by one from the starting point of the navigation path to the end point thereof respectively: determining the moment when the user reaches the road segment processed currently; predicting road condition information of the road segment processed currently at the determined moment; and predicting passing duration of the user at the road segment processed currently based on the road condition information of the road segment processed currently at the determined moment. With such a road-condition prediction mode, the road condition at the moment when the user will reach each road segment in the future may be predicted, and compared with the mode of predicting the road condition based on the user query moment, more accurate road condition information may be provided.
US11823568B2
Systems and methods are provided for operating a vehicle using dynamic speed limits. A vehicle can monitor current road conditions by capturing real-time data that is indicative of a driving environment associated with a roadway being traversed by the vehicle. Using the captured real-time data, the vehicle can predict a dynamic speed limit, wherein the dynamic speed limit is a driving speed for the vehicle that is adapted for the monitored current road conditions. Additionally, the vehicle can automatically perform a driving operation for the vehicle in accordance with the dynamic speed limit, wherein the driving operation causes the vehicle to move at a driving speed that is approximately equal to the predicted dynamic speed limit.
US11823567B2
A system includes a sensor network comprising at least two optical fibers coupled to a pavement. Each optical fiber includes one or more optical sensors installed a predetermined distance from one or more adjacent optical fibers. The one or more optical sensors are configured to produce a wavelength shift signal. A processor is configured to determine one or both of one or more attributes of one or more objects travelling on the pavement and a traffic condition of the pavement based on the wavelength shift signal. A transmitter is configured to transmit the one or more attributes to a predetermined location.
US11823558B2
In some embodiments, an electronic device generates a tactile output sequence in response to detecting that the electronic device is oriented within a range of orientations that changes as the distance between the electronic device and a respective object changes. In some embodiments, an electronic device changes one or more characteristics of a tactile output in response to detecting a change in the orientation of the electronic device relative to a respective object. In some embodiments, an electronic device generates tactile outputs with characteristics indicative of the orientation of a camera of the electronic device relative to one or more AR (augmented reality) planes. In some embodiments, an electronic device generates tactile outputs indicative of a data sharing process with a second electronic device.
US11823550B2
The invention relates to a monitoring device 1 for monitoring a man-overboard situation in a ship section 4, wherein the ship section 4 is monitored by video technology using at least one camera 5a,5b and the camera 5a,5b is designed to provide surveillance in the form of video data. The monitoring device comprises an evaluation device 7, said evaluation device 7 having an interface for receiving the video data, wherein the evaluation device 7 is designed to detect a moving object in the ship section 4 on the basis of the video data and to determine a kinematic variable of the moving object. The evaluation device 7 is designed to determine a starting point in three dimensions on the basis of the video data and the kinematic variable of the moving object and to evaluate the moving object as a man-overboard event on the basis of the starting point.
US11823546B1
The breastfeeding device to prevent baby suffocation includes a main unit and a remote unit. The main unit is mounted on a silicon pad or patch having an adhesive layer for attaching the main unit to one of the mother's breasts. The main unit includes a microcontroller having a sensor, such as a pressure sensor, connected thereto, either directly on the same printed circuit board or mounted external to the main unit and connected to the microcontroller by a wire or cable. The main unit has a transmitter mounted thereon for sending a signal to the remote unit when the sensor detects too much pressure being applied to the baby's mouth and nose. The remote unit has a receiver for receiving the signal, and a microcontroller for switching on an audible alarm when such a signal is received.
US11823542B2
An inventory system, apparatus and method. The method to be used in a cooler that includes a power module provides power to the inventory system from an electric source, battery, WIFI charge, wireless charge and/or combination thereof, a computer processor coupled to the power module, a memory module coupled to the computer processor, an image capturing module coupled to the processor, a movement module coupled to the processor; wherein the movement module triggers the image capturing device to capture images of products in a cooler due to a movement.
US11823541B2
An exemplary central system is configured to receive and store data from a registered device passing through an entryway of a restricted site, in a manner that permits the detection of unauthorized entry into the restricted site. A beacon broadcasts a beacon signal which prompts the registered device to transmit an active device ID and an active location ID to the central system, a sensor detects movement approaching the entryway and notifies the central system, and a camera captures an image of a region encompassing the entryway. The central system is configured to, among other things, receive the notification, communicate a control signal to the camera to capture the image, receive and store the image from the camera, cross-reference the active location ID with a registered location ID, and cross-reference the active device ID with registered device IDs. The entryway may have a barrier or may be barrierless.
US11823538B2
Various systems and methods for surveillance using a combination of video image capture and passive wireless detection are described. In some cases, the methods include receiving a device identification information from a first wireless access point at a first location and corresponding to a first time, and receiving the device identification from a second wireless access point at a second location and corresponding to a second time. A video from a camera is received, and a travel path is assembled including a portion of the video.
US11823536B1
A method includes receiving a notification of the gesture from a sensing device, receiving an input from a user to select a banking transaction, and determining an intent of the gesture from the sensing device. Additionally, the method includes altering the banking transaction based on the input of the user and the intent of the gesture from the sensing device. The method further includes transmitting a request separate from the banking transaction based on the intent of the gesture.
US11823523B2
An electronic gaming machine (EGM) that uses a feature symbol set and plurality of reel sets, where each feature symbol defines an inactive feature symbol and an activated feature symbol, and where each reel set includes reels that use an activated feature symbol. The EGM identifies a selected reel set that includes an activated feature symbol and initiates a spin. The EGM cause first and second reels to stop spinning and, in response to determining that at least one first activated symbol appears on each of the first and second reels, triggers a feature causing one or more overlay symbols with prize identifiers to be overlaid onto a play area. The EGM stop the spinning of the other reels, evaluates an outcome of the spin that includes at least one overlay symbol with an associated prize identifier, and awards a prize indicated by the prize identifier based on the evaluation.
US11823513B2
Disclosed is a system and method for more secure card transactions. The security is generated by the use of a dynamic transaction number which is valid for only a single predetermined time interval. The transaction number is generated through a two step process. In a first step, time is used as an input to a transaction number function. The transaction number function outputs more than 16 digits. The second step uses the more than 16 digits for input and uses a ruleset to strip at least one digit to determine the transaction number valid for the predetermined time interval.
US11823512B1
A system adapted to interact with an electronic card includes a server and an electronic lock device. The electronic lock device is configured to switch between a locked state and an unlocked state. The server, in response to an access request associated with the electronic card, generates and transmits an access code to the electronic lock device. The electronic lock device is configured to, in response to an input code, compare the input code with the access code, receive input data from a user, access the electronic card to obtain identifying data, and, when the input code is identical to the access code and the input data matches the identifying data, switch to the unlocked state.
US11823510B2
The present disclosure discloses a method for controlling a smart lock. The method includes obtaining a control request for a smart lock, wherein the control request carries ciphertext information; decrypting the ciphertext information in response to the control request; and controlling the smart lock to perform a target operation based on a decrypted control request.
US11823501B2
An electronic voting machine obtains session information in an encrypted state for conducting a voting session. The voting machine decrypts the session information using a decryption key that is specific to the voting machine. A ballot provided in the session information may then be presented in a user interface through which votes are received. The session information also includes an encryption key for a specific tabulation machine associated a priori with the voting session, as well as one or more datastores. The voting machine encrypts the votes with the encryption key and sends the votes in an encrypted state to the one or more datastores. The tabulation machine may then retrieve the votes from the location(s) and decrypt them using a corresponding private key.
US11823497B2
An image processing system and an image processing method for localising recognised characters in an image. An estimation unit is configured to estimate a first location of a recognised character that has been obtained by performing character recognition of the image. A determination unit is configured to determine second locations of a plurality of connected components in the image. A comparison unit is configured to compare the first location and the second locations, to identify a connected component associated with the recognised character. An association unit is configured to associate the recognised character, the identified connected component, and the second location of the identified connected component.
US11823495B2
A Kinect-based auxiliary training system for basic badminton movements, includes a data collection module, a movement feature extraction and recognition module, and a movement standard degree analysis and guidance module. The data collection module is provided with a Kinect v2 somatosensory device for monitoring athletes in real time, and collecting 3D coordinate data of 25 joint points of athletes' whole body. The movement feature extraction and recognition module is provided for establishing a standard template, and obtaining a similarity between the movement data and the standard template. The movement standard degree analysis and guidance module is provided for determining a category of the current movement of the user to be tested according to the similarity, and further analyzing whether the current movement of the user to be tested meets a standard according to a threshold range of the bone included angle set by a technology evaluation rule.
US11823492B2
A method for reducing violence within crowded venues is provided. The method includes reading license plates of vehicles passing into entry ports of a parking area, and capturing facial images of persons seeking admission to the venue. A computer compares such license plates to a database of vehicle license plates associated with persons with past histories of violence. A computer also compares captured facial images to a database of facial data for persons with past violent histories. Upon detecting a match, the computer creates an alert presented to law enforcement officers to facilitate detention of such persons for investigation. Information recorded on entry tickets is scanned and saved together with the facial image of the ticket holder. If a violent act occurs, cameras within the venue capture facial images of participants. The computer matches such participants to stored identifying data to assist in the identification and apprehension of such persons.
US11823483B2
Some disclosed implementations include an ultrasonic sensor stack and an acoustic resonator. The acoustic resonator may be configured to enhance ultrasonic waves transmitted by the ultrasonic sensor stack in an ultrasonic frequency range that is suitable for ultrasonic fingerprint sensors. In some examples, the acoustic resonator may include one or more low-impedance layers residing between a first higher-impedance layer and a second higher-impedance layer. Each of the one or more low-impedance layers may have a lower acoustic impedance than an acoustic impedance of the first higher-impedance layer or an acoustic impedance of the second higher-impedance layer. At least one low-impedance layer may have a thickness corresponding to a multiple of a half wavelength at a peak frequency of the acoustic resonator. The peak frequency may be within a frequency range from 1 MHz. to 20 MHz.
US11823482B2
The present disclosure provides an ultrasonic sensor, a display panel and a display apparatus. The ultrasonic sensor includes: a bearing substrate; an ultrasonic emission structure on the bearing substrate, wherein the ultrasonic emission structure includes a first piezoelectric film layer; and an ultrasonic receiving structure on the bearing substrate, wherein the ultrasonic receiving structure includes a second piezoelectric film layer. The piezoelectric constant of the first piezoelectric film layer is greater than the piezoelectric constant of the second piezoelectric film layer.
US11823476B2
A device configured to receive a request for processing a digital document that identifies a target data structure. The device is further configured to obtain the digital document and to process the digital document to identify objects within the digital document. The device is further configured to input the digital document into a machine learning model that is configured to output contextual metadata for the digital document based on the digital document. The contextual metadata describes attributes of the identified objects within the digital document. The device is further configured to populate a first subset of entries in the target data structure with identifiers for the objects identified within the digital document and to populate a second subset of entries in the target data structure with the contextual metadata. The device is further configured to send the populated target data structure to the network device.
US11823466B2
A characteristic of a flicker component is detected to perform object detection at a higher speed and with higher accuracy. An object detection device according to an embodiment is provided with a solid-state imaging device (200) provided with a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, the solid-state imaging device that detects, according to a light amount incident on each of the pixels, occurrence of an event in the pixel, a flicker detection unit (12) that generates flicker information on the basis of the occurrence of the event detected by the solid-state imaging device, and an object detection unit (15) that detects an object on the basis of the flicker information detected by the solid-state imaging device.
US11823462B2
A method for training a polyhedral classifier is described including obtaining training data in a data space, the training data including first data points associated with a first label and second data points associated with a second label, determining a pair of hyperplanes by determining an orientation of the pair of hyperplanes based on a minimization of a distance between the pair of hyperplanes such that the first data points lie between the hyperplanes in relation to a distance between the pair of hyperplanes such that both the first data points and the second data points lie between the hyperplanes and determining the position of the pair of hyperplanes such that the first data points lie between the pair of hyperplanes and the second data points are at least partially separated from the first data points by the pair of hyperplanes.
US11823460B2
Devices, systems and methods for fusing scenes from real-time image feeds from on-vehicle cameras in autonomous vehicles to reduce redundancy of the information processed to enable real-time autonomous operation are described. One example of a method for improving perception in an autonomous vehicle includes receiving a plurality of cropped images, wherein each of the plurality of cropped images comprises one or more bounding boxes that correspond to one or more objects in a corresponding cropped image; identifying, based on the metadata in the plurality of cropped images, a first bounding box in a first cropped image and a second bounding box in a second cropped image, wherein the first and second bounding boxes correspond to a common object; and fusing the metadata corresponding to the common object from the first cropped image and the second cropped image to generate an output result for the common object.
US11823459B2
A method includes receiving a first time series of video frames depicting a first area of interest that includes a display area in a retail environment, and using classification by a convolutional neural network to detect instances of people picking up inventory items from the display area. The method also includes receiving a second time series of video frames depicting a second area of interest in the retail environment, and determining, based upon one or more portions of the second time series of video frames, that at least one inventory item picked up at the display area was not, or will not likely be, checked out. The method also includes causing one or more alert messages to be displayed, including causing an alert message to be displayed based on the determining.
US11823458B2
An object detection and tracking system to identify an object of interest and to determine the location of the object within an area. The system includes a processing unit, a visual image system, a thermal image system, and a location mapping system. The visual image system is positioned relative to an area to capture a visual image of at least a portion of the area. The thermal image system is positioned relative to the area to capture a thermal image of at least a portion of the area concurrently with capture of the visual image to cooperatively identify an object in the area. The at least portion of the area captured in the thermal image conforms to the at least portion of the area captured in the visual image. The location mapping system is positioned relative to the area to determine a location of the object in the area.
US11823456B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system and a method for performing operations comprising: identifying a plurality of features for frames of a video received by a messaging application server; assigning a first sequence of a first subset of the plurality of features and a second sequence of a second subset of the plurality of features respectively to a first nearest visual codebook cluster and a second nearest visual codebook cluster; applying the first and second nearest visual codebook clusters to a visual search database to identify a plurality of candidate matching videos; selecting a given matching video from the plurality of candidate matching videos based on a rank representing similarity of the given matching video to the video received by the messaging application server; and accessing an augmented reality experience corresponding to the given matching video.
US11823439B2
Generally, the present disclosure is directed to systems and methods that train machine-learned models (e.g., artificial neural networks) to perform perceptual or cognitive task(s) based on biometric data (e.g., brain wave recordings) collected from living organism(s) while the living organism(s) are performing the perceptual or cognitive task(s). In particular, aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a new supervision paradigm, by which machine-learned feature extraction models are trained using example stimuli paired with companion biometric data such as neural activity recordings (e g electroencephalogram data, electrocorticography data, functional near-infrared spectroscopy, and/or magnetoencephalography data) collected from a living organism (e.g., human being) while the organism perceived those examples (e.g., viewing the image, listening to the speech, etc.).
US11823434B1
A data processing system for generating a fingerprint of an image implements obtaining a first digital image; determining a first fingerprint for the first digital image comprising a first coarse-grain fingerprint element and a first fine-grain fingerprint element by determining the first coarse-grain component based on the first digital image; determining the first fine-grain component based on the first digital image; and generating the first fingerprint by combining the first coarse-grain component with the first-fine grain component; obtaining a second fingerprint for a second digital image, the second fingerprint comprising a second coarse-grain component and a second fine-grain component; comparing the first fingerprint with the second fingerprint to determine a similarity score; and performing one or more actions responsive to the similarity score equaling or exceeding a similarity threshold.
US11823432B2
The present disclosure provides a saliency prediction method and system for a 360-degree image based on a graph convolutional neural network. The method includes: firstly, constructing a spherical graph signal of an image of an equidistant rectangular projection format by using a geodesic icosahedron composition method; then inputting the spherical graph signal into the proposed graph convolutional neural network for feature extraction and generation of a spherical saliency graph signal; and then reconstructing the spherical saliency graph signal into a saliency map of an equidistant rectangular projection format by using a proposed spherical crown based interpolation algorithm. The present disclosure further proposes a KL divergence loss function with sparse consistency. The method can achieve excellent saliency prediction performance subjectively and objectively, and is superior to an existing method in computational complexity.
US11823415B2
An autoencoder may be trained to predict 3D pose labels using simulation data extracted from a simulated environment, which may be configured to represent an environment in which the 3D pose estimator is to be deployed. Assets may be used to mimic the deployment environment such as 3D models or textures and parameters used to define deployment scenarios and/or conditions that the 3D pose estimator will operate under in the environment. The autoencoder may be trained to predict a segmentation image from an input image that is invariant to occlusions. Further, the autoencoder may be trained to exclude areas of the input image from the object that correspond to one or more appendages of the object. The 3D pose may be adapted to unlabeled real-world data using a GAN, which predicts whether output of the 3D pose estimator was generated from real-world data or simulated data.
US11823414B2
The information processing device includes: a first input unit for generating a three-dimensional model of an object to be recognized; a template generation unit that generates, on the basis of the three-dimensional model information, a two-dimensional template which shows the shape of the upper edge of the object to be recognized; a coordinate relationship identification unit that generates coordinate relationship information indicating the relationship between three-dimensional coordinates of the three-dimensional model and two-dimensional coordinates when the three-dimensional model is imaged; a second input unit that receives the input of the captured image; a matching unit that matches the captured image and the two-dimensional template; and a recognition unit that recognizes the three-dimensional position and posture of the object to be recognized by referencing the coordinate relationship information, which is detected according to the results of the two-dimensional matching by the matching unit.
US11823406B1
A system for providing an object distance of a device under test (DUT), the system including a first lens, a second lens, an optical pinhole disposed between the first lens and the second lens, a detector and a pair of gratings disposed between the second lens and the detector, the detector configured for receiving a Moiré pattern formed as a result of light from the DUT being disposed through the first lens, the optical pinhole, the second lens and the pair of gratings, wherein the object distance is determined based on the Moiré pattern and one or more properties of the pair of gratings.
US11823402B2
A method and apparatus for correcting an error in depth information estimated from a two-dimensional (2D) image are disclosed. The method includes diagnosing an error in depth information by inputting a color image and depth information estimated using the color image to a depth error detection network, and determining enhanced depth information by maintaining or correcting the depth information based on the diagnosed error.
US11823397B2
A system includes sensors and a tracking subsystem. The subsystem receives a first image feed from a first sensor and a second image feed from a second sensor. The field-of view of the second sensor at least partially overlaps with that of the first sensor. The subsystem detects an object in a frame from the first feed. The subsystem determines a first pixel position of the object. The subsystem determines a second pixel position of the object. Based on the first pixel position and the second pixel position, a global position for the object is determined in a space.
US11823383B2
Provided are a computer system for automatically searching for a mental disorder diagnosis protocol and an method thereof that may determine at least one test region to be examined for a predetermined mental disorder diagnosis in a brain image of a patient based on a first artificial neural network, may determine a test process for the mental disorder diagnosis for the patient based on a second artificial neural network, and may provide a test protocol for the mental disorder diagnosis for the patient based on the test region and the test process. The computer system may visualize at least one of a position, a shape, a size, and an importance of the test region in the brain image. The test process may include test order of a plurality of test stages in which the brain image is to be used for the mental disorder diagnosis.
US11823377B2
An information processing apparatus includes an image feature acquiring unit configured to acquire first image features and second image features from a medical image and a deriving unit configured to derive image findings of a plurality of items belonging to a first finding type based on the first image features and deriving image findings of a plurality of items belonging to a second finding type different from the first finding type based on the second image features that at least partly differ from the first image features.
US11823375B2
Provided are a machine learning device and a method capable of performing machine learning of labeling for accurately attaching a plurality of labels to volume data at once by using learning data with mixed inconsistent labeling. A neural network (14) receives an input of multi-slice images of learning data Di (i=1, 2, . . . n) of which a class to be labeled is n types, and creates a prediction mask of n anatomical structures i by a convolutional neural network (CNN) or the like (S1). A machine learning unit (13) calculates a prediction accuracy acc(i) of the class corresponding to the learning data Di for each learning data Di (S2). The machine learning unit (13) calculates a weighted average M of an error di between the prediction accuracy acc(i) and a ground truth mask Gi. The machine learning unit (13) calculates a learning loss by a loss function Loss (S4). The machine learning unit (13) changes each coupling load of the neural network (14) from an output layer side to an input layer side according to a value of the learning loss calculated by the loss function Loss (S5).
US11823374B2
Imaging systems and methods are provided, which implement wide field imaging of a region for medical procedures and provide tracking of tools and tissues in the whole region while providing digitally magnified images of a portion of the captured region. Optical tracking may be implemented by stereoscopic imaging, and various elements may be optically tracked such as various markers and fiducials, as well as certain shapes and objects which are optically identifiable by image processing.
US11823366B2
The present invention relates to a method of detecting an anomaly using a plurality of images. The method comprises determining a subset of images from the plurality of images, comprising one or more first features. Further, one or more regions comprising one or more second features are identified in each image from the subset of images. Finally, detecting the anomaly from the subset of images based on the one or more regions. Therefore, accuracy of detecting anomalies is increased by using the subset of images.
US11823362B2
A display apparatus and a controlling method thereof are disclosed. The display apparatus includes: a memory storing one or more instructions; and a processor configured to execute the stored one or more instructions to: obtain encoded data of a first digital image and artificial intelligence (AI) meta-information indicating a specification of a deep neural network (DNN), obtain a second digital image corresponding to the first digital image by decoding the encoded data, obtain a light signal converted from the second digital image according to a previously determined electro-optical transfer function (EOTF), and obtain a display signal by processing the light signal by using an opto-optical transfer function (OOTF) and a high dynamic range (HDR) DNN set according to the AI meta-information.
US11823358B2
A handwritten content removing method and device and a storage medium. The handwritten content removing method comprises: acquiring an input image of a text page to be processed, the input image comprising a handwritten region, which comprises a handwritten content (S10); identifying the input image so as to determine the handwritten content in the handwritten region (S11); and removing the handwritten content in the input image so as to obtain an output image (S12).
US11823355B2
Pixel depth information is used to determine a weight to apply to neighboring pixels when using a sharpening filter. A difference between neighboring pixel depths is evaluated and pixels with pixel depths that exceed a threshold are given less weight than other pixels. A sharpening mask may be generated using adjusted pixel colors.
