US11832366B2
The present invention is directed to a lighting control system with a motion sensor unit that electrically couples to a load circuit through a latching relay or load controller for turning on and off lights. The motion sensor unit is configured to power down to draw zero power after a time delay, when motion is longer detected within the work space by the motion sensor unit. The lighting control system further includes a control circuit that reinitiates or turns the motion sensor back on through a switch device.
US11832364B2
Disclosed herein is an integrated photonics device including a frequency stabilization subsystem for monitoring and/or adjusting the wavelength of light emitted by one or more light sources. The device can include one or more selectors that can combine, select, and/or filter light along one or more light paths, which can include light emitted by a plurality of light sources. Example selectors may include, but are not limited to, an arrayed waveguide grating (AWG), a ring resonator, a plurality of distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs), a plurality of filters, and the like. Output light paths from the selector(s) can be input into one or more detector(s). The detector(s) can receive the light along the light paths and can generate one or more signals as output signal(s) from the frequency stabilization subsystem. A controller can monitor the wavelength and can adjust or generate control signal(s) for the one or more light sources to lock the monitored wavelength to a target wavelength (or within a targeted range of wavelengths).
US11832360B1
A lamp device includes a controller, a plurality of light-emitting elements, a plurality of current conversion modules and an interpretation module. The controller is configured to output a dimming signal. The current conversion modules are coupled to the light-emitting elements and configured to control the light-emitting elements to emit light. The interpretation module is coupled to the current conversion modules and configured to output, according to a comparison table, a plurality of control signals corresponding to the dimming signal to the current conversion modules respectively. The light-emitting elements are different in a luminous property, and one of the current conversion modules is configured to output a feedback signal to the controller.
US11832359B1
An LED lighting device with light spectrum adjustment function, which includes a light source group, a white light color temperature adjustment switch, a red/blue light ratio adjustment switch, a controller and a constant-current control circuit. The light source group includes a red LED, a blue LED, a first white LED and a second white LED. The white light color temperature adjustment switch generates a white light color temperature control signal. The red/blue light ratio adjustment switch generates a red/blue light ratio control signal. The controller receives the white light color temperature control signal and the red/blue light ratio control signal so as to generate an integrated control signal. The constant-current control circuit outputs a driving current according to the integrated control signal to control the above LEDs in order to generate a light having a target color temperature and a target light spectrum.
US11832356B2
A heater for use in fluid immersion heating includes a plurality of resistive heating elements, and a plurality sets of power pins electrically connected to the plurality of heating elements. Each set of power pins includes a first power pin made of a first conductive material, and a second power pin made of a second conductive material that is dissimilar from the first conductive material of the first power pin. The first power pin is electrically connected to the second power pin to form a junction. The second power pin is electrically connected to the corresponding resistive heating element. The junctions between the first power pins and the second power pins are disposed at different heights in order to sense a level of the fluid.
US11832354B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node may receive, from a first wireless device, an uplink communication using a first guard interval. The IAB may receive, from a second wireless device, a downlink communication using a second guard interval, a second length of the second guard interval being different from a first length of the first guard interval. The IAB may process the uplink communication and the downlink communication in a same fast Fourier transform window. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11832333B2
A method and apparatus for data transfer in RRC_INACTIVE state is provided. Method for data transfer in RRC_INACTIVE state includes receiving a RRCRelease, determining a radio bearer configured for second resume procedure based on the first information for second resume procedure, receiving from the base station a system information, initiating second resume procedure, restoring configuration of the radio bearer configured for second resume procedure stored in UE Inactive AS context, re-establishing PDCP entity of the radio bearer configured for second resume procedure, resuming the radio bearer configured for second resume procedure and transmitting to the base station a RRCResumeRequest.
US11832329B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for network-assisted sidelink beam failure recovery. In certain aspects, a method performed by a base station may generally include receiving from a first UE a sidelink beam failure recovery (BFR) signal, indicating that a first communication link between the first UE and a second UE has failed; determining, based on the sidelink BFR signal, a set of resources for performing a sidelink beam failure recovery procedure to reestablish the first communication link between the first UE and the second UE; and transmitting information to the first UE and the second UE indicating the set of resources for performing the sidelink beam failure recovery procedure.
US11832326B2
Systems and methods manage data traffic by converging a mobile network operator (MNO) core network with a multiple-system operator (MSO) core network (e.g., a Hybrid-Mobile Virtual Network Operator (H-MVNO) core network). The system architecture includes one or more standards-based inter-network interfaces (e.g., as defined by Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standards) established between the MSO core network and the MNO core network and/or a dedicated core to provide a data signal pathway between the MNO core network and the MSO core network. As such, a user equipment (UE) receives data services through the H-MVNO core network via the standards-based inter-network interface when the UE is connected to a radio access network (RAN) for the MNO core network. Various configurations provide data services for single-subscriber identity module (SIM) UEs and dual-SIM UEs. Voice/message services are provided by a voice/message core.
US11832323B2
Methods and apparatuses related to a P-CSCF server, UE, and PCRF server are disclosed. An indication may be obtained that the UE is at least dual-registered with an IMS via at least a first access network and a second access network. During the ongoing IMS session, an indication associated with the loss of bearer event for a first dedicated bearer for the ongoing IMS session may be received, the first dedicated bearer being associated with the first access network. As a result of at least the indication that the UE is at least dual-registered and receiving the indication associated with the loss of bearer event for the first dedicated bearer, a request is communicated to establish a second dedicated bearer for the second access network to continue the ongoing IMS session with the second access network.
US11832318B2
A camera and a smart device are connected when the camera is in a first communication mode. Network credentials that enable connections to the camera in a second communication mode are transmitted from the camera to the smart device. Subsequent to transmitting the network credentials from the camera to the smart device, the camera is configured to operate in the second communication mode. A request to connect the smart device to the camera in the second communication mode is received at the camera and from the smart device. Media captured by the camera are transmitted from the camera to the smart device and using the second communication mode.
US11832317B2
There is provided a control method of performing communication using a first and second communication method includes: searching for, by the first and second communication method, communication apparatus; receiving a selection of one of the communication apparatus discovered by the first and second communication method, as a target; and if the target discovered by the first communication method is selected, transmitting first setting information to cause the target to establish connection by the first communication method to the target, and transmitting second setting information to cause the target to establish connection by the second communication method to the target, and if the target discovered by the second communication method is selected, transmitting the second setting information to the target by the second communication method, and transmitting the first setting information to the target.
US11832312B2
The disclosure relates to a 5th generation (5G) or 6th generation (6G) communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate than a post-4th Generation (4G) communication system such as long-term evolution (LTE). A method of performing random access by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving a first signal including at least one reference signal from a base station (BS), measuring the at least one reference signal and transmitting a second signal to the BS through first uplink resources corresponding to a selected reference signal, and transmitting a random access preamble through a physical random access channel (PRACH) resource corresponding to the selected reference signal.
US11832310B2
Provided is a method for performing transmission of an uplink channel in a wireless communication system, the method being performed by a terminal and comprising the steps of: receiving a system information block 1 (SIB1) from a base station; transmitting a preamble for a random access procedure to the base station; receiving a random access response (RAR) to the preamble from the base station; and transmitting a PUSCH to the base station on the basis of the random access response.
US11832309B2
A configuration to allow a base station to improve coverage for PDCCH during a RACH procedure. The apparatus receives, from a UE, a preamble to initiate a RACH procedure. The apparatus transmits a RAR to the UE in response to receiving the preamble. The RAR comprises a PDCCH over PDSCH resources.
US11832301B2
To provide a communication apparatus which controls channel access operation under a multi user environment, and a communication method. Channel access operation of each STA after an MU mode is finished is controlled through a trigger frame from an AP to prevent collision immediately after the MU mode is finished. Further, the AP sets a smaller CW upon transmission of the trigger frame than a CW of an STA to preferentially transmit the trigger frame and give priority to communication in the MU mode over communication in an SU mode. Further, by the CW of each STA upon switching of the mode being not reset, a transmission waiting period after the MU mode is finished is shortened.
US11832299B2
Systems and methods for extended range direct mode enhanced channel access in digital mobile radio systems. One example method for operating a portable communication device includes receiving a transmit request, and, responsive to receiving the transmit request, transmitting a single transmit burst including a source identifier identifying the portable communications device and starting an enhanced channel access timer. The method includes, when the enhanced channel access timer expires without receiving at least one from the group consisting of a receive idle burst and a receive burst, transmitting a signal based on the transmit request. The method includes, when a receive burst including a second source identifier is received while the enhanced channel access timer has not expired, responsive to receiving the receive burst, comparing the source identifier to the second source identifier. The method includes, responsive to determining that the second source identifier matches the source identifier, transmitting the signal.
US11832296B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communication device, otherwise known as a user equipment (UE) may transmit a random access message (e.g., a message 3) associated with a random access procedure. A hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback may be disabled for the random access procedure. The UE may initiate a contention resolution window associated with the random access procedure for a first downlink data channel transmission of a set of downlink data channel transmissions associated with the random access procedure. The UE may receive, during the contention resolution window, the first downlink data channel transmission carrying a contention resolution medium access control-control element (MAC-CE). The UE may transmit acknowledgment information for the first downlink data channel transmission carrying the contention resolution MAC-CE based on an indication to enable the HARQ feedback.
US11832285B2
Wireless communications may comprise transmissions using a beam. A message may comprise one or more indications of a beam and/or type(s) of signals for downlink and/or uplink transmission using the beam. An acknowledgement may be used to indicate reception of the one or more indications and/or a time offset may be used for applying the beam for the downlink and/or uplink transmission.
US11832281B2
A wireless communications method and device are provided. The method and device lower bit overheads and reduce the complexity of terminal processing in the sending of a synchronization signal (SS) block. The method includes determining that a first indication field in a physical broadcasting channel (PBCH) included in a first SS block is used to indicate a physical resource block (PRB) grid offset between channels or signals of an SS block and a non-SS block or indicate resource information of a second SS block. The method further includes sending the first SS block, wherein when it is determined that the first indication field is used to indicate the resource information of the second SS block, the first indication field in the first SS block indicates the resource information of the second SS block.
US11832276B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a relay node may receive, from a first wireless node via a first wireless link, a first communication, generate, using a digital processing operation, a second communication based at least in part on an information of the first communication, wherein the second communication is different than the first communication, and transmit, to a second wireless node via a second wireless link, the second communication. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11832271B2
Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a BS transmits, to a UE, a DCI that triggers an AP-CSI-RS on symbol(s) that are less than a beam switch timing threshold from the DCI. The UE and BS select one or more TCI states for reception of the AP-CSI-RS at the UE based at least in part on whether or not one or more overlapping downlink signals associated with the CORESET pool index are scheduled on the one or more symbols. The BS transmits the AP-CSI-RS, and the UE measures the AP-CSI-RS via the one or more TCI states in accordance with the TCI state selection.
US11832259B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a deep-learning-based framework for designing components of a downlink precoding system. The components of such a system include downlink training pilots and channel estimation based on receipt of the downlink training pilots. Another component involves channel measurement and feedback strategy at the user equipment. The components include a precoding scheme designed at the base station based on the feedback from the user equipment.
US11832256B2
A method of establishing communication between a first device and a second device to exchange ranging information is provided. According to an embodiment, the method includes: sending, by the first device to the second device via a first channel, or receiving, by the first device from the second device via the first channel, a first control message indicating a start time; sending, by the first device to the second device via a second channel, a second control message including one or more ranging parameter values for exchanging the ranging information, the second control message being sent at the start time; and exchanging, by the first device with the second device via the second channel, the ranging information over one or more ranging rounds.
US11832250B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide apparatus, methods, processing systems, and computer readable mediums for decoding, by a first user equipment (UE), a sidelink control information (SCI) from at least a second UE, the SCI indicating time resources reserved for future transmission to a third UE; and adapting a sidelink transmit discontinuous reception (DRX) pattern of the first UE based on the indicated time resources.
US11832245B2
Control structures and techniques for transmission time interval (TTI) shortening in wireless communication systems are provided. Exemplary techniques can comprise establishing a UE device connection to a base station having a first TTI, wherein the UE device is configured to employ TTI shortening and has a second TTI different from the first TTI and monitoring a first short physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) region for a scheduled downlink (DL) transmission via the second TTI, wherein a time distribution associated with multiple second TTIs within the first TTI is determined based on a control format indicator (CFI) value indicated via the first TTI. Exemplary techniques can further comprise receiving a DL transmission via the second TTI and transmitting a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARD) acknowledgement (ACK) (HARQ-ACK) feedback on an associated UL channel for HARQ-ACK feedback, wherein for a number of DL transmissions via the second TTI within one of the first TTI on the associated DL, a number of associated UL channels for HARQ-ACK feedback occur within the same one of the first TTI on the associated UL. Further control structures and techniques for TTI shortening for wireless communication systems are described.
US11832243B2
Provided are a data transmission method for ultra low-latency, highly-reliable communication in a wireless communication system, and a device therefor. A method for transmitting data in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, information relating to the number of repeated transmissions with respect to uplink data; configuring a plurality of physical uplink shared channels (PUSCH) corresponding to the number of repeated transmissions, wherein the uplink data is likewise mapped to the plurality of PUSCH; and sequentially transmitting the plurality of PUSCH in a single slot, wherein the plurality of PUSCH comprises a first PUSCH and a second PUSCH, and a first frequency resource for the transmission of the first PUSCH and a second frequency resource for the transmission of the second PUSCH can be changed so as to differ from one another in the single slot.
US11832242B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may be configured to measure sidelink channel conditions for a group of UEs and transmit a report (e.g., a channel state information (CSI) report) to a base station indicating the sidelink channel conditions. The base station may transmit control information (e.g., group-common downlink control information (GC-DCI)) to the group of UEs triggering the UEs to transmit sidelink reference signals (e.g., CSI reference signals (CSI-RS)) on the sidelink channels so that the UE can measure the sidelink channel conditions and transmit the report. Based on the report, the base station may transmit control information (e.g., a downlink control information (DCI) message) scheduling sidelink communications for the group of UEs. In some examples, the UE may act as a relay node for the group of UEs, and forward control information to the group of UEs.
US11832231B2
Techniques for grouping multiple serving component carriers (CCs) are disclosed. In one example, a frequency separation that defines a frequency range from a lower bound frequency to a higher bound frequency for each CC group of a plurality of CC groups may be determined, wherein a difference between the lower bound frequency and the higher bound frequency of each CC group may be equal to the frequency separation. A frequency of a first CC from a collection of CCs may be determined. The first CC may be assigned to a first CC group, of the plurality of CC groups, wherein the first CC group may have a frequency range that includes the frequency of the first CC.
US11832226B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first wireless device may receive a first indication indicating a communication direction for the first wireless device for each of a plurality of time periods for a time interval. The first wireless device may also receive a second indication associated with a second wireless device indicating a communication direction for the second wireless device. The first wireless device may adjust a communication configuration for at least a set of time periods of the plurality of time periods based on identifying a communication direction mismatch between the first wireless device and the second wireless device, where the communication direction mismatch is based on the first indication and the second indication.
US11832220B2
Methods and apparatuses in a wireless communication system. A method of operating a UE includes: receiving configuration information for TX resource pools including at least one of a first set of resource pools or a second set of resource pools; identifying, at an RRC sub-layer, the first and second set of resource pools based on a HARQ feedback channel; selecting, at a MAC sub-layer, a logical channel to transmit SL data, wherein the logical channel includes a highest priority among multiple logical channels using an LCP function; determining, at the MAC sub-layer, whether the logical channel is configured with the HARQ feedback channel; selecting, at the MAC sub-layer, a TX resource pool from the first set of resource pools based on a determination that the logical channel is configured with the HARQ feedback channel; and transmitting the SL data based on the TX resource pool.
US11832219B2
The apparatus may include a base station and UEs configured to communicate via sidelink communication. The UEs may select transmission resources from a resource pool including first periodic resources for PSFCH and second periodic resources for SL-RS, and rate-match the PSSCH around at least one of the first period resources or the second period resources. The second periodic resources may be shifted in time or canceled based on the first periodic resources. The base station may configure the UEs based on the UEs' capabilities to support the SL-RS and rate-matching the PSSCH around the multiplexed SL-RS and PSFCH.
US11832215B2
Embodiments of the present application provide communication methods and systems. One method comprises receiving, from a first access network device, signaling destined for a terminal device, wherein the terminal device is in a radio resource control (RRC) inactive mode. A first paging message is sent to a second access network device for paging the terminal device and first indication information is received indicating that the terminal device is connected to a second access network device. After receiving the signaling destined for the terminal device, the first access network device can learn the terminal device has connected to the second access network device, and therefore performs proper subsequent processing.
US11832194B2
A base station device includes: a controller configured to determine whether a calculation method for a single term among a plurality of terms included in an equation for determining a transmission power is either a first method or a second method; and a transmitter configured to transmit notification information for notifying the calculation method determined by the controller. The controller determines either the first method or the second method for first data, and determines either the first method or the second method for second data different from the first data.
US11832188B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first communication circuit, a second communication circuit, a processor configured to be electrically connected with the first communication circuit and the second communication circuit, and a memory configured to be electrically connected with the processor. The memory includes instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to obtain location information of the electronic device, transmit a first message for requesting to change a state of the electronic device to a network, receive a first response message to the transmitted first message from the network, transmit a second message for requesting a parameter for an operation cycle of the second communication circuit to the network, receive a second response message to the second message from the network, and change the operation cycle of the second communication circuit to a value corresponding to a current state of the electronic device.
US11832185B2
Provided are a method by which a terminal monitors a downlink control channel in a wireless communication system and a corresponding device. An offset-based time window is set before a conventional DRX-on period for monitoring PDCCH, and PSPDCCH for notifying of power saving information in the time window is monitored. Whether to actually monitor the PDCCH in the DRX-on period can be determined on the basis of the PS-PDCCH.
US11832184B2
Disclosed is a vehicle system including: a first electronic device configured to receive a radio frequency (RF) signal from an external device and process the RF signal to generate data; and a second electronic device configured to receive the data through an Ethernet communication method and perform an operation based on the data, wherein the first electronic device includes: a first signal detector configured to receive a first wake-up signal in a power saving mode state; and a first Ethernet interface configured to attempt an Ethernet connection with the second electronic device when the first signal detector receives the first wakeup signal.
US11832167B2
Embodiments of a method and an apparatus for wireless operations are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for wireless operations involves a first wireless device transmitting to a second wireless device, a management frame having a multi-link device (MLD) level Quality of Service Management Frame (QMF) Policy field that identifies an MLD level QMF Policy and a link level QMF Policy field that identifies a link level QMF Policy for a corresponding link, where the MLD level QMF Policy indicates an Access Category (AC) for each MLD level QMF management frame and each link level QMF Policy field indicates the AC for each link level QMF management frame, receiving, at the second wireless device, the management frame with the MLD level QMF Policy field and link level QMF Policy field for each corresponding link, and operating the second wireless device according to the AC indicated by the first wireless device.
US11832161B2
An information processing apparatus that is capable of making correct settings for wireless communication of which standards are different depending on the country, in conformity to the standards of a country where the information processing apparatus is used. On an image forming apparatus as the information processing apparatus, a wireless LAN module can be mounted which can be used in a plurality of specific countries and stores a country destination group number indicative of the plurality of specific countries in an OTP section. The image forming apparatus acquires the country destination group number as the group identification information from the OTP section of the mounted wireless LAN module. A control unit makes settings for enabling wireless communication using the mounted wireless LAN module, by using setting information on the acquired country destination group number.
US11832153B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The disclosure presents a method and a device allowing a system and a terminal to perform vehicle to everything (V2X) communication by using multiple carriers in a V2X wireless communication system and, particularly, the method of the terminal in the communication system comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, system information including a plurality of pieces of V2X carrier information and frequency and pool information of each of a plurality of V2X carriers; and transmitting, to the base station, sidelink user equipment (UE) information including a plurality of pieces of interest V2X carrier information on the basis of the system information.
US11832128B2
In 5G and 6G, a message received with even a single-bit fault generally discarded and a retransmission is requested. However, the faulted message contains a wealth of information that the receiver can use to avoid, or at least mitigate, such faults thereafter. Disclosed is a method for comparing a faulted message with an unfaulted copy, thereby determining which part of the message is faulted, and specifically how it was faulted. For example, the fault may have been an amplitude fault in which a demodulated amplitude differs by one level from the initially modulated amplitude, or it may be a phase fault in which the received phase differs by one phase level, or there may be a displacement by multiple amplitude or phase levels (a non-adjacent fault). Different mitigation strategies are disclosed for each situation, including AI models configured to select a suitable modulation scheme to combat specific faults.
US11832117B2
Wireless offloading provides tools to a service provider to encourage or direct a subscriber to offload from a first network, e.g., a cellular network, to a second network, e.g., a Wi-Fi network. The cellular service provider can use network data to determine wireless offloading priorities for cellular subscribers on an individual or group basis. The cellular service provider may use wireless network data it has and/or wireless network data it learns about networks from the wireless devices (which may obtain Wi-Fi network data from beacon frames of Wi-Fi networks or active scanning and which may report to the cellular service provider). Each wireless device can be given scanning assignments to ensure that the reporting task is shared among subscribers or adjusted to fill in gaps in data. With the network data, the cellular service provider is capable of generating useful prioritized network lists for wireless devices, either individually or as a group. Preferences can be encouraged in the form of incentive offers to subscribers to, e.g., offload from the cellular network to a Wi-Fi network. Incentive offers can include offers to lower service costs or provide additional or improved services.
US11832114B2
The present invention is designed to reduce the time it takes to form adequate beams, in communication using beamforming. According to one aspect of the present invention, a user terminal has a receiving section that, using temporally orthogonal radio resources, forms receiving beams and receives reference signals that are transmitted in different transmitting beams respectively, a measurement section that performs measurements based on the reference signals, and a control section that controls the forming of the receiving beams so that at least one of the reference signal is received in a given period set.
US11832113B2
Disclosed are devices and methods for displaying optimal locations for telecommunications equipment. In one embodiment, a method comprises simultaneously recording video footage and wireless signal strengths of a respective room in a plurality of rooms; storing the video footage and wireless signal strengths in a database; accessing the database and analyzing whether the video footage and wireless signal strengths include useful information; displaying one or more locations for telecommunications equipment on a floor plan of the respective room if the video footage and wireless signal strengths include useful information; and transmitting the video footage and wireless signal strengths to a technician if the video footage and wireless signal strengths do not include useful information.
US11832111B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide various devices, methods, and systems for dynamic spectrum sharing of a spectrum between different radio access technologies and multiple frequency division duplexing modes. Dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) is a technology that allows wireless network operators to share a spectrum between different radio access technologies (RATs). DSS allows an operator to dynamically allocate some existing 4G spectrum to 5G use to deliver 5G services using a shared spectrum.
US11832106B2
An intelligent trust enabler system for a 5G IoT (fifth-generation Internet of Things) environment includes: an IoT trust enabler mounted on an edge and gateway on a fifth-generation (5G) IoT infrastructure, for providing trust information based on data collected from IoT devices and performing operation and management of connected IoT resources; and an IoT trust agent for providing a legacy environment for the IoT trust enabler.
US11832104B2
Systems and methods provide for provisioning services for an unmanned aerial system (UAS) in a 3GPP network, enabling communication for command and control in 5G systems, and enabling UAS service for identification and operation in a 3GPP system.
US11832096B2
Systems and methods are provided to control traffic accessing a public land mobile network service (PLMN) at a nonpublic network to perform local breakout for selected traffic.
US11832094B2
Disclosed are a communication technique for merging, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail, security, and safety-related services) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for receiving a downlink control channel in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the present invention provides a method and an apparatus allowing a terminal to vary, according to base station settings or instructions, a reception time or reception timing, for a downlink control channel, transmitted from a base station.
US11832092B2
A method and apparatus for downlink and uplink control management of component carriers during carrier aggregation in a new radio wireless communication system is disclosed. For example, the method and apparatus include receiving, at a user equipment (UE), a slot format indicator in at least one slot of at least one component carrier of a plurality of component carriers from a network entity, where the at least one component carrier includes a group common Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH), the slot format indicator within the group common PDCCH indicating at least slot structure information for one or more other component carriers from the plurality of component carriers; and communicating, with the network entity, using the at least slot structure information for the one more other component carriers.
US11832091B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for configuring timing advances for uplink communications resources. A method for wireless communications by a user equipment includes receiving, from a base station, signaling that configures a first timing advance and a second timing advance. The first timing advance is configured to be used by the user equipment when transmitting an uplink communication in a half-duplex resource, and the second timing advance is configured to be used by the user equipment when transmitting an uplink communication in a full-duplex resource. The method may further include transmitting, to the base station, a first uplink communication within a first resource using one of the first timing advance or the second timing advance based on whether the first resource comprises a half-duplex resource or a full duplex resource.
US11832082B2
A method for self-calibrating a sound pickup process that uses a microphone array in a wearable device that also includes a loudspeaker, where the microphone array being in a physical arrangement with respect to the loudspeaker. The method obtains, for each of several microphones of the microphone array, one or more transfer functions that each represent a response of the microphone to sound from a position in an acoustic space. The method determines whether a physical arrangement of the microphone array with respect to the loudspeaker has changed and adjusts the transfer function, for at least one of the microphones of the several microphones, in response to determining that the current physical arrangement of the microphone array with respect to the loudspeaker has changed.
US11832076B2
An electronic device includes a display and one or more processors. The display displays, when a person is at a location, a virtual image at a sound localization point (SLP) in empty space. The one or more processors process sound with a room impulse response (RIR) for the location in order to generate binaural sound that externally localizes at the SLP in empty space in response to the person being at the location.
US11832071B2
An audio converter system is provided. The system comprises an audio input configured to receive a source audio, an audio output configured to couple to a hybrid speaker comprising at least two nondirectional speakers and a directional speaker, and a processor configured to generate an output audio for the hybrid speaker based on the source audio by: identifying a specific sound in the source audio, isolating the specific sound from the source audio, generating a directional speaker output for the directional speaker of the hybrid speaker based on the specific sound, and generating at least two channels of nondirectional speaker output for the at least two nondirectional speakers of the hybrid speaker.
US11832069B1
A portable information handling system is assembled and disassembled by a keystone assembly that couples at an upper surface of the portable housing to overlap a keyboard assembly that covers processing components disposed in the portable housing. The keyboard assembly includes a membrane that has contact switches to detect key input presses and is supported by a housing cover that extends members into a housing interior to hold components in position, such as a speaker. The speaker has spring-biased connection pins with a dampener at the speaker housing to dampen vibrations. Contact pads extending from the keyboard membrane communicate speaker signals to the speaker to play audible sounds though the spring-biased connection pins.
US11832061B2
The disclosure generally relates to a method, system and apparatus to improve a user's understanding of speech in real-time conversations by processing the audio through a neural network contained in a hearing device. The hearing device may be a headphone or hearing aid. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to an apparatus to enhance incoming audio signal. The apparatus includes a controller to receive an incoming signal and provide a controller output signal; a neural network engine (NNE) circuitry in communication with the controller, the NNE circuitry activatable by the controller, the NNE circuitry configured to generate an NNE output signal from the controller output signal; and a digital signal processing (DSP) circuitry to receive one or more of controller output signal or the NNE circuitry output signal to thereby generate a processed signal; wherein the controller determines a processing path of the controller output signal through one of the DSP or the NNE circuitries as a function of one or more of predefined parameters, incoming signal characteristics and NNE circuitry feedback.
US11832056B2
A disclosed vibration device comprises a first vibration generator and a first connection member disposed on a first surface of the first vibration generator. The first vibration generator may comprise a first vibration part including a plurality of inorganic material portions having a piezoelectric characteristic and an organic material portion between the plurality of inorganic material portions.
US11832055B2
A piezoelectric sound-producing component includes a piezoelectric diaphragm, a base, and a housing that is combined with the base and thereby accommodates the piezoelectric diaphragm. The base includes a bottom wall and a protrusion, and the housing includes a top wall and a circumferential wall. The circumferential wall has a hook portion configured to lock the protrusion. At least one slit is formed in the circumferential wall so as to extend from an end of the housing at an opening of the housing. When L denotes the length of the at least one slit in the height direction and Tc denotes the length of the housing in the height direction, the piezoelectric sound-producing component satisfies a relation L<0.35×Tc.
US11832048B2
An electronic device may include: a housing; a speaker provided inside the housing; an interposer board provided inside the housing, the interposer board including a first board, a second board spaced apart from the first board, and a side wall surrounding an internal space between the first board and the second board; and a sealing member provided between the speaker and the first board, wherein the first board may include at least one first through hole configured to transmit at least a portion of sound generated by the speaker to the internal space.
US11832041B2
A door cover defines an upper surface of a door of a refrigerator. The door cover includes a microphone pocket in which a microphone mount is provided and a separate speaker pocket in which a speaker mount is provided.
US11832040B2
Speaker mounting systems configured to assembly a line array coupled to a support are provided. The mounting systems generally include an engagement system having a hanger assembly with a boom arm including upper connection points. In a first speaker, the upper connection points can be operably coupled to the support. The line array can include a second speaker having an engagement system including a hanger assembly having a boom arm with upper connection points operably coupled to the lower connection points of the first speaker. The boom arm of the second speaker can be pivotably coupled to the second speaker such that the boom arm is adjustable between at least a first position, corresponding to a first splay angle between front faces of the first and second speakers, and a second position, corresponding to a second splay angle between the front faces of the first and second speakers.
US11832034B2
Apparatus and methods for unified high-bandwidth, low-latency data services. In one embodiment, a network architecture having service delivery over at least portions of extant infrastructure (e.g., a hybrid fiber coaxial infrastructure) is disclosed, which includes standards-compliant ultra-low latency and high data rate services (e.g., 5G NR services) via a common service provider. In one variant, parallel MIMO data streams supported by 3GPP 5G NR are shifted in frequency before being injected into the single coaxial cable feeder, so that frequency diversity (instead of spatial diversity) is leveraged to achieve the maximum total carrier bandwidth that 3GPP 5G NR chipsets. Intermediate Frequencies (IF) are transmitted over the media in one implementation, (i.e., instead of higher frequencies), and block-conversion to RF carrier frequency is employed subsequently in the enhanced consumer premises equipment (CPEe) for 3GPP band-compliant interoperability with the 3GPP 5G NR chipset in the CPEe.
US11832028B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for reducing a likelihood that a doorbell might be used. One of the methods includes determining that a visitor arrived at a premises; determining that the visitor used a computing device at a first time; determining that a user device of a person of the premises received a message at a second time; determining that the first time and the second time both satisfy a timing criteria; and in response to determining that the first time and the second time both satisfy the timing criteria, sending, to the user device, a notification that indicates that the visitor arrived at the premises.
US11832027B2
This disclosure provides a visual analytical method of verifying dispensed pills. In a preferred embodiment, a camera captures one or more parameters of each pill as it travels along a dispense path. The camera stores the parameters, and a processor displays the parameters or evaluates whether the parameters are within a threshold limit for the dispensed pill. If the parameter is outside the threshold, the pill or the receptacle is separated and/or removed. If all the parameters are within the threshold, the pill is stored in a receptacle, and the images are processed and archived for future verification. The process is repeated for each pill in the dispenser. The system captures at least one verification image for every pill dispensed into the receptacle.
US11832026B2
In one embodiment, a substrate imaging apparatus includes: a rotary holding unit that holds and rotates a substrate; a mirror member having a reflecting surface that opposes an end face of the substrate and a peripheral portion of a back surface of the substrate held by the rotary holding unit, the reflecting surface being inclined with respect to a rotation axis of the rotary holding unit; and a camera having an imaging device that receives both first light and second light through a lens, the first light coming from a peripheral portion of a front surface of the substrate held by the rotary holding unit, and the second light being a reflected light of second light which comes from the end face of the substrate held by the rotary holding unit and is reflected by the reflecting surface.
US11832023B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media relate to a method for providing video communications with dynamic virtual backgrounds within a communication platform. The system provides a user interface for the configuration of a virtual background configuration template. The user interface receives the placement of at least one virtual background boundary areas that may be associated with at least one particular virtual backgrounds to be used for video communications. The selection of the configuration template to be used and/or the specific virtual backgrounds to be used for a video meeting may be determined based on rules as applied to contextual information of a planned meeting defined in a calendaring system.
US11832020B2
An image pickup apparatus includes a lens, an image pickup device, and a processor. The processor acquires a plurality of pieces of first image data and second image data with an exposure time period longer than an exposure time period of the first image data from the image pickup device, detects a motion region by using the first image data and the second image data, and acquires motion detection information by using the plurality of pieces of first image data. The processor changes a synthesis method in accordance with whether the motion region is detected and generates one piece of synthesized image data.
US11832012B2
A photoelectric conversion device may operate in a first to third driving modes. In the first driving mode in which a correction value is acquired, an analog-to-digital conversion unit compares a first analog signal with a reference signal to acquire the correction value. In the second driving mode in which a pixel signal is read, a reading condition is set based on a result of comparing the pixel signal with a threshold signal. In the third driving mode, at least one of the first analog signal and the threshold signal is controlled to reduce a difference between a potential of the first analog signal and a potential of the threshold signal.
US11832010B2
A conversion apparatus includes a conversion unit, a first transistor configured to receive a charge in the conversion unit at a gate thereof, a second transistor connected to the gate, a signal line configured such that a signal is output from the first transistor thereto, a third transistor provided in a path between the signal line and the first transistor, a first line configured to supply a potential for turning off the second transistor, a second line configured to supply a potential for turning off the third transistor that is a common potential also used as the potential for turning off the second transistor, and an isolator connected to the first line and the second line.
US11832008B2
Indirect time-of-flight (i-ToF) image sensor pixels, i-ToF image sensors including such pixels, stereo cameras including such image sensors, and sensing methods to obtain i-ToF detection and phase detection information using such image sensors and stereo cameras. An i-ToF image sensor pixel may comprise a plurality of sub-pixels, each sub-pixel including a photodiode, a single microlens covering the plurality of sub-pixels and a read-out circuit for extracting i-ToF phase signals of each sub-pixel individually.
US11832006B2
An image sensor may include an array of image pixels arranged in rows and columns. Each column of pixels may be coupled to current source transistors and capacitance cancellation circuitry. The capacitance cancellation circuitry may include capacitors, a common source amplifier transistor, an autozero switch, a switch for selectively deactivating at least one of the capacitors during sample-and-hold reset and sample-and-hold signal operations.
US11832005B2
The present technology relates to an imaging element that can reduce noise. The imaging element includes: a photoelectric conversion element; a first amplification element that amplifies a signal from the photoelectric conversion element; a second amplification element that amplifies an output from the first amplification element; an offset element provided between the first amplification element and the second amplification element; a first reset element that resets the first amplification element; and a second reset element that resets the second amplification element. The offset element is a capacitor. A charge is accumulated in the offset element via a feedback loop of an output from the second amplification element, and an offset bias is generated. The present technology can be applied to an imaging element.
US11832004B2
The dynamic range of a pixel is increased by using selective photosensor resets during a frame time of image capture at a timing depending on the light intensity that the pixel will be exposed to during the frame time. Pixels that will be exposed to high light intensity are reset later in the frame than pixels that will be exposed to lower light intensity.
US11832003B2
Binnable time-of-flight (ToF) pixels are described, such as for integration with image sensor pixels. Each binnable ToF pixel includes a central dump gate and sub-pixels that are nominally mirror-symmetric and identical around the dump gate. Each sub-pixel includes a photodiode region (or a respective portion of a photodiode region), a storage gate, a storage region, a transfer gate, and a floating diffusion (FD) region. In an array, the binnable ToF pixels are arranged to share FD regions with other binnable ToF pixels of the array. In an un-binned mode, each sub-pixel can integrate photocharge in its storage region until it is time for readout, at which time the photocharges can be transferred to its respective floating diffusion region for individualized readout. In a binned mode, sub-pixels can integrate photocharge directly in their FD regions, which facilitates charge binning of integrated photocharge from all sub-pixels sharing the same FD region.
US11831997B1
A sky sensor device for measuring direct normal illuminance (DNE) value is described. One sky sensor device includes a camera sensor to capture a series of images, an illuminance sensor to measure illuminance, and a processing device coupled to the camera sensor and the illuminance sensor. The processing device determines a DNE value using the series of images and the illuminance.
US11831995B2
An image capturing apparatus includes a plurality of image capturing units; a calculation unit to calculate a common correction value commonly applied to the image capturing units in performing dynamic range correction, based on an image-capturing signal output from each of the plurality of image capturing units; a setting unit to set an exposure condition for each of the image capturing units based on the common correction value; and a control unit to control the plurality of image capturing units to capture images to be combined under the set exposure condition for each of the image capturing units.
US11831992B2
A control circuit and a control method of an image sensor are provided. The image sensor generates a sensed data. The control circuit includes a statistical circuit, an auto exposure (AE) circuit, and a calculation circuit. The statistical circuit generates a luminance statistical data according to the sensed data. The AE circuit sets the image sensor and outputs an AE data which includes a target luminance of the image sensor. The calculation circuit controls an operation mode of the image sensor according to the luminance statistical data and the AE data.
US11831989B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, that validate the synchronization of controllers in an aquaculture environment. One of the methods includes an image processor that receives images generated by a first image generating device that includes a light filter that is associated with light of a particular light frequency while an aquaculture environment was illuminated with light. Based on the image that was generated by the first image generating device, the image processor determines whether the intensity value of the light frequency in the image satisfies a threshold value. Based on determining whether the intensity value of the light frequency in the image satisfies the threshold value, the image processor determines whether the aquaculture environment was illuminated with light of the particular light frequency when the image was generated. The image processor provides for output an indication of whether the aquaculture was illuminated with light of the particular frequency when the image was generated.
US11831987B2
A control apparatus includes a selection unit that selects a drive mode for first and second correction units based on a focal length, and a control unit that drives the correction units in the selected mode. The first correction unit moves an optical element. The second correction unit moves a sensor. The selection unit selects a first mode if the focal length is a first value, and selects a second mode if the focal length is a second value larger than the first value. With the first mode selected, if a shake amount is a threshold or less, the first correction unit is driven based on the shake amount, and if the shake amount is larger than the threshold, the correction units are driven based on the shake amount. With the second mode selected, the correction units are driven based on the shake amount and a drive ratio.
US11831982B2
A capture operation is identified. The capture operation is of a video stream of a subject located in an environment. The capture operation is performed by a first capture device from a first perspective of the subject. A perspective update request of the video stream is received. In response to the perspective update request, one or more candidate capture devices in the environment is detected. A second capture device is selected as a selected capture device, from the one or more candidate capture devices. The second capture device is instructing to perform the capture operation based on the selection. The video stream is transferred from the first capture device to the second capture device. The transferring updates the video stream to a second perspective of the subject.
US11831981B2
In one implementation, a system includes an event sensor with a pixel array and an image pipeline. The pixel array is configured to operate a first subset of pixels in an active state and a second subset of pixels in an inactive state. The event sensor is configured to output pixel events. Each respective pixel event is generated in response to a specific pixel within the first subset of pixels detecting a change in light intensity that exceeds a comparator threshold. The image pipeline is configured to consume image data derived from the pixel events and communicate feedback information to the event sensor based on the image data. The feedback information causes a pixel within the first subset of pixels to transition from the active state to another state.
US11831977B2
A photographing method applied to an electronic device includes: when a camera of the electronic device is started to perform photographing, the electronic device displays a first viewfinder frame, and displays a first preview picture. When a zoom magnification used by the electronic device increases to be greater than a preset zoom magnification, the electronic device displays the first viewfinder frame and a second viewfinder frame. The first viewfinder frame displays a second preview picture, and the second viewfinder frame displays a third preview picture, and a viewfinder range of the camera corresponding to the third preview picture is greater than a viewfinder range of the camera corresponding to the second preview picture.
US11831974B2
The present invention provides a system and a method for automatically generating an output video of a presentation given by at least one presenter, comprising a displayed content, and performed in an environment, the system comprising a plurality of zones defined within the environment, at least one camera, wherein the camera is configured to capture image frames of the presentation given by the presenter in the environment, means to detect when the at least one presenter changes zone, a configuration associating to each zone, a set of filming parameters for controlling the at least one camera when the at least one presenter is in said zone, wherein the system if further configured to change the filming parameters when the at least one presenter changes zone based on the configuration associated to the zone in which the at least one presenter is so as to provide an output video to the user with different filming parameters.
US11831973B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory media are provided for adjusting camera settings based on event data. An example method can include obtaining, via an image capture device of a mobile device, an image depicting at least a portion of an environment; determining a match between one or more visual features extracted from the image and one or more visual features associated with a keyframe; and based on the match, adjusting one or more settings of the image capture device.
US11831968B2
An apparatus includes a first sensor unit that includes a plurality of first sensors arranged in the first direction which include a first sensor configured to receive a first image formed by light with a first wavelength, a second sensor unit that includes a plurality of second sensors arranged in the first direction which include a second sensor configured to receive a second image formed by light with a second wavelength, and a controller configured to control the first and second sensor units. The controller controls the plurality of first sensors under a first common exposure condition, and controls the plurality of second sensors in the second sensor unit under a second common exposure condition.
US11831967B2
A viewfinder unit includes an optical member between a display and an eyepiece, a first member holding the optical member in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis of the optical member, an illumination device, a second member holding the illumination device, a sensor capable of picking up a photographer's eye image, and an opening wider than a display area of the display in an optical axis direction of the optical member. When the eyepiece is viewed in the optical axis direction, the illumination device is inside the opening and outside the display area. Part of a first area of the optical member, projecting from an outline of the first member in the optical axis direction, is inside the opening in the orthogonal direction, and at least one of the illumination device and the second member is in a second area surrounded by the outline and the first area.
US11831966B2
Imaging apparatuses and enclosures configured for deployment in connection with ceilings and downlight cavities are disclosed. Certain exemplary aspects relate to imaging apparatuses for monitoring, recording or imaging a space such as a room having overhead lighting provided via ceiling structures that may include enclosures and/or downlight fixtures within ceiling cavities, and various imaging apparatuses herein may include an infrared or thermal camera, for example, for imaging within such spaces.
US11831960B2
A media sharing and communication system, including a recording mechanism that records a desired portion of media upon activation by a first individual user, a first user transmitter/receiver that transmits the portion of media and a message generated by the first individual user regarding the portion of media to a second individual user and is capable of transmitting a message to a second individual user, a confirmation mechanism that confirms that the second individual user is authorized to view the portion of media, a notification mechanism that notifies the first individual user if the second individual user is not authorized to receive the portion of media, a second user transmitter/receiver that receives the portion of media and voice message upon authorization of the second individual user, a search mechanism, and a video recording mechanism, an online betting module, and an online food ordering module.
US11831956B2
Methods and apparatus for generating personalized menus and a media content interface are provided. In one example, different device specific media asset lists are generated at different user devices for the same user based on the media consumption history at each device. In another example, media asset listings are displayed for multicast and on-demand media assets determined to be of interest to the user. An on-demand media asset is listed at a time when no other multicast media assets are listed. In another example, media asset listings for successive episodes of a media series are displayed in sequential order in response to an input to view successive episodes of a media series. In another example, a text search for media content is performed in which the search priority of media provider results is decreased relative to the search priority of media asset results as additional characters are added to a search string.
US11831954B2
Systems and methods relate to targeted display of media content, including a device that includes a memory having program instructions stored therein; and at least one processor configured to execute the program instructions to control the device to: connect via a wide area network to a remote system, receive a rule set or an artificial intelligence (AI) model from the remote system, select media content from a plurality of media content based on applying demographics data to the rule set or AI model, and cause, based on an output of the rule set or AI model, a display, that is local to the device, to display the media content.
US11831949B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to monitor streaming media content. Example apparatus disclosed herein include means for determining whether a streaming media flag is asserted in a payload of a watermark detected in media presented by a media presentation device, the streaming media flag to indicate whether the media was distributed to the media presentation device as streaming media. Disclosed example apparatus also include means for discarding the detected watermark from collected data in response to a determination that the streaming media flag is asserted. Disclosed example apparatus further include means for reporting the collected data to a remote server via a network.
US11831931B2
A system for generating high-resolution video from low-resolution images is configured to access a first video stream and a second video stream capturing an environment. The first video stream is captured by a first video capture device. The second video stream is captured by a second video capture device. Image frames of the first video stream are temporally synchronized with corresponding image frames of the second video stream. The system is also configured to generate a composite video stream with a higher resolution than the first or second video streams. Each composite image frame of the composite video stream is generated using a respective image frame of the first video stream and a temporally synchronized corresponding image frame of the second video stream as input.
US11831919B2
An encoding method includes determining video format information, (i) setting each of all frames or all fields which are included in the video, as a picture, regardless of whether the video format is the interlace format or the progressive format, (ii) setting a POC indicating display order to each of all of the set pictures one by one, the POC being different each other, and encoding a picture to be encoded which is the frame or the field with reference to a picture previously encoded before encoding the picture to be encoded. In the encoding, the video is encoded with a syntax structure which is not dependent on the video format, the video format information is encoded in a header of a sequence which is a unit of the video, and the encoded bit stream is generated.
US11831913B2
A secure dispensing unit includes a housing comprising a first end and a second end and a number of storage assemblies. The number of storage assemblies are arranged in parallel with one another within the housing. Each storage assembly includes a number of compartments arranged linearly along an axis of the housing with each of the compartments being configured to store an item. A cover is coupled with the housing and extends between the first end and the second end such that the cover is positioned over the compartments. An actuator is coupled with the cover, the actuator being configured to retract the cover to draw a distal end of the cover from the first end toward the second end to expose a selected number of compartments.
US11831911B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. For example, the processing circuitry receives a bitstream including bits corresponding to residues associated with a prediction of a block in a coding tree unit (CTU) and determines a maximum transform size based on the CTU size. The maximum transform size is used in a partition to form, from the residues, one or more transform blocks that are respectively encoded into the bits. Then, the processing circuitry reconstructs based on the maximum transform size and from the bits the residues associated with the prediction of the block, and then the processing circuitry reconstructs samples of the block based on the reconstructed residues and the prediction of the block.
US11831900B2
Methods and apparatus encode image frames using intra-frame prediction by predicting pixels for a block of current pixels, based on a detected spatial pattern of pixel intensity differences among a plurality of neighboring reconstructed pixels to the block of current pixels, and encode a block of pixels of the image frame using the predicted block of reconstructed pixels. Inter-frame prediction is provided by determining whether blocks of pixels in temporally neighboring reconstructed frames corresponding to a candidate motion vector have a pattern of pixel intensity differences among the blocks from temporally neighboring frames. Predicted blocks are produced for a reconstructed frame based on the determined pattern of pixel intensity difference among temporally neighboring frames.
US11831895B2
Several techniques for video encoding and video decoding are described. One example method includes performing a conversion between a video and a bitstream of the video including one or more output layer sets (OLSs) according to a rule. The rule specifies that a subpicture level information (SLI) supplemental enhancement information (SEI) message includes information about a level of subpicture sequences in a set of coded video sequences of the one or more OLSs to which the SLI SEI message applies. A syntax structure of the SLI SEI message includes at least (1) a first syntax element specifying a maximum number of sublayers for the subpicture sequences and (2) a second syntax element specifying whether level information for the subpicture sequences is present for one or more sublayer representations.
US11831892B2
When a coding mode selected by an encoding controlling part 1 is an intra prediction mode, an intra prediction part 4 carries out an intra-frame prediction process using pixels adjacent to a partition Pin which is generated through a division by a block dividing part 2 or pixels adjacent to a higher layer partition Pin−1 to which the partition Pin belongs to generate a prediction image (Pin).
US11831883B2
The present application discloses a QoE-based adaptive acquisition and transmission method for VR video, comprising the following steps: 1, capturing, by respective cameras in a VR video acquisition system, original videos with the same bit rate level, and compressing each original video with different bit rate levels; 2, selecting, by a server, a bit rate level for each original video for transmission, and synthesizing all of the transmitted original videos into a complete VR video; 3, performing, by the server, a segmentation process on the synthesized VR video, and compressing each video block into different quality levels; and 4, selecting, by the server, a quality level and an MCS scheme for each video block according to real-time viewing angle information of users and downlink channel bandwidth information in a feedback channel, and transmitting each video block to a client.
US11831881B2
When removing a block distortion occurring in a local decoded image, a loop filtering part 11 of an image coding device carries out a filtering process on each of signal components (a luminance signal component and color difference signal components) after setting the intensity of a filter for removing the block distortion for each of the signal components according to a coding mode (an intra coding mode or an inter coding mode) selected by a coding controlling part 1.
US11831878B2
Data that is predicted across pictures in a video sequence is managed by separating the data into multiple data types. Instead of keeping all data associated with a decoded picture, such as picture sample values and motion vector data, data associated with a decoded picture is split by data type to enable storing only a subset of all data associated with a decoded picture.
US11831870B2
The invention relates to a method for encoding/decoding an image. The image decoding method according to the invention comprises the steps of: obtaining diagonal partition information on a current block; determining a diagonal partition structure of the current block using the diagonal partition information; and diagonally partitioning the current block into a first and a second area based on the determined diagonal partition structure, the current block being a leaf node of a square or rectangular partition.
US11831869B2
A method of video processing includes determining a classification of samples of a block in a video picture of a video according to a rule, wherein the video picture is divided into multiple regions, and wherein the rule disallows use of neighboring samples of a current sample across one or more boundaries of the multiple regions for the classification. The one or more boundaries of the multiple regions includes a virtual boundary for an adaptive loop filtering (ALF) process. The method also includes performing a conversion between the block and a bitstream representation of the video by selectively applying the ALF process according to the classification.
US11831863B2
Display device ON/OFF detection methods and apparatus are disclosed. Example display activity detectors disclosed herein are to extract regions from respective ones of captured video frames, the regions corresponding to a depiction of a display of a monitored media device Disclosed example display activity detectors are also to compute a distance metric that is to represent an amount a first one of the regions of a first one of the captured video frames differs from a corresponding second one of the regions of a second one of the captured video frames. Disclosed example display activity detectors are further to compare the distance metric to a threshold to determine whether the monitored media device is ON or OFF.
US11831860B2
A displaying device, a device and method for generating data, and a displaying system. The displaying device includes a displaying screen, a driving assembly, a rotating assembly and a controlling assembly; a rotation shaft of the displaying screen is parallel to a light-exiting face of a display panel; the displaying screen includes a display panel and an optical assembly; a light ray emitted by the display panel includes an emergent light located in a reference plane, and the reference plane is perpendicular to the light-exiting face of the display panel and the rotation shaft of the displaying screen; the optical assembly is configured for adjusting the emergent light located in the reference plane into a collimated light perpendicular to the light-exiting face of the display panel; the rotating assembly is configured for driving the driving assembly to rotate; and the controlling assembly is electrically connected to the displaying screen.
US11831857B1
A structured light scanning method includes a light projector projecting a group of structured light to an object, an image capturing device capturing a group of images generated by the object reflecting the group of structured light, an image processor obtaining a pixel luminosity distribution of an image in the group of images, the image processor determining a reflection state of the image from the pixel luminosity distribution, the image processor determining whether to include the image in generating a depth map according to the reflection state, and the image processor decoding at least one image from the group of images to generate the depth map.
US11831856B2
A scanning camera for capturing images along two or more curved scan paths, the scanning camera comprising a camera assembly associated with each scan path, each camera assembly comprising an image sensor and a lens; a scanning mirror; and a drive coupled to the scanning mirror; wherein the drive is operative to rotate the scanning mirror about a spin axis according to a spin angle; the spin axis is tilted relative to each camera optical axis; the scanning mirror is tilted relative to the spin axis and each camera optical axis; the scanning mirror is positioned to reflect an imaging beam into each lens in turn; and each image sensor is operative to capture each image along a respective one of the scan paths by sampling the imaging beam at a corresponding spin angle.
US11831838B2
A printing system includes: a printing device; and a data processing server. A first controller of the printing device is configured to perform: a reading process to read a reading target to generate image data; a determination process to determine whether to transmit the image data to the data processing server according to at least one of available capacity information and capacity-related information; and a data transmission process to transmit the image data to the data processing server. A second controller of the data processing server is configured to perform: a payment-related process related to a fee payment for printing based on the image data. The first controller is configured to further perform, after the fee payment is completed: an acquisition process to acquire print data corresponding to the image data; and a printing process to form an image corresponding to the print data on a printing medium.
US11831822B2
To enable a user to more easily set a rule relating to folder allocation and file naming at the time of filing data, such as a document scanned image and a received facsimile, and storing the file. On a user interface screen for setting a rule relating to property information that is used at the time of allocating a file to a folder for storage, at least a first area for editing the rule and a second area displaying an item a user can select are provided. The item is a unit element for a user to set a character string configuring the property information and corresponds to a character string of an arbitrary attribute a user can set. Then, the rule is created by the item selected by a user from the second area being arranged at a position designated by the user in the first area.
US11831820B2
There is provided an information processing method executed by an information processing system cooperatively operating with a message application. The method comprises: registering by associating a group in the message application a predetermined image recording device in response to an instruction by a first account in the group; and outputting print target data transmitted from the message application to the predetermined image recording device in response to a message transmitted by a second account in the group.
US11831815B2
A scanner includes a camera, a light source for generating a probe light incorporating a spatial pattern, an optical system for transmitting the probe light towards the object and for transmitting at least a part of the light returned from the object to the camera, a focus element within the optical system for varying a position of a focus plane of the spatial pattern on the object, unit for obtaining at least one image from said array of sensor elements, unit for evaluating a correlation measure at each focus plane position between at least one image pixel and a weight function, a processor for determining the in-focus position(s) of each of a plurality of image pixels for a range of focus plane positions, or each of a plurality of groups of image pixels for a range of focus plane positions, and transforming in-focus data into 3D real world coordinates.
US11831808B2
A pairing module comprising a memory storing contact center information that i) identifies a first set of available agents that are available to be paired with a contact and ii) identifies a first set of available contacts that are waiting to be paired with an available agent. The pairing module further comprises a contact/agent (C/A) pair selector that functions occasionally read the memory to obtain contact center information and then use the obtained contact center information to pair available agents with available contacts.
US11831803B1
Systems and methods for detecting and preventing a denial-of-service attack at one or more victim agents of a telecommunication network include one or more session management systems communicatively coupled to one or more attacker agents. The one or more session management systems to receive a call initiation message during a session, provide a provisional response during the session, activate a connection timer, determine whether a provisional acknowledgement message is received within a pre-determined period associated with the connection timer, deactivate the connection timer if the provisional acknowledgement message is not received within the pre-determined period, determine whether a call counter is greater than or equal to a threshold in response to the connection timer deactivation, and activate a block timer if the call counter is greater than or equal to the threshold. The block timer to block one or more calls from the attacker agent.
US11831796B2
In a mobile communication terminal in which a flexible display panel is provided in two body portions which are foldably connected to each other, a plurality of rotation supports are provided in a central joint that connects the two body portions and two sliding panels sliding in the respective body portions together and the rotation supports are directly connected to the two body portions to support rotation of the body portions such that the body portions do not rotate over 180 degrees when the two body portions are fully unfolded, whereby damage of the flexible display panel provided on the surfaces of the two body portions is prevented.
US11831792B2
Methods and systems are provided for mutual authentication between an agent, such as a user (142), and a service host system (128), such as a service provider system, via an insecure and/or untrusted communications network (140). In exemplary embodiments, an initial enrolment sequence (300, 400) is mediated by an authentication server (102) to establish an association between the service host system (128) having an identifier (SPID), an agent (142) that is assigned an identifier (UID) known to the service provider, and a client device (116) having a device identifier (DevID), which is used to access the service, along with a set of credentials comprising cryptographic signatures generated by the service host system (128) and client device (116) using corresponding private keys. The resulting data and credentials may be disclosed publicly, remain valid so long as the private keys are not compromised, and can be used subsequently for mutual authentication between the client device (116) and the service host system (128).
US11831791B2
In a transaction between a merchant and a payer, approval of the transaction may be provided by a payment processing system using authentication information provided from a mobile device of the payer. The authentication information may include a location of the payer mobile device which may be compared to a location of a merchant payment device such that the transaction is approved if the payer mobile device is within a defined distance of the merchant payment device.
US11831788B2
Certain example embodiments relate to systems and techniques for a client device outside of a cloud infrastructure to securely access services in the cloud infrastructure by relying on one or more keys that are validated by the cloud infrastructure based on a heartbeat message received from the client device. The heartbeat message may be secured by a certificate generated for the client device.
US11831782B2
A method for verification of a data value via a Merkle root includes: storing, in a memory of a processing server, a Merkle root; receiving at least a data value, a nonce, and a plurality of hash path values; generating a combined value by combining the data value and the nonce; generating a first hash value via application of a hashing algorithm to the combined value; generating a subsequent hash value via application of the hashing algorithm to a combination of the first hash value and a first of the plurality of hash path values; repeating generation of the subsequent hash value using a combination of the next hash path value of the plurality of hash path values and the most recent subsequent hash value; and verifying the data value based on a comparison of the Merkle root and the last generated subsequent hash value.
US11831781B2
A device includes a first memory circuit and a processing circuit. The first memory circuit is configured to store first hash data. The processing circuit is coupled to the first memory circuit. The processing circuit is configured to: at least based on a volume of the device, define a size of a distinguishable identification (ID) and a size of second hash data; based on a combination of at least one bit of each of the distinguishable ID and IDs of the device, generate the second hash data; and compare the first hash data with the second hash data, in order to identify whether the device is tampered. A method is also discloses herein.
US11831777B2
A secure computing hardware apparatus includes at least a secret generator module, the at least a secret generator module configured to generate a module-specific secret, and a device identifier circuit communicatively connected to the at least a secret generator, the device identifier circuit configured to produce at least an output comprising a secure proof of the module-specific secret. Secret generator module may implement one or more physically unclonable functions to generate the module-specific secret.
US11831776B2
A system allows a user to store his personally identifiable information (PII) on a personal device. When a third party wants to access the user's PII (e.g., to update the PII or to retrieve the PII), a notification will be presented to the user on the personal device seeking consent to the access. The notification may inform the user as to what information is being requested and which entity is requesting the access. The requested access will be denied unless the user consents to the access. In this manner, the user is given control over the dissemination of his PII. Additionally, the system alters or adjusts the PII that is stored in third-party servers so that even if these servers are breached, the user's actual PII is not exposed.
US11831775B1
Systems and techniques are described to facilitate using secure tokens for stateless software defined networking. An initial configuration may be created for deploying a network device at a deployment site. A cryptographically secure certificate may be created that includes the initial configuration for deploying the network device at the deployment site. The cryptographically secure certificate may be stored in a secure token that can be inserted into a secure token reader that is located at the deployment site and communicatively coupled to the device at the deployment site. The network device may then be configured at the deployment site by using the secure token.
US11831764B2
Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for instantaneously decrypting data in an end-to-end encrypted secure messaging session while maintaining forward secrecy and post-compromise security using a double ratchet communication protocol. Unique message keys can be generated in a predictable progression independently on each device, ratcheting keys for each message on an as-needed basis, and a seed key and state for the predictable progression can be updated based on an asymmetric key exchange between the devices, thereby serving as a second ratchet. Message keys can feed a pseudo-random number generator (PRG) to generate the next message key in a progression. A Continuous Key Agreement (CKA) engine can use an asymmetric key pair to generate a shared secret key to feed a Pseudo-Random Function (PRF-PRNG) to reset the state of the PRG and provide a refresh key to the PRG.
US11831754B2
In some instances, a method for authenticating a user using key pair authentication is provided. The method comprises enrolling the user into key pair authentication by generating a private and public key pair for an authentication domain, accessing the content on the first domain based on enrolling the user into the key pair authentication with a key pair authentication server using the private and public key pair for the authentication domain, requesting access for different content on a second domain, based on enrolling the user into the key pair authentication for the first domain, redirecting a browser from the second domain to the authentication domain, and accessing the different content on the second domain based on performing the key pair authentication with the key pair authentication server using the private and public key pair for the authentication domain.
US11831739B2
A communication apparatus includes: a LINK for performing protocol-conversion on a signal from a Master and outputting the converted signal to a Slave SerDes and for performing protocol-conversion on a signal from the Slave SerDes and outputting the converted signal to the Master, the LINK being capable of alternatively selecting a first mode and a second mode when transmitting the signal from the Master to the Slave SerDes, in the first mode, the LINK converting the signal transmitted from the Master into a signal of a first communication standard in units of one byte, receiving a signal of the first communication standard including one of an ACK signal representing an affirmative response and a NACK signal representing a negative response after transmitting the converted signal to the Slave SerDes, converting the received signal into a signal of a second communication standard, and transmitting the converted signal to the Master.
US11831732B2
A method for generating, conveying, and using attempted producer network function (NF) instance communication information includes, at a first service communication proxy (SCP), receiving, from a sender, a first service based interface (SBI) request message. The method further includes attempting to obtain a service requested by the first SBI request message from at least one producer NF instance. The method further includes receiving at least one error response or failing to receive a response from the at least one producer NF instance. The method further includes generating, from the at least one error response or the failing to receive a response from the at least one producer NF instance, attempted producer NF instance communication information. The method further includes communicating, to the sender, the attempted producer NF instance communication information.
US11831730B2
The disclosure relates to methods and systems for provisioning a network-connectable device. A communication tunnel is formed for transmitting data between the network-connectable device, a mobile terminal and a remote server. The communication tunnel includes a first link initiated using a webview embedded in an application on the mobile terminal and a second link initiated using a library attached to the webview. The first link connects the mobile terminal with the remote server. The second link connects the network-connectable device with the remote server through the mobile terminal. A data packet indicating that the network-connectable device is ready to be provisioned is received through the communication tunnel. A request for providing provisioning data is sent through the communication tunnel based on the data packet. Provisioning data are transmitted through the communication tunnel in response to sending the request. The network-connectable device is provisioned using the provisioning data.
US11831707B2
In a system, a load balancer transmits, to a selected content origin node, a first content request based on a first request for first requested content received from a client node, the selected content origin node transmits, to the load balancer, a first response to the first content request, wherein the selected content origin node has the first requested content, and the load balancer transmits, to the client node, a first redirect message identifying the selected content origin node as having the first requested content without transmitting the first requested content to the client node. In some implementations, the selected content origin node transmits the first redirect message as the first response. In other implementations, the first response from the selected content origin node contains the first requested content, and the load balancer converts the first response into the first redirect message.
US11831705B2
A system, method, and apparatus for transferring blood donation files are disclosed. An example system includes a collection device located at a blood donation site and a collection server located in a remote location. The example collection device is configured to store blood donation information from blood donors within a blood donation batch file located at a designated directory of a memory, and store metadata related to the blood donation information to the blood donation batch file. The example collection device also transmits the blood donation batch file to a registered user device. The example collection server is configured to determine the registered user device is available via a network connection. Responsive to determining the user device is connected, the collection server acquires the blood donation batch file from the user device and aggregates the blood donation batch file with blood donation batch files received from other registered user devices.
US11831695B2
A computer implemented method includes gathering metrics from components of a conferencing endpoint in a conference call, and determining status indicator values according to the metrics. The status indicator values each identify a component status of a component. The status indicator values are combined to estimate a user status. The computer implemented method further includes generating a description of a user status of a target user with respect to the conference call, and presenting the description of the user status.
US11831694B2
An electronic device is provided that includes a display, a processor, and a data storage device having executable instructions accessible by the processor. Responsive to execution of the instructions, the processor displays a user desktop related to a user, creates a virtual meeting that is configured to be attended by communication through a network by at least one network based electronic device, generates a shared desktop related to the virtual meeting that is configured to be shared with the at least one network based electronic device via the network, and displays the shared desktop during the virtual meeting.
US11831680B2
Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be implemented, in whole or in part, using one or more computing devices to facilitate and/or support one or more operations and/or techniques for electronic authentication infrastructure, such as implemented, at least in part, via one or more electronic communications.
US11831672B2
A method and system for updating and applying a ruleset used for determining and mitigating malware threats. Communications of computing devices are monitored and first data file extracted. A first and second set of features are extracted. A first rule is applied to the first set of features of the first data file to determine a non-match. A second rule is applied to the second set of features to determine a match. A third rule is generated based on the first set of features, non-match, and match. Communications of a particular computing device are monitored and second data file extracted. A first set of features of the second data file are extracted. The third rule is applied to the first set of features of the second data file to determine a match. The second data file is disabled, blocked, or deleted based the match determination by the third rule.
US11831670B1
A server system obtains, for machines in a distributed system, system risk information, such as information identifying open sessions between respective users and respective machines, information identifying vulnerabilities in respective machines; and administrative rights information identifying groups of users having administrative rights to respective machines. The server system determines security risk factors, including risk factors related to lateral movement between logically coupled machines, and generates machine risk assessment values for at least a subset of the machines, based on a weighted combination of the risk factors. A user interface that includes a list of machines, sorted in accordance with the machine risk assessment values is presented to a user. The user interface also includes, for respective machines, links for accessing additional information about risk factors associated with the machine, and for accessing one or more remediation tools for remediating one or more security risks associated with the respective machine.
US11831667B2
Some embodiments provide a method for detecting a threat to a datacenter. The method generates a graph of connections between data compute nodes (DCNs) in the datacenter. Each connection has an associated time period during which the connection is active. The method receives an anomalous event occurring during a particular time period at a particular DCN operating in the datacenter. The method analyzes the generated graph to determine a set of paths between DCNs in the datacenter that include connections to the particular DCN during the particular time period. The method uses the set of paths to identify a threat to the datacenter.
US11831662B1
Extensive deployment of interoperable distributed energy resources (DER) on power systems is increasing the power system cybersecurity attack surface. National and jurisdictional interconnection standards require DER to include a range of autonomous and commanded grid-support functions which can drastically influence power quality, voltage, and the generation-load balance. Investigations of the impact to the power system in scenarios where communications and operations of DER are controlled by an adversary show that each grid-support function exposes the power system to distinct types and magnitudes of risk. The invention provides methods for minimizing the risks to distribution and transmission systems using an engineered control system which detects and mitigates unsafe control commands.
US11831661B2
A plurality of features associated with a message are determined. At least one feature included in the plurality of features is associated with a payload of the message. A determination is made that supplemental analysis should be performed on the message. The determination is based at least in part on performing behavioral analysis using at least some of the features included in the plurality of features. Supplemental analysis is performed.
US11831652B2
Methods, apparatuses, or computer program products according to the present disclosure provide for service permissions scaling. In example embodiments, an apparatus receives a service request from an edge server. The apparatus may generate an authorization token based at least in part on a permissions data vector, where the authorization token is configured for access by one or more computing devices to determine whether to grant access by a first computing device associated with the requesting entity identifier to one or more resources associated with the one or more computing devices. The apparatus may then transmit the authorization token to the edge server. According to some embodiments, the authorization token may be configured for storing in an authorization token cache. In some embodiments, the authorization token may be retrieved from the authorization token cache.
US11831651B2
This disclosure relates to generating location event measurements. In one aspect, a method includes presenting, by a client device, a digital component comprising geofence data that defines one or more physical locations corresponding to the digital component. In response to presenting the digital component, a trusted program of the client device stores, in a presentation event data structure, a presentation event data element specifying the geofence data. The trusted program detects, based on location information indicating a current location of the client device and the geofence data that the client device is within one of the one or more physical locations. In response to detecting that the client device is within one of the one or more physical locations, an event report is transmitted to a reporting system for the digital component. The event report indicates that a location event for the digital component has occurred.
US11831642B2
A system and method for mitigating security vulnerabilities of a computer network by detecting a management status of an endpoint computing device attempting to authenticate to one or more computing resources accessible via the computer network includes: detecting an authentication attempt by the endpoint computing device to the computer network; during the authentication attempt, collecting management status indicia from the endpoint computing device, wherein the management status indicia comprise data used to determine a management status of the endpoint computing device; using the management status indicia to identify the management status of the endpoint computing device and identifying the management status of the endpoint computing device; and controlling access to the computer network based on (a) whether the authentication attempt by the endpoint computing device is successful and (b) the identified management status of the endpoint computing device.
US11831636B2
Techniques described herein are directed to a system and methods for enabling a transfer of access rights for an electronic device between users. In embodiments of the system, a first user (e.g., a transferor) may, upon determining that access rights should be granted to a second user (e.g., a transferee), generate a transaction record. The transaction record may then be provided to a registry network, which may verify a digital signature of the transaction record as well as a current ownership status. Upon verification, the transaction record may be written to an ownership registry and a mobile application server may be notified of the transaction. Once notified, the mobile application server may transmit a device key to a user device associated with the transferee. Once the device key has been received at the transferee user device, it may be used to issue commands to the electronic device.
US11831635B2
One example method includes contacting, by a client, a service, receiving a credential from the service, obtaining trust information from a trust broker, comparing the credential with the trust information, and either connecting to the service if the credential and trust information match, or declining to connect to the service if the credential and the trust information do not match. Other than by way of the trust information obtained from the trust broker, the client may have no way to verify whether or not the service can be trusted.
US11831632B2
Methods, systems, and devices for secure endpoint authentication credential control are described. An endpoint agent may receive an indication from an operating system of an endpoint device that the operating has received authentication credentials from a user. The endpoint agent may be housed in the endpoint device, and may detect a change between the received set of authentication credentials and a previous version of authentication credentials. Based on this detection, the endpoint agent may transmit the received authentication credentials to a central server. The central server may transmit the authentication credentials to an information technology (IT) resource which requires user authentication prior to granting access to a user.
US11831618B2
An indication that data packets of personal data that correspond to data packet types for data categories are approved for transfer between user accounts via the personal data sharing platform is provided. A first data packet identifying first personal data that is related to a first user of the first user account is received. The first data packet includes first personal data values that correspond to first attributes specified by a first data packet type and that have been individually encrypted at first user account. Whether the first data packet satisfies a condition that the first data packet include data values for each of the first attributes specified by the first data packet type for a first data category is determined. Responsive to determining that the first data packet satisfies the condition, the individually encrypted first personal data values and the corresponding first attributes are stored at a data store.
US11831615B1
A method including establishing, by a user device, respective parallel virtual private network (VPN) connections with respective VPN servers; determining, by the user device based at least in part on establishing the respective parallel VPN connections, a default VPN server from among the respective VPN servers; and selecting, by the user device based at least in part on determining the default VPN server, the default VPN server as a VPN server from which the user device is to receive a VPN service; and transmitting, by the user device based at least in part on selecting the default VPN server; a request to the default VPN server to receive the VPN service is disclosed. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11831612B2
A method in a virtual private network (VPN) environment, the method including determining, by a processor, that a VPN service provider is unreachable via utilization of received domain information; determining, by the processor, first substitute domain information based at least in part on determining that the VPN service provider is unreachable via utilization of the received domain information; and determining, by the processor, second substitute domain information based at least in part on determining that the VPN service provider is unreachable via utilization of the first substitute domain information, the second substitute domain information being different than the first substitute domain information. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11831611B2
A request to establish an encrypted VPN connection between a network external to a provider network connected to the provider network via a dedicated direct physical link and a set of resources of the provider network is received. A new isolated virtual network (IVN) is established to implement an encryption virtual private gateway to be used for the connection. One or more protocol processing engines (PPEs) are instantiated within the IVN, address information of the one or more PPEs is exchanged with the external network and a respective encrypted VPN tunnel is configured between each of the PPEs and the external network. Routing information pertaining to the set of resources is provided to the external network via at least one of the encrypted VPN tunnels, enabling routing of customer data to the set of resources within the provider network from the external network via an encrypted VPN tunnel implemented over a dedicated direct physical link between the external network and the provider network.
US11831610B2
A system and method for using private native security groups and private native firewall policy rules for a private cloud computing environment and a public cloud computing environment uses a public cloud gateway for routing data traffic between at least a cloud network created in the public cloud computing environment and the private cloud computing environment. For each of some private native firewall policy rules that has any of newly created private native security groups as one of source and destination, a cloud native security group (CNSG) rule object with an CNSG outbound rule object and an CNSG inbound rule object for the public cloud is created and at least one of the CNSG outbound rule object and the CNSG inbound rule object is updated so that the private native firewall policy rule can be used in the cloud network.
US11831608B2
In various examples, firewalls may include machine learning models that are automatically trained and applied to analyze service inputs submitted to input processing services and to identify whether service inputs are desirable (e.g., will result in an undesirable status code if processed by a service). When a service input is determined by a firewall to be desirable, the firewall may push the service input through to the input processing service for normal processing. When a service input is determined by the firewall to be undesirable, the firewall may block or drop the service input before it reaches the input processing service and/or server. This may be used to prevent the service input, which is likely to be undesirable, from touching a server that hosts the input processing service (e.g., preventing a crash).
US11831598B2
The present disclosure provides a method, apparatus and system for switching a virtual IP, relates to the field of artificial intelligence and particularly to cloud computing and cloud network technologies, and can be applied to intelligent cloud scenarios. A detailed implementation comprises: receiving a free ARP packet sent by a virtual machine to which a high-availability virtual IP is successfully switched; generating a first forwarding table of the high-availability virtual IP according to the free ARP packet; encapsulating the first forwarding table in a first UDP packet by VXLAN; and synchronizing the first UDP packet to another virtual router.
US11831596B2
Systems and methods relating to communication over relatively low power protocols by adding reliability functionality are presented. Sent messages having reliability functionality include an acknowledgment request flag that indicates that the message includes a request to acknowledge the request once received and an application payload that includes data for the message. The acknowledgment request flag causes responding devices to send an acknowledgment message to the sending device indicating that the sent message has been received.
US11831594B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and systems for optimized delivery of communications including content to users of a software application. The method also includes obtaining, by a customer engagement platform (CEP), a set of cohort selection criteria for identifying a user cohort to deliver the content; identifying, by a data analytics platform (DAP), the user cohort to communicate with in accordance with the set of cohort selection criteria; identifying, by the DAP, one or more communication configurations for communicating with one or more sub-groups within the user cohort; and to each user of the user cohort, transmitting one or more communications based on the content and a corresponding communication configuration for a sub-group that may include the corresponding user; and measuring engagement outcomes associated with usage of the corresponding one or more communication configurations in communication with each of the sub-groups.
US11831590B1
This disclosure relates generally to apparatus, methods, and computer readable media for composing communications for computing devices across multiple formats and multiple protocols. More particularly, but not by way of limitation, this disclosure relates to apparatus, methods, and computer readable media to permit computing devices, e.g., smartphones, tablets, laptops, and the like, to send communications in a number of pre-determined and/or ‘determined-on-the-fly’ optimal communications formats and/or protocols. Determinations of optimal delivery methods may be intelligently based on the sender individually or the relationship with the sender in the context of a group of recipients—including the format of the incoming communication, the preferred format of the recipient and/or sender, and an optimal format for a given communication message. The techniques disclosed herein allow communications systems to become ‘message-centric’ or ‘people-centric,’ as opposed to ‘protocol-centric,’ eventually allowing consideration of message protocol to fall away entirely for the sender of the communication.
US11831588B2
Systems and methods for personalizing messages in a conversational chatbot are disclosed. An example method may include receiving clickstream event data corresponding to click events by users of an application, generating featurized clickstream data based at least in part on the received clickstream event data, determining one or more predicted intentions for a first user based at least in part on the featurized clickstream data, and generating one or more personalized messages for the first user based at least in part on the one or more predicted user intentions.
US11831582B2
The present disclosure relates to a resource allocation procedure for allocating time-frequency radio resources by a scheduler in a mobile communication system. A plurality of numerology schemes are defined, each partitioning a plurality of radio resources of the mobile communication system into resource scheduling units in a different manner. A reference resource set is defined per numerology scheme, each being associated to a set of radio resources usable for being allocated according to the respective numerology scheme. The reference resource set of at least one numerology scheme overlaps with the reference resource set of at least another numerology scheme in the frequency and/or time domain. The resource allocation procedure is performed for allocating radio resources to one or more user terminals according to the numerology schemes. The resource allocation procedure is performed for each numerology scheme based on a scheduling time interval defined for the respective numerology scheme.
US11831581B2
The present invention relates to an electronic device, a User Equipment (UE), a method, and a computer readable storage medium. According to the present invention, a method for determining location of a positioning reference signal (PRS) comprises: obtaining a subcarrier interval of a resource block (RB); and determining a time-frequency location of the PRS in the RB according to the subcarrier interval. The electronic device, the UE, the method, and the computer readable storage medium according to the present invention can be used for designing the PRS with respect to an NR communication system more reasonably, so as to optimize the positioning of the UE.
US11831572B2
A method of wireless communication performed by a sensing user equipment (UE) includes identifying available resources during a sensing window. The method also includes receiving a request to share the available resources with a transmitter UE. The method further includes determining the sensing UE satisfies a sharing condition. The method still further includes sharing the available resources with the transmitter UE based on satisfying the sharing condition.
US11831570B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A device may identify a transport block (TB) size for a TB that is scheduled across a set of component carriers (CCs) including a first CC and a second CC. The TB may include a first code block (CB) and a second CB. The device may rate match the TB with the set of CCs. Based on the rate matching, the device may identify redundancy portions of the first CB and redundancy portions of the second CB. The device may allocate a first redundancy portion of the first CB and a first redundancy portion of the second CB to the first CC, and may allocate a second redundancy portion of the first CB and a second redundancy portion of the second CB to the second CC. The device may transmit the TB over the set of CCs based on the allocating.
US11831569B2
A system and method for transmitting data ultrasonically through biological tissue employs a network of a plurality of nodes, at least a portion of the nodes implantable within the biological tissue. At least one implanted node includes a transmitter having an orthogonal frequency division multiplex signal generator to encode an ultrasonic signal for transmission through the biological tissue to an ultrasonic receiver at another node.
US11831565B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for performing efficient data transfer in a computing system are disclosed. A computing system includes multiple fabric interfaces in clients and a fabric. A packet transmitter in the fabric interface includes multiple queues, each for storing packets of a respective type, and a corresponding address history cache for each queue. Queue arbiters in the packet transmitter select candidate packets for issue and determine when address history caches on both sides of the link store the upper portion of the address. The packet transmitter sends a source identifier and a pointer for the request in the packet on the link, rather than the entire request address, which reduces the size of the packet. The queue arbiters support out-of-order issue from the queues. The queue arbiters detect conflicts with out-of-order issue and adjust the outbound packets and fields stored in the queue entries to avoid data corruption.
US11831560B2
To perform flexible communication control according to variation in traffic so as to satisfy a plurality of QoS (Quality of Service) indexes. A communication apparatus (1) according to the present invention includes: a distribution unit (12) configured to distribute, based on a distribution rule for satisfying a plurality of different QoS indexes set in a plurality of queues (111 to 11n), respectively, a received packet to any one of the plurality of queues; and an update unit (13) configured to update the distribution rule based on performance information of each of the plurality of queues, the performance information being calculated for the QoS index set in each of the queues.
US11831555B2
A system and method for managing video streaming on a computer network based at least in part on a state of a video streaming traffic flow. The method includes: reviewing a traffic flow to determine whether the traffic flow is a video streaming traffic flow; if the traffic flow is a video streaming traffic flow, determine at least one video characteristic associated with the video streaming traffic flow; determining a state of the video streaming traffic flow; determining a priority of the video streaming traffic flow based on the characteristics and the state of the video streaming traffic flow; and allocating bandwidth to the video streaming traffic flow based on the priority; otherwise, if the traffic flow is not a video streaming traffic flow, allowing the traffic flow to continue with the traffic flow's current priority.
US11831552B1
An LCS resource device access control and management system having a resource system including an orchestrator device coupled to a resource management system and resource devices. The orchestrator device receives an identification from the resource management system of the resource devices for providing an LCS, and Service Level Agreement (SLA) information defining an SLA for the LCS. The orchestrator device uses the SLA information for the LCS to monitor each of the resource devices during their providing of the LCS and, in response, identifies a first resource device that is performing first resource device functionality that is not satisfying the SLA for the LCS. In response, the orchestrator device provides the LCS using a second resource device that performs second resource device functionality that satisfies the SLA for the LCS in place of the first resource device.
US11831549B2
A controller is configured to obtain traffic information of one or more tunnels in the network, where the traffic information of each tunnel is indicative of a protection type of the tunnel against failures, and provide configuration information to each network node that is a head-end node of a determined tunnel with a certain protection type according to the obtained traffic information of the determined tunnel, where the configuration information includes a bandwidth threshold and a load balancing configuration for the determined tunnel. A network node is configured to receive configuration information from the controller, and send the notification to the controller, if it is determined that the traffic of the tunnel is above the bandwidth threshold.
US11831542B2
Policy-based routing of internet protocol (IP) packets using flow context. A system intercepts an event associated with creation of a network connection by an operating system (OS). The system identifies a flow context, including a flow tuple, associated with the network connection. Based on the flow context, and based on a flow-based routing policy, the system determines a provider associated with the network connection. The system records, in a state database, an association between the flow tuple and the provider, and instructs the OS to initiate the network connection. After the creation of the network connection, the system intercepts an IP packet associated with the network connection. Based on a header of the IP packet, the system identifies the flow tuple and, based on a result of querying the state database for the flow tuple, and initiates a provider-based action for the IP packet.
US11831540B2
A process for service chain instance pool sizing includes receiving service requests, communicated in a 5G network, into a buffer of a request handler of the 5G network. The service requests are for processing by a service function chain. The request handler is configured to relay received service requests to a pool of service chain instances of the service function chain. The process determines an average number of service requests to be processed by the service function chain, determines a number of service chain instances to exist in the pool as a composite of (i) service chain instances to process service requests making an initial relay through the service function chain and (ii) service chain instances to process service requests that were re-introduced into the buffer after having previously arrived, and indicates this composite number to a broker component that controls the number of service chain instances in the pool.
US11831534B2
Disclosed here is a system to automatically predict and resolve issues within a telecommunication network. Initially, the system builds a service registry to store dependence information within the network, which can include software components and hardware components. Various components of the network create logs of their operations. Machine learning models examine the logs and detect any issues. Upon detecting an issue or abnormal event, the system can automatically resolve the issue by determining the most similar issue occurring previously and determining a solution that resolved the previous most similar issue. In addition, the system can propagate the fix to dependent systems and/or notify the dependent systems of the issue.
US11831532B2
A time stamp correction apparatus that corrects a deviation between time stamps of pieces of data acquired by physically connected NW apparatuses by correcting a deviation in a time stamp between pieces of traffic data is provided. The time stamp correction apparatus includes a waveform similarity computation unit that determines an IF pair based on a similarity between waveforms of time-series data of traffic observed in respective interfaces of the NW apparatuses, and a time stamp correction unit that generates correction information for correcting a deviation between the time stamps of the pieces of data based on feature points of time-series data of traffic observed in the IF pair.
US11831531B2
Methods and systems that use a plurality of machine learning models to both monitor user-generated data entries corresponding to differences in network traffic that may be evidence of a disruption and determine severity levels based on: (i) current and historic differences in average network traffic over the plurality of communication networks; (ii) current and historic user-generated data entries; and (iii) labeled severity levels for historic differences in average network traffic over the plurality of communication networks.
US11831520B2
In general, the disclosure describes techniques for dynamic application service level agreement (SLA) metric generation, distribution, and intent-based Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) link selection. For instance, a network device may determine a metric associated with an application or application-group. The network device may send the metric to a controller, and in response may receive from the controller a recommended SLA metric associated with the application or application-group. The network device may also compute an intent-based SLA metric based on the recommended SLA metric, one or more characteristics of one or more links connected to the network device, and a user configured intent model that defines a tolerance level to apply the recommended SLA metric. The network device may select, based on the intent-based SLA metric, a path to send traffic from the application or application-group.
US11831517B2
To provide a low latency near RT RIC, some embodiments separate the RIC's functions into several different components that operate on different machines (e.g., execute on VMs or Pods) operating on the same host computer or different host computers. Some embodiments also provide high speed interfaces between these machines. Some or all of these interfaces operate in non-blocking, lockless manner in order to ensure that critical near RT RIC operations (e.g., datapath processes) are not delayed due to multiple requests causing one or more components to stall. In addition, each of these RIC components also has an internal architecture that is designed to operate in a non-blocking manner so that no one process of a component can block the operation of another process of the component. All of these low latency features allow the near RT RIC to serve as a high speed IO between the E2 nodes and the xApps.
US11831515B2
A system and method are provided for a client device for use with a first Wi-Fi network device, a second Wi-Fi network device, and an external server. The first Wi-Fi network device is configured with a first subnet configuration and the external server has a list of reserved subnet configurations stored therein. The client device comprises a memory and a processor configured to execute instructions stored on said memory to cause said client device to: access the list of reserved subnet configurations from the external server; choose a subnet configuration based on the list of reserved subnet configurations; and instruct the second Wi-Fi network device to establish a second network having the chosen subnet configuration.
US11831514B2
Embodiments are directed to managing communication over networks. A gateway identifier (GID), a network address, source nodes, relays, or the like, may be determined based on an overlay network. Two or more relays may be ranked based on metrics associated with each relay such that a top ranked relay is designated as a preferred relay.
US11831513B2
A collection unit (132) collects information about at least either of user accommodation status and resource consumption status from plural communications devices accommodating users who receive communications services. An estimation unit (131) estimates an amount of resource consumption of a first user for whom an accommodation device is to be determined. A judgment unit (133) judges whether each of the communications devices satisfies a predetermined restricting condition, based on the information collected by the collection unit (132) and the amount of resource consumption of the first user estimated by the estimation unit (131). A determination unit (134) determines a communications device judged by the judgment unit (133) to satisfy the restricting condition among the communications devices, as the accommodation device for the first user.
US11831512B2
To enable to set a traffic control rule for each wholesale business according to the wishes of a manager or the like, a setting system for setting control definition information, which is information acquired by combining a control rule defining the control of core network traffic with the internet protocol address of the communication terminal being the transmission destination of the traffic to which the control rule is applied, includes a switching setting information storage which stores the internet protocol address of the communication terminal assigned to the wholesale business, and switching setting information, which is information expressing the timing at which the application of each of the control definition information to the control switches, and includes a setting unit for setting the control definition information based on the switching setting information, wherein the switching setting information is stored in the switching setting information storage via an input operation.
US11831511B1
Some embodiments provide a novel method for enforcing service policies at different container clusters configured by several SDN controller clusters. A first SDN controller cluster defines a particular service policy to be enforced for machines in first, second, and third container clusters. First, second, and third sets of network elements for the first, second, and third container clusters are managed by the first, a second, and a third SDN controller cluster respectively. For data message flows exchanged between machines in the first and second container clusters, the first SDN controller cluster distributes the particular service policy to service nodes only in the first container cluster. For data message flows exchanged between machines in the second and third container clusters, the first SDN controller cluster distributes the particular service policy to service nodes in at least one of the second and third container clusters.
US11831510B2
A service function chaining system is provided. The service function chaining system includes a PDP management module implementing SFC entities in consideration of an order of a service function chain (SFC) on a programmable data plane (PDP) and an SFC management module that transmits a first SFC entity information, which is information on SFC entities to be implemented on the PDP, to the PDP management module or transmits an SFC rule to a node included on the PDP, and the PDP management module includes a receiving unit for receiving the first SFC entity information, a processing unit for generating a second SFC entity information by processing the first SFC entity information to enable the SFC entities to be implemented on the PDP and to be processed according to an SFC order, and implementing unit for implementing the SFC entities on the PDP using the second SFC entity information.
US11831508B2
A configuration helper system (CHS) is described that simplifies the task of generating configuration information for a customer premises equipment (CPE) in a customer's on-premise network to enable the CPE to communicate with the customer's cloud network over a particular communication channel. The CHS is configured to generate configuration information that is customized for the particular CPE and communication channel. Given information about the CPE and the communication channel, the CHS automatically identifies a particular set of configuration parameters to be included in the customized configuration information and determines values for the set of parameters, where some of the values may be provided by the customer. A particular CPE-specific format is determined for the configuration information. Customized configuration information for the CPE is then generated in the determined format, where the generated configuration information includes the set of parameters and their values, and potentially other CPE-specific information.
US11831505B2
A method and a system of hybrid data-and-model-driven hierarchical network reconfiguration are provided. Taking into account that the optimal operation structure of the power grid may change after a new energy is connected into the power grid in the distribution manner, this method combines the mathematical model of network reconfiguration and clustering with the deep learning model, and uses data recorded by the smart meter, to reconfigure the network in a hybrid data-and-model driving mode. This method proposes a network compression method and a hierarchical decompression method based on deep learning, and improves the efficiency of network reconfiguration by the way of distributed calculation and combination of on-line and off-line calculation.
US11831492B2
Example methods are provided for network management entity to perform group-based network event notification in a network environment that includes the network management entity and a notification consumer. The method may comprise: in response to detection of a first network event associated with a group, withholding notification of the first network event to the notification consumer; and in response to detection of a second network event associated with the group, withholding notification of the second network event to the notification consumer. The method may further comprise generating a group notification associated with the group, wherein the group notification is an aggregate notification to report the detection of at least the first network event and second network event; and sending the group notification to the notification consumer.
US11831491B2
Systems, methods and computer-readable storage media are provided for detecting and simulating issues in a network. The methodology includes identifying: event sequences within network traffic data; filtering out a subset of the event sequences based on characteristics of the subset of the event sequences; generating definition groups by performing clustering on the subset of the event sequences, the definition groups comprising event sequence characteristics associated with one or more network issues; first simulating the subset of the event sequences; generating, based on results of the first simulating, a first issue identification; second simulating a most recent one of the identified event sequences; generating, based on results of the second simulating and the generated definition groups, a second issue identification; and validating the first issue identification with the second issue identification.
US11831489B2
A wireless device receives one or more messages comprising one or more configuration parameters indicating: one or more reference signals for a beam failure detection procedure; and a discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration for controlling transitions between a DRX inactive state and a DRX active state. The beam failure detection procedure is performed based on measurements of the one or more reference signals. A first value of a counter is determined based on detecting at least one beam failure instance during the DRX active state. A transition from the DRX active state to the DRX inactive state is made based on the DRX configuration. The beam failure detection procedure is stopped in response to the transitioning. The beam failure detection procedure continues with the first value of the counter after transitioning from the DRX inactive state to the DRX active state.
US11831484B2
A method of a wireless communication transmitter is disclosed for peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) control of communication symbols with N time-domain signal samples for transmission via each of M antenna elements. The method comprises: applying a PAPR cost function f(x) which has a proximal operator with closed form and is differentiable in an interval, and the proximal operator comprises a parameter lambda for tuning; selecting a value for lambda to perform a trade-off between PAPR and at least one other characteristic of the wireless communication transmitter; selecting a precoding for the collection of samples as a solution to an optimization problem for the selected value for lambda, wherein the optimization problem comprises minimization of an overall cost function comprising at least the PAPR cost function, and wherein solving the optimization problem comprises using the proximal operator of the PAPR cost function. Corresponding apparatus, wireless communication transmitter, radio base station, and computer program product are also disclosed.
US11831481B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for generating a CSI report. One apparatus includes a transceiver that receives a set of reference signals transmitted from a base station and a processor that transforms the set of reference signals to obtain per-layer vectors of amplitude and phase coefficients of a DFT-compressed codebook. Here, each amplitude coefficient vector and phase coefficient vector corresponding to a tap in at least one identified beam. The processor calculates a subset of the taps for the at least one identified beam and controls the transceiver to transmit CSI feedback including the calculated taps to the base station, where each tap is an inverse Fourier transform of rows of time-domain coefficient vectors and where the CSI feedback includes an indication of one or more elements of the vectors of amplitude coefficient vectors and phase coefficient vectors corresponding to the at least one identified beam.
US11831478B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for modifying modulated signals for transmission. The system receives a modulated signal comprising a speech signal and a carrier wave and generates first and second spectral signals by converting the modulation signal and carrier wave from the time domain to the frequency domain respectively. The system then determines spectral bands for the first and second spectral signals. For each spectral band, the system calculates a weighted spectral band value based on a magnitude of the first spectral signal within the spectral band and generates a modified spectral signal by modifying the second spectral signal with the weighted spectral band value. The system then converts the modified spectral signal from the frequency domain to the time domain and transmits the converted modified spectral signal to a server.
US11831459B2
The present disclosure provides a control method and device for a home device and a storage medium. The control method for the home device can include monitoring an action of a user through a radar wave emitted from the radar wave sensor, and controlling the home device to perform a function corresponding to the action of the user in response to monitoring that the action of the user matches a preset action.
US11831457B2
Systems and methods for providing a collaboration work management platform that facilitates differentiation between users in an overarching group and one or more subsets of individual users within the overarching group to enable the users within the individual subsets to use the collaboration work management platform differently users within the other subsets, the method being implemented by a computer system including one or more physical processors configured by machine-readable instructions are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information for maintaining a collaboration environment.
US11831452B2
The present invention provides for fabricating virtual networks and allocating request-notifications therein for providing support-services securely and efficiently. In operation, a virtual network is fabricated based on network-registration requests received from plurality of computing devices. Further, a primary data structure representative of registered computing devices categorized into devices offering services and requiring services is generated based on information embedded in network-registration requests. Furthermore, a secondary data structure is generated by sub-categorising categorised computing devices based on information embedded in network-registration requests. Yet further, request-notifications for completing incoming support-requests from registered computing devices requiring services are generated. Subsequently, request-notifications are allocated based on evaluation of one or more computing devices offering services out of plurality of computing devices based on data mapping using primary data structure, secondary data structure, and predefined attributes. Finally, support-information sharing and tracking of request-notifications are enabled based on acceptance of request-notification by evaluated computing devices.
US11831436B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A base station may transmit wireless device-specific downlink control information comprising HARQ feedback to a wireless device. Coordinating a plurality of HARQ feedbacks may result in complicated processing at the base station and/or a delay to schedule a HARQ feedback for the wireless device. The transmission of the downlink control information may not require HARQ feedback from a wireless device. By reducing the transmission of HARQ feedback, the channel capacity utilized for error correction transmissions can be reduced, thereby enhancing resource utilization.
US11831434B2
An embodiment of the present disclosure contemplates a data sending and receiving method and apparatus. A first FEC unit of a sending device sends, by using a first channel, a first data stream on which first FEC encoding has been performed; a second FEC unit of the sending device sends, by using a second channel, a second data stream on which second FEC encoding has been performed; and the sending device performs interleaving on the first data stream and the second data stream, to obtain an output data stream, and sends the output data stream to a receiving device and error correction capability of a receiving device could be improved. In addition, in the present disclosure, an operation of writing by row and reading by column does not need to be performed. Therefore, no delay is generated.
US11831431B2
An optical transmitter device (14) includes a digital signal processor ‘DSP’ (20) having digital hardware (30). The DSP is operative to generate (102,202,302) shaped bits from a first set of information bits, and to apply (104,204,304) a systematic forward error correction ‘FEC’ scheme to encode the shaped bits and a second set of information bits, where the first set of information bits and the second set of information bits are disjoint sets. Unshaped bits and the shaped bits are mapped to selected symbols or are used to select symbols from one or more constellations. The selected symbols are mapped to physical dimensions. Each unshaped bit is either one of the second set of information bits or one of multiple parity bits resulting from the FEC encoding. In this manner, a target spectral efficiency is achieved.
US11831430B2
This disclosure relates to encoding and decoding methods and apparatuses. The method may include encoding an ith signal frame, to obtain an encoded result of the ith signal frame. The method may further include performing forward error correction encoding on first n signal frames, to obtain forward error correction encoded results corresponding to the first n signal frames. The first n signal frames may be signal frames located before the ith signal frame. The method may further include synthesizing the encoded result of the ith signal frame and the forward error correction encoded results corresponding to the first n signal frames, to obtain an ith encoded frame corresponding to the ith signal frame. The ith encoded frame may comprise a flag bit, the flag bit may be for indicating a number n, and n may be a positive integer greater than or equal to 2.
US11831428B2
The application relates to the adaptation of the length of the cyclic redundancy check (CRC) code in the context of 3GPP NR. In 3GPP NR, the length of the uplink and downlink control information (UCI, DCI) significantly varies. Therefore, it is necessary to select a CRC code of appropriate size or length. Accordingly, a method (200) for use in a wireless transmitter comprises: determining an amount of data to transmit (212); determining a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) polynomial length based on the amount of data to transmit (214); encoding the data using a CRC of the determined polynomial length (216); and transmitting the encoded data (216). The data to transmit may not only comprise control channel data but also user data and may be encoded with a Polar code or a low-density parity check (LDPC) code.
US11831424B2
A method of determining a slot format in a wireless communication system, where the method is performed by a user equipment (UE) and includes: receiving, from a network, slot format information informing a first slot format for a plurality of normal symbols that are arranged within a period of time, wherein each of the plurality of normal symbols includes a normal cyclic prefix (CP). The method further includes: based on the received slot format information informing the first slot format, determining a second slot format for a plurality of extended symbols that are arranged within the period of time, wherein each of the plurality of extended symbols includes an extended CP.
US11831417B2
Various embodiments provide novel tools and techniques for a threat mapping engine. A system includes a vertex discovery harvester subsystem, an edge extractor subsystem, a vertex correlator subsystem, and a recursive graph builder subsystem. The recursive graph builder subsystem includes a processor, and a computer readable medium in communication with the processor, the computer readable medium having encoded thereon a set of instructions executable by the processor to generate a map of one or more connections from the first known vertex to at least one related vertex of the one or more vertices via at least one edge, based on the one or more vertex correlations, determine a threat score indicative of a threat posed by at least one related vertex of the map, and generate a threat graph based on the map and the threat score of the at least one related vertex layered over the map.
US11831410B2
A system and method of serverless function scaling is described. The method may include receiving one or more types of serverless function invocations. The method also includes invoking one or more serverless functions and receiving metrics from the one or more serverless functions. The method also includes generating scaling heuristics for scaling of a number of serverless functions in view of the received metrics.
US11831407B1
Systems and methods for employing non-custodial techniques for data encryption and decryption are provided. One example method includes transmitting, to a first remote server, an encryption request; receiving, from the first remote server, a first response comprising a secret token; generating a first cryptographic signature using the secret token; generating a first cryptographic key based on the first cryptographic signature; encrypting one or more files using the first cryptographic key; and transmitting, to a second remote server, the one or more encrypted files.
US11831401B1
A communication system that includes a master communication device at a first location in a defined indoor area, a service communication device at a second location in the defined indoor area, and passive optical routing devices at a plurality of locations in the defined indoor area. The master communication device obtains a first signal from a data source or a modem and directs a first laser beam carrying the first signal in a downstream path to a service communication device directly or via the plurality of passive optical routing devices based on defined connectivity criterions. The service communication device demodulates the first signal from the first laser beam, distributes one or more wireless signals to end-user devices, and further obtains one or more second signals from end-user devices and re-transmits obtained signals over second laser beam in upstream path to master communication device directly or via the passive optical routing devices.
US11831398B2
This application relates to the field of communications technologies, and discloses a data transmission method. The method includes: generating a PPDU; and transmitting the PPDU to at least one receive end. The PPDU includes a channel estimation field CEF, and the CEF includes a plurality of sub-sequences. For each of the plurality of sub-sequences, a part or all of elements in the sub-sequence are basic elements, and the basic elements are arranged into a Golay sequence or a ZC sequence in the sub-sequence. This application is used for data transmission.
US11831396B2
Some implementations of the disclosure relate to dynamic switching of a satellite inroute data path between a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) method and a Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) method. In one implementation, a satellite terminal comprises one or more processors; and one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media configured with instructions executable by the one or more processors to cause the satellite terminal to perform operations comprising: communicating, using the satellite terminal, over an inroute TDM channel; determining, based on an ingress traffic rate to the satellite terminal or a determination that the satellite terminal has not received any traffic flows classified for communication using TDM, to switch communications from the inroute TDM channel to an inroute TDMA channel; and after determining to switch communications, switching, at the satellite terminal, from communicating over the inroute TDM channel to communicating over the inroute TDMA channel.
US11831388B2
An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: receiving, at a user device, a downlink reference signal from a communication node of a mobile communication system, wherein the downlink reference signal is received by one of a plurality of beams of a receiver of the user device in accordance with a configured beam alignment; determining whether to initiate beam switching to reconfigure the beam alignment at said receiver based, at least in part, on a signal power of the received downlink reference signal; and determining, in the event that beam switching is to be initiated, whether to initiate communication node assisted beam switching or non-communication node assisted beam switching.
US11831385B2
Disclosed in various embodiments are: a method by which user equipment (UE) performs beam sweeping by using a plurality of transmission beams in a wireless communication system for supporting a sidelink; and a device therefor. Particularly, disclosed in various embodiments are a method and a device therefor, the method comprising the steps of: receiving configuration information related to the beam sweeping; grouping the plurality of transmission beams into a plurality of groups on the basis of the number of reference beams included in the configuration information; and performing beam sweeping according to a transmission order determined for the plurality of groups, wherein the transmission order is determined on the basis of a group index for the plurality of groups and the number of repetitions in which the beam sweeping is repeatedly performed.
US11831372B2
A non-line of sight backhaul system and method are described that provides self-alignment of the antennas beams of the wireless radios of the system, that provides robust operation in licensed and unlicensed frequency bands, that facilitates the use of a reduced number of frequency channels from M to 1 and that enables operation in a non-line of sight (NLOS) propagation environment.
US11831365B1
A method and system for controlling data split of a dual-connected user equipment device (UE) when the UE has at least two co-existing air-interface connections including a first air-interface connection with a first access node and a second air-interface connection with a second access node. An example method includes (i) comparing a level of multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) support of the first air-interface connection with a level of MIMO support of the second air-interface connection, (ii) based at least on the comparing, establishing a split ratio that defines a distribution of data flow of the UE between at least the first air-interface connection and the second air-interface connection, and (iii) based on the establishing, causing the established split ratio to be applied. Further the method could include using the comparison as a basis to set one of the UE's air-interface connections as the UE's primary uplink path.
US11831360B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for contactless powering and control of conveyors on shuttles. An example system may include a track, a first transmitter disposed at a first location along the track, the first transmitter configured to transmit power and data wirelessly, and a shuttle configured to move along the track. The shuttle may include a conveyor, and a first receiver configured to wirelessly receive the power and the data from the first transmitter, where the power is used to power the conveyor. The shuttle may not have an onboard power source coupled to the conveyor.
US11831359B2
Various embodiments are directed to dynamically and temporarily adjusting power to an NFC reader of a computing device from a first power level to a second power level based on a feedback mechanism between a contactless card and the computing device. The contactless card may provide a message containing a checksum. The computing device may receive the message and calculate a checksum based on the received message. By comparing these two checksums, it may be determined whether the entire message has been correctly received. If not, the power to the NFC reader may be temporarily increased to allow better communication between the contactless card and the computing device.
US11831350B2
A method for measuring a received signal includes receiving a differential pair of signals by a differential pair of input nodes of a differential circuit. The method includes attempting to match a first current through a first node of the differential circuit corresponding to the differential pair of signals to a second current through a second node of the differential circuit corresponding to a feedback signal. The method includes generating an output measurement signal based on the first current and the second current. The output measurement signal has a level corresponding to an average amplitude of the differential pair of signals.
US11831347B2
A parameter determination apparatus (2) includes: a first learning device (2111) learning a weight between a [j−1]-th layer (j is an integer that satisfies a condition that “2≤j≤the number of the layer”) and a [j]-th layer to which an output of the [j−1]-th layer is inputted among a plurality of layers of a neural network; a selecting device (2112) selecting at least one valid path for each node included in the [j]-th layer from a plurality of connection paths that connect nodes in the [j−1]-th layer and nodes in the [j]-th layer, respectively, on the basis of the weight learned by the first learning device; and a second learning device (2113) learning at least one of the weight and a bias as the parameters relating to a network structure between the [j−1]-th layer and the [j]-th layer on the basis of the sample signal, the label signal and the valid path.
US11831336B2
A method for error correction in a quantum computing device that can significantly improve the quantum error correcting performance of subsystem codes. By changing the order in which check operators are measured, valuable additional information can be gained. A method for decoding which uses this information to improve performance is also provided.
US11831332B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to techniques for puncturing of structured low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to methods and apparatus for a high-performance, flexible, and compact LDPC code. Certain aspects can enable LDPC code designs to support large ranges of rates, blocklengths, and granularity, while being capable of fine incremental redundancy hybrid automatic repeat request (IR-HARD) extension while maintaining good floor performance, a high-level of parallelism to deliver high throughout performance, and a low description complexity.
US11831329B2
An LDPC parity check matrix includes a systematic portion having a plurality of systematic elements and a parity portion having a plurality of parity elements. The value of each systematic element determines a cyclic shift to be applied to rows of an identity submatrix corresponding to that element. The value of each parity element determines a cyclic shift to be applied to rows of an identity submatrix corresponding to that element. The weights of two or more columns of the parity portion are the same.
US11831319B2
Disclosed are a readout circuit, an offset voltage eliminating method and device, a computer device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The readout circuit includes an object quantizer and an offset voltage elimination circuit. The offset voltage elimination circuit includes a correction circuit and a calibration circuit, an input of the correction circuit is connected to an output of the object quantizer, a compensation input of the calibration circuit is connected to an output of the current compensator, and a reference input of the calibration circuit is connected to the output of the object quantizer.
US11831318B1
A frequency multiplier system includes a first frequency multiplier circuit to generate a first signal having a first frequency. The first frequency multiplier circuit includes a first post-divider circuit to divide the first frequency of the first signal to a first output frequency within a bounded first range of frequencies, and a first programmable frequency transition controller to control a transitioning frequency relationship between the first signal having the first frequency and a target signal having a desired target frequency. The system includes a second frequency multiplier circuit to generate a second signal having a second frequency. The second frequency multiplier circuit includes a second post-divider circuit configured to divide the second frequency of the second signal to a second output frequency within a bounded second range of frequencies, and a second programmable frequency transition controller to control a transitioning frequency relationship between the second signal having the second frequency and the target signal having the desired target frequency. A multi-transition controller is coupled to both the first frequency multiplier circuit and the second frequency multiplier circuit to, upon a desired change from the first output frequency to the target output frequency, select one of the first output frequency or the second output frequency as a system output frequency.
US11831303B2
High accuracy current sense circuitry for power switching devices comprising GaN power transistors provides for current feedback functions, e.g. current loop control, over-current protection (OCP) and short-circuit protection (SCP). The current sense circuitry comprises a current mirror sense GaN transistor (Sense_GaN) and a power GaN transistor (Power_GaN) and a sampling circuit. The sampling circuit comprises first and second stage operational amplifiers to provide fast response and improved current sense accuracy, e.g. better than 1%, over a range of junction temperatures Tj. The Sense_GaN, Power_GaN and first stage operational amplifier have a common ground referenced to a Kelvin Source of the Power_GaN, so that the Sense_GaN and Power_GaN operate with the same gate-to-source voltage Vgs, to provide an accurate current ratio. Applications include current sensing for switching mode power supplies that need high speed and lossless current sense for current protection and feedback.
US11831301B2
A filter device includes a common connection terminal, a first bandpass filter connected to the common connection terminal and including an inductor, and a second bandpass filter connected to the common connection terminal and having a pass band lower in frequency than a pass band of the first bandpass filter. The filter device uses SH waves. The first bandpass filter is a ladder filter. Each of series arm resonators and parallel arm resonators includes an interdigital transducer electrode. Of the parallel arm resonators of the first bandpass filter, the inductor is connected in series to the parallel arm resonator with a shortest electrode finger pitch of the interdigital transducer electrode.
US11831295B2
Acoustic wave devices based on epitaxially grown heterostructures comprising appropriate combinations of epitaxially grown metallic transition metal nitride (TMN) layers, epitaxially grown Group III-nitride (III-N) piezoelectric semiconductor thin film layers, and epitaxially grown perovskite oxide (PO) layers. The devices can include bulk acoustic wave (BAW) devices, surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices, high overtone bulk acoustic resonator (HBAR) devices, and composite devices comprising HBAR devices integrated with high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs).
US11831291B2
One or more systems, devices and/or methods of use provided herein relate to a device that can facilitate selective switching between band pass and band stop filter modes and/or can provide reflectionless or near reflectionless function. A device can comprise a filter circuit coupled between a pair of ports and comprising a direct current superconducting quantum interference device (DC SQUID), wherein the filter circuit is selectively activatable by varying the inductance of the DC SQUID. Applying flux bias to the DC SQUID can allow for the switching between the band pass and band stop filter modes.
US11831286B2
An audio amplifier includes: a buck controller configured to control an output voltage at a first supply terminal, the output voltage selected from a set including a plurality of output voltages, where the output voltage takes a settling time to settle; a first audio bridge including: a class-AB driver stage coupled to the first supply terminal, and a delay insertion circuit configured to receive a processed digital stream and provide the processed digital stream to the class-AB driver stage a delay time after receiving the processed digital stream, where the delay time is based on the settling time; and an audio amplitude detector configured to detect a first peak amplitude in the first digital audio stream, where the buck controller is configured to select a lowest output voltage from the set that is higher than the first peak amplitude plus a headroom voltage.
US11831273B2
Solar tracker systems include an array of solar panels, a drive for rotating the array about a longitudinal axis, and a mounting assembly including a plurality of posts and a pivotable frame assembly supporting the array of solar panels on the posts. The frame assembly includes a first frame tube connected to the drive and extending therefrom in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis and a second frame tube laterally offset from the first frame tube and extending parallel to the first frame tube. The first frame tube and second frame tube are sized to support at least one solar panel of the array of solar panels thereon. The frame assembly further includes a lateral beam attached to the first frame tube and the second frame tube.
US11831271B1
A medium voltage inrush current (MVIC) regulator and interconnection control system for interposing between a distributed power generation facility and a utility grid. The facility has a designated generator step-up (GSU) transformer and is connected to the utility grid at a point of interconnect. The system includes a pre-insertion impedance injection transformer, a low voltage first switch connected between the pre-insertion transformer and secondary coils of the designated GSU transformer, a medium voltage second switch connected inline between the pre-insertion transformer and primary coils of the designated GSU transformer, and a controller. In response to restoration of the utility grid following a loss-of-grid event, the controller opens and closes the first and second switches according to an automated pre-energization switching sequence such that magnetic flux in the designated GSU transformer occurs at a reduced rate, thereby reducing inrush of current and undesirable power quality phenomena.
US11831258B2
A circuit with a Safe-Torque-Off (STO) functionality and a frequency converter including the same are provided. According to embodiments, the circuit may include a first STO channel configured to control on/off of power supply to a high-side driver of a frequency converter based on a first STO signal, a second STO channel configured to control on/off of power supply to a low-side driver of the frequency converter based on a second STO signal, and a third STO channel configured to control supply of a drive control signal from a controller of the frequency converter to the high-side driver and the low-side driver based on a result of a logical operation of the first STO signal and the second STO signal, wherein the logical operation is configured to make the result active in response to at least one of the first and second STO signals being active.
US11831257B2
A power generation device includes a filter holder that is a container filled with water and a filter member. The filter member is composed of porous glass in a form of a plate and arranged in the filter holder between a first space upstream from the filter member and a second space downstream from the filter member. The filter member allows hydrogen ions to pass therethrough more easily than hydroxide ions. The power generation device generates electric power based on a potential difference between the first space and the second space when a water flow from the first space toward the second space is produced in the filter member. The water flow flows along a direction of thickness of the filter member.
US11831256B2
A short-travel nanoscale motion stage and a method for measuring thermally-related hysteresis data are provided. A stator unit of a left two-pole electromagnet and stator units of two inchworm motors are fixed on a right side surface of a left foundation frame, and an active unit of the left two-pole electromagnet and actives of the two inchworm motors are fixed on a left side surface of a stage moving component. An active unit of a right two-pole electromagnet is fixed on a right side surface of the stage moving component, while a stator unit of the right two-pole electromagnet is fixed on a left side surface of a right foundation frame. The stage moving component is fixedly mounted on a guide sleeve of an aerostatic guideway. Each of the stator units of the left and right two-pole electromagnets has an eddy current sensor and a hall sensor fixed therein.
US11831251B2
An insulated gate field effect transistor (IGFET) based converter circuit is described that includes a direct current input comprising a high voltage input and a low voltage input, an IGFET gate input, and an equivalent phase leg comprising a plurality of parallel-connected cells. The parallel-connected cells each include: a first wide bandgap IGFET having a first drain electrode connected to the high voltage input, a first gate electrode connected to a first gate control input, and a first source electrode; a second wide bandgap IGFET having a second drain electrode connected to the first source electrode, a second gate electrode connected to a second gate control input, and a second source electrode connected to the low voltage input; and a step-inducing inductor coupled to: the first source electrode of the first wide bandgap IGFET, and an output node. The step-inducing inductor is connected to the output node.
US11831250B2
A multi-switch types hybrid power electronics build block (MST HPEBB) least replaceable unit converter employs a first low voltage side (for example, 1000 volt power switches) and a second high voltage side (for example, 3000 volt power switches). The MST HPEBB LRU employs multiple bridge converters connected in series and/or in parallel, and coupled in part by a 1:1 transformer. To reduce weight and volume requirements compared to known PEBB LRUs, different power switch types are employed in different bridge converters. For example, in one exemplary embodiment, low voltage 1.7 kVolt SiC MOSFETS may be employed on the lower voltage side, while at least some 4.5 kVolt Silicon IGBTs may be employed on the high voltage side.
US11831234B2
Disclosed is a power supply. In an example, the power supply comprises a switched mode power converter. The switched mode power converter comprises an input terminal for receiving an input voltage, and an output terminal for supplying a power to a load. A control unit of the power supply controls a switch of the switched mode power converter. A current-limited power supply powers the control unit, and is connected to the input voltage, whereby the control unit is configured to control an input current to the switched mode power converter.
US11831233B2
A power conversion system includes a first converter configured to convert an input voltage into discrete voltage levels, and provide each discrete voltage level at a corresponding output terminal. The power conversion system further includes a second converter configured to convert the discrete voltages into modulated voltages. The power conversion system further includes a selection unit configured to alternatively output each of the modulated voltage voltages across a pair of output terminals.
US11831230B2
A power supply includes: a converter circuit including boost circuits, the converter circuit boosting a voltage output from a power source; a current detector that detects a first current flowing between the power source and the converter circuit; current detectors that each detect a second current, the second current being a sum current of currents flowing in switching elements of the boost circuits; and overcurrent determiners that determine whether the second currents are overcurrent on the basis of detection values of the second currents. When a result of the determination made by corresponding one of the overcurrent determiners indicates overcurrent, the boost circuits stop operating.
US11831224B2
A reciprocating tool includes a motor, a reciprocating member, and a crank mechanism. The motor is disposed in a housing. The reciprocating member projects from the housing. The crank mechanism converts rotation of a rotation shaft of the motor into reciprocation of the reciprocating member. The crank mechanism rotates around an axis in a lateral direction by rotation transmission from the rotation shaft, and the crank mechanism includes a crank member having an eccentric pin, a connecting rod coupling the eccentric pin to the reciprocating member, and a balancer coupled to the eccentric pin, and the balancer is supported by the eccentric pin alone in the housing.
US11831223B1
A motor controller includes an actuator and a programmable wheel. The actuator includes first and second conductive rods configured to receive external electric power. Each rod has upper and lower rod contacts. First and second crisscrossed electrodes are movable between, and electrically connectible to, the upper and lower rod contacts. A power terminal is electrically connected to the crisscrossed electrodes. The programmable wheel has first and second directional appendages mounted thereon. The wheel is configured to engage the actuator such that for each revolution of the wheel: the first directional appendage moves the crisscrossed electrodes into electrical contact with the upper rod contacts to route the electric power to the power terminal at a first polarity, and the second directional appendage moves the crisscrossed electrodes into electrical contact with the lower rod contacts to route the electrical power to the power terminal at a second opposing polarity.
US11831221B2
A drive device includes a fluid coupling, a transmission shaft, and a rotary electrical machine. The fluid coupling includes a cover, a turbine, and an impeller. The turbine is fixed to the cover. The impeller is disposed inside an outer shell formed by the cover and the turbine. The impeller is opposed to the turbine. The transmission shaft extends to penetrate the outer shell of the fluid coupling. The transmission shaft is connected to the impeller. The rotary electrical machine includes a first stator and a rotor. The first stator is disposed in a non-rotatable manner. The rotor is attached to the outer shell of the fluid coupling.
US11831219B2
A rotor for an electric motor comprising a crankshaft extending along an axis (X-X) coinciding with an axis of rotation of the crankshaft, and at least one steel plate having slots for housing magnets. The steel plate includes a central seat, keyed to an outer side wall of the crankshaft according to an interference coupling, wherein the steel plate is coupled to the crankshaft at the central seat by a first tooth obtained on the steel plate, which projects towards the associated crankshaft and a first radial seat, obtained on the outer side wall of the crankshaft. The first radial seat has an isosceles trapezium cross-section delimited laterally by a pair of oblique sides converging towards the axis of rotation. The first tooth has a ‘V’ cross-section with a pair of curvilinear side walls, suitable for interfacing against the oblique sides of the first radial seat.
US11831215B2
One of the objects of the present invention is to provide a linear vibration motor which enhances vibration performance. To achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention provides a linear vibration motor having a housing body with an accommodation space; a vibration unit accommodated in the accommodation space; an elastic member suspending the vibration unit in the accommodation space; and a coil assembly fixed to the housing body for driving the vibration unit to vibrate. The vibration unit includes a magnet assembly having a plurality of first magnets arranged along a vibration direction of the vibration unit, and at least one second magnet sandwiched between two adjacent first magnets, for forming a magnetic circuit.
US11831210B2
The invention relates to a non-cogging electric generator having at least one stator and at least one dual rotor, wherein the dual rotor comprises a plurality of primary magnet devices arranged in circular Halbach array. Non-cogging is achieved by having inner and outer rotor rotating synchronously. Concentration of magnetic flux is achieved by magnetic devices tapering into pyramidal shape, such that magnetic devices arranged on the inner rotor are facing magnetic devices on the outer rotor, whereas said magnetic devices are facing each other with the opposite polarity. Stator comprises electrical wire windings and is positioned between inner and outer rotor.
US11831208B2
A device includes a substrate with an excitation coil configured to generate a magnetic field in reaction to an input signal fed in, and with a pickup coil arrangement configured to generate an output signal in reaction to a magnetic field. The excitation coil includes one or more turns arranged around the pickup coil arrangement in a ring-shaped manner in a plan view of the substrate plane. The device further includes a chip package comprising at least one electrical connection connected to the pickup coil arrangement by means of a signal-carrying conductor. In accordance with the concept described herein, the chip package is positioned on the substrate in such a way that the signal-carrying conductor and the one or more turns of the excitation coil do not overlap in a plan view of the substrate plane.
US11831205B2
In a rotor for a rotating electric machine, a key portion, a first stress relaxation groove, a second stress relaxation groove, and a protruding portion are provided at an inner periphery of a rotor core. The first stress relaxation groove is formed to be adjacent to the key portion in a circumferential direction of the rotor core. The protruding portion is formed between the first stress relaxation groove and the second stress relaxation groove, and is in contact with an outer periphery of a shaft.
US11831198B2
Power systems and methods are provided that receive input power and provide output power to a load. Under a first state of operation, power conversion circuitry may receive the input power and provide the output power. A bypass switch includes a controller that detects a failure condition by detecting a link down state on a communications interface. In response to detecting the link down state, the switch controller operates the bypass switch to convey the input power to the output in a second state of operation. The second state of operation is a bypass state of operation whereby the power conversion circuitry is bypassed.
US11831184B2
A method and a device for acquiring a charging electricity amount, and an electronic device are provided. When a controller determines based on at least operation state information of an external electric meter that the external electric meter is in a fault state, the first amount of electricity, outputted by the charging pile when the external electric meter is in the fault state, can be calculated based on at least first electric energy output data of the charging pile acquired by the charging module of the charging pile when the external electric meter is in the fault state. That is, the amount of electricity consumed by the charging pile can be calculated even when the external electric meter is in the fault state, so that the controller calculates the cost based on the amount of electricity consumed by the charging pile.
US11831180B2
A method comprises obtaining device information associated with one or more computing devices, the device information comprises at least a location of each of the one or more computing devices. Based on the device information, one or more UWCFs corresponding to the one or more computing devices are adapted such that a UWCF is a sub-area of an open zone, where the open zone is an area having reflection characteristics below a reference reflection threshold. A charging rate for each of the one or more computing devices based on the one or more UWCFs is determined. A beamformed signal is then transmitted within corresponding UWCF of each of the one or more computing devices based on corresponding charging rate for wirelessly charging the one or more computing devices.
US11831176B2
A system for wireless power transfer includes a wireless transmission system and a wireless receiver system. The wireless transmission system includes a transmission antenna configured to transmit one or both of wireless power signals and wireless data signals within a large charge area, the large charge area having a length of in a range of 50 millimeters (mm) to 300 mm and a width in a range of 150 to 500 mm. The wireless receiver system includes a receiver antenna, the receiver antenna including a plurality of receiver coils, each of the plurality of receiver coils configured to receive one or both of the wireless power signals and the wireless data signals within the large charge area.
US11831168B2
A ground assembly for an inductive charging device for inductively charging a motor vehicle parked on a surface may include a base plate, a flat coil, a core body, a lower hollow space, a support, and a heat-conducting jacket. The base plate may be formed as a cooling plate. The flat coil may include a helically wound conductor. The flat coil may be arranged spaced apart from the base plate. The lower hollow space may be defined between the core body and the base plate. The support may be disposed between the core body and the base plate, and may extend through the lower hollow space. The heat-conducting jacket may connect the core body and the base plate in a heat-transmitting manner, and may surround the at least one support in a jacket-like manner.
US11831166B2
A system for monitoring and optimizing fuel consumption by a genset at an oil rig is described. Gensets require large amounts of fuel to initiate and to maintain in a standby, idling position. The system accesses data in a drill plan to determine the present and future power requirements and initiates gensets if needed; otherwise gensets can be shut down. Excess power can be stored in a power storage unit such as a capacitor, battery, or a liquid air energy storage unit.
US11831163B2
System and method for fluctuating renewable energy-battery optimization to improve battery life-time
A system and method for energy optimization is disclosed. The system may collect information from an information collector data including energy usage and storage data of at least one renewable energy generation system and battery energy storage system (BESS). The system may identify historical events that result in curtailment of renewable energy production, determine whether there is a curtailment of renewable energy production based at least on one historical event supervise the charge and discharge cycles of the at least one BESS; and ensuring that the diesel generators minimum up/down time is satisfied based on controlling at least one parameter of the BESS.
US11831161B2
An integrated renewable energy source (RES) and energy storage system (ESS) facility configured to supply power to an AC electrical grid includes energy storage system capacity and inverter capacity that are larger than a point of grid interconnect (POGI) limit for the facility, enabling high capacity factors and production profiles that match a desired load. At least one first DC-AC power inverter is associated with RES, and at least one second AC-DC power inverter is associated with the ESS. AC-DC conversion is used when charging the ESS with RES AC electric power, and DC-AC conversion utility is used when discharging ESS AC electric power to the electric grid. Aggregate DC-AC inverter utility exceeds the facility POGI limit, and excess RES AC electric power may be diverted to the second inverter(s).
US11831153B1
A tuned single-coil inductor is implemented between a signal driver output and external contact of an ESD-protected integrated circuit (IC) die and more specifically between the parasitic capacitances of the signal driver and the contact-coupled ESD (electrostatic discharge) element to form a Pi (π) filter that enhances signaling bandwidth at the target signaling rate of the IC die. The signal driver may be implemented with output-stage data serialization circuitry disposed in series between source terminals of a thick-oxide drive transistor and a power rail to avoid explicit level-shifting circuitry between the relatively low core voltage domain and relatively high I/O voltage domain.
US11831148B2
A method for operating an electronic switch is described hereinafter. According to one exemplary embodiment, the method (for an electronic switch in the switched on state) comprises detecting whether there is an undervoltage condition at a supply voltage node and providing an undervoltage signal which indicates an undervoltage condition. The method further comprises switching off the electronic switch if the undervoltage signal indicates an undervoltage condition and switching (back) on the electronic switch if the undervoltage signal no longer indicates an undervoltage condition. If the undervoltage signal indicates an undervoltage condition during a switch-on process of the electronic switch, the electronic switch is switched off again and switching back on is prevented for a defined period of time, irrespective of the undervoltage signal. Moreover, a corresponding circuit is described.
US11831142B2
In one aspect, the application provides an electrical system including a conductor, a ground, an arrester electrically connected to the conductor, and a disconnector assembly electrically connected between the arrester and the ground. The disconnector assembly includes an isolator configured to perform an operating function in response to the occurrence of an event and a housing configured to surround the isolator. The isolator includes a first terminal electrically connected to the arrester by a first wire and a second terminal electrically connected to the ground by a second wire. The housing includes a first opening through which the first terminal extends, a second opening through which the second terminal extends, and a retention mechanism configured to hold the isolator in place relative to the arrester.
US11831133B2
The invention is concerned with a bushing for high voltage applications and a bushing arrangement including such a bushing. The bushing includes a conductor defining a longitudinal axis (A) through the bushing where the bushing has a central section and a first and a second peripheral section on opposite sides of the central section along the longitudinal axis (A) and includes an optical fibre with a first part (P1) stretching through the central section, the fibre being adapted to detect physical properties being influenced or caused by the operation of the bushing. The sections are sections of a solid condenser core and the bushing further includes an enclosure for a length of fibre that is to exit the bushing, the enclosure being buried in the central section adjacent the surface of the condenser core and having an interior volume.
US11831119B2
Provided is a sensor which makes it easy to mount a cable to a circuit board. This sensor 1 is provided with: a circuit board 2; a connector 10 which is composed of a metal material and which is fixed to the circuit board 2; and a cable 3 which is connected to the circuit board 2 via the connector 10. The connector 10 has: a bottom part 11 that is connected to the circuit board 2; and a pair of pinching elements 12L, 12R that are raised upright from said bottom part 11. The cable 3 is held in a space S between the pair of pinching elements 12L, 12R.
US11831116B2
A crimp includes a crimp barrel having a base, a first side wall extending from the base, and a second side wall extending from the base opposite to the first side wall, a self-locking wing on the first side wall, and a self-locking pocket on the second side wall. The self-locking wing is adapted to lock with the self-locking pocket.
US11831105B2
A connector assembly includes an insulative housing, first and second conductive ground wafers (see e.g., 661 and 663) and a plurality of grounding links. The insulative housing has a plurality of conductive signal terminals disposed therein (see e.g., 662). The insulative housing has opposite side surfaces and a plurality of openings therein extending between the side surfaces. The second ground wafer is spaced from and parallel to the first ground wafer. The grounding links are electrically connected to one of the ground wafers and extend towards another of the ground wafers and extend through the openings in the housing.
US11831104B2
The present disclosure relates to a direct current (DC) plug, a DC socket and electric equipment. The DC plug is configured to be connected to a DC socket to supply power to an electrical equipment. The DC plug includes: a center contact, including a first center contact side surface, a second center contact side surface, a third center contact side surface and a fourth center contact side surface, wherein the first center contact side surface and the second center contact side surface are oppositely disposed, and the third center contact side surface and the fourth center contact side surface are oppositely disposed; first plug current conductors, disposed on the first center contact side surface and the second center contact side surface; and second plug current conductors, disposed on the third center contact side surface and the fourth center contact side surface.
US11831101B2
An alignment adapter is to be placed in physical communication with a connector of an information handling system. The alignment adapter includes an insert portion and a support wall. The insert portion is to be placed within the connector, and to provide a proper alignment of a device board within the connector. The support wall is to be placed in physical communication with an outside edge of the connector. The support wall is a particular distance from the insert portion. A chamfer of the connector is to be placed within the particular distance the support wall is from the insert portion when the insert portion is fully inserted within the connector.
US11831098B2
A method for improving clearance and creepage in a male or female high voltage connector assembly using a male terminal position assurance (TPA) device. The high voltage connector assembly is suitable for high voltage electrical terminals. The method includes the steps of allowing a clearance and creepage or electrical path to extend from at least a high voltage electrical terminal to a conductive male outer housing, and or between another terminal using a male or a female TPA device. The TPA device is inserted in the high voltage connector assembly, whereby a clearance and creepage or electrical path extends from the high voltage electrical terminal along at least a surface of the TPA device and to the male outer housing of the high voltage connector assembly or from the high voltage electrical terminal to another high voltage electrical terminal in using the male and or female TPA device.
US11831097B2
An electrical contact includes: a first contact surface; a second contact surface; and a coating dispersed on at least one of the first or second contact surfaces, where the coating includes the cured product of a telechelic polypropylene glycol-polyethylene glycol multi-block polymer.
US11831095B2
An electrical connector includes wafer assemblies coupled to a housing. Each wafer assembly includes a leadframe, a wafer body holding the leadframe, and a ground frame coupled to the wafer body to provide electrical shielding for the leadframe. Each leadframe has signal contacts with mating ends extending from the wafer body for mating with mating signal contacts of a mating electrical connector. The mating ends are twisted 45° to define twisted mating interfaces. Each ground frame has ground shields extending from a ground plate along the mating ends of the signal contacts. The ground shields are twisted 45° relative to the ground plate to define twisted shield zones along the mating ends of the signal contacts.
US11831087B2
A quasi-isotropic antenna includes: a feeder; a loop antenna configured to radiate a first radio wave based on a feeding from the feeder; and a dipole antenna adjacent to the loop antenna, and configured to radiate a second radio wave by resonating based on a resonant-coupling with the loop antenna, wherein a radiation pattern of the first radio wave is orthogonal to a radiation pattern of the second radio wave.
US11831086B2
An antenna structure includes a metal mechanism element, a ground element, a feeding radiation element, and a dielectric substrate. The metal mechanism element has a slot. The slot has a first closed end and a second closed end. The ground element is coupled to the metal mechanism element. The feeding radiation element has a feeding point. The feeding radiation element is coupled to the ground element. The dielectric substrate has a first surface and a second surface which are opposite to each other. The feeding radiation element is disposed on the first surface of the dielectric substrate. The second surface of the dielectric substrate is adjacent to the metal mechanism element. The slot of the metal mechanism element is excited to generate a first frequency band and a second frequency band. The feeding radiation element is excited to generate a third frequency band.
US11831085B2
A radiating element for an antenna comprises at least one radiating arm having a first electrically conductive arm segment extending in a first direction and a second electrically conductive arm segment extending in a second direction and electrically connected to the first arm segment.
US11831084B2
A dual-polarized antenna, an antenna array, and a communications device are disclosed. The dual-polarized antenna includes a base board, a horizontally polarized antenna, and a vertically polarized antenna. The substrate includes a first substrate and a plurality of second substrates stacked on the first substrate. The horizontally polarized antenna includes a first radiating element disposed on the first substrate, and a first feeding unit that feeds the first radiating element. The vertically polarized unit includes a second radiating element and a second feeding unit that feeds the second radiating element. The second radiating element includes a first metal patch disposed on each second substrate. In the foregoing technical solution, the base board formed by the stacked substrates is used as a support part, so that the horizontally polarized antenna and the vertically polarized antenna are disposed on the base board, thereby reducing space occupied by the dual-polarized antenna.
US11831077B2
The phased array antenna system is described. The phased array antenna system formed on one or more layers of a printed circuit board (PCB). The phased array antenna system be may include a beam forming network to convert between one or more element signals and a beam signal. The phased array antenna system may include one or more control circuits, where each control circuit may receive the element signals for corresponding antenna element. Each of the control circuits may further may establish a control signal path and an element signal path between the antenna elements and the beamforming network, where the signal path may carry multiplexed element and control signals. The control circuits may include a signal adjustment circuit that may adjust the corresponding element signal (e.g., in phase or amplitude) based on the control signal.
US11831076B2
An antenna includes first and second antenna elements and first and second couplers. The first antenna element includes a first radiation conductor and a first feeder line. The second antenna element includes a second radiation conductor and a second feeder line. The second feeder line is coupled to the first feeder line such that a first component, which is a capacitance component or an inductance component, is dominant. The first coupler couples the first and second feeder lines such that a second component is dominant. The first radiation conductor and the second radiation conductor are arranged at an interval of ½ or less of a resonance wavelength. The second radiation conductor is coupled to the first radiation conductor with a first coupling method in which a capacitive coupling or a magnetic field coupling is dominant. The second coupler couples the first and second radiation conductors with a second coupling method.
US11831064B2
The present invention relates to an antenna apparatus, which specifically comprises: a filter unit which is disposed to form at least one layer; an electric appliance unit which is coupled and is spaced apart from the filter unit to form a layer different from that of the filter unit, and includes various electric devices installed therein; a filter unit heat dissipation module which is coupled to the opposite surface of a surface of the filter unit, the surface being coupled to the electric appliance unit, and thus radiates heat generated from the filter unit to the outside; and an electric appliance unit heat dissipation module including a first electric appliance unit heat dissipation module and a second electric appliance unit heat dissipation module, wherein: the first electric appliance unit heat dissipation module is coupled to the opposite surface of a surface of the electric appliance unit, the surface being coupled to the filter unit, and thus radiates, to the outside, heat generated from first heating elements intensively disposed at one side of the filter unit; and the second electric appliance unit heat dissipation module is provided in parallel to the first electric appliance unit heat dissipation module and radiates, to the outside, heat generated from second heating elements intensively disposed at the other side of the filter unit. Accordingly, the present invention provides advantages of improving assembling performance and maximizing heat dissipation performance.
US11831063B2
An element includes a coupling line in which a first conductor layer, a dielectric layer, and a second conductor layer are stacked in this order, and which is connected to the second conductor layer in order to mutually synchronize a plurality of antennas at a frequency of a terahertz wave; and a bias line connecting a power supply for supplying a bias signal to a semiconductor layer and the second conductor layer. A wiring layer in which the coupling line is formed and a wiring layer in which the bias line is formed are different layers. The bias line is disposed in a layer between the first conductor layer and the second conductor layer.
US11831036B2
The present disclosure relates to a battery pack and an apparatus using the battery pack as a power supply, and relates to the technical field of batteries, to optimize performance of the battery pack. The battery pack includes a box body, a battery module, a module electrical connection piece, and a first protecting assembly. The battery module is mounted in the box body, and the battery module includes an anti-explosion assembly. The module electrical connection piece is mounted on the battery module. The first protecting assembly is mounted in the box body and is configured to protect the module electrical connection piece when an ejecta discharged from the anti-explosion assembly impacts the module electrical connection piece. The above technical scheme reduces probability of secondary short circuit of the battery pack.
US11831034B2
A battery pack includes a plurality of battery cells electrically connected to each other, and a flexible line comprising a main body arranged at an edge of a cell region in which the plurality of battery cells is arranged, and a first branch portion to detect voltage and a second branch portion to detect temperature which branch from the main body toward the cell region.
US11831031B2
Disclosed are a method for manufacturing a secondary battery pouch film having at least an outer layer, a metal layer, a primer layer, and a sealant layer, or at least an outer layer, a metal layer, a primer layer, a melt-extrusion resin layer, and a sealant layer in this order, the method including: a drying process of applying and heating a primer layer composition on the metal layer so as to dry the primer layer composition and cure at least a part of the primer layer composition. The organic solvent-based emulsion composition contains acid-modified polypropylene and a curing agent and has a curing start temperature of 150° C. or lower, preferably 135° C. to 150° C., and a drying process temperature of 150° C. or lower, preferably 135° C. to 150° C. The method is not subjected to a thermal lamination process when laminating sealant layer.
US11831025B2
A catalyst, a preparation method therefor, an electrode containing the catalyst, a membrane-electrode assembly, and a fuel cell are disclosed. The catalyst contains a support; metal particles supported by the support; and a coating layer located on the metal particles, and includes any one selected from the group consisting of phthalocyanine, M-phthalocyanine (wherein M is a transition metal) and a mixture thereof. The catalyst has improved durability since a coating layer is formed on the surface of a commercial catalyst or a conventional catalyst through a relatively easy method without separate treatment. A carbon coating layer formed by post-treating a catalyst including the coating layer further improves durability. Material transfer ability and performance are also improved by a carbon nanofiber or a carbon nanotube generated during post-treatment.
US11831017B2
The present invention relates to novel combinations of redox active compounds for use as redox flow battery electrolytes. The invention further provides kits comprising these combinations, redox flow batteries, and method using the combinations, kits and redox flow batteries of the invention.
US11831009B2
A method is described to make a metal-containing non-amorphous hard-carbon composite material that is synthesized from furan-ring containing compounds. The metals described in the process include lithium and transition metals, including transition metal oxides like lithium titanates. The non-amorphous hard-carbon component of the metal-containing non-amorphous hard-carbon composite material is characterized by a d002 peak—in the X-ray diffraction patterns—that corresponds to an interlayer spacing of >3.6 Å, along with a prominent D-band peak in the Raman spectra. These metal-containing hard-carbon composites are used for constructing electrodes for Li-ion batteries and Li-ion capacitors.
US11831007B2
A Si-based negative electrode active material that is capable of improving cycle characteristics, reducing or eliminating a plateau region in the discharge profile, and further improving high-rate characteristics. The Si-based negative electrode active material contains Si and a compound containing Si and a semimetal/metal element M, wherein the content of Si in the negative electrode active material is more than 50 wt %; the content of oxygen atoms (O) is less than 30 wt %; the content of the semimetal/metal element M is more than 10 wt % and less than 50 wt %, wherein in an X-ray diffraction pattern as measured by a powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) device using Cu-Kα1 rays, the full width at half maximum of the peak of the (111) plane of Si is 0.25° or more; and wherein the peak intensity of the peak of the (111) plane of Si is less than 20,000 cps; and the true density is 2.5 g/cm3 or more.
US11830998B2
A cooling structure includes a plurality of bars arranged separately from each other and configured to press a battery cell, a support configured to support the plurality of bars, flow paths defined by a first surface of the battery cell and one pair of neighboring bars, and configured to guide a flow of a cooling medium, with the cooling medium being in direct contact with the first surface of the battery cell, and a separation wall provided in at least one of the flow paths and being configured to separate each of the at least one flow path into sub-flow paths.
US11830995B1
An apparatus for active battery pack cooling including a battery pack with a plurality of battery modules. The apparatus further including an active cooling system with a coolant channel, wherein the coolant channel includes a coolant fluid. The active cooling system is in thermal communication with more than one of the plurality of battery modules. The apparatus also including a plurality of passive heat transfer elements, wherein each of the plurality of passive heat transfer elements is connected to the active cooling system, extends to a battery module of the plurality of battery modules, and extends away from the coolant channel.
US11830991B2
The prevent invention relates a method and apparatus based on neural network for pre-diagnosing defect and fire in battery cell. A method based on neural network for pre-diagnosing defect and fire in battery cell in an apparatus for pre-diagnosing defect and fire in battery cell is proposed, the method including collecting, by the battery cell defect and fire pre-diagnosis apparatus, data including at least one of chemical composition, current, voltage, and temperature data measured for each predetermined time interval within each charge and discharge cycle while charging and discharging a plurality of batteries; training, by the battery to cell defect and fire pre-diagnosis apparatus, the neural network by inputting the collected data to the neural network; and predicting, by the battery cell defect and fire pre-diagnosis apparatus, a battery deviated from a main cluster of the neural network as defective.
US11830987B2
The present invention relates to an electrolyte detection device. The electrolyte detection device comprises: a contamination detection plate configured to contact any one surface of a secondary battery, in which an opening is provided; first and second conductors provided to be spaced apart from each other so that current does not flow on a surface of the contamination detection plate, the first and second conductors being electrically connected to each other by an electrolyte leaking from the opening of the secondary battery; a power member comprising a positive electrode connected to the first conductor and a negative electrode connected to the second conductor; and a contamination detection member configured to detect whether the electrolyte leaks through the current generated when the first conductor and the second conductor are electrically connected to each other.
US11830980B2
A quaternary hexahydrotriazine ionic liquid compound additive useful for reducing battery resistance and improving cycle life stability and high-temperature performance; an electrolyte containing the quaternary hexahydrotriazine ionic liquid compound additive suitable for use in electrochemical energy storage devices; and an electrochemical energy storage device incorporating the electrolyte including the quaternary hexahydrotriazine ionic liquid compound additive are described.
US11830974B2
A battery module includes: a cell stack defined by a plurality of battery cells each including a positive electrode lead, a negative electrode lead, and at least one of a sensing negative electrode lead and a sensing positive electrode lead; a bus bar assembly including a plurality of connection bus bars electrically connected to one of the positive and negative electrode leads, a plurality of sensing bus bars electrically connected to the sensing negative electrode lead or the sensing positive electrode lead, and a plurality of bus bar frames including a connection accommodating portion for receiving one of connection bus bars and a sensing accommodating portion for receiving one of sensing bus bars; and a sensing assembly including a sensing frame that receives a circuit board electrically connected to the plurality of connection bus bars and the plurality of sensing bus bars.
US11830972B2
A negative active material for a rechargeable lithium battery includes a core including a SiO2 matrix and a Si grain, and a coating layer continuously or discontinuously coated on the core. The coating layer includes SiC and C, and the peak area ratio of the SiC (111) plane to the Si (111) plane as measured by X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD) using a CuKα ray ranges from about 0.01 to about 0.5.
US11830965B2
A display device includes a first light emitting element which overlaps a first light emitting region, and emits first color light, a first wavelength conversion pattern which overlaps the first light emitting element, and wavelength-converts the first color light into a second color light, and a first color filter which overlaps the first wavelength conversion pattern, and includes a first light absorbing colorant and a colorant of the second color, where the colorant of the second color blocks transmission of the first color light and transmits the second color light, where the colorant of the second color transmits light in a first overlapping wavelength range in which a first emission spectrum of the first wavelength conversion pattern overlaps a first light absorption spectrum of the first wavelength conversion pattern, and where the first light absorbing colorant absorbs the light in the first overlapping wavelength range.
US11830957B1
A controlling device has at least a light-based energy harvesting system disposed within the controlling device housing. The light-based energy harvesting system is operative to supply power to at least one of a processing device and a transmitter of the controlling device. The light-based energy harvesting system includes s a substrate having a photovoltaic (PV) active area, a lens disposed over the PV active area, and a mask associated with the lens. The mask provides a finishing to a surface of the lens that functions to allow light to reach the PV active area through the mask while blending the light-based energy harvesting system into the housing.
US11830951B2
A semiconductor device with high productivity is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first and a second transistor and a first and a second capacitor. The first and the second transistor include gate electrodes and back gate electrodes. The second transistor is provided in a layer above the first transistor, and the second capacitor is provided in a layer above the first capacitor. One electrode of the first capacitor is electrically connected to one of a source electrode and a drain electrode of the first transistor and electrically connected to one of a source electrode and a drain electrode of the second transistor. The other electrode of the first capacitor is formed in the same layer as the back gate electrode of the second transistor.
US11830950B2
A semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor film that includes a transistor with excellent electrical characteristics is provided. It is a semiconductor device including a transistor. The transistor includes a gate electrode, a first insulating film, an oxide semiconductor film, a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a second insulating film. The source electrode and the drain electrode each include a first conductive film, a second conductive film over and in contact with the first conductive film, and a third conductive film over and in contact with the second conductive film. The second conductive film contains copper, the first conductive film and the third conductive film include a material that inhibits diffusion of copper, and an end portion of the second conductive film includes a region containing copper and silicon.
US11830943B2
A Field Effect Transistor (FET) may include a semiconductor substrate having a first conductivity type, a semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type formed over the substrate, and a pair of doped bodies of a second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type formed in the semiconductor layer. A trench filled with a trench dielectric is formed within a region between the doped bodies. The FET may be a Vertical Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor FET (VMOSFET) including a gate dielectric disposed over the region between the doped bodies and the trench, and a gate electrode disposed over the gate dielectric, wherein the trench operates to prevent breakdown of the gate dielectric, or the FET may be a Junction FET. The FET may be designed to operate at radio frequencies or under heavy-ion bombardment. The semiconductor substrate and the semiconductor layer may comprise a wide band-gap semiconductor such as silicon carbide.
US11830939B2
An IGBT capable of handling high-speed switching while reducing a leakage current of a semiconductor device including the IGBT is provided. The semiconductor device according to one embodiment includes an IGBT including a p-type collector layer on a back surface of a silicon substrate and a dislocation suppressing layer for forming a hetero junction with silicon in the p-type collector layer. The dislocation suppressing layer includes a silicon germanium (SiGe) layer.
US11830932B2
A laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor structure can include: a base layer; a source region and a drain region located in the base layer; first dielectric layer located on a top surface of the base layer and adjacent to the source region; a voltage withstanding layer located on the top surface of the base layer and located between the first dielectric layer and the drain region; a first conductor at least partially located on the first dielectric layer; and a second conductor at least partially located on the voltage withstanding layer, where the first and second conductors are spatially isolated, and a juncture region of the first dielectric layer and the voltage withstanding layer is covered by one of the first and second conductors.
US11830929B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof, and an electronic device including the semiconductor device. The method includes: forming a first material layer and a second material layer sequentially on a substrate; defining an active region of the semiconductor device on the substrate, the first material layer and the second material layer, wherein the active region includes a channel region; forming spacers around an outer periphery of the channel region, respectively at set positions of the substrate and the second material layer; forming a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region on the substrate and the second material layer respectively; and forming a gate stack around the outer periphery of the channel region; wherein the spacers each have a thickness varying in a direction perpendicular to a direction from the first source/drain region pointing to the second source/drain region.
US11830919B2
The present application discloses a method for fabricating a semiconductor device with a flat surface. The method for fabricating a semiconductor device including providing a substrate, forming a gate structure on the substrate, and forming a plurality of word lines having top surfaces at a same vertical level as a top surface of the gate structure.
US11830916B2
A semiconductor device includes first and second nitride semiconductor layers. The second layer on the first nitride has a first region, a second region, and a third region between the first and second regions. A first gate electrode is in the first region and extends parallel to a surface of a substrate. A first source electrode is in the first region and extends in the first direction. A second gate electrode in the second region and extends in the first direction. A second source electrode is in the second region and extends in the first direction. A drain electrode coupled to a first and a second wiring. The first wiring directly contacts the second nitride semiconductor layer in the first region. The second wiring directly contacts the second nitride semiconductor layer in the second region. An insulation material is in the third region.
US11830902B2
A semiconductor apparatus including: a first substrate; a first wiring structure; a second substrate; and a second wiring structure, wherein the first wiring structure has a first wiring layer bonded to wiring of the second wiring structure, a second wiring layer connected to the first wiring layer by a first via, and a third wiring layer connected to the second wiring layer by a second via, at least part of the second via is located at a range distanced, by at least a width of the first via, from an axis of the first via, a thickness of the second wiring layer is less than the width of the first via, a major constituent of the first wiring layer, the second wiring layer and the first via is copper, and a layer that is made from a material different from copper is disposed between the first via and the second wiring layer.
US11830898B2
The present technology relates to an imaging element, a method of manufacturing the imaging element, and an electronic apparatus that make it possible to suppress generation of a void in an infrared cutoff filter layer. The imaging element includes: a light receiving sensor that performs photoelectric conversion of incoming light; a cover glass that protects a top surface side serving as a light incidence surface of the light receiving sensor; a frame that is disposed in an outer peripheral portion between the light receiving sensor and the cover glass, and is formed with use of an inorganic material; and an infrared cutoff filter layer that is formed on an inner side on a same plane as the frame. The present technology is applicable to, for example, an imaging element having a CSP structure, and the like.
US11830894B2
An image sensor element includes a transfer transistor TX, a LOFIC select transistor LF, a photodiode PD, and a first overflow path OFP. The transfer transistor TX outputs a readout signal from a first end. The LOFIC select transistor LF includes a first end connected to a second end of the transfer transistor TX, and a second end connected to a capacitor. The photodiode PD is connected in common to a third end of the transfer transistor and a third end of the LOFIC select transistor LF. The first overflow path OFP is formed between the photodiode PD and a second end of the LOFIC select transistor LF. Each of the transfer transistor TX and the LOFIC select transistor LF is configured with a vertical gate transistor.
US11830893B2
An image sensing device is provided to include a pixel array having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix shape. Each of the pixels includes: a control node configured to generate a hole current in a substrate; a detection node configured to capture photocharge migrated by the hole current, formed in a shape whose at least part is partially open, and disposed to surround the control node, and a low resistance region including a dielectric layer formed in the substrate, and disposed in the opening on of the detection node. The low resistance region includes an inner low resistance region disposed between the control node and the center of the pixel.
US11830892B2
An image sensor with high quantum efficiency is provided. In some embodiments, a semiconductor substrate includes a non-porous semiconductor layer along a front side of the semiconductor substrate. A periodic structure is along a back side of the semiconductor substrate. A high absorption layer lines the periodic structure on the back side of the semiconductor substrate. The high absorption layer is a semiconductor material with an energy bandgap less than that of the non-porous semiconductor layer. A photodetector is in the semiconductor substrate and the high absorption layer. A method for manufacturing the image sensor is also provided.
US11830885B2
A display device includes a first voltage line disposed on a substrate, a first power supply voltage being applied to the first voltage line, a buffer layer disposed on the first voltage line, a first transistor including a semiconductor pattern disposed on the buffer layer, a first insulating layer disposed on the semiconductor pattern of the first transistor, a first capacitor electrode disposed on the first insulating layer, a second insulating layer disposed on the first capacitor electrode, and a first electrode and a second electrode disposed on the second insulating layer and spaced apart from each other, wherein the second electrode is electrically connected to the first voltage line, and the first voltage line overlaps the first capacitor electrode in a thickness direction of the substrate.
US11830882B2
A display panel and a display device are provided in the present disclosure. The display panel includes a base substrate, a first transistor, a second transistor, a pixel circuit, and a drive circuit. A first active layer of the first transistor includes silicon; and a second active layer of the second transistor includes an oxide semiconductor. A length of a channel region of the first transistor is LL a distance between a first gate electrode and the first active layer is D1, and a first area S1=L1×D1; and a length of a channel region of the second transistor is L2, a distance between a second gate electrode and the second active layer is D2, and a second area S2=L2×D2, where S1
US11830880B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor device capable of functioning as a memory device. The memory device comprises a plurality of memory cells, and each of the memory cells contains a first transistor and a second transistor. The first transistor is provided over a substrate containing a semiconductor material and has a channel formation region in the substrate. The second transistor has an oxide semiconductor layer. The gate electrode of the first transistor and one of the source and drain electrodes of the second transistor are electrically connected to each other. The extremely low off current of the second transistor allows the data stored in the memory cell to be retained for a significantly long time even in the absence of supply of electric power.
US11830875B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a method to embed planar field-effect transistor (FETs) with fin field-effect transistors (finFETs). A semiconductor substrate is patterned to define a mesa and a fin. A trench isolation structure is formed overlying the semiconductor substrate and surrounding the mesa and the fin. A first gate dielectric layer is formed on the mesa, but not the fin. The trench isolation structure recessed around the fin, but not the mesa, after the forming the first gate dielectric layer. A second gate dielectric layer is deposited overlying the first gate dielectric layer at the mesa and further overlying the fin. A first gate electrode is formed overlying the first and second gate dielectric layers at the mesa and partially defining a planar FET. A second gate electrode is formed overlying the second gate dielectric layer at the fin and partially defining a finFET.
US11830873B2
The present description concerns an electronic device comprising a stack of a Schottky diode and of a bipolar diode, connected in parallel by a first electrode located in a first cavity and a second electrode located in a second cavity.
US11830863B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include electronic packages for optical to electrical switching. In an embodiment, an electronic package comprises a first package substrate and a second package substrate attached to the first package substrate. In an embodiment, a die is attached to the second package substrate. In an embodiment, a plurality of photonics engines are attached to a first surface and a second surface of the first package substrate. In an embodiment, the plurality of photonics engines are communicatively coupled to the die through the first package substrate and the second package substrate.
US11830855B2
The technology relates to an integrated circuit (IC) package. The IC package may include a packaging substrate, an IC die, and an integrated voltage regulator die. The IC die may include a metal layer and a silicon layer. The metal layer may be connected to the packaging substrate. The integrated voltage regulator die may be positioned adjacent to the silicon layer and connected to the packaging substrate via one or more through mold vias or through dielectric vias. The IC die may be an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) die.
US11830836B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a bonding pad, and a first dielectric layer disposed over the semiconductor substrate. A portion of the bonding pad is exposed by the first dielectric layer. The semiconductor device also includes a metal oxide layer disposed over the portion of the bonding pad, and a wire bond penetrating through the metal oxide layer to bond to the bonding pad. The portion of the bonding pad is entirely covered by the metal oxide layer and the wire bond.
US11830825B2
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate having a seal ring region and a circuit region, a dielectric interlayer over the substrate, one or more dielectric layers disposed over the dielectric interlayer, a connection structure disposed in the one or more dielectric layers in the seal ring region, and a metal plug disposed below the connection structure and disposed at least partially in the dielectric interlayer in the seal ring region. The connection structure includes a stack of metal layers and metal vias connecting the stack of metal layers.
US11830822B2
A semiconductor device includes an interposer disposed on a substrate. A first major surface of the interposer faces the substrate. A system on a chip is disposed on a second major surface of the interposer. The second major surface of the interposer opposes the first major surface of the interposer. A plurality of first passive devices is disposed in the first major surface of the interposer. A plurality of second passive devices is disposed on the second major surface of the interposer. The second passive devices are different devices than the first passive devices.
US11830821B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacture are provided, in which an adhesive is removed from a semiconductor die embedded within an encapsulant, and an interface material is utilized to remove heat from the semiconductor device. The removal of the adhesive leaves behind a recess adjacent to a sidewall of the semiconductor, and the recess is filled.
US11830818B2
An apparatus includes a first metal layer, a second metal layer and a dielectric material. The first metal layer has a first thickness and a second thickness less than the first thickness, and the first metal layer comprises a first interconnect having a first thickness. The dielectric material extends between the first and second metal layers and directly contacts the first and second metal layers. The dielectric material includes a via that extends through the dielectric material. A metal material of the via directly contacts the first interconnect and the second metal layer.
US11830812B2
A semiconductor device includes a first dielectric layer disposed over a semiconductor substrate, and a conductive contact penetrating through the first dielectric layer. The semiconductor device also includes a T-shaped landing pad structure disposed over and in direct contact with the conductive contact. The T-shaped landing pad structure includes a lower landing pad and an upper landing pad disposed over the lower landing pad, and a width of the upper landing pad is greater than a width of the lower landing pad. The semiconductor device further includes a capacitor disposed over and in direct contact with the T-shaped landing pad structure, and a second dielectric layer disposed over the first dielectric layer and surrounding the T-shaped landing pad structure and the capacitor.
US11830808B2
The present disclosure provides a method for forming an integrated circuit (IC) structure. The method comprises providing a substrate including a conductive feature; forming aluminum (Al)-containing dielectric layer on the conductive feature; forming a low-k dielectric layer on the Al-containing dielectric layer; and etching the low-k dielectric layer to form a contact trench aligned with the conductive feature. A bottom of the contact trench is on a surface of the Al-containing dielectric layer.
US11830806B2
A semiconductor structure and method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a package structure. The package structure includes a passivation layer formed over an interconnect structure; an electrically-conductive structure formed on the passivation layer and extending through the passivation layer to electrically contact the interconnect structure; a dielectric structure formed over the passivation layer and surrounding the electrically-conductive structure to expose at least a portion of a top surface of the electrically-conductive structure; and a metallic protection structure formed on the top surface of the electrically-conductive structure exposed from the dielectric structure. The top surface of the metallic protection structure is aligned with or lower than a top surface of the dielectric structure.
US11830798B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device package. The semiconductor device package includes a substrate, a first module disposed on the substrate, a second module disposed on the substrate and spaced apart from the first module, and a conductive element disposed outside of the substrate and configured to provide a signal transmission path between the first module and the second module.
US11830796B2
A circuit substrate includes a base substrate, a plurality of conductive vias, a first redistribution circuit structure, a second redistribution circuit structure and a semiconductor die. The plurality of conductive vias penetrate through the base substrate. The first redistribution circuit structure is located on the base substrate and connected to the plurality of conductive vias. The second redistribution circuit structure is located over the base substrate and electrically connected to the plurality of conductive vias, where the second redistribution circuit structure includes a plurality of conductive blocks, and at least one of the plurality of conductive blocks is electrically connected to two or more than two of the plurality of conductive vias, and where the base substrate is located between the first redistribution circuit structure and the second redistribution circuit structure. The semiconductor die is located over the base substrate and laterally arranged next to the second redistribution circuit structure.
US11830785B2
A semiconductor device has a substrate and a first semiconductor die disposed over the substrate. A subpackage is also disposed over the substrate. A stiffener is disposed over the substrate around the first semiconductor die and subpackage. A heat spreader is disposed over the stiffener. The heat spreader is thermally coupled to the first semiconductor die. The heat spreader has an opening over the subpackage.
US11830783B2
Embodiments include semiconductor packages. A semiconductor package include a high-power electronic component and an embedded heat spreader (EHS) in a package substrate. The EHS is adjacent to the high-power electronic component. The semiconductor package includes a plurality of thermal interconnects below the EHS and the package substrate, and a plurality of dies on the package substrate. The thermal interconnects is coupled to the EHS. The EHS is below the high-power electronic component and embedded within the package substrate. The high-power electronic component has a bottom surface substantially proximate to a top surface of the EHS. The EHS is a copper heat sink, and the high-power electronic component is an air core inductor or a voltage regulator. The thermal interconnects are comprised of thermal ball grid array balls or thermal adhesive materials. The thermal interconnects couple a bottom surface of the package substrate to a top surface of a substrate.
US11830780B2
An electrical connector is essentially composed of a pair of half housings opposite to each other in a longitudinal direction to commonly form a receiving cavity for receiving a CPU. Each half housing is equipped with a plurality of contacts with corresponding contacting sections upwardly extending into the receiving cavity for mating with the CPU. A single pick-up cap includes a plate with a plurality of claws adapted to be engaged within locking recesses in exterior sides of the half housings, a plurality of positioning blocks adapted to extend into the receiving cavity so as to cooperate with the claws to sandwich the periphery wall of the housing therebetween in the longitudinal direction for securing the half housings to the pick-up cap. Therefore, both the pair of half housings may be grasped by the single pick-up cap for mounting and soldering to PCB at the same time.
US11830778B2
A method can include obtaining characteristic data for a wafer. The characteristic data can correspond to the wafer in a processed state and can include a set of stress values of the wafer. The wafer can include a front side, a back side opposite the front side, and a set of regions. The set of stress values can include a first stress value corresponding to a first region. In the processed state, one or more front-side processes can be completed on the front side of the wafer. The method can include determining that the first stress value exceeds a stress threshold and generating a compensation map. The compensation map can identify one or more regions for forming one or more trenches. The method can include initiating, based on the compensation map, a formation of a first trench on the back side of the wafer in the first region.
US11830773B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device with superlattice structures on a substrate with an embedded isolation structure is disclosed. The method includes forming an etch stop layer on a substrate, forming a superlattice structure on the etch stop layer, depositing an isolation layer on the superlattice structure, depositing a semiconductor layer on the isolation layer, forming a bi-layer isolation structure on the semiconductor layer, removing the substrate and the etch stop layer, etching the superlattice structure, the isolation layer, the semiconductor layer, and the bi-layer isolation structure to form a fin structure, and forming a gate-all-around structure on the fin structure.
US11830770B2
Semiconductor device and the manufacturing method thereof are disclosed herein. An exemplary semiconductor device comprises an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer disposed over a substrate; a first conductive feature at least partially embedded in the ILD layer; a dielectric layer disposed over and aligned with the ILD layer, wherein a top surface of the dielectric layer is above a top surface of the first conductive feature; an etch stop layer (ESL) disposed over the dielectric layer and over the first conductive feature; and a second conductive feature disposed on the first conductive feature, wherein the second conductive feature includes a first portion having a first bottom surface contacting a top surface of the first conductive feature and a second portion having a second bottom surface contacting a top surface of the dielectric layer.
US11830769B2
A semiconductor structure includes first and second source/drain (S/D) features, one or more semiconductor channel layers connecting the first and second S/D features, a gate structure engaging the one or more semiconductor channel layers, a metal wiring layer at a backside of the semiconductor structure, an S/D contact electrically connecting the first S/D feature to the metal wiring layer, and a seal layer between the metal wiring layer and the gate structure. The seal layer is spaced away from the gate structure by an air gap therebetween.
US11830764B2
Various embodiments of the present application are directed towards a method for forming a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) substrate with a thick device layer and a thick insulator layer. In some embodiments, the method includes forming an insulator layer covering a handle substrate, and epitaxially forming a device layer on a sacrificial substrate. The sacrificial substrate is bonded to a handle substrate, such that the device layer and the insulator layer are between the sacrificial and handle substrates, and the sacrificial substrate is removed. The removal includes performing an etch into the sacrificial substrate until the device layer is reached. Because the device layer is formed by epitaxy and transferred to the handle substrate, the device layer may be formed with a large thickness. Further, because the epitaxy is not affected by the thickness of the insulator layer, the insulator layer may be formed with a large thickness.
US11830759B2
Various carrier ring designs and configurations to control an amount of deposition at a wafer's front side and bevel edge are provided. The carrier ring designs can control the amount of deposition at various locations of the wafer while deposition is performed on the wafer's back side, with no deposition desired on the front side of the wafer. These locations include front side, edge, and back side of bevel; and front and back side of the wafer. Edge profiles of the carrier rings are designed to control flow of process gases, flow of front side purge gas, and plasma effects. In some designs, through holes are added to the carrier rings to control gas flows. The edge profiles and added features can reduce or eliminate deposition at the wafer's front side and bevel edge.
US11830758B2
A plasma processing method including: a process of placing a work piece on a stage provided in a chamber, the work piece including a substrate and a holding member having an adhesive layer on a surface and holding the substrate via the adhesive layer, and having an exposed portion where the adhesive layer is exposed outside the substrate; and a plasma etching process of etching the substrate with a plasma generated in the chamber, with the exposed portion exposed to the plasma. In response to occurrence of an interruption in the plasma etching process, a cleaning process of exposing a surface of the substrate to a plasma containing an oxidizing gas is performed, and then the plasma etching process is resumed.
US11830752B2
There is provided a substrate fixing device. The substrate fixing device includes: a base plate; and an electrostatic chuck that is fixed to the base plate and configured to adsorb a subject by electrostatic force. The electrostatic chuck includes: an adsorptive layer configured to adsorb and retain the subject; and a heater layer that is provided between the adsorptive layer and the base plate and configured to heat the subject retrained by the adsorptive layer. A thickness of the heater layer is uniform over an entire area of the heater layer.
US11830750B2
A storage apparatus, and a transporting device and a transporting method for a Front Opening Unified Pod (FOUP) are provided. The storage apparatus includes: at least two carrying bins configured to carry the FOUP; and a rotating component. The at least two carrying bins are connected to the rotating component at different positions of the rotating component. The rotating component is configured to change positions of the at least two carrying bins through rotation of the rotating component.
US11830739B2
Provided herein are approaches for forming an image sensor with increased well depth due to cryogenic ion channeling of ultra-high energy (UHE) ions. In some embodiments, a method may include providing a wafer of a semiconductor device, the semiconductor device including a photoelectric conversion region, and cooling the wafer to a temperature less than −50° C. The method may further include performing an ion implant to the photoelectric conversion region to form a photodiode well after cooling the wafer.
US11830736B2
A method includes forming an etching mask, which includes forming a bottom anti-reflective coating over a target layer, forming an inorganic middle layer over the bottom anti-reflective coating, and forming a patterned photo resist over the inorganic middle layer. The patterns of the patterned photo resist are transferred into the inorganic middle layer and the bottom anti-reflective coating to form a patterned inorganic middle layer and a patterned bottom anti-reflective coating, respectively. The patterned inorganic middle layer is then removed. The target layer is etched using the patterned bottom anti-reflective coating to define a pattern in the target layer.
US11830735B2
Printable inks based on a 2D semiconductor, such as MoS2, and its applications in fully inkjet-printed optoelectronic devices are disclosed. Specifically, percolating films of MoS2 nanosheets with superlative electrical conductivity (10-2 s m−1) are achieved by tailoring the ink formulation and curing conditions. Based on an ethyl cellulose dispersant, the MoS2 nanosheet ink also offers exceptional viscosity tunability, colloidal stability, and printability on both rigid and flexible substrates. Two distinct classes of photodetectors are fabricated based on the substrate and post-print curing method. While thermal annealing of printed devices on rigid glass substrates leads to a fast photoresponse of 150 μs, photonically annealed devices on flexible polyimide substrates possess high photoresponsivity exceeding 50 mA/W. The photonically annealed photodetector also significantly reduces the curing time down to the millisecond-scale and maintains functionality over 500 bending cycles, thus providing a direct pathway to roll-to-roll manufacturing of next-generation flexible optoelectronics.
US11830731B2
The present disclosure pertains to embodiments of a semiconductor deposition reactor manifold and methods of using the semiconductor deposition reactor manifold which can be used to deposit semiconductor layers using processes such as atomic layer deposition (ALD). The semiconductor deposition reactor manifold has a bore, a first supply channel, and a second supply channel. Advantageously, the first supply channel and the second supply channel merge with the bore in an offset fashion which leads to reduced cross-contamination within the supply channels.
US11830727B2
A method includes placing a wafer into a process chamber, and depositing a silicon nitride layer on a base layer of the wafer. The process of depositing the silicon nitride layer includes introducing a silicon-containing precursor into the process chamber, purging the silicon-containing precursor from the process chamber, introducing hydrogen radicals into the process chamber, purging the hydrogen radicals from the process chamber; introducing a nitrogen-containing precursor into the process chamber, and purging the nitrogen-containing precursor from the process chamber.
US11830726B2
Various embodiments comprise apparatuses and related methods for cleaning a substrate. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a substrate holder to hold and rotate the substrate at various speeds. An optional inner shield and an optional outer shield, when in a closed position, surround the substrate holder during operation of the apparatus. Each of the inner shield and the outer shield can operate independently in at least one of rotational speed and direction from the other shield. At least one of a front-side laser and a back-side laser are arranged to clean one or both sides of the substrate and edges of the substrate substantially concurrently or independently by impinging a light onto at least one surface of the substrate. A gas flow, combined with a high rotational-speed of the shields and substrate, assists in removing effluents from the substrate. Additional apparatuses and methods of forming the apparatuses are disclosed.
US11830723B2
A light emitting device having first, second and third dimensions that are orthogonal may include a light emitting semiconductor device configured to emit light via a first surface in a plane formed by the first and second dimensions. The light emitting device may further include a wavelength converting structure disposed on the first surface of the light emitting semiconductor device, the wavelength converting structure extending beyond the light emitting semiconductor device in the first dimension and the light emitting semiconductor device extending beyond the wavelength converting structure in the second dimension. The light emitting device may further include one or more optical extraction features in at least one gap formed by the wavelength converting structure extending beyond the light emitting semiconductor structure in the first dimension and/or formed by the light emitting semiconductor structure extending beyond the wavelength converting structure in the second dimension.
US11830719B2
A light irradiation device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure has high light irradiation efficiency and cooling efficiency and can be reduced in size. The light irradiation device includes an excimer lamp including a light emitting tube that emits light, and a lamp electrode provided on an outside of the light emitting tube, and a case including a case body in which the excimer lamp is accommodated, a connection support provided at one side of the case body to be connected to the lamp electrode, and a case electrode provided at the other side of the case body to be in contact with a surface of the light emitting tube.
US11830715B2
The invention relates to the detection of fatty acids. In a particular aspect, the invention relates to methods for detecting very long chain fatty acids and branched chain fatty acids by mass spectrometry.
US11830712B2
A rotatable sputtering target is provided for use in a sputtering system having a plurality of hollow sleeves of sputtering material arranged on a hollow e backing tube so as to form an annular space that is occupied by a bonding agent and a thermally conductive element which is a woven metal mesh.
US11830707B2
A method for treating a flexible plastic substrate is provided herein. The method includes establishing an atmospheric pressure plasma beam from an inert gas using a power of greater than about 90W, directing the plasma beam toward a surface of the flexible polymer substrate, and scanning the plasma beam across the surface of the polymer substrate to form a treated substrate surface.
US11830703B2
An ion implantation method includes irradiating a wafer having a first temperature with a first ion beam such that a predetermined channeling condition is satisfied and irradiating the wafer having a second temperature different from the first temperature with a second ion beam such that the predetermined channeling condition is satisfied, after the irradiation of the first ion beam.
US11830690B2
An arc-extinguishing unit structure for a direct current air circuit breaker according to one embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: a plurality of grids; side plates coupled to both sides of the plurality of grids so that the plurality of the grids are mounted so as to be spaced apart from each other; an exhaust cover positioned above the side plates and the plurality of grids; an arc guide coupled to the side plates so as to be located under the plurality of grids; a magnet coupled to the arc guide, wherein the magnet is magnetized with different poles on the basis of the plurality of grids and the vertical orientation of the arc guide.
US11830683B2
A key structure is provided. The key structure includes a base plate, a keycap, a positioning element and a rod. The base plate has a through hole. The positioning element is engaged with the through hole. A projection area of the positioning element on the base plate along a lifting direction of the keycap is larger than an area of the through hole.
US11830676B2
A broadband multilayer ceramic capacitor can include at least one active electrode layer including a first active electrode and a second active electrode. The first active electrode can have a central portion extending away from a base portion in a longitudinal direction. The second active electrode can include at least one arm extending away from a base portion towards the first end and overlapping the central portion of the first active electrode. A first shield electrode in a shield electrode region can have a central portion extending from a base portion. A second shield electrode can include an arm overlapping the central portion of the first shield electrode in the longitudinal direction. The shield electrode region can be spaced apart from the active electrode region by a shield-to-active distance that is greater than an active electrode spacing distance between respective active electrodes of the plurality of active electrodes.
US11830675B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body, a first outer electrode on a first main surface closer to a first end surface, a second outer electrode on the first main surface closer to a second end surface, a third outer electrode on the first main surface between the first outer electrode and the second outer electrode, a first inner electrode layer connected to the first outer electrode and the second outer electrode via a first lead electrode and a second lead electrode, and a second inner electrode layer connected to the third outer electrode via a third lead electrode. When a length of the first lead electrode and a length of the second lead electrode in the length direction are each denoted by a, and a length of the third lead electrode in the length direction is denoted by b, b/a is about 0.5 to about 0.83.
US11830665B2
A coil electronic component includes a body, an insulating substrate disposed in the body, first and second coil portions respectively disposed on a first surface and a second surface of the insulating substrate opposing each other, first and second lead-out portions each disposed on the first surface of the insulating substrate and exposed to at least two external surfaces of the body, first and second connection conductors disposed on the first surface of the insulating substrate and connecting the first lead-out portion and the first coil portion and connecting the second lead-out portion and the second coil portion, respectively, wherein the first connection conductor and the second connection conductor respectively include a plurality of first connection conductors and a plurality of second connection conductors, and the plurality of first connection conductors are spaced apart from one another and the plurality of second connection conductors are spaced apart from one another.
US11830662B2
A coil component includes a support substrate; first and second coil portions, respectively arranged on the support substrate; a body embedding the support substrate and the first and second coil portions therein; first and second lead-out portions, respectively connected to end portions of the first and second coil portions and exposed from one surface to be spaced apart from each other; and first and second connection portions, respectively connecting the end portions of the first and second coil portions to the first and second lead-out portions, wherein a line width of one end of each of the first and second connection portions connected to the respective end portion of the first and second coil portions is smaller than a line width of another end of each of the first and second connection portions connected to a respective one of the first and second lead-out portions.
US11830657B2
First and second wires form a wire assembly by being wound around a winding core portion together. The wire assembly includes a twisted wire portion, an inner layer portion, an outer layer portion, a plurality of outward transition portions, and an inward transition portion. The outer layer portion includes a first outer layer portion which is connected to one of the outward transition portions extending from an intermediate position of the inner layer portion and connected to the inward transition portion. The inward transition portion extends to an intermediate position of the inner layer portion.
US11830651B2
Magnetic core for a balun, balun with a magnetic core and method for manufacturing a magnetic core. In particular, a magnetic core is provided comprising multiple core elements, wherein the individual core elements are concentrically arranged. Furthermore, a heat sink is arranged between two adjacent core elements. By using multiple core elements for a magnetic core, the individual core elements can be adapted to different frequency ranges. In this way, the magnetic core may be used for a balun having a broad frequency range. Furthermore, thermal energy generated in the magnetic core can be dissipated by the heat sinks between the individual core elements. In this way, the power handling capability of the magnetic core can be increased.
US11830650B2
A reactor includes a coil having a wound part, a magnetic core, and a holding member holding an end face of the wound part in an axial direction and the outer core part. The holding member being a frame-shaped body having a through hole into which an end portion of the inner core part in the axial direction is inserted, the outer core part having an inward surface opposing the inner core part, an outward surface on an opposite side to the inward surface, and a plurality of peripheral surfaces joining between the inward surface and the outward surface. The reactor includes an outer retraining member pressing the outer core part against the holding member. The outer retraining member has a pressing piece pressing the outward surface of the outer core part, and an engaging leg piece extending from the pressing piece and having a distal end engaging the holding member.
US11830641B2
A chip resistor component, includes: a substrate having one surface, and one side surface and the other side surface facing each other in one direction; an terminal including an internal electrode disposed on the one surface, and an external electrode disposed on the one side surface to be connected to the internal electrode; a resistive layer disposed on the one surface, and including an outermost pattern connected to the internal electrode; and a protective layer disposed on the one surface to cover the resistive layer. The outermost pattern of the resistive layer has a first region in contact with the internal electrode and a second region extending, in the one direction, from the first region towards the other side surface. A ratio of a length of the second region in the one direction to a length of the chip resistor component in the one direction is 0.02 or more.
US11830634B2
A method for complex-decommissioning a nuclear facility is disclosed. The method for complex-decommissioning the nuclear facility includes: cutting and expanding an inner wall of the cavity; installing a cutting device that cuts and decommissions the nuclear reactor pressure vessel inside the cavity; fixing the nuclear reactor pressure vessel inside the cavity by using a fixture; and cutting and decommissioning the nuclear reactor pressure vessel fixed inside the cavity by using a cutting device.
US11830621B2
System and method for rapid and accurate histologic analysis of tumor margins using machine learning
This invention provides a histologic system and method for rapidly and accurately assessing tumor margins for the presence or absence of tumor using machine learning algorithms. This affords a rapid and accurate histologic tumor readout and increase process efficiency and decreases the chance for human error. Advantageously and uniquely, the system and method allows for analyzing the tissue section as complete or incomplete as the first criteria to determine whether a tissue section is clear of tumor. A machine learning process receives whole slide images (WSI) of tissue and determines (a) if each image of the WSI contains complete/incomplete tissue samples and (b) if each image of the WSI contains tumorous tissue or an absence thereof. A reconstruction process generates a model of the tissue that maps types of tissue therein, and a display process provides results of the model or report for use and manipulation by a user.
US11830618B2
A telepresence robot may include a drive system, a control system, an imaging system, and a mapping module. The mapping module may access a plan view map of an area and tags associated with the area. In various embodiments, each tag may include tag coordinates and tag information, which may include a tag annotation. A tag identification system may identify tags within a predetermined range of the current position and the control system may execute an action based on an identified tag whose tag information comprises a telepresence robot action modifier. The telepresence robot may rotate an upper portion independent from a lower portion. A remote terminal may allow an operator to control the telepresence robot using any combination of control methods, including by selecting a destination in a live video feed, by selecting a destination on a plan view map, or by using a joystick or other peripheral device.
US11830616B1
A medical services kiosk supporting private and secure telemedicine sessions between a patient and a remote network terminal utilized by a remote health care professional. The medical services kiosk comprising at least one privacy chamber having at least one door and at least one window. Each privacy chamber may include a user interactive display terminal that includes a display device, an input device, and a centralized processor, wherein the centralized processor is electronically communicable with the remote network terminal and a cloud based system. Each patient station may each include at least one documentation receiving device, at least one biometric device for obtaining biometric health measurements of the patient utilizing the at least one patient station, an arm mechanism, a seating mechanism, a camera, a retractable diagnostic camera device, a lighting mechanism that lights the privacy chamber, and a purification system.
US11830611B2
According to one embodiment, a device management apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires information indicating occurrence of a first failure prediction of a first device. The processing circuitry adjusts detection sensitivity of a second failure prediction of a second device relating to the information based on relevance between the first device and the second device. The second device is different from the first device.
US11830610B2
A method includes generating an intervention model by determining principal components for features of a training set, associating each feature of the training set with a principal component, selecting features of the training set most highly correlated with principal components, training a machine learning model with at least some of the selected features, and saving the verified trained machine learning model as the intervention model. The method includes determining multiple channel-specific intervention expectations. Each channel-specific intervention expectation indicates a likelihood that the user will take action in response to an intervention being executed using the engagement channel corresponding to the channel-specific intervention expectation. The method includes selecting an intervention and scheduling the selected intervention for execution.
US11830604B2
Computer systems and computer-implemented analysis methods may be used for assistance in planning and/or performing a medical procedure, such as percutaneous nephrolithotomy or percutaneous nephrolithotripsy. The method may include receiving one or more radiographic images of an anatomical structure of a patient, generating a display of the radiographic image(s), generating at least one request for user input to identify features of the anatomical structure, receiving user input identifying the features of the anatomical structure, identifying at least one access plan based on the received user input, and generating a display of the identified access plan(s) associated with the radiographic image(s). The method may include generating a patient template that indicates an insertion site according to the identified access plan(s).
US11830600B1
A movement adjustment system based on heart rates and rating of perceived exertion (RPE) feedbacks of different users is provided, including: a user client, a heart rate monitoring device, a server, and a doctor client. The user client includes an RPE self-rating module, an RPE data acquisition module, a user-side video movement display module, and a user-side data storage module. The heart rate monitoring device includes an exercise data acquisition module. The server includes a data input module, a core processor, and a video movement library. The doctor client includes a doctor-side video movement display module, a video movement sending module, and a doctor-side data storage module. The above system according to the present disclosure adjusts, based on objective heart rate feedbacks during exercise and subjective RPE feedbacks after the exercise of different users, movements of next exercise of a patient.
US11830583B2
Methods and systems for extracellular vesicle characterization are provided herein. Embodiments of the methods include inputting measured physical, biological, or chemical aspects of extracted extracellular vesicles. Next, an information architecture that characterizes relationships between biological entities and diseases in humans or other vertebrates is generated. Then, relationships between the measured physical, biological, or chemical aspects of the isolated extracellular vesicles with the information architecture are automatically inferred, thereby characterizing extracellular vesicles.
US11830580B2
A large collection of sample genomes containing misclassified k-mers and metadata errors from a reference taxonomy was converted to a self-consistent k-mer database comprising a self-consistent taxonomy. The self-consistent taxonomy was based on genetic distances calculated using the MinHash method or the Meier-Koltoff method. An agglomerative clustering algorithm was used to calculate the self-consistent taxonomy. Each k-mer of the sample genomes was assigned to only one node of the self-consistent taxonomy. In another step, each node of the self-consistent taxonomy was mapped to the reference taxonomy, thereby preserving in the self-consistent taxonomy links to the reference taxonomy while correcting for the misclassification errors therein. The self-consistent k-mer database can be used to taxonomically profile sequenced nucleic acids with greater specificity compared to systems relying on the reference taxonomy.
US11830572B2
A pipe latch circuit may include first and second latching circuit groups. The first latching circuit group may control a latching operation and an output operation based on a plurality of pipe input control signals. The second latching circuit group may control a latching operation and an output operation based on the plurality of pipe input control signals and a plurality of pipe output control signals.
US11830569B2
The present disclosure provides a readout circuit, a memory, and a method of reading out data of a memory. The readout circuit includes: a sense amplifier and an isolation unit, the sense amplifier being connected to a bit line and a complementary bit line through the isolation unit, the bit line being connected to a memory cell and the complementary bit line being connected to a memory cell, and the isolation unit being configured to disconnect the sense amplifier from the bit line and the complementary bit line in response to an isolation signal; and an offset canceling unit, configured to perform an offset cancellation on the sense amplifier in response to an offset canceling signal, at least a part of a stage of a charge sharing being performed at the same time as at least a part of a stage of an operation of the offset canceling unit.
US11830568B2
A memory sub-system comprises a power management component comprising a plurality of regulators configured to output respective operating voltages for the memory sub-system. The power management component comprises a power management integrated circuit (PMIC) and is configured to monitor voltage levels of the plurality of regulators and prevent an event of the memory sub-system from occurring until the monitored voltage levels of a set of the plurality of regulators are determined to have reached respective threshold voltage levels.
US11830564B2
Apparatuses and techniques are presented for detecting bit line open circuits and short circuits in a memory device in which a memory die is inverted and bonded to a control die. In one approach, the control die comprises a set of bit lines which are connected to a set of bit lines of the memory die, and the set of bit lines of the control die comprise ground transistors, e.g., transistors connected to a ground node. Ground transistors of even-numbered bit lines may be commonly controlled, while ground transistors of odd-numbered bit lines are commonly controlled. The ground transistors may be controlled to detect open circuits and short circuits in the bit lines of the control die and the memory die. A laser scanning technique can also be used to determine a physical location of a defect of a bit line.
US11830548B2
The present disclosure relates to a memory device comprising a plurality of memory cells, each memory cell being programmable to a logic state corresponding to a threshold voltage exhibited by the memory cell in response to an applied voltage, and a logic circuit portion operatively coupled to the plurality of memory cells, wherein the logic circuit portion is configured to scan memory addresses of the memory device, and to generate seasoning pulses to be applied to the addressed pages of the memory device. A related electronic system and related methods are also disclosed.
US11830547B2
A reduced instruction set processor based on a memristor is provided. The memristor is a non-volatile device using a resistor to store “0” and “1” logic while implementing “implication logic” through applying a pair of voltages VCOND/VSET. Various data operations, logic operations, and arithmetic operations may be implemented based on the implication logic. The memristor is a computation and memory fusion device having great potential. A computer processor based on the memristor also becomes the research direction of the next-generation computer processor. The computer processor based on a memristor is designed according to the memory and computation fusion characteristic of the memristor. The processor is different from a traditional computer that must use a special memory and a calculator, and fuses computation and memory. Compared with a traditional computer, the speed, parallelism degree, and power consumption of the computer processor based on the memristor are greatly improved.
US11830544B2
A semiconductor memory device includes an array of memory cells arranged in a plurality of rows and columns, with each memory cell including a plurality of bit cell transistors. The semiconductor memory device further includes a plurality of write assist circuits, including one or more write assist circuits within each column of the array of memory cells, each write assist circuit configured to provide a core voltage to memory cells within the same column and to reduce the core voltage during a write operation. The array of memory cells and the plurality of write assist circuits have a common semiconductor layout.
US11830537B2
A memory core including a memory core including memory cells that are arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns; and a refresh target selection circuit suitable for storing an address and a risk score of each of activated rows among the rows, wherein the refresh target selection circuit is further suitable for increasing the risk score of a corresponding row whenever the corresponding row is activated, whenever a row at a ‘+2’ position of the corresponding row is activated, and whenever a row at a ‘−2’ position of the corresponding row is activated.
US11830534B2
In an embodiment, a memory system may include at least two types of DRAM, which differ in at least one characteristic. For example, one DRAM type may be a high density DRAM, while another DRAM type may have lower density but may also have lower latency and higher bandwidth than the first DRAM type. DRAM of the first type may be on one or more first integrated circuits and DRAM of the second type may be on one or more second integrated circuits. In an embodiment, the first and second integrated circuits may be coupled together in a stack. The second integrated circuit may include a physical layer circuit to couple to other circuitry (e.g., an integrated circuit having a memory controller, such as a system on a chip (SOC)), and the physical layer circuit may be shared by the DRAM in the first integrated circuits.
US11830531B2
A magnetic recording medium that can exhibit good traveling performance during use is provided. This magnetic recording medium is a tape-shaped magnetic recording medium, and includes a substrate, a base layer disposed on the substrate, and a magnetic layer disposed on the base layer. The substrate includes a polyester as a main component. The average thickness of the base layer is 0.9 μm or less. The base layer and the magnetic layer each include a lubricant. The magnetic layer has a surface having a large number of holes, and the arithmetic average roughness Ra of the surface is 2.5 nm or less. The BET specific surface area of the entire magnetic recording medium is 3.5 m2/g or more in a state where the lubricant has been removed from the magnetic recording medium and the magnetic recording medium has been dried. The squareness ratio in the perpendicular direction is 65% or more. The average thickness of the magnetic layer is 90 nm or less. The average thickness of the magnetic recording medium is 5.6 μm or less.
US11830527B2
The various embodiments disclosed herein relate to systems and methods for generating a derived media clip corresponding to a live event. In particular, the system comprises a processor configured to receive a plurality of content streams corresponding to the live event, each content stream corresponding to a content source. The processor is further configured to generate an annotated timeline for one or more of the plurality of content streams and receive a first user input requesting the derived media clip. The processor is then configured to generate the derived media clip based on the user input and the annotated timeline.
US11830521B2
The present disclosure discloses a VAD method and system based on a joint DNN. The method includes: acquiring original audio data and a first frame-level label based on an open-source audio data set, adding noise on the original audio data to obtain first audio data, recording an environment sound to obtain second audio data, and performing clip-level label on the second audio data to obtain a clip-level label; inputting the first audio data, the second audio data and the corresponding labels into a first neural network to obtain a first-stage network model; obtaining a second frame-level label through the first-stage network model, and inputting the second audio data and the second frame-level label into a second neural network to obtain a second-stage network model; and performing VAD on an audio signal based on the first-stage network model and the second-stage network model.
US11830515B2
In one implementation, a method of playing audio is performed at a device including one or more processors coupled to non-transitory memory. The method includes playing audio associated with an object at a frequency-dependent volume based on a distance between a user location and an object location, an object orientation with respect to the user location, and the frequency-dependent three-dimensional audio emission pattern. In various implementations, methods of visualizing the frequency-dependent three-dimensional audio emission pattern and changing properties thereof are disclosed.
US11830512B2
In some examples, an audio sending device receives a stream of application audio data, encodes the stream of application audio data, and in response to detecting an end of the stream of application audio data, provides pre-encoded filler audio data from a buffer in the audio sending device as an encoded stream of filler audio data. The audio sending device transmits the encoded stream of application audio data and the encoded stream of filler audio data in an encoded output data stream over a transport to an audio receiving device.
US11830511B2
Audio decoder device for decoding a bitstream, the audio decoder device including: a predictive decoder for producing a decoded audio frame from the bitstream, wherein the predictive decoder includes a parameter decoder for producing one or more audio parameters for the decoded audio frame from the bitstream and wherein the predictive decoder includes a synthesis filter device for producing the decoded audio frame by synthesizing the one or more audio parameters for the decoded audio frame; a memory device including one or more memories, wherein each of the memories is configured to store a memory state for the decoded audio frame, wherein the memory state for the decoded audio frame of the one or more memories is used by the synthesis filter device for synthesizing the one or more audio parameters for the decoded audio frame; and a memory state resampling device configured to determine the memory state for synthesizing the one or more audio parameters for the decoded audio frame, which has a sampling rate, for one or more of the memories by resampling a preceding memory state for synthesizing one or more audio parameters for a preceding decoded audio frame, which has a preceding sampling rate being different from the sampling rate of the decoded audio frame, for one or more of the memories and to store the memory state for synthesizing of the one or more audio parameters for the decoded audio frame for one or more of the memories into the respective memory.
US11830509B2
A method for decoding an encoded audio bitstream is disclosed. The method includes receiving the encoded audio bitstream and decoding the audio data to generate a decoded lowband audio signal. The method further includes extracting high frequency reconstruction metadata and filtering the decoded lowband audio signal with an analysis filterbank to generate a filtered lowband audio signal. The method also includes extracting a flag indicating whether either spectral translation or harmonic transposition is to be performed on the audio data and regenerating a highband portion of the audio signal using the filtered lowband audio signal and the high frequency reconstruction metadata in accordance with the flag. The high frequency regeneration is performed as a post-processing operation with a delay of 3010 samples per audio channel.
US11830506B2
A transient detector analyzes a given frame n of the input audio signal to determine, based on audio signal characteristics of the given frame n, a transient hangover indicator for a following frame n+1, and signals the determined transient hangover indicator to an associated audio encoder to enable proper encoding of the following frame n+1.
US11830503B2
A system comprising a transponder having a user interface to receive commands from a user and to operate a virtual assistant. A micro-computer in an automobile, which is responsive to the transponder, and wherein the transponder and the micro-computer configured to have conversations. These include conversations regarding the automobile, and between a user of the transponder and the virtual assistant utilized by the transponder. The conversations are recorded and recallable at a later time, wherein the virtual assistant responds to future commands or questions from the user based on prior commands or questions from the user.
US11830498B2
A voice recognition method includes the following steps. An audio and a correct result are received. The audio is recognized, and a text file corresponding to the audio is output. The word error rate is determined by comparing the text file to the correct result. The word error rate is adjusted according to the weight of at least one important word, in order to calculate a professional score that corresponds to the text file. A determination is made as to whether the professional score is higher than a score threshold. In response to the professional score is higher than the score threshold, the text file, the audio, or the correct result corresponding to the professional score is sent to an engine training module for training.
US11830492B2
An apparatus includes: a hardware processor that executes, based on recognized information obtained by voice recognition, a process requiring an execution authority; and an authenticator that performs authentication to determine, using first confidential information that is preset, whether the execution authority has been given. Upon determining that the recognized information corresponds to the preset confidential information, the hardware processor provides a user with a predetermined notification regarding security of the preset confidential information.
US11830477B2
An automatic speech recognition (ASR) system that determines a textual representation of a word from a word spoken in a natural language is provided. The ASR system uses an acoustic model, a language model, and a decoder. When the ASR system receives a spoken word, the acoustic model generates word candidates for the spoken word. The language model determines an n-gram score for each word candidate. The n-gram score includes a base score and a bias score. The bias score is based on a logarithmic probability of the word candidate, where the logarithmic probability is derived using a class-based language model where the words are clustered into non-overlapping clusters according to word statistics. The decoder decodes a textual representation of the spoken word from the word candidates and the corresponding n-gram score for each word candidate.
US11830476B1
Devices and techniques are generally described for learned condition text-to-speech synthesis. In some examples, first data representing a selection of a type of prosodic expressivity may be received. In some further examples, a selection of content comprising text data may be received. First audio data may be determined that includes an audio representation of the text data. The first audio data may be generated based at least in part on sampling from a first latent distribution generated using a conditional primary variational autoencoder (VAE). The sampling from the first latent distribution may be conditioned on a first learned distribution associated with the type of prosodic expressivity. In various examples, the first audio data may be sent to a first computing device.
US11830470B2
A transfer function measuring method includes: outputting a first signal to each of a plurality of loudspeakers to cause the plurality of loudspeakers to simultaneously output sounds with mutually different frequencies; acquiring second signals output from a microphone as a result of acquiring the sounds with the mutually different frequencies; and calculating a transfer function of each of the sounds with the mutually different frequencies based on the first signal and the second signals.
US11830464B2
A wireless communication device and a wireless communication method are provided. When a master mode is set in a mode memory, a mode setting notification is transmitted to a different wireless communication device. When a mode setting permission notification for the mode setting notification is received from the different wireless communication device, the master mode is settled as a communication mode, and the master mode is set in the mode memory. When a slave mode is set in the mode memory and when a mode setting notification is received from the different wireless communication device, the slave mode is settled as the communication mode, the slave mode is set in the mode memory, and a mode setting permission notification is transmitted to the different wireless communication device. Thus, the communication mode can be automatically set in a pair of wireless communication devices.
US11830462B2
An information processing method includes generating a change parameter relating to a process in which a temporal relationship between a first motion and a second motion changes, by inputting, into a trained model, first time-series data that represent a content of the first motion, and second time-series data that represent a content of the second motion in parallel to the first motion.
US11830461B2
A display driver comprises an interface and signal supply circuitry. The interface is configured to receive image data. The signal supply circuitry is configured to supply at least one drive control signal to a display panel based on a detection of a data error in the image data associated with a first horizontal line in a first vertical sync period, causing a first pixel circuit and a second pixel circuit hold, in the first vertical sync period, first hold voltages based in part on at least one drive control signal and second hold voltages held in a second vertical sync period prior to the first vertical sync period. The first pixel circuit is associated with the first horizontal line, and the second pixel circuit is associated with a second horizontal line and driven after the first pixel circuit.
US11830459B2
An embodiment method of measuring ambient light comprises generating, by an ambient light sensor associated with a screen which alternates between first phases in which light is emitted and second phases in which no light is emitted by the screen, a first signal representative of an intensity of light received by the ambient light sensor during the first and second phases; comparing the first signal with a threshold intensity value; and controlling a timing of an ambient light measurement by the light sensor based on the comparison.
US11830439B2
A display apparatus includes a pixel part including a plurality of pixels, and a gate driving circuit. Each of the plurality of pixels is driven in one first scan period and one or more second scan periods during one frame in a driving mode driven at a first driving frequency lower than a maximum driving frequency.
US11830433B2
A drive circuit, a drive method, a display panel, and a display device. The drive circuit includes: a drive transistor (M0), a first pole of the drive transistor (M0) being electrically connected to a first power supply end (ELVDD), a second pole of the drive transistor (M0) being electrically connected to an element to be driven (L); a first control circuit (1), a first end of the first control circuit (1) being electri-cally connected to a data detection end, a control end of the first control circuit (1) being electrically connected to a control signal end (CS); a stabilizing capacitor (CLC), a first pole of the stabilizing capacitor (CLC) being electrically connected to a second end of the first control circuit (1), the second pole of the stabilizing capacitor (CLC) being electrically connected to the first power supply end (ELVDD): a second control circuit (2).
US11830429B2
A display panel includes: a pixel circuit, and a light-emitting element, that the pixel circuit includes a driving transistor configured to provide a driving current for the light-emitting element; a working process of the pixel circuit includes a data writing stage, in which a gate of the driving transistor receives a data signal, and a bias adjustment stage, in which a source or drain of the driving transistor receives a bias adjustment signal; and the pixel circuit has a frame refresh frequency F1, and a data refresh frequency including a first data refresh frequency F11 and a second data refresh frequency F22, that at least one second data refresh period includes N11 bias adjustment stages, a bias adjustment signal V11 is inputted in a first bias adjustment stage, and a bias adjustment signal Vi is inputted in an i-th bias adjustment stage, where V11≠Vi.
US11830415B2
Embodiments of the disclosure concern display devices. The voltage line for supplying driving voltage to the cathode electrode of the light emitting element in the subpixel and the voltage line for supplying voltage for initializing the subpixel are integrated together. This allows for use of fewer voltage lines in the active area, along with easier arrangement of the voltage lines. The wire resistance may be reduced by adjusting the width of the voltage lines. The reduction in wire resistance may decrease brightness deviation or increase the aperture ratio or transmittance of the subpixel, thus allowing the display device higher light emission efficiency or transmittance.
US11830410B2
The present disclosure provides a gate driving unit, a gate driving method, a gate driving circuit and a display device. The gate driving unit includes a first clock signal end, a second clock signal end, a third clock signal end, a fourth clock signal end, a first output node control circuitry, a second output node control circuitry, a first control node control circuitry and an output circuitry. According to the present disclosure, it is able to provide a gate driving signal for an N-type transistor in an LTPO pixel circuit, and reduce the number of transistors, thereby to provide a narrow bezel.
US11830409B2
A peripheral image display device is configured to: acquire wheel speeds of a vehicle; determine a slip state or a non-slip state of a wheel of the vehicle based on the acquired wheel speeds; acquire multiple camera images from respective cameras; store, as a past image, the camera image indicating a range in a traveling direction of the vehicle; generate a peripheral image indicating a periphery of the vehicle by synthesizing the camera images, display the peripheral image on a display. In the non-slip state, the peripheral image display device displays a transparent image showing, in a transparent manner, a portion under a floor of the vehicle using the past image selected based on current wheel speeds is. In the slip state, the peripheral image display device deactivates the display of the transparent image.
US11830407B2
A fault-tolerant display system includes a dual thin film transistor (TFT) panel with pixel cells having two independently-controlled switching transistors; as such, primary source and gate drivers are operative to drive the display with first TFT transistors, while secondary source and gate drivers are operative to drive the display with second TFT transistors. As the display incorporates an additional TFT within the pixel cell which is driven independently, reliability is increased even at the pixel level. In this way, individual pixels of the LCD panel are driven simultaneously and independently by two pairs of source drivers and gate drivers, such that if one of the driver pairs fails due to some fault, the other driver pair can continue to drive the LCD panel without loss of information despite the failure of the first driver pair.
US11830406B2
A display device includes a display panel including areas including pixels electrically connected to a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines; a gate driver that supplies a gate signal to each of the plurality of gate lines; an average grayscale calculator that receives input image data, and calculating average grayscale values with respect to the areas; an area determiner that compares the average grayscale values with a low grayscale reference value to determine a low grayscale area among the areas, and output a charge boosting signal; a memory that stores gate clock signal information according to a grayscale; and a gate clock signal generator that supplies a gate clock signal corresponding to the areas to the gate driver by reflecting the charge boosting signal and the gate clock signal information according to the grayscale.
US11830401B2
Examples are disclosed herein that relate to displaying modification regions on a multi-display device. One example provides a multi-display device comprising a plurality of displays, the multi-display device storing line offset data defining a line offset to apply to a displayed image to correct for display misalignment, and modification region data defining one or more modification regions that each modifies an appearance of the displayed image. The multi-display device is configured to set a displayed location of a first active area based upon the line offset data for a first display, and set a displayed location of a first modification region for the first display based upon the line offset data for the first display.
US11830383B2
After installation, a device may be asleep. A light signal device may send a message to the sleeping device to wake it up. This wake-up message may comprise the light signal device sending programmed light signals, the programmed light signals in modified morse code. An authentication part may also be included in the message. The light signal device may request an authentication message from the sleeping device.
US11830378B2
A simulated abdominal wall for laparoscopic surgical training and methods of making the wall are provided. The simulated abdominal wall is dome-shaped having a visual appearance of an insufflated abdomen. Also, the wall is strong enough to withstand penetration with surgical trocars without unrealistic buckling or deformation. The wall is supported by a frame along the perimeter without any support structures traversing the wall that would interfere with port placement. The wall includes multiple layers connected together to form a unitary wall to fit a laparoscopic trainer. In one method, a projection of a dome is cut from a flat layer of foam material and assembled within a mold cavity. Consecutive layers with the same or different projection pattern are laid up inside the mold cavity. In another method, a vacuum mold together with heat is used to deform each foam layer. Adhesive is applied between layers to simultaneously join the adjacent layers upon deformation.
US11830377B2
Disclosed is a suturing training device and a method of using the device. The device comprises a base having a first side and a second side, the base defining a plane. The device also comprises a first anchor and a second anchor positioned on the first side of the base. The first and second anchors are each connectable to a segment of tissue so that the tissue is suspended therebetween in use of the device. An actuator is associated with one or both of the first anchor and the second anchor. The actuator is actuatable to cause relative movement of the first and second anchors along the plane. A force gauge is configured to measure a force applied to the tissue when the first and second anchors are moved relative one another by the actuator.
US11830371B2
Aspects of the invention include receiving, by a processor, airspace data associated with a predefined airspace, obtaining roadway data associated with the predefined airspace, determining a set of air travel channels within the predefined airspace based on the roadway data, defining a set of travel lanes within the set of air travel channels, wherein each travel lane in the set of travel lanes comprises an altitude range, receiving unmanned aircraft (UA) data associated with a set of UAs within the predefined airspace, wherein the UA data comprises one or more flight paths for each UA in the set of UAs, and assigning each UA in the set of UAs to a travel lane in the set of travel lanes based on the one or more flight paths.
US11830369B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle, UAV is controlled based on communication via at least two mobile communication networks. Before takeoff, the UAV receives position data describing starting and destination points. A flight plan is set up from the starting point to the destination point by obtaining information about service coverage provided by the two mobile communication networks in a volume between the starting and destination points. A path to be followed by the UAV is calculated at least based on the obtained information. The path defines a restriction volume within which the UAV is allowed to fly from the starting point to the destination point. The path is calculated on the further basis of at least one switching criterion for changing from a communicative connection between the UAV and the first mobile communication network to a communicative connection between the UAV and the second mobile communication network.
US11830367B2
An anomaly handling method using a device installed outside of a vehicle is disclosed. The method includes receiving, from the vehicle, an anomaly detection notification, which includes level information indicating a level affecting safety, and a location of the vehicle. The method also includes obtaining a location of another vehicle and determining whether a distance between the location of the vehicle and the location of the other vehicle is within a predetermined range. When the distance is within the predetermined range and is shorter than a first predetermined distance, not changing the level information and transmitting the received anomaly detection information to the other vehicle. When the distance is within the predetermined range and is longer than or equal to the first predetermined distance, changing to decrement a level indicated by the level information, and transmitting changed anomaly detection information to the other vehicle.
US11830359B2
Provided is a technology that allows, inter alia, two different patrol-vehicles to be used to enforce parking regulations. Unique systems and methods, inter alia, allow a patrol vehicle or the like to collect parking data pertaining to parked vehicles, and to wirelessly transmit such parking data to a server. A later patrol vehicle or the like can wirelessly receive parking data related to parking events related to its parking enforcement situation and determine whether parking violations, such as overtime or permit sharing violations, are occurring using a combination of parking data generated locally and extraneous parking data collected by the previous patrol vehicle.
US11830357B1
A Road User Vulnerability State Classification and Reporting system and method is described. The Vulnerability State of at least one Road User or geographic area is classified according to a set of Vulnerability State Factors, which may indicate an elevated road safety risk. Data associated with these factors is collected by at least one Road User Device, Vehicle Device, or Roadside Unit in a connected transportation infrastructure. Vulnerability State data is also collated and processed by a Vulnerability State Server. Vulnerability State data is communicated as a Vulnerability State Message over a data network or using direct device-to-device communications. This message is communicated via and to at least one Road User Device, Vehicle Device, Roadside Unit and the Vulnerability State Server, and relates to the Vulnerability State of at least one Road User, a Vulnerability Hotspot Location, or a set of Vulnerability State data collated for analytical purposes.
US11830356B2
An interactive cord system can include sensing circuitry coupled to a system ground and an interactive cord. The interactive cord can include a plurality of non-conductive lines a plurality of conductive sensing lines at least partially woven with one or more of the plurality of non-conductive lines to form at least one touch-sensitive area along the interactive cord and one or more conductive grounding lines electrically connected with the system ground and extending at least partially along an outer portion of the interactive cord.
US11830353B2
A portable and rapid communication or signaling device and related methods for operating or using tactile identification structures as well as coupling/mounting/release structures which enable rapid identification of similarly shaped objects and rapid deployment or use with safety or other equipment. Various embodiments enable using a common mounting location of these similarly shaped objects that each have different spectrum or color emissive capabilities that improve operator selection within conditions further impairing identification and employment and increase operator cognitive load.
US11830348B2
Aspects of the invention are directed towards a system and a method for determining a false alarm based on analysis of video/s. One or more embodiments of the invention describe the method comprising steps of receiving one or more pre-recorded videos, the one or more pre-recorded videos indicating a false alarm activation. One or more embodiments of the invention further describe steps of analyzing false alarm activation in the one or more pre-recorded videos and receiving a real-time video captured from a camera. Accordingly, the false alarm is determined in the real-time video based on the analysis of the false alarm activation in the one or more pre-recorded videos.
US11830346B2
The present invention exists as a mobile application and includes systems and methods for allowing users and authority figures to communicate. Tenants living within a community are grouped by a site ID. Authorities such as security guards or law enforcement are assigned an organization ID corresponding with the site ID for the community they serve. Tenants may make requests through the application to authorities with a matching ID comprising anonymous reports, live chat, live calls, or dispatch to a certain location. Tenants may also bypass the corresponding authorities and contact a 911 dispatcher directly. Certain requests may open a direct line of communication between an authority and a tenant. Other requests, including anonymous reports and dispatches, may be sent to all authority figures with an organization ID matching the requesting tenant's site ID. Authorities may send broadcasts through the application to tenants with a matching ID. All communications are encrypted.
US11830343B2
A control apparatus includes a living body presence/absence determination unit configured to determine whether a predetermined living body is left in a vehicle cabin, a cabin camera configured to acquire image data containing a face of the predetermined living body left in the cabin, a facial expression analysis information acquisition unit configured to acquire information on facial expression of the predetermined living body based on the image data, a determination unit configured to determine whether a safety of a life of the predetermined living body is a predetermined reference or lower based on the information on the facial expression, and a control unit configured to, when the determination unit determines that the safety of the life of the predetermined living body is the predetermined reference or lower, activate a safety function for ensuring the safety of the life of the predetermined living body.
US11830341B2
A method for correlating data from sensors includes receiving sensor information from a plurality of sensors of an industrial operation. Sensor information from component sensors is used for functionality of a component of the industrial operation and sensor information from additional sensors monitor conditions of a portion of the industrial operation different from the component. The method includes deriving, using the sensor information, correlations between component sensors and additional sensors and deriving a baseline signature from the sensor information and the correlations. The baseline signature encompasses a range of normal operating conditions. The method includes identifying an abnormal operating condition based on a comparison between additional sensor information and the baseline signature. The sensor information is used differently for functionality of the component than for deriving the correlations and baseline signature and identifying the abnormal operating condition. The method includes sending an alert with the abnormal operating condition.
US11830329B2
A method for testing a value document having a luminescence feature involves guiding the value document past a test sensor in a transport direction. A scanning sequence occurs that repeats itself multiple times upon guiding the value document past the test sensor. The method involves irradiating a test region of the test sensor such that the test radiation is arranged to be remitted by the value document at least partially in a detection spectral range of the test sensor. Excitation radiation is arranged to cause an emission radiation of the luminescence feature in the detection spectral range. The method further involves scanning at least one location-dependent remission spectral value in the test region in the first irradiation phase, irradiating the test region only with the excitation radiation in a second irradiation phase, and scanning at least one location-dependent emission spectral value in the test region after the first irradiation phase.
US11830323B2
Various embodiments include game configurations that are specific to a location.
US11830322B2
An electronic gaming machine for conducting an electronic game includes a player input interface configured to receive player credit inputs. A gaming data recording device is configured to record gaming related to the player credit inputs. A gaming machine controller configured to query the gaming data recording device and compute a first total game payout rate based upon the recorded player credit inputs for a first number of rounds of play and compute a second total game payout rate different than the first total game payout rate based on the recorded player credit inputs for a second number of rounds of play. The gaming machine is configured to award the second total game payout rate for a next round of play of the electronic game.
US11830318B2
A system and method for allowing a plurality of consumers or users to be individually authenticated in a Virtual Reality (VR) environment conducted throughout a VR session accessing a gaming server that dispenses outcomes. The consumer authentications are made possible through the VR device, thereby authorizing continued access to controlled or restricted VR environments.
US11830317B2
Systems and methods for distinguishing multiple distinct wagers at a single bet spot of a game table
In accordance with some embodiments there is provided an electronic gaming table system (e.g., a smart table operable to facilitate a card game, such as baccarat, blackjack or poker) which includes (i) at least one detecting mechanism for detecting a plurality of game elements (e.g., wagering chips) placed on, or removed from, a particular physical position of a physical table of the gaming table system to represent at least one wager for a particular game event; and (ii) a game controller operable to identify, based at least on data received from the at least one detecting mechanism, whether the plurality of game elements represent a single wager or multiple distinct wagers placed on the particular physical position and for the particular game event. In some embodiments, the detecting mechanism is an RFID antenna.
US11830315B2
An electronic gaming machine may include an illuminable notification mechanism, which may be disposed on a rear surface of the electronic gaming machine in a position or location that makes the notification mechanism visible to a casino operator. The notification mechanism may include a display, such as, for example, a display that includes at least one tri-color light emitting diode (LED). The display of the notification mechanism may be selectively illuminated in a variety of lighting configurations based, for example, upon gameplay activity of a player of the gaming machine. For instance, in some embodiments, the notification mechanism may be selectively illuminated in any of an inactive lighting configuration, an active lighting configuration, or a privileged lighting configuration. In the privileged lighting configuration, the notification mechanism may indicate that a player of the gaming machine is entitled to a complimentary item (e.g., a free or reduced-price item or service).
US11830314B2
A gaming machine may be configured for supporting games that include use of pay modalities, which are overlaid on selected symbols. The gaming machine includes a credit input mechanism configured for establishing a credit balance that is increasable and decreasable based on wagering activities, a display having a plurality of display positions, and a game controller to select a plurality of symbols, to cause the display to display the selected symbols, to determine if the selected symbols associated with at least one of one or more predetermined reels of the plurality of reels include a special symbol, and if so, to determine one or more special values associated with the special symbol, and to overlay a particular one of the one or more special values on each displayed instance of the special symbol. The game controller determines a payout based on assigned special values associated with the displayed special symbol.
US11830311B1
An automated pizza kitchen capable of storing dozens of pre-topped, par-baked pizzas, each held in a pizza box bottom in a humidity-controlled refrigerator, selecting a pizza out of the refrigerator, cooking the pizza, securing a pizza box lid to the pizza box bottom, and storing the pizza in a warmer, capable of holding and heating dozens of cooked pizzas.
US11830307B2
An information processing device includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to execute acquiring information about temperature inside or outside a vehicle, and generating a command to open or close a window included in the vehicle based on the information about the temperature inside or outside the vehicle.
US11830292B2
A system of image processing based emotion recognition is disclosed. The system principally comprises a camera and a main processor. Particularly, there a plurality of function units provided in the main processor, including: face detection unit, feature processing module, feature combination unit, conversion module, facial action judging unit, and emotion recognition unit. According to the present invention, the emotion recognition unit is configured to utilize a facial emotion recognition (FER) model to evaluate or distinguish an emotion state of a user based on at least one facial action, at least one emotional dimension, and a plurality of emotional scores. As a result, the accuracy of the emotion recognition conducted by the emotion recognition unit is significantly enhanced because basis of the emotion recognition comprises basic emotions, emotional dimension(s) and the user's facial action.
US11830291B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for providing multimodal emotion recognition. The method may include receiving raw input from an input source. The method may also include extracting one or more feature vectors from the raw input. The method may further include determining an effectiveness of the one or more feature vectors. Further, the method may include performing, based on the determination, multiplicative fusion processing on the one or more feature vectors. The method may also include predicting, based on results of the multiplicative fusion processing, one or more emotions of the input source.
US11830290B2
Vehicle event detection and reporting systems and methods include sensor systems that capture event data from which events involving the vehicle are determined, the sensor systems including a driver facing camera that captures images of a driver's seat area. The driver facing camera also captures images of a barcode presented to the driver facing camera, and the detected events are associated with a driver identification determined from the captured image of the barcode.
US11830287B2
Embodiments disclosed herein generally related to a method and system for customizing a customer experience. In one embodiment, a method is provided herein. A computing system receives from a computing device positioned in a facility one or more video streams. The one or more video streams capture a customer in the facility. The computing system identifying an identity of the customer by parsing the one or more video streams to identify one or more audio or visual cues of the customer. The computing system determines, based on the identity of the customer, that the customer has one or more previous transactions at the facility. The computing system predicts, based on the one or more previous transactions, a new transaction at the facility. The computing system notifies the computing device positioned in the facility in preparation of the new transaction.
US11830285B2
A verification application executing at a user's mobile phone directs the user to take a photo of an identification document (e.g., driver's license or other form of government issued identification) or of their face. After the verification application sends the image to a backend service, the service may then dispatch a drone to the user's location and take a photograph of the user. The service may then validate the previously-imaged document or photo of the user's face against the photograph of the user and the geolocation sent with the first image. The service may then verify the new account and provision a token to the verification application to complete a secured account generation.
US11830281B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display panel, an image lens positioned under the display panel to form a fingerprint image by using light reflected from user fingerprints, an image sensor configured to convert an image into an electrical signal, a first aperture positioned on a first surface between the image lens and the image sensor to block a light component scattered on the display panel, a relay lens positioned between the first surface and the image sensor to collect light having passed through the first aperture to the image sensor, and a second aperture positioned on a second surface between the relay lens and the image sensor to block a light component scattered on the display panel.
US11830278B2
An optical sensor array substrate and an optical fingerprint reader are provided. The optical sensor array substrate includes a substrate including a detection area which includes a plurality of photosensitive pixels. Photosensitive pixel includes: a TFT arranged on the substrate; a storage capacitor arranged on the substrate and having a first capacitor plate, and a second capacitor plate electrically connected to the source or drain of the TFT; a photosensitive element located on one side of the storage capacitor away from the substrate, and having one end electrically connected to the second capacitor plate; a first electrode layer located on one side of the photosensitive element away from the substrate and electrically connected to another end of the photosensitive element. An orthographic projection of the second capacitor plate on the substrate at least partially overlaps with an orthographic projection of the first electrode layer on the substrate.
US11830272B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for identifying animal species by using audiovisual information. A method for identifying animal species, according to one embodiment of the present invention, may include: a step of receiving an input signal for an object to be identified; a step of processing image information and acoustic information based on the input signal, wherein a processing result of the image information and a processing result of the acoustic information are represented by class-specific scores; a step of determining whether the image information processing result and the acoustic information processing result corresponding to the input signal exist; and a final result derivation step of fusing the image information processing result and the acoustic information processing result according to the determination result and classifying the object to be identified as a certain animal species by using the fused processing result.
US11830270B1
A computer-implemented method for auto-splitting and classifying an input document into one or more sub-documents using a machine learning system is described. The machine learning system includes a visual splitting neural network, an optical character recognition sub-system, a title classifier, a document classifier, and a grouper sub-system. The method includes: receiving a visual input representing a plurality of pages of the input document; classifying, using the visual splitting neural network, each page of the input document into a respective template of a plurality of templates; for each page of the input document, determining a final document type that the page belongs to; and grouping, using a grouper sub-system, the plurality of pages of the input document into one or more sub-documents based on (i) the respective template of each page and (ii) the respective final document type that each page belongs to.
US11830269B2
The present disclosure is directed to extracting text from form-like documents. In particular, a computing system can obtain an image of a document that contains a plurality of portions of text. The computing system can extract one or more candidate text portions for each field type included in a target schema. The computing system can generate a respective input feature vector for each candidate for the field type. The computing system can generate a respective candidate embedding for the candidate text portion. The computing system can determine a respective score for each candidate text portion for the field type based at least in part on the respective candidate embedding for the candidate text portion. The computing system can assign one or more of the candidate text portions to the field type based on the respective scores.
US11830266B2
Systems, devices and methods operative for identifying a reference within a figure and an identifier in a text associated with the figure, the reference referring to an element depicted in the figure, the reference corresponding to the identifier, the identifier identifying the element in the text, placing the identifier on the figure at a distance from the reference, the identifier visually associated with the reference upon the placing, the placing of the identifier on the figure is irrespective of the distance between the identifier and the reference.
US11830265B2
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for analyzing digital images to determine alphanumeric strings depicted in the digital images. An electronic device may generate a set of filtered images using a received digital image. The electronic device may also perform an optical character recognition (OCR) technique on the set of filtered images, and may filter out any of the set of filtered images according to a set of rules. The electronic device may further identify a set of common elements representative of the alphanumeric string depicted in the digital image, and determine a machine-encoded alphanumeric string based on the set of common elements.
US11830264B2
A processor may receive an image and identify a plurality of characters in the image using a machine learning (ML) model. The processor may generate at least one word-level bounding box indicating one or more words including at least a subset of the plurality of characters and/or may generate at least one field-level bounding box indicating at least one field including at least a subset of the one or more words. The processor may overlay the at least one word-level bounding box and the at least one field-level bounding box on the image to form a masked image including a plurality of optically-recognized characters and one or more predicted fields for at least a subset of the plurality of optically-recognized characters.
US11830256B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for locating a retroreflective object in a digital image and/or identifying a feature of the retroreflective object in the digital image. In certain environmental conditions, e.g. on a sunny day, or when the retroreflective material is damaged or soiled, it may be more challenging to locate the retroreflective object in the digital image and/or to identify a feature of the object in the digital image. The systems and methods disclosed herein may be particularly suited for object location and/or feature identification in situations in which there is a strong source of ambient light (e.g. on a sunny day) and/or when the retroreflective material on the object is damaged or soiled.
US11830251B2
According to the present invention, switching of the monitoring images matching the intention of the observer can be automatically performed for images from a plurality of image capturing apparatus, and the load about the job of the observer can be reduced. The image monitoring apparatus includes an estimating unit configured to estimate attention degrees of a user for a plurality of images acquired from the plurality of image capturing apparatuses, a designating unit configured to designate one of the acquired images as an image to be displayed in accordance with an instruction from the user, a learning unit configured to cause the estimating unit to learn so as to increase an attention degree of the designated image, and a selecting unit configured to select one of the plurality of images based on an attention degree of each estimated image.
US11830234B2
An image processing method and an image processing apparatus are provided. The image processing method includes acquiring information of a first region of interest (ROI) in a first frame, estimating information of a second ROI in a second frame that is received after the first frame, based on the acquired information of the first ROI, and sequentially storing, in a memory, subframes that are a portion of the second frame, each of the subframes being a line of the second frame. The image processing method further includes determining whether a portion of the stored subframes includes the second ROI, based on the estimated information of the second ROI, and based on the portion of the stored subframes being determined to include the second ROI, processing the portion of the stored subframes.
US11830233B2
In some aspects, the disclosure is directed to methods and systems for detection and classification of stamps in documents. The system can receive image data and textual data of a document. The system can pre-process and filter that data, and covert the textual data to a term frequency inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) vector. The system can detect the presence of a stamp on the document. The system can extract a subset of the image data including the stamp. The system can extract text from the subset of the image data. The system can classify the stamp using the extracted text, the image data, and the TF-IDF vector. The system can store the classification in a database.
US11830225B2
A feedback processing module includes a memory configured to store feedback received from an encoder. The feedback includes parameters associated with encoded graphics content generated by a graphics engine. The feedback processing module also includes a processor configured to generate configuration information for the graphics engine based on the feedback. The graphics engine is configured to execute a workload based on the configuration information. In some cases, the feedback processing module is also configured to receive feedback from a decoder that is used to decode the graphics content that is encoded by the encoder and generate the configuration information based on the feedback received from the decoder.
US11830219B2
The method and system disclosed herein presents a method and system for capturing, by a camera device on a mobile robot moving in an environment, an image frame at a first location within a portion of the environment. In accordance with a determination that the image frame contains a first visual marker: the method includes determining a camera orientation angle from the camera device to a first anchor associated with the first visual marker based on the image frame; detecting, by a detector on the mobile robot, a first beacon signal emitted by the first anchor. The method includes determining a distance between the mobile robot and the first anchor; and determining an orientation angle of the mobile robot based on the camera orientation angle, and the distance between the mobile robot and the first anchor.
US11830218B2
Provided are a mobile device (100) and computer-implemented method (700) for localisation in an existing map of a 3-D environment. For a first image frame, a first pose is localised based on visual features. For a second image frame, a pose is predicted (810) based on inertial measurements, combined with the pose of the first image frame. Based on the predicted pose, the method predicts (830) a set of landmarks that are likely to be visible. A second pose is then calculated (850), for the second image frame, based on matching (840) visual features of the second image frame to the set of landmarks.
US11830209B2
Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for object detection and inserting graphical elements into an image stream in response to detecting the object. The systems and methods detect an object of interest in received frames of a video stream. The systems and methods identify a bounding box for the object of interest and estimate a three-dimensional position of the object of interest based on a scale of the object of interest. The systems and methods generate one or more graphical elements having a size based on the scale of the object of interest and a position based on the three-dimensional position estimated for the object of interest. The one or more graphical elements are generated within the video stream to form a modified video stream. The systems and methods cause presentation of the modified video stream including the object of interest and the one or more graphical elements.
US11830206B2
A stereo camera apparatus includes a stereo camera, a speed sensor, and a control device. The control device includes one or more processors and one or more storage media. The one or more processors are configured to: detect corresponding points from a first image pair and a second image pair to be captured at different times by the stereo camera; divide each of images of the first image pair and the second image pair into regions; calculate, for each of the regions, a movement speed based on an external parameter by using one or more of the corresponding points included in the each of the regions; and calculate, for the each of the regions, a parallax correction value to cause a difference between the movement speed based on the external parameter and a movement speed detectable by the speed sensor to fall below a predetermined threshold.
US11830201B2
In order to extract a foreground area more appropriately, an image processing apparatus for extracting a foreground area from an inputted image includes an image input unit that sets a first area and a second area different from the first area in the inputted image, a first extraction unit that extracts a foreground area from the first area, and a second extraction unit that extracts a foreground area from the second area by using an extraction method different from an extraction method used by the first extraction unit.
US11830198B2
A surgical instrument navigation system and method of use is provided that visually simulates a virtual volumetric scene of a body cavity of a patient from a point of view of a surgical instrument residing in the cavity of the patient, wherein the surgical instrument, as provided, may be a steerable surgical catheter with a biopsy device and/or a surgical catheter with a side-exiting medical instrument, among others. Additionally, systems, methods and devices are provided for forming a respiratory-gated point cloud of a patient's respiratory system and for placing a localization element in an organ of a patient.
US11830185B2
An effective diagnosis region detection unit uses an effective diagnosis region detection model and detects an effective diagnosis region in which a non-target region of interest other than a region of interest is removed from an observation target, from a first medical image. The effective diagnosis region detection model is obtained by learning using first learning data including the first medical image and effective diagnosis region information regarding the effective diagnosis region. The region-of-interest detection unit detects the region of interest from the effective diagnosis region.
US11830164B2
This application discloses a semantic learning-based down-sampling method of point cloud data of an aircraft, including: (S1) constructing a multi-input encoder based on feature learning according to point cloud semantic learning principle; inputting the point cloud data of the aircraft and feature point data into the multi-input encoder for feature fusion followed by decoding using a decoder the multi-input feature fused data to obtain to-be-measured data; (S2) constructing and training a point cloud feature weight calculation network based on semantic learning to acquire a feature weight of each point in the to-be-measured data; and (S3) performing spatial weighted sampling on the feature weight of each point in the to-be-measured data followed by down-sampling based on Gaussian distribution-based spatial sampling principle.
US11830163B2
Systems and methods for generating a panorama image. Captured images are coarsely aligned, and then finely aligned based on a combination of constraint values. The panorama image is generated from the finely aligned images.
US11830156B2
Techniques for rendering a 3D virtual object in an augmented-reality system are described. A system, a method, and a non-transitory memory device for augmented reality rendering of three-dimensional, virtual objects are described. In an example, a number of images of an environment are acquired; relative movement of a camera acquiring the number of images is tracked; camera pose is determined relative to the environment using the number of images and tracked relative movement of the camera; depth and normal surfaces of objects in the environment are estimated using a depth map and a normal map; a surface geometry of the environment is reconstructed using the depth map and the normal map; and the virtual object is rendered using the surface geometry of the environment.
US11830145B2
A manifold voxel mesh or surface mesh is manufacturable by carving a single block of material and a non-manifold mesh is not manufacturable. Conventional techniques for constructing or extracting a surface mesh from an input point cloud often produce a non-manifold voxel mesh. Similarly, extracting a surface mesh from a voxel mesh that includes non-manifold geometry produces a surface mesh that includes non-manifold geometry. To ensure that the surface mesh includes only manifold geometry, locations of the non-manifold geometry in the voxel mesh are detected and converted into manifold geometry. The result is a manifold voxel mesh from which a manifold surface mesh of the object may be extracted.
US11830133B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a three-dimensional model's spherical expression calculation method. A specific implementation of the method includes: processing an input three-dimensional model into a dense point cloud model; inputting the dense point cloud model to a multi-level feature extraction module, extracting high-dimensional feature vectors of different abstract levels; inputting the high-dimensional feature vectors, template ball point cloud and abstract preprocessed point cloud model to a point cloud deformation reconstruction module to obtain a deformed reconstruction point cloud model; extracting multi-stage deformation reconstruction process information, combining the multi-stage deformation reconstruction process information with the template ball point cloud to together form complete information describing the three-dimensional model; obtaining a density correspondence from the three-dimensional model to the template ball point cloud and a density correspondence between different three-dimensional models. This implementation does not require time-consuming and labor-intensive manual annotations, improving the efficiency of characterization learning.
US11830129B2
A messaging system performs image processing to relight objects with neural networks for images provided by users of the messaging system. A method of relighting objects with neural networks includes receiving an input image with first lighting properties comprising an object with second lighting properties and processing the input image using a convolutional neural network to generate an output image with the first lighting properties and comprising the object with third lighting properties, where the convolutional neural network is trained to modify the second lighting properties to be consistent with lighting conditions indicated by the first lighting properties to generate the third lighting properties. The method further includes modifying the second lighting properties of the object to generate the object with modified second lighting properties and blending the third lighting properties with the modified second lighting properties to generate a modified output image comprising the object with fourth lighting properties.
US11830122B2
A 3D reconstruction method for a thin film sample that includes a light element is provided. The method includes performing preprocessing that includes noise removal, field-of-view correction and background subtraction on original projection images captured by a scanning transmission electron microscope to obtain 2D images, performing several rounds of a 3D reconstruction procedure that includes an alignment process and an iterative algorithm based on the 2D images and reference images to obtain a piece of reconstructed 3D image data, generating a reconstructed 3D image related to the thin film sample based on the piece of reconstructed 3D image data, and displaying the reconstructed 3D image.
US11830120B2
A computing device according to an embodiment includes one or more processors, a memory storing one or more programs executed by the one or more processors, a standby state image generating module configured to generate a standby state image in which a person is in a standby state, and generate a back-motion image set including a plurality of back-motion images at a preset frame interval from the standby state image for image interpolation between a preset reference frame of the standby state image, a speech state image generating module configured to generate a speech state image in which a person is in a speech state based on a source of speech content, and an image playback module configured to generate a synthetic speech image by combining the standby state image and the speech state image while playing the standby state image.
US11830119B1
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for modifying an environment based on sound. In some implementations, a device includes one or more processors, a display and a non-transitory memory. In some implementations, a method includes displaying a computer graphics environment that includes an object. In some implementations, the method includes detecting, via an audio sensor, a sound from a physical environment of the device. In some implementations, the sound is associated with one or more audio characteristics. In some implementations, the method includes modifying a visual property of the object based on the one or more audio characteristics of the sound.
US11830112B2
A method for rapid reconstruction of a woven composite material microstructure based on topological features is provided. First, geometric modeling is performed according to the topological features of fiber bundles and matrix in a woven composite structure, then the topological features are identified on the basis of a μ-computed tomography (CT) sequence image, the change laws of the features are extracted, and finally, a geometric model is reconstructed to complete the modeling of a microstructure. Compared with the structure modeling method based on weaving process parameters, the consistency between the reconstructed model and a real woven structure is improved, facilitating the improvement of the accuracy of the subsequent calculation of the mechanical properties of the material; and compared with the method for structure reconstruction directly on the basis of a μCT image, a tedious point cloud data process is simplified and calculation costs are greatly reduced.
US11830105B2
An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to obtain a first image, to detect one or more designated types of objects in the first image, at least a given one of the designated types of objects comprising at least a given portion of a computing device associated with a service request and, responsive to detecting the given one of the designated types of objects, to identify features of the given portion of the computing device in the first image. The processing device is also configured to perform an augmentation of the identified features of the given portion of the computing device to generate a second image, the second image comprising a modified version of the first image that contains the given portion of the computing device and excludes one or more other portions of the first image, and to process the service request utilizing the second image.
US11830101B2
To suspend the processing for a group of one or more execution threads currently executing a shader program for an output being generated by a graphics processor, the issuing of shader program instructions for execution by the group of one or more execution threads is stopped, and any outstanding register-content affecting transactions for the group of one or more execution threads are allowed to complete. Once all outstanding register-content affecting transactions for the group of one or more execution threads have completed, the content of the registers associated with the threads of the group of one or more execution threads, and a set of state information for the group of one or more execution threads, including at least an indication of the last instruction in the shader program that was executed for the threads of the group of one or more execution threads, are stored to memory.
US11830100B2
A device for hailing a vehicle includes a location sensor outputting location information indicative of a location of the device. The device further includes a device interface configured to receive an input from a user of the device. Responsive to the input, a transmitter of the device transmits the location information, input information, and identification information for the device to a dispatch server system. The transmitter is further configured to route the location information, the input information, and the identification information for the device to only the dispatch server system. The identification information is used by the dispatch server system to set a predefined location associated with the identification information as a destination for a trip for the user in the vehicle. The predefined location is defined in an account corresponding to the identification information of the device maintained by the dispatch server system prior to receipt of the input.
US11830092B2
The described technology is a technique related to a server and method for displaying additional information on a 3D tour. In this case, the method for displaying additional information on a 3D tour performed by a 3D tour management server linked to a user device, the method comprising: providing the user device with a floor plan for a particular space and an interface capable of inserting additional information based on the floor plan, receiving a plurality photographed images for configuring a 3D tour for the particular space from the user device, in a process of photographing the 3D tour performed by the user device, receiving additional information as input from the user device via the interface, combining a 3D tour configured based on the plurality photographed images and the additional information inputted via the interface, and displaying the additional information onto the 3D tour or the floor plan.
US11830089B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products for maintaining a collection of ecosystem credit tokens based on modelled outcomes are provided. In various embodiments, an ecosystem attribute target profile for the collection of ecosystem credit tokens is accessed. The target profile comprises a set of ecosystem characteristics, quantities of one or more ecosystem characteristics, and permanence of one or more ecosystem characteristics. A set of ecosystem credit tokens is accessed, wherein each ecosystem credit token data record comprises one or more of: a validated and verified management event, a methodology, an ecosystem attribute, a boundary, an ecosystem impact, an ecosystem credit, and an ecosystem attribute quantification method. A current profile of the collection of ecosystem credit tokens is determined, wherein the profile comprises the set of ecosystem characteristics within the collection, quantities of ecosystem characteristics, and permanence of ecosystem characteristics. The collection is automatically updated to maintain a current profile.
US11830078B2
A method and computing apparatus for automatically identifying whether or not one or more identified injuries are related to the insurance claim which has been submitted is described. The method and computing apparatus identify injury data in an electronic medical claim data associated with a claimant based diagnosis code data, uses a classifier to determine an association between the identified injury data represented by the diagnosis code data and the initial injury data represented by the initial diagnosis code data is identified when historical claim data is determined to be present for the claimant.
US11830074B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for automatically configuring financial product offerings. An example method includes: receiving, by a computer system, a graph model representing a plurality of permutations of definition provisions of a financial product; translating at least a subset of the graph model into definitions of a plurality of business objects; translating the definitions of the plurality of business objects into definitions of a plurality of services to be implemented by an offering of the financial product; receiving, via a user interface, a plurality of service configuration options; applying the plurality of service configuration options to the definitions of the plurality of services; and generating, based on the definitions of the plurality of services, service configuration data for the offering of the financial product.
US11830072B1
A pricing administration and calculation tool comprises user interface logic, pricing administration logic and pricing calculation logic that cooperates with the user interface logic to generate display screens configured to receive user inputs specifying credit guarantee pricing and user inputs specifying terms and conditions for mortgage backed security (MBS) loan commitments. The inputs are specific to individual external user (seller). The credit guarantee price is a fee for guaranteeing to an investor the timely payment of principal and interest from the mortgages underlying a mortgage backed security. The credit guarantee pricing may be specified via the display screens on a seller-by-seller basis, a mortgage product-by-product basis, an issue month-by-issue month, and a coupon-by-coupon basis. A committing tool comprises committing logic that cooperates with the user interface logic to generate display screens configured to receive user inputs from external user (seller) to enter into MBS loan commitments.
US11830071B1
Provided is a customer facing risk ratio for trading desks that deal primarily in derivatives in order to determine conformance with government regulations as it relates to financial entities. The customer facing risk ratio is a metric that measures customer facing risk exposure for trading desks of the financial entity. The metric may be utilized to determine conformance to various regulations as it relates to derivative transactions. The customer facing risk ratio may be utilized to measure the proportion of customer facing risk exposure compared to the total risk exposure for each trading desk of a financial entity.
US11830070B2
A system to facilitate the exchange and re-use of industrial waste and byproduct materials that have a reuse possibility is disclosed. The system promotes recycling, reusing, and reclaiming of wastes sustainably to ensure compliance and waste minimization. In one embodiment, the system supports an intelligent service for generating recommendations across an industrial stock exchange. Companies looking to dispose of their wastes or byproducts can access the system to initiate and execute trade with other companies looking for materials or compounds that could be reused in their own manufacturing processes. Both parties will be guided toward their shared goal in order to provide a net-zero impact on the environment and maintain an ecological balance.
US11830068B2
Systems and methods are provided for a clearing framework for clearing a non-deliverable interest rate swap. The clearing framework includes an application programming interface (API) including functions for processing trade messages including information used by a clearing house computing system in clearing non-deliverable interest rate swaps; one or more user interface screens comprising information corresponding to one or more non-deliverable interest rate swaps and one or more user interface screens comprising information of cleared interest rate swaps, one an API for reporting clearing information, wherein the one or more functions comprise a first messaging function to confirm clearing of the one or more non-deliverable interest rate swaps and a second messaging function to request consent to clear the one or more non-deliverable interest rate swaps.
US11830065B2
In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to a multi-lender loan management system comprising an external network gateway, an internal network gateway, a messaging service, a plurality of Application Programming Interface (API) modules coupled between the external network gateway and the internal network gateway, and a plurality of micro services coupled to the internal network gateway and configured to communicate with each other via the messaging service. API modules can include a client API module and a lender API module. Microservices can include a loan applications microservice and an offers microservice.
US11830064B2
A method and system for credit risk identification. The disclosed embodiments include receiving a loan request to a credit business system from a user; in response to the loan request, obtaining operation data by the user on the credit business system within a period of time before the loan request; performing risk identification on the user using a neuronal network according to the loan request and the operation data to generate a result, and determining a response to the loan request based on the result of the risk identification.
US11830061B1
A system and method to manage a surge network traffic targeting a service-hosting platform are disclosed. For an offer of goods and/or services, the platform provider generates a static package that is placed in networked storage that is accessible through a web service interface. The package contains the information required to instantiate and render the interface of the service-hosting platform using the processor and resources of the computer that accesses the package via a browser. Based on the contents of the package, the rendered interface presents the services of the service-hosting platform using resources of the customer's computer without making any calls to a server to query a protected backend system. Access to the protected backend resources and platform resources is gated by threshold actions taken by the user.
US11830047B2
A system and method for transmitting real-time messages within a supply chain financing (SCF) network using a using a customized and improved messaging protocol is provided. A computing device receives a SCF request message having an SCF messaging protocol including a plurality of data fields including SCF request data related to a request for supply chain financing including an early payment identifier, parses the SCF request message based upon the SCF messaging protocol, selects a financing entity for receiving the request, stores within the memory device the SCF request data, transmits an early payment message having the same messaging protocol to the selected financing entity, receives a confirmation message having the same SCF messaging protocol from the financing entity including a plurality of data fields including SCF confirmation data, and stores within the memory device the SCF confirmation data with the SCF request data.
US11830037B2
Systems and methods for displaying corresponding content for vehicle services using a distributed set of electronic devices are provided. For example, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining data associated with a vehicle service instance. The vehicle service instance is associated with a request for a vehicle service for a user. The method includes determining, based on the data associated with the vehicle service instance, a first advertisement content item for a display device positioned on an exterior of a vehicle assigned to the vehicle service instance and a second advertisement content item for a user device associated with the vehicle service instance. The method includes communicating data that initiates the display of the first advertisement content item for the display device positioned on the exterior of the vehicle and data that initiates the display of the second advertisement content item for the user device.
US11830035B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for opting-out of targeted advertising in online advertising environments. One method includes receiving an opt-out verification request, the opt-out verification including an IP address of a user device and HTTP header fields of an HTTP request of the user device; determining a geographic area of the user device based on the IP address of the user device; accessing an opt-out database having entries of user devices that opted-out of receiving targeted advertising based on at least one HTTP header field of the HTTP request; determining whether the user device has opted-out of receiving targeted advertising based on the determined geographic area of the user device, the HTTP header fields of the HTTP quest, and the entries of user devices of the opt-out database; and transmitting a verification acknowledgement when the user device is determined to have opted-out of receiving targeted advertising.
US11830027B2
Retail merchants, third-party manufacturers, and/or distributors of retail goods market and distribute promotions to consumers based on the consumers' transaction histories (i.e., users that do not typically purchase a particular brand of soda) and/or award promotions to consumers targeted to a specific item, class or category of item, or characteristic of an item. The promotion redeems and is applied automatically to reduce the purchase amount when the consumer presents a payment method for a transaction for the purchase of a targeted item.
US11830018B2
An online concierge system allows users to order items within discrete time intervals later than a time when an order was received or for short-term fulfillment when the order was received. To account for a number of shoppers available to fulfill orders during different discrete time intervals and numbers of orders for fulfillment during different discrete time intervals, the online concierge system specifies a target rate for orders fulfilled later than a specified discrete time interval and a threshold from the target rate. A trained machine learning model periodically predicts a percentage of orders being fulfilled late, with an order associated with a predicted percentage when the order was received. The online concierge system increases a price of orders associated with predicted percentages greater than the threshold from the target rate. The increased price of an order is determined from a price elasticity curve and the predicted percentage.
US11830016B2
Certain embodiments of the disclosure relate to methods and systems that support automated, targeted polling of consumers via an e-commerce promotions platform for administering e-commerce promotional activities, such as, for example, sweepstakes, contests, giveaways, and/or instant wins.
US11830012B2
A computer-implemented method for complying with customs regulations for overseas shipments. The customs compliance systems and methods rely on current data to timely and accurately submit (or correct and resubmit) an “Importer Security Filing” or “ISF” to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“U.S. CBP”) authority. In particular, the present systems retrieve (e.g., using various APIs) and rely on current data from the most accurate or up-to-date sources of such data. Moreover, each ISF record is handled independently, retrieving the current data as needed rather than in sequential, batched requests. As a result, errors and time for processing ISF submissions are reduced because accurate data is more readily and promptly available.
US11830010B2
Techniques performed by a data processing system for matching a customer service ambassador (CSA) with a customer include receiving a service request for technical assistance from the customer, analyzing estimated working hours information for the customer and estimated working hours information for each of the plurality of CSAs to produce a compatibility score for each CSA, the compatibility score for a respective one of the CSAs providing an indication of how closely the working hours of the customer and of the respective one of the CSAs align, reordering an available CSA queue identifying the plurality of CSAs based on the compatibility scores of each of the CSAs, and selecting a CSA from the queue to provide technical assistance to the customer.
US11830005B2
Features are extracted and tabulated for transactions on a per-operator basis. Metrics are derived from the features on a per-feature basis and on an aggregate bases for the features as a whole. Additional metrics are calculated on a per-feature basis and an aggregate bases for a group of operators. A current transaction being conducted in real time by a given operator has current features extracted and a risk score is generated. The risk score is compared against the metrics associated with the given operator and the group of operators. A determination is made as to whether the current transaction is fraud or is not fraud based on the comparison. When fraud is detected, an alert is raised, and the current transaction provided to a fraud system for further fraud evaluation.
US11829996B1
Described is a hybrid centralized-decentralized system for managing data and token transactions among a decentralized group of stakeholders. The system uses a blockchain architecture to maintain secure identities for the stakeholders, as well as allow any stakeholder to perform a data or token transaction with another stakeholder. A central organization manages a central application and a data exchange. The central application manages profile data from users and interaction data for users with developer applications, and provides it to the data exchange. The data exchange organizes and packages the data, and may provide it to other stakeholder for analysis.
US11829995B2
A method for optimized validation of a blockchain transaction through the use of a parallel database and date management includes: receiving a new blockchain transaction that includes unspent transaction outputs; identifying, in a parallel database, a start date for a blockchain wallet involved in the new transaction; identifying a subset of blocks in the blockchain that have been added to the blockchain since the start date; validating the new blockchain transaction by validating the unspent transaction outputs using the subset of blocks; and, if the validation is successful, adding the new transaction to the blockchain, or, if the validation is unsuccessful, notifying the submitter of the failed validation.
US11829994B1
A mobile wallet computing system associated with a mobile wallet database includes a mobile wallet circuit structured to present a mobile wallet interface a mobile wallet user. The mobile wallet interface includes a first portion that includes a graphical depiction of a user payment vehicle associated with a financial institution, the first portion including a first interaction point that enables the user to initiate a sequence to engage in a mobile wallet transaction using the mobile wallet. The interface also includes a second portion that includes a second interaction point and a third interaction point, the second interaction point enabling the user to access a functionality enabling the user to indicate a transaction preference for a transaction with an entity other than the mobile wallet provider or financial institution, the third interaction point enabling the user to indicate a preference to initiate communications with the financial institution.
US11829993B2
The disclosure herein relates to methods and systems of that facilitate instant payment of invoices based on automatic, intelligent, predictions that a buyer will approve an invoice without express input by the buyer. For example, a system may determine a probability that an invoice will be approved for payment by a buyer with express approval from the buyer. Once an invoice is automatically approved for payment, the system may employ various automated systems to facilitate payment to suppliers without the need for suppliers to extract virtual card data or other payment information from email payment requests or other invoice payment requirements to receive payment. For example, the system may generate calls to automatically generate virtual card numbers on behalf of buyers and submit payment messages for payments to suppliers using the virtual card numbers.
US11829990B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for contactless checkout in a retail environment including a security pedestal located at an entrance or exit to a retail location. The system further includes a scanning device that is communicably coupled with the security pedestal. The self-checkout system and methods may also include a processing system that is configured to receive a list of items from the security pedestal and customer identification code from the scanning device. The system and method is configured to allow for a customer to scan his purchases at the security pedestal and pay for the purchases through the use of the customer identification code generated, preferably, using the customer's personal computing device.
US11829988B2
The disclosed embodiments provide systems and methods for transacting at a local financial service provider device using a mobile device. The system may include one or more processors configured to execute instructions to receive transaction data associated with a transaction request including a customer identifier received from a mobile device associated with the customer. Additionally, the processors may receive authentication data associated with the customer that may be provided by the customer operating the mobile device and without requiring the customer to input data directly at the local financial service provider device. The processors may further determine whether the received authentication data authenticates the transaction, authorize the transaction, and provide an indication to the local financial service provider device to perform the transaction based on a determination that the customer operating the mobile device is physically located within a threshold distance away from the local financial service provider device.
US11829983B2
A scanner is integrated as a peripheral device into a POS terminal. Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) are selectively activated and deactivated during item scanning for items being processed during a transaction at the POS terminal. The activation and deactivation of the LEDs are visible to an overhead security camera during the transaction. The selective activation and deactivation providing indications during the transaction as to whether the items are successfully scanned or unsuccessfully scanned during the transaction as the items are passed in front of at least one scan window of the scanner.
US11829980B2
A payment terminal, including: a display, an input device configured to generate input signals indicative of a user input, a payment instrument reader configured to receive payment instrument data from a financial payment instrument, a secure processor connected to the payment instrument reader, a main processor connected to the display, the main processor separate and distinct from the secure processor, a secure input processor connected to the input device and the secure processor, wherein the secure processor is operable between an unsecured mode, wherein the secure processor sends input coordinates based on the input signals received from the secure input processor to the main processor; and a secured mode, wherein the secure input processor ceases input coordinate forwarding to the main processor.
US11829975B1
The invention relates to a method for allowing users to categorize transactions at moment-of-sale using mobile payments. The method includes detecting a transaction performed on a mobile device. The method further includes prompting, a user of the mobile device to provide a categorization of the transaction as a business transaction or a personal transaction, where the transaction is categorized by the user contemporaneously with the transaction being detected by the FMA interface. The method further includes receiving the transaction and the categorization of the transaction from the user. The method further includes sending the FMA time stamp of the transaction with the categorization as the business transaction, Finally, the method includes matching the FMA time stamp of the business transaction to a financial institution time stamp of a pending transaction.
US11829969B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for allowing completion of cardless ATM transactions at an ATM using a barcode that encodes an identifier for that ATM. A user of a mobile banking app may begin a transaction on their mobile device and, upon reaching a stage of the transaction where ATM access is needed (e.g., to withdraw physical cash), requests that the user visit an ATM to scan the barcode. When the mobile app scans the barcode, the ATM displaying the barcode is associated with the transaction, and completes the transaction (e.g., by dispensing cash). This barcode, while usable to identify the ATM for this purpose, also provides additional information that can be obtained by any barcode reader. This additional information may, for example, be a link to a website that provides an explanation about this service.
US11829962B2
Methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media for a payment delegation and linking system are provided. The system may generate a delegation request to send to an individual for payment of a portion of a value of a transaction. The delegation request may be sent to the individual with a payment URL embedded with a token. Upon initiation of payment in response to the delegation request, the token may be embedded in an unused field of a payment transaction record generated at the individual's device and may be transmitted from the individual's device to a payment processing system for processing and settlement. The payment transaction record may ultimately be received at the requestor's bank with the token intact. The token may be used to link the received payment transaction with the original delegated transaction. The original delegated transaction and the received payment transaction may be displayed together in a transaction summary.
US11829961B1
An apparatus comprising a communications interface configured to communicate over one or more networks, at least one processor and at least one memory including program code is provided. The at least one memory and the program code configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to at least receive, via the communications interface, an interparty transaction request. The interparty transaction request corresponds to an interparty transaction and identifying a first party and a second party. The apparatus generates a smart contract based on the interparty transaction request; stores a data entry indicating the generation of the smart contract to a distributed ledger; executes the smart contract to cause settlement of the interparty transaction between the first party and the second party; and stores a data entry indicating the settlement of the interparty transaction to the distributed ledger.
US11829960B1
Techniques are described for using a supplemental data layer of a real time payments channel to send data. For example, an entity may request a transaction with another entity, and the transaction may be performed using a channel that includes a supplemental data layer. Supplemental data, in addition to the data for the transaction itself, may be communicated using the supplemental data layer to entities involved in the transaction, and/or to third parties. The supplemental data may be sent in real time with respect to the sending of the data for the transaction. In some instances, supplemental data layer is present in one or both directions in the two-way communications between the entities involved in the transaction. The supplemental data layer can be leveraged to provide additional information and/or services to a user involved in the transaction.
US11829958B2
A method for maintaining a facility in an automatic warehouse system by using a maintenance terminal at a maintenance base includes generating a workplace image showing the automatic warehouse system, acquiring access information, generating a composite image by associating an object in the workplace image with the access information to access the corresponding facility, outputting the composite image to the maintenance terminal, receiving a selection of the object, and establishing a communication session between the corresponding facility and the maintenance terminal by using the access information associated to the selected object.
US11829957B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for providing a motor vehicle for a service, said motor vehicle having a vehicle guidance system designed for fully automated vehicle guidance and being parked in a parking space in a parking environment, in particular which is blocked for people. The method includes providing a service space outside the parking environment, which has a parking-environment-side access gate and a staff access that can be accessed from outside the parking environment. The method includes completely automatically driving the motor vehicle through the vehicle guidance system from the parking space via the parking environment into the service space without any people in it, and parking the motor vehicle in the service space, and after parking the motor vehicle in the service space, closing the access gate and enabling an entry of a service person through the staff access depending on an authentication process carried out by the service person at an authentication device located outside the service space.
US11829939B2
A system for transfer path optimization is disclosed. The system comprises a computing device configured to receive a plurality of inputs from a user device at a current geographical location. The computing device is configured to generate a plurality of originators as function of the plurality of inputs, by identifying originators within a threshold distance relative to current geographical location of the user device. The computing device is configured to generate a fast transfer path. Computing device is configured to pair the fast transfer path with the first component and to assign a transfer agent to the fast transfer path. Computing device is configured to generate a second component path to transfer the second component. A method for transfer path optimization is also disclosed.
US11829929B2
Systems and methods are described for tracking a shipping container. Information from a third-party shipping entity is combined with information retrieved from a data logger attached to the shipping container while the shipping container is in transit. The third-party portal provides updates through Email or the like, transmitted to an address that is uniquely associated with the shipping container and its current itinerary.
US11829922B2
A system and method for managing transportation and storage of packages to individuals, includes a server; first and second devices having a proximity interface; and a package control device attached to a package. The server and the first and second devices include respective processors, memories and communication network interfaces. The server and the package control device include transport and storage information including authentication information to authorize a handover of the package, and message authentication information determined using authorization key information of the server, which communicates the transport and storage information over the communication network interface to the first and second devices, wherein the first or second device receives same over the proximity interface from the package control device and compares the authentication information from the server and that received from the package control device to authorize the handover of the package.
US11829921B2
A system and method for recommending demand-supply agent pairs for transactions uses a deep neural network on data of demand agents to produce a demand agent vector, which is used to select supply agents based on their likelihood of future transaction and to find k nearest neighbor demand agents for each of the demand agents. The candidate supply agents and the k nearest neighbor demand agents are then combined to produce candidate demand-supply agent pairs, which are used to find recommended demand-supply agent pairs by applying modeling using machine learning.
US11829918B2
Data characterizing inputs to a prediction process that classifies events, an output of the prediction process, and feedback data characterizing a performance of the outcome is monitored. A resource capacity affecting the outcome of the prediction process, and/or a cost-benefit affecting the outcome of the prediction process is determined from the monitoring. The determined resource capacity and/or the determined cost-benefit is provided. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US11829916B2
An electronic medication storage cabinet includes a plurality of drawers configured with a plurality of sensors arranged to identify a positioning of storage pockets within the drawers. Upon receiving an indication of a new medicine container to be loaded in the cabinet, a sequence of steps to load the medicine container into the cabinet is generated based on a mapping algorithm. A first step is displayed on a display the cabinet, and a determination is made as to whether the first step is associated with one of the plurality of drawers. In response to determining that the first step is associated with one of the plurality of drawers, the drawer is automatically unlocked. In response to determining that the first step is successfully completed, a determination of whether execution of any additional steps is pending and indicated on the display.
US11829910B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include matching transportation requests. By collecting and batching match requests over an extended period, a dynamic transportation matching system may identify more efficient matches (e.g., may match transportation requests with greater overlaps). In addition, by dynamically setting and/or extending the upper bound of time that a transportation request may remain batched with other transportation requests, the dynamic transportation matching system may account for contextual information thereby situationally improving matching efficiencies made possible with higher upper bounds while avoiding requestor dissatisfaction, lost conversions, or other inefficiencies that may result from upper bounds that are too high. Furthermore, by providing a notification interface for a transportation requestor device that notifies the requestor when to be ready, a transportation matching application may provide a positive requestor experience while allowing for longer match windows. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11829883B2
A method includes selecting a subset of models from a plurality of models. The plurality of models is generated based on a genetic algorithm and corresponds to a first epoch of the genetic algorithm. Each of the plurality of models includes data representative of a neural network. The method includes performing at least one genetic operation of the genetic algorithm with respect to at least one model of the subset to generate a trainable model. The method includes determining a rate of improvement associated with prior backpropagation iterations. The method includes selecting, based on the rate of improvement, one of the trainable model or a prior trainable model as a selected trainable model. The method includes generating the trained model including training the selected trainable model. The method includes adding the trained model as input to a second epoch of the genetic algorithm that is subsequent to the first epoch.
US11829875B2
An information processing device, an information processing method, a computer readable storage medium are provided. The information processing device comprises processing circuitry configured to: construct, for each of a plurality of indexes, a sample unit set for the index based on a plurality of minimum labeled sample units related to the index which are obtained and labeled from an original sample set; and extract, for at least a part of the constructed plurality of sample unit sets, a minimum labeled sample unit from each sample unit set, and generate a labeled training sample based on the extracted minimum labeled sample unit. A sample unit set is constructed based on minimum labeled sample units that are labeled manually, and a labeled training sample is generated automatically based on such sample unit sets, thereby generating the labeled training sample automatically to a certain degree, and reducing manual participation.
US11829870B2
A self-driving vehicle implements a deep reinforcement learning based model. The self-driving vehicle comprise one or more sensors configured to capture sensor data of an environment of the self-driving vehicle, a control system configured to navigate the self-driving vehicle, and a controller to determine and provide instructions to the control system. The controller implements a deep reinforcement learning based model that inputs the sensor data captured by the sensors to determine actions to perform by the control system. The model includes an archive storing states reachable by an agent in a training environment, each state stored in the archive is associated with a trajectory for reaching the state. The archive is generated by visiting states stored in the archive and performing actions to explore and find new states. New states are stored in the archive with their trajectories.
US11829859B2
Numerous embodiments are disclosed for verifying a weight programmed into a selected non-volatile memory cell in a neural memory. In one embodiment, a circuit for verifying a weight programmed into a selected non-volatile memory cell in a neural memory comprises a converter for converting a target weight into a target current and a comparator for comparing the target current to an output current from the selected non-volatile memory cell during a verify operation. In another embodiment, a circuit for verifying a weight programmed into a selected non-volatile memory cell in a neural memory comprises a digital-to-analog converter for converting a target weight comprising digital bits into a target voltage, a current-to-voltage converter for converting an output current from the selected non-volatile memory cell during a verify operation into an output voltage, and a comparator for comparing the output voltage to the target voltage during a verify operation.
US11829851B2
To provide a configuration that enables recognition of an unknown object included in an image. The configuration includes a network creation unit that creates a network linking a scene node indicating a scene type of an image and a node corresponding to an object, and an unknown object inference unit that compares a created network created by the network creation unit with a large number of reference networks created by learning processing, selects reference networks similar to the created network, selects, from the selected reference networks, a node corresponding to a node of an unknown object in the created network, and infers that an object associated with the selected node is an object corresponding to the unknown object.
US11829844B2
A computer-implemented method for refining a qubit calibration model is described. The method comprises receiving, at a learning module, training data, wherein the training data comprises a plurality of calibration data sets, wherein each calibration data set is derived from a system comprising one or more qubits, and a plurality of parameter sets, each parameter set comprising extracted parameters obtained using a corresponding calibration data set, wherein extracting the parameters includes fitting a qubit calibration model to the corresponding calibration data set using a fitter algorithm. The method further comprises executing, at the learning module, a supervised machine learning algorithm which processes the training data to learn a perturbation to the qubit calibration model that captures one or more features in the plurality of calibration data sets that are not captured by the qubit calibration model, thereby to provide a refined qubit calibration model.
US11829843B2
A method of solving a problem can include providing a fermionic Hamiltonian, transformation of the fermionic Hamiltonian to qubit operators, transformation of the fermionic Hamiltonian in qubit operators to a mean-field Hamiltonian, and embedding the Hamiltonian onto a quantum computer. Such systems and methods may improve upon existing methods for solving electronic structure problems on a computer by adapting the problem to available hardware, reducing computational cost, and reducing the number of required qubits to solve electronic structure problems for larger number of atoms.
