US11910075B2
An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging unit configured to capture an image of a subject; a main body having a grip region provided on a first surface on which the imaging unit is disposed so that a user is able to grip the grip region; and a stand portion provided at a first end portion of the main body and disposed with the grip region separated from the imaging unit. The grip region faces a long side of an imaging surface of the imaging unit. The stand portion is located on a first axis orthogonal to an optical axis of the imaging unit and is rotatable within a plane along the optical axis and the first axis.
US11910071B2
In general, in an aspect, versions of representations of segments of a media item are received and temporarily stored on a media playing device. The segments have a sequence. The temporarily stored versions are used in sequence to present at least part of the media item to a user. One or more other versions of representations of segments of the media item are also received and persistently stored on the media playing device. The one or more persistently stored other versions are used to enhance the presentation of at least part of the media item to the user.
US11910067B2
A content providing system is provided that includes a client terminal and a server, and provides content based on a use state of the client terminal. The client terminal includes a client control unit and a display unit. The server includes a client terminal management unit, a content recording unit, a content management unit, a content distribution control unit, and a distribution condition management unit. The client control unit secures a content frame based on a distribution condition notified from the distribution condition management unit, and transmits a distribution request of the content to the content distribution control unit. The content distribution control unit extracts and distributes the content from the content recording unit, and the client control unit displays the content distributed by the content distribution control unit on the display unit within the content frame.
US11910062B2
Systems and methods for generating and displaying groupings of content recommendations using personas are provided. The system determines content for each of the plurality of personas. The determined content for each of the plurality of personas comprises content that shares a common genre or theme for each persona. The system populates each of the plurality of personas using the determined content for each of the plurality of personas. The system then causes display of at least some of the plurality of personas on a viewing device of a user. The at least some of the plurality of personas is selected for the user based on device data corresponding to the user, whereby the device data indicates user preferences and interactions with previous content.
US11910061B2
Systems and methods for determining emotional responses to videos, generating emotional arc based on the responses and reactions, and determining the type and/or point of insertion of secondary content based on the determined emotional responses are disclosed. The methods display primary content to a plurality of users and determine their emotional response as they consume the primary content. An average emotional arc is generated based on the determined emotional response and it is compared to a current emotional arc generated based on emotional response from a current user. When values of the current emotional are within a predefined range of the average emotional arc at a particular play position in the timeline of the primary content, a secondary content that is designated for the value of the current emotional arc is inserted in the primary content at the particular play position.
US11910060B2
This relates to using a computer simulation to test another computer program in real time or simulated real time that is sped up. The disclosed method and system synchronizes information input into the simulation so that the program under test operates in an independent way. The method and system operates a protocol to connect one running computer process, a trading computer program, with another running process, a computer program that executes a market simulation in order to optimize the quality and speed of the simulation and testing of the external computer program.
US11910051B2
Systems and methods are described to address shortcomings in the conventional network storage systems via novel techniques to store offsets of a recorded program in a network digital video recorder (DVR). Storing offsets of a recorded program may be beneficial to users that would like to record media content that is broadcast either prior to a start time of a program, or media content that is broadcast after an end time of a program. This feature may be useful when start times and end times of a program are variable (e.g., in the case of sporting events, or other real-time events). This feature may also be useful for recording content of interest that is scheduled for broadcast prior to a start time of or after an end time of the program.
US11910046B2
Methods and apparatus to verify and/or correct media lineup information are disclosed. Disclosed example apparatus include means for determining reference media, the means for determining reference media to identify a plurality of first signatures in a database that matches a plurality of second signatures included in media presentation data representative of media output by a media device in response to a mismatch between the media presentation data and reference data associated with first reference media corresponding to a first station, the plurality of second signatures generated from the media output by the media device; and determine second reference media corresponding to the plurality of first signatures; and means for storing the media presentation data.
US11910045B2
The quality of stored content may be managed prior to output. A computing device may request and receive content segments for output via the computing device. The content segments may comprise content encoded at a first bit rate selected by the computing device. The first content segments may be stored in a memory of the computing device, such as a buffer, until output at their respective presentation times. If network conditions improve, the computing device may improve the quality of at least one of the first content segments stored in the memory. The quality may be improved by requesting a higher bit rate version of the content segment and replacing, in the memory, the first content segment with the higher bit rate version of the content segment. The quality of the first content segment may be improved by adding data to the first content segment.
US11910043B2
A system for data collection in a commercial travel setting is described. The system includes a plurality of sensor circuits that collect a plurality of sensor data values from in-flight entertainment (IFE) network. The system includes a sensor data processor that interprets the plurality of sensor data values. The system includes a passenger profile management controller configured that filters the plurality of sensor data values by processing a plurality of passenger profiles that are related to at least some of the plurality of sensor data values. The system generates a measurement index that is normalized with respect to the plurality of sensor data values or the plurality of passenger profiles.
US11910039B2
An encoding engine encodes a video sequence to provide optimal quality for a given bitrate. The encoding engine cuts the video sequence into a collection of shot sequences. Each shot sequence includes video frames captured from a particular capture point. The encoding engine resamples each shot sequence across a range of different resolutions, encodes each resampled sequence with a range of quality parameters, and then upsamples each encoded sequence to the original resolution of the video sequence. For each upsampled sequence, the encoding engine computes a quality metric and generates a data point that includes the quality metric and the resample resolution. The encoding engine collects all such data points and then computes the convex hull of the resultant data set. Based on all convex hulls across all shot sequences, the encoding engine determines an optimal collection of shot sequences for a range of bitrates.
US11910033B2
According to one embodiment, a streaming server that outputs chunk data obtained by dividing picture data into chunks as streaming data, comprises a chunk length determination unit, and a data generation unit. The chunk length determination unit that calculates a chunk length which is a time length of the chunk, and the data generation unit that generates the chunk data by dividing the picture data into the chunks in accordance with the chunk length.
US11910031B2
A thermostat and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, multiple wireless transceivers are located within a housing, which also interconnectively includes a processor and memory. To improve convenience, the thermostat may establish a pairing with a proximate wireless-enabled interactive programmable device having a display. Virtual remote control functionality for various amenities may then be provided. To improve safety, the thermostat may be incorporated into a geolocation and safety network.
US11910026B2
The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and a method that enable decoding of encoded data of an octree in various processing orders. The octree corresponding to point cloud data is encoded after the context is initialized for each layer of the octree. Further, a breadth-first order or a depth-first order is selected as the decoding order for the encoded data of the octree corresponding to point cloud data, and the encoded data is decoded in the selected decoding order. The present disclosure can be applied to an image processing apparatus, an electronic apparatus, an image processing method, a program, or the like, for example.
US11910004B2
Difference calculation based on partial position is described. In a representative aspect, a method of video processing comprising: calculating, during a conversion between a current block of video and a bitstream representation of the current block, differences between two reference blocks associated with the current block or differences between two reference sub-blocks associated with a sub-block within the current block based on representative positions of the reference blocks or representative positions of the reference sub-blocks; and performing the conversion based on the differences.
US11910003B2
Processing methods for motion compensation, an encoder, and a decoder are provided. The method includes the following. Determine a search position constellation with a point pointed by an initial motion vector as a center point, where the search position constellation includes N directions, search for at least one search point by using at least one type of step lengths in the directions, where the at least one search point at least includes at least one search point in diagonal directions. Search for at least one search position from the search position constellation based on a preset range coverage rule, where the preset range coverage rule is to arrange search points in the directions for search. Obtain a new motion vector according to the at least one search position, and perform motion compensation based on the new motion vector to obtain a prediction value of a coding unit (CU).
US11910001B2
A method comprising: receiving a high frame rate video stream of a scene, wherein the scene comprises at least one object in motion relative to an imaging device acquiring the video stream; continuously dividing, in real time, the video stream into at least one consecutive sequences of n frames each; with respect to each current sequence: (i) estimating pixel motion between at least some pairs of frames in the sequence, (ii) calculating a motion vector field for each pixel in the sequence, (iii) generating a representative frame which co-locates all of the pixels to respective pixel positions, based on the calculated motion vector fields, and (iv) aggregating, for each of the respective pixel positions, pixel values from all frames in the sequence; and outputting, in real time, a stream of the representative frames, wherein the stream has a lower frame rate than the high frame rate.
US11909994B2
A method and apparatus for intra-prediction coding of video data are provided. The apparatus includes a decoder that is configured to decode, from a bitstream, a syntax element indicating an intra-prediction type of a current block of the video data, and an intra-predictor that is configured to generate a prediction block for the current block by selectively performing matrix based intra-prediction or regular intra-prediction based on the intra-prediction type of the current block indicated by the syntax element.
US11909989B2
Devices, systems and methods for encoding and decoding digital video using a table containing coding candidates are described. In a representative aspect, a video processing method is provided to include maintaining a set of tables, wherein each table includes motion candidates and each motion candidate is associated with corresponding motion information; and performing a conversion between a bitstream representation of a video including a current block and the current block, and wherein the performing of the conversion includes checking at most N motion candidates in a table based on a rule.
US11909981B2
The present invention relates to an entropy decoding method which includes: generating context related to a bin that forms a codeword of a syntax element; and performing arithmetic decoding of the bin based on the context.
US11909980B2
A method of video processing is provided. The method includes determining, for a conversion between a video comprising a video unit and a bitstream of the video, whether a first coding tool is enabled for the video unit according to a rule. The rule specifies that the first coding tool and a second coding tool are mutually exclusively enabled. The first coding tool or the second coding tool comprises a sign data hiding tool. The method also includes performing the conversion according to the determining.
US11909975B2
Method, apparatus, and non-transitory storage medium for end-to-end neural image compression using dependent scalar quantization with substitution, including receiving an input image; determining a substitute image based on the input image using a neural network based substitute feature generator; compressing the substitute image; quantizing the compressed substitute image to obtain a quantized representation of the input image with higher compression performance by using a first dependent scalar quantizer; and entropy encoding the substitute image using a neural network based encoder to generate a compressed representation of the quantized representation.
US11909973B2
Provided are a video decoding method and device. This specification provides a video decoding method comprising the steps of: acquiring a parameter indicating whether a multiple transform set is applicable to a block to be decoded, as well as information about the width of the block to be decoded and the height of the block to be decoded; determining the transform type of the block to be decoded on the basis of at least one of the parameter indicating whether a multiple transform set is applicable, or the information about the width and height of the block to be decoded, and setting a zero-out region of the block to be decoded; and inverse-transforming the block to be decoded on the basis of the zero-out region of the block to be decoded and the result of determining the transform type.
US11909972B2
An image decoding method includes: acquiring a multiple transform selection (MTS) index and residual information from a bitstream; deriving transform coefficients for the current block on the basis of the residual information; and generating residual samples of the current block on the basis of the MTS index and the transform coefficients, wherein the MTS index indicates a transform kernel set to be applied to the current block among transform kernel set candidates, at least one bin among bins of a bin string of the MTS index is derived on the basis of context coding, the context coding is performed on the basis of values of increase and decrease in a context index pertaining to the MTS index, and a single value of increase and decrease in the context index can be used for the context coding of the first bin among the bins of the bin string.
US11909963B2
Provided is an image encoding method. The method includes: determining an intra prediction mode of an encoding block, and constructing a first prediction value of the encoding block according to the intra prediction mode; determining a filtering parameter according to the first prediction value and an original value of the encoding block, where the filtering parameter includes a filtering indication parameter; in a case where the filtering indication parameter indicates performing filtering processing on the first prediction value, performing the filtering processing on the first prediction value to obtain an intra prediction value; calculating a prediction difference parameter according to a difference between the original value of the encoding block and the intra prediction value; and encoding the intra prediction mode, the filtering parameter, and the prediction difference parameter, and writing encoded bits into a bitstream.
US11909957B2
Encoder and decoder, encoding method and decoding method for reference picture resampling extensions
A video decoder (151) for decoding an encoded video signal comprising encoded picture data to reconstruct a plurality of pictures of a video sequence of a video. The video decoder (151) comprises an input interface (160) configured for receiving the encoded video signal comprising the encoded picture data. Moreover, the video decoder (151) comprises a data decoder (170) configured for reconstructing the plurality of pictures of the video sequence depending on the encoded picture data. Moreover, further video decoders, video encoders, systems, methods for encoding and decoding, computer programs and encoded video signals according to embodiments are provided.
US11909956B2
Systems and methods for deep neural network (DNN)-based cross component prediction are provided. A method includes inputting a reconstructed luma block of an image or video into a DNN; and predicting, by the DNN, a reconstructed chroma block of the image or video based on the reconstructed luma block that is input. Luma and chroma reference information and side information may also be input into the DNN to predict the reconstructed chroma block. The various inputs may also be generated using processes such as downsampling and transformation.
US11909953B2
A method, a video processing apparatus and computer-readable program medium for video process is disclosed. A method of video processing includes storing, during a conversion between a current block of video and a bitstream representation of the current block, affine model parameters for the current block; and performing the conversion using the affine model parameters, wherein the affine model parameters are derived at least from motion vectors of control points of the current block.
US11909947B2
The present invention relates to a method for displaying an image in a direction towards an observer observing the image from a viewpoint. The method comprises providing a display system including a tracking system for tracking or detecting the position of the observer, a display screen having a plurality of image pixels for displaying the image, a controller for controlling the direction of light emitted from said display screen, and a processing unit for generating a buffer image from a data source. The method further comprises tracking the observer and generating tracking data to the processing unit, generating the buffer image and embedding the tracking data as embedded data in the buffer image, outputting the buffer image to the display screen and displaying the image on the display screen, and reading the embedded data by the controller and directing light from the display screen in a direction towards the viewpoint.
US11909943B2
The invention relates to a food preparation entity comprising a cavity (2) for receiving food (3) to be prepared and at least two cameras (4, 5) for capturing images of the food (3) included in the cavity (2), wherein said cameras (4, 5) are positioned such that images are captured from different points of view, wherein each camera (4, 5) comprises a certain field of view (4.1, 5.1), wherein immediately adjacent fields of view (4.1,5.1) of said cameras (4, 5) at least partially overlap and wherein a processing entity (6) is provided which is configured to calculate three-dimensional information of the food (3) included in the cavity (2) based on the images provided by the cameras (4, 5).
US11909936B2
An image forming apparatus records identification information of an external memory and identification information of a scan job as a log when the external memory is attached to start the scan job. When the external memory is removed in the middle of the scan job, scan data is temporarily saved together with the identification information of the job. When the removed external memory is attached, for example, in a ready state, log data is referred to determine whether the external memory is that removed in the middle of the job and whether the scan data associated with the external memory is saved. When it is determined that the scan data is saved, the scan data is saved in the external memory.
US11909934B1
A digital image processor includes a region proposal network configured to transform digital image inputs into region proposals and bounding box refinement logic configured to transform the region proposals by determining a first set of the region proposals exhibiting dense spacing, determining a second set of the region proposals exhibiting sparse spacing, executing a first transformation to merge at least some of the region proposals exhibiting dense spacing to generate refined region proposals, executing a second transformation to join at least some of the region proposals exhibiting sparse spacing to generate additional ones of the refined region proposals, and applying an expansion transformation to the refined region proposals.
US11909933B1
A method of detecting a digital stamp pattern involves operating a scanning device to create a page image scanned from a document page, inputting the page image into a one-shot trained neural network, the one-shot trained neural network configured to recognize a copy-guard digital stamp pattern using one-shot learning, analyzing the page image using the one-shot trained neural network to detect the copy-guard digital stamp pattern, and on condition the copy-guard digital stamp pattern is detected, issuing an electronic alert.
US11909931B2
A feeding device includes: a feeder that feeds a first medium disposed on a top of plural media loaded; a detector that detects at least one of a curved state and an inclination of the first medium and following media including a second medium disposed immediately below the first medium; and a modifier that modifies a condition related to a feeding operation of the feeder based on the at least one of the curved state and the inclination detected by the detector.
US11909925B2
An information processing apparatus, an image forming apparatus, an information processing method, and a non-transitory recording medium. The information processing apparatus in response to completion of a specific software activation process in the controller, transmits an activation completion notification to the operation device and the operation device in response to receiving the activation completion notification, updates a timeout period of a timer started after activation of software of the operation device to a shorter period of time and restart the timer, and in a case data communication is not established on the communication path within the updated timeout period, detects a malfunction and notifies the controller of the malfunction, and the controller performs a recovery process.
US11909922B2
The present disclosure relates to processing operations configured to provide processing that automatically analyzes acoustic signals from attendees of a live presentation and automatically triggers corresponding reaction indications from results of analysis thereof. Exemplary reaction indications provide feedback for live presentations that can be presented in real-time (or near real-time) without requiring a user to manually take action to provide any feedback. As a non-limiting example, reaction indications may be presented in a form that is easy to visualize and understand such as emojis or icons. Another example of a reaction indication is a graphical user interface (GUI) notification that provides a predictive indication of user intent derived from analysis of acoustic signals. Further examples described herein extend to training and application of artificial intelligence (AI) processing, in real-time (or near real-time), that is configured to automatically analyze acoustic features of audio streams and automatically generate exemplary reaction indications.
US11909916B2
A data subscription system provides emergency event data to receiving systems. The data subscription system includes an event emitter and a distribution module. The event emitter receives event data describing an event in a computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system; the event is related to an emergency call. The event emitter identifies a subscription subscribed to the event based on a tenant identifier identifying a CAD tenant associated with the event, and adds a data message with the event data to a queue for the identified subscription. The distribution module retrieves the data message from the queue, transforms the data message based on one or more filtering or formatting rules, and transmits the transformed data message to a receiving system associated with the subscription.
US11909912B2
Methods and apparatus for call traffic anomaly mitigation are described herein. One or more embodiments include receiving a scoring request including a telephone number associated with a telephone call at a scoring device from a call processing entity, receiving a violator list of telephone numbers and their corresponding severity values at the scoring device from an anomaly analyzer, determining a severity value associated with the telephone number by performing a lookup operation in the violator list, performing a random simulation using the severity value as a probability to determine an indicator value, and inputting the indicator value into a model to determine a call reputation score.
US11909902B2
A communication terminal and a method of providing a unified natural language interface to the same are disclosed. The method includes: determining, when text information containing many characters is created, whether the text information conforms to one of preset grammatical constraints; extracting, when the text information conforms to one of the grammatical constraints, tokens of one or more of characters from the text information, and extracting, when the text information does not conform to one of the grammatical constraints, one or more characters having an attribute probability higher than a reference probability as a token; and analyzing the extracted tokens to determine a function to handle the extracted tokens, and executing the determined function based on the extracted tokens.
US11909901B2
As a user interacts with a voice application, a history of the prompts played to the user and the users responses are displayed to the user. The displayed prompts and displayed responses could be summaries of the prompts and responses, or they could be full transcriptions of the prompts and responses. A user may be able to select a prompt or response in the history to return to a certain point in the voice application. It may be possible for a user to save a history of the interactions that occurred when a voice application was performed, and to recall the history to continue on from a selected location in the history.
US11909898B2
This application provides a mobile terminal and relates to the field of display technologies. The mobile terminal includes a display panel, a cover body, a photoelectric conversion apparatus, and a bearer layer. The bearer layer includes a non-polarized part, where the bearer layer is disposed between the cover body and the display panel, and the bearer layer is located in a partial transmissive region of the display region, where an orthographic projection of the photoelectric conversion apparatus on the bearer layer is located in an orthographic projection of the non-polarized part on the bearer layer, and the non-polarized part is configured to enable a polarization direction of light. Furthermore, the mobile terminal includes an ink layer, disposed on a surface of the bearer layer, where the ink layer is located in a peripheral region of the mobile terminal. As discussed herein, the techniques resolve a problem of how to evenly print ink in a corresponding peripheral region of the mobile terminal.
US11909885B2
Improved optical network security (e.g., using a computerized tool) is enabled. Various embodiments herein can send (e.g., via a network) to a group of network devices comprising a first network device and a second network device, a first encrypted data stream, a second encrypted data stream, a first hash code, and a second hash code, wherein the first network device deletes the second encrypted data stream after the first network device hashes the second encrypted data stream, and in response to the second network device being determined not to have received the second hash code within a defined threshold time, determine that the first network device is unauthorized to use the network.
US11909883B2
A method for identification and authentication of objects includes providing a central electronic system, including a database; providing at least one electronic user device; and providing one or more physical entities, each physical entity being equipped with a message reception and transmission system comprising a secure chipset storing digital identifiers and encryption keys of said physical entity. The at least one user device interrogates the central electronic system in order to receive authentication data of one or more of the physical entities, entered in said database. In reply, the at least one user device receives the authentication data and sends authentication request messages to the one or more physical entities. The at least one user device receives replies to the authentication request messages from at least one of the one or more physical entities, including parameters and digital identifiers of the user devices and, based on the parameters, performs an acquisition of at least one video image of the physical entity.
US11909882B2
Various embodiments of systems and methods are provided to bind a system identifier that uniquely identifies an information handling system (IHS) to the system platform, so that the identity of the IHS can be cryptographically verified. More specifically, the present disclosure provides methods to bind a unique system identifier to an IHS platform, and methods to cryptographically verify the identity of the IHS using the unique system identifier and a plurality of keys generated and stored with a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) of the IHS. Systems are provided herein to perform such methods. As such, the systems and methods disclosed herein enable system identity to be irrefutably verified, thereby preventing theft and misuse of system identity.
US11909880B2
Embodiments relate to a system that may include a third-party server and a domain name system (DNS). The third-party server may be configured to receive a request for a credential from a named entity device for the named entity device to communicate with an application programming interface (API). The API may be associated with a domain. The third-party server may obtain the credential from the API. The third-party server may encrypt the credential with a public key corresponding to the named entity device to generate an encrypted credential. The DNS may be configured to receive the encrypted credential and publish a DNS record at a namespace of the DNS, the DNS record containing the encrypted credential for the named entity device to retrieve the credential. The named entity device may decrypt the encrypted credential by the private key stored at the device.
US11909874B2
At least one non-transitory computer readable medium, that at least one non-transitory computer readable medium stores instructions for (a) generating master keys by a keys security entity (KSE) that is established within a KSE; (b) generating one-time connection session keys, by the KSE, based on the master keys; (c) outputting, by the KSE, the one-time connection session keys to a Connection Security Entity (CSE) enclave in which a CSE is established, over a secure communication link; and (d) preventing access, by the KSE, to the master keys.
US11909869B2
Communication methods and apparatus are described. One communication method includes that user equipment (UE) sends an N1 message to a security anchor function (SEAF), where the N1 message carries a Diffie-Hellman (DH) public parameter or a DH public parameter index, the N1 message further carries an encrypted identifier of the UE, and the encrypted identifier is obtained by encrypting a permanent identifier of the UE and a first DH public key. The UE receives an authentication request that carries a random number and that is sent by the SEAF. The UE sends, to the SEAF, an authentication response used to respond to the authentication request, where the authentication response carries an authentication result calculated based on a root key and the random number.
US11909864B2
Systems and methods for generating min-increment counting bloom filters to determine count and frequency of device identifiers and attributes in a networking environment are disclosed. The system can maintain a set of data records including device identifiers and attributes associated with device in a network. The system can generate a vector comprising coordinates corresponding to counter registers. The system can identify hash functions to update a counting bloom filter. The system can hash the data records to extract index values pointing to a set of counter registers. The system can increment the positions in the min-increment counting bloom filter corresponding to the minimum values of the counter registers. The system can obtain an aggregated public key comprising a public key. The system can encrypt the counter registers using the aggregated shared key to generate an encrypted vector. The system can transmit the encrypted vector to a networked worker computing device.
US11909855B2
In one embodiment, data communication apparatus includes packet processing circuitry to receive data from a memory responsively to a data transfer request, and cryptographically process the received data in units of data blocks using a block cipher so as to add corresponding cryptographically processed data blocks to a sequence of data packets, the sequence including respective ones of the cryptographically processed data blocks having block boundaries that are not aligned with payload boundaries of respective one of the packets, such that respective ones of the cryptographically processed data blocks are divided into two respective segments, which are contained in successive respective ones of the packets in the sequence, and a network interface which includes one or more ports for connection to a packet data network and is configured to send the sequence of data packets to a remote device over the packet data network via the one or more ports.
US11909853B2
Methods and systems for calibrating clock skew in a SerDes receiver. A method includes detecting a skew in a clock with respect to an edge of a reference clock, based on a value sampled by the clock and a value sampled by the reference clock at an edge of a data pattern, for a first Phase Interpolator (PI) code; determining a count of the skew from a de-serialized data word including outcome values obtained based on values sampled by the clock and values sampled by the reference clock at a predefined number of edges of the data pattern; obtaining a skew calibration code corresponding to the first PI code, from a binary variable obtained by accumulating an encoded variable to a previously generated binary variable; and calibrating the skew by performing a positive phase shift or a negative phase shift to the clock based on the skew calibration code.
US11909849B2
A communication circuit supports a first communication protocol and a second communication protocol that is different from the first communication protocol. A number of signals include first signals conveying first information messages and second signals conveying second information messages. The first information messages include a repetitive message having fixed repeated content and the second information messages include a non-repetitive message having variable content. The first signals and the second signals are transmitted via the communication circuit using the first communication protocol for the first signals and the second communication protocol for the second signals.
US11909841B2
In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving, in an edge platform, a plurality of messages from a plurality of edge devices coupled to the edge platform, the plurality of messages comprising metadata including priority information and granularity information; extracting at least the priority information from the plurality of messages; storing the plurality of messages in entries of a pending request queue according to the priority information; selecting a first message stored in the pending request queue for delivery to a destination circuit; and sending a message header for the first message to the destination circuit via at least one interface circuit, the message header including the priority information, and thereafter sending a plurality of packets including payload information of the first message to the destination circuit via the at least one interface circuit. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11909827B2
A method of establishing an application layer connection between a user equipment (UE) and an application executing on an edge computing node via a communication network. The method comprises receiving an application service availability message by the UE that identifies a plurality of networks that provide access to an identified application executing on an edge computing node within the network; for each network identified in the application service availability message, receiving by the UE an application service figure-of-merit determined by that network associated with a prospective application layer connection between the UE and an edge computing node executing the identified application that is located in that network; based on evaluating the figure-of-merit associated with each network establishing an application layer connection by the UE via the selected network to the application executing on the edge computing node in the selected network.
US11909824B2
A mobile terminal detects a self-device being located at a predetermined location, and stops reception of sensing information from a module device that transmits the sensing information, if being located at the predetermined location is detected. A fixed device receives the sensing information from the module device, and transmits the sensing information to a cloud server.
US11909821B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to the processing of a safety-related user program for a safety control system. The generation of the machine code for the safety-related control takes place on a cloud computer. The data required for generating the machine code such as the source code data of the user program, are secured with a unique signature and transmitted to the cloud computer. The machine code is generated on the cloud computer from the transmitted data. A new signature is generated via the resultant data and the signature from the preceding step. The entire safety life cycle is also covered, since each step in the life cycle is automatically documented and may be clearly tracked at any time, and corruptions of a step may be detected.
US11909819B1
A method and system are provided which facilitate synchronization of client IP binding databases across an extended network by leveraging the BGP control plane. During operation, a switch configures a first synchronization identifier indicating validated Internet Protocol (IP) binding information of an associated client. The switch receives a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) update message associated with a first client, wherein the BGP update message includes a second synchronization identifier. Responsive to determining that the second synchronization identifier matches the first synchronization identifier, the switch: extracts from the BGP update message reachability information, which includes media access control (MAC) and IP information associated with the first client; validates the MAC and IP information based on security policies; and adds the MAC and IP information to a local IP binding database, thereby allowing synchronization of the validated IP binding information of the first client between the switch and other switches.
US11909816B2
Distributed network address discovery in non-uniform node networks can be performed. Regarding a client request for a service, network management component (NMC) can determine a network address space associated with a client based on a network identifier associated with the client or a node identifier. NMC can determine a group of candidate nodes (CN group) from a group of nodes based on network addresses associated with nodes of the node group and the network address space. NMC can determine a group of available candidate nodes (ACN group), from the CN group, available and able to process the request and perform the service based on operational statuses associated with the nodes of the CN group or services associated with those nodes. From the ACN group, NMC can determine a ranked list of network addresses associated with available nodes that can process the request based on defined service performance criteria.
US11909795B1
A content streaming system and methodology for facilitating the management of content streaming. A content delivery service receives at least an original content stream and multiple input contents from an original content provider. Additionally, the content delivery service processes the received input content streams, buffers the original and supplemental input content streams, and switches between the available input content streams for seamless and fast broadcasting. The decision to switch between a second content and a third is determined by an indication that a third input content is available in the buffer.
US11909775B2
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for enhancement to an internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS). According to an embodiment, an application server (AS) of the IMS receives from a terminal device a first request for initiating a call service and an internet service which are to be integrated with each other. The AS of the IMS sends a second request for initiating the internet service to a gateway server that acts as a gateway to an internet AS capable of providing the internet service. In response to a reply from the gateway server, the AS of the IMS handles the first request based on the reply.
US11909754B2
A security assessment system is configured to provide a duplicated environment which duplicates an assessment target system comprising a plurality of physical components. The security assessment system includes a duplicated environment design circuitry and a duplicated environment construction circuitry. The duplicated environment design circuitry is configured to select a duplication level based on constraints specified by a user in order to design the duplicated environment to produce a designed result indicative of a duplicated environment design. The duplication level is indicative of any one of a simulation sub-module, an emulation sub-module, and a physical sub-module which are for reproducing the physical components of the assessment target system. The duplicated environment construction circuitry is configured to construct the duplicated environment based on the designed result. The duplicated environment includes components which are duplicated by one of the duplication level.
US11909748B2
In an anti-fraud control system, a first error monitoring device includes a first frame transmitting and receiving unit that receives a frame flowing on the on-board network; and a first error detector that causes transmission of an error notification frame for notifying of an occurrence of an error in the frame when detecting the occurrence of the error in the frame received by the first frame transmitting and receiving unit. Each of second error monitoring devices includes: a second frame transmitting and receiving unit that receives the error notification frame; and a second error detector that regards, as a frame to be invalidated, the frame subjected to the error and included in the received error notification frame, and shifts the second error monitoring device to an invalidation mode for invalidating reception of subsequent frames, if no error is detected in an own branch with respect to the frame.
US11909746B2
Embodiments of systems and methods are provided to enhance network security by providing secure, multi-path user authentication, while also providing a more convenient login experience to the user. In the present disclosure, a cloud-based user authentication and threat detection system is provided with an artificial intelligence (AI) engine and a training dataset. Utilizing a cloud-based system enables the AI engine to collect data from multiple devices located within different physical locations or environments (such as, for example, the user's home and office). The collected data is stored within the training dataset and used to create a personalized user profile for each user. Each time a user initiates login to a system or network from a particular location, the AI engine collects data from multiple devices within that location and utilizes the user profile data previously stored within the training dataset to securely authenticate the user or detect potential security threats.
US11909745B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for utilizing sender-recipient pair data to establish sender-level trust in future communication. One method comprises receiving raw communication data over a network and testing the received raw communication data against trained machine learning data to predict whether the raw communication data is associated with expected communication data. The raw communication data is sorted for expected communication data, which is further analyzed for sender-recipient pair data and assigned an expected communication pair data score. Senders associated with an expected communication pair data score that meets or exceeds a threshold are labeled and stored in a database as trusted. As a result of the sender-recipient pair analysis, recipients at-risk for being scammed can be identified, senders misidentified as spammers can be properly classified, and machine learning techniques utilized for analyzing raw communication data can be fine-tuned.
US11909743B1
Systems and methods for an organization-level account for an organization on a data platform, users of which can possess administrative or management privileges with respect to the organization and across one or more others accounts of the organization.
US11909738B2
This application provides a network access control method. Before a second device accesses a target to-be-accessed device in an internal network, authentication is first performed on the second device by using a local domain name carried in a domain name request packet. Only when the local domain name is authenticated, an IP address of the second device and an IP address of the target device to be accessed by the second device are recorded in forwarding information. Therefore, when a data request packet is received, it may be determined, based on a source IP address, a destination IP address, and the forwarding information that are carried in the data request packet, whether to forward the data request packet.
US11909735B2
Techniques are provided for multi-cloud authentication of data requests. One method comprises obtaining, by a first authentication entity of a first cloud environment, from a service on the first cloud environment, a request for data stored by a second cloud environment; determining a signature for the service; verifying the determined signature for the service by requesting a signature for the service registered with a second authentication entity of the second cloud environment; requesting the data from the second authentication entity of the second cloud environment in response to the determined signature being verified; and providing the requested data to the service. The requested data from the second cloud environment may be encrypted with an encryption key, and the method may further comprise decrypting the requested data with a decryption key obtained from the second cloud environment. The signature for the service may be registered as part of a deployment of the service.
US11909730B2
Authentication of a networked device with limited computational resources for secure communications over a network. Authentication of the device begins with the supplicant node transmitting a signed digital certificate with its authentication credentials to a proxy node. Upon verifying the certificate, the proxy node then authenticates the supplicant's credentials with an authentication server accessible over the network, acting as a proxy for the supplicant node. Typically, this verification includes decryption according to a public/private key scheme. Upon successful authentication, the authentication server creates a session key for the supplicant node and communicates it to the proxy node. The proxy node encrypts the session key with a symmetric key, and transmits the encrypted session key to the supplicant node which, after decryption, uses the session key for secure communications. In some embodiments, the authentication server encrypts the session key with the symmetric key.
US11909729B2
A method (400) for a website authentication is provided. The method includes receiving a reference uniform resource locator (URL) (130) at a browser (120) and determining whether the reference URL adheres to an authentication protocol (202) including a credential identifier (132c) and a web authentication host URL (132a). When the reference URL adheres to the authentication protocol, the method also includes extracting the credential identifier and the web authentication host URL from the reference URL. The method further includes obtaining credential data (160) from a remote service (150) using the credential identifier and sending web authentication instructions (170) to the browser. The web authentication instructions include the web authentication host URL and the credential data.
US11909723B2
Techniques for auto-starting a VPN in a MAM environment are disclosed. A MAM-controlled application is launched on a computer system. Policy is queried and a determination is made as to whether to auto-start a VPN application based on the policy. Based on the policy, the VPN application is auto-started, and the VPN application initiates a VPN tunnel that is usable by at least the MAM-controlled application. Network communications transmitted to or from the MAM-controlled application then pass through the VPN tunnel.
US11909720B2
A computer-implemented method includes: connecting, by a computing device, to a database using an outbound connection, wherein the computing device is an information technology (IT) product in a private network and the database is outside the private network; receiving, by the computing device, a response from the database, the response including a command; executing, by the computing device, the command; and sending, by the computing device, result data to the database, wherein the result data is data that results from executing the command on the computing device.
US11909717B1
An example network device determines to assign a number of global Internet protocol (IP) addresses to respective network interfaces, determines a subnetwork for the network interfaces, determines a prefix corresponding to the subnetwork, determines a first global IP address having the prefix, determines a range value that is equal to or greater than the number of global IP addresses, generates a message according to Duplicate Address Detection Protocol (DAD) including data indicating that the message includes a range of addresses, the data further indicating the first global IP address and the range value, and sends the message according to DAD to one or more host network devices to determine whether any global IP address in a range starting with the first global IP address and through the range value is in use by the one or more host network devices.
US11909716B1
Leaf nodes of a tree structure, also having a root node and intermediate nodes, communicate with endpoints via access networks and store mappings from permanent virtual IP (VIP) addresses for the endpoints to physical IP (PIP) addresses for the endpoints on the access networks. The root node and intermediate nodes store pointers for the endpoints' leaf nodes and associated access networks. When a connection setup request (CSR) for a destination endpoint is received from a corresponding node, the receiving leaf node passes the CSR up through the tree structure to a lowest common ancestor (LCA) node for the receiving leaf node and one or more destination leaf nodes associated with the destination endpoint. The LCA node uses its pointers to pass the CSR down towards the one or more destination leaf nodes, which use the corresponding VIP-to-PIP mappings to forward the CSR to the destination endpoint.
US11909699B1
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for generating short messages for electronic messages of electronic marketing messages. One method includes receiving, by a server, information related to the electronic marketing message, receiving, by the server, a plurality of N short messages (text) generated based on the received information from a generative text engine model, reducing, by the server, the plurality of N short messages down to M short messages, displaying messages based on the M short messages to a merchant user, identifying merchant actions in response to the displaying of the messages based on the M short messages, and fine-tuning, by the server, the generative text engine model based on the identified merchant actions.
US11909697B2
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for remote interference management (RIM) in wireless networks, including RIM reference signals (RIM-RS) transmitted to assist victim radio access network (RAN) nodes to identify aggressor RAN nodes due to, for example, atmospheric ducting. The RIM-RS is also flexibly configured. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11909693B2
The present disclosure provides a channel state information report transmission method and a terminal. The channel state information report transmission method includes: obtaining an allocation rule of a channel state information (CSI) report transmitted on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), where the allocation rule is configured by a network device or predefined in a protocol; when there is a collision between at least two CSI reports, allocating some or all of CSI reports with collisions to a first CSI PUCCH according to the allocation rule; transmitting the some or all of CSI reports with collisions. The first CSI PUCCH is configured to transmit the some or all of CSI reports with collisions.
US11909692B2
The disclosure provides a method and device in communication node used for wireless communication. A first node receives a first signaling, transmits a first bit block set in a first air interface resource block, receives a second signal in a second air interface resource block, and transmits a third signal in a third air interface resource block. The first signaling is used for determining the first air interface resource block, and the first air interface resource block is used for determining the second air interface resource block; the second signal and the third signal indicate whether the first bit block set is correctly received respectively; the first signaling indicates a first time interval. The above method simplifies the design of downlink signalings for allocation of sidelink resources and reduces signaling overheads.
US11909688B2
An apparatus and method in a wireless communication system, and a computer-readable storage medium The method comprises: determining, based on at least one or more of resource set configuration information, physical channel information, and service type information, configuration information of one or more parameter sets for a sidelink communication; and controlling a base station to send the determined configuration information of the one or more parameter sets to a user equipment so that the user equipment performs sidelink communication on the basis of the one or more parameter sets, the parameter set comprising at least a subcarrier interval and a cyclic prefix type. The method can flexibly configure the parameter set used for the sidelink communication in NR so as to improve the communication performance of the sidelink communication and meet higher requirements on a series of indicators in an NR scene such as the delay and the system stability.
US11909684B2
Disclosed are techniques for signaling of reception-to-transmission measurements from gNBs and user equipments (UEs) for round trip time (RTT) based positioning in wireless networks such as new radio (NR). In multi-RTT positioning, the flow of messages that are exchanged differ depending on the entity acting as the location server determining the position of the UE.
US11909682B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a phase tracking reference signal. The phase tracking reference signal is transmitted using a single carrier waveform and encoded within a time domain. Accordingly, the UE may decode, from the base station, a message, based at least in part on the phase tracking reference signal. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11909676B2
A communication system is disclosed in which an NR radio access network (RAN) node identifies resources, that the NR RAN node is to use for transmissions, for protection from interference from another RAN node. The NR RAN node sends, to the other RAN node, information indicating the identified resources for protection from interference. The information indicating the identified resources comprises a list of parameters, typically including resource bitmaps, based on which the other RAN node is able to determine the resources for protection from interference.
US11909670B2
The disclosed systems and methods provide methods and systems for providing power throttling adapted for high performance network switches. A method includes determining, for each of a plurality of measurement periods within a thermal average period, an energy usage estimate for a packet processing block configured to process ingress packets at a power gated clock rate. The method includes determining, for each of the plurality of measurement periods, a target clock rate for the packet processing block based on the determined energy usage estimates to meet a target energy value that is averaged for the thermal average period. The method includes adjusting, for each of the plurality of measurement periods, the power gated clock rate towards the target clock rate, wherein the adjusting causes the packet processing block to process the ingress packets at the adjusted power gated clock rate.
US11909650B2
A network device may receive an internet protocol (IP) packet that includes an IP packet header. The IP packet may include at least one extension header, which includes at least one of: a hop-by-hop options header, a first destination options header that precedes a routing header, or a second destination options header that precedes an upper-layer header. The network device may determine that: the hop-by-hop options header includes an Operations and Management capabilities (OAM) option, the first destination options header includes the OAM option and an IP address of the network device matches a destination IP address or a routing IP address identified in the routing header, or the second destination options header includes the OAM option and the IP address of the network device matches the destination IP address. The network device may perform one or more actions indicated by the OAM option.
US11909648B2
In some embodiments, a method configures, at a first host, an overlay channel for sending packets to check whether a failure has occurred at a workload. The first host and a second host are connected via a layer 3 network. The first host generates a packet to check whether the failure has occurred at the workload and encapsulates the packet. The first host sends the encapsulated packet to the second host using the overlay channel via the layer 3 network. The packet is decapsulated and forwarded to the workload at the second host.
US11909636B2
Techniques are described for communications in an L2 virtual network. In an example, the L2 virtual network includes a plurality of L2 compute instances hosted on a set of host machines and a plurality of L2 virtual network interfaces and L2 virtual switches hosted on a set of network virtualization devices. An L2 virtual network interface emulates an L2 port of the L2 virtual network. Access control list (ACL) information applicable to the L2 port is sent to a network virtualization device that hosts the L2 virtual network interface.
US11909629B2
A network device may receive policy data identifying a first segment routing (SR) policy and a second SR policy. The first SR policy may be associated with a first path through a network and a first next hop, and the second SR policy may be associated with a second path through the network and a second next hop. The network device may advertise, to another device, reachability associated with the first next hop and the second next hop, and may receive, from the other device, a packet with a header. The network device may determine, from the header, data identifying the first next hop or the second next hop, without performing a lookup, and may cause the packet to be routed to a destination address, via the first path or the second path, based on the policy data associated with the first next hop or the second next hop.
US11909621B2
A method for network resiliency testing comprising: executing a resiliency testbed application at a plurality of virtual machines; accessing, by the plurality of virtual machines, network configuration data stored in a configuration database, the configuration data corresponding to a topology of a network to be emulated; configuring at least a portion of the virtual machines, according to the network configuration data, to emulate a plurality of nodes of the network to be emulated; automatically determining least cost paths between the plurality of nodes; simulating communications between the plurality of nodes based on the determined least cost paths; and determining one or more metrics of the network to be emulated based on the simulation.
US11909614B2
A user equipment may determine a latency requirement of the user equipment, and may determine a first set of latencies between the user equipment and a first multi-access edge computing (MEC) device. The user equipment may determine a second set of latencies between the user equipment and a second MEC device, and may calculate a first violation probability based on the latency requirement and the first set of latencies. The user equipment may calculate a second violation probability based on the latency requirement and the second set of latencies, and may identify the first MEC device or the second MEC device based on the first violation probability and the second violation probability. The user equipment may selectively initiate a MEC handoff of the user equipment to the first MEC device or the second MEC device based on identifying the first MEC device or the second MEC device.
US11909611B2
Implementations relate to generating standardized metrics from device specific metrics that are generated during an interaction between a user and an automated assistant. The metrics indicate events that occurred while processing an interaction of a user with the automated assistant and are specific to the particular configuration of the device with which the user is interacting. Conversion mappings are determined based on device characteristics that can be utilized to convert the device metrics into standardized metrics. Analysis metrics are generated based on the standardized metrics that are incapable of being generated from the device metrics. Some implementations include visually rendering the analysis metrics such that one or more of the analysis metrics are rendered more prominently than other metrics.
US11909600B2
An intent negotiation method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: A first network element sends a first sub-intent of a first intent to a second network element, and sends a second sub-intent of the first intent and indication information to the second network element, where the indication information is used to indicate that the first sub-intent and the second sub-intent have a same action and a same object.
US11909599B2
Techniques are described herein for generating network topologies based on models, and deploying the network topologies across hybrid clouds and other computing environments that include multiple workload resource domains. A topology deployment system may receive data representing a logical topology model, and may generate a network topology for deployment based on the logical model. The network topology may include various services and/or other resources provided by different tenants in the computing environment, and tenant may be associated with different set of resources and deployment constraints. The topology deployment system may determine and generate the network topology to use the various resources and comply with various deployment constraints of the different tenants providing the services, and the tenants consuming the network topology.
US11909596B2
Disclosed herein are various embodiments for constructing an abstract domain topology. In one embodiment, a Path Computation Element (PCE) is configured as a parent PCE to at least one child PCE. Each of the child PCEs is responsible for providing path computational services for a domain. Communication is established between the parent PCE and the at least one child PCE. The parent PCE receives from each of its child PCEs domain connection information corresponding to the domain of each child PCE. The parent PCE builds and maintains an abstract domain topology based on the domain connection information that it receives from its child PCEs. In one embodiment, the domain connection information is communicated from the child PCE to the parent PCE by adding a new notification-type (NT) and notification-value (NV) to a notification object in a Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) notification message.
US11909586B2
Techniques are described for providing logical networking functionality for managed computer networks, such as for virtual computer networks provided on behalf of users or other entities. In some situations, a user may configure or otherwise specify a network topology for a virtual computer network, such as a logical network topology that separates multiple computing nodes of the virtual computer network into multiple logical sub-networks and/or that specifies one or more logical networking devices for the virtual computer network. After a network topology is specified for a virtual computer network, logical networking functionality corresponding to the network topology may be provided in various manners, such as without physically implementing the network topology for the virtual computer network. In some situations, the computing nodes may include virtual machine nodes hosted on one or more physical computing machines or systems, such as by or on behalf of one or more users.
US11909584B2
Particular embodiments may detect, by a core network, a change in network traffic types from a first network traffic type to a second network traffic type. The core network includes one or more network functionality components. Each of the one or more network functionality components is decomposed into multiple service types. The core network may determine several service instances for deployment in response to the change in the network traffic types. Each of the service instances may belong to one of the multiple decomposed service types. The core network may deploy several service instances to one or more server machines of the core network according to a decomposed service type of a respective service instance.
US11909576B2
Various medical devices and related systems, including robotic and/or in vivo medical devices, and various robotic surgical devices for in vivo medical procedures. Included herein, for example, is a robotic surgical system having a support beam positionable through an incision, and a robotic device having a device body, first and second rotating shoulder components coupled to the device body, and first and second robotic arms coupled to the first and second shoulder components, respectively.
US11909574B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for coordinating modifications to a network device configuration (config) are provided. A system, according to one implementation, includes a processing device and a memory device configured to store a computer program having instructions that, when executed, enable the processing device to create a collaboration group including a plurality of contributing members. Each contributing member is adapted to provide proposed changes to a configuration for defining operating parameters of a Network Element (NE) in a network. The contributing members are adapted to provide the proposed changes within a predetermined timeframe. The instructions further enable the processing device to consolidate the proposed changes from the plurality of contributing members into a batched transaction and commit the batched transaction as a unitary transaction to encode modifications associated with the proposed changes from the plurality of contributing members into the configuration.
US11909562B2
A method may include detecting parameter(s) of communication between an AP and a STA. The method may include determining a training configuration for a channel estimation of the communication based on the parameter(s). The method may include transmitting a DL transmission or a trigger frame to the STA. The DL transmission may include a training block configured according to the training configuration. The trigger frame may include the training configuration and instructions for the STA to include a training block configured according to the training configuration in a UL transmission to the AP. The STA may be configured to determine the channel estimation of a channel of the communication using the training block of the DL transmission received at the STA. Alternatively, the method may also include determining the channel estimation of a channel of the communication using the training block of the UL transmission received at the AP.
US11909554B2
An Ethernet transceiver is disclosed. The Ethernet transceiver includes transceiver circuitry to couple to one end of an Ethernet link. The transceiver circuitry includes transmit circuitry to transmit high-speed Ethernet data along the Ethernet link at a first data rate and receiver circuitry. The receiver circuitry includes adaptive filter circuitry and correlator circuitry. The receiver circuitry is responsive to an inline signal to operate in a low-power alert mode with the adaptive filter circuitry disabled and to receive alert signals from the Ethernet link simultaneous with transmission of the Ethernet data by the transmit circuitry. The alert signals are detected by the correlator circuitry and include a sequence of alert intervals exhibiting encoded data at a second data rate less than the first data rate.
US11909549B2
Doorbells often include a button to enable visitors to ring a chime to summon building occupants. In some embodiments, doorbells include a camera to take pictures of visitors. In several embodiments, doorbells include covers that are light filters. These light filters can cover infrared light sources such as infrared light emitting diodes. The light filters can pass infrared light while blocking visible light. In several embodiments, a front portion of a camera assembly fits through a hole in a light filter. Light filters can help secure camera assemblies and can form a portion of a doorbell's outer housing.
US11909548B2
Systems and methods of operating power tools. The method includes receiving a command to start a recording mode at a first electronic processor of a first power tool, and receiving at the first electronic processor, a measured parameter from a sensor of the first power tool while a first motor of the first power tool is operating. The method also includes generating a recorded motor parameter by recording the measured parameter, on a first memory of the first power tool, when the first power tool operates in the recording mode, and transmitting, with a first transceiver of the first power tool, the recorded motor parameter. The method further includes receiving the recorded motor parameter at an external device, transmitting the recorded motor parameter to a second power tool via the external device, and receiving the recorded motor parameter via a second transceiver of the second power tool.
US11909542B2
Protocol-Independent Multicast (PIM) uses PIM hello messages to maintain neighborship information. PIM may be implemented in an Ethernet VPN (EVPN) providing Optimized Inter-Subnet Multicast (OISM). Techniques are disclosed for improving PIM neighborship efficiency and speed in an EVPN. An Inclusive Multicast Ethernet Tag (IMET) may be used to set PIM neighborship instead of using PIM hello messages and TCP may be used to determine if the neighbor is disconnected instead of tracking PIM timers.
US11909537B2
This application provides a data transmission method and related apparatus. The data transmission method is applied to a communications system. An access point in the communications system includes a first communications apparatus and a second communications apparatus, and a station in the communications system includes a third communications apparatus and a fourth communications apparatus. The data transmission method includes that after failing to send a first data frame to the third communications apparatus through a first channel, the first communications apparatus retransmits the first data frame, and sends a same second data frame to the second communications apparatus. The first communications apparatus receives a first notification message sent by the second communications apparatus. The first communications apparatus stops, in response to the first notification message, sending the first data frame.
US11909536B2
Provided by the implementations of the present application are a communication method and terminal, which may achieve reliability of system transmission by using a terminal-to-terminal mode to carry out communication. The method comprises: a first terminal device receiving a first sidelink transmission channel sent by a second terminal device, the first sidelink transmission channel being used to transmit a first message; in response to the first message, the first terminal device sending a second sidelink transmission channel to the second terminal device, the second sidelink transmission channel being used to transmit a second message, and the second message being a feedback message for the first message.
US11909535B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration for a multicast or broadcast radio bearer (MRB) in a radio link control (RLC) acknowledged mode (AM). The UE may determine an adjustment of an RLC AM transmission window of a base station. The RLC AM transmission window may be associated with retransmission of RLC packets associated with the MRB. The UE may synchronize an RLC AM reception window of the UE with the RLC AM transmission window based at least in part on determining the adjustment of the RLC AM transmission window of the base station. The RLC AM reception window may be associated with reassembly of RLC packets associated with the MRB. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11909534B2
A hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback method is applied to a terminal, wherein a base station allocates to the terminal multiple available scheduling resources configured to provide Early Data Transmission (EDT) service. The method includes: selecting an available scheduling resource from the multiple available scheduling resources; sending EDT data to the base station on the selected available scheduling resource; determining a HARQ feedback time point for the EDT data according to a preset rule; and when HARQ information sent by the base station is received at the HARQ feedback time point, determining a transmission result of the EDT data based on the HARQ information.
US11909532B2
Techniques discussed herein can facilitate successful decoding of Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) based on a reduced number of retransmissions. Based on a given PDSCH, embodiments discussed herein can communicate feedback (e.g., Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) feedback, Channel State Information (CSI) feedback) that indicates an amount of additional information that can allow a User Equipment (UE) to successfully decode the PDSCH. In some embodiments, the feedback can indicate a requested Redundancy Version (RV) sequence that can allow the UE to successfully decode the PDSCH. In other embodiments, the feedback can indicate the amount of additional information, based on which a receiving Base Station (BS) can select a RV sequence.
US11909523B2
An upstream (US) optical line terminal (OLT) for a passive optical network having at least one downstream (DS) optical network unit (ONU). The OLT generates a trigger signal indicating a need to receive at least one US burst having a shortened codeword for a first forward error-correction (FEC) code. Based on the trigger signal, the OLT transmits a DS message instructing the ONU to transmit an US burst having a shortened codeword. The OLT receives and decodes the US burst having the shortened codeword using the first FEC code. During periods of high bit-error rate, the shortened codewords increase the ability of the OLT to decode the US bursts and keep communications from the ONU alive. The OLT can use the decoded US bursts to measure BER and, if appropriate, instruct the ONU to use a different FEC code.
US11909516B2
Embodiments of the invention describe apparatuses, optical systems, and methods for utilizing a dynamically reconfigurable optical transmitter. A laser array outputs a plurality of laser signals (which may further be modulated based on electrical signals), each of the plurality of laser signals having a wavelength, wherein the wavelength of each of the plurality of laser signals is tunable based on other electrical signals. An optical router receives the plurality of (modulated) laser signals at input ports and outputs the plurality of received (modulated) laser signals to one or more output ports based on the tuned wavelength of each of the plurality of received laser signals. This reconfigurable transmitter enables dynamic bandwidth allocation for multiple destinations via the tuning of the laser wavelengths.
US11909509B2
Distributed audio mixing may include transmitting a set of parameters from a local location to one or more remote locations at least multiple miles away from the local location for, at each of the one or more remote locations, one or more remote audio sources to be processed according to the parameters to produce respective one or more remote audio mixes; processing one or more local audio sources according to the parameters to produce a local audio mix; receiving the one or more remote audio mixes; and locally summing the one or more remote audio mixes to the local audio mix to obtain a final audio mix.
US11909502B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A serving base station or a serving satellite may transmit a timing configuration to the UE based on a reference unit, such as a location at a beam center for a respective satellite, a threshold distance relative to the beam center for the respective satellite, a reference time, or any combination thereof. In some cases, the UE may monitor for one or more SSBs from the neighboring satellites according to the timing configuration and a respective propagation delay between the UE and each of the neighboring satellites. The UE may measure the SSBs according to the measurement gap and measurement window in the timing configuration. In some examples, the UE may perform a cell handover procedure or a cell reselection procedure based on measuring the SSBs.
US11909497B2
A method (20) performed by a wireless terminal (10) in a wireless communication network (10, 30) is provided. In the method (20), based on a (fundamental) polarization tracking capability of the wireless terminal (10), at least one downlink polarization of at least one downlink communication between the wireless terminal (10) and an access node (30) of the wireless communication network (10, 30) is determined (204). A reference polarization from the at least one downlink polarization is selected (207). Based on the reference polarization and a (momentary) polarization tracking ability of the wireless terminal (10), at least one uplink polarization of at least one uplink communication between the wireless terminal (10) and the access node (30) is configured (210). A corresponding method (40) performed by the access node (30) is also provided, as well as the mentioned wireless terminal (10) and the access node (30).
US11909496B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE). For example, the UE receives a first indication indicating a same quasi co-location (QCL) mapping for multiple receive beams corresponding to a group of transmit and receive beam pairs from a network entity. Transmit and receive beam pairs are different from each other and grouping of the transmit and receive beam pairs is based on a distance between the UE and the network entity. The UE selects one of the multiple receive beams corresponding to the group of transmit and receive beam pairs, based on the distance between the UE and the network entity.
US11909491B2
Example implementations include a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium of wireless communication. A user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration indicating whether a beam switching gap is expected at a first symbol position within a subframe of a physical channel for the UE, the first symbol position having a first cyclic prefix length that is longer than a second cyclic prefix length of a second symbol position within the subframe of the physical channel for the UE. The UE may determine whether a transmission includes a missing symbol for the beam switching gap based on the configuration and the symbol position of a symbol where a beam switch is scheduled.
US11909487B2
The present disclosure relates to a method performed by a network node for beamforming, to a network node and to a system including a network node. One aspect of the disclosure provides a method (900) comprising: obtaining (910), at the network node (800), information relating to a plurality of signals received or transmitted using a set of receiving beams or a set of transmitting beams of the network node (800), each individual beam of the set having a unique beam direction; determining a set of candidate beams for use by the network node (800) for synchronisation signal, SS, transmission or random access channel, RACH, detection; based on the obtained information, selecting one or more of the determined candidate beams; and using the selected one or more of the determined candidate beams for SS transmission or RACH detection by the network node (800).
US11909486B2
Aspects described herein relate to concurrently communicating with a base station over multiple frequency bands using a same first beam, and switching, according to beam switching criteria, from the first beam to a second beam during a time period, wherein the time period is based on a timing reference associated with a reference band.
US11909483B2
Aspects are provided which allow a base station to segment a code block into individual code block segments and a UE to determine and indicate a quality of the individual code block segments in a CSI report to a base station. The base station transmits a code block to the UE which includes a plurality of code block segments. The UE determines a code block segment quality of each of the code block segments, and sends a CSI report including one or more of the code block segment qualities to the base station. Thus, the code block segment qualities indicated by the UE allow the base station to determine which segments of the code block should be re-transmitted, for example, based on a best RV to be applied for the code block retransmission, thereby improving retransmission performance.
US11909476B2
In a first example embodiment, a control transmission portion of a mmWave communication is received at a user equipment. The control transmission portion is divided into a plurality of control transmission portion sub-regions, each sub-region scheduling a data transmission for a corresponding sub-region of a data transmission portion of the mmWave communication. Then a first of the control transmission portion sub-regions is demodulated and decoded. A receive analog antenna beamforming is armed according to the demodulated and decoded first of the control transmission portion sub-regions. Beamforming is performed on a first sub-region of the data transmission portion of the mmWave communication, the first sub-region of the data transmission portion corresponding to the first of the control transmission portion sub-regions. During the arming and performing, a second of the control transmission portion sub-regions is demodulated and decoded.
US11909467B2
Provided are a method, an apparatus, a terminal device and a base station for controlling precoding. The method includes: receiving configuration parameters configured by a base station for the precoding, where the precoding is used for feeding back a channel state; determining an upper limit value of a feedback number of coefficients of composition vectors of the precoding according to the configuration parameters; and adjusting the upper limit value of the feedback number.
US11909456B2
This disclosure describes techniques that enable a supplemental voltage to be delivered to a Remote Radio Unit (RRU) to compensate for a voltage loss that occurs between a primary Direct Current (DC) power source and the RRU. A supplemental voltage controller is described that captures current environmental metadata associated with an operation of the RRU and calculates an RRU voltage at the RRU. In doing so, the supplemental voltage controller may generate a supplemental voltage control signal that supplements the RRU with a supplemental DC voltage.
US11909447B2
An optical transceiver module includes a first housing, a second housing, an engagement component, a conductive body, and a circuit board. The first housing has a first sidewall and a first groove. The first groove is closer to a central line of a major axis of the first housing than the first sidewall. The second housing is assembled with the first housing. The second housing has a second sidewall. The second sidewall is extended into the first groove. The engagement component has a first engagement portion. The first engagement portion is extended between the first sidewall and the second sidewall. The conductive body is disposed between the first groove and the second sidewall. The circuit board is disposed between the first housing and the second housing to perform photoelectric conversion. Therefore, the stroke of the engagement component can be fixed, and the electromagnetic interference can be reduced.
US11909441B2
This application provides an example base station for an example wireless communication network and an example method. One example base station includes a central unit and a remote radio unit (RRU). The RRU includes one or more antennas. The RRU is coupled to the central unit via one or more optical transmission fibers. Each optical transmission fiber defines a respective downlink transmission channel for transmitting a respective downlink transmission signal from the central unit to the respective antenna of the RRU. The RRU is configured to provide a respective uplink feedback signal based on the respective downlink transmission signal via an uplink feedback channel to the central unit.
US11909440B2
The invention provides a visible light communication system with adaptive dimming and a modulation and demodulation method. The system includes: a source; an adaptive M-PAM modulator, separately modulating a signal transmitted by the signal source into a first and a second electrical signal; and a dual-path pulse generator, alternately generating a first and a second pulse control signal, where the first and the second pulse control signal are both periodic signals, where when a remaining operating duration of a high level of the first pulse control signal equals to a time of a rising edge of the second pulse control signal, the second pulse control signal starts to be generated, and when a remaining operating duration of a high level of the second pulse control signal is equal to a time of a rising edge of the first pulse control signal, the first pulse control signal starts to be generated.
US11909438B2
A transmitter may include a digital signal processor (DSP) to generate an electrical signal associated with a beacon and a data signal. The transmitter may include an electro-optical component to convert the electrical signal to an optical signal to be transmitted by the transmitter. The beacon and the data signal may be on a common wavelength in the optical signal. A power of the beacon within the optical signal may be based on a value of an amplitude modulation factor applied to the beacon by the DSP in association with generating the electrical signal.
US11909434B2
In an example, a system includes a plurality of acoustically coupled nodes. Each of the nodes includes a transducer, a communication circuit and a controller. The transducer is adapted to be mechanically coupled to a medium. The communication circuit is coupled to the transducer to send and receive acoustic signals via the medium according to at least one communication parameter. The controller is to adaptively configure the at least one communication parameter of the communication circuit based on an acoustic signal received from at least one other of the nodes.
US11909424B2
In certain embodiments, an apparatus includes a switch matrix and frequency band isolation circuitry. The switch matrix is configured to receive, at an input port, an electrical signal, which corresponds to a transmission signal received at antennas of an antenna array. The transmission signal corresponds to a transmission spatial sector of the array. The electrical signal includes first and second signal portions in first and second frequency bands, respectively, the electrical signal having been generated from an optical signal that corresponds to the transmission signal. The switch matrix is configured to direct, via an output port and in accordance with a control signal, the electrical signal to a first of multiple signal conversion paths.
US11909416B2
A data encoding device suitable for encoding a plurality of LDPC codes is disclosed including an input interface and an output interface, and a first circuit for encoding quasi-cyclic LDPC code, connected at an input to the input interface and at an output to the input of a first multiplexer circuit, a second circuit for encoding quasi-cyclic LDPC code, connected at an input to the input interface and at an output to the input of the first multiplexer circuit, a third circuit for encoding quasi-cyclic LDPC code, connected at an input to the output of the first multiplexer circuit and at an output to the input of a second multiplexer circuit.
US11909415B2
A memory system according to an embodiment includes a nonvolatile memory and a memory controller. The nonvolatile memory includes a plurality of memory cells. The memory controller is configured to control the nonvolatile memory. In read operation for the memory cells, the memory controller is configured to: perform tracking including a plurality of reads in which a read voltage is shifted; determine a hard bit read voltage based on results of the tracking; calculate a soft bit read voltage based on the determined hard bit read voltage; perform soft bit read using the calculated soft bit read voltage; and perform a soft bit decoding process using a result of the soft bit read and a log-likelihood ratio table associated with the calculated soft bit read voltage.
US11909412B2
A failure determination device: acquires a second digital value indicating a difference between an analog electrical output generated by inputting a first digital value incremented at a first time interval to a DA conversion circuit and a target output indicated by the first digital value at a second time interval; and determines whether the DA conversion circuit has a failure based on a signal strength in a predetermined frequency of the second digital value that is a discrete signal.
US11909410B2
An estimate of unit current element mismatch error in a digital to analog converter circuit is obtained through a correlation process. Unit current elements of the digital to analog converter circuit are actuated by bits of a thermometer coded signal generated in response to a quantization output signal. A correlation circuit generates the estimates of the unit current element mismatch error from a correlation of a first signal derived from the thermometer coded signal and a second signal derived from the quantization output signal.
US11909407B2
A system and method to dynamically control a reset signal for an IQ divider are provided. The system includes an IQ divider configured to output a IQ divider output clock; an input configured to receive a reference clock; a failure sensing circuit configured to sense a failure in the IQ divider output clock, the failure sensing circuit including an automatic frequency calibration (AFC) logic; and a control circuit configured to control a reset signal provided to the IQ divider, based on an output of the failure sensing circuit corresponding the failure sensed by the failure sensing circuit.
US11909403B2
A multi-feedback circuit that compares a duty cycle corrected reference clock fREF, and controls a number of identical delay lines to generate a new clock with a frequency that is a multiple (e.g., 32×, 4×, etc.) of the frequency of fREF with approximately 50% duty cycle (DC). The new clock is used as a reference clock to a phase locked loop (PLL) or a multiplying delay locked loop (MDLL) resulting in shorter lock times for the PLL/MDLL, higher bandwidth for the PLL/MDLL, lower long-term output clock jitter. The multi-feedback circuit can also be used as a low power clock generator.
US11909400B2
A method and apparatus for generating an RF signal uses digital signal components to generate a synthesized RF signal having a plurality of frequency components. An analog filter is used to filter the synthesized RF signal. The analog filter is a tunable, active feedback circuit having one or more variable resonators and a variable gain block connected in a signal loop that is defined by a passband. The analog filter is tuned such that the passband of the analog filter overlaps one or more desired frequency components of the plurality of frequency components of the synthesized RF signal, and such that the passband has a relative bandwidth of about 1% or less.
US11909399B2
A system includes a measuring device, a processing device and a signal generating device. The measuring device is configured to measure a voltage difference between a first node and a second node. The processing device is coupled between the first node and the second node. The signal generating device is configured to provide a first clock signal to the processing device to adjust the voltage difference, configured to generate the first clock signal according to a first enable signal and a second clock signal, and configured to align an edge of the first enable signal with an edge of the second clock signal. A method and a device are also disclosed herein.
US11909398B2
Laboratory equipment with flammable refrigerant and connected to at least two different electrical potentials for supplying the equipment with electrical energy. An electrical switch arrangement has first and second switches for electrical separation from, respectively, the first and second potentials. A sequence controller switches on the first switch and thereafter the second switch. A monitoring device is connected via a first contact on the equipment side to the first switch and via a second contact on the mains side to an electrical potential other than the first electrical potential for detecting a switched-on state of the first switch and signaling the detection to the sequence controller. When the monitoring device signals a switched-on state, the sequence controller blocks operation of the equipment as a function of the signaled switched-on state and whether the first switch is expected to be switched on or switched off.
US11909396B2
An integrated circuit is provided, including a first latch circuit, a second latch circuit, and a clock circuit. The first latch circuit transmits multiple data signals to the second latch circuit through multiple first conductive lines disposed on a front side of the integrated circuit. The clock circuit transmits a first clock signal and a second clock signal to the first latch circuit and the second latch circuit through multiple second conductive lines disposed on a backside, opposite of the front side, of the integrated circuit.
US11909381B2
An acoustic resonator device, filter devices, and methods of making the same. An acoustic resonator device includes a substrate having a surface and a single-crystal piezoelectric plate having front and back surfaces, where the back surface is attached to the surface of the substrate except for a portion of the piezoelectric plate forming a diaphragm that spans a cavity in the substrate. The device further includes an interdigital transducer formed on the front surface of the piezoelectric plate, where interleaved fingers of the IDT disposed on the diaphragm are configured such that a radio frequency signal applied to the IDT excites a primary shear acoustic mode in the diaphragm. The interleaved fingers include a first layer adjacent the diaphragm and a second layer over the first layer, the second layer having a narrower width than the first layer.
US11909374B2
Acoustic resonators are disclosed. An acoustic resonator includes a substrate having a surface and a single-crystal piezoelectric plate having front and back surfaces. The back surface is attached to the surface of the substrate except for a portion of the piezoelectric plate forming a diaphragm spanning a cavity in the substrate. An interdigital transducer (IDT) is formed on the front surface of the piezoelectric plate. The IDT includes: a first busbar and a second busbar disposed on respective portions of the piezoelectric plate other than the diaphragm; a first set of elongate fingers extending from the first bus bar onto the diaphragm; and a second set of elongate fingers extending from the second bus bar onto the diaphragm, the second set of elongate fingers interleaved with the first set of elongate fingers.
US11909368B2
A dual mode notch filter for use in a multi-band millimeter wave (mmW) transmitter includes a transmit filter circuit disposed between two amplifiers in a mmW transmit signal path, the transmit filter circuit formed by at least one switch, at least one capacitor, and a double-tuned transformer, the transmit filter circuit having at least two modes configured to selectively filter a spurious signal in at least a first communication band.
US11909357B2
An amplifier includes an amplification circuit, a power supplying circuit and an input circuit. A first end of the amplification circuit is connected with a first end of the input circuit; a second end of the amplification circuit is connected with the power supplying circuit; and a third end of the amplification circuit is connected with a second end of the input circuit. The power supplying circuit is at least configured to supply power to the amplification circuit so that the amplification circuit operates in an amplification region. The input circuit is at least configured to receive an input signal; the amplification circuit is configured to obtain an amplification gain in case of operating in the amplification region, and amplify the input signal by using the obtained amplification gain.
US11909356B2
An integrated circuit transceiver device includes a plurality of functional circuits, and clock circuitry for distributing synchronous, in-phase, phase-locked clock signals to all transceiver circuits. The clock circuitry includes a frequency-controllable distributed oscillator including at least one coupled pair of transmission line oscillators having a respective oscillator core, and at least one respective transmission line segment. At least one impedance element couples the at least one respective transmission line segment of a first transmission line oscillator to the at least one respective transmission line segment of a second transmission line oscillator. Impedance of the impedance element is different from impedance of each respective transmission line segment to cause reflection at the at least one impedance element. At least one tap corresponding to each respective one of the transmission line oscillators outputs synchronous, in-phase, phase-locked clock signals for the functional circuits at points along the distributed oscillator.
US11909355B2
To prevent an undesired operating mode of voltage-controlled oscillation (VCO) circuitry from dominating a desired operating mode (e.g., an in-phase operating mode or an out-of-phase operating mode), a supply reset and ramp pulse may be provided to the VCO circuitry when switching to a new mode, such that supply voltage to the VCO circuitry is reset (e.g., set to 0 V or another reference voltage), and gradually increased or ramped up back to a steady-state voltage (e.g., used to maintain a mode) within a time duration. Additionally or alternatively, a switch control bootstrap pulse may be provided to the VCO circuitry that is bootstrapped to (e.g., applied instantaneously or concurrently with) switching the VCO circuitry to the new mode. After a time duration, the VCO circuitry may switch back to a steady-state voltage (e.g., used to maintain the new mode).
US11909348B2
A stepping motor control device is provided, which controls a stepping motor including a rotor position detector by micro-step driving. The control device has a plurality of operation modes including an adjustment mode and a use mode. In the adjustment mode, the control device generates control data for a closed loop control for controlling the winding current of the stepping motor based on the detection value of the rotor position detector, and performs a stepping motor acceleration operation and a stepping motor deceleration operation according to the control data. In the use mode, the control device performs the stepping motor acceleration operation and the stepping motor deceleration operation so that a winding current observed in the adjustment mode is reproduced by an open loop control for controlling the winding current of the stepping motor based on the control data generated in the adjustment mode.
US11909340B2
A motor vibration method and a motor vibration device are provided. The motor vibration method includes: receiving a vibration instruction, and acquiring target environmental data by a preset sensor, wherein the target environmental data includes one or more of environmental noise data, acceleration data and/or pressure data; determining a first vibration signal according to the target environmental data; generating a target vibration signal according to the first vibration signal and a preset second vibration signal, wherein a first frequency of the first vibration signal is greater than a second frequency of the second vibration signal; and controlling the motor to vibrate according to the target vibration signal. The method combines a traditional vibration reminding effect and a sound reminding effect provided by adding the medium- and high-frequency signal, thereby enhancing the reminding efficiency by means of motor vibration and increasing the successful rate of message delivery.
US11909336B2
The present disclosure relates to an actuator. The actuator includes at least two iron cores, each iron core including a pole extending in a first direction parallel to a direction of gravity; a permanent magnet disposed between the at least two iron cores so as to generate a magnetic field along a shape of a combination of the at least two iron cores arranged so as to be adjacent to each other in a direction not parallel to the first direction; and a winding wound around the pole of each of the at least two iron cores.
US11909333B1
A propulsion system includes a uniform shape-shifting rotating disc member that changes its mass distribution at particular angular arc segment in a radial direction due to an electromagnetic field acting upon that angular arc segment, with no eccentric mechanical trajectory to guide a mass being required. The disc member has a multiplicity of shape-shifting arc segments that can respond to electromagnetic fields acting on them. Each shape-shifting arc segment passes a shape-shifting region of the apparatus at a frequency of rotation of the encoded motor multiplied by the number of such arc segment.
US11909329B2
A semiconductor unit includes a semiconductor device, a controller, and a resistor. The semiconductor device includes a transistor arranged between a positive electrode of a battery and an inverter circuit electrically connected to the battery. The controller is connected to a control terminal of the transistor and configured to control the transistor. The resistor arranged between the control terminal and the controller. The controller controls the transistor so that when a current flowing to the transistor is greater than or equal to a threshold value, the transistor is deactivated. The resistor has a resistance value that is greater than or equal to 100 Ω.
US11909328B2
A submodule for conversion of DC power capable of a plurality thereof being connected in series and used for DC-DC conversion in accordance with the present invention comprises: a power switching element for switching DC power supply to convert a source of DC including voltage transformation; a DC capacitor for storing DC power opened or closed by the power switching element; a power supply unit for supplying power required to drive the submodule from the DC capacitor; a submodule controller for controlling whole operation of the submodule; memory for storing data required for operating the submodule controller; and a communicating unit for performing data communication with an external device; wherein the submodule controller may perform a program update during a start sequence of the submodule or during a stop sequence thereof, while DC-DC conversion is operated.
US11909327B2
In a half-bridge module for an inverter, semiconductor switches and signal and power connections are arranged on a first surface of a substrate and coated with a casting compound, and external connection contacts for the signal and power connections extend through the casting compound to the exterior. In various embodiments, the external connection contacts extend from the casting compound from four second surfaces that are orthogonal to the first surface, and have a first right angle bend outside the casting compound, such that the ends of the external connection contacts are perpendicular to the first surface. The invention also relates to a corresponding inverter.
US11909326B2
An apparatus includes an isolated power converter having an input connected to an input dc power source, a first output and a second output, and a non-isolated power converter having an input connected to the second output of the isolated power converter, wherein the first output of the isolated power converter and an output of the non-isolated power converter are connected in series.
US11909322B2
Disclosed are an isolation type power conversion method based on demagnetization iteration control and a power conversion circuit. The power conversion circuit comprises a high-frequency transformer, wherein a primary side of the high-frequency transformer is electrically connected with a primary side power tube in a power switch tube circuit, a secondary side of the high-frequency transformer is electrically connected with a charging capacitor circuit and an output feedback circuit through a secondary side synchronous rectifier tube, and the primary side and the secondary side of the high-frequency transformer are electrically connected with a power conversion integrated control chip. The present invention provides a novel demagnetization time iteration loop control architecture, which controls the switching of the primary side power tube by iteratively calculating the demagnetization time, and the method eliminates the right-half-plane zero of a flyback isolation power supply, increases the loop bandwidth and improves the response speed of the system. The influence of signal noise interference during high-speed dynamic response is eliminated through a ripple injection method, and a voltage adaptive turn-on time control technology is adopted, so that a primary side current sampling resistor is omitted, the system cost is reduced, and the system reliability is improved.
US11909321B2
There is provided a power supply controller including: a monitor voltage generation part configured to generate a monitor voltage according to a primary voltage of a transformer that forms an insulated switching power supply; a sample/hold part configured to sample/hold the monitor voltage and output a feedback voltage; and a controller configured to turn on/off a primary current of the transformer by a fixed on-time method according to the feedback voltage, wherein the sample/hold part samples/holds the primary voltage at a plurality of different timings and outputs one of a plurality of hold values as the feedback voltage.
US11909320B2
In one embodiment, a method includes transmitting multi-phase pulse power from power sourcing equipment to a powered device in a data center, wherein the multi-phase pulse power comprises multiple phases of power delivered in a sequence of pulses defined by alternating low direct current voltage states and high direct current voltage states, and synchronizing the pulses at the power sourcing equipment with the pulses at the powered device.
US11909317B2
A system may include a power converter having a maximum allowable input power drawn from a power source, an energy storage element coupled to an output of the power converter at a top plate of the energy storage element, wherein the energy storage element is configured to store excess energy, and control circuitry configured to, when an input power of the power converter exceeds the maximum allowable input power, cause excess energy stored in the energy storage element to be consumed by circuitry coupled to the output of the power converter, and in order to maintain positive voltage headroom for the circuitry coupled to the output of the power converter, selectively couple a bottom plate of the energy storage element to the power source such that excess energy stored by the circuitry coupled to the output of the power converter is consumed from the energy storage device when the input power of the power converter exceeds the maximum allowable input power.
US11909310B2
A switching power supply device includes a power conversion circuit that is provided at a multilayer printed board and includes a plurality of switching circuits and a controller controlling the switching circuits, windings configuring an inductor at the multilayer printed board, and a magnetic sheet on one or both of upper and lower faces of the multilayer printed board. First ends of the windings are connected to the switching circuits, and second ends of the windings are connected to a common output. The controller controls the plurality of switching circuits to periodically vary a position and a time at which magnetic flux generated by current flowing to the windings reaches the maximum magnetic flux density. Thus, the switching power supply device is thin, achieves dispersion of heat generation, handles variations in the magnitude of electric power by varying the area of the board, and effectively reduces unwanted radiation.
US11909309B2
Stable switching is disclosed for a power factor correction boost converter using an input voltage and an output voltage. In one example, a boost converter control system includes a gate driver coupled to a switch of a boost converter to generate a drive signal to control switching of the switch, wherein a period of the drive signal is adjusted using a current adjustment signal. A current control loop is coupled to the gate driver to receive a sensed input current from the boost converter and a desired input current and to generate the current adjustment signal to the gate driver. A current limiter is coupled to the gate driver and the current control loop to determine a duty cycle of the switch, to determine a maximum input current in response to the duty cycle, and to restrict the desired input current to below the maximum input current.
US11909307B2
A power conversion device includes a power converter including a plurality of arms and a control device to control voltages of a plurality of sub modules by PWM control using a carrier signal for each sub module. The sub module includes a plurality of switching elements, a power storage element, a pair of output terminals, and a bypass switch. When the control device detects failure of a sub module in an arm, it performs stop processing for stopping a switching operation of the plurality of switching elements included in at least one sub module of the plurality of sub modules in the arm and has the sub module failure of which was detected bypassed. After the control device performs the stop processing, it equalizes intervals among phases of carrier signals of a plurality of normal sub modules in the arm caused by failure of the sub module.
US11909299B2
A power converting apparatus includes a first arm including a switching element and a switching element connected in series, a second arm connected in parallel with the first arm and including a switching element and a switching element connected in series, a reactor having one end connected to the switching element and the switching element and the other end connected to a single-phase alternating-current power supply, and a smoothing capacitor connected in parallel with the first arm and the second arm. The power converting apparatus includes a driving circuit driving the switching element, a bootstrap circuit, and a diode adjusting a power supply voltage, wherein a first voltage at which a forward current starts to flow to the diode is lower than a second voltage at which a forward current starts to flow in a body diode formed in the second switching element.
US11909297B2
A force-balancing magnetic bearing with an adjustable bias magnetic field for a stator permanent magnet motor is provided. The force-balancing magnetic bearing includes four permanent magnetic poles and four electromagnetic poles, wherein a magnetic field energy of the four permanent magnetic poles is sourced from a stator permanent magnet of the stator permanent magnet motor, each permanent magnetic pole is formed by a left permanent-magnet magnetic bridge, a right permanent-magnet magnetic bridge, a magnetic adjusting section, an electromagnetic pole stator, an electromagnetic pole and permanent magnetic pole isolation plate, a permanent-magnet two-side magnetic pole connection section, a left permanent-magnet magnetic pole and a right permanent-magnet magnetic pole, a magnetic flux of each permanent magnetic pole is adjusted by the magnetic adjusting section, and the four electromagnetic poles are adjusted by currents introduced into electromagnetic pole winding coils.
US11909291B2
A rotary reciprocating drive actuator reciprocally and rotationally driving the movable body about the shaft part in relation to the fixed body by the electromagnetic mutual effect of the coil and the movable magnet, wherein the movable magnet is magnetized in the radial direction of the shaft part, the two magnetic poles are disposed facing each other across an air gap in the radial direction of the movable magnet and the shaft part, and the fixed body has a rotation-angle-holding part disposed facing the movable magnet across the air gap, the rotation-angle-holding part holding the rotation angle position of the movable magnet by the magnetic attraction force generated with the movable magnet.
US11909284B2
A flat-type stator with multilayer coils for a disc-type motor is provided with a stator coil and a flat stator base, wherein a coil assembly is arranged in the stator coil, and a plurality of coil assemblies are arranged in a ring or in a straight line on the stator base; the coil assembly is formed by stacking even-numbered layers of single coils overlapped with the stator base in a vertical direction, each single coil is composed of even-numbered layers of single-layer coils wound by a single wire, and the single-layer coil is provided with a single axial wire; metal wires are sequentially connected in series among the plurality of coil assemblies to form a coil unit, the single coils in the coil unit have a same structure and a same shape and are not overlapped axially.
US11909279B1
Apparatus for a motive device that combines a prime mover integrated with one or more drivers for multimodal locomotion. The motive device has an axle configured to connect to a vehicle and has a ground configuration for land travel and a fan configuration for lift and flight. The motive device includes a prime mover integrated with a ground driver and a fan driver. The motive device includes a multitude of stator windings attached to the axle and a multitude of magnets attached to rotors. The ground driver includes a wheel with the spokes extending from at least one rotor. The wheel rotates for land-based locomotion when in the ground configuration. The fan driver includes blades extending from another rotor. The blades rotate for lift and flight when in the fan configuration.
US11909277B2
A motor includes a grounding ring and a first sealing piece, or includes a grounding ring, a first sealing piece, and a second sealing piece. The grounding ring is electrically coupled to a rotating shaft and a housing. The grounding ring is made of a material with good conduction performance, hence, a shaft induced voltage transmitted on the rotating shaft is transmitted to the housing through the grounding ring, instead of being transmitted to the housing through a motor bearing.
US11909272B2
An oil-cooling structure for motor magnets, that includes: a pair of end plates that are disc-shaped and are mounted at both end portions of a rotor core; third oil paths formed at interiors of the end plates, and having axial direction portions that extend in an axial direction of a rotor shaft and are connected to axial direction end portions of second oil paths, respectively, and discharging portions that extend toward a radial direction outer side from axial direction outer side end portions of the axial direction portions and are open at end portions of the end plates; and angle mitigating members disposed in the third oil paths at corner portions formed by the axial direction portions and the discharging portions, configured to mitigate angles formed by the axial direction portions and the discharging portions in axial direction cross-sections that include the third oil paths.
US11909271B2
A rotating machine includes: an electric motor that includes a stator and a rotor that is rotatable relative to the stator; a rotary member to be rotated that is provided on the shaft; and a fastening member made of magnetic material and provided to fasten the rotary member to a shaft. The rotor includes: a rotor core made of magnetic material; a plurality of permanent magnets attached to the rotor core such that the permanent magnets are spaced from each other in a circumferential direction and magnetic poles of the permanent magnets that face an outer peripheral side of the rotor core in a radius direction of the rotor core have the same magnetic polarity; and the shaft. The shaft is made of magnetic material, provided to extend through a central part of the rotor core in an axial direction of the rotor core, and magnetized by part of magnetic fluxes generated from the permanent magnets.
US11909270B2
A hybrid rotor assembly is provided. The assembly utilizes two different types of magnets within the lamination cavities of the lamination stack: sintered permanent magnets and bonded magnets.
US11909260B2
Provided is an electric generator including a stator including: a stator yoke a plurality of teeth, a plurality of slots extending radially from the stator yoke to respective radial slot ends, the plurality of slots being circumferentially interposed between the teeth of the stator, each slot including a bottom portion adjacent to the stator yoke and a top portion adjacent to the respective radial slot end. The stator further includes a plurality of coils housed in the plurality of slots, each slot housing at least one coil in the bottom portion and at least another coil in the top portion, each coil housed in the bottom portion of a first slot of the plurality of slots being connected to another respective coil housed in the top portion of a second slot of the plurality of slots.
US11909254B2
A motor vehicle control device may have a switch-on and switch-off function for at least one electrical load to be controlled by the motor vehicle control device. The motor vehicle control device may include an electronic switching element for arrangement in a supply voltage path of the electrical load and a control unit for controlling the electronic switching element. The control unit is designed to provide a control signal for switching the electronic switching element based on at least one input signal. The control unit may include a resistor connected to the supply voltage path and a current control means connected in series therewith for generating a predefinable voltage difference at the resistor as the control signal for the electronic switching element.
US11909241B2
An electronic device to which a drive power is supplied from a battery is provided. The electronic device includes a control circuit that acquires battery information including information related to a status of the battery, a storage that stores the acquired battery information, and an interface circuit that communicates with a management server via a network. The control circuit transmits the battery information stored in the storage to the management server via the interface circuit. The control circuit receives control information related to control of the battery from the management server via the interface circuit. The control circuit controls the battery according to the received control information.
US11909238B1
A smart ring charging system comprises a charging source integrated into an object, the object configured to be held by a user wearing a smart ring. The smart ring may include a ring-shaped housing and a power source disposed within or at the ring-shaped housing and configured to receive energy from the charging source while the user is wearing the smart ring and holding the object. A controller may be disposed within or at the ring-shaped housing, or at the object with the charger and configured to estimate a charging rate at which the power source receives the energy from the charging source. The system may further include one or more indicators configured to indicate the charging rate.
US11909230B2
The wearable article (11) comprises a power source (111) and a processor (112). The processor (112) determines whether a power transfer condition is satisfied. In response, the processor (112) is arranged to control the wearable article (11) to transfer power from the power source (111) to an electrical load of an external apparatus. The wearable article (11) may comprise an interface element (114) for forming an electrical connection with the externa apparatus. The wearable article (11) may comprise a power transmitter (113) for beaming electromagnetic energy to the external apparatus. The wearable article (11) may be a garment.
US11909226B2
This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for a wireless power transmission apparatus that supports charging of one or more wireless power receiving apparatuses. The wireless power transmission apparatus may include multiple primary coils organized in groups (referred to as zones). Each zone may have a local controller for managing operation of one primary coil in the zone at a time. A master controller may selectively couple the primary coils to the local controllers. When a first primary coil is coupled to the local controller for a zone, the other primary coils in that zone may be disabled. The master controller may manage which primary coils from neighboring zones are coupled to their respective local controllers. Thus, when the first primary coil is activated, the adjacent primary coils (near the first primary coil) can be muted or disabled to mitigate undesirable interference.
US11909224B2
A wireless optical power transmission system comprising a transmitter and receiver, the transmitter comprising a laser emitting a beam, a scanning mirror for steering the beam towards said receiver and a control unit receiving signals from a detection unit on the receiver and controlling the beam power and the scanning mirror. The receiver has a photovoltaic cell having a bandgap energy of 0.75-1.2 e V, with a plurality of conductors on abeam receiving surface. A cover layer of material blocking illumination of wavelengths outside that of the laser, is disposed on the photovoltaic cell. The cover layer may have anti-reflective coatings on its top and bottom surfaces. The detection unit thus generates a signal representing the power of the laser beam impinging upon the receiver, independent of illuminations other than that of said laser beam. The control unit thus can maintain the laser power impinging on the receiver.
US11909218B1
In this disclosure, the energy management problem of the D-IEGS with FFR is analyzed, so as to enhance the frequency stability of the main grid. The post-disturbance frequency response behaviors of both the main grid and the D-IEGS are precisely depicted, where the dead zones, limiting ranges and time constant of the governors are considered. The frequency regulation units of the D-IEGS include GTs and P2G units, whose impacts of providing frequency regulation service on the gas networks are quantified. Considering the time-scale similarity of the frequency dynamics and the dynamics of the GDN, the gas flow dynamics model is adopted. The frequency response dynamics of the GTs and P2G units, and the gas flow dynamics of the GDN, a variable-step difference scheme and a binary variable reduction method are devised.
US11909215B2
A method of operating a computer device includes obtaining measurements of one or more conditions of a power grid component associated with the computer device. The computer device forecasts a future state of the one or more conditions of the power grid component associated with the computer device. The computer device communicates with other computer devices associated with other power grid components to negotiate a behavior of the power grid component associated with the computer device using the forecast.
US11909214B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of electric power system, and more particularly to a topology of a series-connected MMC with a small number of modules, where the topology is composed of a three-phase bridge circuit, half-bridge valve strings, a three-phase filter inductor, and a three-phase grid frequency transformer. The topology of a series-connected MMC with a small number of modules in the present disclosure needs only two half-bridge valve strings, thus greatly reducing the number of the submodules as compared with the conventional MMC structure. When achieving the same high DC voltage output, the present disclosure can improve the power density of the MMC, realize stable three-phase AC output voltage, and further achieve balance of capacitor voltages in the two half-bridge valve strings. Compared to the conventional MMC topology, the topology in the present disclosure can reduce the number of submodules by nearly ⅔, and has a greater AC-DC voltage transfer ratio, thus reducing the cost of the MMC converter, reducing the device size, and improving the power density.
US11909208B2
A method and apparatus for estimating capacity of a system including an energy generation system, an energy storage system or both. The method and apparatus initially estimate the system capacity based on a facility location and size. The initial estimate may be adjusted through adjustment of at least one parameter. An updated capacity estimate is generated and displayed.
US11909202B2
This device consists of a housing (1) made of electrically insulating material, in which a fuse (6) is provided with at least one main fuse wire (7) located in its cavity. The main fuse wire (7) is electrically conductively connected at one end to at least one connecting pin (2) which is led out of the housing (1) and at the other end it is electrically conductively connected to at least one terminal (3) located in at least one cavity (4) formed in the housing (1). The shape of the connecting pin (2) is adapted for connection to the protected device.
US11909190B2
In various implementations, a raceway may include a housing with walls and arms extending from the housing. A cavity may be disposed in the housing and cables may reside in the cavity, during use. The cables may provide connectivity to receptacles of the raceway and thus a variety of devices. A cover may be utilized with the housing to facilitate access to the cables in the cavity of the housing. In some implementations, the cover may be retained by flexible arms of the housing. The raceway may be configured to receive wire clips to retain cables and/or conduit disposed in a cavity of the raceway.
US11909189B1
The flexible wiring conduit is a hollow structure. The flexible wiring conduit forms a protected space that contains the cable. The flexible wiring conduit protects a cable from damage by forces that are exterior to the protected space formed by the flexible wiring conduit. The cable inserts through the protected space. The flexible wiring conduit is a composite prism structure. The flexible wiring conduit is a bimodal flexible structure. The bimodal flexible structure of the flexible wiring conduit allows the flexible wiring conduit to bent to follow a desired cabling path. The flexible wiring conduit incorporates a plurality of end fittings, a plurality of rigid tube structures, and a plurality of flexible tube structures. The plurality of end fittings, the plurality of rigid tube structures, and the plurality of flexible tube structures are interconnected to form the flexible wiring conduit.
US11909187B2
A power tether for aerial devices such as balloons or drones operates with as few as a single conductor, providing a ground return by capacitive coupling between the aerial device and a ground plane at a base station. High-frequency, high-voltage power allows significant power transfer through the low capacitance between the aerial station and the ground minimizing the necessary current flow.
US11909186B2
A coil spring cassette includes a stator housing part and a rotor housing part that is rotatable relative to the stator housing part about a longitudinal axis. The stator housing part and the rotor housing part together form therebetween a first chamber and a second chamber at respective positions along the longitudinal axis. A first flat cable with a reversal of winding direction is arranged in the first chamber. A second flat cable with a uniform winding direction is arranged in the second chamber.
US11909176B2
An all-epitaxial, electrically injected surface-emitting green laser operates in a range of about 520-560 nanometers (nm). At 523 nm, for example, the device exhibits a threshold current density of approximately 0.4 kilo-amperes per square centimeter (kA/cm2), which is over one order of magnitude lower than that of previously reported blue laser diodes.
US11909170B2
A semiconductor light emitting device includes a microstrip substrate with a single-ended transmission line on a top surface, wherein the single-ended transmission line extends from a first end portion to a second end portion, the microstrip substrate has a ground plane on a bottom surface, and the ground plane is opposed and bonded to the conductive pattern. The single-ended transmission line includes a first section and a second section, wherein the second section extends from the first section and includes the second end portion. The second section is lower in characteristic impedance than the first section. A load circuit that includes the wire, the optical modulator, and the termination resistor is electrically connected between the second end portion and the conductive pattern. The load circuit is equal to or lower in the characteristic impedance than the second section.
US11909168B2
The present invention relates to the technical field of optical communications, and relates to an optical amplification method and an amplifier, and in particular, to a self-adaptive wave band amplification method and an amplifier. The present invention consists of a master amplifying unit and a slave amplifying unit, and can autonomously detect the service signal wave band range of an optical transmission line, and according to the detection result, the two amplifying units do not need to perform scheduling or configuration from the level of network management, and perform direct interaction and action from the bottom layer to implement self-adaptive on, off and adjustment in real time. On one hand, power consumption is reduced, and energy is saved; and on the other hand, the performance is optimized, and an optimal optical amplification index is obtained.
US11909161B2
A cable treatment device including: an affixing device for reversibly securing to a circumference of a power cable a kinematic device having attachment structure for attaching to the affixing member, the kinematic device adapted to provide kinematic motion relative to the attachment structure, the kinematic motion being fully controllable through a plurality of force input connections, and a tooling device attached to the kinematic device, the tooling device adapted to receive said kinematic motion, wherein the kinematic device allows the tooling to move cross-sectionally relative to the extension of a power cable secured by the affixing device. Thereby, a well-controlled and reproducible process is achieved, employing a portable device being user friendly, while simultaneously reducing technician exposure to toxic particulates.
US11909158B2
Provided is a small-sized circuit board fixing structure capable of enabling a circuit board on a base to be easily replaced. A circuit board fixing structure configured to fix a circuit board onto a surface of a base includes a wire pattern formed on a surface of the circuit board, a first through hole penetrating from a front surface to a rear surface of the circuit board, a second through hole penetrating from a front surface to a rear surface of the base so as to communicate with the first through hole, an electrode penetratively inserted into the second through hole, and a fixing member engaged with the electrode mounted on the surface of the circuit board and configured to fix the circuit board to the base, in which when the fixing member and the electrode are engaged, the wire pattern and the electrode are electrically connected through the fixing member.
US11909155B2
A conductor terminal that has an insulating housing, which has a conductor insertion opening for inserting an electrical conductor and a contact element insertion opening for inserting a contact element. A busbar has a clamping section arranged between the inserted electrical conductor and the inserted contact element. A first clamping spring is provided for clamping the electrical conductor, which includes a first clamping leg having a clamping edge oriented in the direction of the clamping section, a first spring bend and a first contact leg, the clamping edge and the clamping section forming a first clamping point for clamping the electrical conductor.
US11909149B2
A rotary connector device includes a fixed body, a rotation body, and a connector. The rotation body is rotatable about a rotation axis with respect to the fixed body. The connector includes a cover, a conductor, and a holding member. The cover includes a first wall and a space therein. The first wall extends from the rotation body in an axial direction substantially parallel to the rotation axis. The holding member is attached to the cover in the space and holds the conductor. The holding member includes, in the first wall, an exposed portion exposed to an outside of the space. The cover and the holding member include a restriction structure to restrict foreign matter from entering the space through the exposed portion. The restriction structure includes a first protrusion that protrudes in a direction substantially orthogonal to the first wall and a first recess in which the first protrusion is fitted.
US11909148B2
Systems, devices, and methods including a cordset having a housing, the cordset comprising: a first rotatable blade, where the first rotatable blade is rotatable between a first vertical first blade position and a second horizontal first blade position; a second rotatable blade, where the second rotatable blade is rotatable between a first vertical second blade position and a second horizontal second blade position; and a fixed ground prong.
US11909145B2
A detecting circuit of an external display device includes a first connector, a display circuit configured to provide a display signal to the external display device through the first connector, a switch circuit, a power supply circuit configured to provide power needed for operating the display circuit through the switch circuit when the switch circuit is on, and a control circuit configured to turn on the switch circuit upon detecting the external display device so as to connect the power supply circuit to the display circuit. When the switch circuit is on, the control circuit accumulates a duration or a number of times of detection that the external display device is continually not detected, and then turns off the switch circuit to disconnect the power circuit from the display circuit when the duration reaches a time threshold or the number of times of detection reaches a count threshold.
US11909141B2
A connector comprises a housing defining a receptacle sized to receive a flat flexible cable. A conductive terminal is arranged within the receptacle and adapted to contact an exposed conductor of the flat flexible cable received within the receptacle. A seal is positioned in contact with a front end of the housing and defines a cable receiving slot therethrough aligned with the receptacle. A cover is arranged over the seal and includes a slotted opening aligned with the cable receiving slot of the seal and the receptacle. The cover selectively fixed to the front end of the housing.
US11909134B2
An edge connector includes a first row of golden fingers and a second row of golden fingers. The first row of golden fingers is adjacent to a plugging end of the edge connector, and the second row of golden fingers is adjacent to the first row of golden fingers. In a plugging direction of the edge connector, each golden finger in the first row of golden fingers has a first end proximate to the plugging end and a second end opposite to the first end. A first end of a grounded golden finger in the first row of golden fingers is protruded from other golden fingers, and second ends of two or more than two golden fingers in the first row of golden fingers are not aligned with each other.
US11909133B2
A dielectrically loaded printed antenna element is described. The antenna element includes at least one conductive arm supported on a substrate. The conductive arm is dielectrically loaded with at least one high dielectric material that is configured to provide spatial coverage of the conductive arm. An antenna array structure is also described that includes at least a first dielectrically loaded antenna element for transmitting and a second dielectrically loaded antenna element for receiving. The transmitting antenna element is aligned orthogonal to the receiving antenna element to further reduce interference.
US11909131B2
A resonance structure includes a first conductor; a second conductor that faces the first conductor in a first direction; one or more third conductors that are positioned between the first conductor and the second conductor, and that extend along a first plane including the first direction; and a fourth conductor that is connected to the first conductor and the second conductor, and that extends along the first plane. The first conductor and the second conductor extend along a second direction that intersects with the first plane. The first conductor and the second conductor are configured to be capacitively coupled via the one or more third conductors. The one or more third conductors have asymmetry with respect to a third direction that intersects with the first direction in the first plane.
US11909125B2
An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry and control circuitry. The wireless circuitry may communicate with a wireless base station using a 5G New Radio (NR) communications protocol. The wireless circuitry may include a phased antenna array. The electronic device may perform antenna scaling operations in which the active antennas in the phased antenna array change over time to optimize wireless performance and power consumption. The electronic device may inform the base station when antenna scaling operations have occurred. This may allow the base station to compensate for power density discontinuities associated with the antenna scaling operations. If desired, the base station may break transmit and receive signal beam correspondence and the electronic device may use different antenna scaling settings for transmitting and receiving signals.
US11909118B2
Provided is an antenna. The antenna includes a first metal electrode, a second metal electrode, and a dielectric functional layer. The first metal electrode and the second metal electrode are located on two opposite sides of the dielectric functional layer, respectively; and the first metal electrode includes a plurality of transmission electrodes. The antenna further includes a flexible coplanar waveguide and a feed network. The flexible coplanar waveguide is electrically connected to the feed network and configured to feed an electrical signal to the feed network.
US11909113B2
A radio frequency antenna array uses lenses and RF elements, to provide ground-based coverage for cellular communication. The antenna array can include two spherical lenses, where each spherical lens has at least two associated RF elements. Each of the RF elements associated with a given lens produces an output beam with an output area. Each lens is positioned with the other lenses in a staggered arrangement. The antenna includes a control mechanism configured to enable a user to move the RF elements along their respective tracks, and automatically phase compensate the output beams produced by the RF elements based on the relative distance between the RF elements.
US11909109B2
A combined cellular/GNSS (global navigation satellite systems) antenna is provided. The combined cellular/GNSS antenna comprises an external area and an internal area delineated by a circumference of a circle. The combined cellular GNSS antenna further comprises a cellular antenna and a GNSS antenna. The cellular antenna comprises a set of cellular radiators disposed in the external area and connected to a cellular feeding network for excitation of the set of cellular radiators. The GNSS antenna comprises radiation elements disposed in the internal area and has a center located substantially at a center of the circle.
US11909108B2
A switch circuit includes an antenna port and at least one switch branch. Each branch includes a first, a second, and a third switches. The antenna port has one end connected with an antenna, and another end electrically connected with one end of the first switch of each branch respectively. The other end of the first switch of each branch is electrically connected with one end of the second switch corresponding to each branch and one end of the third switch corresponding to each branch respectively; the other end of each of the second switch corresponding to each branch is connected with a ground terminal; the other end of each of the third switch corresponding to each branch is electrically connected with one end of a load corresponding to each branch; and the other end of the load corresponding to each branch is connected with the ground terminal.
US11909106B2
A leaning vehicle having a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication antenna mounted thereon, a body frame that leans in a vehicle leftward or rightward direction when the leaning vehicle turns left or right, and a V2X communication device configured to perform V2X communication. The V2X communication antenna has such a radiation pattern that a 3 dB beam width thereof in a horizontal mounting plane is larger than the 3 dB beam width thereof in a vertical mounting plane, the 3 dB beam width in the vertical mounting plane existing both in a vehicle upper region and in a vehicle lower region, and the 3 dB beam width in the horizontal mounting plane existing both in a vehicle left region and in a vehicle right region. The V2X communication device performs the V2X communication with another V2X communication device, at least when the leaning vehicle turns left or right and the body frame leans accordingly.
US11909101B2
An electronic device may be provided with a phased antenna array having a bent dielectric resonating element. The bent dielectric resonating element may have a first segment, a second segment nonparallel to the first segment, and an angled surface that couples the first segment to the second segment. One or more feed probes may be coupled to the first segment to excite the dielectric resonating element. A reflector may be provided on the angled surface to direct electromagnetic energy from the first segment to the second segment and vice versa. The bent dielectric resonating element may exhibit less overall height than dielectric resonators having straight columns of dielectric material, thereby allowing for a reduction in the thickness of the electronic device. The angled surface and the reflector may optimize the radio-frequency performance of the antenna despite the reduction in overall height.
US11909097B2
An integrated connector-antenna assembly is provided, wherein an antenna is monolithically integrated with a radio frequency (RF) connector housing. The connector-antenna assembly may also include the RF signal element, wherein the connector center pin is monolithically integrated to the connector housing. Although part of the connector-antenna assembly, the connector housing and connector signal element still serve the connector function, which is essentially a channel for RF signal from the RF signal source to the antenna.
US11909094B2
The present invention relates to a clamping apparatus for an antenna. Particularly, the clamping apparatus comprises: an arm unit which is coupled to a support pole and has a mounting space formed in a tip portion thereof and open in a longitudinal direction; a rotation unit which is detachably mounted in the mounting space of the arm unit and has a tip portion coupled to be rotatable predetermined angle in the left and right directions with respect to a hinge point in the mounting space; a tilting unit which is coupled to the tip portion of the rotation unit so as to be tiltable in the up and down directions and mediates the coupling of an antenna device; and a mounting guide unit which is provided in the rotation unit, and is elastically pressed and then temporarily fixed to the hinge point of the mounting space when the rotation unit is mounted in the mounting space of the arm unit. Thus, the present invention provides the advantages of removing spatial limitations for a plurality of antenna devices with respect to the support pole, and improving workability.
US11909092B2
A rollable antenna mat for sports timing comprises one or more planar antenna structures connected to one or more transmission lines for conveying signals to and/or from the one or more planar antenna structures. Each of the one or more planar antenna structures comprises a conductive plate positioned above a conductive ground plane. A spacer element is positioned between the conductive ground plane and the conductive plate. The planar antenna structure is configured to generate a radiation field having a main axis that is substantially perpendicular to the conductive plate. The planar antenna structure and a transmission line is embedded in a flexible elongated sheet structure of one or more elastomeric materials, and comprises the embedded one or more planar antenna structures being suitable to be rolled up in a roll, the axis of the roll being substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the flexible elongated sheet structure.
US11909091B2
Expansion compensation structures for an antenna are disclosed. In one embodiment, the antenna comprises: an array of antenna elements; and a structure coupled to the array of antenna elements, the structure having a plurality of components comprising materials having different coefficients of thermal expansion (CTEs), wherein first and second components of the plurality of components are pin bonded with one or more pins, and one or more components of the plurality of components other than the first and second components are between the first and second components and have one or more slots through which the one or more pins traverse and have CTEs different than CTEs of the first and second components.
US11909085B2
Disclosed are air electrode materials suitable for use in solid oxide electrochemical cells (SOCs). The disclosed cells can operate in a dual function modes, i.e., as a fuel cell and as an electrolysis cell. In both cases, chemical energy and electrical energy can be directly convert from one mode to the other; thereby providing a highly efficient energy conversion process that can be used as a sustainable energy source.
US11909073B2
A battery module includes a first battery cell and a second battery cell respectively having a positive electrode lead and a negative electrode lead and connected to each other in series; and a short circuit inducing member having one longitudinal side interposed between the negative electrode lead of the first battery cell and the positive electrode lead of the second battery cell and the other longitudinal side located between the positive electrode lead of the first battery cell and the negative electrode lead of the second battery cell. When a potential difference between the negative electrode lead of the first battery cell and the positive electrode lead of the second battery cell increases over a reference value, the other longitudinal side of the short circuit inducing member makes flexural deformation toward the negative electrode lead of the second battery cell to come into contact with the negative electrode lead.
US11909065B2
A cover plate assembly, a battery cell, a battery module, a battery pack and an apparatus are disclosed. The cover plate assembly includes a top cover plate, where the top cover plate is provided with an explosion-proof valve; and an insulating plate, laminated with the top cover plate, where the insulating plate includes a base portion and a thinned region located on the base portion, the thinned region is formed by thinning the base portion, and a region enclosed by boundaries of an orthographic projection of the thinned region at least partially overlaps an orthographic projection of the explosion-proof valve in a thickness direction of the cover plate assembly. The thinned region is formed by thinning the base portion.
US11909064B2
A pressure control valve structure includes a wall portion having a plurality of communication holes communicating with their associated internal spaces, a plurality of projections protruding outwardly from a wall surface of the wall portion so as to surround their associated communication holes, a plurality of elastic valve bodies closing their associated communication holes in contact with the projections, an outer peripheral wall portion protruding from the wall surface so as to surround the plurality of projections collectively, and a cover made of a resin and fixed to the outer peripheral wall portion, the cover compressing the elastic valve bodies towards their associated projections. The cover has a thick-walled portion where the cover is made partially thick in an outer surface of the cover.
US11909063B2
An electronic device, according to various embodiments of the present disclosure, may comprise: a housing including a seating groove therein; a battery seated in the seating groove, at least a partial area of which includes a curved surface; and an adhesive member disposed between the battery and the seating groove and formed along at least a portion of an edge of the battery. The adhesive member may be formed having varied predetermined thicknesses, corresponding to a position of the battery.
US11909049B2
A positive electrode includes at least a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode active material layer. The positive electrode active material layer is disposed on a surface of the positive electrode current collector. The positive electrode current collector includes an aluminum foil and an aluminum hydrated oxide film. The aluminum hydrated oxide film covers a surface of the aluminum foil. The aluminum hydrated oxide film has a thickness not smaller than 50 nm and not greater than 500 nm. The aluminum hydrated oxide film contains a plurality of types of aluminum hydrated oxides. The ratio of boehmite to the plurality of types of aluminum hydrated oxides is not lower than 20 mol % and not higher than 80 mol %.
US11909034B2
Provided is an all-solid state secondary battery comprising a laminate in which a positive electrode layer, a solid electrolyte layer, and a negative electrode layer are laminated in this order, in which respective areas of the positive electrode layer, the solid electrolyte layer, and the negative electrode layer satisfy [the area of the positive electrode layer]<[the area of the negative electrode layer]≤[the area of the solid electrolyte layer], a buffer layer having an area more than the area of the solid electrolyte layer and having a Young's modulus lower than that of each of, the positive electrode layer, the solid electrolyte layer, and the negative electrode layer is provided on either or both of a side of the positive electrode layer opposite to the solid electrolyte layer side and a side of the negative electrode layer opposite to the solid electrolyte layer side, and the laminate is in a pressurized state through the buffer layer.
US11909030B2
A lithium secondary battery includes a cathode formed from a cathode active material including a first cathode active material particle and a second cathode active material particle, an anode and a separation layer interposed between the cathode and the anode. The first cathode active material particle includes a lithium metal oxide in which at least one metal forms a concentration gradient. The second cathode active material particle includes primary particles having different shapes or crystalline structures from each other.
US11909020B2
A support structure for a battery pack and a battery pack including the support structure and battery cells, the support structure including a base plate; a thermal plate positioned between the battery cell and the base plate; a thermally conductive material between the battery cell and the thermal plate; and a compressible support between the thermal plate and the base plate.
US11909019B2
A battery management system thermally conditions a battery assembly prior to a determined upcoming time or the battery assembly's arrival at an upcoming location, and selects a source of the power used for the thermal conditioning.
US11909003B2
An all-solid-state battery including a cell laminate including two or more unit cells, and a resin layer covering a side surface of the cell laminate, wherein each unit cell includes a positive electrode current collector layer, a positive electrode active material layer, a solid electrolyte layer, a negative electrode active material layer, and a negative electrode current collector layer laminated in this order, at least one of the positive electrode current collector layer, positive electrode active material layer, solid electrolyte layer, negative electrode active material layer, and negative electrode current collector layer includes extending parts which extend more outwardly from the side surface of the cell laminate than the other layers, and gaps are formed between the extending parts, and the ratio of the compressive modulus of the resin layer to the compressive modulus of the cell laminate is 0.4 or less.
US11908999B2
An electrolyte for a rechargeable lithium battery and a rechargeable lithium battery including the electrolyte, the electrolyte including a non-aqueous organic solvent; a lithium salt; and an additive, wherein the additive includes a compound represented by Chemical Formula 1: in Chemical Formula 1, R1 is a cyano group, a substituted or unsubstituted C2 to C10 alkenyl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted C2 to C10 alkynyl group.
US11908991B2
The present disclosure provides a joining technique capable of improving strength and reducing electrical resistance of a connecting portion that performs heterometal interjunction in a sealed battery. A mode of the sealed battery disclosed herein includes an electrode body, a battery case, a positive electrode internal terminal, a positive electrode external terminal, a negative electrode internal terminal, and a negative electrode external terminal. In the sealed battery, in a connecting portion between the negative electrode internal terminal and the negative electrode external terminal, an upper end of the negative electrode internal terminal and the negative electrode external terminal are stacked with a plated layer interposed therebetween and, at the same time, the negative electrode internal terminal and the negative electrode external terminal are joined to each other via the plated layer. In addition, a rough surface having a plurality of recessed portions is formed on the upper surface of the negative electrode external terminal having been stacked with the plated layer interposed therebetween, and a part of the plated layer penetrates into the recessed portions. Accordingly, a connecting portion having high strength and low resistance can be formed between the negative electrode internal terminal and the negative electrode external terminal.
US11908990B2
To improve the flexibility of a power storage device, or provide a high-capacity power storage device. The power storage device includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, an exterior body, and an electrolyte. The outer periphery of each of the positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer is a closed curve. The exterior body includes a film and a thermocompression-bonded region. The inner periphery of the thermocompression-bonded region is a closed curve. The electrolyte, the positive electrode active material layer, and the negative electrode active material layer are in a region surrounded by the thermocompression-bonded region.
US11908988B2
A micro light emitting diode (LED) having a high light extraction efficiency includes a bottom conductive layer, a light emitting layer on the bottom conductive layer, and a top conductive structure on the light emitting layer. The micro LED additionally includes a conductive side arm electrically connecting the sidewall of the light emitting layer with the bottom conductive layer, and a reflective bottom dielectric layer arranged under the light emitting layer and above the bottom conductive layer. In some embodiments, the micro LED further includes an ohmic contact between the top conductive structure and the light emitting layer that has a small area and is transparent, thereby increasing the light emergent area and improving the light extraction efficiency.
US11908978B2
Solid state transducer (“SST”) devices with selective wavelength reflectors and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In several embodiments, for example, an SST device can include a first emitter configured to emit emissions having a first wavelength and a second emitter configured to emit emissions having a second wavelength different from the first wavelength. The first and second emitters can be SST structures and/or converter materials. The SST device can further include a selective wavelength reflector between the first and second emitters. The selective wavelength reflector can be configured to at least substantially transmit emissions having the first wavelength and at least substantially reflect emissions having the second wavelength.
US11908974B2
A light emitting device (LED) includes an n-doped semiconductor material layer, an active region including an optically active compound semiconductor layer stack configured to emit light located on the n-doped semiconductor material layer, a p-doped semiconductor material layer located on the active region, an anode contact contacting the p-doped semiconductor material layer, a reflector overlying and electrically connected to the anode contact, and a device-side bonding pad layer located on the reflector. The p-doped semiconductor material layer includes an electrically active region that is at least partially covered by the anode contact and an inactive region that an electrical conductivity less than 30% of the electrically active region.
US11908971B1
A photovoltaic module, including a laminate including a solder strip; and a junction box arranged on a surface of the laminate and including a plate connected to the solder strip by laser soldering. The plate has a first region and a second region, in which a region covered by the solder strip on the plate is the first region, and a region not covered by the solder strip on the plate is the second region. A soldering seam formed by laser soldering includes a first soldering seam and a second soldering seam. The first soldering seam is located in the first region, and the first soldering seam extends through the solder strip into the plate along a thickness direction of the laminate. The second soldering seam is located in the second region, and the second soldering seam extends directly into the plate along the thickness direction of the laminate.
US11908967B2
A light-emitting device includes one or more light-emitting units each including a light-emitting element including a function of a thyristor; an electrode for light emission to which a first voltage is applied for light emission of the light-emitting unit; and one or more light emission permission thyristors that permit the light-emitting element to emit light by a second voltage that is lower than the first voltage and set irrespective of the first voltage.
US11908956B2
Described herein is an optical sensor, a detector including the optical sensor for an optical detection of at least one object, and a method for manufacturing the optical sensor. The optical sensor (110) includes a substrate (120); a photoconductive layer (112) applied to a first portion (116) of a surface (118) of the substrate (120); and at least one electrode layer (124) applied to a second portion (126) of the surface (118) of the substrate (120). The optical sensor (110) exhibits a linear current-voltage characteristic according to Ohm's law.
US11908948B2
A transistor comprises a lower contact structure, a channel structure, a dielectric fill structure, and an upper contact structure. The lower contact structure comprises a first oxide semiconductive material. The channel structure contacts the lower contact structure and comprises a second oxide semiconductive material having a smaller atomic concentration of one or more metals than the first oxide semiconductive material. The dielectric fill structure contacts an inner side surface of the channel structure and has a recessed upper surface relative to the channel structure. The upper contact structure comprises a third oxide semiconductive material having a greater atomic concentration of the one or more metals than the channel structure. The upper contact structure comprises a first portion contacting the upper surface of the dielectric fill structure and the inner side surface of the channel structure, and a second portion contacting the upper surface of the channel structure.
US11908933B2
A metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) device is described herein. The MOSFET device comprises a unit cell on a silicon carbide (SiC) substrate. The unit cell comprises: a source region; a well region; and a source attachment region. The source attachment region is in contact with the source region. The source attachment region is doped using first conductivity type ions. In an embodiment, the source attachment region is doped using second conductivity type ions. The source attachment region comprises a depth shallower than a depth of source region. In an embodiment, the source attachment region comprises a depth equal to a depth of the source region. The source attachment region comprises a doping concentration lower than a doping concentration of the source region. In an embodiment, the source attachment region comprises a doping concentration equal to a doping concentration of the source region.
US11908929B2
A semiconductor device having an active portion and a gate pad portion on a semiconductor substrate includes: a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type; and a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type. The active portion has: first semiconductor regions of the first conductivity type; a first electrode provided on the first semiconductor regions; and first trenches. The gate pad portion has: a gate electrode pad provided above the second semiconductor layer; second trenches provided beneath the gate electrode pad; and second semiconductor regions of the second conductivity type, each provided in the first semiconductor layer so as to be in contact with a respective one of bottoms of the second trenches. Each of the second trenches is continuous with a respective one of the first trenches. The second semiconductor layer is continuous from the active portion to the gate pad portion.
US11908925B2
A semiconductor device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a first semiconductor region, a second semiconductor region, a third semiconductor region, a fourth semiconductor region, a fifth semiconductor region, a first gate electrode, and a second gate electrode. The first gate electrode faces the second semiconductor region via a first insulating film. The second gate electrode faces the second semiconductor region via a second insulating film and faces the second electrode via a third insulating film contacting the second insulating film. The fifth semiconductor region includes a boundary portion that electrically contacts the second electrode. A distance between an upper surface of the fourth semiconductor region and the first electrode is greater than a distance between the boundary portion and the first electrode.
US11908919B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a fin structure in which first semiconductor layers and second semiconductor layers are alternatively stacked; forming a sacrificial gate structure over the fin structure; etching a source/drain (S/D) region of the fin structure, which is not covered by the sacrificial gate structure, thereby forming an S/D space; laterally etching the first semiconductor layers through the S/D space, thereby forming recesses; forming a first insulating layer, in the recesses, on the etched first semiconductor layers; after the first insulating layer is formed, forming a second insulating layer, in the recesses, on the first insulating layer, wherein a dielectric constant of the second insulating layer is less than that of the first insulating layer; and forming an S/D epitaxial layer in the S/D space, wherein the second insulating layer is in contact with the S/D epitaxial layer.
US11908915B2
A semiconductor device includes a gate structure disposed over a channel region and a source/drain region. The gate structure includes a gate dielectric layer over the channel region, one or more work function adjustment material layers over the gate dielectric layer, and a metal gate electrode layer over the one or more work function adjustment material layers. The one or more work function adjustment layers includes an aluminum containing layer, and a diffusion barrier layer is disposed at at least one of a bottom portion and a top portion of the aluminum containing layer. The diffusion barrier layer is one or more of a Ti-rich layer, a Ti-doped layer, a Ta-rich layer, a Ta-doped layer and a Si-doped layer.
US11908908B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate. The device includes a stacked film that includes a plurality of first electrode layers provided over the substrate and separated from each other in a first direction perpendicular to a front surface of the substrate and a plurality of second electrode layers provided over the first electrode layer and separated from each other in the first direction. The device further includes a first insulating film and a second insulating film that penetrate the plurality of first electrode layers and the plurality of second electrode layers in the first direction. The stacked film further includes a first gap portion including a first portion provided between the substrate and a lowermost layer of the plurality of first electrode layers and a second portion connected to the first portion, penetrating the plurality of first electrode layers in the first direction, between the first insulating film and the second insulating film.
US11908905B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a method for forming a semiconductor structure, the method includes forming a buffer layer over a substrate. An active layer is formed on the buffer layer. A top electrode is formed on the active layer. An etch process is performed on the buffer layer and the substrate to define a plurality of pillar structures. The plurality of pillar structures include a first pillar structure laterally offset from a second pillar structure. At least portions of the first and second pillar structures are spaced laterally between sidewalls of the top electrode.
US11908899B2
A semiconductor metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) transistor with increased on-state current obtained through intrinsic bipolar junction transistor (BJT) of MOSFET has been described. Methods of operating the MOS transistor are provided.
US11908888B2
A metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor structure includes a substrate extending along a first direction to define a length, a second direction orthogonal to the first direction to define a width, and a third direction orthogonal to the first and second direction to define a height. The substrate includes a first capacitance region and a second capacitance region. The first capacitance region has a first maximum operating voltage (Vmax) and the second capacitance region has a second Vmax that is greater than the first Vmax.
US11908865B2
A semiconductor structure and a fabrication method of the semiconductor structure are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate. The substrate includes a first region, a second region, and an isolation region between the first region and the second region. The semiconductor structure also includes a first fin, a second fin and a third fin disposed over the first region, the second region, and the isolation region, respectively. Further, the semiconductor structure includes a gate structure. The gate structure includes a first work function layer over the first region and a first portion of the isolation region, and a second work function layer over the second region and a second portion of the isolation region. An interface where the first work function layer is in contact with the second work function layer is located over a top surface of the third fin.
US11908859B2
A semiconductor device includes a first to sixth regions, a first gate, a first metal contact and a second metal contact. The second region is disposed opposite to the first region with respect to the first gate. The first metal contact couples the first region to the second region. The fourth region is disposed opposite to the third region with respect to the first gate. The second metal contact is coupling the third region to the fourth region. The fifth region is disposed between the first gate and the second region, and is disconnected from the first metal contact and the second metal contact. The sixth region is disposed between the first gate and the first region, and is disconnected from the first metal contact and the second metal contact.
US11908854B2
A display device includes a substrate that includes a display area and a peripheral area outside the display area, a display element on the display area, a peripheral circuit on the peripheral area, the peripheral circuit including a thin film transistor, a first shielding layer on the peripheral circuit. and a second shielding layer on the first shielding layer. At least one of the first shielding layer and the second shielding layer includes a hole. One shielding layer of the first shielding layer and the second shielding layer includes the hole and overlaps the other one of the first shielding layer and the second shielding layer.
US11908852B2
An integrated circuit includes a first transistor, a horizontal routing track extending in a first direction in a first metal layer, and a via connector conductively connecting the horizontal routing track to a first terminal of the first transistor. The integrated circuit also includes a backside routing track extending in the first direction in a backside metal layer, and a backside via connector conductively connecting the backside routing track to a second terminal of the first transistor. The backside metal layer and the first metal layer are formed at opposite sides of a semiconductor substrate. In the integrated circuit, either the first terminal or the second terminal is a gate terminal of the first transistor.
US11908848B2
A display device and a method of fabricating a display device are provided. The display device includes a substrate comprising a contact area and a line area, a first electrode that extends in a first direction on the substrate, a first electrode pattern that extends in the first direction and is spaced apart from the first electrode on the substrate, a second electrode that extends in the first direction and is between the first electrode and the first electrode pattern on the substrate, a second electrode pattern that extends in the first direction and is between the first electrode and the second electrode on the substrate, and a first light-emitting element between the first electrode and the second electrode pattern in the contact area.
US11908847B2
An image display element includes micro light emitting elements disposed in an array on a driving circuit substrate. An excitation light emitting element includes a main body including a compound semiconductor, a metal electrode disposed on a side of the main body located closer to the driving circuit substrate, and a transparent electrode disposed on an opposite side to the driving circuit substrate, and a light emission layer included in the main body is disposed on a side opposite to the driving circuit substrate from a center portion of the main body.
US11908842B2
Disclosed are embodiments of apparatus and methods that provide light emitting displays with improved wide angle color viewing. A plurality of light emitting elements is arranged in a predetermined pattern and collectively creates a viewing plane. A portion of the light emitting elements are disposed in a primary orientation while the remainder of the light emitting element are disposed in a complementary orientation. Each light emitting element in a primary orientation is adjacent to a light emitting element in the complementary orientation. The spatial light emission pattern of the primary orientation is complementary to the spatial light emission pattern of the complementary orientation. Adjacent pairs of primary-complementary oriented light emitting elements cancel a substantial amount of color variation that would otherwise be seen when one varies the gaze angle upon the viewing plane.
US11908835B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes the following operations. A substrate is provided. A first conductive pillar, a second conductive pillar arid a third conductive pillar are disposed over the substrate. The first conductive pillar comprises a first height, the second conductive pillar comprises a second height, and the third conductive pillar comprises a third height. A first die is disposed over the first conductive pillar. A second die is disposed over the second conductive pillar. A first surface of the first die and a second surface of the second die are at substantially same level.
US11908832B2
The invention relates to a process for collectively bending microelectronic components comprising transferring microelectronic components (10) to and bending them on curved surfaces (21) of a shaping carrier (20), an adhesive layer (6) ensuring adhesion of the microelectronic components (10), and comprising producing conductive vias (22) that extend through the shaping carrier (20) and the adhesive lower layer (6), from the lower face (20i) of the shaping carrier (20), in order to emerge onto the lower conductive pads (12) of the microelectronic components (10).
US11908830B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes providing a semiconductor die, arranging an electrical connector over the semiconductor die, the electrical connector including a conductive core, an absorbing feature arranged on a first side of the conductive core, and a solder layer arranged on a second side of the conductive core, opposite the first side and facing the semiconductor die, and soldering the electrical connector onto the semiconductor die by heating the solder layer with a laser, wherein the laser irradiates the absorbing feature and absorbed energy is transferred from the absorbing feature through the conductive core to the solder layer.
US11908825B2
A semiconductor package includes a lower semiconductor die and an upper semiconductor die which are stacked with an offset in a first direction, wherein the lower semiconductor die includes a plurality of lower pads arranged in a second direction, which is perpendicular to the first direction, and wherein the upper semiconductor die includes a plurality of upper pads arranged in the second direction. The semiconductor package also includes bent wires electrically connecting the lower pads of the lower semiconductor die with the upper pads of the upper semiconductor die in the first direction. The semiconductor package further includes vertical wires such that a vertical wire is disposed on any one of the lower pad and the upper pad for each pair of pads electrically connected by a bent wire.
US11908823B2
A packaged semiconductor device includes a first bond pad, a second bond pad, a first bond wire that includes a first end bonded to the first bond pad and a second end bonded to the second bond pad, and a second bond wire that includes a first end that is electrically connected to the first bond pad and a second end that is electrically connected to the second bond pad. The first end of the second bond wire is bonded to the first end of the first bond wire. A method of bonding a bond wire includes bonding a first end of a first bond wire to a contact surface of a first bond pad and bonding a first end of a second bond wire to a surface of the first end of the first bond wire.
US11908821B2
An apparatus, comprising a substrate comprising a dielectric, a conductor, comprising a via embedded within the dielectric, the via has a first end and a second end, and substantially vertical sidewalls between the first end and the second end, and a conductive structure extending laterally from the first end of the via over the dielectric, wherein the via and the conductive structure have a contiguous microstructure.
US11908819B2
Semiconductor packaging substrates and processing sequences are described. In an embodiment, a packaging substrate includes a build-up structure, and a patterned metal contact layer partially embedded within the build-up structure and protruding from the build-up structure. The patterned metal contact layer may include an array of surface mount (SMT) metal bumps in a chip mount area, a metal dam structure or combination thereof.
US11908815B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device package. The semiconductor device package includes an antenna layer, a first circuit layer and a second circuit layer. The antenna layer has a first coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE). The first circuit layer is disposed over the antenna layer. The first circuit layer has a second CTE. The second circuit layer is disposed over the antenna layer. The second circuit layer has a third CTE. A difference between the first CTE and the second CTE is less than a difference between the first CTE and the third CTE.
US11908813B2
A display device having a non-display region is provided. The display device includes a first conductive line to which a voltage is applied and a second conductive line which is at least partially overlapped with the first conductive line. There is a distance between the first conductive line and the second conductive line in a normal direction of the display device is greater than or equal to 3500 angstroms, and less than or equal to 4500 angstroms.
US11908812B2
A memory device including a substrate including a substrate contact pad. The memory device includes a first memory die including a first power supply contact pad electrically coupled to the substrate contact pad and a first power supply circuit on the first memory die. The first memory die further includes a first electrostatic discharge (ESD) power clamp contact pad electrically coupled to the substrate contact pad and a first ESD power clamp circuit on the first memory die. The memory device further includes a second memory die including a second power supply contact pad electrically coupled to the substrate contact pad and a second power supply circuit on the second memory die and a second ESD power clamp contact pad electrically coupled to a second ESD power clamp circuit on the second memory die, wherein the second ESD power clamp contact pad is electrically disconnected from the substrate contact.
US11908808B2
A monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) with embedded transmission line (ETL) ground shielding is provided. In an exemplary aspect, an ETL MMIC according to this disclosure includes a MMIC substrate having an active side, an ETL dielectric layer covering the active side, and a topside ground plane over the ETL dielectric layer. The active side includes one or more transmission lines or other components which may undesirably couple to metal signal lines (e.g., package metal interconnects) in an external circuit assembly. The topside ground plane in the ETL MMIC provides shielding to reduce such electromagnetic coupling. The topside ground plane can also facilitate improved thermal paths for heat dissipation, such as through a redistribution layer (RDL) to a next higher assembly (NHA) and/or through a backside ground plane of the MMIC substrate.
US11908805B2
Semiconductor devices with a conformal coating in contact with a ground plane at a bottom side of the semiconductor devices and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor die coupled to a first surface of a package substrate. The semiconductor device can also include a molded material covering at least a portion of the package substrate and the semiconductor die. The semiconductor device can also include a ground plane in the package substrate and exposed through an opening in a second surface of the package substrate opposite the first surface. The semiconductor device can also include a conformal coating coupled to the ground plane through the opening that can shield the semiconductor device from electromagnetic interference.
US11908804B2
The present invention provides an array substrate and a display panel. The array substrate includes a substrate, a first metal layer, a second metal layer, a pixel electrode layer, and an alignment identification terminal that are sequentially stacked. The alignment identification terminal is disposed in at least one of the first metal layer and the second metal layer, and is at least partially disposed in a sub-pixel electrode region. An arrangement of the alignment identification terminal is no longer limited by a narrow frame, and a size can be made larger to meet the needs of a CCD identification, ensuring an accuracy of identification and alignment.
US11908803B2
A semiconductor device includes an array of flexible connectors configured to mitigate thermomechanical stresses. In one embodiment, a semiconductor assembly includes a substrate coupled to an array of flexible connectors. Each flexible connector can be transformed between a resting configuration and a loaded configuration. Each flexible connector includes a conductive wire electrically coupled to the substrate and a support material at least partially surrounding the conductive wire. The conductive wire has a first shape when the flexible connector is in the resting configuration and a second, different shape when the flexible connector is in the loaded configuration. The first shape includes at least two apices spaced apart from each other in a vertical dimension by a first distance, and the second shape includes the two apices spaced apart from each other in the vertical dimension by a second distance different than the first distance.
US11908802B2
An apparatus is provided which comprises: a plurality of first conductive contacts having a first pitch spacing on a substrate surface, a plurality of second conductive contacts having a second pitch spacing on the substrate surface, and a plurality of conductive interconnects disposed within the substrate to couple a first grouping of the plurality of second conductive contacts associated with a first die site with a first grouping of the plurality of second conductive contacts associated with a second die site and to couple a second grouping of the plurality of second conductive contacts associated with the first die site with a second grouping of the plurality of second conductive contacts associated with the second die site, wherein the conductive interconnects to couple the first groupings are present in a layer of the substrate above the conductive interconnects to couple the second groupings. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US11908798B2
An integrated circuit device includes a substrate and a first electrically insulating layer on the substrate. An electrically conductive contact plug is provided, which extends at least partially through the first electrically insulating layer. The contact plug includes a protrusion having a top surface that is spaced farther from the substrate relative to a top surface of a portion of the first electrically insulating layer extending adjacent the contact plug. An electrically conductive line is provided with a terminal end, which extends on a first portion of the protrusion. A second electrically insulating layer is provided, which extends on a second portion of the protrusion and on the first electrically insulating layer. The second electrically insulating layer has a sidewall, which extends opposite a sidewall of the terminal end of the electrically conductive line.
US11908796B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first metal layer, a dielectric layer, and a second metal layer. The substrate includes a dense region and an isolation region. The first metal layer is disposed over the substrate and includes a first metal pattern and a second metal pattern. The first metal pattern is located in the dense region. There is at least one slot in the first metal pattern. The second metal pattern is located in the isolation region. The dielectric layer is disposed on the first metal layer. The second metal layer is disposed on the dielectric layer.
US11908788B2
A semiconductor structure is disclosed. The semiconductor structure includes: a polymer base layer, a backside redistribution layer (RDL) over the polymer base layer; a molding layer over the backside RDL; a polymer layer over the molding layer; a front side RDL over the polymer layer; and a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor vertically passing through the molding layer, the MIM capacitor including a first electrode, an insulation layer and a second electrode, wherein the insulation layer surrounds the first electrode, and the second electrode surrounds the insulation layer, and the molding layer surrounds the second electrode. An associated method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure is also disclosed.
US11908787B2
A package structure includes a first and a second conductive feature structures, a die, an insulator, an encapsulant, an adhesive layer, and a first through via. The die is located between the first conductive feature structure and the second conductive feature structure. The die is electrically connected to the second conductive feature structure. The insulator is disposed between the die and the first conductive feature structure. The insulator has a bottom surface in physical contact with a polymer layer of the first conductive feature structure. The encapsulant is located between the first conductive feature structure and the second conductive feature structure. The encapsulant is disposed on the insulator and laterally encapsulates the die and the insulator. The adhesive layer is disposed between the die and the insulator. The first through via extends through the encapsulant to connect to the first conductive feature structure and the second conductive feature structure.
US11908779B2
A semiconductor package structure includes a substrate comprising a land structure. The land structure includes a first land section having a first height in a cross-sectional view and a second land section having a second height in the cross-sectional view that is different than the first height. A mold encapsulant is disposed adjacent a lateral portion of the first land section and is disposed below a bottom portion of the second land section. A semiconductor die is attached to the substrate, and includes a first major surface, a second major surface opposing the first major surface, and an outer perimeter. The semiconductor die further includes a bonding structure disposed adjacent the first major surface, which is coupled to the second land section such that the first land section is disposed outside the perimeter of the semiconductor die A mold member encapsulates at least portions of the semiconductor die.
US11908778B2
A semiconductor module includes: a semiconductor element having a first main electrode and a second main electrode; a first conductive member and a second conductive member connected to the first main electrode and the second main electrode, respectively, and placed to sandwich the semiconductor element; and a main terminal including a first main terminal continuous from the first conductive member and a second main terminal continuous from the second conductive member. The main terminal has a facing portion, a non-facing portion, a first connection portion, and a second connection portion. In a width direction, a formation position of the second connection portion overlaps with a formation position of the first connection portion.
US11908772B2
Provided is a semiconductor module including a semiconductor device and a cooling apparatus, wherein the semiconductor device includes semiconductor chips, circuit boards where the semiconductor chips are implemented, and a resin structure for sealing the semiconductor chips; the cooling apparatus includes a top plate, a side wall, a bottom plate, a coolant flow portion, a plurality of fins and reinforcement pins; the metal layer has a part overlapped with the cooling region, and other parts other than the part overlapped with one communication region of the first communication region and the second communication region in planar view; and the reinforcement pins are arranged in the one communication region.
US11908768B2
Forming aluminum circuit layers forming an aluminum circuit layers on one surface of a ceramic substrate and forming copper circuit layers are included. The copper circuit layers are formed by laminating copper boards for the circuit layers on the respective aluminum circuit layers, arranging the laminate between a pair of support boards having a convex curved surface at least on one surface so as to face to each other, moving the support boards in a facing direction to press the laminate in a lamination direction, and heating in this pressing state so that the copper boards for the circuit layers are bonded on the aluminum circuit layers respectively by solid phase diffusion. In the step of forming the copper circuit layers, the support boards are arranged so that either one of the convex curved surface is in contact with the adjacent copper boards for the circuit layers in the laminate.
US11908766B2
The present invention relates to a cooling system where a semiconductor component including a semiconductor chip and a cooling apparatus are joined, wherein a coolant is supplied to a substrate, on which a semiconductor chip is installed, through an opening member of the cooling apparatus so that a surface of the substrate may be directly cooled by the coolant so as to improve cooling efficiency, and a cooling post structure, which enables the coolant to smoothly flow, is used to further improve cooling efficiency.
US11908759B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a body structure and an electronic component. The body structure is disposed above the substrate and includes a semiconductor die, a molding compound, a conductive component and a lower redistribution layer (RDL). The semiconductor die has an active surface. The molding compound encapsulates the semiconductor die and has a lower surface, an upper surface opposite to the lower surface and a through hole extending to the upper surface from the lower surface. The conductive component is formed within the through hole. The lower RDL is formed on the lower surface of the molding compound, the active surface of the semiconductor die and the conductive component exposed from the lower surface. The electronic component is disposed above the upper surface of the molding compound and electrically connected to the lower RDL through the conductive component.
US11908753B2
Herein disclosed is a test head connection method, the method comprises the following steps. First, a load board and a card holder are provided between a test head and a probing machine, the card holder is disposed in the probing machine, and the card holder is used to accommodate the load board. A vacuum function of the test head is activated, and the test head is moved to align the card holder. The test head is moved to touch the load board in the card holder. At least one clamping piece is used to fix the test head and the card holder. Wherein the load board and a wafer are connected by direct probing.
US11908752B2
A substrate processing apparatus that includes a substrate holder, a cup member, an elevating mechanism, a first nozzle, and a camera. The substrate holder holds a substrate and rotates the substrate. The cup member surrounds the outer circumference of the substrate holder. The elevating mechanism moves up the cup member so that the upper end portion of the cup member is located at the upper end position higher than the substrate held by the substrate holder. The first nozzle has a discharge port at a position lower than the upper end position, and discharges first processing liquid from the discharge port to an end portion of the substrate. The camera images an imaging region that includes the first processing liquid discharged from the discharge port of the first nozzle and is viewed from an imaging position above the substrate.
US11908749B2
A method includes: providing a first gate electrode over the substrate; forming a first pair of spacers on two sides of the first gate electrode; removing the first gate electrode to form a first trench between the first pair of spacers; depositing a dielectric layer in the first trench; depositing a first layer over the dielectric layer; removing the first layer from the first trench; and depositing a work function layer over the dielectric layer in the first trench.
US11908745B2
A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor layer below a second semiconductor layer; first and second gate dielectric layers surrounding the first and the second semiconductor layers, respectively; and a gate electrode surrounding both the first and the second gate dielectric layers. The first gate dielectric layer has a first top section above the first semiconductor layer and a first bottom section below the first semiconductor layer. The second gate dielectric layer has a second top section above the second semiconductor layer and a second bottom section below the second semiconductor layer. The first top section has a first thickness. The second top section has a second thickness. The second thickness is greater than the first thickness.
US11908742B2
A semiconductor device and method of forming the same is disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first fin and a second fin extending from the semiconductor substrate, a first lower semiconductor feature over the first fin, a second lower semiconductor feature over the second fin. Each of the first and second lower semiconductor features includes a top surface bending downward towards the semiconductor substrate in a cross-sectional plane perpendicular to a lengthwise direction of the first and second fins. The semiconductor device also includes an upper semiconductor feature over and in physical contact with the first and second lower semiconductor features, and a dielectric layer on sidewalls of the first and second lower semiconductor features.
US11908739B2
Advanced flat metals for microelectronics are provided. While conventional processes create large damascene features that have a dishing defect that causes failure in bonded devices, example systems and methods described herein create large damascene features that are planar. In an implementation, an annealing process creates large grains or large metallic crystals of copper in large damascene cavities, while a thinner layer of copper over the field of a substrate anneals into smaller grains of copper. The large grains of copper in the damascene cavities resist dishing defects during chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP), resulting in very flat damascene features. In an implementation, layers of resist and layers of a second coating material may be applied in various ways to resist dishing during chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP), resulting in very flat damascene features.
US11908728B2
Techniques herein include a process chamber for depositing thin films to backside surfaces of wafers to reduce wafer bowing and distortion. A substrate support provides an annular perimeter seal around the bottom and/or side of the wafer which allows the majority of the substrate backside to be exposed to a process environment. A supported wafer separates the chamber into lower and upper chambers that provide different process environments. The lower section of the processing chamber includes deposition hardware configured to apply and remove thin films. The upper section can remain a chemically inert environment, protecting the existing features on the top surface of the wafer. Multiple exhausts and differential pressures are used to prevent deposition gasses from accessing the working surface of a wafer.
US11908722B2
A teaching substrate is loaded into a load port of an equipment front-end module (EFEM) of a fabrication or inspection tool. The EFEM includes a substrate-handling robot. The teaching substrate includes a plurality of sensors and one or more wireless transceivers. The tool includes a plurality of stations. With the teaching substrate in the EFEM, the substrate-handling robot moves along an initial route and sensor data are wirelessly received from the teaching substrate. Based at least in part on the sensor data, a modified route distinct from the initial route is determined. The substrate-handling robot moves along the modified route, handling the teaching substrate. Based at least in part on the sensor data, positions of the plurality of stations are determined.
US11908714B2
A transfer robot assembly arranged within an ATV transfer module includes a transfer robot that includes an end effector and one or more arm segments connected between the end effector and a transfer robot platform. A first robot alignment arm is connected to the transfer robot platform. A second robot alignment arm is connected to the first robot alignment arm and to a mounting chassis of the ATV transfer module. The transfer robot assembly is configured to actuate the first robot alignment arm and the second robot alignment arm to raise and lower the transfer robot to adjust a position of the transfer robot in a vertical direction and in a horizontal direction. The transfer robot is configured to fold into a folded configuration having a narrow profile occupying less than 50% of an overall depth of the ATV transfer module.
US11908702B2
A semiconductor device with different configurations of gate structures and a method of fabricating the same are disclosed. The method includes forming a fin structure on a substrate, forming a gate opening on the fin structure, forming a metallic oxide layer within the gate opening, forming a first dielectric layer on the metallic oxide layer, forming a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer, forming a work function metal (WFM) layer on the second dielectric layer, and forming a gate metal fill layer on the WFM layer. The forming the first dielectric layer includes depositing an oxide material with an oxygen areal density less than an oxygen areal density of the metallic oxide layer.
US11908701B2
A patterning method includes at least the following steps. A first material layer is provided. A second material layer is provided over the first material layer. The second material layer partially exposes the first material layer. A passivation layer is formed over the first material layer and the second material layer. A growth rate of the passivation layer on the second material layer is greater than a growth rate of the passivation layer on the first material layer. A first etching process is performed to remove a portion of the passivation layer and a portion of the first material layer.
US11908693B2
A method for preparing a semiconductor device structure includes forming a target layer over a semiconductor substrate, and forming a plurality of first mask patterns over the target layer. The method also includes forming a lining layer conformally covering the first mask patterns and the target layer. A first opening is formed over the lining layer and between the first mask patterns. The method further includes filling the first opening with a second mask pattern, and performing an etching process on the lining layer and the target layer using the first mask patterns and the second mask pattern as a mask such that a plurality of second openings are formed in the target layer.
US11908685B2
A method includes forming a gate spacer on sidewalls of a dummy gate structure disposed over a semiconductor substrate; performing a first implantation process to the gate spacer, wherein the first implantation process includes bombarding an upper portion of the gate spacer with silicon atoms; after performing the first implantation process, performing a second implantation process to the upper portion of the gate spacer, where the second implantation process includes bombarding the upper portion of the gate spacer with carbon atoms; and after performing the second implantation process, replacing the dummy gate structure with a high-k metal gate structure, wherein the replacing includes forming an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer.
US11908662B2
Embodiments described herein relate to apparatus and techniques for radio frequency (RF) phase control in a process chamber. A process volume is defined in the process chamber by a faceplate electrode and a support pedestal. A grounding bowl is disposed within the process chamber about the support pedestal opposite the process volume. The grounding bowl substantially fills a volume other than the process volume below the support pedestal. A phase tuner circuit is coupled to an RF mesh disposed in the support pedestal and the faceplate electrode. The tuner circuit adjusts a phase difference between a phase of the faceplate electrode and a phase of the RF mesh.
US11908661B2
The present disclosure relates to apparatus and methods that manipulate the amplitude and phase of the voltage or current of an edge ring. The apparatus includes an electrostatic chuck having a chucking electrode embedded therein for chucking a substrate to the electrostatic chuck. The apparatus further includes a baseplate underneath the substrate to feed power to the substrate. The apparatus further includes an edge ring disposed over the electrostatic chuck. The apparatus further includes an edge ring electrode located underneath the edge ring. The apparatus further includes a circuit including a first variable capacitor coupled to the edge ring electrode.
US11908651B2
The present invention discloses an intelligent circuit breaker capable of automatically releasing and tripping in power failure, with an electromagnetic force capable of controllably changing a current direction arranged between a permanent magnetic field force and a mechanical spring force, and three forces are designed on a straight line, the permanent magnet static iron core, the electromagnetic moving iron core and the electromagnetic coil are respectively fixed on the electromagnetic coil framework through a first shaft hole, a second shaft hole and a wire slot, a tripping energy storage spring is sleeved on the tripping transmission rod, a permanent magnet attraction reset shifting fork is arranged in a shifting groove of the tripping transmission rod, and one end of the tripping transmission rod is provided with a tripping connecting rod.
US11908648B2
A switch includes: a first stationary contact having a first stationary contact point; a second stationary contact having a second stationary contact point; a movable contact having a first movable contact, and a second movable contact point; a first magnet pair defined by magnets having surfaces facing each other, the magnets of the first magnet pair being disposed with the first stationary contact point and the first movable contact point therebetween in such a manner that the magnets of the first magnet pair become farther from each other outwardly; and a second magnet pair defined by magnets having surfaces facing each other, the magnets of the second magnet pair being disposed with the second stationary contact point and the second movable contact point therebetween in such a manner that the magnets of the second magnet pair become farther from each other outwardly.
US11908638B2
An illumination system and method are disclosed for maintaining a consistent change in illumination value among a group of illumination devices whenever a change command is manually sent from a keypad to those illumination devices. The consistent change results from maintaining a common start illumination value among not only the group, but also the keypad which controls the group. From the start illumination value, the keypad can then compute an end illumination value depending upon the amount of time that an increase or decrease in illumination value button is depressed and held. Since the change command can arrive at different illumination devices within the group depending upon where each illumination device is geographically located, a masking time is reserved after the button is released so that enough time is allocated for each of the illumination devices within that group to arrive at a common end illumination value.
US11908635B2
To reduce the occurrence of capacitor mounting failure on a circuit board in the solder reflow process, the capacitor element is housed in the bottomed cylindrical outer case and sealed with a sealing member the open end of the outer case, the lead terminal derived from the capacitor element is formed through the sealing member a capacitor body, a base having a bottom surface portion and a side wall formed so as to surround the outer periphery of the capacitor body with a through hole through which the lead terminal penetrates, a capacitor having a convex portion protruding toward the capacitor body from the inner surface of the side wall, the caulking portion formed by caulking the side surface of the outer case the convex portion is disposed, providing a gap portion between the caulking portion and the convex portion.
US11908626B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body including a laminate body including first and second surfaces opposing each other in a first direction, third and fourth surfaces opposing each other in a second direction, and fifth and sixth surfaces opposing each other in a third direction, and including a dielectric layer, and a first internal electrode and a second internal electrode stacked in the third direction with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween, a first and a second margin portion; a first connection portion and a second connection portion. The first connection portion includes a first lead electrode connected to the first internal electrode, and the second connection portion includes a second lead electrode connected to the second internal electrode.
US11908625B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a multilayer body including stacked ceramic layers, internal conductive layers stacked on the ceramic layers, first and second main surfaces opposing each other in a height direction, first and second side surfaces opposing each other in a width direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the height direction, and first and second end surfaces opposing each other in a length direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the height direction and the width direction, and external electrodes connected to the internal conductive layers. The internal conductive layers include holes having a different area equivalent diameter. When an area equivalent diameter in which a cumulative value in a cumulative distribution of area equivalent diameters of the holes in each of the internal conductive layers becomes about 99% is defined as an area equivalent diameter D99, the area equivalent diameter D99 is about 8.0 μm or less.
US11908623B2
A multilayer capacitor includes a body including dielectric layers and internal electrodes and external electrodes disposed on an external surface of the body and connected to the internal electrodes. The body includes a first surface and a second surface to which the internal electrodes are exposed, the first surface and the second surface opposing each other in a first direction, a third surface and a fourth surface opposing each other in a second direction which is a direction in which the dielectric layers are stacked, and a fifth surface and a sixth surface opposing each other in a third direction. At least one of the internal electrodes include a first bottleneck structure having a first directional length of a third-directional outer region smaller than an inner region thereof and a second bottleneck structure having a third directional length of a first directional outer region smaller than an inner region thereof.
US11908621B2
An inductive-load control circuit includes a circuit board on or in which a controller and a driving circuit are disposed, an inductive load disposed at a location apart from the circuit board and connected to the driving circuit of the circuit board, a detection resistor group included in the driving circuit and connected in series with the inductive load, and a temperature measuring element. The detection resistor group includes resistors. The temperature measuring element is disposed between the resistors. The controller and the driving circuit are supplied with electric power by a power supply. The driving circuit controls the electric power supplied by the power supply and applies the electric power to the inductive load. The circuit board has a signal ground connected to the controller and a power ground connected to the detection resistor group of the driving circuit. The temperature measuring element is connected to the power ground.
US11908615B2
The present disclosure provides a common or differential mode inductor for connection to a printed circuit board. The inductor includes a core, a first coil including a first insulated wire wound with a number of turns around the core, and a supporting device for supporting the core and the first coil. The supporting device includes a base element having a PCB contacting surface, and a first alignment element having a proximal end connected to the base element and a distal end provided at a distance from the PCB contacting surface, wherein the distal end is defining an alignment plane. The core has a first end plane facing the alignment plane and a second end plane, wherein the first end plane is facing the alignment plane. The second end plane is facing the base element.
US11908596B2
A transparent conductive layer 3 includes a first main surface 5 exposed to the outside, and a second main surface 6 opposite to the first main surface 5 in a thickness direction. The transparent conductive layer 3 is single layer extending in a plane direction. The transparent conductive layer 3 has a first grain boundary 7 in which two end edges 23 in a cross-sectional view are open to the first main surface 5, and an intermediate region 25 between both end edges 23 is not in contact with the second main surface 6, and has a first crystal grain 31 partitioned by the first grain boundary 7 and facing only the first main surface 5.
US11908593B2
A conductor assembly for transmitting power includes a former that defines a shape, a superconductor material disposed around the former, and a thermally insulating jacket (TIJ) disposed around and spaced apart from the superconductor material. An outer surface of the superconductor material and an inner surface of the TIJ can define an annulus through which a coolant can flow. The conductor assembly can also include an external layer, disposed around an outside surface of the TIJ, to provide structural support to the conductor assembly. The conductor assembly can also include an electrical insulation layer disposed around the outside surface of the TIJ or around the superconductor material.
US11908592B2
A flexible electrode and a fabrication method therefor are provided. The flexible electrode is formed by mixing organic-soft-matrix with inorganic-hard-material. The inorganic-hard-material is composed of silicate lamellar blocks and electrochemically active materials. Each of the silicate lamellar blocks is formed by multiple stacked nano-scaled sheet-like silicate lamellae. The organic-soft-matrix includes conductive polymer and binder. The binder is water-soluble and ionically conductive. The flexible electrode has a floor-ramp like opened-perforated layer structure formed by hierarchically aggregated inorganic silicate lamellar blocks, and pores of the opened-perforated layer structure are filled with the organic-soft-matrix, so as to form a network channel structure having organic phase and inorganic phase interlaced with each other. The floor-ramp like opened-perforated layer structure composed of aggregated inorganic silicate lamellar blocks contributes to stiffness of the flexible electrode, and the conductive polymer and the binder in the organic-soft-matrix respectively form electron channels and ion channels in the flexible electrode.
US11908577B2
A telemedicine platform utilizes artificial intelligence to match patients with practitioners. The platform includes a virtual assistant operable to automatically generate responses to a patient using machine learning in order to further identify details regarding the patient's symptoms and needs. The virtual assistant includes a digitally generated human face that automatically adapts mouth-movements and facial expressions to match the automatically generated responses in order to provide a feeling of interacting with a human assistant. The platform includes a patient interface, for identifying physicians and scheduling appointments, a practitioner interface, for managing patients and scheduling issues, and an administrator interface, for managing a larger practice of multiple practitioners.
US11908573B1
Techniques are disclosed for coordinating service for a user assigned to a service unit of a service facility. The techniques include receiving user data associated with the user, or resource status data associated with a status of a resource. The techniques further include determining a classification of the user based on the user data, the classification corresponding to a condition or service status of the user. The user may then be assigned to a user group based on the classification of the user. The user group may be associated with a recommendation for treating the user. The resource may also be assigned to a resource group based on the resource status data. The techniques further include generating a visual representation of at least a portion of the service unit based on the assigned user group or assigned resource group, and providing the visual representation to a user device for presentation.
US11908571B1
A resource management system for medical software applications. Profile parameters of a first health care facility are received and processed to select one of a plurality stored profile data that contain profile parameters having a threshold similarity to the profile parameters for the first health care facility. A system resource manager loads resource management data associated with the selected profile data, wherein the resource management data comprises data relating to capabilities and capacities of the health care facility associated with the selected profile data. A systems intelligence manager performs predictive processing on the resource management data of the selected profile data and feedback data to update resource management data. The resource management data and updates of the selected profile data is transmitted to the first health care facility for execution in the resource management software.
US11908552B2
A method according to a set of instructions stored on the memory of a computing device includes receiving from a plurality of measure storage devices, by a processor of the computing device, a plurality of measures pertaining to at least one patient and at least one clinical measure of the at least one patient. The plurality of measure storage devices are associated with at least one of a plurality of healthcare providers. The method further includes determining, by the processor, a patient-centered quality measure indicating quality across the plurality of healthcare providers with respect to the at least one patient and the at least one clinical measure.
US11908551B2
A system and method for identifying potential targets for a pharmaceutical compound. The system includes a database arrangement operable to store existing data sources and information related to the pharmaceutical compound; and a processing module communicably coupled to database arrangement. The processing module is operable to receive information related to the pharmaceutical compound, wherein the information includes at least one known target associated with the pharmaceutical compound; extract plurality of targets from existing data sources, wherein the existing data sources comprise plurality of data records and wherein each of the plurality of targets is associated with the pharmaceutical compound in at least one data record; analyse druggability of each of plurality of targets to determine a preliminary set of targets; determine net score for each of the targets in preliminary set of targets; and designate targets with a net score above a predefined threshold, as potential targets.
US11908543B2
The present technology may include a first detection unit configured to generate an output signal by detecting a level of an input terminal in response to a transition of a control clock signal during a normal read operation, and a second detection unit configured to generate the output signal by detecting the level of the input terminal regardless of the transition of the control clock signal during a state information read operation.
US11908535B2
Provided are a memory device and a memory controller, which are configured to repair a weak word line, and a method of operating a storage device including the memory device and the memory controller. A memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of normal word lines and at least one spare word line, and a repair controller configured to set memory cells connected to at least one weak word line to a first operation mode and further configured to set memory cells connected to the at least one spare word line to a second operation mode. The at least one weak word line is detected from among the normal word lines based on a test result.
US11908518B2
A memory system according to an embodiment includes a first wiring, a second wiring, a memory cell between the first wiring and the second wiring and a controller. The memory cell includes a variable resistance element and a switching element. The variable resistance element is switchable between a first low-resistance state and a first high-resistance state. The switching element is switchable between a second low-resistance state and a second high-resistance state in accordance with a supplied voltage. The controller is configured to supply the first wiring with a first voltage switching the switching element to the second low-resistance state, supply the first wiring with a second voltage switching the switching element from the second low-resistance state to the second high-resistance state after the first voltage is supplied, and detect a first target voltage of the second wiring after the second voltage is supplied.
US11908513B2
Numerous embodiments of analog neural memory arrays are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system comprises a first array of non-volatile memory cells, wherein the cells are arranged in rows and columns and the non-volatile memory cells in one or more of the columns stores W+ values, and wherein one of the columns in the first array is a dummy column; and a second array of non-volatile memory cells, wherein the cells are arranged in rows and columns and the non-volatile memory cells in one or more of the columns stores W− values, and wherein one of the columns in the second array is a dummy column; wherein pairs of cells from the first array and the second array store a differential weight, W, according to the formula W=(W+)−(W−).
US11908508B2
Memory devices and systems with partial array refresh control over memory regions in a memory array, and associated methods, are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a memory device includes a memory array having a first memory region and a second memory region. The memory device is configured to write data to the memory array in accordance with a programming sequence by initially writing data to unutilized memory cells of the first memory region before initially writing data to unutilized memory cells of the second memory region. The memory device is further configured to determine that the data stored on the first and/or second memory regions is not consolidated, and to consolidate at least a portion of the data by rewriting the portion of the data to physically or logically contiguous memory cells of the first memory region and/or the second memory region.
US11908507B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a command and address generator configured to decode a command to generate an active command, and generate an address applied with the active command as a row address, a control signal generator configured to generate sequence data changing with a random sequence in response to the active command, and generate a random pick signal when the sequence data is equal to previously stored comparison data, and a memory cell array comprising an odd page memory cell array including a plurality of first memory cells and an even page memory cell array including a plurality of second memory cells, and configured to simultaneously perform the active operation and a hidden hammer refresh operation on the selected first and second memory cells in response to the row address when the random pick signal is activated in response to the active command.
US11908505B2
An efficient FeFET-based CAM is disclosed which is capable of performing normal read, write but has the ability to match input data with don't-care. More specifically, a Ferroelectric FET Based Ternary Content Addressable Memory is disclosed. The design in some examples utilizes two FeFETs and four MOSFETs per cell. The CAM can be written in columns through multi-phase writes. It can be used a normal memory with indexing read. It also has the ability for ternary content-based search. The don't-care values can be either the input or the stored data.
US11908504B2
A memory device formed of ferroelectric field effect transistors (FeFETs). The memory device can be used as a front end buffer, such as in a data storage device having a non-volatile memory (NVM). A controller can be configured to transfer user data between the NVM and an external client (host) via the buffer. The FeFETs can be arranged in a two-dimensional (2D) or a three-dimensional (3D) array. A monitor circuit can be used to monitor operation of the FeFETs. An optimization controller can be used to adjust at least one operational parameter associated with the FeFETs responsive to the monitored operation by the monitor circuit. The FeFETs may require a refresh operation after each read operation. A power down sequence can involve a read operation without a subsequent refresh operation to wipe the FeFETs, the read operation jettisoning the data read from the buffer memory.
US11908499B1
A heat-assisted magnetic recording head includes a laser, a near-field transducer, a primary waveguide, a secondary waveguide, and a photodiode. The laser is configured to emit electromagnetic radiation. The near-field transducer is configured to focus and emit an optical near-field. The primary waveguide configured to receive the electromagnetic radiation and propagate the electromagnetic radiation toward and proximal to the near-field transducer. The secondary waveguide configured to receive a portion of the electromagnetic radiation from the primary waveguide. The photodiode configured to receive the portion of the electromagnetic radiation from the secondary waveguide and emit a signal that represents a magnitude of the electromagnetic radiation that the laser emits.
US11908498B2
A first straight line region and a second straight line region of the straight line region pair are inclined in opposite directions with respect to a first imaginary straight line. The first straight line region has a steeper inclined angle with respect to the first imaginary straight line than the second straight line region. Positions of both ends of the first straight line region and positions of both ends of the second straight line region are aligned in a direction corresponding to a width direction of a magnetic tape. A plurality of gap patterns deviate from each other by a predetermined interval in a direction corresponding to a longitudinal direction of the magnetic tape, between the gap patterns adjacent to each other along the direction corresponding to the width direction of the magnetic tape. A substrate is inclined with respect to the first imaginary straight line.
US11908492B2
A decoding method of a video stream, which is encoded video information. The video stream includes a base video stream, and an enhanced video stream, which is a video stream to enhance luminance of the base video stream, and a describer that contains the combination information of the base video stream and the enhanced video stream. The decoding method includes acquiring the describer, and identifying the combination of the base video steam and the enhanced video stream. The decoding method also includes generating base video information by decoding the base video stream, generating enhanced video information by decoding the enhanced video stream, generating decoded video information based on the base video stream and the enhanced video stream, and outputting the decoded video information.
US11908490B2
A video recording method and device, an electronic device and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: acquiring speed varying information of a speed-varied video, where the speed varying information is used to represent a playing speed change of the speed-varied video; performing reverse speed-varying processing on the speed-varied video according to the speed varying information to obtain an original speed video; displaying the original speed video, and synchronously performing video shooting to generate an original speed target video; and performing speed varying processing on the original speed target video according to the speed varying information to obtain a target speed-varied video.
US11908477B2
This disclosure describes techniques for generating a conversation summary. The techniques may include processing at least one statement indication of the conversation to determine at least one statement that is a candidate highlight of the conversation. The techniques may further include applying linguistic filtering rules to the candidate highlight to determine the candidate highlight is an actual highlight. The techniques may further include generating the conversation summary including providing the actual highlight as at least a portion of the conversation summary.
US11908461B2
A method of performing speech recognition using a two-pass deliberation architecture includes receiving a first-pass hypothesis and an encoded acoustic frame and encoding the first-pass hypothesis at a hypothesis encoder. The first-pass hypothesis is generated by a recurrent neural network (RNN) decoder model for the encoded acoustic frame. The method also includes generating, using a first attention mechanism attending to the encoded acoustic frame, a first context vector, and generating, using a second attention mechanism attending to the encoded first-pass hypothesis, a second context vector. The method also includes decoding the first context vector and the second context vector at a context vector decoder to form a second-pass hypothesis.
US11908459B2
The present disclosure is generally related to a data processing system to detect potential exfiltration of audio data by agent applications can include a data processing system. The data processing system can identify, from an I/O record, an input received from the digital assistant application via a microphone of a client device, an output received from the agent application after the input, and a microphone status for the microphone. The data processing system can determine that the output is terminal based on the input and the output. The data processing system can identify the microphone status as in the enabled state subsequent to the input. The data processing system can determine that the agent application is unauthorized to access audio data acquired via the microphone of the client device based on determining that the output is terminal and identifying the microphone status as enabled.
US11908458B2
A computer-implemented method for customizing a recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T) is provided. The computer implemented method includes synthesizing first domain audio data from first domain text data, and feeding the synthesized first domain audio data into a trained encoder of the recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T) having an initial condition, wherein the encoder is updated using the synthesized first domain audio data and the first domain text data. The computer implemented method further includes synthesizing second domain audio data from second domain text data, and feeding the synthesized second domain audio data into the updated encoder of the recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T), wherein the prediction network is updated using the synthesized second domain audio data and the second domain text data. The computer implemented method further includes restoring the updated encoder to the initial condition.
US11908455B2
A speech separation model training method and apparatus, a computer-readable storage medium, and a computer device are provided, the method including: obtaining first audio and second audio, the first audio including target audio and having corresponding labeled audio, and the second audio including noise audio. obtaining an encoding model, an extraction model, and an initial estimation model; performing unsupervised training on the encoding model, the extraction model, and the estimation model according to the second audio, and adjusting model parameters of the extraction model and the estimation model; performing supervised training on the encoding model and the extraction model according to the first audio and the labeled audio corresponding to the first audio, and adjusting a model parameter of the encoding model; continuously performing the unsupervised training and the supervised training, so that the unsupervised training and the supervised training overlap, and the training is not finished until a training stop condition is met.
US11908453B2
A method and a system for training a machine-learning algorithm (MLA) to determine a user class of a user of an electronic device are provided. The method comprises: receiving a training audio signal representative of a training user utterance; soliciting, by the processor, a plurality of assessor-generated labels for the training audio signal, the given one of the plurality of assessor-generated labels being indicative of whether the training user is perceived to be one of a first class and a second class; generating an amalgamated assessor-generated label for the training audio signal, the amalgamated assessor-generated label being indicative of a label distribution of the plurality of assessor-generated labels between the first class and the second class; generating a training set of data including the training audio signal and the amalgamated assessor-generated to train the MLA to determine the user class of the user producing an in-use user utterance.
US11908450B2
A conversation design is received for a conversation bot that enables the conversation bot to provide a service using a conversation flow specified at least in part by the conversation design. The conversation design specifies in a first human language at least a portion of a message content to be provided by the conversation bot. It is identified that an end-user of the conversation bot prefers to converse in a second human language different from the first human language. In response to a determination that the message content is to be provided by the conversation bot to the end-user, the message content of the conversation design is dynamically translated for the end-user from the first human language to the second human language. The translated message content is provided to the end-user in a message from the conversation bot.
US11908438B2
Computer-based systems, devices, and methods for generating variations of musical compositions are described. Musical compositions stored in digital media include one or more music data object(s) that encode notes. A first set of notes is characterized and a transformation is applied to replace at least one note in the first set of notes with at least one note in a second set of notes. The transformation may explore or call upon the full range of musical notes available without being constrained by conventions of musicality and harmony. For each particular note in the second set of notes that replaces a note in the first set of notes, whether the particular note is in musical harmony with other notes in the music data object is separately assessed and, if not, the particular note is adjusted to bring it into musical harmony with other notes in the music data object.
US11908435B2
Percussion instruments configured for outdoor installation are disclosed. The percussion instrument comprises a support post, wherein the support post is configured for attachment to an outdoor surface, a mounting base secured to the support post, one or more metal discs, wherein each metal disc is tuned to produce a note on a musical scale when struck by a user, and one or more fasteners securing the one or more metal discs to the mounting base.
US11908428B2
A display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns, each pixel column extends in a first direction and each pixel row extends in a second direction crossing the first direction, a first data line extending in the first direction and configured to transfer a data voltage to pixels included in at least two pixel columns, and for each pixel row, a first gate line extending in the second direction and disposed at a first side of the pixel row, and a second gate line extending in the second direction and disposed at a second side of the pixel row, the first and second sides of the pixel row are opposite to each other. In a pair of adjacent pixel columns, pixels, which are connected to the first gate line of their respective pixel row, are arranged in a zigzag arrangement in the first direction.
US11908418B2
A the display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in rows and columns; one scan line disposed in each of the rows of the plurality of sub-pixels; two data lines are disposed in each of the columns of the plurality of sub-pixels; a first multiplexer configured to select a data line at one side among the two data lines disposed in each column; and a second multiplexer configured to select a data line at another side among the two data lines disposed in each column that can be operated at a high speed using a 2D1G structure as well as at a low speed in an interlace scheme, thus securing 2H sensing time and removing flickering during switching between operations of pixels.
US11908414B2
A display apparatus and driving method therefor. The apparatus comprises light emitting element, pixel circuit, scan signal line, data signal line, initial signal line, light emission control line, first power source line, and first reset line to third reset line. The pixel circuit comprises: first reset sub-circuit configured to provide a signal of the initial signal line to a first node; node control sub-circuit configured to provide a signal of the data signal line to a second node, compensate for the first node until a voltage thereof satisfies a threshold condition, provide a signal of the second node to the third node; light emission control sub-circuit configured to provide a signal of the first power source line to the second node and a signal of the third node to light emitting element; second reset sub-circuit configured to provide a signal of the initial signal line to light emitting element.
US11908412B1
A pixel driving circuit and a display panel are provided. The pixel driving circuit includes a scan line, a data line, a capacitor, a switch module, and a driving transistor. A scanning voltage is at a first level in a sampling phase and in a light-emitting phase, and at a second level in a data writing phase. A data voltage is at a high level in the sampling phase, and at a low level in the data writing phase and in the light-emitting phase. The capacitor includes a first capacitor-terminal and a second capacitor-terminal. The driving transistor includes a gate terminal electrically connected with the second capacitor-terminal, a source terminal electrically connected with the scan line, and a drain terminal configured to be electrically connected with the gate terminal in the sampling phase and be disconnected from the gate terminal in the data writing phase.
US11908405B2
A pixel circuit and a display device including the same are disclosed. The pixel circuit of this disclosure includes a driving element including a first electrode connected to a first node to which a pixel driving voltage is applied, a gate electrode connected to a second node, and a second electrode connected to a third node, and configured to supply an electric current to a light emitting element; a first switch element configured to be turned on according to a gate-on voltage of a scan pulse to supply a data voltage to the second node; and a second switch element configured to be turned off according to a gate-off voltage of a light emitting control pulse generated in antiphase of the scan pulse.
US11908399B2
A display includes subpixel emissive areas of first, second, and third colors arranged in an array that includes rows and columns. The display also includes scan lines, column lines, and electronic subpixel circuits arranged in the array, with each subpixel circuit in a column of the array being electrically connected to a same column line and each electronic subpixel circuit configured for receiving electronic signals from a scan line and from a column line and for converting the received signals into a current signal provided to one of the subpixel emissive areas to drive light emission from the subpixel emissive area. The display further includes demultiplexer (DEMUX) switches, where every other column line of the columns lines is configured to be connected to at least two outputs from a column line driver through the DEMUX switches.
US11908392B2
A display device including: a first transistor configured to control a control current based on a voltage of a first node; a second transistor configured to electrically connect a second node that is a first electrode of the first transistor to a first data line in response to a scan write signal; a third transistor configured to control a driving current based on a voltage of a third node; a fourth transistor configured to electrically connect a fourth node that is a first electrode of the third transistor to a second data line in response to the scan write signal; a fifth transistor configured to control the driving current based on a voltage of a fifth node having received the control current; and a light emitting element configured to receive the driving current, wherein the fifth transistor is of a different type from that of the first to fourth transistors.
US11908388B2
Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element. The pixel circuit includes a data write module, a drive module and a compensation module. The drive module includes a drive transistor. The data write module is connected to an input terminal of the drive module; a first electrode of the compensation module is connected to an output terminal of the drive module, and a second electrode of the compensation module is connected to a control terminal of the drive module. The data write module includes a data write transistor and a bias transistor, the data write transistor is connected to a data signal input terminal and configured to transmit a data signal, and the bias transistor is connected to a bias signal input terminal and configured to transmit a bias signal.
US11908385B2
A driving method includes row scanning circuit configured to output scanning signals to sub-pixels in the display panel for plurality of times within one frame and output the scanning signals to the sub-pixels in the display panel in plurality of sub-frames each time; a data processor is configured to receive a display data stream including the display data corresponding to the sub-pixels in the plurality of sub-frames, split the display data stream according to analog-bit display data and digital-bit display data, and output the split display data stream to a column scanning circuit; and the column scanning circuit is configured to generate corresponding data signals of bright-state analog data voltages according to the analog-bit display data and transmit corresponding data signals of dark-state digital data voltages or the corresponding data signals of bright-state analog data voltages to corresponding sub-pixels in the display panel according to the digital-bit display data.
US11908375B2
A head-up display device that is installed in a vehicle and displays display information in a position overlapping with a window, a terminal holder installed in the vicinity of the window in a vehicle interior, a mobile terminal installation detection unit that detects whether a mobile terminal is installed on the terminal holder, and a control unit that controls the head-up display device are provided, in which the head-up display device includes a display position change unit that changes a display position of the display information, and the control unit changes the display position from a first display position to a second display position when the installation of the mobile terminal is detected by the mobile terminal installation detection unit.
US11908365B2
A display device including: a display area including pixels connected to data lines and scan lines, the display area including a plurality of signal output lines connected to each of the scan lines through a contact; a data driver including a first data driving circuit at a side of the display area; a scan driver disposed at the side of the display area; and a timing controller, wherein the first data driving circuit includes: output buffers which respectively output data signals to first to k-th data lines (k is an integer greater than 2) of the data lines; and an output delay controller which transmits the data signals to the output buffers through first to k-th transmission lines, and controls delay times of the data signals output to the first to k-th transmission lines based on position information of a pixel row to which the data signals are supplied.
US11908357B2
The present invention provides a persistence of vision (POV) display device using a light emitting element, the display device comprising: a fixed module including a motor; a rotating module located on the fixed module and rotated by the motor; at least one panel coupled to the rotating module; a plurality of light sources arranged on the panel and having a plurality of pixels; a light source module including a light emitting element array in which the plurality of light sources are arranged in a longitudinal direction; memory that stores video data received from an external source device; and a controller that controls the order of input of the video data and the order of output of the video data.
US11908355B2
A projection method includes detecting a first section formed of a flat surface at a projection surface, detecting a second section formed of a concave surface at the projection surface, projecting image light in a first visual aspect onto the first section by a projector, and projecting image light in a second visual aspect different from the first visual aspect onto the second section by the projector.
US11908354B2
A system control portion generates corrected image data by performing reduction processing of reducing input image data input into a display portion at a first reduction rate and image shifting processing of shifting positions of R image data and B image data of a specific color component included in reduced image data obtained by the reduction processing. The system control portion projects a corrected image based on the corrected image data to a screen by inputting the corrected image data into the display portion.
US11908352B2
The present disclosure provides a spliced display screen, which includes a plurality of display modules arranged closely and one or more positioning mechanisms installed on each display module, each positioning mechanism includes: a positioning pin and a groove, the one or more positioning pins are clamped in the one or more grooves, the one or more positioning pins and the one or more grooves cooperate to restrict relative movement in the horizontal direction of two adjacent display modules; an elastic structure arranged corresponding to the positioning pin, one end being connected to the display module and the other end being connected to the positioning pin; in response to being subjected to an external force, the one or more positioning pins rotate along a predetermined direction relative to the one or more grooves and leave the one or more grooves; in response to being disengaged from the external force, the one or more positioning pins return to an initial position along a direction opposite to the predetermined direction through the respective elastic structures.
US11908345B2
Various systems and methods for engagement dissemination. A face detector detects a face in video data. A context filterer determines a student is on-platform and a section type. An appearance monitor selects an emotional and a behavioral classifiers. Emotional and behavioral components are classified based on the detected face. A context-performance monitor selects an emotional and a behavioral classifiers specific to the section type, Emotional and behavioral components are classified based on the log data. A fuser combines the emotional components into an emotional state of the student based on confidence values of the emotional components. The fuser combines the behavioral components a behavioral state of the student based on confidence values of the behavioral components. The user determine an engagement level of the student based on the emotional state and the behavioral state of the student.
US11908339B2
The systems and methods taught herein are generally directed to a dynamic point referencing of an audiovisual performance for an accurate and precise selection and controlled cycling of portions of the performance. The dynamic point referencing can be used by a learning artist, for example, in analyzing or performing a portion of the work through an accurate and precise digital audio/video instructional method having the controlled cycling feature. Such systems and methods will be appreciated, for example, by musicians, dancers, and other enthusiasts of the performing arts.
US11908335B2
An avionic system for a rotorcraft includes a data source and an enhanced ground proximity warning system. The data source has terrain data and obstacle data stored therein. The enhanced ground proximity warning system can be selectively switched, by a pilot, to operate in either a normal mode or a desensitized mode. The enhanced ground proximity warning system receives flight data, retrieves terrain data and obstacle data from the data source, evaluates the retrieved terrain data and the obstacle data to determine variations in elevations of terrain and obstacles in predetermined area that is a predetermined distance ahead of the current position and along the flight path, and based at least in part on the determined variations, selectively generate a prompt that suggests that the pilot switch the ground proximity warning system to the desensitized mode.
US11908333B2
A procedure for a positioning of an aircraft is provided. An airspace user initiates using of a service provided by an air traffic manager and sends identifying data to the air traffic manager, the air traffic manager registers an aircraft identifier, carries out a standalone positioning. As the aircraft identifier, an International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) number of a code card connected to a switched on on-board device and placed on board the aircraft is used, the airspace user logs in to a cellular network contracted by the air traffic manager, time stamps emitted by at least three cellular base stations are recorded, then observed time difference of arrival data proportionate to a distance from the at least three cellular base stations are calculated, the observed time difference of the arrival data are sent through the cellular network to a location based server.
US11908328B2
A method and apparatus are provided for determining whether a driving environment has changed relative to previously stored information about the driving environment. The apparatus may include an autonomous driving computer system configured to detect one or more vehicles in the driving environment, and determine corresponding trajectories for those detected vehicles. The autonomous driving computer system may then compare the determined trajectories to an expected trajectory of a hypothetical vehicle in the driving environment. Based on the comparison, the autonomous driving computer system may determine whether the driving environment has changed and/or a probability that the driving environment has changed, relative to the previously stored information about the driving environment.
US11908310B2
A method may include receiving, by a transducer driving system, a first signal for driving an amplifier that drives an electromagnetic load and receiving, by the transducer driving system, a second signal driven by the amplifier in order to control a feedback loop of the transducer driving system. The method may also include detecting unexpected spectral content in the second signal, declaring an indicator event based on the detected unexpected spectral content, determining whether the indicator event occurs in an undesired pattern, and in response to the indicator event occurring in the undesired pattern, modifying a behavior of the transducer driving system.
US11908309B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for enabling drone activity in a property monitored by a property monitoring system without triggering a false alarm. In one aspect, the method includes actions of obtaining a location of the drone, identifying a first sensor installed at the property that is within a predetermined distance of the drone, detecting first sensor data generated by the first sensor that is within a predetermined distance of the drone, wherein the first sensor data includes data that is indicative of an event, determining whether a second sensor that is mounted to the drone is generating second sensor data that corroborates the event indicated by the first sensor data, and disregarding, by the property monitoring system, the first sensor data in determining whether to trigger an alarm.
US11908303B2
Systems and methods for detecting when a mobile device is left in a vehicle, and returning forgotten devices to owners. Additionally, systems and methods are provided for preventing mobile devices from being left in vehicles. In particular, sensors inside a vehicle as well as sensors on mobile devices can be used to identify when a mobile device remains in a vehicle after the owner has exited the vehicle and ended their trip. Systems and methods are provided for notifying the user of the forgotten device and intelligently returning the device to the user.
US11908302B1
A vehicle determines that a trigger state designated for user assistance for a user traveling away from a vehicle has occurred. The vehicle determines that an alert action to be taken, defined in conjunction with the trigger state and determines that a user has not returned to a vehicle based on a failure to detect a user wireless device. The vehicle automatically executes the alert action responsive to the trigger state occurrence and failure to detect the user device.
US11908300B1
Disclosed is a sensor pad outer cover comprising a first surface layer and a second surface layer which together form an accommodating cavity configured to receive a sensor pad body of a medical sensor pad, the first surface layer further comprising a non-slip layer, wherein both the first and second surface layers are formed from at least one biodegradable material for reduced environmental pollution.
US11908298B2
The present disclosure discloses a smoke detection system and a smoke detection method. The smoke detection system includes a camera, a storage unit, and a processor. The camera acquires a current image and a previous image. The storage unit stores a plurality of modules. The processor is coupled with the camera and executes the plurality of modules. The processor generates a difference image based on the current image and the previous image. The processor inputs the current image and the difference image to a semantic segmentation model so that the semantic segmentation model outputs a smoke confidence map. The smoke confidence map is generated based on whether a current environment is a dark environment or a bright environment. The processor analyzes the smoke confidence map to determine whether a smoke event occurs in the current image. Therefore, a reliable smoke detection function can be achieved.
US11908295B2
A security sensor is provided which has a container body and a signal acquisition and processing module housed in the container body. The signal acquisition and processing module has a piezoelectric transducer configured to convert a mechanical stress to which the piezoelectric transducer is subjected into a first electrical signal, an accelerometric transducer configured to convert an acceleration to which the accelerometric transducer is subjected into a second electrical signal, and processing unit operatively connected to the piezoelectric transducer and to the accelerometric transducer for receiving the first and second electrical signals. The accelerometric transducer is a MEMS accelerometric transducer.
US11908290B2
Disclosed are visual recognition and sensor fusion weight detection system and method. An example method includes: tracking, by a sensor system, objects and motions within a selected area of a store; activating, by the sensor system, a first computing device positioned in the selected area in response to detecting a presence of a customer within the selected area; identifying, by the sensor system, the customer and at least one item carried by the customer; transmitting, by the sensor system, identifying information of the customer and the at least one item to a computing server system via a communication network; measuring, by the first computing device, a weight of the at least one item; transmitting, by the first computing device, the weight to the computing server system via the communication network; and generating, by the computing server system, via the communication network, transaction information of the at least one item.
US11908287B2
Disclosed embodiments provide transaction validation systems and methods for use in self-checkout at a retail establishment. An exemplary system may include a scale sized to support and weigh a shopping basket thereon. At least one image sensor is arranged to capture at least one image of the weighed shopping basket. A processor receives a weight measurement of the shopping basket from the scale and determines, based on information received from a wireless communications device of a customer, a record of products in the shopping basket and an expected cumulative weight associated with the products in the shopping basket. The processor determines a discrepancy between the weight measurement of the products in the shopping basket and the expected cumulative weight and reconciles the determined discrepancy using the at least one captured image of the shopping basket by the at least one image sensor.
US11908281B1
A method of allocating a single wager into multiple parlay wagers, each including several different wagering events. Wagering events from the multiple parlay wagers are arranged in easily identifiable patterns that are viewed on a single two-dimensional parlay grid. The method includes the selection of wagering events from a list of wagering events or a bettor's betslip, the placement of a wagering event on a parlay grid betspace, re-arrangement of wagering events on the parlay grid, selection of two-dimensional parlay patterns, allocation of a single wager into multiple parlay wagers, displaying potential and actual payout calculations for each of the parlay wagers on a two-dimensional parlay betslip. The method can be performed on any mobile computing device, computer, smart television, or other device properly equipped to perform and display such method.
US11908279B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for associating a player identifier with a financial account. The financial account can holds funds that are accessible through the player's use of a payment vehicle. Information associated with transactions using the payment vehicle can be used for player relationship purposes.
US11908277B2
A cashless mobile gaming system and method is described. A server includes a financial gaming passport module that operates an exchange that qualifies a financial transaction. A mobile application receives an exchange request input that is communicated to the financial gaming passport. Funding sources are then queried by the financial gaming passport to determine the available funds at each of the funding sources. A hold-fund request is generated by the funding source when the exchange request is approved by the funding source. The financial gaming passport associated with the server communicates that if a casino management system (CMS) issues a value to the mobile application disposed on the patron wireless device, then the financial gaming passport associated with the server certifies a casino reimbursement.
US11908276B2
Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for submitting a tax submission on behalf of a player of a game. Based on the location of the gaming device, determine at least one jurisdiction that governs the player's taxable winnings. The player fills out an electronic tax form for each jurisdiction and submits an electronic authorization. Transmitting, in response to the tax liability, a tax submission to a remote device, in which the tax submission comprises at least the electronic tax form and the electronic authorization.
US11908275B2
In a gaming method and system, a player is permitted to move funds from a gaming machine at a casino, such as funds won at the gaming machine or input into the gaming machine, with a funds account which the player can utilize to fund remote or mobile gaming. When a player of a gaming machine is identified, such as by detecting or sensing the player's mobile communication device or by a player's use of a player card or the like, a gaming machine may be configured or triggered to activate one or more funds association options, such as to offer the player the opportunity to associate funds provided to the gaming machine with their account for use in remote or mobile gaming.
US11908270B2
The present disclosure relates generally to a system that enables a mobile device running a mobile device application to communicate with different gaming establishment components and modify the mobile device application functionality and/or the mobile device application appearance based on different data received from different gaming establishment components.
US11908265B2
System and method for dispensing orders. One embodiment provides a method of dispensing a prescription order to a customer at a customer kiosk. The method includes receiving, at a pharmaceutical storage and retrieval device, an instruction to deliver a filled prescription to a customer kiosk and transferring, using a gantry assembly, the filled prescription to a chute connecting the pharmaceutical storage and retrieval device and a pneumatic delivery terminal. The method further includes opening a door of the pneumatic delivery terminal and operating an actuator to transfer the filled prescription from the chute to the pneumatic delivery terminal. The method also includes closing the door of the pneumatic delivery terminal and delivering, via a pneumatic tube, the filled prescription to the customer kiosk.
US11908258B2
A self-reporting system and system for personal pathogen status verifying allows an entity to control access to an area of congregation (AOC) at one or more points of entry (POE) is a configurable manner. In one embodiment, the system may be used for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but may be similarly used for other pathogens.
US11908256B2
In some aspects, an electronic lock box may include a heated section, a cooled section, a non-temperature controlled section, and a processor. The processor may receive, from a server, an indication of an electronic order. The processor may identify a code associated with an item. The processor may determine, from the code, a tracking number associated with the item and the description of the item. The processor may determine that the tracking number associated with the item corresponds to a tracking number associated with the electronic order and that a current date corresponds to an expected delivery date. The processor may provide an instruction to unlock the heated section, the cooled section, or the non-temperature controlled section to hold the item based on the description of the item. The processor may maintain an environmental status of sensors (e.g., weight, volume, temperature, operations, and/or location) within the electronic lock box.
US11908248B2
A method of constructing and creating a proposed cinema selection may receive, from a plurality of users, selected cinema elements to create a plurality of proposed cinema selections and store, in a memory, the plurality of proposed cinema selections along with corresponding selected cinema elements. The method may also include displaying one of the plurality of proposed cinema selections along with a plurality of the selected cinema elements, receiving voting authorization for a user that a payment has been received to allow voting for one of a plurality of proposed cinema selections; and receiving at least one voting value identifying which of the plurality of proposed cinema selections has been voted on by at least one user. The method also include aggregating the voting values received for proposed cinema selections; and displaying a list of the proposed cinema selections having a highest ranking based on the voting values.
US11908247B2
A system for collecting a toll owed by a rental vehicle traveling along a toll road includes network interface hardware. a memory module, and a processor communicatively coupled to the network interface hardware and the memory module. Wherein the memory module stores logic that when executed by the processor, causes the processor to receive a rental start notification from the network interface hardware; and automatically execute toll payment logic stored on the memory module in response to receipt of the rental start notification. The toll payment logic causes the processor to detect and toll payment event throughout a rental period.
US11908245B2
A body language system for determining a body language message of a living being in a context comprising an artificial intelligence system, said AI system running a computer program that: retrieves an image of said living being showing body language; labels said living being in said image, resulting in a labeled living being; determines said context from said image using a trained machine learning model; determines a baseline body language of said labeled living being from said image using a trained machine learning model; adapts a trained machine learning model of said AI system using said baseline body language and said context; applies the adapted trained machine learning model of said AI system to the one image for categorizing said body language resulting in a category, and applying said category for determining said body language message.
US11908244B2
Provided is a human posture detection method including: acquiring a plurality of frames of image data; acquiring a plurality of human posture reference maps output by a human posture detection model responsive to inputting a current frame of image data to the human posture detection model with reference to human posture confidence maps of a previous frame of image data, wherein different human posture reference maps correspond different human-posture key points; identifying a human-posture key point in each of the human posture reference maps; and generating human posture confidence maps of the current frame of image data based on credibility of the human-posture key points, wherein the human posture confidence maps of the current frame of image data is configured to participate in generation of human posture confidence maps of a next frame of image data.
US11908241B2
The present invention refers to automatics and computing technology, namely to the field of processing images and video data, namely to correction the eyes image of interlocutors in course of video chats, video conferences with the purpose of gaze redirection. A method of correction of the image of eyes wherein the method obtains, at least, one frame with a face of a person, whereupon determines positions of eyes of the person in the image and forms two rectangular areas closely circumscribing the eyes, and finally replaces color components of each pixel in the eye areas for color components of a pixel shifted according to prediction of the predictor of machine learning. Technical effect of the present invention is rising of correction accuracy of the image of eyes with the purpose of gaze redirection, with decrease of resources required for the process of handling a video image.
US11908240B2
Disclosed is a micro-expression recognition method based on a multi-scale spatiotemporal feature neural network, in which spatial features and temporal features of micro-expression are obtained from micro-expression video frames, and combined together to form more robust micro-expression features, at the same time, since the micro-expression occurs in local areas of a face, active local areas of the face during occurrence of the micro-expression and an overall area of the face are combined together for micro-expression recognition.
US11908209B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a control system, system and method for controlling a transition between a first driving mode and a second driving mode of a vehicle. The present disclosure relates to receiving image data of an occupant of the vehicle; quantifying one or more characteristics of the occupant's gaze based at least in part on the received image data, the one or more characteristics being indicative of the occupant's attention to a non-driving task; determining a transition profile for transitioning between the first driving mode and the second driving mode based at least in part on the one or more characteristics of the occupant's gaze; and generating and outputting a control signal to transition from the first driving mode to the second driving mode, the control signal comprising instructions for controlling one or more vehicle systems in accordance with the determined transition profile.
US11908207B2
A method for detecting road diseases by intelligent cruise via an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the UAV and a detecting system therefor are provided. The method for detecting road diseases by intelligent cruise via UAV, wherein a road disease detection model and a road recognition model based on deep learning network are built in the UAV, wherein the method specifically comprises a step of: automatically flying the UAV on a predetermined route on the actual road determined by the road recognition model, and obtaining road disease test results by the road surface disease detection model. The present invention adopts the road recognition model and road disease detection model based on deep learning network, which can realize automatic cruise and automatic road disease detection, only need to set a predetermined route or area range, which is convenient and fast.
US11908206B2
Method for estimating a vertical offset of road segment for vehicle is disclosed. The method includes tracking road reference on road segment at first moment in time from first observation point in order to form first representation. Method includes obtaining vehicle movement data over time period extending from first moment in time to second moment in time, tracking road reference on road segment at second moment in time from second observation point in order to form second representation. Method includes transforming point of first representation from coordinate system of first representation to coordinate system of second representation based on obtained movement data, applying vertical coordinate on transformed point to calculate set of projected longitudinal and lateral coordinates that satisfy defined mathematical function and maximum error value, determining vertical offset based on applied vertical coordinate that satisfied defined mathematical function with maximum error value and on obtained vehicle movement data.
US11908201B2
An apparatus that supports driving of a vehicle may include a location check device that determines whether the vehicle is located within a circuit area, based on location information of the vehicle, a camera device that obtains an image around the vehicle, and a processor that recognizes a specific object from the obtained image based on whether the vehicle is located within the circuit area, sets a region of interest (ROI) with respect to the specific object, and performs image-processing on the ROI preferentially.
US11908197B2
An information processing apparatus that detects an object from an image, includes a determination unit configured to determine a boundary at which a movement of the object between partial regions in the image is estimated, the partial regions each including a plurality of objects, and an estimation unit configured to estimate movement information indicating a number of objects that have passed the boundary determined by the determination unit.
US11908194B2
A modular tracking system is described comprising of the network of independent tracking units optionally accompanied by a LIDAR scanner and/or (one or more) elevated cameras. Tracking units are combining panoramic and zoomed cameras to imitate the working principle of the human eye. Markerless computer vision algorithms are executed directly on the units and provide feedback to motorized mirror placed in front of the zoomed camera to keep tracked objects/people in its field of view. Microphones are used to detect and localize sound events. Inference from different sensor is fused in real time to reconstruct high-level events and full skeleton representation for each participant.
US11908185B2
Methods, non-transitory computer-readable storage media, and computer or computer systems directed to detecting, analyzing, and tracking roads and grading activity using satellite or aerial imagery in combination with a machine learned model are described.
US11908176B2
Disclosed is a data recognition model construction apparatus. The data recognition model construction apparatus includes a video inputter configured to receive a video, an image composition unit configured to, based on a common area included in each of a plurality of images that form at least a portion of the video, generate a composition image by overlaying at least a portion of the plurality of images, a learning data inputter configured to receive the generated composition image, a model learning unit configured to make a data recognition model learn using the generated composition image, and a model storage configured to store the learnt data recognition model.
US11908172B2
Robust recognition systems to identify potentially identifying information that is contained within a dataset representing a system target are disclosed, together with related method. In an implementations, the systems and methods receive the dataset, identify features in the dataset that have a characteristic indicative of an expected feature, processes the identified features to yield a candidate feature, wherein the candidate feature is one feature contained within the identified features that has the highest probability of containing potentially identifying information.
US11908158B2
A transparent display system, a control method and a control device thereof are provided. The transparent display system includes an information capturing assembly, a transparent display and a control device. The information capturing assembly is used to obtain at least one detection content. The control device includes a detection unit, a resource allocation unit and a recognition unit. The detection unit is used for detecting at least one user in front of a transparent display and at least one target object behind the transparent display according to the detection content. The resource allocation unit is used to obtain a resource allocation according to a detection result of the detection content. The information capturing assembly obtains at least one recognition content. The recognition unit obtains at least one front side position of the user and at least one back side position of the target object according to the resource allocation.
US11908153B2
A system and method for measuring distances related to a target object depicted in an image. A captured digital image is obtained containing a scene with a target object whose dimension is to be measured. The digital image may contain a target object dimension identified by one or more ancillary objects and a reference object in the same or different planes. Image processing is performed to find the reference object using known fiducial patterns printed on the reference object, metadata supplied by a user and/or by the detection of colored papers in the scene of the captured image. Once located and measured, the reference object is used to calculate a pixel scale factor used to measure the target object dimensions. Target object dimensions are provided to an automated or semi-automated measurement process, design and manufacturing system such that customized parts for a supplemental fenestration are provided to end users.
US11908148B2
An electronic device includes at least one processor or circuit configured to function as a setting unit, an acquisition unit and a processing unit. The setting unit sets an object region in an image acquired from an imaging unit. The acquisition unit acquires a distance map including distance information corresponding to a pixel included in the object region. The processing unit determines object distance information indicating a distance to an object included in the object region, based on the distance information corresponding to the pixel included in the object region.
US11908140B1
Disclosed is a method and system for identifying a protein domain based on a protein three-dimensional structure image. According to the present application, the protein domain is identified based on a structure similarity, the identification errors and omissions of the protein domain caused by protein multi-sequence alignment errors when sequence consistency is not high can be effectively solved. According to the present application, the point cloud segmentation model based on the dynamic graph convolutional neural network is constructed, and by integrating global structural features and local structural features, segmentation of the protein domain and acquisition of semantic labels of the protein domain can be completed at the same time.
US11908137B2
The present disclosure provides a method, device and equipment for identifying and detecting a macular region in a fundus image. The method includes the following steps: reading a current fundus image to be positioned and detected; detecting a macular region in the fundus image using a target detection model; when the macular region in the fundus image is not detected, detecting an optic disk region in the fundus image, and identifying and positioning the macular region based on the detected optic disk region; based on a positioning result of the macular region, extracting a macular image corresponding to the macular region from the fundus image; and performing multi-modal processing on the macular image, fusing images obtained by the multi-modal processing to obtain a fused image, and detecting whether the macular region is qualified or not according to the fused image.
US11908136B2
A respiratory status classifying method is for classifying as one of at least two respiratory statuses and includes an original physiological parameter inputting step, an original chest image inputting step, a characteristic physiological parameter generating step, a characteristic chest image generating step, a training step and a classifier generating step. The characteristic chest image generating step includes processing at least a part of the original chest images, segmenting images of a left lung, a right lung and a heart from each of the original chest images that are processed, and enhancing image data of the images being segmented, so as to generate a plurality of characteristic chest images. The training step includes training two respiratory status classifiers using a plurality of characteristic physiological parameters and the characteristic chest images by at least one machine learning algorithm.
US11908135B2
An artificial intelligence system for analyzing imagery, the system comprising a computing device, the computing device designed and configured to receive a plurality of photographs related to a human subject; analyze the plurality of photographs to identify a conditional indicator contained within the plurality of photographs; generate a classification algorithm utilizing the conditional indicator, wherein the classification algorithm utilizes the conditional indicator as an input and outputs a conditional profile; and determine a conditional status of the human subject utilizing the conditional profile.
US11908134B2
A method for adaptive treatment planning is provided. The method may include obtaining a planning image volume of a subject, a treatment image volume of the subject, and a first treatment plan related to the planning image volume of the subject, each of the planning image volume and the treatment image volume including an ROI of the subject. The method may also include registering the planning image volume and the treatment image volume, and determining a first contour of the ROI in the registered planning image volume and a second contour of the ROI in the registered treatment image volume. The method may also include evaluating whether an error exists in at least one of the registration or the contour determination based on the first contour and the second contour, and determining a second treatment plan with respect to the treatment image volume based on the evaluation result.
US11908132B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for predicting one or more medical conditions utilizing digital images and employing artificial intelligent algorithms. The system offers accurate predictions utilizing quantized pre-trained deep learning model. The pre-trained deep learning model is trained on data samples and later refined as the system processes more digital images or new medical conditions are incorporated. One pre-trained deep learning model is used to predict the probability of one or more medical conditions and identify locations in the digital image effected by the one or more medical conditions. Further, one pre-trained deep learning model utilizing additional data and plurality of digital images, forecasts rate of infection and spread of the medical condition over time.
US11908126B2
A method of controlling the quality of printed products by using a computer includes always producing multiple printed products with at least partially identical image content in a printing machine in a course of a print job to be completed. The multiple printed products are recorded by at least one image sensor and are sent to the computer as digital image data. The computer examines and assesses the digital image data in an image inspection process to find print defects and to sort out printed products that have been found to be unusable. The computer assesses the identical image content of the digital image data of at least two consecutive printed products and only takes into consideration such detected print defects that are present on the at least two assessed consecutive printed products.
US11908114B2
A method and a system for processing an image and transform it into a high resolution and high-definition image using a computationally efficient image transformation procedure is provided. The transformation of the image comprises first transforming the image, also referred to as an intensity image, into a layered distance field (DF) image comprising an ordered sequence of multiple layers. Each layer in the ordered sequence is associated with a DF procedure and a set of rules for mapping the DF values to intensity values of the respective layer. The result of applying the DF procedures to each location in the intensity image is a transformed intensity image, which is of high definition and high resolution. The application of the DF procedures is governed by a stopping criteria based on error values between the intensity image and a reconstructed intensity image.
US11908103B2
There is included a method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to perform obtaining an input low resolution (LR) image comprising a height, a width, and a number of channels, implementing a feature learning deep neural network (DNN) configured to compute a feature tensor based on the input LR image, generating, by an upscaling DNN, a high resolution (HR) image, having a higher resolution than the input LR image, based on the feature tensor computed by the feature learning DNN, wherein a networking structure of the upscaling DNN differs depending on different scale factors, and wherein a networking structure of the feature learning DNN is a same structure for each of the different scale factors.
US11908102B2
Disclosed are an image processing method and device, a training method of a neural network and a storage medium. The image processing method includes: obtaining an input image, and processing the input image by using a generative network to generate an output image. The generate network includes a first sub-network and at least one second sub-network, and the processing the input image by using the generative network to generate the output image includes, processing the input image by using the first sub-network to obtain a plurality of first feature images; performing a branching process and a weight sharing process on the plurality of first feature images by using the at least one second sub-network to obtain a plurality of second feature images; and processing the plurality of second feature images to obtain the output image.
US11908091B2
Methods, devices, and systems related to a computing device for capturing an augmented reality (AR) image displaying an AR are described. An example method can include projecting a structured array of light, from a mobile device, onto an object. The method further includes measuring multi-directional sections of the object with the projected light. The method further includes reconstructing a three-dimensional (3D) figure of the object based on the measured multi-directional sections. The method further includes displaying an augmented reality (AR) image associated with the 3D figure on a user interface of the mobile device.
US11908087B2
A productivity tool for an analytical laboratory is presented. The productivity tool provides aggregated operational status of all laboratory instruments within an analytical laboratory, even without access to their respective internal data stream (i.e., legacy and third party instruments) by determining operational status of a first group of instruments by capturing and processing internal data streams comprising data indicative of an operational status. The productivity tool also determines operational status of a second group of instruments by capturing and processing external surveillance stream(s) of one or more laboratory instrument(s) of the second group.
US11908080B2
The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for generating object meshes. In some embodiments, a method includes obtaining a trained classifier, and an input observation of a 3D object. The method further includes generating a three-pole signed distance field from the input observation using the trained classifier. The method also includes generating an output mesh of the 3D object from the three-pole signed distance field; and generating a display of the 3D object from the output mesh.
US11908077B2
A computer system maintains structure data indicating geometrical constraints for each structure category of a plurality of structure categories. The computer system generates a virtual 3D representation of a structure based on a set of images depicting the structure. For each image in the set of images, one or more landmarks are identified. Based on the landmarks, a candidate structure category is selected. The virtual 3D representation is generated based on the geometrical constraints of the candidate structure category and the landmarks identified in the set of images.
US11908074B2
A three-dimensional surface of the upper cover of the crops is recognized and recorded by a contactless scanning from above the field; a referential height h of the crop's stem is determined and the three-dimensional surface of the field from which the crops grow is determined. A reached height x of the vegetation for the individual points is computed by comparison of the three-dimensional surface of the upper cover of the crops with the three-dimensional surface of the field, whereby in case the reached height x of the vegetation is smaller than the referential height h of the crop's stem this difference between the reached height x of the vegetation and the referential height h of the stem determines in a given point of the field the angle β of lodging pursuant to the goniometric function. A classification of the grains into classes depending on the angle α of the slope of the lodged grain in interval 0° to 90° is realized, whereby this results in computation of the heights (h) of the grain spikes pursuant to relation x(0 to n)=h·sin α(0 to n) for the creation of the digital vector map with the customizable levels of the lodging of the grains.
US11908060B2
The present invention relates to a computer implemented system for animating a virtual object or digital entity. It has particular relevance to animation using biologically based models, or behavioural models particularly neurobehavioural models. There is provided a plurality of modules having a computational element and a graphical element. The modules are arranged in a required structure and have at least one variable and being associated with at least one connector. The connectors link variables between modules across the structure, and the modules together provide a neurobehavioural model. There is also provided a method of controlling a digital entity in response to an external stimulus.
US11908059B2
A server device is configured to provide a combined environment and includes processor circuitry configured to determine first parameters indicative of a first location, generate first environment data indicative of the first location, determine second parameters indicative of a second location, and associate the second parameters with the first environment data for providing combined environment data, and output the combined environment data.
US11908053B2
A method for searching an image database, comprising receiving an adulterated image of an object, the adulterated image including object annotations for visual reference, applying a first neural network to the adulterated image, correlating a result of the applying the first neural network with each image of a reference database of images, the result including an edited image of the object and each image of the reference database of images including a reference object, and selecting, as a matching image, at least one image of the reference database of images having correlation values above a threshold correlation value. The method may include applying a masking to the adulterated image. The masking may include performing, via a second neural network, object recognition on the adulterated image, applying, based on the object recognition, computer vision to detect callout features relative to bounding boxes, and generating a contour mask of the object.
US11908048B2
Embodiments may be used to evaluate completed inspection jobs using updated pipe segment data obtained by inspecting a rehabilitated pipe after completion of a project. One embodiment provides a method of generating an infrastructure project summary, including: collecting, using one or more sensors of an inspection robot, pipe segment data relating to the one or more pipe segments; the second pipe segment data comprising one or more of laser condition assessment data and sonar condition assessment data; generating infrastructure summary data for at least a part of the network using the pipe segment data, comparing, using a processor, first and second infrastructure summary data; generating, using the processor, a parameter of the infrastructure project summary based on the comparing; and including the parameter of the infrastructure project summary in a project summary report. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US11908043B2
Telematics systems and methods are described for generating interactive animated guided user interfaces (GUIs). A telematics cloud platform is configured to receive vehicular telematics data from a telematics device onboard a vehicle. A GUI value compression component determines, based on the vehicular telematics data, a plurality of GUI position values and a plurality of corresponding GUI time values. A geospatial animation app receives the plurality of GUI position values and the plurality of corresponding GUI time values. The geospatial animation app implements an interactive animated GUI that renders a plurality of geospatial graphics or graphical routes on a geographic area map via a display device. The geospatial graphics or graphical routes are rendered to have different visual forms based on differences between respective GUI position values and corresponding GUI time values.
US11908035B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for authenticating mail and preventing contraband from entering detention facilities. An exemplary system can receive, from a known user, a letter directed to an incarcerated individual and store, via a processor, a digital copy of the letter in a database. The system can then print a physical copy of the letter, where the physical copy has at least one of a QR code or a barcode on an exterior of the physical copy, and mail the physical copy to a detention center holding the incarcerated individual. Finally, the system can receive, at the processor and from a staff member of the detention center, a request to digitally screen the physical copy by digitally accessing the digital copy in the database, and transmit, via the processor, the digital copy to the staff member.
US11908017B2
Document creation systems and methods are provided for a potential risk relationship between an enterprise and an entity. A back-end application computer server may include a data collection engine to exchange information with a remote entity device associated with the entity. A bundle creation engine may receive the information about the entity and automatically and dynamically create a potential bundle of optional risk relationship components (each associated with an electronic file representing an optional risk relationship component document). A presentation engine may present information about the potential bundle and receive an indication of a selected subset of the potential bundle of optional risk relationship components. A final document construction engine may automatically construct, based on the selected subset and associated electronic files representing component documents, an electronic file representing a risk relationship package document to be transmitted to the remote entity device.
US11908016B2
A computer-implemented method monitors a customer to detect money laundering activity at a first computer system by receiving a set of data related to at least a portion of transactional information of the customer, and transforming the set of data into a money laundering risk score of the customer. The method includes selecting a monitoring level to monitor data related to transactions of the customer based on the money laundering risk score. A first monitoring level is selected in response to the money laundering risk score being greater than a threshold. A second monitoring level is selected in response to the money laundering risk score being less than the threshold. The method includes transmitting at least a portion of personal data associated with the customer when the first monitoring level is selected and the first monitoring method detects that the customer matches a condition.
US11908005B2
Embodiments of the present invention assist in the development, management, and deployment of aggregated data attributes for multiple data sources. One embodiment provides a development interface that allows for elements of attributes, including filters, to be moved into a coding area in which an attribute or an attribute element is being edited. In another embodiment, the user interface presents data fields to assist in the development of filters for multiple data sources with divergent formats. The application further provides a validation interface through which users can validate attributes and trace the results returned by various elements referenced by the attributes under validation. Another embodiment provides a system for managing attributes and deploying them to various systems by creating a deployment file that is used by an attribute calculation system. In one embodiment, the attribute calculation system is a scalable system that dynamically calculates attributes for multiple data sources.
US11908004B2
A communication system enabling a first wireless subscriber in need of an instant credit line to use a creditee module on a portable wireless communication device to request credit from a second subscriber that has available credit at a financial institution. The second subscriber uses a creditor module on their device to generate rules for the extension of a credit line guaranteed by the financial institution of the second subscriber. If the rules are met, a credit authorization code is generated by the system and forwarded to the creditee module of the first subscriber's device such that the code can be subsequently used to complete a transaction initiated by the first subscriber to pay a vendor. The vendor may then employ a vendor's module to access the issued credit as prescribed by the creditor module.
US11907998B2
In some embodiments, purchase systems and methods are provided. Some embodiments comprise one or more processors configured to receive, at a point of sale device, a request to use self-checkout through a user computing device; couple the point of sale device with the user computing device by: display by the point of sale device a coupling code configured to be scanned by the user computing device; receive the coupling code by a server system; and interpret, at the server system, the coupling code to identify the point of sale device; cause contents of an electronic shopping cart associated with a transaction to be transmitted to the identified point of sale device; receive a customer identifier associated with the transaction; and conclude, on the point of sale device, the transaction based on the coupling of the point of sale device with the user computing device.
US11907997B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for providing purchase recommendations by analyzing social networks using machine learning. A machine learning model may be trained to select one or more of the first plurality of users. Purchase intention data that indicates an intention of a first user to acquire a type of asset may be received. Social networking data that comprises a plurality of associations between a second plurality of users may be received. Purchase history data indicating one or more purchases, of one or more assets associated with the type of asset, made by the second plurality of users may be received. The trained machine learning model may be provided the data. In return, the trained machine learning model may provide an indication of a second user. A notification may be sent to the second user.
US11907992B2
Computer-implemented methods and systems for colour-based image tagging and colour-based searching. The method may include identifying, using image analysis, one or more dominant colours of a product based on an image of the product and receiving selection of at least one of the one or more dominant colours. In response to receiving the selection of the at least one of the one or more dominant colours, a search for products matching the at least one of the one or more dominant colours may be initiated to obtain one or more results of the searching, the one or more results including at least one product matching the at least one of the one or more dominant colours.
US11907985B2
The present technology pertains to a distributed server system for verifying vendors. The distributed server system comprises one or more nodes on a distributed network; a communication interface of a first node that communicates over a communication network with the one or more nodes on the distributed network, wherein the communication interface receives information about a unique seal associated with a product in response to a query; and a processor of the first node that executes instructions stored in memory, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor verifies that a vendor is associated with the unique seal has been appended to a distributed ledger, determines a match between the unique seal and the vendor; and, after determining the match, confirms that the vendor is a certified vendor of the product.
US11907979B2
Methods and systems are presented for enhancing a merchant product webpage by providing additional content associated with a product being displayed on the merchant product webpage. A product catalog stores product records corresponding to data associated with different products. As a webpage is accessed by a user device, data is extracted from the merchant product webpage. The extracted data is used to identify one or more product records in the product catalog that are potential matches to the webpage. When multiple product records are identified, a remote server is used to access and interact with the webpage separate from the user device. Additional data is extracted from the webpage based on interactions by the remote server with the webpage. The additional data is used to determine a single product record for the webpage. The webpage is modified based on the single product record.
US11907968B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, to improve the impact of digital media. One of these methods includes providing a non-affiliated advertisement to a plurality of users. The method includes receiving indications that a subset of the plurality of users have viewed the non-affiliated advertisement. The method also includes creating a control group for an advertisement from the subset of the plurality of users that received the non-affiliated advertisement.
US11907958B2
Methods and systems for evaluation and diagnostic for a customer product are provided. Aspects include receiving, by a processor, customer usage data associated with the customer product, obtaining customer data associated with a customer business operation, analyzing, by the processor, the customer usage data and the customer data to generate a usage score card associated with the customer product, and determining an action for the customer product based at least in part on the usage score card.
US11907952B2
Devices, systems, and methods are provided for performing secured analytics using encrypted data. The method may include receiving first data and second data, the first data and the second data being homomorphically encrypted, the first data associated with a first type of data, and the second data associated with a second type of data. The method may include retrieving third data associated with the first type of data, and retrieving fourth data associated with the second type of data. The method may include determining a first proximity between the first data and the third data, and determining a second proximity between the second data and the fourth data. The method may include determining, based on the first proximity and the second proximity, a risk score, and determining, based on the risk score, a fraudulent action associated with the first data and the second data.
US11907951B2
A server includes a processor including hardware, the processor being configured to: acquire store position information of a store where a user has entered; acquire store information in which position information of each of a plurality of stores and one or more settlement methods available in each of the plurality of stores are associated; and notify a terminal owned by the user of the settlement method available in the store where the user has entered based on the store position information and the store information.
US11907947B2
Systems and techniques are provided for a resource transfer system. An instruction to transfer a first quantity of a resource from a first resource pool to a second resource pool may be received. A hold may be placed on a second quantity of the resource in the first resource pool. The held second quantity of the first resource may not be transferred from the first resource pool until the hold is released. Responsive to receiving a message that fulfills a condition on the hold and an instruction to execute the transfer, the hold may be released. A register that is in the first resource pool and is associated with the resource may decremented by the first quantity, and a register that is in the second resource pool and is associated with the resource may be incremented by the first quantity.
US11907944B2
Embodiments disclosed are directed to ensuring resource compliance within a cloud-based environment. The embodiments include steps for performing pre-provisioning checks of resources, such as network protocols, prior to their deployment within the cloud-based environment. These steps include using bitemporal analysis to determine the impact of deploying resources within the environment through the use of multiple execution timelines where the impact of deploying a resource may be evaluated on an alternative timeline that does not change the current resource scope of the cloud-based environment.
US11907943B2
Embodiments disclosed are directed to ensuring resource compliance within a cloud-based environment using a compliance system. The embodiments include steps for performing pre-provisioning checks of resources, such as network protocols, prior to their deployment within the cloud-based environment. The compliance system may include a number of components for performing the pre-provisioning check including a maintenance module, a collection module, and an evaluation module, which are used to evaluate the resource prior to deployment in the cloud-based environment.
US11907934B1
Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums for providing P2P lending through mobile wallets. The P2P lending may utilize a central registry or be a fully distributed P2P system. In some examples, the use of a network accessible P2P loan service may simplify the discovery and communication with other mobile wallets throughout the process of obtaining a loan.
US11907933B1
A system, method, and computer-readable storage media for performing a transaction for a customer of a financial institution using math-based currency (MBC), the system comprising a permissioned ledger banking system comprising a transaction circuit comprising a transaction processor and a transaction memory, an account mapping circuit comprising an account mapping processor and an account mapping memory, and an MBC account database comprising an MBC account of the customer, a fiat banking system comprising an account management circuit and a customer fiat accounts database, and the permissioned ledger banking system and the fiat banking system are connected via a communications network, wherein the account management circuit comprises an account management processor and an account management memory storing executable account management instructions that when executed by the account management processor causes the account management processor to perform steps of storing a fiat account of the customer in the customer fiat accounts database.
US11907914B2
According to an embodiment, a portable terminal provides maintenance information to a maintenance server that manages the maintenance information. The portable terminal acquires the maintenance information from an external recording medium. The portable terminal acquires, from the maintenance server, rank information indicating a transmission priority defined for the maintenance information. The portable terminal determines, in accordance with a type of a communication line that can be used by a communication device and the rank information, whether to transmit the maintenance information.
US11907910B2
Sharing content includes verifying occurrence of an event, determining participants of the event, gathering related content generated by the participants, where the related content corresponds to the event, and disseminating the related content to the participants. The event may be a business meeting. Verifying occurrence of an event may include determining scheduled participants, scheduled location, and scheduled time of the event using an electronic calendar of one of the scheduled participants. Participants may include the scheduled participants and other participants that are not listed in the electronic calendar where the other participants attend the event. Verifying occurrence of an event may also include confirming that at least an event organizer is at the scheduled location at the scheduled time and there is at least one other one of the participants. The content may include documents, photos, scanned images, audio clips, video clips, typed notes, and/or handwritten notes.
US11907908B2
A method and system ascertain information relating to a collection, a start and/or an end of a period spent in a workshop and/or in storage and/or a delivery of a green space and/or cultivated area treatment device. The method involves the steps of: providing a growth characteristic variable, wherein the growth characteristic variable is characteristic for plant growth on and/or in a space/area treated and/or to be treated by way of the green space and/or cultivated area treatment device; and ascertaining the information on the basis of the provided growth characteristic variable.
US11907907B2
A system and method for implementing a centralized innovation framework module are disclosed. A processor is operatively connected to one or more memories via a communication network. The processor creates a centralized web-based collaborative platform hub for collection of innovation ideas data from end users within an operation space and causes the centralized web-based collaborative platform hub to receive innovation ideas data from an end user related to development of an application. The processor also analyzes the received innovation ideas data establishes, based on analyzing, a connection between the centralized web-based collaborative platform hub and a development platform; migrates the received innovation ideas data onto the development platform; and creates a workflow on the development platform for tracking and managing development processes of the application.
US11907904B2
Disclosed is a new intelligent forms automation solution for receiving a request or submission involving multiple types of non-native forms in a consistent manner. An engine locates a field in a non-native form, extracts a globally unique identifier (GUID) from the field and form data from data fields of the non-native form. The GUID is used by the engine to identify and retrieve a virtual copy of a native form identified. The engine fills the virtual copy of the native form with form data from the non-native form. Since the native form can have an associated workflow process, the form data from the non-native form is processed through the workflow. The native form and the non-native form can be created independently of one another. In some cases, a native form can be used to create a non-native form with a hidden field containing the GUID of the native form.
US11907901B2
In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided to recognize retail products, comprising: a model training system configured to: identify a customer; access an associated customer profile; access and apply a set of filtering rules to a product database based on customer data; generate a listing of products specific to the customer; access and apply a model training set of rules to train a machine learning model based on the listing of products and corresponding image data for each of the products in the listing of products; and communicate the trained model to the portable user device associated with first customer.
US11907896B2
An apparatus is provided for facilitating label-less returns. The apparatus may include a memory and a processor(s) configured to receive a shipment identifier of an item(s) responsive to a device scanning a label or marking(s) on the item(s) delivered to a customer for a shipper. The processor is also configured to generate a return authorization number (RAN) or indicator for the item(s) and link the RAN/indicator to the identifier responsive to verifying that the customer is registered and that the item(s) qualifies for return. The processor is further configured to cause return delivery of the item(s) to the shipper using the label or the marking(s) on the item(s) responsive to verifying the RAN/indicator is linked to the identifier. Corresponding computer program products and methods are also provided.
US11907890B2
Apparatus configured to perform or control obtaining or causing obtaining an image of at least a part of a surface of a consignment unit. The apparatus derives or causes deriving a representation of the at least a part of the surface from the image. The representation includes a set of values representing a corresponding set of height levels. The apparatus generates or causes generation of a string of characters based on representation of the at least a part of the surface. The string of characters includes a first portion representative of the set of height levels of corresponding sections of the at least a part of the surface and a second portion generated based on a function of the representation and/or of the first portion of the string of characters. The apparatus associates or causes associating information representing the string of characters with shipping information of the consignment unit.
US11907881B1
An apparatus and method for generating a process enhancement, the apparatus comprising a memory and a processor configured to receive process data, receive user input, determine a plurality of response modules as a function of the user input, determine a modification target as function of the plurality of response modules, wherein determining the modification target includes calculating an importance score for each response module of the plurality of response modules, ranking each response module of the plurality of response modules as a function of the importance score and determining the modification target as a function of the ranking, identify at least a process modification as a function of the process data and the modification target and generate the process enhancement as a function of the at least a process modification.
US11907870B2
Implementations of various methods and systems of a network, GPS system, mobile computing devices, servers, forward commodity exchanges, grouping software for hubs, transparent open access pricing systems, blockchain audit and safety methods and systems, virtual hub systems, algorithm methods for no arbitrage conditions in a simple easy to use graphical user interface format for mobile or virtual computing over various mediums which are connected via a network to transact and trade transportation seats or capacity units in airline transport, subway transport, train transport, automobile transport, autonomous vehicle transport, taxi transport, space transport, virtual transport, underground transport, ship or sea transport, public transport, private transport or drone transport on a computer, mobile computer device, virtual reality computer device or mixed reality computing device.
US11907861B2
Systems and methods for sports data crowdsourcing and analytics is provided. In one embodiment, a method for at least one server for generating verified sports data of a sporting event is provided, the method comprising: receiving, at the server(s), first audio data captured by a microphone of a first client device; receiving, at the server(s), second audio data captured by a microphone of a second client device; synching the first audio data by arranging the first audio data based on at least one parameter; synching the second audio data by arranging the second audio data based on the at least one parameter; and generating the verified sports data by comparing, based on the at least one parameter, the first audio data and the second audio data to determine that a stat within the sporting event is verified.
US11907853B2
A computer-implemented method for automatically determining a neural network architecture represents a neural network architecture as a data structure defining a hierarchical set of directed acyclic graphs in multiple levels. Each graph has an input, an output, and a plurality of nodes between the input and the output. At each level, a corresponding set of the nodes are connected pairwise by directed edges which indicate operations performed on outputs of one node to generate an input to another node. Each level is associated with a corresponding set of operations. At a lowest level, the operations associated with each edge are selected from a set of primitive operations. The method includes repeatedly generating new sample neural network architectures, and evaluating their fitness. The modification is performed by selecting a level, selecting two nodes at that level, and modifying, removing or adding an edge between those nodes according to operations associated with lower levels of the hierarchy.
US11907852B2
The disclosure relates to a system and a method for generating a neural network model for image processing by interacting with at least one client terminal. The method may include receiving via a network, a plurality of first training samples from the at least one client terminal. The method may also include training a first neural network model based on the plurality of first training samples to generate a second neural network model. The method may further include transmitting, via the network, the second neural network model to the at least one client terminal.
US11907850B2
A method includes obtaining a source training dataset that includes a plurality of source training images and obtaining a target training dataset that includes a plurality of target training images. For each source training image, the method includes translating, using the forward generator neural network G, the source training image to a respective translated target image according to current values of forward generator parameters. For each target training image, the method includes translating, using a backward generator neural network F, the target training image to a respective translated source image according to current values of backward generator parameters. The method also includes training the forward generator neural network G jointly with the backward generator neural network F by adjusting the current values of the forward generator parameters and the backward generator parameters to optimize an objective function.
US11907846B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for performing spatial propagation. The technique includes generating a first directed acyclic graph (DAG) by connecting spatially adjacent points included in a set of unstructured points via directed edges along a first direction. The technique also includes applying a first set of neural network layers to one or more images associated with the set of unstructured points to generate (i) a set of features for the set of unstructured points and (ii) a set of pairwise affinities between the spatially adjacent points connected by the directed edges. The technique further includes generating a set of labels for the set of unstructured points by propagating the set of features across the first DAG based on the set of pairwise affinities.
US11907845B2
Some embodiments of the present invention are directed to techniques for training teacher neural networks (TNNs) and student neural networks (SNNs). A training data set is received with a lossless set of data and a corresponding lossy set of data. Two branches of a TNN are established, with one branch trained using the lossless data (a lossless branch) and one trained using the lossy data (a lossy branch). Weights for the two branches are tied together. The lossy branch, now isolated from the lossless branch, generates a set of soft targets for initializing an SNN. These generated soft targets benefit from the training of lossless branch through the weights that were tied together between each branch, despite isolating the lossless branch from the lossy branch during soft-target generation.
US11907839B2
Systems and methods combine an input image with an edited image generated using a generator neural network to preserve detail from the original image. A computing system provides an input image to a machine learning model to generate a latent space representation of the input image. The system provides the latent space representation to a generator neural network to generate a generated image. The system generates multiple scale representations of the input image, as well as multiple scale representations of the generated image. The system generates a first combined image based on first scale representations of the images and a first value. The system generates a second combined image based on second scale representations of the images and a second value. The system blends the first combined image with the second combined image to generate an output image.
US11907827B2
Methods and systems include a neural network system that includes a neural network accelerator. The neural network accelerator includes multiple processing engines coupled together to perform arithmetic operations in support of an inference performed using the deep neural network system. The neural network accelerator also includes a schedule-aware tensor data distribution circuitry or software that is configured to load tensor data into the multiple processing engines in a load phase, extract output data from the multiple processing engines in an extraction phase, reorganize the extracted output data, and store the reorganized extracted output data to memory.
US11907826B2
An electronic apparatus for performing machine learning a method of machine learning, and a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium are provided. The electronic apparatus includes an operation module configured to include a plurality of processing elements arranged in a predetermined pattern and share data between the plurality of processing elements which are adjacent to each other to perform an operation; and a processor configured to control the operation module to perform a convolution operation by applying a filter to input data, wherein the processor controls the operation module to perform the convolution operation by inputting each of a plurality of elements configuring a two-dimensional filter to the plurality of processing elements in a predetermined order and sequentially applying the plurality of elements to the input data.
US11907808B2
Apparatus and method for measurement-free (MF) quantum error correction (QEC). For example, one embodiment of a method comprises: determining an error syndrome on a first subset of ancilla qubits of a quantum processor; decoding the error syndrome to produce decoded results on a second subset of ancilla qubits of the quantum processor; applying the decoded results to one or more system qubits; and unconditionally resetting the first subset and/or second subset of ancilla qubits to remove entropy and/or noise from the quantum system, wherein the operations of determining the error syndrome, decoding the error syndrome, applying the error syndrome, and unconditionally resetting the first and/or second subset of ancilla qubits are performed responsive to a qubit controller executing quantum control instructions provided from or derived from a script and without transmitting measurement data related to the error syndrome to a non-quantum computing device.
US11907798B2
Particular embodiments described herein include an apparatus for providing RFID-based locations for items located in an indoor environment including an RFID scanner to transmit interrogating RFID signals and to receive RFID identifiers for RFID tags, the RFID tags being affixed to the items in the indoor environment. The apparatus can additionally include an indoor location tracking device to determine a current location of the apparatus within the indoor environment, wherein the apparatus is mobile and configured to be moved throughout the indoor environment. The apparatus can further include an RFID-location processor to receive RFID data from the RFID scanner and location data from the indoor location tracking device, correlate portions of the RFID data with portions of the location data, and generate RFID-based location data for the items located in the indoor environment based, at least in part, on the correlated portions of the RFID data and the location data.
US11907791B2
Smartcards with metal layers manufactured according to various techniques disclosed herein. One or more metal layers of a smartcard stackup may be provided with slits overlapping at least a portion of a module antenna in an associated transponder chip module disposed in the smartcard so that the metal layer functions as a coupling frame. One or more metal layers may be pre-laminated with plastic layers to form a metal core or clad subassembly for a smartcard, and outer printed and/or overlay plastic layers may be laminated to the front and/or back of the metal core. Front and back overlays may be provided. Various constructions of and manufacturing techniques (including temperature, time, and pressure regimes for laminating) for smartcards are disclosed herein.
US11907780B2
Disclosed embodiments pertain to a payment card with an integrated door. A top layer can be affixed to a bottom semirigid layer. The top layer can include a first portion attached to the front face of the bottom layer and a second portion, or door, coupled to the first portion in a manner that allows the second portion to rotate to and from an open position and closed position. The bottom layer can include a cardholder name, account number, expiration date, and security code hidden from view when the door is in the closed position. A fastener can also be added to secure the door in an open position, closed position, or both. In one embodiment, the payment card can include an antenna for contactless transactions, and the door's position can control the antenna's availability for wireless communication.
US11907779B2
A radio-frequency (RF) identification (RFID) system provides side-lobe blocking (SLB) functionality. The RFID system modifies a first RF signal to provide a modified signal. The first RF signal has an RF carrier frequency according to an RFID protocol, and a main directional antenna in the RFID system has a first main lobe extending in a first direction and is configured to radiate a first signal for reading one or more RFID tags according to the RFID protocol. The RFID system then provides the modified signal as an SLB signal to a secondary directional antenna having a second main lobe extending in a second direction different than the first direction to radiate a second signal toward one or more stray RFID tags.
US11907776B2
An integrated asynchronous interface for data retrieval from across a plurality of data sources is described. An interface may include a plurality of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) as well as a database for constructing responsive data. A search request may be decomposed at the interface to sub-search requests to be distributed to multiple data sources via a search request API. Data responsive to the sub-search requests may be aggregated at an interface database. A status API may maintain a status of the search request, and can update a tenant regarding the status of the tenant's search request. A response API may be used to provide reconstructed data responsive to the search request from the interface database to the tenant.
US11907774B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for swapping or changing between stacks associated with respective applications when one application calls the other.
US11907773B2
Method for communicating via an API, including the steps of: producing a structural description of each version of the transaction; producing a signature which is representative of the structural description of the version; defining and saving an object comprising the signature and the structural description of the version; causing a transmitting software entity to transmit a current message of a current version of the transaction and a current signature of the current version; causing a receiving software entity to receive the current message and the current signature; causing the receiving software entity to identify an object having a signature identical to the current signature, and decoding the current message using the structural description of the object.
US11907761B2
An electronic apparatus including a storage; a processor configured to execute a program including an OS and application program stored in the storage; and a memory configured to load and store the program based on execution of the program, the processor being configured to control the OS to, based on an execution of a process of the application program, create a user stack corresponding to at least one task of the process and store data of the user stack in a predetermined area of the memory; based on a predetermined event being generated in a state which the process is executed, stop change in the data of the predetermined area; discard an area in which data used in a procedure of initiating the process among the stored data is stored, in the predetermined area; and based on a work corresponding to the predetermined event being completed, continuously perform the operation.
US11907757B2
Disclosed is a method for controlling an engine control unit which includes at least two microprocessor cores, including steps of executing a parent subtask and at least one child subtask. The method includes the following steps: —determining the number of executables which remain to be executed in the last child subtask of the first period when the parent subtask of the second period starts; and—determining the number of executables already executed in the parent subtask of the second period when the last child subtask of the first period finishes.
US11907753B2
An apparatus includes a CPU core, a first cache subsystem coupled to the CPU core, and a second memory coupled to the cache subsystem. The first cache subsystem includes a configuration register, a first memory, and a controller. The controller is configured to: receive a request directed to an address in the second memory and, in response to the configuration register having a first value, operate in a non-caching mode. In the non-caching mode, the controller is configured to provide the request to the second memory without caching data returned by the request in the first memory. In response to the configuration register having a second value, the controller is configured to operate in a caching mode. In the caching mode the controller is configured to provide the request to the second memory and cache data returned by the request in the first memory.
US11907747B2
A method for deploying product applications within virtual machines onto on-premises and public cloud infrastructures. Specifically, the disclosed method proposes a migration scheme of virtual machine images (configured at least with product applications and guest operating systems) from an on-premises infrastructure to a public cloud infrastructure. Further, the migration scheme considers two workflows—a normal workflow contingent on the public cloud infrastructure having up-to-date support for the guest operating systems; and an exception workflow contingent on the public cloud infrastructure lacking up-to-date support for the guest operating systems.
US11907740B2
A method for creating robotic process automation (RPA) script data to perform an operation in a terminal device that displays an operation screen for an image processing apparatus on a host terminal and receives the operation by the RPA, includes: detecting a position of an operation target displayed on the operation screen and selected by an operator; and normalizing the detected position of the operation target on a basis of a size of the operation screen, generating position information indicating the normalized position, and describing the position information in the RPA script data.
US11907738B2
An image processing method applied to a display device having a processing circuit and a screen and includes: receiving a first image from one of a plurality of electronic devices; detecting whether the first image has a black border area; and if the first image has the black border area, performing a first display operation, wherein performing the first display operation includes: removing the black border area of the first image, to generate a second image; adjusting the size of the second image according to the size of a display area of the screen; calculating a first blank area of the screen based on the adjusted second image; requesting a third image from another one of the electronic devices according to the size of the first blank area; and filling the display area of the screen with the adjusted second image and the third image.
US11907735B2
A control device includes a main storage device that stores a user program and program packages in a nonvolatile manner; a main memory having a package management module arranged therein; and a processor. The package management module performs a deployment process for selecting, from the program packages, a package to be deployed based on a version of the user program, and arranging, from the package to be deployed, a version of a program compatible with the version of the user program in the main memory.
US11907733B1
An example target device is described for facilitating application docking. In various aspects, the target device can comprise a processor. In various instances, the target device can comprise a non-transitory machine-readable memory that can store machine-readable instructions. In various cases, the processor can execute the machine-readable instructions, which can cause the processor to launch, based on a dock request that is to indicate a session of a first instance of an application of an initiator device, a second instance of the application on the target device. In various aspects, the second instance can resume the session. In various instances, the launch can be based on a determination that a dock credential of a Quick Response (QR) code generated by the target device is in the dock request.
US11907732B2
A system can host APIs for a plurality of different tenants and receive requests from many different client devices. As requests are received, an associated tenant can be identified, and a router can determine if a container instance is available to service the request. A container instance may be an empty container instance including an internal endpoint, a Web server, and a runtime environment. An empty container instance can be unassociated with a particular tenant. To associate a container instance with a tenant, a data store, such as a key-value data store can retrieve configuration files that turn the agnostic container instance into a container instance that is associated with particular tenant and includes configuration code to perform the requisite API functions. The pool of empty and populated containers can be managed efficiently.
US11907724B2
A computer-implemented method includes assigning a first group of one or more units of an instruction pipeline of a processor as a frontend group and assigning a second group of the one or more units of the instruction pipeline of the processor as a backend group. A frontend logout is performed to transfer one or more trace records from the first group to a trace controller during an in-memory trace of an instruction. A backend logout is performed to transfer one or more trace records from the second group to the trace controller during the in-memory trace of the instruction. A next instruction is started in the first group of the instruction pipeline before the backend logout completes.
US11907719B2
The present disclosure describes a digital signal processing (DSP) block that includes a plurality of columns of weight registers and a plurality of inputs configured to receive a first plurality of values and a second plurality of values. The first plurality of values is stored in the plurality of columns of weight registers after being received. Additionally, the DSP block includes a plurality of multipliers configured to simultaneously multiply each value of the first plurality of values by each value of the second plurality of values.
US11907714B2
This application discloses a mechanism to securely store and compute with a matrix of numbers or any two-dimensional array of binary values in a storage entity called a matrix space. A matrix space is designed to store matrices or arrays of values into arrays of volatile or non-volatile memory cells with accessibility in two or three dimensions. Any row or column or line of storage elements in the storage entity is directly accessible for writing, reading, or clearing via row bit lines and column bit lines, respectively. The elements in rows of the arrays are selected or controlled for access using row address lines and the elements in columns of the arrays are selected or controlled for access using column address lines. Access control methods and mechanisms with keys to secure, share, lock, and unlock regions in the matrix space for matrices and arrays under the control of an operating system or a virtual-machine hypervisor by permitted threads and processes are also disclosed.
US11907706B2
The disclosure provides for analyzing upgrade and migration readiness. Embodiments include receiving an indication to upgrade a software product and a selected upgrade path identifying a target-upgrade version. Embodiments include accessing an array of pre-upgrade procedures comprising code for identifying one or more conditions that must be met before the software product can be upgraded based on the accessed array being associated with the software product. Embodiments include executing one or more of the pre-upgrade procedures in advance of upgrading the software product. Embodiments include accessing one or more autonomous remediation scripts from the repository based on identification of one or more failed pre-upgrade procedures. Embodiments include executing the one or more autonomous remediation scripts to cure the one or more failed pre-upgrade procedures and initiating an upgrade of the software product based on identifying that the array of pre-upgrade procedures successfully completed execution.
US11907696B2
Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed to send a signal to deploy a software patch at a compute device, to identify, based on a dependency map, a set of system components on the compute device that are likely to be impacted by the software patch, to monitor a set of parameters for a set of applications on the compute device that interact with a set of system components, to compare values for the set of parameters to one or more predefined criteria and to determine a compatibility classification for the software patch. Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed to update the dependency map based on the compatibility classification to define an updated dependency map, and based on the updated dependency map send a signal to deploy the software patch at a set of compute devices.
US11907693B2
A job decomposition processing method for distributed computing, which comprises: analyzing a source program to be run by program static analysis to determine a function call graph contained in the source program; determining feature information of functions contained in the source program by program dynamics analysis or/and a program intelligent decomposition algorithm, wherein the feature information of the functions is used to characterize relevant information when each function is being running; decomposing the source program based on the feature information of the functions, a function relationship and available resource information of a computing platform to form an execution recommendation for each function on the computing platform, i.e., which hardware resources are used for computing each function; finally inserting a modifier in the source program and starting computation on the computing platform.
US11907691B2
A method and system for a command processor for efficient processing of a program multi-processor core system with a CPU and GPU. The multi-core system includes a general purpose CPU executing commands in a CPU programming language and a graphic processing unit (GPU) executing commands in a GPU programming language. A command processor is coupled to the CPU and CPU. The command processor sequences jobs from a program for processing by the CPU or the GPU. The command processor creates commands from the jobs in a state free command format. The command processor generates a sequence of commands for execution by either the CPU or the GPU in the command format. A compiler running a meta language converts program data for the commands into a first format readable by the CPU programming language and a second format readable by the GPU programming language.
US11907690B2
Disclosed are an electronic terminal apparatus and an operating method thereof. The present invention relates to an electronic terminal apparatus equipped with a UI development tool, which is able to provide an automatic UI component creation function through an image analysis of a UI design plan, and an operating method thereof.
US11907684B2
A system and method of generating a series of random number; from a source of random numbers in a computing system. Steps includes: loading a data loop (a looped array of stored values with an index) with random data from a source of random data; then repeating the following: reading a value from the data loop in relation to the index; operating on the multi-bit value thereby outputting a derived random number; and moving the index in relation to the looped array. The data loop may be a simple feedback loop which may be a shift register loaded by direct memory access (DMA). The operation may be performed by one or more arithmetic logic units (ALU) which may be fed by one or more data feeds and may perform XOR, Mask Generator, Data MUX, and/or MOD.
US11907683B2
A method for generating a random number comprises selecting a group of at least two servers within a network; receiving a server specific string from at least two servers of the group; and using the server specific strings to generate the random number.
US11907682B2
This device comprises a fast sampler comprising: a truncated table associating with truncated random numbers rmsb coded on Nmsb bits, the only sample k for which, whatever the number rlsb belonging to the interval [0; 2Nr−Nmsb−1], the following condition is met: F(k−1)<(rmsb, rlsb)≤F(k), where: (rmsb, rlsb) is the binary number coded on Nr bits and the Nmsb most significant bits of which are equal to the truncated random number rmsb and the (Nr−Nmsb) least significant bits of which are equal to the number rlsb, Nmsb is an integer number lower than Nr, a module for searching for a received truncated random number rmsb in the truncated table, and able to transmit the sample k, associated, by the truncated table, with the received truncated random number rmsb, by way of random number drawn according to the probability distribution ρ.
US11907680B2
A multiplication-accumulation (MAC) includes a multiplication circuit, a pre-processing circuit, and an adder tree. The multiplication circuit performs a multiplication operation on a plurality of weight data and a plurality of vector data each having a floating-point format to output a plurality of multiplication data. The pre-processing circuit performs shifting on mantissa data of the plurality of multiplication data by a difference between first maximum exponent data having a greatest value among the exponent data of the plurality of multiplication data and the remaining exponent data to output a plurality of pre-processed mantissa data. The adder tree adds the plurality of mantissa data to output mantissa addition bits.
US11907677B1
A universal language assistive translation and interpretation system that is configured to verify and validate translations and interpretations by way of blockchain technology and smart contracts, multiple cross-format translation and interpretation blockchain validating and recording processes for verifying and validating cross-format translations and interpretations by smart contract and blockchain technology, and several validated cross-format translation and interpretation blockchain access processes for providing cross-format interpretations and translations of inter-communications between users regardless of ability or disability are disclosed.
US11907666B2
Various embodiments of a system and associated method for anonymization of text without losing semantic utility of text by extracting a latent embedding representation of content with respect to a given task and by learning an optimal strategy for text embedding manipulation to satisfy both privacy and utility requirements are disclosed herein. In particular, the system balances private attribute obfuscation with retained semantic utility.
US11907655B2
Systems and methods of converting user input into a standardized input are disclosed. An exemplary method includes receiving via a user input a string including a first set of characters and a second set of characters positioned on either side of a dividing symbol; converting the first set of characters into a first standardized input; converting the second set of characters into a second standardized input that establishes how to delineate the plurality of items of the data set into the number of groups based on the numerically sortable attribute of the data set; and displaying, on a graphic user interface, the number of groups as established by the first standardized input, each group populated by a subset of the set of the plurality of items of the data set as delineated by the second standardized input.
US11907640B2
A computer implemented method includes receiving embedded font text defining characters associated with an original font family. The embedded font text is processed to generate original glyph metrics data, a combined original font glyph width based on the original glyph metrics data, and one or more candidate font families are identified. For each candidate font family a combined candidate font family glyph width is calculated and a candidate font family difference, the candidate font family difference being a measure of how the candidate font family's combined candidate font family glyph width compares to the combined original font glyph width. A particular candidate font family is selected as a replacement font family based on the candidate font family differences of the one or more candidate font families.
US11907627B2
In an integrated circuit (IC) assessment method, an artificial intelligence (AI) component comprising at least one artificial neural network (ANN) is trained to transform layout rendering tiles of a rendering of a reference IC into corresponding reference layout image tiles extracted from at least one layout image of the reference IC. Using the trained AI component, standard cell layout renderings of a library of GDSII or OASIS standard cell layout renderings are transformed into as-fabricated standard cell layout renderings forming a library of as fabricated standard cell layout renderings. Instantiated standard cells and their placements in the layout image of an IC-under-test are identified by matching the instantiated standard cells with corresponding as-fabricated standard cell layout renderings retrieved from the library of as fabricated standard cell layout renderings.
US11907626B2
A method, a device, and an electronic apparatus are provided. When a user performs the design operation in a display panel design program, the method includes steps of collecting display panel design parameters corresponding to a design operation of the user in the display panel design program obtaining a design strategy preset in the display panel; checking if the display panel design parameters are normal based upon the design strategy of the display panel; and alerting in the display panel design program when the display panel design parameters are abnormal.
US11907625B2
Disclosed are computer implemented techniques for conducting a fluid simulation of a porous medium. These techniques involve retrieving a representation of a three dimensional porous medium, the representation including pore space corresponding to the porous medium, with the representation including at least one portion of under-resolved pore structure in the porous medium, defining a representative flow model that includes the under-resolved pore structure in the representation, and constructing by the computer system fluid force curves that correspond to fluid forces in the under-resolved pore structure in the representation.
US11907621B2
An electronic product testing system includes: a testing instruction generator configured to provide a user interface for generating an electronic file, the electronic file containing product testing instruction; and a testing device having a processing unit configured to execute the electronic file to perform testing of a product based on the product testing instruction in the electronic file; wherein the processing unit is configured to perform testing of the product by simulating human actions based on the product testing instruction in the electronic file.
US11907619B2
A system and method for the automated design of accessible ramps is disclosed. A ramp data structure is provided having general shape information for a plurality of ramp types. A ramp environment data structure is also provided with 3D reference information for one or more ramp installation environments. After user selection of a ramp type and installation environment a 3D ramp design is automatically generated conforming to the selected ramp environment. Also, the ramp design may be automatically compared to a design standard to determine if the design is in compliance. Also, convenient editing may be employed while conforming to the ramp environment with real time updates to the 3D ramp design.
US11907616B2
Disclosed are an electronic apparatus, a display apparatus and a method of controlling the same an electronic apparatus, a display apparatus and a method of controlling the same, the electronic apparatus including: a speaker configured to output a sound; a microphone configured to receive a user voice; a communicator configured to perform communication; a processor configured to: identify a state of an external apparatus through the communicator based on reception of the user voice, process the received user voice and output a sound corresponding to a process result through the speaker based on identification that the external apparatus is in a turned-off state, and control the communicator to transmit information about the received user voice to the external apparatus and request the external apparatus to process the voice based on identification that the external apparatus is in a turned-on state.
US11907614B2
Examples described herein involve expanding playback of a media item from a first playback device to a second playback device. In one example, while a first playback device is playing a media item as part of a first zone, the first playback device identifies that a second playback device has moved to a location that is within a given physical proximity of the first playback. The first playback device determines that playback is to be expanded to the second playback device, and transmits a command to cause the second playback device to (i) join the first zone and (ii) begin to play the media item in synchrony with the first playback device.
US11907612B2
Volume limiting systems and methods are operable to limit volume output from media presentation devices. An exemplary embodiment detects a sound using a microphone, wherein the sound corresponds to an audio output of at least one controlled media presentation device, and wherein the microphone is remotely located from the at least one controlled media presentation device; compares a level of the detected sound with a predefined maximum volume limit; generates a volume output limit command in response to the detected sound exceeding the predefined maximum volume limit; and communicates the volume output limit command to the media presentation device. The media presentation device then reduces a volume level of its audio output. In some instances, volume may be limited during user specified periods.
US11907611B2
A bitstream is obtained by a decoder side, that contains an encoded version of an audio signal and an instantaneous loudness sequence of the audio signal. The instantaneous loudness sequence has not been loudness normalized. A dynamic range control, DRC, gain sequence is produced by applying the instantaneous loudness sequence to a DRC characteristic, with loudness normalization. The DRC gain sequence is applied to the decoded audio signal. Other aspects are also described and claimed.
US11907602B2
A multi-vision display device includes a timing controller, a plurality of display panels, and a plurality of display driver integrated circuits (ICs). The timing controller is configured to receive source data and timing signals from a host, and generate a data packet comprising image data and control data. The plurality of display driver ICs each is connected to any one of the plurality of display panels. The control data includes a panel identifier indicating a number of display panels of the plurality of display panels connected to the display driver IC prior to a corresponding display panel connected to the display driver IC. Adjacent ones of the plurality of display driver ICs are connected to each other, modulate the panel identifier provided from one among the timing controller and a front end display driver IC, and provide the modulated panel identifier to a rear end display driver IC.
US11907592B2
An information processing system, an information processing apparatus, and a display method. The information processing system stores in one or more memories, error information acquired from the device and a solution method of an error input to the device or the information processing apparatus in association with time information and displays on a display, presence of the error information and presence of the solution method in association with time axis based on the time information.
US11907583B2
Apparatus, methods, media and systems for multiple sets of trim parameters are described. A non-volatile memory device may comprise a first register, a second register, a multiplexer, a first set of I/O lines, each coupled to the first register and the multiplexer, each associated with a particular trim set among multiple trim sets stored in the first register, one or more second I/O lines, each coupled to the second register and the multiplexer. The multiplexer is configured to receive a control signal. The multiplexer is configured to output, based on the control signal, a particular trim set among the multiple trim sets to the second register using the one or more second I/O lines.
US11907580B2
Methods, systems, and devices for a corrective read of a memory device with reduced latency are described. A memory system may identify a read error based on accessing a memory device, and may select a trim setting for a performing a corrective read operation based on a data retention condition associated with the accessed memory device. Such a data retention condition may be associated with a data retention duration, or a cross-temperature condition, among other criteria or combinations thereof. In some implementations, the memory system may select from a subset of possible trim settings, which may be associated with relevant process corners. For example, the memory system may select between a first trim setting that is associated with a relatively large cross-temperature and a relatively short data retention duration and a second trim setting that is associated with a relatively small cross-temperature and a relatively long data retention duration.
US11907563B2
Methods, systems, and devices for one or more clock domain crossing queues are described. A queue can receive, from a first clock domain, a first command to store data in the queue. The queue can store the data at a first location indicated by a first pointer. The queue can receive, from the first clock domain, a second command to cause the second clock domain to retrieve the data from the queue. The queue can generate, based on receiving the second command, a third command synchronized with a clock of the second clock domain and to cause the second clock domain to retrieve the data. The queue can retrieve the data from the first location in the queue indicated by a second pointer associated with retrieving data based at least in part on generating the third command. The queue can transmit, to the second clock domain, the data.
US11907562B2
In one embodiment, a method comprises maintaining state information regarding a data replication status for a storage object of the storage node of a primary storage cluster with the storage object being replicated to a replicated storage object of a secondary storage cluster, temporarily disallowing input/output (I/O) operations when the storage object has a connection loss or failure. The method further includes initiating a resynchronization between the storage object and the replicated storage object including initiating asynchronous persistent inflight tracking and replay of any missing I/O operations that are missing from one of a first Op log of the primary storage cluster and a second Op log of the secondary storage cluster, and allowing new I/O operations to be handled with the storage object of the primary storage cluster without waiting for completion of the asynchronous persistent inflight tracking and replay at the secondary storage cluster.
US11907554B2
A method and apparatus for controlling startup of a hard disk drive system, and a storage device. The hard disk drive system includes two or more hard disk drives. The method for controlling startup of a hard disk drive system includes: latching the initialization states of all the hard disk drives after all hard disk drives are powered on; dividing all hard disk drives into two or more hard drive groups, each hard drive group includes more than one hard disk drive; sequentially perform link initialization negotiation on each hard drive group by using a port protocol; and in an OOB negotiation process of the link initialization negotiation, by setting the state of an SCSI application layer power state machine, control a motor of each hard disk drive in the hard drive group to enter a spinning state.
US11907550B2
A method for dynamically assigning memory bandwidth to multiple processor units, which are connected via a data connection to a shared memory unit. In an initialization phase, each of the multiple processor units are assigned an initial value of a usable memory bandwidth, and a permissible range for a mean usage of the memory bandwidth is determined. Subsequently, the assigned memory bandwidths are checked repeatedly and adjusted if needed, a present value of a mean usage of the memory bandwidth by the multiple processor units being determined, and, if this present value is outside the permissible range, the values of the usable memory bandwidth are adjusted for at least a part of the multiple processor units.
US11907546B2
Methods, systems, and devices related to a memory system or scheme that includes a first memory device configured for low-energy access operations and a second memory device configured for storing high-density information and operations of the same are described. The memory system may include an array configured for high-density information and may interface with a host via a controller and a cache or another array of a relatively fast memory type. The memory system may support signals communicated according to one or several modulation schemes, including a modulation scheme or schemes that employ two, three, or more voltage levels (e.g., NRZ, PAM4). The memory system may include, e.g., separate channels configured to communicate using different modulation schemes between a host and between memory arrays or memory types within the memory system.
US11907543B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for managing swappable data structures in a plurality of memory devices based on access counts of the data structures. Data structures indicated as swappable are updated less frequently than most frequently updated data structures. Data structures not indicated as swappable are maintained in a first level memory device and not moved to a second level memory device. The first level memory device has lower latency than the second level memory device. Access counts are maintained for the data structures stored in the first level memory device that are indicated as swappable. Data structures are selected in the first level memory device having lowest access counts. The selected data structures are removed from the first level memory device and retained in the second level memory device.
US11907539B2
A multi-stream solid-state device (SSD) includes a normal-access memory associated with a first stream ID, a high-access memory having a higher endurance than the normal-access memory and being associated with a second stream ID, a controller processor, and a processor memory coupled to the controller processor, wherein the processor memory has stored thereon instructions that, when executed by the controller processor, cause the controller processor to perform identifying a data stream ID of an input data stream as one of the first and second stream IDs, in response to identifying the data stream ID as the first stream ID, storing the input data stream in the normal-access memory, and in response to identifying the data stream ID as the second stream ID, storing the input data stream in the high-access memory.
US11907538B2
Methods, systems and devices for configuring access to a memory device are disclosed. The configuration of the memory device may be carried out by creating a plurality of access profiles that are adapted to optimize access to the memory device in accordance with a type of access. For example, when an application with specific memory access needs is initiated, the memory access profile that is designed for that particular access need may be utilized to configure access to the memory device. The configuration may apply to a portion of the memory device, a partition of the memory device, a single access location on the memory device, or any combination thereof.
US11907537B2
First and second target controllers implemented in a storage system are associated with respective first and second storage pools having respective first and second service level objectives. Input-output (IO) operations are received from one or more host devices and processed in the storage system, with different ones of the IO operations being directed from one or more initiators of the one or more host devices to different ones of the first and second target controllers. Separate feedback information is provided from the storage system to the one or more host devices for respective ones of the first and second target controllers, so as to permit different amounts of throttling of additional IO operations in the one or more host devices based at least in part on whether those additional IO operations are to be directed to the first target controller or the second target controller.
US11907534B1
A storage device projected temperature environment configuration system includes storage devices with the same physical hardware configuration, and a computing device manufacturing system that manufactures computing devices. A storage device projected temperature environment configuration subsystem in the computing device manufacturing system identifies a first projected temperature environment for a first computing device being manufactured by the computing device manufacturing system, configures a first subset of the storage devices to perform first storage device operations in the first projected temperature environment, identifies a second projected temperature environment that is for a second computing device being manufactured by the computing device manufacturing system and that is different than the first projected temperature environment, and configures a second subset of the storage devices to perform second storage device operations in the second projected temperature environment that are different than the first storage device operations.
US11907532B1
An initial drive cluster of G drives with G subdivisions is represented by a G*G drive matrix, where G equals the number of data and parity members in the RAID level implemented on the drive cluster. A corresponding G×G overlay matrix is created in which a value at row R, column C equals a remainder of (R+C−2) divided by G, such that there are G distinct values in a range of 0 to G−1. Responsive to addition of N new drives to the drive cluster, the N new drives are added to the drive matrix and the overlay matrix is used to select and relocate RAID members within the drive matrix so that new RAID groups can be created.
US11907531B2
Some techniques described herein relate to determining how to optimally store datasets in a multi-tiered storage device with compression. In one example, a method includes assigning, to a data partition of a dataset, a priority based on access patterns of the data partition. Compression data is accessed describing results of compressing a data sample associated with the data partition using multiple compression schemes. Based both on the priority of the data partition and the compression data, a storage tier is determined for storing the data partition in the multi-tiered storage device. Further, based both on the priority of the data partition and the compression data, a compression scheme is determined for compressing the data partition for storage in the multi-tiered storage device. The data partition is compressed using the compression scheme to produce a compressed data partition, and the compressed data partition is stored in the storage tier.
US11907529B2
A memory management method, a memory storage device, and a memory control circuit unit are provided. The memory management method includes: obtaining a first weight value corresponding to a first command in a command queue, wherein the command queue is used to store at least one command to be executed; obtaining a second weight value corresponding to at least one second command being executed; and in response to a sum of the first weight value and the second weight value being greater than a base value, delaying an execution of the first command.
US11907524B2
A digital ink processing system, method, and program are provided that are capable of presenting, to a user, useful and highly relevant information as a search result when a search is performed using digital ink. A processor included in a tablet enables a pointing operation of an electronic pen relative to a stroke or strokes. The processor, after enabling the pointing operation of the electronic pen, performs a search for content related to a semantic attribute of the stroke or strokes pointed at, or requests an external server to perform the search. The processor performs control so as to display the related content retrieved by the search on a display with the stroke or strokes.
US11907523B2
A method for responding to an operation trajectory is disclosed. The method is applied to a monitor configured to monitor and display physiological data of a patient. The method includes displaying at least one physiological data of a first patient on a display interface. The at least one physiological data comprises at least one of electrocardiogram, blood oxygen, blood pressure, respiration rate, body temperature and heart rate. The method further includes detecting a screen-touching operation triggered by a user on the display interface and acquiring an operation trajectory corresponding to the screen-touching operation according to the screen-touching operation. The operation trajectory includes a start point and an end point, the start point corresponding to a first time point, the end point corresponding to a second time point, and the second time point being later than the first time point. The method also includes if the screen-touching operation satisfies a pre-set operation trajectory, executing a patient release operation on the first patient at the second time point.
US11907517B2
A database system associated with a plurality of source databases in a virtual computing system includes a dashboard having a main menu for providing a plurality of control functions and a body that dynamically changes based upon the plurality of control functions that are selected. The dashboard includes a homepage for displaying a plurality of cells in the body, including a first cell for displaying a list of the plurality of source databases. The main menu includes a first control function, the selection of which triggers a database provisioning service by presenting options to either create a new source database or register an existing database within the body and a second control function, the selection of which triggers a copy data management service by presenting an option to create a new cloned database.
US11907512B2
An electronic mail (email) system generates an email user interface display, with a timeslot actuator, for composing an email message. Actuation of the timeslot actuator is detected and the email system accesses available timeslots from a calendar system corresponding to the user. User selectable display elements, corresponding to each available timeslot, are displayed on the email user interface display, along with message content. When a user selectable display element corresponding to an available timeslot is selected, the email message content is populated with a selectable timeslot element, corresponding to the available timeslot, that can be sent to recipients in the email message.
US11907511B1
A method for rendering context based information on a user interface includes receiving a user request to extract the context based information from a database. The database includes a plurality of documents and the request includes at least one search criteria required to determine a context of the user request. The method includes generating a list of documents corresponding to the context of the user request and rendering on a viewing portion of the user interface the list of documents corresponding to the context of the user request.
US11907508B1
Content creation techniques are described that leverage content analytics to provide insight and guidance as part of content creation. To do so, content features are extracted by a content analytics system from a plurality of content and used by the content analytics system as a basis to generate a content dataset. Event data is also collected by the content analytics system from an event data source. Event data describes user interaction with respective items of content, including subsequent activities in both online and physical environments. The event data is then used to generate an event dataset. An analytics user interface is then generated by the content analytics system using the content dataset and the event dataset and is usable to guide subsequent content creation and editing.
US11907506B1
An illustrative virtual meeting management system associates a user device of a participant of a virtual meeting with a physical location from which the participant and one or more additional participants participate in the virtual meeting. The virtual meeting management system determines that the participant provides a user input via the user device during the virtual meeting. The user input indicates that the participant will speak. Based on the user input and the associating, the virtual meeting management system provides an active speaker indicator for presentation in a virtual meeting interface provided to one or more participants of the virtual meeting. The active speaker indicator specifies a participant identifier representative of the participant and a place identifier representative of the physical location from which the participant participates in the virtual meeting. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
US11907497B2
A computer-implemented method is disclosed that includes receiving on a mobile device a search query associated with a geographic location, providing one or more search results in response to the search query, the search results each being associated with a geographic location, and presenting on a graphical display of the computing device icons corresponding to each search result and also corresponding to a key on the computing device.
