US11985892B2
A light-emitting device with high outcoupling efficiency is provided. In the light-emitting device including a light-emitting layer between a pair of electrodes, a low refractive index layer containing an organic compound and an inorganic compound is provided between the light-emitting layer and an anode or between the light-emitting layer and a cathode, and the low refractive index layer has a refractive index of less than or equal to 1.80 at a wavelength of light extracted from the light-emitting layer.
US11985885B2
An array substrate, a manufacturing process of an array substrate, and a display panel are disclosed. The array substrate includes a substrate and a photosensitive element. The photosensitive element is disposed on the substrate and includes a doped semiconductor layer, an intrinsic semiconductor layer, and a transparent electrode layer sequentially stacked. By improving an internal structure of the photosensitive element, light absorption by an incident interface of the intrinsic semiconductor layer can be increased, so that sensitivity of the photosensitive element is enhanced.
US11985872B2
A display panel and an electronic device are provided. The display panel includes: a base substrate; a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines located on the base substrate. A plurality of sub-pixel units are located on the base substrate, and at least one of the plurality of sub-pixel units includes a light-emitting element, a switching transistor, an induction transistor, a driving transistor and a storage transistor. In this sub-pixel unit, an orthographic projection of the switching transistor on the base substrate and an orthographic projection of the induction transistor on the base substrate are located on a first side of an orthographic projection of the storage capacitor on the base substrate. An orthographic projection of the driving transistor on the base substrate is located on a second side of the orthographic projection of the storage capacitor on the base substrate.
US11985870B2
A nick is disposed in a display region so as to partly cut the display region. A first routed wire is routed from the display region toward the nick. The first routed wire is included in a first metal layer. A first conductive film is included in a second metal layer. The first routed wire and the first conductive film overlap each other via an inorganic insulating film.
US11985868B2
A display apparatus includes: a substrate including a first area, a second area surrounding the first area and spaced apart from the first area, and a third area between the first area and the second area; a plurality of pixel circuits on the substrate at the second area, each of the plurality of pixel circuits including one or more thin-film transistors, and a storage capacitor; a plurality of lines on the substrate at the third area, and electrically connected to the pixel circuits, respectively; an encapsulation member covering the pixel circuits; an input sensing section on the encapsulation member to overlap with the second area, and including sensing electrodes, and trace lines electrically connected to the sensing electrodes; and a plurality of shielding portions on the encapsulation member to overlap with at least one of the plurality of lines, the plurality of shielding portions being spaced apart from each other.
US11985838B2
An imaging device includes: a first electrode; a charge storage electrode disposed at a distance from the first electrode; a photoelectric conversion layer in contact with the first electrode and above the charge storage electrode, with an insulating layer between the charge storage electrode and the photoelectric conversion layer; and a second electrode on the photoelectric conversion layer. The portion of the insulating layer between the charge storage electrode and the photoelectric conversion layer includes a first region and a second region, the first region is formed with a first insulating layer, the second region is formed with a second insulating layer, and the absolute value of the fixed charge of the material forming the second insulating layer is smaller than the absolute value of the fixed charge of the material forming the first insulating layer.
US11985832B1
A device includes, in a first region, a first conductive interconnect, an electrode structure on the first conductive interconnect, where the electrode structure includes a first conductive hydrogen barrier layer and a first conductive fill material. A trench capacitor including a ferroelectric material or a paraelectric material is on the electrode structure. A second dielectric includes an amorphous, greater than 90% film density hydrogen barrier material laterally surrounds the memory device. A via electrode including a second conductive hydrogen barrier material is on at least a portion of the memory device. A second region includes a conductive interconnect structure embedded within a less than 90% film density dielectric material.
US11985824B2
Three-dimensional (3D) memory devices and methods for forming the 3D memory devices are provided. In one example, a 3D memory device includes a substrate and a memory stack including interleaved conductive layers and dielectric layers on the substrate. The memory stack includes a core structure and a staircase structure. The staircase structure is on one side of the memory stack. The 3D memory device also includes a dummy channel structure extending vertically through the staircase structure. The dummy channel structure includes a plurality of sections along a vertical side of the dummy channel structure. The plurality of sections respectively interface with the interleaved conductive layers in the staircase structure. At least one of the plurality of sections includes a non-flat surface at an interface between the at least one of the plurality of sections and a corresponding conductive layer.
US11985820B2
A semiconductor device includes a first substrate; devices on the first substrate; a second substrate on the devices; gate electrodes stacked on the second substrate and spaced apart from each other in a first direction; channel structures penetrating the gate electrodes, extending in the first direction, and including a channel layer; isolation regions penetrating the gate electrodes and extending in a second direction; a through contact plug penetrating the second substrate, extending in the first direction, and electrically connecting the gate electrodes to the devices; a barrier structure spaced apart from the through contact plug and surrounding the through contact plug; and a support structure on the gate electrodes and including support patterns, wherein the support structure has first through regions spaced apart from each other in the second direction on the isolation regions and a second through region in contact with an upper surface of the barrier structure.
US11985815B2
A method for manufacturing a memory includes the following operations. A substrate and a plurality of separate initial bit line contact structures are provided, in which a plurality of active regions are formed in the substrate, and each of the initial bit line contact structures is electrically connected with the active regions, and each of the initial bit line contact structures is partially located in the substrate. Pseudo-bit line structures on the tops of the initial bit line contact structures are formed. The initial bit line contact structures are etched to form bit line contact layers and gaps between the substrate and the side walls of the bit line contact layers. First dielectric layers are formed on the side walls of the pseudo-bit line structures, in which the first dielectric layers are also located right above the gaps.
US11985814B2
A method for manufacturing a bit line structure includes the following operations. A bit line conductive layer is formed on a surface of a semiconductor substrate, and the bit line conductive layer is partially located in a groove in the surface of the semiconductor substrate. A first protective layer is formed on surfaces of the bit line conductive layer and the semiconductor substrate. A first barrier layer is formed on a surface of the first protective layer. The surface of the first barrier layer is subjected with passivating treatment. A sacrificial layer is formed on the surface of the first barrier layer, and is provided with a filling part filled in the groove. A part, other than the filling part, of the sacrificial layer is cleaned and stripped.
US11985808B2
A memory and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The memory includes a substrate; at least one pair of transistors on a surface of the substrate, in which conductive channels of the transistors extend in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the substrate; storage layers, which each are located at one side of the transistors and are interconnected with the conductive channels of the transistors, the pair of transistors is located between two storage layers corresponding to the pair of transistors, and the storage layers are configured to store electric charges and transfer the electric charges between the storage layers and the conductive channels interconnected therewith.
US11985807B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes: a first mask layer is formed on a dielectric layer, in which a first etching hole extending along a first direction parallel to the dielectric layer is formed in the first mask layer; a side of the first mask layer away from the dielectric layer is planarized; a second mask layer is formed on the first mask layer, in which a second etching hole extending along a second direction parallel to the dielectric layer is formed in the second mask layer, the first etching hole and the second etching hole constitute an etching hole; and the dielectric layer is etched along the etching hole to form the capacitor hole.
US11985806B2
Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods of forming the apparatus. One of the apparatuses and methods includes a memory cell having a first transistor and a second transistor located over a substrate. The first transistor includes a channel region. The second transistor includes a channel region located over the channel region of the first transistor and electrically separated from the first channel region. The memory cell includes a memory element located on at least one side of the channel region of the first transistor. The memory element is electrically separated from the channel region of the first transistor, and electrically coupled to the channel of the second transistor.
US11985805B2
A thermally conductive electromagnetically absorbing material includes a plurality of particles dispersed in a binder. The plurality of particles can have a particle size distribution having at least three peaks, where at least a majority of particles within a half width at half maximum of one, but not the other ones, of the at least three peaks are at least partially coated with an electromagnetically absorbing coating. The plurality of particles can include pluralities of first and second particles where a total number of the first particles is at most 1% of a total number of the first and second particles and where the first particles are more electromagnetically absorbing than the second particles. Films, molded articles and systems including the thermally conductive electromagnetically absorbing material are described.
US11985798B2
An apparatus and system for temperature mitigation and, more particularly, a flexible heat spreader attachment that flexibly attaches to the periphery of a circuit board, allowing for its use with numerous circuit board shapes and sizes, including those of irregular shapes and sizes. The flexible heat spreader attachment includes a base plate, a heat spreader attached to the base plate, and four adjustable arms attached to the base plate, wherein each of the adjustable arms include circuit board hooks configured to attach to the periphery of a circuit board and maintain the heat spreader at a desired location on, and spaced from, the circuit board.
US11985796B2
A vapor chamber includes a main body. The main body includes a base plate and a top plate. The base plate includes a plate body, a peripheral frame and a plurality of supporting pillars. The plate body has a surface. The peripheral frame is disposed on the surface of the plate body. The surface and the peripheral frame together define a first space. The first space is configured to accommodate a working fluid. The supporting pillars are located in the first space and are distributed on the surface of the plate body. The supporting pillars, the plate body and the peripheral frame are of an integrally-formed structure. The top plate abuts against the peripheral frame and the supporting pillars to seal up the first space.
US11985790B2
A modular arrangement is provided for housing electronic equipment and associated cooling structure in a data center environment. The modular units provide cooling air on an as-needed basis to individual pieces of equipment by way of individual plenums and associated valves. The units can be interconnected by vertical stacking, in side-to-side arrangements, and back-to-back arrangements. A number of units can be interconnected to form a cell. The cells can be interconnected to form larger units. In this manner, data centers can be configured in any desired arrangement without requiring complicated cooling design.
US11985787B2
An adapter mounting structure for mounting, on a rack, a plurality of adapters to which optical connectors are connected. The adapter mounting structure includes a first panel including insertion holes through which the plurality of adapters are inserted, the first panel being configured to expose, to a front side of the rack, the plurality of adapters thus inserted and being anchored to the rack, and a second panel disposed to a rear side of the rack relative to the first panel, the second panel being anchored to the first panel and being configured to anchor each of the plurality of adapters.
US11985785B2
Traditionally, rail systems for racks that house electronic equipment, such as information handling system only allow motion from one side of the rack, if they allow movement at all. Embodiments presented herein provide mechanisms and methods that allow for motion of information handling systems in a housing from more than just one side of the housing.
US11985782B2
A data storage device includes an enclosure and a Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA) extending in a basal plane, and a plurality of semiconductor memory packages electromechanically bonded to the PCBA and coupled to the enclosure with thermal interface material. The data storage device further includes a first fitting coupled to a first end of the PCBA and the enclosure, restricting movement of the PCBA in the basal plane with respect to the enclosure and restricting movement of the PCBA out of the basal plane. The data storage device further includes a second fitting coupled to a second end of the PCBA, allowing movement of the PCBA in the basal plane with respect to the enclosure and restricting movement of the PCBA out of the basal plane.
US11985771B2
The present invention relates to an airbag control unit including a housing that forms an enclosure and has an opening at an end thereof; a PCB that is coupled to the housing by coupling to a corner portion in the opening and an electrical connection structure in which a terminal pin is inserted into a terminal pin hole; and a cover provided in a shape covering the opening and includes an edge joined and fixed along an edge of the opening.
US11985766B2
A board shield (52) covers a region in which an electronic part is mounted on a lower surface of a circuit board (50). A memory housing chamber (R1) capable of housing a semiconductor memory is secured on the lower side of the circuit board. The board shield (52) includes a shield wall (52e) along the memory housing chamber (R1). With this, it is possible to protect the semiconductor memory while suppressing an increase in the number of parts.
US11985757B2
A printed circuit board assembly includes a first printed circuit board, a second printed circuit board disposed on the first printed circuit board and including an antenna pattern, a third printed circuit board disposed on the first printed circuit board, one or more first electronic components disposed between the first and the second printed circuit board and electrically connected to at least one of the first and the second printed circuit board, one or more second electronic components disposed between the first and the third printed circuit board, and electrically connected to at least one of the first and the third printed circuit board, a first interposer substrate electrically connecting the first printed circuit board and the second printed circuit board to each other, and a second interposer substrate electrically connecting the first printed circuit board and the third printed circuit board to each other.
US11985751B2
An intelligent lamp, a signal adaptive identification method for the intelligent lamp, and a computer-readable storage medium for implementing the method include: receiving a communication signal, and obtaining frame header data of the communication signal; and comparing the frame header data with preset reference frame header data, and if the frame header data matches the preset reference frame header data, obtaining communication data of a communication signal corresponding to the frame header data, and determining whether a time sequence of the communication data matches a communication data time sequence corresponding to the reference frame header data, and if yes, executing an instruction in the communication data of the communication signal corresponding to the frame header data.
US11985739B2
A method is provided for low light exposure control during night vision. The method may include actively illuminating a region by using a plurality of IR LEDs. The IR LEDs are arranged so that an IR LED of the plurality of IR LEDs covers one of a plurality of zones, which combine to cover the region. The method may also include capturing an image frame by an imaging system including an image sensor. The image frame may be made up of pixels and captured using the light originating from the plurality of IR LEDs and reflected from the region onto the image sensor. The method may also include calculating auto-exposure control (AEC) parameters for the image frame to establish an average setting, recalculating AEC parameters for a first zone the plurality of zones and adjusting the power of a first IR LED of the plurality of IR LEDs.
US11985738B2
The present disclosure relates to a LED filament system (100) comprising a LED filament arrangement (105) and a controller (120). The LED filament arrangement comprises a plurality of LED filaments (110a-c). The LED filaments are interwound around a common central axis (A) such that each LED filament has a spiral-shape. In the LED filament arrangement, two neighboring LED filaments differ by a translation pitch (t) along the central axis. The controller is configured to control power supply to the LED filaments such that at least one of the plurality of LED filaments is individually controllable. The controller is further configured to control the power supply to the LED filaments in a first mode, in which all of the LED filaments are in an on-state and the controller provides power supply above a first power level to the LED filaments. The controller is further configured to control the power supply to the LED filaments in a second mode in which at least one of the LED filaments is in an off-state.
US11985735B2
An isothermal cooking plate assembly is formed from a first plate of high thermal conductivity material having a back surface and an oppositely disposed top cooking surface. One or more heater circuit assemblies are disposed on the first plate back surface for forming a composite having a back surface. A controller is in electrical connection with the heater circuit assemblies for controlling temperature of the first plate of high thermal conductivity material. The first plate can be Aluminum Type 1100 or Aluminum Type 6061. The first plate can be a laminate formed from a clad bottom metal layer and clad top cooking surface metal layer, where the clad layers formed from the same material and having about the same thickness. The clad material can be austenitic stainless steel. A second plate of low thermal conductivity material can be attached to the composite back surface of first plate.
US11985732B2
A method performed by a base station may include receiving using a first uplink carrier. The method may include transmitting a signal using a first downlink carrier. The signal may include a message indicating activation of a second uplink carrier. The method may include transmitting configuration information indicating an inactivity period associated with the second uplink carrier. The method may include receiving using the second uplink carrier activated based on the message. The method may further include detecting that the second uplink carrier has been deactivated based on expiration of the inactivity period.
US11985726B2
Wireless communication devices, systems, and methods related to communicating CSI reports during a discontinuous reception (DRX) are provided. A method of wireless communication includes performing one or more measurements of one or more reference signals configured for a user equipment (UE). The method includes triggering transmission of a channel state information (CSI) report during a DRX cycle. The method includes transmitting to a base station (BS), the CSI report based on the triggering, the CSI report including the one or more measurements.
US11985723B2
A method and apparatus for multiple access procedures for connection resume with early start of carrier aggregation or dual connectivity is provided. Before completing a first access procedure for a first cell, a wireless device determines that a quality of a second cell satisfies a certain criteria, and initiates a second access procedure on the second cell for aggregation with the first cell.
US11985722B2
A method for configuring a gap includes transmitting, by a first base station, a first message to a user equipment to configure the gap, the first message including first time reference information and the first timing reference information indicating a cell including, a primary cell of the first base station, a primary cell of a second base station, or a serving cell; and configuring, by using the first message, the user equipment to use a system frame number and a subframe of the cell for gap calculation.
US11985719B2
An operating method of a first device (100) in a wireless communication system is proposed. The method may comprise the steps of: receiving a PSSCH from a second device (200); on the basis of whether or not PC5 RRC connection exists between the first device (100) and the second device (200), determining an option associated with HARQ feedback; and performing the HARQ feedback through a PSFCH associated with the PSSCH on the basis of the option associated with the HARQ feedback.
US11985715B2
This method for managing the connection of a user equipment item to a distributed wireless communication network includes the following steps: sorting access nodes of the distributed wireless communication network into different groups as a function of a primary indicator representative of their quality of connection to a distributed wireless communication network root node and, for at least one access node included in a selected group: determining a secondary indicator representative of a quality of connection of the user equipment item to the access node. If, for each access node included in the selected group, the secondary indicator is strictly greater than a threshold, the steps are repeated with another group containing access nodes having a lower quality of connection to the root node.
US11985714B2
A system and method for utilizing data and computational information from on-vehicle and off-vehicle sources. The system comprises an assigning authority engine, a remote profile manager toolset, a plurality of databases, a plurality of cloud sources, a vehicle and a CVD within the vehicle. The dynamic, temporal combinations access data from the plurality of cloud sources comprising third party data and vehicle, timing, event, and/or positioning (“VTEP”) data to inform a plurality of instruction sets delivered by the assigning authority. One or more elements of the VTEP data is used as the basis to synchronize timing between the data, or computational outputs of two or more sources of electronic information. A single coherent information picture is generated from fusing data and computational information from the on-vehicle sources and the off-vehicle sources.
US11985711B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for indicating channel access. The method includes: receiving first indication information transmitted by a network device; and obtaining one or more channel access parameters based on the first indication information. The one or more channel access parameters are used for determining channel access for a target uplink transmission. The first indication information transmitted by the network device is received, and the first indication information may be based on a command field in existing information, without the need for a new command field for indicating channel access for the target uplink transmission.
US11985705B2
A computer-executed method is provided for IEEE 802.15.4 devices based on an active carrier sense based carrier-sense multiple access with collision avoidance (ACS-CSMA/CA) control program and standard CSMA/CA control program for coexistence of an IEEE 802.15.4 network composing of IEEE 802.15.4 devices and IEEE 802.11 network composing of IEEE 802.11 devices sharing frequency spectra between the networks. The computer-executed method is provided on an IEEE 802.15.4 device, and causes a processor of the IEEE 802.15.4 device to perform steps that include estimating a severity of IEEE 802.11 interference based on a severity estimation metric, selecting the ACS-CSMA/CA control program based on the estimated severity. The ACS-CSMA/CA control program is configured to perform dynamically updating a maximum number of backoffs (macMaxCSMABackoffs) based on the estimated severity,cdetermining if a number of backoffs (NB) exceeds the updated macMaxCSMABackoffs, performing consecutive CCA operation to continuously detect channel status, and transmitting frames when the detected channel status is an idle state or incrementing number of retransmissions (NR) when the detected channel status is a busy state.
US11985700B2
A method for radio link monitoring on an unlicensed spectrum and a communications apparatus is provided. The method includes: A terminal device determines one or more channel occupancy times (COTs). The terminal device detects one or more downlink reference signals within the one or more COTs. The terminal device determines, based on the downlink reference signal detected within the one or more COTs, whether a channel needs to be reconnected. According to the method for radio link monitoring on an unlicensed spectrum that is provided in this application, accuracy of radio link monitoring performed on an unlicensed spectrum can be ensured, precision of a result of the radio link monitoring can be improved, and a more accurate result of the radio link monitoring can be obtained, thereby improving communication efficiency and communication quality.
US11985687B2
Proposed are a method and a device for receiving a PPDU having been subjected to LDPC tone mapping in a broadband tone plan in a wireless LAN system. Specifically, a reception STA receives a PPDU from a transmission STA through broadband and decodes the PPDU. A data tone included in a data field is subjected to LDPC tone mapping on the basis of a first parameter. A tone plan for the 240 MHz band is 3×996 tone RUs, and a tone plan for the 320 MHz band is 4×996 tone RUs. The first parameter is 20.
US11985683B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, an indication of uplink grants for physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) messages, wherein the PUSCH messages include a first PUSCH message and a second PUSCH message that at least partially overlap in a time domain. The UE may transmit, to the base station, at least one of the first PUSCH message or the second PUSCH message based at least in part on one or more conditions for simultaneous PUSCH transmissions, wherein the one or more conditions are associated with at least one of: a resource alignment of the first PUSCH message and the second PUSCH message, or a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) alignment of the first PUSCH message and the second PUSCH message. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11985678B2
Provided in the present invention are user equipment and a method thereof, and a base station and a method thereof. The method in user equipment comprises: receiving from a base station a radio resource control (RRC) message comprising PDCP duplication configuration information of a bearer; and performing, by means of the user equipment, activation configuration of PDCP duplication on the basis of the PDCP duplication configuration information of the bearer.
US11985668B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for uplink transmit beam update using uplink transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states. An example method generally includes receiving, from a network entity, signaling of an uplink transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state update for one or more uplink transmissions. The example method generally includes determining the uplink TCI state update is to be applied for dynamically scheduled uplink transmission, semi-persistently scheduled uplink transmission, or periodic uplink transmission. The example method generally includes applying the uplink TCI state update to one or more uplink transmissions in accordance with the determination.
US11985666B2
A method for determining a feedback resource in a sidelink includes a first terminal sending SCI to a second terminal, where the SCI includes indication information. The indication information is used to indicate a first resource or a first resource window to be occupied for sending hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ feedback information by the second terminal, and the first resource window includes a plurality of candidate first resources. The method further includes the first terminal receiving, on the first resource, the HARQ feedback information sent by the second terminal, or monitors, in the first resource window, the HARQ feedback information sent by the second terminal.
US11985664B2
A method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provide. The method includes: receiving, from a base station, physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) configuration information including a higher layer parameter for a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) table; identifying the MCS table for a PDSCH based on the higher layer parameter for the MCS table; receiving, from the base station, the PDSCH; and decoding, based on the identified MCS table, the PDSCH, wherein, in case that the higher layer parameter for the MCS table indicates a 1024-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), the MCS table for the PDSCH is identified as an MCS table with a maximum modulation order of 10, and wherein the MCS table with the maximum modulation order of 10 includes a set of combinations comprising a modulation order and a target code rate, the set of combinations including: (10, 805.5/1024), (10, 853/1024), (10, 900.5/1024), and (10, 948/1024).
US11985661B2
Systems and methods provide channel state information (CSI) measurement based on measuring a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission. A UE may determine the DMRS for the PDSCH transmission with frequency hopping, and measure the DMRS for the PDSCH transmission to determine a CSI measurement. The UE may then report the CSI measurement to a base station.
US11985652B2
Systems and methods for enhancing the use of pre-emptive buffer status reports (pre-BSRs) in wireless communications systems implementing integrated access and backhaul (IAB) networks are disclosed herein. In some cases, an IAB node can re-classify the LCGs of one or more incoming data flows according to such pre-BSR usage. This may involve the use of and extended medium access control (MAC) control element (MAC CE) having more LCG bits than previously contemplated, having sub-LCG bits, or that includes further LCG classification information bits. Other embodiments use a priority index for LCGs in an extended pre-BSR MAC CE. The priority index may include one or more of a priority field, a prioritized bit rate (PBR), and/or a bucket size duration (BSD) that is reported to an IAB donor. Other embodiments leverage the provision of additional grants from an IAB node to a child IAB node to reduce unwanted pre-BSR effects.
US11985649B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described to support transmission of a resource modification information request from a user equipment (UE) to a base station, where the resource modification request may request an increased density of uplink transmission occasions. For example, the resource modification request may request an increase from a first density of uplink transmission occasions configured for the UE. The resource modification request may include a request for a decreased periodicity of uplink transmission occasions, an increased number of groups of repetitions for uplink transmission occasions, an increased number of resource blocks for uplink transmission occasions, or an increased modulation coding scheme for uplink transmission occasions. The base station may receive the resource modification request and may transmit a message to the UE, which may indicate a modified or new uplink grant configuration for uplink transmission occasions having a higher density (e.g., a second density).
US11985645B2
Reporting UL Tx DC sub-carrier location information may include decoding a radio resource control (RRC) message received from a base station. The RRC message may comprise a configuration for dynamically reporting uplink (UL) transmit (Tx) direct current (DC) sub-carrier location information. A change associated with at boast one previous UL Tx DC sub-carrier location may be determined to have occurred, thereby creating at least one new UL Tx DC sub-carrier location. In response to determining the change, a medium access control (MAC) control element (MAC CE) may be encoded for transmission to the base station. The MAC CE may include information corresponding to the at least one new UL Tx DC sub-carrier location.
US11985638B2
Proposed is an operation method of a first device in a wireless communication system. The method may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a base station, TDD-UL-DL configuration information including information related to a first slot pattern and information related to a second slot pattern; acquiring the number of first SL slots related to the first slot pattern and the number of second SL slots related to the second slot pattern on the basis of first SCS related to SL communication and the TDD-UL-DL configuration information; and transmitting, to a second device, a PSBCH including information related to the number of the first SL slots and information related to the number of the second SL slots.
US11985633B2
A frame transmission method is provided by a device in a wireless communication network. The device generates a signal field including a symbol using a 64 FFT and carrying signaling information, and generates a data field including a symbol using a FFT having a larger size than the 64 FFT and carrying data. The device transmits a frame including the signal field and the data field.
US11985627B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to determination of terminal device's identify. A terminal device determines an identity (ID) of the terminal device based on configuration status of extended Discontinuous Reception (eDRX) and current Radio Resource Control (RRC) state of the terminal device; and determines one or both of paging frame (PF) and paging occasion (PO) based on the determined ID of the terminal device. In this way, paging in the eDRX can work well in RRC idle state or RRC inactive state, and the network and the UE may be synchronized with UE's PF and PO for paging in the eDRX.
US11985615B2
A distributed radio frequency communication system facilitates communication between wireless terminals and a core network. The system includes a group of remote radio units (RRUs). Each RRU of the group of RRUs is coupled to an antenna to communicate with at least some of the mobile terminals and includes electronic circuitry to perform at least a first portion of a first-level protocol of a radio access network (RAN) and communicate over a fronthaul link. The system also includes a baseband unit (BBU) coupled to the core network and the fronthaul link, and communicably coupled to the group of RRUs over the fronthaul link. The RRU receives a synchronization-assisting radio-frequency signal and sends information derived from that signal to the BBU. The BBU processes the information to determine synchronization instructions which are then used to adjust a local clock in the RRU.
US11985613B2
Disclosed is a method for transmitting, by a terminal supporting a sidelink, a sidelink synchronization signal block (S-SSB) in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the present disclosure comprises transmitting, from a specific slot, an S-SSB including a primary sidelink synchronization signal (PSSS), a secondary sidelink synchronization signal (SSSS), and a physical sidelink broadcast channel (PSBCH), wherein the PSBCH is mapped to first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols included in the specific slot, and the first OFDM symbols are located after second OFDM symbols for the SSSS.
US11985610B2
An information indicating method, an information determining method, a terminal and a base station are provided. The information indicating method includes: indicating, by using a predetermined parameter of a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) in a first system synchronization block (SSB), whether the first SSB includes associated remaining minimum system information (RMSI); or indicating, by using a predetermined parameter of a PBCH in a first SSB, that the first SSB does not include associated RMSI, and indicating frequency offset information of a synchronization raster where a second SSB is located, where the second SSB is an SSB with the associated RMSI.
US11985607B2
An apparatus of user equipment (UE) includes processing circuitry coupled to a memory, where to configure the UE for dynamic transmit power adjustment, the processing circuitry is to decode baseband configuration information received from a base station. The baseband configuration information including at least a modulation and coding scheme (MCS), resource block (RB) allocation, and carrier assignment for uplink (UL) transmission and downlink (DL) reception. A communication mode is selected based on the baseband configuration information. An additional maximum power reduction (A-MPR) is determined based on the baseband configuration information and the selected communication mode. UL data is encoded for transmission to the base station via the selected communication mode and using transmit power adjusted based on the determined A-MPR. New signaling enhancements between the UE and the network (on a Uu interface) and between two UEs (on a PC5 sidelink interface) are also disclosed.
US11985603B2
A user equipment (UE) is configured to transmit an uplink transmission with a bundling of demodulated reference signals (DMRS), transmit the uplink transmission, receive a downlink control information (DCI) transmission from the base station between repetitions of the uplink transmission, wherein the DCI indicates a transmission power control (TPC) information element (IE) indicating remaining ones of the repetitions of the uplink transmission should be transmitted using a new transmission power and determine if the DCI is a group common (GC)-DCI Format 2_2.
US11985601B2
A communication apparatus determines that communication with another communication apparatus as a transmission destination of a signal generated by a wake-up radio (WUR) conforming to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11ba standard, has been disconnected, based on communication conforming to the IEEE 802.11 series standard, and performs control to stop transmission of a predetermined signal performed by the WUR.
US11985600B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for a user equipment (UE) receiving a configuration for a plurality of dormancy modes for a secondary cell group (SCG) dormancy state. The UE may receive the configuration and determine to transition to a SCG dormancy mode based on the configuration. The UE may enter the dormancy mode and communicate with a master cell group (MCG), the SCG, or both based on the configuration for the dormancy mode. The UE may perform radio resource management, radio link management, and beam failure detection procedures while in SCG dormancy mode. The UE may also perform layer 1 measurements and reporting, timing configuration procedures, power control procedures, and the like depending on the dormancy mode.
US11985591B2
A method by which a terminal receives downlink data in a wireless communication system is disclosed. Particularly, the method comprises: receiving information related to downlink data transmitted during a specific time period; receiving downlink control information (DCI) on the basis of the information related to the downlink data; and receiving the downlink data on the basis of the DCI.
US11985586B2
A device such as a mobile device may be configured to connect to and/or communicate with one or more networks. The device may receive information indicating that there is at least one other network within a range of the device. One of the networks within range of the device may comprise a preferred cellular network. The device may then scan for the preferred cellular network and communicate with the preferred cellular network. The device may also detect the preferred cellular network based on information stored on the device. When the device is within range of the preferred cellular network, the device may detect the preferred cellular network based on the stored information and begin communicating with the preferred cellular network.
US11985584B2
A method for a User Equipment (UE) (500) comprises performing registration procedure to 5G System (5GS); receiving at least one of area restriction related information indicating at least one of allowed area and not allowed area, wherein the area restriction related information is at least one of per Single Network Slice Selection Assistance Information (S-NSSAI) basis, per Access Point Name (APN) basis, and per S-NSSAI and APN basis; and determining whether or not to transmit a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session related signaling based on the area information; wherein the UE (500) transmits the PDU session related signaling when the UE (500) enters Tracking Area (TA) present in the allowed area or when the UE (500) does not enter TA present in the not allowed area.
US11985578B2
Systems and methods are directed towards the interpretation of driver intent relative to other vehicles. A computing device within a vehicle includes at least one camera, an output device, and circuitry. The computing device captures images of an area outside of the vehicle. The computing device identifies another vehicle relative to the vehicle. The computing device determines a driving intent of the driver, such as based on an analysis images or audio of the driver. The computing device determines whether the vehicle is moving within a threshold time after determining the driving intent. If the vehicle is moving within the threshold time, then the driver is identified as engaging in aggressive driving towards the other vehicle. The computing device may also provide information to the other vehicle indicating the driving intent of the driver.
US11985573B1
Methods and systems for reporting zero usage for immediate trigger types are discussed herein. According to an implementation a communication session is established between a user equipment (UE) and the 5G network to provide service/content requested by the UE. A session management function (SMF) may receives a message from the UE to report the usage of one or more data units granted to the UE. The message indicates that an event occurs during a zero-usage time period. The SMF determines whether the event triggers a charging condition. When the event triggers a charging condition that needs to be reported immediately, the SMF sends a charging data request to a charging function (CHF) to report the event, regardless the one or more data units have zero-usage.
US11985560B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for handling messages from network nodes of a wireless communications system are disclosed. An example method performed by a terminal includes receiving a message from a network node. The terminal determines that the message contains a reconfigurationWithSync field and that security is not activated when the message is received. Responsive to the determining, the terminal prevents triggering of a handover operation.
US11985559B2
A system and methods for performing phased reconfiguration in a wireless communications system are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may perform a phased reconfiguration from a source cell to a target cell. The WTRU may be connected to the source cell and may execute a first set of functions towards the source cell. The WTRU may monitor for a first set of preconfigured trigger conditions and a second set of preconfigured trigger conditions. The WTRU may commence a second set of functions towards the target cell based on detection of at least one of the first set of preconfigured trigger conditions while continuing to execute the first set of functions towards the source cell. The WTRU may cease to perform at least a subset of the first set of functions towards the source cell based on detection of at least one of the second set of preconfigured trigger conditions.
US11985558B2
A terminal apparatus that performs communication using a communication path set between the terminal apparatus and a core network via a base station apparatus connected to the core network or via the base station apparatus and a relay apparatus that relays communication with the base station apparatus acquires information regarding candidates of a communication path to which switching should be performed from a first communication used, from the base station apparatus that functions as a serving base station in the first communication path, determines whether or not to perform switching of the communication path from the first communication path, and performs switching from the first communication path to a second communication path included in the candidates without being instructed by the serving base station, in response to the determination to perform the switching after receiving the information regarding the candidates.
US11985557B2
Aspects relate to wireless communication where a master node (MN) or a secondary node (SN) may initiate a conditional addition of a primary secondary cell (PSCell) or a conditional change from one PSCell to another PSCell. Each candidate target PSCell may provide information to be used by the MN to generate a conditional PSCell addition (CPA) configuration or a conditional PSCell change (CPC) configuration that is sent to a user equipment (UE). This information may indicate an execution condition for each candidate target PSCell and/or radio bearers that each candidate target PSCell supports or does not support. An MN may modify a master cell group (MCG) configuration for a PSCell based on information received from a target SN with an secondary cell group (SCG) configuration for the PSCell. The MN may transmit a CPA or CPC configuration including the modified MCG configuration and the SCG configuration to the UE.
US11985552B2
Systems, devices, and techniques for handover and false base station detection in a wireless communication network are described. A described technique performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a source base station of a wireless network, a handover command to indicate a handover to a target base station for communication in the wireless network; receiving information from the target base station; determining whether the target base station is a legitimate base station of the wireless network based on the information from the target base station and handover information included in the handover command; and performing a handover based on the handover command and a determination that the target base station is the legitimate base station.
US11985547B2
A method and a system for supporting flexible user equipment (UE) bandwidth by the UE during a random access are provided. The method includes transmitting, to a base station, a random access preamble over a first bandwidth selected among a plurality of channel bandwidths of the UE, receiving, from the base station, a random access response over a second bandwidth selected among the plurality of channel bandwidths, and transmitting, to the base station, a scheduled transmission message over a third bandwidth selected among the plurality of channel bandwidths of the UE.
US11985541B2
A packet transmitter in a wireless communication system can perform a method for preparing transmission of physical layer protocol data units (PDUs). The method includes detecting a need to transmit a second stream of symbols having higher priority than a first stream of symbols currently being transmitted from the packet transmitter to a packet receiver. The first and second streams of symbols are each part of a respective physical layer PDU. A dedicated tag is inserted after a recent-most transmitted symbol of the first stream of symbols. The dedicated tag indicates that the first stream of symbols is subjected to pre-emption at the physical layer. Symbols of the second stream of symbols are inserted following the dedicated tag for transmission of the second stream of symbols to the packet receiver.
US11985539B2
Embodiments may relate to identifying, by a baseband processor, an amount of data in a data radio bearer (DRB) buffer of the baseband processor. Embodiments further relate to determining, by the baseband processor based on an indication from an application processor of the electronic device, an amount of data in at least one buffer of the application processor. Embodiments further relate to generating, by the baseband processor based at least in part on the amount of data in the DRB buffer and the amount of data in the at least one buffer of the application processor, a buffer status report (BSR). Other embodiments may be described or claimed.
US11985535B2
On a control plane or on a user plane of a communication system, a parameter of service quality for a session between a user equipment and a data network is received (S2B01), the parameter is evaluated (S2B02) for a change of the parameter, and based on the evaluation (S2B03), the change of the parameter is reported (S2B04) to the control plane of the communication system. On the control plane, the parameter is received (S2A01). The parameter is evaluated (S2A02), and based on the evaluation (S2A03), re-location of a user plane network function is initiated and/or a new user plane network function is inserted (S2A04).
US11985533B2
There are provided a plurality of radio devices detecting an interference source signal transmitted by an interference source and generating pieces of air time information showing whether the interference source signal exists or not for each predetermined time unit; and an aggregation device estimating air time of the interference source by acquiring the pieces of air time information from the plurality of radio devices and aggregating/integrating the acquired pieces of air time information for each predetermined unit time, matching timings.
US11985527B2
A system described herein may provide a technique for analyzing metrics, parameters, attributes, and/or other information associated with networks or other devices or systems associated with high-dimensional data in order to determine potential configuration changes that may be made to such networks or other devices or systems in order to optimize and/or otherwise enhance the operation of such networks or other devices or systems. Multiple autoencoders associated with multiple dimensions may be used to calculate reconstruction errors or other features of data (e.g., metrics, parameters, etc.) that may be used to define operating or performance states of the network. Operating or performance states of network components may be mapped to quantum state objects (“QSOs”) for analysis using artificial intelligence and/or machine learning techniques or other suitable techniques.
US11985517B1
A wireless communication network serves wireless User Equipment (UEs) over producer Network Functions (NFs) and consumer NFs that use Network Repository Function (NRFs). The producer NFs determine their NF identities and status. The producer NFs indicate the NF identities and status to the NRFs. The consumer NFs request NF information from the NRFs. The NRFs indicate the NF identities and status to the consumer NFs. The consumer NFs select NF identities based on the NF status. The consumer NFs exchange network signaling with the producer NFs based on the selected NF identities to serve the wireless UEs. The producer NFs may comprise Charging Functions (CHFs).
US11985516B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a method and apparatus for TRP downlink transmission. In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the apparatus includes at least one transmitter that transmits a spatial information configuration for downlink transmission. The spatial information configuration configures at least one time unit for at least one of predefined spatial information and un-predefined spatial information. In the case that the time unit is configured for the predefined spatial information, the downlink transmission is transmitted according to the predefined spatial information. In the case that the time unit is configured for un-predefined spatial information, the downlink transmission is transmitted according to the spatial information indicated in the specific spatial information in the downlink control channel or configured by the high layer signaling.
US11985514B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive information identifying a sidelink discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration, that is different from an access link DRX configuration, associated with operation in a sidelink communication deployment. The UE may monitor a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) discontinuously using the sidelink DRX configuration. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11985512B2
This disclosure describes techniques for creating a hybrid mesh of unlicensed wireless frequency bands between two or more vehicles communicating using an unlicensed wireless frequency band, and a massive MIMO base station communicating with the two or more vehicles using a licensed wireless frequency band. The hybrid mesh can be used to upload and download data from a vehicle in motion. The hybrid mesh can be formed via V2V connections between the vehicle and nearby vehicles. In other words, if a vehicle moves into a region outside the operating boundary of a 5G-NR massive MIMO base-station node, the vehicle can interact with other vehicles to generate a data pipeline using the unlicensed wireless frequency band from the vehicle the nearby vehicle, and using the licensed wireless frequency band from the nearby vehicle to the nearest, massive MIMO base station.
US11985508B2
An RF fingerprint signal processing device configured for executing a machine learning algorithm on a plurality of input signals. The RF fingerprint signal processing device includes a receiver-feature determination circuit and a classifying determination circuit. The receiver-feature determination circuit is configured to compute on the plurality of input signals in a neural network. The classifying determination circuit is coupled with the receiver-feature determination circuit, and the classifying determination circuit is configured to send feedback information of a receiver-feature component to the receiver-feature determination circuit. The receiver-feature determination circuit decreases the receiver-feature weight of the neural network. The receiver-feature weight is associated with the receiver-feature component, and the receiver-feature weight which is decreased is applied for computing an output value of the neural network.
US11985485B2
A method of fitting a hearing aid gain (100) adapted to take the vent effect into account. The invention is also directed at a hearing aid fitting system adapted to carry out said method.
US11985483B2
A method for operating a hearing aid which has a vent and the vent has a controllable closure for opening and closing the vent. The opening and closing of the vent is linked via a control rule to an environmental parameter, wherein the vent is controlled depending on the environmental parameter. The environmental parameter is ascertained and the vent is opened or closed in accordance with the control rule depending on the environmental parameter. The control rule is configured user-specifically. There are also described a corresponding hearing aid and a computer program product.
US11985476B2
An electronic device is disclosed, including a housing including a first surface, a second surface facing away from the first surface, and a side surface structure at least partially surrounding a space formed between the first surface and the second surface, an acoustic hole formed in the housing and configured to emit a sound in a direction the first surface faces, a speaker disposed in the housing, and a first acoustic waveguide and a second acoustic waveguide together providing an acoustic path between the speaker and the acoustic hole, wherein the second acoustic waveguide is different from the first acoustic waveguide.
US11985475B2
An audio speaker for projecting sound into a listening space having an on-axis includes a frame supporting at least two drivers radially arrayed in a plane substantially perpendicular to the on-axis. The at least two drivers may be electrically connected to operate in common acoustic phase, substantially the same size, mid-range drivers, and/or may include at least one rearward facing driver. The audio speaker may also include an on-axis driver, or an inner driver positioned substantially at a point where a first line drawn perpendicularly through a face of a first driver of the at least two drivers and a second line drawn perpendicularly through a face of a second driver of the at least two drivers converge. The inner driver may be a high frequency driver, for example, a tweeter, and a face of the inner driver may be substantially perpendicular to the on-axis.
US11985473B2
The present disclosure discloses an earphone. The earphone may include a hook-shaped component, a connecting component, and a holding component. When the earphone is in a wearing state, the hook-shaped component may be configured to hang between a rear side of an ear of a user and a head of the user. The holding component may be configured to contact a front side of the ear. The connecting component may be configured to connect the hook-shaped component and the holding component and extend from the head to an outside of the head to cooperate with the hook-shaped component to provide the holding component with a pressing force on the front side of the ear.
US11985469B2
A wearable hearing device operatively coupled to an information handling system comprising a housing for a speaker and a microphone, a magnetic slider switch moveable with respect to the housing between a closed position and an open position in response to a user's external force, a rolling magnet rotating within the magnetic slider switch during movement between the open and closed positions, a bar magnet fixed within the housing having a first pole attracting the rolling magnet in the closed position and a second pole attracting the rolling magnet in the open position to reduce the external force required to move the magnetic slider switch, a hall effect sensor to sense a change in distance to the rolling magnet during movement between the open and closed positions, and to associate the change in distance with a command instruction, and a microcontroller to execute or transmit the command instruction.
US11985465B2
The present disclosure relates to a pair of glasses. The pair of glasses may include a frame, one or more lenses, and one or more temples. The pair of glasses may further include at least one low-frequency acoustic driver, at least one high-frequency acoustic driver, and a controller. The at least one low-frequency acoustic driver may be configured to output sounds from at least two first guiding holes. The at least one high-frequency acoustic driver may be configured to output sounds from at least two second guiding holes. The controller may be configured to direct the low-frequency acoustic driver to output the sounds in a first frequency range and direct the high-frequency acoustic driver to output the sounds in a second frequency range. The second frequency range may include one or more frequencies higher than one or more frequencies in the first frequency range.
US11985462B2
This disclosure includes several different features suitable for use in circumaural and supra-aural headphones designs. Designs that include earpad assemblies that improve acoustic isolation are discussed. User convenience features that include automatically detecting the orientation of the headphones on a user's head are also discussed. Various power-saving features, design features, sensor configurations and user comfort features are also discussed.
US11985460B1
Disclosed is a magnetic fluid speaker, including a housing, a control panel and loudspeaker assemblies, where the housing is provided with an accommodating cavity, the housing is further provided with windows, and the windows are configured for communicating the outside and the accommodating cavity; the control panel and the loudspeaker assemblies are both arranged in the accommodating cavity, where the loudspeaker assemblies are directly opposite to the windows, and the loudspeaker assemblies are electrically connected to the control panel; an electromagnetic device is arranged on each loudspeaker assembly, the electromagnetic device is electrically connected to the control panel, the electromagnetic devices are arranged on the loudspeaker assemblies, the magnetic fluid display devices are arranged in the windows, the magnetic fluid display device is exposed on the outer surface of the housing, and the magnetic fluid display device is located at the front side of the electromagnetic device.
US11985457B2
A communication device in a communication system in which functions that are converted to software are configured as a plurality of components, and the functions are realized as a result of the components being respectively executed by a plurality of communication devices that are connected to a network, the communication device including a capsulation function unit configured to encapsulate information that is to be transmitted to another communication device.
US11985455B2
An OLT connected with a controller managing slices includes a bandwidth allocating unit capable of allocating bandwidths in a PON system to ONUs through allocation methods, a slice managing unit that calculates a guaranteed delay time for each allocation method, receives, from the controller, a resource reservation request including a bandwidth requested to be reserved in the PON system for a slice and a requested delay time, and determines an allocation method associated with the request based on the requested delay time and the guaranteed delay time for each allocation method, and a resource information generating unit that holds, as abstract resource information, an available bandwidth for the guaranteed delay times of each ONUs, calculates an available bandwidth in the allocation method of the associated ONU based on the allocation method associated with the request and the requested bandwidth, and updates and transmits the abstract resource information, to the controller.
US11985444B2
A display apparatus includes: a display panel including: a display area configured to display an image, and a non-display area, at least one first sound generator in the display area, and at least one second sound generator in the non-display area, wherein each of the at least one first sound generator and the at least one second sound generator is configured to vibrate the display panel to generate sound toward a front of the display panel.
US11985434B2
Video or image capture device and method of operation of the capture device are described. One example method includes determining, for a video capture by a capture device, a capture orientation mode setting of the capture device, capturing a video using one of a first camera or a second camera based on the capture orientation mode and a current orientation of the capture device, wherein the video is in the capture orientation mode, and storing, after capturing, the video in a video file.
US11985433B2
An HMD includes a single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) array comprising a plurality of SPAD pixels. The HMD also includes a display positioned to display images for viewing by an eye of a user. The HMD also includes one or more processors and one or more hardware storage devices storing instructions that are executable by the one or more processors to configure the HMD to perform various acts associated with using the SPAD array to capture an image frame of an environment for display to the user.
US11985428B2
Provided are a GPS coordinates-based target overall planning method and a camera. Said method comprises: acquiring the GPS coordinates of each tracking target (S101); for each pre-divided region, counting the number of tracking targets located in the region based on the acquired GPS coordinates of each tracking target (S102); generating a heat map of the tracking targets based on the number of the tracking targets in each region (S103). Hence, in the present method, a device generates a heat map based on the GPS coordinates of tracking targets, and the heat map can reflect the number of the tracking targets in each region, achieving the overall planning of the tracking targets.
US11985426B2
An electronic apparatus is provided that is capable of continuing to capture an object intended as a subject by a user before a zoom operation is started, even in a case where the subject selection based on line-of-sight detection is terminated after the zoom operation has started. The electronic apparatus comprising a line-of-sight detecting unit configured to detect a line-of-sight of a user, a zoom operating member configured to perform a zoom operation, a selecting unit configured to select a subject from an image based on the line-of-sight's position, and a control unit configured to perform control so that when the zoom operation is started by the zoom operating member, subject selection based on the line-of-sight's position is stopped without stopping line-of-sight detection performed by the line-of-sight detecting unit.
US11985424B2
A signal processing device according to the present technology includes a feature quantity extraction unit including a neural network and trained to extract a feature quantity for a specific event with respect to an input signal from a sensor, and a correction unit that performs correction of the input signal on the basis of the feature quantity extracted by the feature quantity extraction unit.
US11985418B2
Imaging system, imaging method, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and moving apparatus
An imaging system, having an imaging apparatus and a moving apparatus that moves with the imaging apparatus mounted thereon, includes: a first acquisition unit configured to acquire a movable time, which is a time when the moving apparatus is capable of moving, based on a residual battery capacity of a first power supply that supplies power to the moving apparatus; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire an imageable time, which is a time when the imaging apparatus is capable of imaging, based on a residual battery capacity of a second power supply that supplies power to the imaging apparatus; and a control unit configured to control whether power is fed from the second power supply to the moving apparatus or power is fed from the first power supply to the imaging apparatus, based on at least one of the movable time and the imageable time.
US11985417B2
Described are multiple cameras in a conference room, each pointed in a different direction. A primary camera includes a microphone array to perform sound source localization (SSL). The SSL is used in combination with a video image to identify the speaker from among multiple individuals that appear in the video image. Pose information of the speaker is developed. Pose information of each individual identified in each other camera is developed. The speaker pose information is compared to the pose information of the individuals from the other cameras. The best match for each other camera is selected as the speaker in that camera. The speaker views of each camera are compared to determine the speaker view with the most frontal view of the speaker. That camera is selected to provide the video for provision to the far end.
US11985415B2
A microscopy system comprises a microscope and a computing device which is configured to control the microscope to capture a plurality of raw overview images showing the sample environment with different capture parameters. The computing device comprises a machine learning model trained with training raw overview images, which receives the raw overview images as input and generates therefrom an output which is or which defines the overview image.
US11985403B2
The embodiments of the present application provides a method and apparatus for preventing heat damage to a thermal imaging camera. The method includes: obtaining a thermal imaging picture of the thermal imaging camera; detecting whether the thermal imaging picture shows that a high-temperature object appears in the picture of the thermal imaging camera; confirming that the thermal imaging picture shows that a high-temperature object appears in the picture, generating a heat damage alarm signal, and closing a baffle if the baffle is not closed currently. In the present application embodiments, after detecting a heat damage alarm signal, that is, after detecting that a high-energy radiating object enters an image picture, the baffle is closed immediately, thereby avoiding the risk of the sensor being permanently burnt due to directly face to the high-energy radiating object.
US11985385B1
A method and system for controlling media-content presentation based on user presence and/or user profile. An example method includes a computing system determining a quantity of users present at a media-presentation device, the quantity being at least one. Further, the example method includes, based on the determining, the computing system using the determined quantity of users present at the media-presentation device as a basis to control what media content a media player outputs for presentation by the media-presentation device. For instance, based on the determined quantity of users the computing system could tailor a graphical user interface (GUI) that the media player outputs for presentation by the media-presentation device, such as by tailoring a set of channel options that a channel-selection GUI provides, among other possibilities.
US11985381B2
A method including parsing a scene file to extract relevant scene file data; sending the relevant scene file data to a converter; translating, by the converter, the relevant scene file data into a format compatible with a respective rendering engine; mapping the translated scene file data using the respective rendering engine into a scene representation, wherein the scene representation is compatible with an Immersive Technologies Media Format (ITMF).
US11985380B2
A video output method receives an operation from each of a plurality of users, generates a performance image and a performance sound based on the received operation, receives first video data, synthesizes the first video data and the performance image to generate output video data, and outputs the output video data and the performance sound.
US11985378B1
Embodiments can cause a media capturing device and a carrier device to establish a communication session there between so that the media capturing device can receive hotspot credentials and connect to a hotspot of the carrier device for Internet connectivity. The media capturing device can then connect to a remote streaming server via the hotspot, causing the creation of a media stream associated with a unique identifier of the media capturing device at a streaming server. The streaming server can return a URL associated with the media stream of the media capturing device to the carrier device, so that the carrier device can access, view, control, or share the media stream with other computing devices.
US11985372B2
An information pushing method, including receiving an information pushing request of an offline service provider; acquiring target information to be pushed and related information about the offline service provider based on the information pushing request; and based on determining that information pushing is to be performed, pushing information to a user such that the pushed information matches with user interests, based on the target information, the related information about the offline service provider, a service area of the user, and an interest probability distribution of the user in the service area, wherein the service area and the interest probability distribution are obtained based on offline visit record information reported by the user, and wherein the offline visit record information is generated based on service attribute information collected by a mobile terminal device of the user at offline service providers visited by the user.
US11985370B2
This application pertains to gift-giving and video-dropping methods and systems. A gift drop or a video drop is facilitated using a mobile smart device and an interactive map. The system includes a gift or video drop database stored in a remote gift drop computer server. The system includes a gift or video drop logic section operable on a smart mobile device or a computer. The gift or video drop logic section includes an interactive gift or video drop map. The gift or video drop logic section presents the interactive gift or video drop map to a user, and facilitates the dropping of a symbolic gift item or a video onto the interactive map. The gift or video drop logic section determines whether the user is within certain predefined geographic boundaries, and either makes visible or gives a symbolic gift item to the user based on their location, or plays the video.
US11985365B2
There is provided a device and method for playing back a performer reaction image frame in response to a user action on playback content, the performer reaction image frame including a scene of the performer in reaction. In a case where a user action on the playback content is detected and the user action is detected, a playback image frame in the playback content is replaced with a performer reaction image frame including a scene of a performer in reaction, and the performer reaction image frame is played back. A data processing unit calculates a similarity rate between the playback image frame at a time of detection of the user action and a performer reaction image frame, and selects and plays back a performer reaction image frame of which calculated similarity rate is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold value.
US11985360B2
Live event production and distribution networks, systems, apparatuses and methods related thereto are described herein. The described innovations may be used not only to present live events to audiences, but to do so in a way that provides audience energy and feedback to the performer(s) (e.g., a band) in a manner akin to that which they receive during a traditional live performance, thereby energizing and motivating the performers to give the best live performance they can, even in the absence of a co-located live audience. Some or all of the audience members may be represented by a visual surrogate displayed on an audience feedback screen set up to be viewable by the performers. The screen may be sized to fill a curtain window of stage on which the performers are performing, and the performers may optionally interact with one or more people in the audience during the live performance.
US11985352B2
An orthogonal transform unit orthogonally transforms prediction residuals in a block of a P×Q array of pixels, thereby generating an N×M (N is an integer satisfying N
US11985351B2
A method and apparatus for decoding a video sequence using a discrete sine transform (DST) type-VII transform core includes generating a set of tuples of transform core elements associated with an n-point DST-VII transform core. A first sum of a first subset of transform core elements of a first tuple is equal to a second sum of a second subset of remaining transform core elements of the first tuple. The n-point DST-VII transform core is generated based on generating the set of tuples of transform core elements. A transform on a block is performed using the n-point DST-VII transform core.
US11985346B2
An example device for encoding high dynamic range (HDR) video data includes a memory configured to store video data; and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: calculate a histogram for an image of the video data, the image being expressed in a linear light format; encode values for the histogram of the image expressed in the linear light format; and encode the image. Data for the histogram may be expressed in an array of variables having a size of 210×18 bits. The device may encode codewords representing values for bins of the histogram, where the codewords may be selected from a set of codewords for a PQ10 format for HDR images. The bins of the histogram may represent non-equal width ranges.
US11985338B2
A method for adaptive loop filtering is provided that includes determining a coefficient value for each coefficient position of an adaptive loop filter, applying the adaptive loop filter to at least a portion of a reconstructed picture using the coefficient values, and entropy encoding coefficient values into a compressed bit stream using predetermined short binary codes, wherein the short binary code used depends on the coefficient position of the coefficient value.
US11985337B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for encoding a scene of media content based on visual elements of the scene. A scene of media content may comprise one or more visual elements, such as individual objects in the scene. Each visual element may be classified based on, for example, the motion and/or identity of the visual element. Based on the visual element classifications, scene encoder parameters and/or visual element encoder parameters for different visual elements may be determined. The scene may be encoded using the scene encoder parameters and/or the visual element encoder parameters.
US11985336B2
A video decoding method for decoding an input bitstream in which each of pictures has been encoded with being split into a plurality of tiles, the method includes decoding partial decoding information included in the input bitstream and determining one or more target tiles to be decoded among the plurality of tiles according to the partial decoding information; and decoding video data corresponding to the one or more target tiles, wherein the partial decoding information includes at least one of first information indicating whether to perform partial decoding and second information indicating an area on which partial decoding is to be performed.
US11985335B2
A video decoding method for decoding an input bitstream in which each of pictures has been encoded with being split into a plurality of tiles, the method includes decoding partial decoding information included in the input bitstream and determining one or more target tiles to be decoded among the plurality of tiles according to the partial decoding information; and decoding video data corresponding to the one or more target tiles, wherein the partial decoding information includes at least one of first information indicating whether to perform partial decoding and second information indicating an area on which partial decoding is to be performed.
US11985334B2
A video decoding method for decoding an input bitstream in which each of pictures has been encoded with being split into a plurality of tiles, the method includes decoding partial decoding information included in the input bitstream and determining one or more target tiles to be decoded among the plurality of tiles according to the partial decoding information; and decoding video data corresponding to the one or more target tiles, wherein the partial decoding information includes at least one of first information indicating whether to perform partial decoding and second information indicating an area on which partial decoding is to be performed.
US11985331B2
An image decoding method according to the present invention includes: receiving information on a set of reference pictures for configuring a set of reference pictures of a current picture, wherein the information on the set of reference pictures includes the most significant bit (MSB) information that may calculate the MSB of the picture order count (POC) of a long-term reference picture relative to the current picture, and flag information that represents whether there is MSB information; and eliciting the set of reference pictures by using received MSB information when the flag information is 1, and performing marking on the reference picture, wherein the flag information may be 1 when a temporal sub-layer identifier is 0, and there is at least one POC value for which a remainder obtained by dividing by a maximum value MaxPicOrderCntLsb capable of being represented by the LSB is the same as the least significant bit (LSB) of the POC of the long-term reference picture, in a set of POCs of a previous picture including POC values related to the previous picture that may not be discarded without affecting whether other pictures of the same temporal layer may be decoded.
US11985318B2
An encoder for video encoding and decoding with long term reference picture retention. The encoder generates an encoded bitstream for a compliant decoder. At the decoder, coded pictures are decoded using a list of references pictures, of which at least one is a long term reference picture. A first picture is decoded using the long term reference picture. A second picture is decoded without using the long term reference picture which is inactive but is retained in a buffer. A subsequent picture is then decoded again using the long term reference picture.
US11985312B2
The image encoding/decoding method and device according to the present invention may determine an intra prediction mode of a current block and perform intra prediction on the current block on the basis of the intra prediction mode, wherein the intra prediction mode of the current block is determined for each of a luminance block and a color difference block.
US11985308B2
A method of visual media processing includes determining, for a conversion between a current video block of visual media data and a bitstream representation of the current video block, a buffer that stores reference samples for prediction in an intra block copy mode; for a sample spatially located at location of the current video block relative to an upper-left position of a coding tree unit including the current video block and having a block vector, computing a corresponding reference in the buffer at a reference location, wherein the reference location is determined using the block vector and the location; and upon determining that the reference location lies outside the buffer, re-computing the reference location based at least in part on a location of the current video block relative to the coding tree unit including the current video block.
US11985302B2
There is provided a method of encapsulating an encoded bitstream representing one or more images, the encapsulated bitstream comprising a data part and a metadata part. The method comprises: providing image item information identifying a portion of the data part representing a sub-image or an image of a single image and/or a set of single images; providing image description information comprising parameters including display parameters and/or transformation operators relating to one or more images and outputting said bitstream together with said provided information as an encapsulated data file. Said image item information comprises one or more properties including at least part of the image description information dedicated to the considered sub-image or single image or set of single images, said image description information being defined in one or more boxes.
US11985296B2
A display device according to embodiments, while relating to an autostereoscopic image display device and a control method therefor, may include a sensor, a display, a barrier, and a controller.
US11985295B2
The present invention relates to a method for generating control signals for an image capture device, the method being performed in a communication device comprising a first slave time generator and a second slave time generator, the communication device being connected to a first remote time server and a second remote time server, the method comprising: synchronizing the first slave time generator with the first remote time server; synchronizing the second slave time generator with the second remote time server; generating a first control signal based on the first clock, and sending the first control signal to the image capture device; and upon detecting a loss of synchronization between the first slave time generator and the first remote time server, generating a second control signal based on the second clock, and sending the second control signal to the image capture device.
US11985294B2
An information processing apparatus includes a detection unit that detects a three-dimensional position and a posture of an object in an instruction three-dimensional region having an enlarged or reduced relationship with an observation three-dimensional region in which a virtual viewpoint and a virtual visual line are defined, a derivation unit that derives the viewpoint and the visual line corresponding to detection results of the detection unit depending on positional relationship information indicating a relative positional relationship between the observation three-dimensional region and the instruction three-dimensional region, and an acquisition unit that acquires a virtual viewpoint image showing a subject in a case in which the subject is observed with the viewpoint and the visual line derived by the derivation unit, the virtual viewpoint image being based on a plurality of images obtained by imaging an imaging region included in the observation three-dimensional region by a plurality of imaging apparatuses.
US11985292B1
Multiview calibration is essential for accurate three-dimensional computation. However, multiview calibration can not be accurate enough because of the tolerances required in some of the intrinsic and extrinsic parameters that are associated with the calibration process, along with fundamental imperfections that are associated with the manufacturing and assembly process itself. As a result, residual error in calibration is left over, with no known methods to mitigate such errors. Residual error mitigation is presented in this work to address the shortcomings that are associated with calibration of multiview camera systems. Residual error mitigation may be performed inline with a given calibration approach, or may be presented as a secondary processing step that is more application specific. Residual error mitigation aims at modifying the original parameters that have been estimated during an initial calibration process. These new, modified parameters are then used for triangulation and depth estimation of scene information. This approach also resolves parameter tolerances that are either too cumbersome to measure, or otherwise impossible to measure for practical stereo and multiview camera production and calibration applications.
US11985291B2
Previously, users could not be notified when the 3D mode type of a program being received by a digital broadcast receiver was not compatible with the digital broadcast receiver. A reception device is provided with: a reception unit which receives program content including video information and identification information including information for distinguishing whether the program content is 2D program content or 3D program content; and a display control unit which controls the display so as to display whether the aforementioned program content is 2D program content or 3D program content in response to the received aforementioned identification information.
US11985290B2
Provided are an information processing device, an information processing method, a reproduction processing device, and a reproduction processing method that provide a high-quality viewing experience to a user. A metadata generation unit generates transition identification information for identifying a second viewpoint that is a viewpoint position of a second video transitionable from a first video whose viewpoint position is a first viewpoint. A file generation unit generates a file including data of the first video data and the transition identification information.
US11985287B2
An image processing method, an image processing device, an electronic apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are provided. The image processing method includes: obtaining an original image; performing slicing processing on the original image to obtain multiple slice images of the original image; respectively processing the slice images through a first binarization model to obtain multiple slice binary images respectively corresponding to the slice images; performing stitching processing on the slice binary images to obtain a first binary image; processing the first binary image to obtain a pixel circumscribed contour image; processing the original image through a second binarization model to obtain a second binary image; synthesizing the second binary image and the first binary image according to positions of multiple circumscribed contour pixels in the pixel circumscribed contour image to obtain a synthetic image.
US11985277B2
According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a display which displays an operation screen; a communicator which transmits and receives data or a signal to and from a terminal device; and a controller which transmits, in accordance with execution by the communicator of transmitting data on the operation screen to the terminal device, and receiving an operation event signal generated by the terminal device, an activation signal which activates an input function to the terminal device when the operation event signal indicates an operation related to an input field.
US11985272B2
An information processing apparatus includes a storage that stores operation explanation information for explaining task contents to be performed on the information processing apparatus, an operation explanation display controller that displays operation explanation information related to a specific task to be performed on the information processing apparatus, a task information acquirer that acquires information about a task performed on the information processing apparatus when the operation explanation information is displayed, an erroneous task determiner that determines that an erroneous task is performed on the information processing apparatus when the acquired information about a task differs from contents information of the specific task indicated in the displayed operation explanation information, and a warning processor that notifies warning information indicating that a task different from the specific task indicated in the displayed operation explanation information is performed when it is determined that the erroneous task is performed.
US11985268B2
A community safety system (CSS) including a notification management entity (NME) comprising servers, the NME communicatively coupled to multiple user devices and one or more administrator devices (collectively, registered user devices). The CSS includes a plurality of registered users, wherein registered users may share their own location, as well as sighting information about the location of a source of an emergency (e.g. a perpetrator) with the NME of the CSS. The NME may generate and provide display objects on a visualization interface of one or more users mobile devices displaying a map, the display objects indicative of user locations and/or emergency source location in the map displayed (e.g., in accordance with the map coordinate system).
US11985265B1
The mobile communication device comprising a wireless voice communication implementer, a map displaying implementer, and a multiple language implementer.
US11985263B1
An asynchronous and concurrent transaction processing method with high-performance oriented to a permissioned blockchain belongs to the field of blockchain technologies. The method designs two processing schemes for abort transactions, namely, additional submission of unnecessary abort transactions that are serializable and delayed centralized processing of long-conflict-chain transaction aggregation. In order to avoid the instability of system transaction processing performance caused by single point failure, the method designs a multi-node round robin consensus strategy. In addition, an inter-node auxiliary concurrency acceleration scheme is designed, which can improve the transaction performance of the whole of the system only by upgrading some of node devices in the system.
US11985260B2
A method for creating a physical unclonable function (PUF) bit for use with transistor circuitry includes performing a tilt test on a PUF cell of a transistor circuitry, comprising tilting the PUF cell at least once, and comparing a mismatch of a response of the PUF cell to a tilt threshold. A magnitude of the mismatch is determined. A mismatch magnitude below the tilt threshold is considered a first logic value” and a mismatch magnitude above the tilt threshold is considered a second logic value. The mismatch magnitude of the PUF cell is random. The absolute value of the mismatch magnitude is used as an entropy source to produce at least one PUF bit called a mirror PUF bit.
US11985255B2
Systems and methods for developing a novel public/private key pair having unique properties are disclosed, whereby standard data security operations in existing data security infrastructures return a data integrity validation result—but do not provide the intended data security of such infrastructures. These novel keys are referred to as degenerate keys and may be used to replace the public and private keys in existing public/private key cryptosystems. Because degenerate key data integrity validation may leverage existing data security infrastructures that are already widely-implemented, such examples may be applied immediately and configured to seamlessly transition from integrity only modes back to secure modes. In some instances, the degenerate key examples described herein may be employed during a software testing and/or factory validation stage of product development to allow for data integrity validation before burning in a developer's active (i.e., non-degenerate) key to the product, thereby pairing the software to the hardware.
US11985254B2
Methods and systems are presented for providing a secured framework for facilitating electronic transactions using a multi-party computation approach. Under the multi-party computation approach, the task of authenticating a transaction conducted through a user account is distributed among multiple computer nodes. One or more secrets and shares of a secret are distributed among the multiple computer nodes. An authentication process is implemented such that at least a portion of the multiple computer nodes, including one or more required nodes, exceeding a predetermined number of nodes are needed to perform a set of computations using the corresponding secret(s) and/or shares of the secret in order to generate a digital signature for the user account. By verifying the digital signature using a public key of the user account, it can be determined that the participation requirement has been satisfied.
US11985251B2
Disclosed is a data synchronization method performed by a computer device, the method including: receiving a piece of transaction data, the piece of transaction data carrying an update operation identifier and a predefined phrase corresponding to the update operation identifier; obtaining, in a case that a target block including the piece of transaction data is stored into a blockchain of a blockchain system, the update operation identifier and the predefined phrase in the target block; and updating a predefined phrase database according to the update operation identifier and the predefined phrase in the target block.
US11985249B2
A blockchain creation method and a computing device are disclosed, the method obtains a plurality of first edge computing nodes at a preset first distance from the cloud center, and creates a main chain based on the cloud center and the plurality of first edge computing nodes. At least one first edge computing node is selected from the plurality of first edge computing nodes as a shared edge computing node, and a plurality of second edge computing nodes at a preset second distance are obtained from the shared edge computing node, then creating at least one side chain based on the shared edge computing node and the plurality of second edge computing nodes. A block generated in the at least one side chain is written into the main chain. Data synchronization and security during transmission in the distributed system can be ensured.
US11985241B2
The present embodiments relate to a sender sharing a credential associated with a user device to a recipient, allowing temporary access to the user device by the recipient. The sender can specify a user in which to share the credential and can set control parameters relating to the use of the user device by the recipient. The authorizing entity computer can transmit an credential identifier to the processing network computer and receive an encrypted credential from the processing network computer. The authorizing entity computer can transmit the encrypted credential to a storage application on the recipient computer. The recipient computer can then transmit a request to the processing network computer for a token and then obtain the token.
US11985236B2
The disclosure relates to a method of obtaining a cryptographic key in a chipset (1). An initial configuration message may be generated using a physical unclonable function (hereinafter: PUF) (22) of the chipset (1). Said PUF (22) may generate a predetermined value when using the initial configuration message as input to the PUF (22). The initial configuration message may be transmitted to a client access server (31). An altered configuration message may be received from the client access server (31), wherein the altered configuration message is generated by the client access server (31) based on the initial configuration message. The cryptographic key may be obtained from the PUF (22) using the altered configuration message as input to the PUF (22).
US11985232B2
There is provided a secure computing server that performs shift operation on secretly distributed shares. The secure computing server may perform the shift operation when a number of significant digits of secret information corresponding to a secretly distributed share is to be reduced.
US11985228B2
Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for configuration payload separation policies. According to at least one example, a method is provided for device function. The method includes: during a boot sequence of a network device, generating a unique key for encrypting and decrypting data; identifying a secure location in the network device for storing the unique key; storing the unique key in the secure location; encrypting a configuration payload with the unique key; storing the encrypted configuration payload in an external non-volatile memory; and, in response to a request to access data within the configuration payload, decrypting the encrypted configuration payload using the unique key.
US11985221B2
Disclosed are apparatuses, systems, and techniques to perform and facilitate secure ladder computational operations whose iterative execution depends on secret values associated with input data. Disclosed embodiments use masking factors that re-blind secret data without exposing the unmasked secret data between iterations of the ladder computations. Some disclosed embodiments use Montgomery multiplication techniques to facilitate secret data masking by efficiently avoiding modular division operations. Disclosed embodiments significantly reduce the vulnerability of ladder computations to adversarial side-channel attacks.
US11985218B2
Systems and methods are provided for master media clock recovery. In various embodiments, recovering a master media clock may comprise receiving clock reference format (CRF) packets carrying timestamps (Ts). Differences of Ts between adjacent CRF packets may be calculated, and an average difference of Ts between adjacent timestamps may be calculated. A recovered frequency of a master clock may be based on the calculated average difference of Ts between adjacent timestamps. The recovered frequency may be used to regulate a timing of, for example, a kernel module and/or a media application.
US11985213B1
Methods, systems and apparatus for the stateless triggering and execution of code cell of computational documents residing on a server. The system may use an API layer to receive triggers from a client device, interpret the triggers to identify code cells to be executed, identify the computational documents on the server in which code cells reside, schedule the execution of the code cells, collect the results of the execution of the code cells and send those results back to the client device.
US11985203B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus to identify media devices are disclosed. An example network communications monitor includes network interface circuitry, computer readable instructions, and processor circuitry. The processor circuitry is to execute the computer readable instructions to detect, via the network interface circuitry, multiple network communications transmitted on a home network within the household, access panelist data that associates a panelist of the household with a panelist device of the panelist, determine, based on the panelist data, that one or more of the multiple network communications are associated with the panelist device, and cause storage of data identifying the one or more network communications in association with the panelist.
US11985201B1
A system for user registration and preference configuration for a data sharing platform is provided. The system comprises a database system containing data relating to a plurality of users and user profile configuration settings relating to the plurality of users and memory storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to generate a graphical user interface and provide the graphical user interface over a network to a user device, receive a user profile configuration setting and a designation of at least one experience provider with which to share data of the user, and store, in the database system via associate linking, the user profile configuration setting and the designation of the at least one experience provider with which to share data of the user.
US11985193B2
Embodiments disclosed herein for processing signals from sensor groups include processor(s) configured to perform operations comprising sampling, at a configurable signal sampling interval, a plurality of signal sample values via the one or more output signal traces from the plurality of remotely located sensors; storing, in a transmission array, an available portion of parameters extracted from a first timeslot array and from a second timeslot array, wherein the available portion of parameters is extracted using an algorithm configured to assign specific parameters to the transmission array, independent of the sampling; and transmitting, to an external communications network, an available portion of the parameters stored in the transmission array, at a transmission interval, wherein the transmission interval is independent of timeslot durations of the first timeslot array and the second timeslot array, and wherein the transmitting operation is performed independently of the storing operation of the available portion of parameters.
US11985189B2
Systems and methods are provided for switching computing devices between edge servers and peer groups. One example method includes receiving, at a client computing device and from a first computing device, media content. A request to initiate an assisted delivery service is sent from the client computing device to a second computing device. The assisted delivery service is initiated in response to the request. The assisted delivery service comprises identifying, at the second computing device, one or more peer computing devices receiving the media content. At the second computing device, instructions that enable the client computing device to discover at least one of the peer computing devices are generated. The instructions are sent from the second computing device to the client computing device. At the client computing device, a peer computing device is discovered. A request to receive a portion of the media content is sent from the client computing device to a discovered peer computing device. The portion of the media content is received at the client computing device from the peer computing device.
US11985175B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, method, and user interface to facilitate augmented reality based communication between multiple users over a network. Session configuration data including configuration parameters of a virtual interaction session with a first user is received from a first device. The configuration parameters include an identifier of a second user that is permitted to join the virtual interaction session and a micro-chat duration that defines a time limit for a real-time communication link between the first and second user during the virtual interaction session. The real-time communication link between the first and second user by causing display, by the second device, of a live camera feed generated at the first device. Upon expiration of the micro-chat duration, the real-time communication link between the first and second user is terminated.
US11985174B2
Systems and methods for registering and selecting a Proxy-Call Session Control Function (P-CSCF) are described herein. The systems and methods described herein use a Network Repository Function (NRF) to receive status updates of P-CSCFs available to be selected. The status updates include information such as, but not limited to, whether or not the P-CSCF is active or above or below a predetermined loading threshold. The NRF provides the information to a Session Management Function (SMF) that selects which P-CSCF is to be utilized for a Session Initiation Protocol. The SMF can also use loading levels of the P-CSCFs to perform load balancing.
US11985165B2
A method of detecting deceptive web activity is implemented in an intermediary located between a requesting client device, and a server that hosts a web application. Following a bootstrap phase used to generate a database of information identifying characteristics of clients, the method begins by receiving a page directed to the client from the server. The server injects an invisible DOM element having a set of style properties associated therewith, with one of the set of style properties assigned a random value, to generate a modified page, which is returned to the client. As the client interacts with the modified page, the intermediary tracks the device's styles and uses them to identify the client from information in the database. Once the device is identified, the intermediary then detects whether a spoofing attack has occurred. By leveraging the tracked styles, a spoofing attack on the DOM element's styles may also be detected.
US11985159B1
A method for improving efficiency of a training program begins with a processor monitoring and adapting execution of a training exercise of the training program. The processor determines a training program effectiveness measure including determining trainee skill improvement demonstrated during the training exercise, and monitoring and determining correctness and timeliness of trainee actions during the training exercise. The processor then determines a training program cost measure by determining a first monetary cost for the execution of the at least one training exercise, determining a second monetary cost associated with trainee man-hours for the training exercise, and generating the training program cost measure based on the first and second monetary costs. The processor then computes a ratio of the training program effectiveness measure to the training program cost measure.
US11985153B2
A system, non-transitory computer readable medium and method for detecting anomalous activity based on a data distribution is disclosed. The system includes a processor, and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory stores computer executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to obtain a plurality of datapoints defining a data distribution. The processor classifies the plurality of datapoints as isolated or non-isolated datapoints, and clusters at least some of the non-isolated datapoints into at least one mode segment. A reference mode from the at least one mode segment is identified, and at least one outlier being either an isolated or non-isolated datapoint separated from the reference mode by a predetermined number of isolated datapoints representing a flat portion is identified. An action is initiated based on the identified at least one outlier.
US11985151B2
A generation device includes a memory, and processing circuitry coupled to the memory and configured to sense anomaly of a network based on information having a plurality of items related to communication in the network, identify a cause of anomaly corresponding to each piece of the information when anomaly is sensed, and generate, based on values of the items in the information and the cause of anomaly identified, a cause-of-anomaly pattern for each predetermined set of pieces of the information.
US11985148B2
Systems and methods for detecting a rogue network device at a physical layer include monitoring physical layer characteristics of a wired link at both a first network device and a second network device; determining whether there are detectable variances in the physical layer characteristics; and detecting a rogue network device inserted on the link based on the detectable variances.
US11985147B2
A method and a system for identifying indicators of compromise in a network infrastructure are provided. The method being executable by a computing device communicatively couplable to the network infrastructure, the computing devices being positioned outside a perimeter of the network infrastructure. The method comprises: obtaining an infrastructure graph for the network infrastructure, identifying, for a given protected infrastructure element, a portion of the infrastructure graph including vertices representative of linked infrastructure elements; analyzing a given one of the linked infrastructure elements to determine a respective value thereof; determining whether the respective value of the given one of the linked infrastructure elements is indicative of the network infrastructure being compromised; in response to the respective value of any one of the linked infrastructure elements associated to the given protected infrastructure element being indicative of the network infrastructure being compromised: generating and transmitting at least one warning about a potential cyberattack.
US11985141B2
A method for sending sensitive information includes: receiving, by a service provider, a request for sensitive information from a user; upon receipt of the request, sending, by a security provider, a security code to the user; receiving, by the service provider, a code from the user; verifying, by the service provider, the user when the received code matches the security code; sending, by the service provider, the sensitive information to the security provider after the user is verified; and providing, by the security provider, a sensitive data link to the user. The sensitive data link includes the sensitive information and may expire after the sensitive data link is viewed once.
US11985138B2
The present disclosure generally relates to Blockchain-based systems configured to process access rights to resources in a computationally efficient manner. Certain embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to systems and methods that generate distributed applications to represent digital access rights to resources. Additionally, certain embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to systems and methods that enhance the processing of assigning access rights using a Blockchain-based system using metadata.
US11985134B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for implementing an enhanced authentication framework using Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EPROM) grid pattern recognition. The present invention is configured to receive an indication of a resource transfer interaction initiated by a user using a resource transfer instrument at a resource transfer terminal, wherein the resource transfer instrument comprises an embedded EPROM grid, wherein the embedded EPROM grid is configurable to store a unique pattern associated with the user; retrieve, from the resource transfer terminal, the unique pattern from the embedded EPROM grid; determine that the unique pattern from the embedded EPROM grid matches one or more pre-registered unique patterns associated with the user; and authorize an execution of the resource transfer interaction by the user based on at least determining that the unique pattern from the embedded EPROM grid matches one or more pre-registered unique patterns associated with the user.
US11985132B2
A method of providing continuous user authentication for resource access control includes launching a continuous authentication service at a boot time of a first device, wherein the first device includes a processor, a memory, and one or more sensors configured to collect authentication information. Additionally, the method includes receiving authentication information comprising one or more of explicit authentication information or implicit authentication information, and receiving a request for access to a resource of the first device. Further, the method includes the operations of determining, by the continuous authentication service, a current value of a security state, the current value of the security state based in part on a time interval between a receipt time of the authentication information and a current time and controlling access to the resource based on the current value of the security state.
US11985131B2
Case management systems and techniques are disclosed. In various embodiments, a definition is received that associates a descendant case role alias with a first case node at a first hierarchical level of a hierarchical data model, the definition further associating a permission with the descendant case role alias and referencing a referenced case role associated with a second case node at a second hierarchical level of the hierarchical data model. The definition is used to extend the permission to a user assigned to the referenced case role with respect to a case instance comprising the hierarchical data model.
US11985124B2
Leveraging secure tokenization, such as a Non-Fungible Token (NFT), for purposes of multifactor and/or elevated user authentication. In this regard, an authentication NFT is generated based at least on a user's authentication credentials. Subsequently, the authentication NFT is verified/validated via a private distributed trust computing network and stored, in a deactivated state, on a distributed ledger. Once the user is confronted with an elevated and/or multifactored authentication process, the user may initiates use of the authentication NFT by checking-out the authentication NFT from the distributed ledger and moving the authentication NFT from the deactivated state to an activated state, in which the user credentials are accessible to the user for purposes of authentication.
US11985123B2
Systems and methods for generating one or more digital tokens for transmission among users is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of connecting a user to a computer based system via a set of login credentials. Further, the user is allowed to select one or more digital tokens to be sent to other users. Further, one or more users are selected as recipients. A value is determined for the one or more tokens to be sent to the other users. Furthermore, a set of content is input into a message associated with the one or more tokens. The tokens along with the message are transmitted from one user to the other. Upon successful transmission, the method updates one or more account balances for the one or more users and/or recipients.
US11985117B2
A multifunction peripheral (MFP) includes user selectable functions that call home applications on the device that direct it to work cooperatively with cloud service providers. To avoid requiring users to login to each cloud service each time they use it, they are registered with an authorization server to establish and grant identity and authorization tokens. When a user logs in to an MFP, they are redirected to login to the authorization server which then sends tokens to the MFP identifying the user and their permissions and licenses. Home applications associated by the tokens are displayed for selection. Each time a home application using a cloud service is selected, a background application sends the user's session tokens with a service request to an associated cloud service resource server. The resource servers processes authenticated requests and return the result to the MFP which completes the selected home application function. Therefore, the user is able to use multiple cloud services without need to login to them.
US11985099B2
An improved handheld electronic device and an associated method are provided in which time data regarding certain aspects of a messaging conversation on a handheld electronic device are made available to a user. Such time data is provided, for instance, in situations where an interruption has occurred during a messaging conversation. Time data can also be provided to a user on demand in certain circumstances.
US11985084B2
Various aspects described herein relate to communicating in a wireless network. A resource grant comprising an indicator of whether to transmit a demodulation reference signal (RS) for an uplink control channel or an uplink data channel can be received from a network entity. It can be determined whether to transmit the RS in at least one transmission time interval (TTI) based at least in part on the indicator.
US11985075B1
In some examples, a data stream processing system is provided for processing data streams so as to extract and transmit pertinent information from the data streams to devices or systems. More specifically, the data stream processing system can facilitate a selective, reliable and efficient processing of data elements within the data streams.
US11985073B2
A system for controlling power distribution within a vehicular communication network, including a power source equipment comprising a first port in communication with a network node module of a device, and a Power over Ethernet (POE) management module. The POE management module is configured to enable POE to the device via the first port, monitor a current draw of the device, determine whether the current draw of the device exceeds a threshold, and disable POE to the device, responsive to determining that the current draw exceeds the threshold.
US11985070B2
A method and a classification configuration module for managing a classification configuration for traffic, related to a service, in a software defined network are disclosed. The classification configuration module receives the classification configuration from a service related module. The classification configuration includes a first indication indicating a traffic treatment for the traffic, and a second indication identifying the traffic to be treated according to the first indication for traffic treatment. The classification configuration module determines, based on the classification configuration, a set of traffic filters for use by a software defined network controlling module to determine a list of service functions implementing the traffic treatment for the traffic. The classification configuration module transmits information relating to the set of traffic filters to the software defined network controlling module.
US11985056B1
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for selective data routing in a distributed network via data throughput analysis in a distributed ledger network. The present invention is configured to receive a request for a data transmission from an endpoint device of a network, determine, via a routing module, a throughput of data associated with the data transmission, determine a classification of the data transmission, and assign the data transmission to an assigned routing channel. The assigned routing channel may include either a first routing channel or a second routing channel based on the classification, wherein the first routing channel is a light load network comprising emitter devices operatively coupled to endpoint devices proximate the emitter devices, and wherein the second routing channel is a heavy load network comprising a first multicore optical fiber.
US11985050B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for unified data repository selection and parameters that can be associated with such selection are provided. For example, a method can include identifying, by a network element, a capability of a repository to store data applicable to all user equipment devices in a network. The method can further include selecting, by the network element, the repository from a plurality of repositories based on the identified capability.
US11985045B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for subscribing a notification of a change of a network function. A method for subscribing to notification of a change of a network function may comprise: transmitting (S101) a subscription message to a monitoring network function; and receiving (S102) a notification from the monitoring network function to notify a change from the network function whose status is required to be monitored. The subscription message indicates of the network function. The attribute comprises a serving scope indicating one or more target served area of the network function whose status is required to be monitored. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a simple and fast implementation for subscribing notification of change of network function may be achieved. Particularly, both the response time and the accuracy of the notification about a change of a subscribed network function may be improved.
US11985043B2
A method and system for aggregating into a unique aggregated group (AG), protection groups (PGs) that are possible classifications with at least a threshold probability for a same unique combination of IP addresses. The PGs and the unique combination of IP addresses are included in the AG. Each of the IP addresses of the unique combination of IP addresses have respective associated probabilities for each PG included in the AG. The method further includes selecting and providing for display AGs based on the probabilities associated with the respective IP addresses included in the AGs, and providing for display at least one interactive graphical element in association with each AG selected for display. User activation of one of the interactive graphical element accepts assignment of one or more selected IP addresses included in the AG to a selected one of the one or more PGs included in the AG.
US11985040B2
A method and system for detecting anomalous network activity in a cloud-based compute environment. The method comprises receiving configuration data and network activity observations for a set of virtual entities in the cloud-based compute environment; creating a profile for each virtual entity in the set of virtual entities, when the virtual entity does not already have an associated profile; dynamically updating the virtual entity of a profile with the respective network activity observations of the virtual entity; and determining whether anomalies have been detected.
US11985037B2
Systems and methods for social graph data analytics to determine the connectivity between nodes within a community are provided. A user may assign user connectivity values to other members of the community, or connectivity values may be automatically harvested, calculated, or assigned from third parties or based on the frequency of interactions between members of the community. Connectivity values may represent such factors as alignment, reputation, status, and/or influence within a social graph within the network community, or the degree of trust. The paths connecting a first node to a second node may be retrieved, and social graph data analytics may be used to determine a network connectivity value from all or a subset of all of the retrieved paths and/or one or more connectivity statistics value associated with the first node and/or the second node. A parallel computational framework may operate in connection with a key-value store to perform some or all of the computations related to the connectivity determinations. Network connectivity values and/or other social graph data may be outputted to third-party processes and services for use in initiating automatic transactions or making automated network-based or real-world decisions.
US11985035B2
A method, system and computer readable media for mapping, for a network service (NS), requirements to configuration parameters and redundancy. The method includes marking Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) of a plurality of VNFs at each of a plurality of scaling levels and setting a recovery method for each VNF for each of a plurality of hosting types. The method includes finding configuration parameters, including values and options, for each marked and unmarked VNFs of each of a plurality of Network Forwarding Path (NFP) to satisfy the requirements, where each NFP corresponds to a functionality of the NS. The method includes finding a required number of standbys for each unmarked VNF of a Network Service Deployment Flavor (NsDF) of each of the plurality of hosting type. The method includes finding the hosting type having a minimum computing cost for all VNFs of the NsDF.
US11985029B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provides a pico-base station configuration method and apparatus, a storage medium and an electronic apparatus, and relate to the technical field of wireless network pico-base station technology. The method includes: a request message for requesting data configuration of a pico-base station is acquired, wherein the request message includes parameters of a pico-base station configuration model object and a pico-base station configuration model sub-object; the request message is verified; a thread corresponding to the request message in a sqlite database is called to execute warehousing processing on the parameters of the pico-base station configuration model object and the pico-base station configuration model sub-object, in a case where the request message passes the verification; and configuration validation processing is carried out on the pico-base station configuration model object and the pico-base station configuration model sub-object, in a case of determining that the warehousing processing is executed successfully; with adoption of the disclosure, the problems of low data transmission speed and low data updating efficiency can be solved, and the effect of improving the data transmission efficiency is achieved.
US11985024B2
Embodiments improve application gateway architecture by pushing secure managed service boundaries. Managed services that were previously available directly in application gateway code are separated from application gateway code and exposed to service clients in a controlled, secured manner via a RESTful API layer dedicated to the management and interaction of deployed managed services. The separation can be realized in management agents. A management agent receives a service request from an application and makes an API call to the dedicated management API layer of the managing application gateway. The application may run within a managed container on a user device. Responsive to the API call, the application gateway sends a control or configuration message to the management agent over HTTP. The management agent controls or configures the managed service to function or behave as dictated by the application gateway.
US11985021B2
A phase tracking reference signal (PT-RS) may be transmitted to enable a receiver to correct phase noise in wireless communication. A UE scheduled for one PDSCH with DMRS ports in two or more DMRS CDM groups that are associated with two TCI states may be configured for PT-RS using two PT-RS ports. Therefore, rather than limiting PT-RS to a single port, the PT-RS may be transmitted to the UE using two PT-RS ports. The apparatus transmits a capability indication for more than one PT-RS port for receiving a downlink shared channel based on a first TCI and a second TCI. The apparatus receives a configuration for a maximum number of downlink PT-RS ports from a base station.
US11985017B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and system to selecting a waveform in a communication network. The method comprises selecting at least one sequence from a plurality of sequences for transmitting, said plurality of sequences comprises a plurality of sub-set of sequences such that a sequence in a sub-set of sequences is a cyclic shifted version another sequence in said sub-set of sequences. Also, the method comprises rotating at least one sequence from a plurality of sequences by 90 degrees to produce at least one rotated sequence. Further, the method comprises transforming the at least one rotated sequence into frequency domain using a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) to generate a transformed sequence and mapping the transformed sequence using a plurality of subcarriers to generate a mapped sequence. Thereafter, the method comprises processing the mapped sequence to generate a waveform having an optimized PAPR, optimized auto and cross-correlation.
US11985013B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for automated identification of open space in a wireless communications spectrum, by identifying sources of signal emission in the spectrum by automatically detecting signals, analyzing signals, comparing signal data to historical and reference data, creating corresponding signal profiles, and determining information about the open space based upon the measured and analyzed data in near real-time.
US11985007B2
The present technology pertains to receiving a tag associating at least one routing domain in an on-premises site with at least one virtual network in a cloud environment associated with a cloud service provider. The present technology also pertains to the automation of populating route and propagation tables with the cloud service provider.
US11985004B2
Systems and methods are provided for reducing WAN bandwidth consumption used by multicast for large scale software-defined branch deployments. In particular, a cloud-based multicast orchestrator may be implemented as part of an SD-WAN service. This cloud-based multicast orchestrator may orchestrate routes for multicast traffic between a multicast source and the various branches of the large scale software-defined branch deployment. This cloud-based multicast orchestrator may orchestrate routes for multicast traffic which reduce/optimize WAN bandwidth consumption. In combination with the cloud-based multicast orchestrator, examples may utilize a branch gateway hierarchy which designates one branch gateway a “leader” for a given multicast stream to further reduce WAN bandwidth consumption used by multicast.
US11985001B2
The disclosure herein describes a system for calculating meeting inclusion metrics including insights and recommendations. Meeting data associated with one or more meetings attended by at least one participant remotely is converted into anonymized meeting data for inclusivity metric analysis. An inclusivity insights manager generates inclusivity metrics associated with inclusive behavior and language occurring during meetings to measure the level of inclusivity. The inclusivity metrics include attendee participation metrics measuring an amount of participation by each meeting attendee, participation in-person versus participation remotely, concurrent speech indicating attendees may be talking over one another or other interruptions occurring during meetings. Inclusivity metric data includes insights and actionable recommendations to improve inclusivity at future meetings provided at an individual level, group level or organizational level. The inclusivity insights can also include percentage metric values, graphs, feedback, and other metric-related information for improving participation by meeting attendees.
US11984999B2
A computer-implemented method for automatically recommending an online meeting reconnection time for one or more online meeting participants that are disconnected. The method collects disconnection information for one or more online meeting participants over time as historical data. The method constructs a predictive model for the one or more online meeting participants based on the historical data and predicts a reconnection time for the one or more online meeting participants based on the predictive model. The method notifies the one or more online meeting participants when a disconnected participant is expected to return online and updates the online meeting agenda if the disconnected participant's reconnection time exceeds a predefined threshold.
US11984998B2
Techniques for selective video conference segmentation are described and are implementable in a video conference setting. The described implementations enable control over segments of video content that are viewable by a given participant in a video conference. For instance, segments of video content are generated that represent spatial portions of video content captured by a host device. The segments can be configured in a variety of ways for inclusion in one or more video streams. The video streams can be communicated to different participants within the video conference, for instance based on a status of a given participant, thus providing different fields of view to different participants.
US11984994B2
A HARQ-ACK sending method, a receiving method, a terminal and a base station are provided, the HARQ-ACK sending method includes: determining one PUCCH resource for transmitting HARQ-ACK of a SPS PDSCH from at least one PUCCH resource for transmitting the HARQ-ACK of the SPS PDSCH, wherein the at least one PUCCH resource includes at least one first type of PUCCH resource, and the first type of PUCCH resource is a PUCCH resource for carrying more than 2 bits of information; and sending the HARQ-ACK of the SPS PDSCH on the determined PUCCH resource.
US11984993B2
Sidelink downlink control information (SL DCI) associated with transmission of one or more sidelink signals may be communicated. A wireless user device may transmit, based on the SL DCI and to one or more second wireless user devices, the one or more sidelink signals via a first quantity of sidelink channel resources. The wireless user device may receive first sidelink HARQ feedback information responsive to the one or more sidelink signals. The wireless user device may determine, based on a sidelink HARQ feedback timing, a time interval to transmit the first sidelink HARQ feedback information. The wireless user device may determine, based on the first quantity, a sidelink HARQ codebook. The wireless user device may transmit, during the time interval, based on the sidelink HARQ codebook, and to the base station, an uplink signal indicating the first sidelink HARQ feedback information.
US11984988B2
A method and system for determining a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource are provided. The method includes ordering downlink control information (DCI) fields according to an order of serving cells for a monitoring occasion (MO), identifying a plurality of valid DCIs per MO per serving cell and determining the PUCCH resource from a last physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a last MO on the serving cell with a largest cell index.
US11984987B2
Methods, systems, and storage media are described for the prioritization of services for control and data transmission for new radio (NR) systems. In particular, some embodiments may be directed to the prioritization of hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) transmissions. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11984985B2
A method of performing wireless communication including generating, by a wireless transmission device, an Aggregate-Medium Access Control (MAC) Protocol Data Unit (A-MPDU) including a plurality of MPDUs and a plurality of sequence numbers corresponding to the plurality of MPDUs, transmitting, by the wireless transmission device, the A-MPDU to a wireless reception device, generating, by the wireless reception device, burst information based on one or more success sequence numbers among the plurality of sequence numbers, the one or more success sequence numbers corresponding to one or more MPDUs successfully received by the wireless reception device among the plurality of MPDUs, and transmitting, by the wireless reception device, a block acknowledgement (BA) frame based on the burst information to the wireless transmission device.
US11984984B2
An electronic device that communicates frames is described. During operation, the electronic device may transmit the frames addressed to a recipient electronic device and associated with multiple links between the electronic device and the recipient electronic device. Then, the electronic device may receive block acknowledgments for at least a subset of the frames, where a given block acknowledgment is associated with the recipient electronic device and indicates received frames on a given link in the links. Moreover, the electronic device may control an amount of traffic conveyed on the links based at least in part on the block acknowledgments. Next, the electronic device may store a remainder of the frames based at least in part on the block acknowledgments, where the frames include the subset of the frames and the remainder of the frames. Note that the frames may have a common traffic identifier.
US11984981B2
Proposed are a method and apparatus for receiving a PPDU on which BCC interleaving has been performed in a Multi-RU in a wireless LAN system. Specifically, a reception STA receives, from a transmission STA, a PPDU comprising a data field and decodes the data field. The data field is received via a Multi-RU which is an aggregate of a first RU and a second RU. The data field is generated on the basis of a coded bit string included in a BCC interleaver block. The coded bit string is obtained by interleaving a data bit string on the basis of first and second parameters. The data bit string is interleaved as the data bit string is entered into the BCC interleaver block in rows on the basis of the first parameter and is read out in columns of the BCC interleaver block on the basis of the second parameter.
US11984977B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus are provided for encoding code blocks for transmission in a wireless communication system. An example encoding method in a wireless communication system includes determining, for one or more code blocks of a transport block, that at least one of a plurality of criteria is met, wherein the plurality of criteria includes that a coding rate (R) is less than or equal to 1/4 or that a transport block size (TBS) is less than or equal to 3824 bits and the R is less than or equal to 2/3. The one or more code blocks are encoded using low-density parity-check (LDPC) base graph 2, wherein a maximum code block size is 3840 bits. The one or more encoded code blocks are transmitted over the wireless network.
US11984970B2
A system includes at least one reception unit installed in an aircraft and configured for tracking satellites of the satellite navigation system of the GNSS type. The system includes a generation unit for generating an expected number corresponding to the number of satellites that the reception unit is expected to track, a detection unit including a comparison part for comparing the expected number with a tracked number corresponding to the number of satellites that the reception unit is actually tracking and a decision part for detecting a jamming, as a function of the result of the comparison made by the comparison part and transmitting detection data in the event of detection, and a transmission unit configured to transmit jamming detection data to at least one user device, the system making it possible to detect a jamming of a GNSS system in an automatic and reliable manner.
US11984969B2
Systems and methods for regaining phase synchronization between a CMTS core and an RPD, where the phase synchronization is regained over repeated temporal periods preferably divided between a first interval having a frequency adjustment of a first magnitude and a second interval having a frequency adjustment of a second magnitude.
US11984968B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a centralized network device change procedure. A method comprises in response to a distributed network device being to be disconnected with a centralized network device and connected with a further centralized network device, transmitting an interface resuming request from a distributed network device to the further centralized network device, the interface resuming request being used for resuming an inactivated interface between the further centralized network device and the distributed network device, the terminal device is served by the centralized network device via the distributed network device; and in response to receiving, from the further centralized network device, a resuming status message indicating the interface is successfully resumed, activating the inactivated interface to complete the resume procedure. In this way, when a gNB-DU, which is located at the satellite and moves along with the satellite, moves from the coverage of a gNB-CU to the coverage of a new gNB-CU, a terminal device, which is served by a gNB-CU via a gNB-DU, will keep the connection with the gNB-CU, such that the connectivity of the accessed terminal device will be maintained and meanwhile the signalling overhead for interface configuration will be saved.
US11984960B2
A communication apparatus of the present disclosure includes a receiver which, in operation, receives a signal that includes a non-legacy preamble and a data field, the non-legacy preamble comprising a first field for indicating a number of spatial streams (Nss) in the data field and a second field for indicating one of a plurality of modulation and coding schemes (MCSs), wherein two or more frequency diversity transmission schemes are supported and one of the two or more frequency diversity transmission schemes is applied based on a value of the Nss; and circuitry which, in operation, decodes the signal.
US11984959B2
An electronic device may comprise: a first cover; a second cover coupled to the first cover and configured to perform a sliding operation; a rollable display including a first display area visible in a rolled state and a second display area unrolled in response to the sliding operation of the second cover; a first antenna including a plurality of first antenna elements disposed in the first display area of the rollable display; a second antenna including a plurality of second antenna elements disposed in the second display area of the rollable display; and a processor. The processor may be configured to: form a plurality of directional beams using the first antenna based on a first beam table in a rolled state of the rollable display, and to form a plurality of directional beams using at least a part of the second antenna elements and the first antenna based on a second beam table based on the size of a visible area of the rollable display increasing from the rolled state.
US11984958B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for a user equipment (UE) operating in a full-duplex mode to report of channel state information based on an estimate of self-interference associated with concurrent uplink and downlink transmissions using at least partially overlapping frequency resources. A base station may transmit downlink reference signals to the UE for measurement and generation of the channel state information, and the base station may use the channel state information reported by the UE to schedule the simultaneous transmission and reception such that the self-interference from full-duplex mode operations is mitigated.
US11984957B2
This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for radar-assisted beam failure. A second wireless device may transmit, to a first wireless device, a configuration to monitor for a potential obstruction for a set of one or more beams for the wireless communication with the second wireless. The first wireless device may receive, from the second wireless device, the configuration to monitor for the potential obstruction for the set of one or more beams for the wireless communication with the second wireless device. The first wireless device may perform radar detection for the potential obstruction to the set of one or more beams for the wireless communication with the second wireless device.
US11984953B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to utilizing an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), a tracking algorithm, or both, to receive, calibrate, and maintain orbital angular momentum (OAM) signaling between wireless devices. The present disclosure describes a first wireless device transmitting spatial-multiple input-multiple output (MIMO) beams to the IRS such that reflected waves from the IRS form a spatial mixture of OAM modes. The IRS may reflect such OAM modes to a second wireless device for subsequent reflection (e.g., a second IRS), reception, calibration, and optimization. For example, the second wireless device may perform pattern recognition of the concentric OAM modes (e.g., by estimating ellipse geometry) to determine the modes of the OAM signaling. The second wireless device may also perform decorrelation, where small perturbations to the elliptical OAM geometry allow the second wireless device to perform one or more optimization techniques related to the OAM signaling.
US11984950B2
A transportation vehicle, an apparatus, a method, and a computer program for a transportation vehicle in a mobile communication system. The method for a first transportation vehicle in a mobile communication system for controlling a radio link to a second transportation vehicle includes setting up a radio link to the second transportation vehicle, determining information related to relative movement between an antenna of the first transportation vehicle and an antenna of the second transportation vehicle based on sensor data of the first transportation vehicle, and adjusting a beam pattern of the antenna of the first transportation vehicle based on the information related to relative movement to control the radio link.
US11984947B2
Techniques for improved wireless reliability are provided. It is determined that a client device is at least one of an augmented reality (AR) or a virtual reality (VR) device. A default set of retry parameters and a second set of retry parameters are determined, where the second set of retry parameters are more robust than the default set of retry parameters. Data is transmitted to the client device using the second set of retry parameters.
US11984944B2
A power receiver is provided herein. The power receiver provides in-band communication with a power transmitter. The power receiver recognizes a change in frequency that identifies a training sequence and determines an impulse response with respect to the training sequence. The power receiver also cancels an effect of the impulse response during the in-band communication.
US11984942B2
Disclosed is a system and method for power line control of devices. The system operates in two modes. In mode one, the system operates on an open loop architecture with a controller generating a sinusoidal wave using a crystal oscillator. Control information is added to the sinusoidal wave by alternating the output of two phase shifted waves which have the same frequency and amplitude to form a control signal. The resulting control signal is sent on a power line. The control signal is received using a crystal filter, decoded and converted to executable instructions for the devices and data parameters for sensors. In mode two, the system operates on a hybrid open loop/closed loop architecture where devices are jointly controlled by the controller and the sensors.
US11984936B2
A wireless audio streaming system for swimmers and underwater applications uses directional transmission antennas, one or more reception antennas worn on a user, and a combination of radio frequency and near-field magnetic induction communication, for streaming audio to a swimmer, buffering the streamed audio, and allowing the user to play the audio on a wireless, waterproof headset.
US11984934B2
The present invention discloses an integrated photonic chip structure for universal quantum walk simulation which combines the multiphoton source that can generate the spatially entangled multi-photon state and the linear optical network that can implement the unitary transformation, and establishes mapping between on-chip spatial-entangled multi-photon state and quantum walk state and mapping between on-chip linear optical unitary transformation and the evolution process of multi-particle quantum walk. By manipulating the spatially entangled multi-photon state generated via the multi-photon sources and the optical unitary transformation implemented via the universal linear optical networks, the chip structure can implement universal quantum walk simulation with the control over all parameters of multiple-particle quantum walks including such as evolution Hamiltonian, evolution time, initial evolution state and particle properties (i.e., particle indistinguishability and particle exchange symmetry).
US11984933B2
Optical circuits support reconfigurable spatial rearrangement (also referred to as “spatial multiplexing”) for a group of photons propagating in waveguides. According to some embodiments, a set of 2×2 muxes can be used to rearrange a pattern of photons on a first set of waveguides into a usable input pattern for a downstream optical circuit.
US11984928B1
A method for estimating a chromatic dispersion of an optical-fiber channel is disclosed includes receiving, via the optical-fiber channel, a chromatically-dispersed signal having a symbol rate 1/T. The method also includes, for each chromatic-dispersion value of a plurality of chromatic-dispersion values, determining a respective clock-tone magnitude by: (i) applying, to the chromatically-dispersed signal or a signal derived therefrom, a chromatic dispersion equal to the chromatic-dispersion value to generate a dispersion-compensated signal, and (ii) extracting the clock-tone magnitude from at least one of a positive-frequency clock-tone and a negative-frequency clock-tone of the dispersion-compensated signal, the positive-frequency clock-tone and the negative-frequency clock-tone being spectral components of the dispersion-compensated signal at temporal frequencies 1/T or −1/T respectively. The method also includes determining a maximum of the extracted clock-tone magnitudes. The estimated chromatic dispersion is the chromatic-dispersion value, of the plurality of chromatic-dispersion values, corresponding to the maximum extracted clock-tone magnitude.
US11984926B2
Lighting and communication system comprising a transmitter and a receiver of modulated light signals
A lighting and communication system includes a first optical fiber portion, a second optical fiber portion, a third optical fiber portion, a fourth optical fiber portion and a fifth optical fiber portion that are distinct, wherein a visible light transmitter is positioned at a first end of the first optical fiber portion, a modulated light signal transmitter is positioned at a first end of the second optical fiber portion, a second end of the first optical fiber portion and a second end of the second optical fiber portion are connected to a first end of the third optical fiber portion, a modulated light signal receiver is positioned at a first end of the fourth optical fiber portion, a second end of the third optical fiber portion and a second end of the fourth optical fiber portion are connected to a first end of the fifth optical fiber portion.
US11984913B2
A multiplexer includes a first filter on a first path, a second filter on a second path, and a third filter on a third path. A frequency of intermodulation distortion generated by a transmission signal within a pass band of the first filter and a transmission signal within a pass band of the second filter is within a pass band of the third filter. The first filter includes one or more series resonators on the first path and one or more parallel resonators on one or more paths connecting one or more nodes on the first path to a ground. A relative permittivity of a resonator of the one or more series resonators and the one or more parallel resonators that is closest to a common terminal is lowest among relative permittivities of the resonators.
US11984910B1
The present disclosure describes apparatuses and methods for implementing a reinforcement learning-enabled low-density parity check (LDPC) decoder. In aspects, an RL-enabled LDPC decoder processes, as part of a first decoding iteration, data of a channel to generate LDPC state information and provides the LDPC state information to a machine learning (ML) algorithm of an RL agent. The RL-enabled LDPC decoder is then configured with LDPC decoding parameters obtained from the ML algorithm and processes, as part of a second decoding operation, the data using the decoding parameters to generate subsequent LDPC state information. The RL-enabled LDPC decoder provides decoded data of the channel based on the subsequent LDPC state information. By using the LDPC decoding parameters provided by the ML algorithm of the RL agent, the RL-enabled LDPC decoder may decode channel data in fewer decoding iterations or with a higher success rate, thereby improving LDPC decoding performance.
US11984908B2
Described herein are analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) that utilize time-to-digital converters (TDCs) and a histogram block to generate time-correlated histograms from analog signals. In some implementations, the time-to-digital converters determine time intervals for which the analog signal above or below a ramp signal, and the histogram block generates the time-correlated histograms of values using the determined time intervals. Furthermore, in some implementations, the analog-to-digital converters receive the analog signals from photodiodes, such as photo diodes used in Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) devices. In some such applications, the use of time intervals to generate time-correlated histograms may be used to reduce the effects of time jitter.
US11984907B2
An analog-to-digital converting circuit for converting an analog signal into a digital signal includes a plurality of reference voltage generators each generating a reference voltage, a plurality of reference voltage decoupling capacitors respectively corresponding to the reference voltage generators, and an analog-to-digital converter generating a comparison voltage based on the reference voltage and generating the digital signal corresponding to the analog signal based on a result of comparing the comparison voltage with the analog signal. At least one different combination of the reference voltage generators and the reference voltage decoupling capacitors is connected to the analog-to-digital converter in each of a plurality of conversion periods.
US11984900B2
Methods and apparatus for storing a control voltage of a phased-locked loop (PLL) when switching from mission mode to standby mode for the PLL, and for restoring the control voltage of the PLL when switching back to mission mode. An example PLL circuit includes a charge pump, a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) having a control input coupled to an output of the charge pump via a node, and a tracking circuit coupled to the node. The tracking circuit is generally configured to sample a voltage of the node during a mission mode, save a representation of the sampled voltage before entering a standby mode, and restore the sampled voltage to the node for reentering the mission mode using the saved representation of the sampled voltage.
US11984896B2
Clock alignment circuitry may include phase detection circuitry and programmable delay circuitry to facilitate aligning a data signal with a particular state of a clock signal. For example, phase detection circuitry may be disposed at a location of interest to monitor the relative timing of the clock signal and the data signal. Based on the monitored states, the programmable delay circuitry may determine the delay to be applied to the data signal (e.g., prior to propagating through logic operations and transmission to the location of interest) such that the data signal later arrives at the location of interest at a suitable time. Effectively, a programmable delay is added to the delay encountered by the data signal during processing and transmission to the location of interest such that the total delay results in the data signal arriving at the location of interest while the clock signal is in the desired state.
US11984888B2
Circuits and methods that harvest electrostatic energy from transient on-chip data are described in the Application. In one aspect, a method and inverter circuit harvests electrostatic charge held at its output node at an electric potential comparable to the power supply voltage rail to a common grid/node as the output makes a 1→0 logic transition. This charge harvested at a common grid/node can be used by circuits (described in applications 63/090,169, 63/139,744) to drive 0→1 logic transition at their output nodes at lower energy drain from the on-chip power grid than a conventional CMOS inverter would with similar performance, slew rates at inverter input and output and with similar output driving transistor geometries.
US11984887B2
Circuits and methods that use harvested electrostatic energy from transient: on-chip data are described in the Application. In one aspect, a method inverter circuit use harvested electrostatic charge held at any electric potential higher than the common ground reference potential of CMOS circuits in a chip, to partially drive a 0→1 logic transition at the output of the inverter at lower energy drain from the on-chip power grid than a conventional CMOS inverter with similar performance, slew rates at inverter input and output and with similar output driving transistor geometries.
US11984885B2
A semiconductor circuit includes: a first inductor part configured to connect in series with a source electrode of a first semiconductor element; and a second inductor part configured to connect in series with a source electrode in a second semiconductor element that is configured to connect in parallel with the first semiconductor element; the first inductor part and the second inductor part are arranged to generate an induced electromotive force in the first inductor part and the second inductor part by way of a magnetic interaction so that the currents flowing in the first inductor part and the second inductor part are reinforced in the same direction.
US11984883B2
Circuits and methods for preventing glitch in a circuit are disclosed. In one example, a circuit coupled to an input/output pad is disclosed. The circuit includes: a first level shifter, a second level shifter, and a control logic circuit. The first level shifter is configured for generating a data signal. The second level shifter is configured for generating an output enable signal. The first and second level shifters are controlled by first and second power-on-control signals, respectively. The control logic circuit is coupled to the first level shifter and the second level shifter.
US11984882B2
A color temperature switching scheme for an LED lighting device is disclosed. The color temperature switching scheme includes a plurality of different color temperature performances correspondingly generated by a plurality of different paired combinations of a first electric power allocated to a first LED load emitting a light with a first color temperature and a second electric power allocated to a second LED load emitting a light with a second color temperature such that a mingled color temperature between the first color temperature and the second color temperature can be generated thru a light diffuser. For tuning the mingled color temperature of the LED lighting device a reverse yet complementary power adjustment process for distributing a total electric power T between the first LED circuit and the second LED circuit is required such that a total light intensity remains unchanged while the mingled color temperature is being adjusted.
US11984880B2
An unbalanced failure detector circuit according to one aspect of the present disclosure is provided for detecting an unbalanced failure of an electronic device apparatus including electronic devices, and the electronic device apparatus includes a plurality of current paths connected in parallel. The unbalanced failure detector circuit includes a detector unit, and a controller. The detector unit has a plurality of coils connected in series and arranged to surround the plurality of current paths, respectively, and is configured to output a coil sum voltage which is a sum of induced voltages generated across the plurality of coils by currents flowing through the plurality of current paths. The controller is configured to detect the unbalanced failure of the electronic device apparatus when the coil sum voltage outputted from the detector unit exceeds a predetermined value range.
US11984877B2
An apparatus includes a transistor coupled to a load through an output terminal of a load switch IC, a gate drive circuit connected to a gate of the transistor, wherein the gate drive circuit is configured such that in a short circuit event, a voltage on the gate of the transistor is gradually reduced, and wherein as a result of reducing the voltage on the gate of the transistor gradually, a negative voltage occurring at the output terminal of the load switch IC is minimized.
US11984875B2
A radio frequency multiplexer comprises send and receive circuits each including a RF filter circuit. The send and receive circuits are coupled to an antenna port and corresponding send and receive ports. A portion of the send circuit and a portion of the receive circuit are disposed on a single die. The layer stacks of the resonators of the send and receive circuits disposed on the single die can be optimized for the required functionality.
US11984872B2
Methods of fabricating acoustic filters are disclosed. The back of a piezoelectric plate is bonded to a surface of a substrate. The thickness of the piezoelectric plate is measured at a plurality of positions. Excess material is removed from the front surface of the piezoelectric plate in accordance with the thickness measurements to improve the thickness uniformity of the piezoelectric plate. After removing the excess material, a conductor pattern including a plurality of ladder filter circuits is formed on the front surface. Each ladder filter circuit includes at least one shunt resonator and at least one series resonator, each of which has an interdigital transducer (IDT). Cavities are formed in the substrate such that portions of the piezoelectric plate form a plurality of diaphragms spanning respective cavities. After the cavities are formed, interleaved fingers of each IDT are on a respective one of the plurality of diaphragms.
US11984871B2
A package that includes a first filter device and a second filter device coupled to the first filter device. The first filter device includes a first substrate comprising a first piezoelectric material, and a first metal layer coupled to a first surface of the first substrate. The second filter device includes a second substrate comprising a second piezoelectric material, and a second metal layer coupled to a first surface of the first substrate. The package includes a first pillar interconnect configured to be electrically coupled to the first metal layer of the first filter device, where the first pillar interconnect extends through the second filter device. The package further includes a second pillar interconnect configured to be electrically coupled to the second metal layer of the second filter device.
US11984869B2
An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric body including first and second main surfaces facing each other, an IDT electrode provided on the first main surface of the piezoelectric body and including electrode fingers, a high acoustic velocity member on the second main surface side of the piezoelectric body, in which an acoustic velocity of a propagating bulk wave is higher than an acoustic velocity of an acoustic wave propagating through the piezoelectric body, and a first dielectric film provided on an upper surface of the electrode fingers, in which a portion where a dielectric is not present is provided between the electrode fingers of the IDT electrode.
US11984868B2
Acoustic resonator devices and filters are disclosed. An acoustic resonator includes a substrate having a trap-rich region adjacent to a surface and a single-crystal piezoelectric plate having parallel front and back surfaces, the back surface 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. An interdigital transducer (IDT) is formed on the front surface of the single-crystal piezoelectric plate such that interleaved fingers of the IDT are disposed on the diaphragm. The single-crystal piezoelectric plate and the IDT are configured such that a radio frequency signal applied to the IDT excites a shear primary acoustic mode within the diaphragm.
US11984865B2
A band pass filter includes filter circuits, first and second intermediate circuits, and a first capacitor. The first intermediate circuit includes an inductor connected between second and third capacitors. The second intermediate circuit includes an inductor connected between third and fourth capacitors. Resonant circuits included in the filter circuit are connected to ground via a common capacitor. Resonant circuits included in the filter circuit are connected to the ground via a common capacitor. The first capacitor is connected between the first and second intermediate circuits.
US11984864B2
The disclosure relates to the technical field of semiconductors, and discloses a method for manufacturing a resonator. The method includes: a substrate is pretreated to change a preset reaction rate of a preset region part of the substrate, so that the preset reaction rate of the preset region part is higher than that of a region outside the preset region part; a preset reaction is performed to the substrate to form a sacrificial material part including an upper half part above an upper surface of the substrate and a lower half part below a lower surface of the substrate; a multilayer structure is formed on the sacrificial material part, and includes a lower electrode layer, a piezoelectric layer and an upper electrode layer from bottom to top; and the sacrificial material part is removed.
US11984861B2
An amplitude detector has a phase shifter such as one using an analog differentiator and an adjustable gain stage, or one using a determinable delay, the phase shifter coupled to shift phase of an input signal to the amplitude detection apparatus. The detector also has a first analog multiplier coupled to square the input signal, a second analog multiplier coupled to square output of the phase shifter; and an analog adder coupled to sum outputs of the first and second analog multiplier. An automatic gain control circuit has the amplitude detector coupled to control gain of a controllable amplifier.
US11984853B2
Envelope tracking power supply circuitry includes a look up table (LUT) configured to provide a target supply voltage based on a power envelope measurement. The target supply voltage is dynamically adjusted based on a delay between the power envelope of an RF signal and a provided envelope tracking supply voltage. The envelope tracking supply voltage is generated from the adjusted target supply voltage in order to synchronize the envelope tracking supply voltage with the power envelope of the RF signal.
US11984852B2
Various methods and circuital arrangements for biasing one or more gates of stacked transistors of an amplifier are possible where the amplifier is configured to operate in at least an active mode and a standby mode. Circuital arrangements can reduce bias circuit standby current during operation in the standby mode while allowing a quick recovery to normal operating conditions of the amplifier. Biasing an input transistor of the stacked transistors can be obtained by using a replica stack circuit.
US11984839B2
A propulsive electric motor set for aircraft includes an electrical energy source and an electric motor provided with a drive shaft on which is mounted a propeller. The electric motor includes a first set of windings linked to the electrical energy source to provide a rotational drive function for the drive shaft. The electric motor further includes a second set of windings which, when the drive shaft is driven in rotation by an electric powering of the first set of windings, provides an electric generation function configured to supply non-propulsive loads of the aircraft. Thus, the non-propulsive loads of the aircraft can be electrically powered without any overload compromising the aerodynamics of the aircraft.
US11984837B2
A method for determining an angular position of a rotating component is disclosed. A sensor system is positioned at a radial distance from an axis of rotation of the rotating component. A magnetic ring is arranged fixedly and concentrically on the rotating component, generating a magnetic field that changes with respect to the sensor system. The sensor system detects the magnetic field in which a signal is captured and evaluated with respect to the angular position. Errors in the measurement of the angular position can be corrected. The signal captured by the sensor system is evaluated with respect to the amplitude information of the magnetic field. A correction parameter is determined from the amplitude information, and an angle error is of the angular position is determined based on the correction parameter. The angle error is used to correct the angular position.
US11984835B2
A camera module includes a lens, a first magnet and a second magnet mounted on a mobile body including the lens, a coil portion arranged near the first magnet and configured to move the first magnet in a first direction, and the magnetic sensor arranged near the second magnet and configured to detect the position of the second magnet in the first direction as a detection direction.
US11984834B2
A power control system comprises a battery system including N battery packs. A plurality of contactors selectively connects N battery packs of a battery system in a first configuration supplying a first voltage level, a second configuration supplying a second voltage level, and a disconnected configuration. M power inverters connect the battery system to M electric machines, respectively. A controller is configured to determine when to transition between the first configuration and the second configuration. The controller is configured to transition between the first configuration and the second configuration by causing one of a positive torque transient and a negative torque transient to be generated by at least one of the M electric machines, transitioning the battery system from one of the first configuration and the second configuration to the disconnected configuration, and transitioning from the disconnected configuration to the other one of the first configuration and the second configuration.
US11984819B2
A power conversion circuit includes a switching network, a control circuit, a filter circuit, and a direct current side circuit; and the filter circuit includes a first power inductor, a common mode choke, a first differential mode filter capacitor, a first common mode filter capacitor, and a second common mode filter capacitor. The first power inductor includes a first winding and a second winding, and the common mode choke includes a third winding and a fourth winding; a first end of the first winding and a first end of the second winding are separately connected to the switching network, a second end of the first winding and a second end of the second winding are respectively connected to a first end of the third winding and a first end of the fourth winding.
US11984814B2
For open loop phase pre-charge, an apparatus includes a Switching Mode Power Supply (SMPS) charging diode and a charge generator. The SMPS charging diode pre-charges an SMPS to a regulation set point from at least one phase of an Alternating Current (AC) voltage. The charge generator is powered by the pre-charged SMPS. In response to detecting the regulation set point iteratively, the charge generator detects a specified phase angle of the AC voltage. In response to the specified phase angle, the charge generator iteratively generates a charging voltage during positive voltage interval that charges a Direct Current (DC) bus capacitor to a target DC bus voltage within a charging time interval. At least a portion of the charge generator comprises one or more of hardware and executable code, the executable code stored on one or more computer readable storage media.
US11984813B2
A synchronous rectification control system and method for a quasi-resonant flyback converter are provided. The control system includes a switching transistor voltage sampling circuit configured to sample an output terminal voltage of the switching transistor to obtain a sampled voltage of the switching transistor; a sampling calculation module configured to obtain a dead-time based on the sampled voltage of the switching transistor and a preset relationship, the preset relationship being a correspondence between the duration of the sampled voltage of the switching transistor being below a first preset value and the dead-time during an on-time of a switching cycle of the switching transistor, the dead-time being a time from when the switching transistor is turned off to when the synchronous rectification transistor is turned on; and a control module configured to receive the dead-time and control switching of the synchronous rectification transistor based on the dead-time.
US11984811B2
A power supply control device that controls a switching element of a switching power supply apparatus which includes a transformer having a primary winding, a secondary winding, and an auxiliary winding, the switching element coupled to the primary winding, and a capacitor coupled to the auxiliary winding, includes: a power supply terminal coupled to one end of the capacitor; a switch and a resistor coupled in series between the power supply terminal and a ground; a first control circuit that controls the switch; and a second control circuit that controls the switching element, in which the first control circuit performs control to turn on the switch when a first voltage applied to the power supply terminal continuously exceeds a first reference voltage for a first time, and the second control circuit performs control to turn off the switching element when the first voltage exceeds a second reference voltage higher than the first reference voltage.
US11984794B2
A system for cooling and lubricating a rotor shaft bearing of an electric machine is provided. In one example, the system includes a plurality of oil passages that extend axially through a rotor shaft and open into a sealed cavity near a housing interface between an electric machine housing and gearbox housing to route oil to the rotor shaft bearing for cooling and lubrication thereof.
US11984769B2
A rotary electric machine system of a combined power system includes a rotary electric machine, a rotary electric machine housing in which the rotary electric machine is accommodated, and a rotation parameter detector that detects a rotation parameter of a rotating shaft constituting the rotary electric machine. The rotating shaft includes a first end part and a second end part, a first bearing is provided between the first end part and the housing, and a second bearing is provided between the second end part and the housing. The first end part includes a protruding distal end that passes through the first bearing and protrudes to an exterior of the housing. The rotation parameter detector is disposed on the protruding distal end.
US11984768B2
A plumbing system for generating electrical power, including a hydroelectric generator assembly configured to generate power, a power source arranged in parallel with the hydroelectric generator assembly, and an interconnecting power harness in communication with the hydroelectric generator assembly and the power source. The plumbing system additionally includes a plumbing fixture in communication with the interconnecting power harness. The plumbing fixture includes a valve and a sensor configured to detect the presence of a user. The hydroelectric generator assembly is configured to provide power to the valve.
US11984762B2
An example stator tube assembly includes a hollow body defining a cavity and having a longitudinal length and a radial thickness. The hollow body is configured to be disposed within a stator housing and to separate the cavity from a stator cavity within the stator housing. The hollow body comprises a first radial thickness along a first portion of its longitudinal length and a second radial thickness along a second portion of its longitudinal length, the second radial thickness being greater than the first radial thickness.
US11984758B2
A configuration that can increase the reliability of a backup operation is realized in a simpler manner. An in-vehicle backup power source control apparatus includes a first control unit that causes a charge/discharge unit (first discharge unit) to perform a first discharge operation when power supply that is based on a power source unit enters a failure state, and a second control unit that causes a second discharge unit to perform a second discharge operation when power supply that is based on the power source unit enters a failure state and at least the first discharge operation performed by the charge/discharge unit is in an abnormal state.
US11984754B2
A method of upgrading a work machine having a lead-acid battery coupled to a drive circuit and at least one motor is disclosed. In the method, a lead-acid battery is removed from the work machine. Then, a lithium-ion battery pack having a lithium ion battery and an environmental management circuit is connected to the work machine in circuit with the drive circuit and the at least one motor.
US11984752B2
A motor driven actuator device includes an actuator motor; a controller; an input for receiving an external power supply; and a battery pack electrically connected to selectively drive the actuator motor, and electrically connectable to the external power supply for charging. During charging of the battery pack, the controller is configured to compare a measured charge level with a pre-determined charge level required to complete at least two battery shutdown events under battery power alone. During subsequent actuator device operation, the controller is configured to: determine if the external power supply is invalid, instruct a battery shutdown event causing the battery to be discharged, with enough charge in the battery to complete at least one further battery shutdown event; and, subsequently detect when the external power supply becomes valid, and resume actuator device operation under the external power supply, while simultaneously recharging the battery pack to at least the pre-determined charge level.
US11984746B2
A power supply system includes an alternating current sweep unit and a first power supply circuit, and each of a first U-phase battery string, a first V-phase battery string, a first W-phase battery string, and a first battery string includes a plurality of battery circuit modules connected in series, and each of the battery circuit modules includes a battery, output terminals, a first switch, and a second switch.
US11984737B2
A wireless charging system having a power transmitter may wirelessly transfer power to a power receiver. Shield saturation, such as saturation of a ferrite structure, in the wireless power receiver may occur under some operating conditions. Saturation can lead to disruptive oscillations in power transfer. The power transmitting may include control circuitry for detecting and mitigating saturation.
US11984735B2
A dynamic wireless power transfer system includes a power transmission coil, a power transmission circuit, a power reception coil, a power reception circuit, and a relay circuit. The power transmission coil is provided in a road. The power transmission circuit supplies electric power to the power transmission coil. The power reception coil is provided in a vehicle. The power reception circuit is connected to the power reception coil. The relay circuit transfers electric power between the power transmission coil and the power reception coil in a contactless manner.
US11984734B2
The present disclosure provides a display system including: a display apparatus; a wireless power reception apparatus configured to supply power to the display apparatus; and a wireless power transmission apparatus configured to emit a laser beam toward the wireless power reception module, wherein the wireless power reception module is formed as a bar type; and the wireless power transmission module comprises a light source configured to emit light of a specific wavelength as a laser beam, and a light shaping unit configured to shape the light of the light source and to convert the shaped light into a laser beam having a different cross-section and output the laser beam. Accordingly, by performing wireless power transmission using laser light, which satisfies the electromagnetic interference (EMI) requirements, wireless power may be transmitted to high-quality wall-mounted TVs and AV devices.
US11984733B2
In a dynamic wireless power transfer system, a power transmission coil is provided in a road. A power transmission circuit supplies electric power to the power transmission coil. A power reception coil is provided in a vehicle. A power reception circuit is connected to the power reception coil. A relay circuit is provided in a tire of the vehicle. The relay circuit includes at least two relay coils that are connected in series. The relay circuit transfers electric power from the power transmission coil to the power reception coil by one relay coil of the two relay coils opposing the power transmission coil and the other relay coil opposing the power reception coil. A resonance frequency of the relay circuit is a frequency that is within a fixed range that is centered on an applied frequency of an alternating-current voltage that is applied to the power transmission coil.
US11984723B2
A power supply system includes a power converter, a load state detector, and a controller. The power converter converts AC power received from the main power source into DC power with a voltage in accordance with a distribution voltage command value Vref and supplies the DC power to the load. The load state detector detects an operating state of the load. The controller operates in an operation mode selected from among a plurality of operation modes and generates the distribution voltage command value Vref. The operation modes include a distribution voltage control mode in which the distribution voltage command value Vref is generated based on load operating information detected by the load state detector and a distribution voltage fixed mode in which a predetermined setting value or an external command value acquired from an external device is set as the distribution voltage command value Vref.
US11984704B2
In an embodiment, the gain-guided semiconductor laser includes a semiconductor layer sequence and electrical contact pads. The semiconductor layer sequence includes an active zone for radiation generation, a waveguide layer, and a cladding layer. The semiconductor layer sequence further includes a current diaphragm layer which is electrically conductive along a resonator axis (R) in a central region and electrically insulating in adjoining edge regions. Transverse to the resonator axis (R), the central region includes a width of at least 10 μm and the edge regions includes at least a minimum width. The minimum width is 3 μm or more. Seen in plan view, the semiconductor layer sequence as well as at least one of the contact pads on the semiconductor layer sequence are continuous components extending in the central region as well as on both sides at least up to the minimum width in the direction transverse to the resonator axis (R) adjoining the central region and beyond the central region.
US11984680B2
A card edge connector for providing high-speed interconnections between different printed circuit boards. The card edge connector may include a plurality of wafers, each having a plurality of conductors. The conductors may include tails at one end and mating contact portions at an opposing end. The connector may have more rows of tails than columns of mating contact portions, so that the tails extend less distance from an edge of a PCB toward its center. The connector may be formed from multiple wafers of different sizes. Shorter wafers may have mating contact portions in columns and tails in rows. Taller wafers may have mating contact portions in the same column as a respective shorter wafer and tails in a row parallel to and offset from the row of tails of the respective shorter wafer.
US11984666B2
An object of the present disclosure is to provide a radiation element and a bandwidth extension structure. The radiation element according to the present disclosure comprises: a basic radiation element and one or more bandwidth extension structures; wherein the one or more bandwidth extension structures are mounted on the basic radiation element to extend the operating bandwidth of the basic radiation element. The bandwidth extension structure according to the present disclosure is mounted on the basic radiation element to extend the operating band of the basic radiation element. Compared with the prior art, the present disclosure has the following advantages: the radiation element according to the present disclosure has one or more bandwidth extension structures to extend the operating bandwidth of the basic radiation element, such that by combining the plurality of bandwidth extension structures and the basic radiation element, the radiation element may work well at bands beyond its original operating band, which eliminates the need of using a plurality of basic radiation elements due to different operating bandwidths as required, thereby saving costs.
US11984664B2
A system having a platform upon which several phased antenna arrays are mounted and which can communicate with satellites. The system includes a switch that can connect any of the phased array antennas to any of available modems. The system further includes a router that can connect any of the modems to any available computing devices. Based on parameters such as data rates, signal strength, and account information, one or more communication paths are selected for a computing device requesting to communicate with a satellite. Each communication path is established by operating the switch to connect a selected antenna to a selected modem, and operating the router to transfer data between the computing device and the selected modem.
US11984663B2
The RET adjuster includes a drive assembly with a rotatable drive member operatively connected to a phase shifter assembly such that rotation of the drive member adjusts the phase shifter assembly. A first connector is coupled to the drive member where the first connector occupies a rest position when the drive member is at rest. A drive system has a second connector occupying a rest position when the drive system is at rest where the second connector is releasably engageable with the first connector such that actuation of the drive system rotates the drive member. A mechanical calibration system locates the second connector at the second rest position.
US11984653B2
Examples are disclosed related to optically transparent antennas. One example provides a device, comprising an electrically insulating substrate that is at least partially optically transparent, one or more antennas disposed on the electrically insulating substrate, each antenna comprising a film of a conductive material that is at least partially optically transparent, the one or more antennas comprising a communication antenna, and processing circuitry electrically coupled to the communication antenna, the processing circuitry configured to one or more of send or receive signals via the communication antenna.
US11984645B2
An antenna element includes: a substrate with a ground plate, a horizontally polarized dipole antenna including a first antenna branch and a second antenna branch, and a first feeding structure. The first antenna branch and the second antenna branch are disposed in the substrate at intervals, the first antenna branch and the second antenna branch are disposed on a plane on which the ground plate is disposed, and the first antenna branch and the second antenna branch are electrically connected to the ground plate through the first feeding structure. The ground plate is spaced apart from both the first antenna branch and the second antenna branch, and a side edge of the ground plate that faces the first antenna branch and the second antenna branch is a concave side edge.
US11984643B2
Provided is an electronic device. The electronic device includes a base and a flip. The flip is rotatable around a rotation axis to bring the electronic device into a closed state. The base is provided with a first antenna including a first slot, and the flip is provided with a second antenna including a groove. In the closed state, the first slot in the first antenna is opposite to the groove in the second antenna.
US11984641B2
A convertible information handling system comprising an antenna feed operatively coupled to a wireless adapter and an hinged adjustable antenna spanning a hinge for communicating on a wireless link, the hinge pivoting between a first antenna portion of the hinged adjustable antenna on a display chassis and a second antenna portion of an hinged adjustable antenna on a base chassis and the hinge which rotates the convertible information handling system between a first configuration and a tablet configuration and a first adjustable antenna configuration in the first configuration and a second adjustable antenna configuration in the tablet configuration, where the first adjustable antenna configuration supports a first bandwidth at the wireless adapter and the second adjustable antenna configuration supports a second bandwidth at the wireless adapter.
US11984629B2
Improved membrane electrode assemblies, cation-associating components thereof, and methods of making and treating the same are provided. Membrane electrode assemblies may include an ionomer having a first pKa value, and a water-insoluble net polymer having a weakly-acidic functional group, wherein the weakly-acidic functional group has a second pKa value greater than the first pKa value.
US11984620B2
There is provided a bus bar module including a case having a first divided case and a second divided case which are divided in an arrangement direction of electric cells. A female lock portion of the first divided case includes a locking frame provided with a gap spaced apart from an end surface of the first divided case. A male lock portion of the second divided case includes a pair of elastic arms, a support plate portion spanning end portions of the elastic arms between each other, a locking plate portion formed on the support plate portion and inserted into the gap of the female lock portion, and a lock claw provided on the locking plate portion and locking the locking frame by inserting the locking plate portion into the gap. The support plate portion of the male lock portion has slits at a side of the elastic arms.
US11984601B2
A conductive material dispersion liquid, and an electrode and a lithium secondary battery manufactured using the same. The conductive material dispersion liquid includes a carbon-based conductive material, a dispersant, and a dispersion medium. The dispersant is a copolymer including a first repeating unit represented by Chemical Formula 1, a second repeating unit represented by Chemical Formula 2, and a third repeating unit represented by Chemical Formula 3, and the dispersion medium is a non-aqueous solvent.
US11984596B2
Disclosed are a rod-shaped sodium ion positive electrode material, a preparation method therefor and an application thereof. The material comprises a rod-shaped base material and nanofibers inserted into the base material. C—Na is loaded on the nanofibers. The chemical general formula of the rod-shaped sodium ion positive electrode material is Na(FeaTb)PO4/CNF-c(C—Na), and 0.001≤c≤0.1, wherein T is at least one of Ni, Co, Zn, Mn, Fe, V, Ti or Mo, 0.9≤a<1, 0
US11984587B2
The present invention relates to: a negative electrode active material including silicon-based composite particles containing SiOx (0
US11984585B2
An all solid state battery includes a cathode, an anode, an opposing region, a non-opposing region, and a solid electrolyte layer, and an anode active material layer includes an anode active material, and a sulfide solid electrolyte, the anode current collector is a current collector that react with the sulfide solid electrolyte at an open circuit potential of the anode active material, the anode current collector includes a coating layer including lithium titanate, on a surface of the anode active material layer side, in plan view, the coating layer includes one or two or more of an existence portion and non-existence portion respectively, in the region specified by an outer edge of the anode current collector, and in plan view, the coating layer includes the existence portion in at least a part of the opposing region, and includes the non-existence portion in at least a part of the non-opposing region.
US11984581B2
A negative electrode for a lithium metal battery including: a lithium metal electrode including a lithium metal or a lithium metal alloy; and a protective layer on at least portion of the lithium metal electrode, wherein the protective layer has a Young's modulus of about 106 pascals or greater and includes at least one particle having a particle size of greater than 1 micrometer to about 100 micrometers, and wherein the at least one particle include an organic particle, an inorganic particle, an organic-inorganic particle, or a combination thereof.
US11984580B2
Provided is an anode particulate for a lithium battery, the particulate comprising a polymer foam material having pores and a single or a plurality of primary particles of an anode active material embedded in or in contact with said polymer foam material, wherein said primary particles of anode active material have a total solid volume Va, and said pores have a total pore volume Vp, and the volume ratio Vp/Va is from 0.1/1.0 to 10/1.
US11984572B2
A battery cooling system includes several battery cooling plates connected to a coolant manifold and coolant chiller. The coolant chiller is configured to remove heat from a flow of coolant that circulates through the battery cooling system. The coolant manifold has a first and a second chamber that both extend in a longitudinal direction and that are spaced apart and separated by an air gap. The first chamber receives a flow of chilled coolant from the coolant chiller, and the second chamber delivers to the coolant chiller a flow of coolant to be chilled. Plastic connectors in one-to-one correspondence with the battery cooling plates are mounted to the coolant manifold to fluidly couple the first and second chambers of the coolant manifold to the battery cooling plates.
US11984571B1
A cooling assembly for preventing cell-to-cell heat transfer is provided. Cooling assembly may include a battery pack, which may include a plurality of battery cells. Cooling assembly may also include a cooling plate. Cooling plate may include a geometry that prevents battery cells from exchanging heat during operation and/or malfunctions. Cooling plate geometry may include geometric features imprinted in a surface of cooling plate.
US11984566B2
A cell temperature measurement system for a battery includes a heat spreader and a temperature sensor. The heat spreader is configured to thermally conduct energy through a substrate from a cell contact to a sensor contact. The temperature sensor is configured to generate a measurement reflective of a cell or another component temperature of the battery. The temperature sensor may generate the temperature measurement according to readings taken with a probe positioned proximate the sensor contact.
US11984564B1
Embodiments described herein relate to electrochemical cells with dendrite prevention mechanisms. In some aspects, an electrochemical cell can include an anode disposed on an anode current collector, a cathode disposed on a cathode current collector, the cathode having a first thickness at a proximal end of the cathode and a second thickness at a distal end of the cathode, the second thickness greater than the first thickness, a first separator disposed on the anode, a second separator disposed on the cathode, an interlayer disposed between the first separator and the second separator, the interlayer including electroactive material and having a proximal end and a distal end, and a power source electrically connected to the proximal end of the cathode and the proximal end of the interlayer, the power source configured to maintain a voltage difference between the cathode and the interlayer below a threshold value.
US11984563B1
This application provides a method for capacity recovery of lithium-ion secondary battery. The method includes the following steps: (1) providing a capacity-degraded lithium-ion secondary battery; (2) providing a capacity recovery agent, the capacity recovery agent including a p-phenylenediamine compound, a lithium salt, and an organic solvent, and the organic solvent being used to dissolve the p-phenylenediamine compound and the lithium salt; (3) injecting the capacity recovery agent into the lithium-ion secondary battery; (4) enabling the capacity recovery agent to react inside the lithium-ion secondary battery; and (5) pouring out the liquid mixture inside the lithium-ion secondary battery after reaction and injecting an electrolyte into the lithium-ion secondary battery.
US11984562B2
A highly safe power storage system is provided. If n (n is an integer over or equal to three) secondary batteries are used in a vehicle such as an electric vehicle, a circuit configuration is used with which the condition of each secondary battery is monitored using an anomaly detection unit; and if an anomaly such as a micro-short circuit is detected, only the detected anomalous secondary battery is electrically separated from the charging system or the discharging system. At least one microcomputer monitors anomalies in n secondary batteries consecutively, selects the anomalous secondary battery or the detected secondary battery which causes an anomaly, and gives an instruction to bypass the secondary battery with each switch.
US11984561B2
A battery system includes a plurality of battery modules electrically connected in series. Each of the battery modules includes: one or more battery cells; a first switch connected between a positive reference potential of the one or more battery cells and a first node; and a second switch connected between the first node and a second node, where a negative reference potential of the one or more battery cells is connected to the second node. A management module is configured to: selectively close the first switches of the battery modules while the second switches are open; and selectively close the second switch of one of the battery modules while the first switch of the one of the battery modules is open.
US11984552B2
An all-solid secondary battery includes: a cathode layer including a cathode active material; an anode layer; and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the cathode layer and the anode layer, wherein at least one of the cathode layer, the anode layer, or the solid electrolyte layer includes a phase-transition solid electrolyte material, wherein upon heating, the phase-transition solid electrolyte material undergoes a phase transition from a first phase to a second phase, and the second phase has an ionic conductivity less than the ionic conductivity of the first phase.
US11984551B2
The present disclosure sets forth battery components for secondary and/or traction batteries. Described herein are new solid-state lithium (Li) conducting electrolytes including monolithic, single layer, and bi-layer solid-state sulfide-based lithium ion (Li+) conducting catholytes or electrolytes. These solid-state ion conductors have particular chemical compositions which are arranged and/or bonded through both crystalline and amorphous bonds. Also provided herein are methods of making these solid-state sulfide-based lithium ion conductors including new annealing methods. These ion conductors are useful, for example, as membrane separators in rechargeable batteries.
US11984544B2
A light-emitting element includes light-emitting diode (LED) chip with a first and second surface opposite to each other, and sidewalls connecting the first and second surface. The light-emitting element further includes a first insulation layer disposed on and covering the first surface and one part of the sidewalls. The light-emitting element further includes multiple connection pads physically contact the first surface and protruding from the first insulation layer, as well as a second insulation layer disposed on and covering the second surface and the other part of the sidewalls. The second insulation layer includes a cover portion and protrusion portions. The cover portion covers the whole second surface and the other part of the sidewalls. The protrusion portions are disposed on the sidewalls, protrude from the cover portion and extend laterally.
US11984537B2
A display device includes a substrate; a first circuit part and a second circuit part on the substrate and spaced from each other in a first direction; and an emission part between the first circuit part and the second circuit part, the emission part being located between the first circuit part and the second circuit part in a direction parallel to the substrate, wherein the first circuit part includes a first electrode extending to the emission part, wherein the second circuit part includes a second electrode extending to the emission part, and wherein the emission part includes a light emitting element located between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US11984530B2
A light emitting diode (LED) structure includes a substrate, a first type semiconductor layer, a second type semiconductor layer, and a multi-quantum well light-emitting layer. The first type semiconductor layer is disposed on the substrate and has a patterned structure layer on a surface of the first type semiconductor layer away from the substrate. The multi-quantum well light-emitting layer is sandwiched between the patterned structure layer and the second type semiconductor layer and covers the patterned structure layer. The multi-quantum well light-emitting layer has multiple first thickness regions, multiple second thickness regions, and multiple transition regions. The first thickness region has a thickness greater than the second thickness region in a vertical direction from the first type semiconductor layer to the second type semiconductor layer. The transition region has a thickness that gradually decreases in a direction from the first thickness regions to the second thickness region.
US11984529B2
A heterostructure for an optoelectronic device is disclosed. The heterostructure includes an active region including at least one quantum well and at least one barrier and an electron blocking layer located adjacent to the active region, wherein the electron blocking layer includes a region of graded composition. An asymmetric p-type superlattice layer is located adjacent to the electron blocking layer, wherein the p-type superlattice includes at least one superlattice period comprising a set of wells and a set of barriers. A thickness of at least one of: each well in the set of wells or each barrier in the set of barriers varies along a length of the p-type superlattice.
US11984503B2
The present disclosure generally to semiconductor devices, and more particularly to semiconductor devices having high-voltage transistors integrated on a semiconductor-on-insulator substrate and methods of forming the same. The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device including a bulk substrate having an upper surface, a semiconductor layer above the bulk substrate, an insulating layer between the semiconductor layer and the bulk substrate, a source region and a drain region on the bulk substrate, the source region and the drain region are raised above the upper surface of the bulk substrate, in which the source region and the drain region include an epitaxial semiconductor material, a gate dielectric between the source region and the drain region, the gate dielectric having a first portion on the bulk substrate and a second portion on the semiconductor layer, and a gate electrode above the gate dielectric.
US11984497B2
There is disclosed the integration of a Schottky diode with a MOSFET, more in detail there is a free-wheeling Schottky diode and a power MOSFET on top of a buried grid material structure. Advantages of the specific design allow the whole surface area to be used for MOSFET and Schottky diode structures, the shared drift layer is not limited by Schottky diode or MOSFET design rules and therefore, one can decrease the thickness and increase the doping concentration of the drift layer closer to a punch through design compared to the state of the art. This results in higher conductivity and lower on-resistance of the device with no influence on the voltage blocking performance. The integrated device can operate at higher frequency. The risk for bipolar degradation is avoided.
US11984489B2
A semiconductor structure includes a first device and a second device. The first device includes: a first gate structure formed over an active region and a first air spacer disposed adjacent to the first gate structure. The second device includes: a second gate structure formed over an isolation structure and a second air spacer disposed adjacent to the second gate structure. The first air spacer and the second air spacer have different sizes.
US11984488B2
Methods and devices that include a multigate device having a channel layer disposed between a source feature and a drain feature, a metal gate that surrounds the channel layer, and a first air gap spacer interposing the metal gate and the source feature and a second air gap spacer interposing the metal gate and the drain feature. A backside contact extends to the source feature. A power line metallization layer is connected to the backside contact.
US11984487B2
Disclosed herein are non-planar transistor (e.g., nanoribbon) arrangements having asymmetric gate enclosures on at least one side. An example transistor arrangement includes a channel material shaped as a nanoribbon, and a gate stack wrapping around at least a portion of a first face of the nanoribbon, a sidewall, and a portion of a second face of the nanoribbon. Portions of the gate stack provided over the first and second faces of the nanoribbon extend in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of the nanoribbon for a certain distance that may be referred to as a “gate length.” A portion of the gate stack wrapping around the sidewall of the nanoribbon does not extend along the entire gate length, but, rather, extends over less than a half of the gate length, e.g., about one third of the gate length, thus making the gate enclosure on that sidewall asymmetric.
US11984482B2
Provided is a semiconductor device including a buffer region. Provided is a semiconductor device including: semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type; a drift layer of the first conductivity type provided in the semiconductor substrate; and a buffer region of the first conductivity type provided in the drift layer, the buffer region having a plurality of peaks of a doping concentration, wherein the buffer region has: a first peak which has a predetermined doping concentration, and is provided the closest to a back surface of the semiconductor substrate among the plurality of peaks; and a high-concentration peak which has a higher doping concentration than the first peak, and is provided closer to an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate than the first peak is.
US11984481B2
A mist-CVD apparatus contains a first atomizer for atomizing a first metal oxide precursor and generating a first mist of the first metal oxide precursor; a second atomizer for atomizing a second metal oxide precursor and generating a second mist of the second metal oxide precursor; a carrier-gas supplier for supplying a carrier gas to convey the first and second mists; a film-forming unit for forming a film on a substrate by subjecting the first and second mists to a thermal reaction; and a first conveyance pipe through which the first mist and the carrier gas are conveyed to the film forming chamber, a second conveyance pipe through which the second mist and the carrier gas are conveyed to the film forming chamber.
US11984477B2
A semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) substrate includes a handle substrate, a charge-trapping layer located over the handle substrate and including nitrogen-doped polysilicon, an insulating layer located over the charge-trapping layer, and a semiconductor material layer located over the insulating layer. The nitrogen atoms in the charge-trapping layer suppress grain growth during anneal processes used to form the SOI substrate and during subsequent high temperature processes used to form semiconductor devices on the semiconductor material layer. Reduction in grain growth reduces distortion of the SOI substrate, and facilitates overlay of lithographic patterns during fabrication of the semiconductor devices. The charge-trapping layer suppresses formation of a parasitic surface conduction layer, and reduces capacitive coupling of the semiconductor devices with the handle substrate during high frequency operation such as operations in gigahertz range.
US11984467B2
An image sensor includes an upper chip having a pixel array connected to a first connecting structure, and a lower chip below the upper chip and having a second connecting structure connected to the first connecting structure and having first and second stacked metal layers with a same thickness, a third metal layer on the second metal layer and thicker than the second metal layer, a fourth metal layer on the third metal layer and thicker than the third metal layer, first through third insulating layers alternating with the first through fourth metal layers, a first memory device with a first MTJ element in at least one of the first and second insulating layers, and a second memory device with a second MTJ element different from the first MTJ element, the second MTJ element being in at least one of the first through third insulating layers.
US11984464B2
Examples of the disclosed subject matter propose disposing trench isolation structure around the perimeter of the pixel transistor region of the pixel cell. The trench isolation structure includes front side (e.g., shallow and deep) trench isolation structure and back side deep trench isolation structure that abut against or contacts the bottom of front side deep trench isolation structure for isolating the pixel transistor channel of the pixel cell's pixel transistor region. The formation and arrangement of the trench isolation structure in the pixel transistor region forms a floating doped well region, containing, for example, a floating diffusion (FD) and source/drains (e.g., (N) doped regions) of the pixel transistors. This floating P-well region aims to reduce junction leakage associated with the floating diffusion region of the pixel cell.
US11984456B2
The present invention provides an array base plate and a manufacturing method therefor. The array base plate includes a substrate base plate layer, a first trace layer, an insulating layer, and a stress balance layer. The first trace layer includes a first trace. An edge of the stress balance layer is aligned to an edge of the substrate base plate layer. The stress balance layer has a bending stress in a direction opposite to a direction of the first trace and a curvature less than 1.2 mm/m.
US11984451B2
A display device having a substrate; a first thin film transistor (TFT) on the substrate, the first TFT having a first active layer, a first gate insulator, and a first gate electrode; a second TFT on the substrate, the second TFT having a second active layer, a second gate insulator and a second gate electrode. The first gate insulator is disposed between the first gate electrode and the first active layer, and the first gate insulator is in contact with the first active layer. The second gate insulator is disposed between the second gate electrode and the second active layer, and the second gate insulator is in contact with the second active layer. The first active layer is a different material than the second active layer, and a hydrogen concentration of the second gate insulator is less than a hydrogen concentration of the first gate insulator.
US11984448B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first base fin protruding from the substrate and extending in a first direction, and a first fin type pattern protruding from the first base fin and extending in the first direction. The first base fin includes a first sidewall and a second sidewall, the first and second sidewalls extending in the first direction, the first sidewall opposite to the second sidewall, the first sidewall of the first base fin at least partially defines a first deep trench, the second sidewall of the first base fin at least partially defines a second deep trench, and a depth of the first deep trench is greater than a depth of the second deep trench.
US11984445B2
A semiconductor device, the semiconductor device including: a first silicon level including a first single crystal silicon layer and a plurality of first transistors; a first metal layer disposed over the first silicon level; a second metal layer disposed over the first metal layer; a third metal layer disposed over the second metal layer; a second level including a plurality of second transistors, the second level disposed over the third metal layer; a fourth metal layer disposed over the second level; a fifth metal layer disposed over the fourth metal layer, where the fourth metal layer is aligned to the first metal layer with a less than 240 nm alignment error; where the fifth metal layer includes global power delivery; and a via disposed through the second level, where a typical thickness of the second metal layer is greater than a typical thickness of the third metal layer by at least 50%.
US11984441B2
Disclosed embodiments herein relate to an integrated circuit including metal rails. In one aspect, the integrated circuit includes a first layer including a first metal rail and a second layer including a second metal rail, where the second layer is above the first layer along a first direction. In one aspect, the integrated circuit includes a third layer including an active region of a transistor, where the third layer is above the second layer along the first direction. In one aspect, the integrated circuit includes a fourth layer including a third metal rail, where the fourth layer is above the third layer along the first direction. In one aspect, the integrated circuit includes a fifth layer including a fourth metal rail, where the fifth layer is above the fourth layer along the first direction.
US11984431B2
A structure and a method of forming are provided. The structure includes a first dielectric layer overlying a first substrate. A first connection pad is disposed in a top surface of the first dielectric layer and contacts a first redistribution line. A first dummy pad is disposed in the top surface of the first dielectric layer, the first dummy pad contacting the first redistribution line. A second dielectric layer overlies a second substrate. A second connection pad and a second dummy pad are disposed in the top surface of the second dielectric layer, the second connection pad bonded to the first connection pad, and the first dummy pad positioned in a manner that is offset from the second dummy pad so that the first dummy pad and the second dummy pad do not contact each other.
US11984417B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of semiconductors, and provides a semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method thereof. The semiconductor structure includes a first chip and a second chip. A first conductive connection wire of the first chip is connected to a first conductive contact pad, and a second conductive connection wire of the second chip is connected to a second conductive contact pad. In addition, the first conductive contact pad includes a first conductor group and a second conductor group, and the second conductive contact pad includes a third conductor group and a fourth conductor group.
US11984415B2
An interposer according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a base layer having opposite first and second surfaces, a wiring structure on the first surface of the base layer, an interposer protective layer disposed on the second surface of the base layer and having a pad recess with a lower surface of the interposer protective layer positioned at a first vertical level and a bottom surface of the pad recess positioned at a second vertical level that is higher than the first vertical level, an interposer pad of which a portion fills the pad recess of the interposer protective layer and the remaining portion protrudes from the interposer protective layer, and an interposer through electrode extending through the base layer and the interposer protective layer to the interposer pad, the interposer through electrode electrically connecting the wiring structure to the interposer pad.
US11984413B2
A high-frequency power transistor comprises a transistor, at least one capacitor and a housing, which at least partially encloses the transistor and the capacitor. A first port for a high-frequency input and a gate DC voltage supply are connected to a gate contact of the transistor. A second port is connected to a drain contact of the transistor for a high-frequency output and drain DC voltage supply. A third port and fourth port are connected to a source contact of the transistor. All ports lead out of the same housing. The third port is connected via the capacitor to the source contact, and the fourth port is connected via at least one inductive element to the source contact, so that the third port provides a high-frequency ground, and the fourth port provides a floating low-frequency ground and source DC voltage supply.
US11984412B2
An electronic package in which at least one magnetically permeable member is disposed between a carrier and an electronic component, where the electronic component has a first conductive layer, and the carrier has a second conductive layer, such that the magnetically permeable element is located between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. Moreover, a plurality of conductive bumps that electrically connect the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer are arranged between the electronic component and the carrier to surround the magnetically permeable member for generating magnetic flux.
US11984411B2
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate and a medium layer located on a first face of the substrate, the substrate has a plurality of first metal layers therein, the medium layer has a magnetic core therein, an orthographic projection of the magnetic core on the first face has a closed ring pattern, the first metal layer has a first end and a second end opposite to each other, an orthographic projection of the first end on the first face is located within a region surrounded by the closed ring pattern.
US11984400B2
An SRAM device and method of forming include pass gate (PG), pull-down (PD), and pull-up (PU) transistors. A first gate line of the PG and a second gate line of the PD and the PU extend in a first direction. A common source/drain of the PG, PD, and PU transistors interposes the first and second gate lines and another source/drain of the PG transistor. A first contact extends from the common source/drain and a second contact extends from the another source/drain. A third contact is disposed above the second contact with a first width in the first direction and a first length in a second direction, first length being greater than the first width.
US11984398B2
A semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The manufacturing method of the semiconductor structure comprises: providing a substrate, comprising a polysilicon layer, a first conductive layer, a first dielectric layer, a mask layer, and a sacrificial layer sequentially formed thereon, wherein the sacrificial layer has a plurality of first trenches distributed at intervals; forming a first insulating layer on the sacrificial layer; forming a protective layer, the protective layer only covering a surface of the first insulating layer above the top surface of the sacrificial layer; removing the protective layer, part of the first insulating layer, the sacrificial layer, and part of the mask layer to form a first pattern layer; and removing part of the first dielectric layer, part of the first conductive layer, and part of the polysilicon layer by using the first pattern layer as a mask to form a BL structure.
US11984397B2
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, first and second transistors, first and second fuses, a contact structure, and a dielectric layer. The substrate has first and second device regions, and a fuse region. The first and second transistors are respectively above the first and second device regions. The first fuse is electrically connected to the first transistor and includes a first fuse active region having first and second portions. The second fuse is electrically connected to the second transistor and includes a second fuse active region having third and fourth portions. The contact structure interconnects the second portion and the third portion, wherein the first portion and the fourth portion are on opposite sides of the contact structure. The dielectric layer is between the contact structure and the fuse region of the substrate.
US11984391B1
A circuit board assembly is provided. The circuit board assembly includes a circuit board and a plurality of chips assembled on a surface of the circuit board. The plurality of chips include integrated circuit (IC) chips. At least two chips are positioned on the surface of the circuit board adjacent to one another with a spacing separating the two chips that is less than a minimum dimension of each of the two chips. A method for circuit board assembly is also provided.
US11984388B2
Methods of forming semiconductor packages include providing a lead frame having leads and no tie-bars. Tape is attached to the lead frame and one or more semiconductor die are coupled therewith. Electrical contacts of the die are interconnected with the leads using electrical connectors. An encapsulated assembly is formed by at least partially encapsulating the die and electrical connectors. The assembly is singulated to form a semiconductor package. The tape is detached from the package or encapsulated assembly. One or more die attach flags may be attached to the tape and the die may be attached thereto. Semiconductor packages formed using the methods include one or more semiconductor die at least partially encapsulated, pins exposed through the encapsulant, electrical connectors within the encapsulant and electrically interconnecting the pins with electrical contacts of the die, and no tie-bars coupling the die with the pins. Packages may also include die attach flags.
US11984382B2
Methods, systems, and devices related to a memory device with a thermal barrier are described. The thermal barrier (e.g., a low density thermal barrier) may be positioned between an access line (e.g., a digit line or a word line) and a cell component. The thermal barrier may be formed on the surface of a barrier material by applying a plasma treatment to the barrier material. The thermal barrier may have a lower density than the barrier material and may be configured to thermally insulate the cell component from thermal energy generated in the memory device, among other benefits.
US11984380B2
A semiconductor package includes a module substrate having opposite top and bottom surfaces, a semiconductor chip provided with bumps and mounted on the top surface of the module substrate via the bumps, and a metal member having a top portion disposed at a level higher than the semiconductor chip with reference to the top surface of the module substrate and including the semiconductor chip in plan view and a side portion extending from the top portion toward the module substrate. The module substrate includes a first metal film disposed on or in at least one of the bottom surface and an internal layer of the module substrate. The first metal film is electrically connected to the bumps and reaches a side surface of the module substrate. The side portion is thermally coupled to the first metal film at the side surface of the module substrate.
US11984371B2
Systems, methods, circuits, and apparatus including computer-readable mediums for testing bonding pads in multi-die packages, e.g., chiplet systems. In one aspect, a chiplet system includes multiple integrated circuit devices electrically connected together. The integrated circuit devices include an integrated circuit device including: an integrated circuit, a plurality of first type bonding pads electrically connected to the integrated circuit and electrically connected to at least one other of the integrated circuit devices, and one or more second type bonding pads electrically isolated from the at least one other of the integrated circuit devices. At least one of the plurality of first type bonding pads is configured to be electrically connected to a corresponding one of the one or more second type bonding pads.
US11984369B2
A semiconductor structure includes: a substrate; an insulating region located in the substrate; a first conductor located above the insulating region and configured to collect charges; a second conductor at least partially located above the insulating region and configured to induce the charges of the first conductor; and a dielectric layer located between the first conductor and the second conductor to electrically insulate the first conductor from the second conductor.
US11984359B2
A semiconductor device includes a first conductive structure. The semiconductor device includes a first dielectric structure. The semiconductor device includes a second conductive structure. The first dielectric structure is positioned between a first surface of the first conductive structure and a surface of the second conductive structure. The semiconductor device includes an etch stop layer overlaying the first conductive structure. The semiconductor device includes a first spacer structure overlaying the first dielectric structure. The semiconductor device includes a second dielectric structure overlaying the first spacer structure and the etch stop layer.
US11984352B2
Provided is a formation method of a semiconductor structure, including: providing a substrate having a first region and a second region, a plurality of discrete through holes being formed in the substrate, an arrangement density of the through holes in the first region being greater than that in the second region; forming a sacrificial layer filling the through holes; etching some thickness of the substrate around the sacrificial layer to form openings, the openings surrounding the sacrificial layer, a depth of the opening being less than a depth of the through hole in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the substrate; and removing the sacrificial layer, the openings communicating with the corresponding through holes to form trenches.
US11984343B2
Described are apparatus and methods for processing a semiconductor wafer so that the wafer remains in place during processing. The wafer is subjected to a pressure differential between the top surface and bottom surface so that sufficient force prevents the wafer from moving during processing, the pressure differential generated by applying a decreased pressure to the back side of the wafer.
US11984333B2
A direct current (DC) power is supplied to heating elements embedded in zones of a substrate support assembly (SSA) of a processing chamber. A determination is made, based on a voltage measured across the heating elements and a current measured through the heating elements as the DC power is supplied to the heating elements, that the temperature of the SSA does not satisfy a temperature condition. A zone of the SSA that is at a temperature that does not correspond to a target temperature for the zone based on the temperature condition is identified based on the measured voltage and the measured current. The DC power supplied to the heating elements embedded within the identified zone is modified to cause the temperature of the zone to be modified to the target temperature and the temperature of the substrate support assembly to satisfy the temperature condition.
US11984331B2
The present disclosure relates to an equipment front end module (EFEM) teaching element. The EFEM teaching element includes a memory element configured to store data describing an initial position of an EFEM robot within an EFEM chamber. A position measurement device is configured to take measurements describing a new position of the EFEM robot within the EFEM chamber that is different than the initial position of the EFEM robot. A controller is configured to determine a set of new movement commands describing a path of the EFEM robot based upon the data describing the initial position of the EFEM robot and the measurements.
US11984317B2
Techniques, structures, and materials related to extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography are discussed. Multiple patterning inclusive of first patterning a grating of parallel lines and second patterning utilizing EUV lithography to form plugs in the grating, and optional trimming of the plugs may be employed. EUV resists, surface treatments, resist additives, and optional processing inclusive of plug healing, angled etch processing, electric field enhanced post exposure bake are described, which provide improved processing reliability, feature definition, and critical dimensions.
US11984312B2
A system (2) for storing and delivering a gas includes a container (4), a porous absorbent material (7) provided within the container, the porous absorbent material storing the gas in a concentrated form, and an adapter assembly (6) structured to be coupled to the container. The adapter assembly is structured to enable the gas to be extracted from the container and delivered to an individual through a cannula or the like.
US11984310B2
A method of operating an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry apparatus for analyzing an analyte sample, the mass spectrometry apparatus including a plasma ion source, a mass analyzer and an interface arrangement positioned between the plasma ion source and the mass analyzer of the mass spectrometer, the interface arrangement at least including an interface structure, including a sampling or skimmer cone, and at least one passage with an inlet and an outlet into a reaction zone, the method including: generating a plasma using the plasma ion source and forming a plasma flux to flow towards the mass analyzer; supplying the analyte sample into the reaction zone via the passage such that the analyte sample interacts with the plasma flux; and analyzing the analyte sample using the mass analyzer.
US11984298B2
An apparatus for providing signals to a device may include one or more radio frequency signal generators, and electrically-small transmission line, which coupled signals from the one or more RF signal generators to a fabrication chamber. The apparatus may additionally include a reactive circuit to transform impedance of the electrically-small transmission line from a region of relatively high impedance-sensitivity to region of relatively low impedance-sensitivity.
US11984291B2
A method for manufacturing an electron source includes steps of sandwiching a welding object in which a tip of an electron emission material and a tungsten filament overlap in direct contact between a pair of welding electrodes, and welding the tip and the tungsten filament by causing a current to flow while pressing forces are applied to the welding object by the pair of welding electrodes. A thickness of the welding object is within a range of 50 to 500 μm.
US11984268B2
The present invention is directed to a multilayer ceramic capacitor that includes a plurality of active electrodes and at least one shield electrode that are each arranged within a monolithic body and parallel with a longitudinal direction. The capacitor may exhibit a first insertion loss value at a test frequency, which may be greater than about 2 GHz, in a first orientation relative to the mounting surface. The capacitor may exhibit a second insertion loss value at about the test frequency in a second orientation relative to the mounting surface and the capacitor is rotated 90 degrees or more about the longitudinal direction with respect to the first orientation. The longitudinal direction of the capacitor may be parallel with the mounting surface in each of the first and second orientations. The second insertion loss value may differ from the first insertion loss value by at least about 0.3 dB.
US11984265B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes dielectric layers made of a ceramic material and internal electrode layers laminated therein. The internal electrode layers each include dielectric columns provided therein. A solid solution layer in which S is solidly dissolved is provided at an interface between each of the dielectric columns and each of the internal electrode layers.
US11984262B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor may include a monolithic body including a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of electrode regions. The plurality of electrode regions can include a dielectric region, an active electrode region, and a shield electrode region. The active electrode region may be located between the dielectric region and the shield electrode region in a Z-direction. The dielectric region may extend from the active electrode region to the top surface of the broadband multilayer ceramic capacitor. The capacitor may include a plurality of active electrodes arranged within the active electrode region and at least one shield electrode arranged within the shield electrode region. The dielectric region may be free of electrode layers that extend greater than 25% of a length of the capacitor. A ratio of a capacitor thickness to a thickness of the dielectric region may be less than about 20.
US11984250B2
A multi-winding inductor includes a magnetic core including three magnetic columns and two windings. Each winding includes a first, a second and a third portions. The first magnetic column is arranged between the first portion of the first winding and the first portion of the second winding; the second magnetic column is arranged on one side of the first portion of the first winding and the third portion of the second winding; and the third magnetic column is arranged between the third portion of the first winding and the third portion of the second winding. The first and the second portions of two windings respectively form pins on opposite sides of the magnetic core.
US11984249B2
A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet for a wound transformer core. The steel sheet having a sheet thickness t, where t and an iron loss deterioration ratio obtained by subjecting the steel sheet under elliptic magnetization satisfy the following relations: (i) when t≤0.20 mm, the iron loss deterioration ratio is 60% or less; (ii) when 0.20 mm
US11984243B2
Permanent magnet materials are provided. The permanent magnet materials are cerium based materials including zirconium and iron in combination with cobalt. The permanent magnet materials may have the formula Ce2ZrFe15−xCox wherein 6≤x≤15. In some embodiments, the permanent magnet materials have the formula Ce2+yZr1−yFe(15−x)(2−z)/2)CoxCu((15−x)z/2) wherein 6≤x≤15, 0≤y≤0.4, and z=0 or 1. In other embodiments, the permanent magnet materials have the formula Ce2Zrx(Fe1−yCoy)17−2x, where 0
US11984236B2
A radiation system includes a beam splitting apparatus configured to split a main radiation beam into a plurality of branch radiation beams and a radiation alteration device arranged to receive an input radiation beam and output a modified radiation beam, wherein the radiation alteration device is configured to provide an output modified radiation beam which has an increased etendue, when compared to the received input radiation beam, wherein the radiation alteration device is arranged such that the input radiation beam which is received by the radiation alteration device is a main radiation beam and the radiation alteration device is configured to provide a modified main radiation beam to the beam splitting apparatus, or wherein the radiation alteration device is arranged such that the input radiation beam which is received by the radiation alteration device is a branch radiation beam output from the beam splitting apparatus.
US11984227B2
Automatically determining a medical recommendation for a patient based on multiple medical images from multiple different medical imaging modalities. In some embodiments, a method may include receiving a first and second medical images of a patient from first and second medical imaging modalities, mapping a first region of interest (ROI) on the first medical image to a second ROI on the second medical image, generating first annotation data related to the first ROI and second annotation data related to the second ROI, generating first medical clinical data related to the first ROI and second medical clinical data related to the second ROI, inputting, into a machine learning classifier, the first and second annotation data and the first and second medical clinical data, and automatically determining, by the machine learning classifier, a medical recommendation for the patient related to a medical condition of the patient.
US11984223B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure enable a user-wearable infusion pump that may have a limited user interface including no display to be paired with a remote control device that can include a remote consumer electronic device such as a smartphone and/or a dedicated remote controller.
US11984217B2
A method for processing one or more histological images captured by a medical imaging device is disclosed. In this method, the histological image is received, and target regions each of which corresponds to a candidate type of tissue are identified based on a predictive model associating one more sample histological images with one or more sample target histological images. One or more display characteristics associated with the identified at least one target histological image is applied to the histological image.
US11984205B2
Systems and methods for storing and accessing healthcare data in blockchain managed digital filing cabinets are disclosed. The system can receive and store patient healthcare data from sources such as wearable devices, an implant, patient devices, healthcare provider devices, databases, cloud storage accounts, healthcare databases, or digital filing cabinets. The system can convert the healthcare into non-fungible tokens on a blockchain to protect the healthcare data from being accessed by nefarious actors. The system can manage access to the healthcare data based on authentication rules.
US11984201B2
Systems, apparatus, instructions, and methods for medical machine time-series event data generation are disclosed. An example synthetic time series data generation apparatus is to generate a synthetic data set including multi-channel time-series data and associated annotation using a first artificial intelligence network model. The example apparatus is to analyze the synthetic data set with respect to a real data set using a second artificial intelligence network model. When the second artificial intelligence network model classifies the synthetic data set as a first classification, the example apparatus is to adjust the first artificial intelligence network model using feedback from the second artificial intelligence network model. When the second artificial intelligence network model classifies the synthetic data set as a second classification, the example apparatus is to output the synthetic data set.
US11984197B2
In various embodiments of an analytics system, a spike-in including synthetic constructs of nucleic acid is added to soil samples for processing. The analytics system determines sequence reads classified to a microbe in the soil sample. The analytics system determines one or more measures of soil texture of the soil sample, for example, indicating percentages of sand, silt, and clay. The analytics system determines a measure of the microbe as a function of at least the classified sequence reads, the one or more measures of soil texture, and a mass of the spike-in. The analytics system can transmit the measure of the microbe to a client device for display on a user interface. A field where the soil sample was obtained can be treated according to the measure of the microbe.
US11984189B2
Memory devices may have internal circuitry that employs voltages higher and/or lower than voltages provided by an external power source. Charge pumps are DC/DC converters that may be used to generate the higher voltages internally. The number of available charge pumps in a memory device may be conservatively dimensioned to be high, in some systems to protect yields. Some of the available charge pumps may be disabled during manufacturing or testing to reduce the number of active charge pumps. The testing process may employ dedicated logic in the memory device and the disabling may employ fuse circuitry.
US11984181B2
The disclosure relates in some aspects to a design for a data storage apparatus with a non-volatile memory that includes a block of memory comprising N wordlines partitioned into a first sub-block comprising a first subset of the N wordlines and a second sub-block comprising a second subset of the N wordlines different than the first subset. In some aspects, the disclosure relates to detecting a failure in a first sub-block. The second sub-block is then marked, in response to a failure detection in the first sub-block, with an initial designation as an unusable sub-block, and a test of the second sub-block is performed to determine a usability of the second sub-block. Based on the test, the second sub-block is then marked with a second designation that is one of a tested usable sub-block or a tested unusable sub-block.
US11984180B2
Implementations described herein relate to enabling or disabling on-die error-correcting code for a memory built-in self-test. A memory device may read one or more bits, associated with a memory built-in self-test, that are stored in a mode register of the memory device. The memory device may identify, based on the one or more bits, whether the memory built-in self-test is to be performed with on-die error-correcting code (ECC) disabled or with on-die ECC enabled. The memory device may perform the memory built-in self-test, and selectively test for one or more single-bit errors, based on identifying whether the memory built-in self-test is to be performed with the on-die ECC disabled or with the on-die ECC enabled.
US11984176B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus of testing a word line. After repair of a memory array is completed, if a target word line in a failure state exists in the memory array, a second numerical value is written into the target word line, and then it is determined, according to a numerical value outputted by each word line in the memory array, whether there are at least two word lines in an on-state in the memory array; if there are at least two word lines in an on-state simultaneously in the memory array, a current value generated by the target word line in an on-to-off process is detected; when the current value generated by the target word line in the on-to-off process is greater than a preset current threshold, it is determined that the target word line has a repair fault.
US11984166B2
A storage device for generating an identity code and an identity code generating method are disclosed. The storage device includes a first storage circuit, a second storage circuit and a reading circuit. The first storage circuit stores a plurality of first data and the first data have a plurality of bits. The second storage circuit stores a plurality of second data and the second data have a plurality of bits. The reading circuit reads the second data from the second storage circuit to form a first sequence, selects a first portion of the first data according to the first sequence, reads the first portion of the first data from the first storage circuit to form a target sequence and outputs the target sequence to serve as an identity code.
US11984159B2
A nonvolatile memory apparatus may include a memory cell, a bit line control circuit, and a word line control circuit. The memory cell may be coupled between a global bit line and a global word line. During a read operation, the bit line control circuit may provide a first high voltage to the global bit line and provide a second high voltage to the global bit line when snapback of the memory cell occurs. During the read operation, the word line control circuit may provide a second read supply voltage to the global word line and provide an anneal supply voltage to the global word line when snapback of the memory cell occurs.
US11984155B2
Methods, systems, and devices for a differential write operation are described. The operations described herein may be used to alter a portion of a program file from a first state to a second state. For example, a file (e.g., a patch file) that is associated with a signature may be received at a memory device. Based on an authentication process, the file may be used to alter the program file to the second state. In some examples, the program file may be altered to the second state using a buffer of the memory device. A host system may transmit a file that includes the difference between the first state and the second state. A signature may be associated with the file and may be used to authenticate the file.
US11984153B2
A memory device includes at least one memory cell block, a first edge block, a second edge block, multiple first sense amplifiers, and multiple second sense amplifiers. The first edge block is coupled to multiple first word lines, where at least one of the first word lines receives an enabled first word line signal. The second edge block is coupled to multiple second word lines, where at least one of the second word lines receives an enabled second word line signal. The first sense amplifiers are disposed between the first edge block and the memory cell block. The second sense amplifiers are disposed between the second edge block and the memory cell block.
US11984138B1
There is a method for monitoring emotion and behavior occurring during a conversation with a user who is in need of protection. According to an embodiment, a user monitoring method receives an input of a user utterance and generates a conversation content by using a conversation model based on a user utterance content, converts the generated conversation content into a voice and outputs the voice, and recognizes emotion of the user by using an emotion analysis model based on the user utterance content and monitors the emotion. Accordingly, the method may monitor behavior/emotion of a user through a natural conversation while allowing a specialist/guardian to monitor an abnormal sign of a user who is in need of protection.
US11984137B2
A two-way communication support system supports two-way communication between a second terminal device which receives, from a first terminal device, first state data changed according to the state of a first user present on a side where the first terminal device is arranged and which outputs an image and a voice indicated by the first state data and the first terminal device. The two-way communication support system includes a state identifier and an output controller. The state identifier analyzes second state data changed according to the state of a second user present on a side where the second terminal device is arranged so as to identify the state of the second user. The output controller causes the first terminal device to output analysis information indicating a result of the identification of the state of the second user performed by the state identifier.
US11984136B2
An emotion estimation apparatus 1 includes: a generation unit 2 configured to generate acoustic characteristic information indicating an acoustic characteristic using a first acoustic signal output to the ear canal and a second acoustic signal produced by the first acoustic signal echoing inside the body; and an estimation unit 3 configured to estimate emotion using the acoustic characteristic information.
US11984127B2
The disclosure herein describes using a transcript generation model for generating a transcript from a multi-speaker audio stream. Audio data including overlapping speech of a plurality of speakers is obtained and a set of frame embeddings are generated from audio data frames of the obtained audio data using an audio data encoder. A set of words and channel change (CC) symbols are generated from the set of frame embeddings using a transcript generation model. The CC symbols are included between pairs of adjacent words that are spoken by different people at the same time. The set of words and CC symbols are transformed into a plurality of transcript lines, wherein words of the set of words are sorted into transcript lines based on the CC symbols, and a multi-speaker transcript is generated based on the plurality of transcript lines. The inclusion of CC symbols by the model enables efficient, accurate multi-speaker transcription.
US11984125B2
Presented herein are techniques for augmenting a speech recognition engine. According to the disclosed techniques, audio data is obtained as part of an automatic speech recognition session. Speech hints are also obtained as part of the automatic speech recognition session. A dynamic language model is generated from the speech hints for use during the automatic speech recognition session. A combined language model is then generated from the dynamic language model and a static language model. Finally, the audio data is converted to text using the combined language model as part of the automatic speech recognition session.
US11984118B2
Systems and methods for providing an online to offline service in response to a voice request from a user terminal are provided. A method includes: receiving a voice request from a user terminal; in response to the voice request, updating a customized recognition model trained using data of a plurality of points of interest associated with the user terminal; obtaining a general recognition model trained using data from general public; determining a literal destination associated with the voice request based at least on the voice request, the customized recognition model and the general recognition model.
US11984115B2
A dialog system and intelligent personal assistant capable of semantic-understanding mapping between user intents and machine services includes an interface to receive a voice or text request from a user. Semantics of the request including at least one of entities, intent, or context are extracted from the user's request. A sequence of action features is selected based on the extracted semantics. A sequence of application programming interfaces (APIs) corresponding to the sequence of action features is then executed to generate a result. An action sequence optimizer may optimize the sequence of action features based on user configuration. The examples provide a technical solution to model a richer semantic-understanding mapping between user intents and available APIs, that will be greatly improving user experience in the spoken dialogue system, as core of personal assistant.
US11984114B2
Systems and methods are provided for performing speech to intent classification. The systems and methods perform operations comprising: receiving an audio file comprising speech input; processing, by a speech recognition engine, the audio file comprising the speech input to generate an initial character-based representation of the speech input; processing, by an intent classifier, the initial character-based representation of the speech input to generate an estimated intent of the speech input; and generating, by the speech recognition engine, a textual representation of the speech input based on the estimated intent of the speech input.
US11984113B2
Method and server for training an Attention-based Neural Network (ANN) to generate a textual output sequence being a content summary to be used as a response to a query. The ANN has an encoder and a decoder sub-network. The method includes, (i) inputting a query and input sequence into the encoder sub-network where the input sequence is a sequence of input groups associated with corresponding content snippets, (ii) generating an encoded representation of the input sequence, which includes generating attention-type outputs for respective words from the input sequence by applying an attention-limiting mask configured to attend only to words from the given input group, (iii) generating a decoded representation being a predicted textual output sequence, (iv) generating a penalty and (iii) adjusting the ANN based on the penalty score.
US11984111B2
A vehicle includes options including function selection buttons and selection buttons respectively associated with operations of a plurality of functions mounted on the vehicle, and a sound controller is capable of changing a sound output from a speaker array to a sound that arrives from a target virtual sound source set at a predetermined position, and changes the position of the target virtual sound source for each of the options.
US11984110B2
A device operates to perform acoustic echo cancellation. The device includes a speaker to output a far-end signal at the device, a microphone to receive at least a near-end signal and the far-end signal from the speaker to produce a microphone output, and an AI accelerator operative to perform neural network operations according to a first neural network model and a second neural network model to output an echo-suppressed signal. The device further includes a digital signal processing (DSP) unit. The DSP unit is operative to perform adaptive filtering to remove at least a portion of the far-end signal from the microphone output to generate a filtered near-end signal, and perform Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) and inverse FFT (IFFT) to generate input to the first neural network model and the second neural network model, respectively.
US11984101B1
A guitar wall mount having wall hanging units that are movable and detachable includes a fixed base and the wall hanging units. The fixed base includes base rails. The base rails are horizontally assembled in sequence. The wall hanging units are detachably mounted on the base rails, and the wall hanging units are slidable along the base rails. One or more base rails are selected according to requirements. The guitar wall mount is mounted to a wall by tools such as screws, wall anchors, etc. The wall hanging units are able to be combined in various ways to meet placement and hanging requirements of stringed instruments, so the stringed instruments are hung neatly and beautifully. The wall hanging units are detachably mounted on the base rails, so the wall hanging units are able to be mounted independently or mounted together according to needs.
US11984098B2
Embodiments include methods and devices for per layer motion adaptive over-drive strength control for a display panel. Various embodiments may include determining motion information associated with a frame layer, determining an over-drive strength factor for the frame layer based at least in part on the motion information associated with the frame layer, and determining whether the over-drive strength factor is associated with computing a content difference. Various embodiments may include, in response to determining that the over-drive strength factor is associated with computing a content difference, performing fragment shading on the framebuffer object for the frame layer to generate an over-drive compensated framebuffer object for the frame layer based at least in part on the over-drive strength factor, and outputting the over-drive compensated framebuffer object for the frame layer to a default framebuffer for rendering on the display panel.
US11984088B2
A color display, including an electrophoretic medium, wherein the display includes a processor configured to transform image source colors, which are typically standard RGB values, to electrophoretic display device colors, for example ACeP device colors, for displaying the image in the best possible colors on the color display. The processor uses a look up table that depends upon eight primary colors that are produced by the electrophoretic medium.
US11984083B2
A gate driver includes a stage configured to output a gate signal, the stage including an input part configured to control a voltage of a first node and a voltage of a second node based on signals supplied to a first input terminal and a second input terminal, an output part configured to supply a voltage of a first power source or a voltage of a second power source as the gate signal to an output terminal based on a voltage of a third node and a voltage of a fourth node, a first signal processing part configured to supply the voltage of the second power source to the fourth node based on the voltage of the first node, or to electrically connect the second node and the fourth node through a fifth node based on a signal supplied to a third input terminal, and a second signal processing part including a first transistor connected between the third node and a sixth node to control the voltage of the third node based on an operation of the first transistor.
US11984082B2
A display device includes a display panel including, a driving transistor configured to generate driving current, a light emitting element configured to emit light based on the driving current and an initialization transistor configured to apply an initialization voltage to an output electrode of the driving transistor, a sensing driver configured to generate sensing data by receiving the driving current of the pixels through initialization transistors and a driving controller configured to generate accumulated image data by accumulating input image data for frames and to compensate for the input image data based on the accumulated image data and the sensing data.
US11984077B2
A pixel circuit comprises a light emission element; a driving transistor including a first electrode connected to the first node, a second electrode connected to a second node, and a gate electrode connected to a third node; a first transistor including a first electrode receiving a third voltage, a second electrode connected to the first node, and a gate electrode receiving a second light emission control signal; a first transistor including a first electrode connected to a first line transferring a first power voltage, a second electrode connected to the second node, and a gate electrode receiving a first light emission control signal; a first storage capacitor connected between the third node and a fourth node; and a switching transistor including a first electrode connected to a data line, a second electrode connected to the fourth node, and a gate electrode receiving a scan signal.
US11984075B2
A system reads a desired circuit parameter from a pixel circuit that includes a light emitting device, a drive device to provide a programmable drive current to the light emitting device, a programming input, and a storage device to store a programming signal. One embodiment of the extraction system turns off the drive device and supplies a predetermined voltage from an external source to the light emitting device, discharges the light emitting device until the light emitting device turns off, and then reads the voltage on the light emitting device while that device is turned off. The voltages on the light emitting devices in a plurality of pixel circuits may be read via the same external line, at different times. In-pixel, charge-based compensation schemes are also discussed, which can be used with the external parameter extraction implementations.
US11984073B2
A partitioned display structure includes a plurality of direct current (DC) voltage electrodes, each of the DC voltage electrodes is connected to a plurality of light-emitting units; a plurality of input voltage sources, the input voltage sources are connected to the DC voltage electrodes in a one-to-one manner, and are configured to transmit input signals to the plurality of light-emitting units for emitting light for displaying images; and a plurality of switches. Each of the switches is connected between two adjacent DC voltage electrodes to control a connection between the two adjacent DC voltage electrodes, the plurality of DC voltage electrodes are connected with each other in response to the plurality of switches in a turned-on state, and the plurality of DC voltage electrodes are insulated from each other in response to the plurality of switches in a turned-off state.
US11984072B2
A display substrate (100) and a design method therefor, and a display apparatus. The display substrate (100) includes: pixel circuits which are arranged in an array, where the pixel circuits are divided into at least two areas; and data switching circuits (10), which are correspondingly connected to the pixel circuits in the areas by means of data signal lines, wherein a channel width-to-length ratio (W/L) of a switch device in each data switching circuit (10) is positively correlated with a design data load of an area corresponding to the data switching circuit (10). The width-to-length ratios (W/L) of different switch devices can be matched according to different design data loads of different areas.
US11984066B2
A processing method and a processing device for pixel data, a display device, a display method, and a storage medium are provided. The processing method includes: determining a target pixel point in pixel points of a display frame image to be revised, a pixel data of each pixel point including S initial pixel data of different primary colors and a white initial pixel data; converting a white initial pixel data in a pixel data of the target pixel point into S equivalent pixel data of the different primary colors; obtaining S target pixel data of the different primary colors and a white target pixel data of the target pixel point according to the S equivalent pixel data and according to S initial pixel data of the different primary colors in the pixel data of the target pixel point, the white target pixel data corresponding to a 0 gray scale.
US11984055B2
Systems and methods for a multi-primary color system for display. A multi-primary color system increases the number of primary colors available in a color system and color system equipment. Increasing the number of primary colors reduces metameric errors from viewer to viewer. One embodiment of the multi-primary color system includes Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Yellow, and Magenta primaries. The systems of the present invention maintain compatibility with existing color systems and equipment and provide systems for backwards compatibility with older color systems.
US11984048B2
A system for interactive visual education includes: a server configured to educate a user; a network operably connected to the server; an external device usable by the user, the external device further configured to communicate with the server using the network, the external device further configured to receive input from the user, the external device further configured to upload the input to the server via the network; an interactive visual education page viewable by the user using the external device, the interactive visual education page comprising a visual teaching section configured to teach the user a lesson, the interactive visual education page further comprising an interactive tools page, the interactive tools page comprising an interactive tool usable with the external device to interactively support the user in applying the lesson; and storage configured to store data, the storage operably connected to the server over the network.
US11984041B1
A system and method for teaching arithmetic has a plurality of training aides or manipulatives wherein a child/student learns arithmetic facts by executing the method using the system. The physical training aids may include a die (10,12), a factor card (14) and a factor finder member (16). The physical training aids are used with the child where the child creates a multiplication product by rolls of the die (10,12) wherein the child uses the factor card (14) and the factor finder member (16) to identify factor numbers associated with the multiplication product. A game may be incorporated where the child can use the system and method in playing the game.
US11984036B2
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are disclosed for determining a holding pattern. An example method includes receiving an estimated time of clearance and holding pattern instructions for an aircraft chartered for holding, receiving flight information and aircraft state information associated with the aircraft, deriving a holding time estimate from the estimated time of clearance, the flight information and aircraft state information, and computing holding pattern parameters placing the aircraft on a holding inbound segment prior to the estimated time of clearance based at least in part on the holding time estimate. The method further includes transmitting the holding pattern parameters to a computing device.
US11984031B2
Disclosed are a parking control apparatus for a vehicle and a method thereof. The parking control apparatus includes a processor that searches for at least one parking space in a parking control of a vehicle, calculates an estimated route and a required parking time for each of the at least one parking space, and performs parking control into a target parking space which is one parking space selected from the at least one parking space by a user, and a display that displays the estimated route and the required parking time for each of the at least one parking space.
US11984024B2
A parking meter detects an object in proximity, based on a change in a proximity measurement at the meter, activates a directional sensor in response to detecting the object, receives sensor data at a meter processor from the directional sensor, wherein the received sensor data indicates a predetermined direction to the detected object relative to the meter. The parking meter determines a presence of the object, or lack thereof, in the predetermined direction based on the sensor data, and upon a positive determination of the presence of the object, stores an indication of the presence of the object along with a time of the positive determination.
US11984019B2
An apparatus, system, and method of remotely monitoring receives, from an operation terminal, identification information and location information of a location of one or more lamps, stores, in a memory, the received identification information and the received location information in association with each other for the one or more lamps, updates log information regarding a log of a lighting condition of the one or more lamps, in response to an indication that an electric circuit of the one or more lamps is energized for the one or more lamps, and sends monitoring information corresponding to the log information of the electric circuit of the one or more lamps for display.
US11984017B2
A method, system, and apparatus for programming a sensor at a customer location is disclosed. A defective sensor at a customer location is replaced by a new sensor that is programmed at the customer location using a programming device or a transducer coupled to a computing device. The new sensor is programming using the sensor's detector normally used to sense a change in a magnetic field, an RF signal, infra-red light, or some other emission or property.
US11984016B2
Devices, systems, and methods for providing predictive analytics of fire systems are described herein. One fire system maintenance system, includes fire system detectors, a fire system control panel, and a gateway device positioned within the facility and in communication with at least one of the fire system control panel or fire system detectors, the gateway having instructions to: collect fire system device health data associated with one or more fire or smoke detector devices and to send this fire system device health data to a remote device; the remote device having instructions to: analyze the collected fire system device health data to predict if the data contains any anomalies or deviations from an expected behavior; and a fire system maintenance solution application that identifies a nearest scheduled maintenance visit and associates a service item with the scheduled maintenance visit.
US11984012B2
A tracking system determines if a tracking device is located within a safe zone based on whether a set of safe conditions are satisfied. The set of safe conditions includes a geographic boundary or a geographic location and corresponding threshold distance. The set of safe conditions can also include a time window during which a safe zone is active. When a tracking device is within a safe zone (e.g., geographically and temporally), the tracking device is determined to be safe, and notifications associated with the tracking device can be minimized. The safe zones may be user-selected, user-defined, or determined based on data analytics. If a set of safe conditions are not satisfied, the tracking system generates and sends a notification to the user of the tracking device indicating that the tracking device may be lost.
US11984009B2
Proposed are concepts for distinguishing between fall events and non-fall-events for different sub-groups within a monitored group (i.e., monitored population) of subjects. It is proposed that an entire/group population of monitored subjects may be portioned into sub-groups, each sub-group consisting of a plurality of members (i.e., subjects) having a certain property value or characteristic unique to that group. A respective decision value may be determine for each sub-group, wherein the decision value for a sub-group takes account of a previously obtained false fall detection rate for that sub-group.
US11984007B2
In one implementation, a method for using a mobile computing device as a security system component includes receiving, from a mobile device and by a security system gateway, mobile device sensor information associated with sensor data captured by the mobile device at a premises monitored by the security system gateway; identifying, based on the received sensor information, a mobile device sensor information rule; identifying an action to perform in the mobile device sensor information rule; and automatically performing the identified action, by the security system gateway, in response to receiving the sensor information from the mobile device.
US11984001B2
One embodiment provides a method, including: identifying, using a tamper detection switch of an information handling device, a tampering event; determining, using a processor, contextual data associated with the tampering event; constructing, based on the determining, a signal comprising the contextual data; and broadcasting, using a radio transmission beacon, the signal. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US11983994B2
An electronic gaming device includes a display device and a processor configured to execute instructions stored in a memory device. When executed, the instructions cause the processor to at least initiate a primary bonus game in response to a free play trigger condition being satisfied during a base game and determine a number of free spins of a plurality of reels for use during the primary bonus game. The instructions further cause the processor to control the display device to simulate spinning and stopping the plurality of reels in conjunction with sequentially counting up from an initial numerical indicium to a final numerical indicium in association with spinning the plurality of reels according to the determined number of free spins and initiate a secondary bonus game that includes a free spin count-down from the final numerical indicium to the initial numerical indicium.
US11983988B2
This invention is an engine that allows, for any play in an “in play” or single play betting game, that both calculates “basic odds” (calculated by using historical database mining) and at least one more odds making formula to calculate odds on at least one outcome of a single play in a live event, crossing at least two different odds making formulas to create crossed odds. Then utilizes artificial intelligence to correlate the crossed odds with the final odds on similar historical plays in which odds were calculated. Then utilizes machine learning after the outcome of the play is known to correlate the odds generated by each odds making formula with the most profitable odds calculated on previous similar plays.
US11983980B2
Gaming devices, gaming systems, gaming device display systems and methods for providing enhanced lighting features in gaming devices and systems are provided. In one example, a front or player-facing flexible LED light strip is positioned to follow a curved contour portion of a video display device. A diffuser may be positioned to cover the flexible LED light strip. The flexible LED light strip may be positioned on a display frame attached to the video display device and the display frame may include a curved contour portion that conforms to the curved contour portion of the display device.
US11983977B2
An access control system for electric vehicle charging is provided that includes an access device, a secure reservation interface, a reservation server and a smartphone application installed on the smartphone. The access device includes a short-range wireless communication module connected to a processor having control of an electric vehicle charger. The secure reservation interface receives a reservation request for a reservation at a given destination. The reservation server receives the reservation request for the destination, issues a reservation certificate, and transmits the reservation certificate from the reservation server to a smartphone. The smartphone application has access to a short range wireless communication setting corresponding to the access device. The access device receives the reservation certificate from the smartphone application based on use by the smartphone application of the short-range wireless communication setting. The processor activates the electric vehicle charger based on at least the receipt of the reservation certificate.
US11983976B2
An access control system for electric vehicle charging is provided that includes an access device, a secure reservation interface, a reservation server and a smartphone application installed on the smartphone. The access device includes a short-range wireless communication module connected to a processor having control of an electric vehicle charger. The secure reservation interface receives a reservation request for a reservation at a given destination. The reservation server receives the reservation request for the destination, issues a reservation certificate, and transmits the reservation certificate from the reservation server to a smartphone. The smartphone application has access to a short range wireless communication setting corresponding to the access device. The access device receives the reservation certificate from the smartphone application based on use by the smartphone application of the short-range wireless communication setting. The processor activates the electric vehicle charger based on at least the receipt of the reservation certificate.
US11983965B2
An electronic device includes at least one processor connected with a biometric sensor and memory, and configured to perform biometric authentication using a first matching algorithm and a first template DB, install a second matching algorithm and a second template DB and set the second template DB to an inactive state, determine whether a predetermined template registration condition is met when biometric authentication using the first matching algorithm and the first template DB is successful, generate a template including input biometric information of the successful biometric authentication and register the template in the second template DB in the inactive state in case that the template registration condition is met, set the second template DB to an active state in case that the second template DB meets a predetermined template activation condition, and perform the biometric authentication using the second matching algorithm and the second template DB in the active state.
US11983963B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for visual authentication. In some implementations, a method may include obtaining images of a person at a property; detecting a discontinuity in an appearance of the person in the images of the person at the property; determining that the discontinuity does not correspond to a known occlusion; and providing an indication of a potential spoofing attack.
US11983961B2
Iris image pick-up devices perform image pick-up of an iris of a moving subject. A guiding device guides the subject. A controller predicts a period in which the subject will blink next. Further, the controller predicts a period in which the subject will pass through the focusing point of the iris image pick-up devices. The controller controls the guiding device such that the subject does not blink at the focusing point in the case where the period in which the subject will blink next overlaps with the period in which the subject will pass through the focusing point.
US11983957B2
Various techniques employ digital fingerprints, alone or in conjunction with other data related to a physical object, to characterize the physical object in a way allows an identity of the physical object to be confirmed or authenticated within a threshold of confidence when the physical object is encountered at a subsequently after a digital fingerprint thereof was previously ingested, without capture, retention and/or reference to certain types or categories of characterizing information which may be of a sensitive nature and/or subject to misuse or abuse. Such digital fingerprints may include feature vectors and non-positional characterization values, while advantageously omitting positional information that would otherwise allow recreation of a recognizable image of the physical object or an image from which one or more immutable characteristics or traits (e.g., physical appearance, color, race, ethnicity, gender, age) of the physical object may be discerned, and hence denominated as irreversible digital fingerprints.
US11983951B2
A human detection device configured to analyze a fisheye image obtained by a fisheye camera installed above a to-be-detected area to detect a person existing in the to-be-detected area includes a head detector configured to detect at least one head candidate from the fisheye image by using an algorithm for detecting a human head, a human body detector configured to detect at least one human body candidate from the fisheye image by using an algorithm for detecting a human body, and a determining unit configured to determine, as a person, a pair satisfying a prescribed condition among pairs of the head candidate and the human body candidate formed of a combination of a detection result from the head detector and a detection result from the human body detector.
US11983948B2
A machine translation of a document is created via a compilation of services by mapping textual content from an image to create a plurality of mapped locations correspondent to at least one object from the image, populating each of the mapped locations with at least one character indicative of the object, each character sharing at least one similar attribute, adding to the image the populated mapped locations, and highlighting at least a portion of the textual content in accordance with the populated at least one character. A compilation of services is provided for identifying, extracting, and assessing electronic images by using a layered approach that reduces time and improves reviewing of medical records and other kinds of documentation.
US11983947B2
Systems and methods for generating document content using data analysis. For example, a system may store data representing one or more documents, where a document is associated with a type of user and fields. The system may send the data representing the document to an electronic device. Additionally, the system may receive, from the electronic device, data representing information input into the document. Using the information, the system may select various fields for the document and send, to the electronic device, data representing the fields. Furthermore, the system may analyze the information to determine a score associated with the document. If the score does not satisfy a threshold score, the system may continue to select fields using the information and send, to the electronic device, data representing the fields. However, if the score satisfies the threshold score, the system may determine that the document is complete.
US11983944B2
Computer-implemented methods for detecting objects within digital image data based on color transitions include: receiving or capturing a digital image depicting an object; sampling color information from a first plurality of pixels of the digital image, wherein each of the first plurality of pixels is located in a background region of the digital image; assigning each pixel a label of either foreground or background using an adaptive label learning process; binarizing the digital image based on the labels assigned to each pixel; detecting contour(s) within the binarized digital image; and defining edge(s) of the object based on the detected contour(s). Corresponding systems and computer program products configured to perform the inventive methods are also described.
US11983940B2
An autonomous vehicle that moves automatically without any driver's manipulation. The autonomous vehicle includes a vehicle body including a deck, and an action-inducing device for inducing an action of a person who is a user of the autonomous vehicle or a non-user around the autonomous vehicle. The action-inducing device including an image-capturing device for capturing the person, and an information presentation device for presenting action-inducing information, to thereby induce the person to take the action.
US11983939B2
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for changing vehicle configuration based on vehicle storage compartment contents. At an autonomous vehicle, a camera is mounted inside a storage compartment. The camera monitors the interior of the storage compartment. The camera can confirm that the storage compartment is empty when it is supposed to be empty and contains an object when it is supposed to contain an object. Any discrepancies can be reported to a human operator. The human operator can instruct the autonomous vehicle to change configuration to address discrepancies. In one aspect, a machine-learning camera memorizes a background pattern permeated to a surface of the storage compartment. The machine-learning camera detects objects in the storage compartment based on disturbances to the background pattern.
US11983930B2
A prediction device f includes an acquisition unit and a prediction unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire attribute data pertaining to the plurality of exhibits and the number of visitors to each of the plurality of exhibits during a first period in the display area in which the plurality of exhibition articles are exhibited. The prediction unit is configured to predict a future flow of persons to the plurality of exhibits by a prediction model. The prediction model is generated using attribute data for a second period that is a period previous to the first period, graph time-series data pertaining to a change over time in a movement pattern for each of the plurality of visitors to the plurality of exhibits during the second period, the number of visitors to the exhibits, and the number of visitors to each of the plurality of exhibits.
US11983919B2
The disclosure relates to a video anomaly detection method based on human-machine cooperation, in which video frames and traditional descriptors of optical stream of an image are utilized as an input for auto-encoder neural network coding, and converted into a representation content of a hidden layer, and then the representation content of the hidden layer is decoded, reconstructed and output. The auto-encoder network is trained with normal samples. In a test stage, if an input is a normal sample, a final reconstructed error keeps high similarity with an input sample; on the contrary, if the input is an abnormal sample, the final reconstructed error deviates greatly from the input sample.
US11983915B2
A system for generating one or more images for display, the system comprising an image obtaining unit operable to obtain an image of a user's face, a geometry information unit operable to identify geometry information for the user's face using the obtained image, a lighting information unit operable to obtain lighting information for a virtual environment, a representation generation unit operable to generate a representation of the user's face generated using the obtained lighting information, and an image output unit operable to generate an output image comprising the generated representation and an image of the virtual environment.
US11983907B2
A method of point cloud attribute coding is performed by at least one processor and includes receiving a point cloud data set comprising a bounding box. A determination is made as to whether the bounding box is symmetric or asymmetric. A quad-tree-binary-tree (QtBt) decomposition is performed on the point cloud data set based on the bounding box being asymmetric.
US11983905B2
A method for level partition of a point cloud includes: decoding a point cloud bitstream, the point cloud bitstream including geometry information and attribute information of the point cloud; determining a maximum permissible value of a first syntax element in the point cloud bitstream; parsing the point cloud bitstream to determine a value of the first syntax element according to the maximum permissible value; determining, according to the value of the first syntax element, a number of levels of detail (LODs) in a process of decoding the attribute information; and decoding the attribute information according to the number of the LODs and the geometry information, to determine a reconstructed point cloud of the point cloud.
US11983903B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing images using self-attention based neural networks. One of the methods includes obtaining one or more images comprising a plurality of pixels; determining, for each image of the one or more images, a plurality of image patches of the image, wherein each image patch comprises a different subset of the pixels of the image; processing, for each image of the one or more images, the corresponding plurality of image patches to generate an input sequence comprising a respective input element at each of a plurality of input positions, wherein a plurality of the input elements correspond to respective different image patches; and processing the input sequences using a neural network to generate a network output that characterizes the one or more images, wherein the neural network comprises one or more self-attention neural network layers.
US11983893B2
Systems and methods for hybrid depth regularization in accordance with various embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a depth sensing system comprises a plurality of cameras; a processor; and a memory containing an image processing application. The image processing application may direct the processor to obtain image data for a plurality of images from multiple viewpoints, the image data comprising a reference image and at least one alternate view image; generate a raw depth map using a first depth estimation process, and a confidence map; and generate a regularized depth map. The regularized depth map may be generated by computing a secondary depth map using a second different depth estimation process; and computing a composite depth map by selecting depth estimates from the raw depth map and the secondary depth map based on the confidence map.
US11983886B2
A system for performing background and floor replacement in full-length subject images is described. A set of three or more images of a subject can be captured under different illumination conditions. For example, at least one of the images is captured while a foot portion of the subject and surrounding floor, including a floor mat on which the subject is positioned, are illuminated by a floor lighting device. The floor mat has a Lambertian surface to reflect light in a particular manner such that a maximum contrast between the floor and the subject is captured in the image. Varying contrast between the background, floor, and subject among the images of the set can be leveraged by an image processing system to generate a background mask and a floor mask that are combined and seamlessly transitioned to yield a compiled mask for use in background and floor replacement.
US11983885B2
The invention discloses a multi-threshold segmentation method for medical images based on an improved salp swarm algorithm. A two-dimensional histogram is established by means of a grayscale image of a medical image and a non-local mean image, then a salp swarm algorithm is used to determine thresholds selected by a Kapur entropy-based threshold method, and the salp swarm algorithm is improved and mutated by an individual-linked mutation strategy during the threshold selection process to avoid local optimization, so that the segmentation effect on the medical image is optimized; and the method has the advantages of good robustness and high accuracy.
US11983871B2
The invention relates to a processing system and corresponding method for processing image data and for indexing regions of interest in an object of interest. The system comprises a registration unit for registering the image data, a sub-volume generator generating sub-volumes from the image data, a composite image generator for generating multiple sets of composite images from each sub-volume, each set of composite images representing a different projection. The system comprises an indexing unit for generating indexed regions of interest in each sub-volume by assessing each of the set of composite images in parallel and a combining unit for combining each set of composite images of each sub-volume into a scan level prioritization.
US11983864B2
An object matching device includes an acquiring unit, an extracting unit, and a determining unit. The acquiring unit acquires an image of an object to be matched with a character printed thereon. The extracting unit extracts a partial image of predetermined size including the character as a matching partial image from the image. The determining unit compares the matching partial image with a registration partial image acquired from an object to be registered and registered in advance, and thereby determines an identity of the object to be matched and the object to be registered.
US11983863B2
An alpha channel is added in addition to multiple channels forming an image of an item. A second pixel value differing from a first pixel value, which is assigned to a defect-free region, is assigned to a region corresponding to a defect region in the alpha channel. The image including the alpha channel is divided into multiple image segments. A defect label is assigned to the image segment in which the second pixel value is included in the alpha channel, and a non-defect label is assigned to the image segment, in which the second pixel value is not included in the alpha channel. The alpha channel is removed from the image segments to generate labeled image segment data.
US11983854B2
A plurality of pixel-based sampling points are identified within an image, wherein sampling points of a pixel are distributed within the pixel. For individual sampling points of individual pixels, a corresponding radiance vector is estimated. A radiance vector includes one or more radiance values characterizing light received at a sampling point. A first machine learning module generates, for each pixel, a corresponding intermediate radiance feature vector, based on the radiance vectors associated with the sampling points within that pixel. A second machine learning module generates, for each pixel, a corresponding final radiance feature vector, based on an intermediate radiance feature vector for that pixel, and one or more other intermediate radiance feature vectors for one or more other pixels neighboring that pixel. One or more kernels are generated, based on the final radiance feature vectors, and applied to corresponding pixels of the image, to generate a lower noise image.
US11983852B2
An image processing method includes: determining a brightness value of an image; and enhancing a brightness of the image when the brightness value of the image is less than an image brightness threshold. Enhancing the brightness of the image includes: determining each pixel of the image as a target pixel; determining a brightness enhancement value of the target pixel based on the brightness value of the image, an initial brightness value of the target pixel, and initial brightness values of neighboring pixels of the target pixel; and using the brightness enhancement value as an enhanced brightness value of the target pixel.
US11983851B2
A method for using a trained generative adversarial network to improve underwriting, claim handling and retail operations includes receiving a 3D point cloud; and generating a gap-filled semantically-segmented 3D point cloud using a trained generative adversarial network. A computing system for using a trained generative adversarial network to improve vehicle orientation and navigation includes one or more processors, and one or more memories having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed, cause the computing system to: receive a 3D point cloud; and generate a gap-filled semantically-segmented 3D point cloud using the trained generative adversarial network. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed, cause a computer to: receive a 3D point cloud; and generate a gap-filled semantically-segmented 3D point cloud using a trained generative adversarial network.
US11983845B1
Methods and systems for representing a tissue segmentation from a source digital image computationally generate, from a source digital image of an anatomic region, a digital tissue segmentation visually indicating regions of interest corresponding to an abnormal condition associated with at least portions of the anatomic region. The source image and the tissue segmentation may be alternately displayed in registration on a mobile device at a gesturally selected magnification level.
US11983840B2
A method for adding a map element is provided. In the method, a name of a layer to which a map element to be added by a target application program belongs, display follow information of the map element in the layer, and weather impact information of the map element are generated. A preform of the map element is generated in a target folder. Further, code configured to update the map element. The code indicates a storage position of the preform of the map element and display state information of the map element being displayed in the layer. Apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium counterpart embodiments are also contemplated.
US11983832B2
In an example implementation, a method of compensating for dimensional variation in 3D printing includes receiving a voxel space model that represents a 3D object to be printed within a build volume of a 3D printing system, asymmetrically eroding voxels from the voxel space model, and printing the 3D object based on the asymmetrically eroded voxel space model.
US11983831B1
Disclosed is a location tracking system and associated methods for precisely locating a target device with a recipient device via different forms of location tracking and augmented reality. The recipient device receives a first position of the target device over a data network. The recipient device is moved according to the first position until the target device is in Ultra-WideBand (“UWB”) signaling range of the recipient device. The recipient device then measures a distance and direction of the target device relative to the recipient device based on Time-of-Flight (“ToF”) measurements generated from the UWB signaling. The recipient device determines a second position of the target device based on the distance and direction of the target device, and generates an augmented reality view with a visual reference at a particular position in images of a captured scene that corresponds to the second position of the target device.
US11983827B2
A computer-implemented method includes obtaining an image of an area of a property from an augmented reality device, identifying the area of the property based on the image obtained from the augmented reality device, determining that the area of the property corresponds to an event at the property or a configuration of a monitoring system of the property, and providing, in response to determining that the area of the property corresponds to the event or the configuration, information that represents the event or the configuration and that is configured to be displayed on the augmented reality device.
US11983823B2
Examples of wearable systems and methods can use multiple inputs (e.g., gesture, head pose, eye gaze, voice, totem, and/or environmental factors (e.g., location)) to determine a command that should be executed and objects in the three-dimensional (3D) environment that should be operated on. The wearable system can detect when different inputs converge together, such as when a user seeks to select a virtual object using multiple inputs such as eye gaze, head pose, hand gesture, and totem input. Upon detecting an input convergence, the wearable system can perform a transmodal filtering scheme that leverages the converged inputs to assist in properly interpreting what command the user is providing or what object the user is targeting.
US11983813B2
Methods and systems are disclosed that automatically determine solar access values. In one implementation, a 3D geo-referenced model of a structure is retrieved in which geographic location on the earth of points in the 3D geo-referenced model are stored or associated with points in the 3D geo-referenced model. Object point cloud data indicative of object(s) that cast shade on the structure is retrieved. The object point cloud data may be generated from one or more georeferenced images and the object point cloud data is indicative of an actual size, shape, and location of the object(s) on the earth. The structure in the 3D geo-referenced model is divided into one or more sections, which are divided into one or more areas, each area having at least three vertices. Then, a solar access value for the particular vertex is determined.
US11983805B1
Embodiments described herein provide a process and method running on a computer for creating an augmented image. According to an embodiment, a graphical user interface gathers data that is programmatically analyzed to obtain photographic properties from a first image. Photographic properties are provided to a user for obtaining a second image containing a fiducial mark. The second image is programmatically analyzed to obtain photographic properties. The first image and the second image are programmatically analyzed and processed to produce an augmented image.
US11983804B1
Described herein is a computer implemented method for generating a new chart based on a source chart and a destination chart. The method includes accessing source chart data in respect of the source chart, wherein the source chart data defines a set of source chart data series and a set of source chart colours, and wherein each source chart data series is associated with a source chart colour and accessing destination chart data in respect of the destination chart, wherein the destination chart data defines a set of destination chart data series and a set of destination chart colours, and wherein each destination chart data series is associated with a destination chart colour. The method further includes determining that the number of source chart colours is less than the number of destination chart colours and, in response, generating one or more new chart colours. The method further includes generating the new chart to include the set of source chart data series, associating a first source chart data series with a destination chart colour and associating a second source chart data series with a new chart colour.
US11983803B2
The present invention relates to a method for representing objects of a network in a GUI with a graph clustering comprising retrieving a base graph comprising all of the objects of the network as respective nodes and links between said nodes, grouping two or more of the nodes in one or more clusters, initializing the clusters by calculating the cluster mass and the cluster radius of each of the clusters, assessing the clusters defining a visualization graph which represents the base graph as seen from a predefined distance value and positioning the visualization graph in the GUI, wherein the assessing comprises creating an empty visualization graph, calculating for each of the clusters the distance ratio as ratio between the cluster radius and the predefined distance value, evaluating the distance ratio with regard to a predefined distance ratio threshold, compressing the cluster when the distance ratio is higher than the predefined distance ratio threshold, adding in the visualization graph a single compressed cluster node for all child nodes and all child clusters arranged inside the cluster to be compressed, expanding the cluster when the distance ratio is lower than the predefined distance ratio threshold, adding in the visualization graph a plurality of nodes for all child nodes and all child clusters arranged inside the cluster to be expanded and adding in the visualization graph a link between the cluster and the node outside the cluster if the link was present between a node inside the cluster and the node outside the cluster in the base graph and a link between two of the clusters if the link was present between a node inside one of the clusters and a node inside the other of the clusters in the base graph, wherein every time a link needs to be added between the same of the cluster and of the node outside the cluster a count of a link strength is increased of an integer unit and wherein every time a link needs to be added between the same of two of the clusters a count of a link strength is increased of an integer unit.
US11983800B2
The invention provides for a medical instrument comprising a memory storing machine executable instructions and an image transformation neural network trained for transforming an optical image of a subject into an output image. The output image comprises a pseudo radiographic image. The pseudo radiographic image is aligned with the optical image. The medical instrument further comprises a processor configured to control the medical imaging system. Execution of the machine executable instructions causes the processor to: receive the optical image of the subject and generate the output image by inputting the optical image into the image transformation neural network.
US11983798B2
Systems/techniques that facilitate AI-based region-of-interest masks for improved data reconstructions are provided. In various embodiments, a system can access a set of two-dimensional medical scan projections. In various aspects, the system can generate a set of two-dimensional region-of-interest masks respectively corresponding to the set of two-dimensional medical scan projections. In various instances, the system can generate a region-of-interest visualization based on the set of two-dimensional region-of-interest masks and the set of two-dimensional medical scan projections. In various cases, the system can generate the set of two-dimensional region-of-interest masks by executing a machine learning segmentation model on the set of two-dimensional medical scan projections.
US11983789B1
A generation method of zero watermarking for trajectory data, a detection method of zero watermarking for trajectory data, a generation device of zero watermarking for trajectory data, a detection device of zero watermarking for trajectory data, and a storage medium are provided. The generation method divides a trajectory based on a coordinate system constructed by trajectory feature points of trajectory data into blocks, and then the moment invariants of trajectory in each block are used to construct a watermark sequence, which can achieve copyright protection without modifying the trajectory data. In addition, since the generation method uses moment invariants which can represent overall features of the trajectory to construct the watermark sequence, the generation method has strong stability in the face of common attacks and can resist almost all common types of attacks.
US11983781B2
Provided is a method of ordering a consumer-customized cake using a cake ordering system, including transmitting, to a management server, a cake image selected among a plurality of displayed cake images, transmitting, to the management server, a cake image selected among a plurality of displayed cake images, receiving, from the management server, a cake model matched with the selected cake image and a decoration model matched with the selected cake image and displaying the cake model and the decoration model, placing the decoration model on the cake model in response to selection for a movement of the decoration model and transmitting, to the management server, location information of the decoration model on the cake model, receiving, from the management server, a decoration cake model which is a composite model of the cake model and the decoration model based on the location information of the decoration model on the cake model, and receiving delivery information to which a cake on which decorations have been shaped by a food printer that receives food printer model data for the decoration model is to be reached, and transmitting the delivery information to the management server.
US11983771B2
A decision tree based processing system implements a decision tree data structure to process publicly available files, such as websites suspected to contain data generated by a data transaction processing system which may be constantly fluctuating and varying. The data transaction processing system generates the data based on processing electronic data transaction request messages received over a network.
US11983769B2
When a consumer checkouts out, the transaction interface presents a buy now pay later option selected by the consumer for payment of a transaction. Consumer information is collected through the interface and a registered financial institution (FI) is presented the transaction details and information for servicing a loan. Terms are provided from the FI and presented to the consumer through the interface. Acceptance by the consumer causes a smart contract with the terms and parties of the loan to be generated in a blockchain (BC) and payment processed by the BC by transferring funds from a FI wallet to a retailer wallet associated with the transaction.
US11983765B2
Distributed energy trading settlement is provided. The method comprises polling a number of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices for energy consumption and production data for a specified preceding time interval and receiving weather data from a weather application programming interface (API) for the same time interval. A number of bids and offers are received from a central modelling solution within a specified trading window, based on the data from the IoT devices and weather API. Orders are then created from the bids and offers. At least a subset of the orders are matched to create a number of matched trades, which are published to a message queue. The published matched trades are committed as transactions in a blockchain, and tokens are transferred between user wallets according to the transactions in the blockchain.
US11983764B2
A bicycle locking assembly includes a bicycle rack is secured to a support surface and a plurality of parking elements each is integrated into the bicycle rack to have a respective bicycle parked in the parking elements. A plurality of bicycle locks is each movably integrated into the bicycle rack for locking a respective bicycle to a respective parking element. A card reader is coupled to the bicycle rack for processing a payment to facilitate a user to lock their bicycle to the bicycle rack. A camera is integrated into the bicycle rack to record footage of the bicycle rack thereby monitoring bicycles that are locked to the bicycle rack. A light emitter is coupled to the bicycle rack to emit light outwardly from the bicycle rack for enhancing visibility of the bicycle rack at night.
US11983763B1
Generation of dynamic electronic representations using modeling is described. Interaction data comprising attributes of one or more interactions between a user and the service provider or one or more third-party services integrated with the service provider is received. A model is executed to dynamically generate an electronic representation for a user profile based upon the interaction data, wherein the model is trained using attributes associated with a set of existing user profiles associated with the service provider and corresponding interaction data indicative of interaction data of the set of existing user profiles, and wherein the electronic representation is generated without input from the user. The electronic representation can be presented on an electronic device.
US11983760B2
A media enhanced shopping cart system comprises a shopping cart, a locationing component, and a display component for displaying at least one advertisement for a product based on the location of the shopping cart within the store, wherein the locationing component is further operable to determine a location of the product within the store relative to the shopping cart, and wherein the display component is further operable to display an indication of the location of the advertised product relative to the location of the shopping cart.
US11983759B2
Disclosed is a method including receiving at a user device a scan of a code, initiating on the device, based on the code, a communication with a server, receiving, based on the communication and from the server, a download of a user interface, the download being independent of a full application stored on the user device, transmitting, via the software module, an identification, received from the user, of a function to perform in connection with the code, transmitting location data associated with the user device to the server and transmitting authorized data to the server based on data retrieved from either the user device or a network entity. The user can scan product codes or rental codes in the store or on a device like a scooter and receive the interactive interface for performing a function. The process eliminates the need for point of sale equipment and eliminates checkout lines.
US11983758B2
A style-driven system may create a holistic shopping experience by generating a user interface (“UI”) with interactive controls and a single presentation for an outfit with two or more items selected from two or more different categories of goods having different utilities or purposes. The single presentation may provide a comprehensive and holistic presentation of the outfit by presenting the items together with a particular arrangement. The holistic shopping experience may include selecting a set of substitute items that are in a same category of goods as a particular item of the outfit and that have one or more style attributes in common with the particular item, and modifying the UI by presenting the set of substitute items for the particular item, and by replacing the particular item in the particular arrangement with a selected substitute item from the set of substitute items.
US11983757B2
Devices, systems, and methods include a three-dimensional (3D) scanning element, an electronic data storage configured to store a database including fields for 3D scan data and demographic information, a processor, and a user interface. In an example, the processor obtains 3D scan data of a body part of a subject from the 3D scanning element, analyzes the 3D scan data for incomplete regions, generate a composite 3D image of 3D scan data from the database based on similarities of demographic information, and overlays composite 3D image regions corresponding to incomplete regions on the 3D scan data.
US11983756B2
In one aspect, a computer implemented method for providing rapid access to product information on a mobile computing device is disclosed. The method includes provisioning an online platform and associating a database repository. Next, the method generates a visual code and identifies the visual code to a domain name. Then the visual code is populated with information, such as product information, wherein the product information is associated to the visual code that is further linked to the data repository and online platform. The association allows for multiple file types and acquisition from web scraping. Further, the online platform allows for editing content behind the domains and generating further subdomains that further link to the original visual code. Thereby providing, in one aspect, a quick information portal through the use of visual codes and data structuring.
US11983753B2
Methods and systems to automatically respond to a request for product information are described. In one embodiment, a data collection module may collect product data over a network, identify that the product data is related to a particular product, and store the product data and an association between the product data and the particular product in a database. An instant messaging engine may receive a request for the product data after the product data is stored in the database and an interpreter module may identify, in response to the request, the request to correspond to the particular product and retrieve the product data based on the association between the particular product and the product data. The instant messaging engine may also transmit, using an instant messaging protocol, a response to the request, the response including the product data.
US11983745B2
Aspects described provide systems and methods that relate generally to image analysis and, more specifically, identifying individual components and elements in an image. The systems and methods include a valuation application executing one or more application program interfaces (APIs) communicating with one or more websites via a network, where the user is prompted to enter information and/or take pictures or videos of their vehicle that they would like to sell. The valuation application utilizes a machine learning model to identify and value the various vehicle components within the images and videos. Based on the machine learning model, the valuation application identifies each component according to the images and videos and performs a search to determine the value of the components identified. The valuation application tabulates and summarizes the vehicle component resale values and resell information for the user to view.
US11983743B2
A system for improving distributed network data flow efficiency by using a machine learning model. The system utilizes a personal data set of at least one user and generates a model during training of the machine learning program utilizing at least one neural network with a training data set including the personal data set of the at least one user. The model provides targeted actions based upon analysis of the personal data set of the at least one user and sends a communication to an agent device of an agent, wherein the communication includes the at least one targeted action.
US11983742B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for modeled advertisement conversion attributions. An example method may include receiving first input data comprising first advertisement impression data and first advertisement conversion data, wherein the first input data includes one or more user identifiers associated with both the advertisement impression data and advertisement conversion data. The example method may also include training one or more machine learning models using the first input data. The example method may also include receiving second input data comprising second advertisement impression data, wherein user identifiers are unavailable for the second input data. The example method may also include determining, using the one or more machine learning models, second predicted conversion data associated with the second input data.
US11983741B2
Systems and methods for advertisement-based vehicle matching and routing. For example, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining data associated with a vehicle service request. The data associated with the vehicle service request is indicative of a pick-up location and a destination location associated with the vehicle service request. The method includes determining, from among a plurality of candidate vehicles, a selected vehicle for the vehicle service request based on the data indicative of the vehicle service request, candidate advertisement content items, and candidate routes for the plurality of candidate vehicles. The method includes communicating data that initiates display of a selected advertisement content item by a display device positioned on an exterior of the selected vehicle. The method includes communicating data indicative of route information to a computing device associated with the selected vehicle. The route information includes a selected route to the pick-up location.
US11983733B2
Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable storage media for facilitating payments for consumer transactions and redemption of deal offerings. In providing such functionality, the system can be configured to, for example, receive payment for one or more products, determine a deal voucher's current value and cause the redemption of the deal voucher.
US11983732B2
Embodiments relate to a method comprising: analyzing a historical data of an entity over a past period comprising a past transaction and a past revenue to develop a buyer persona of a customer in order to identify ideal prospects; selling a target revenue goal for the entity; generating revenue economics using conversion metrics from the target revenue goal as an input; generating a marketing budget working backward from the revenue economics; and generating a marketing plan for a future period that is based on the marketing budget; wherein the method comprises conducting a Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) analysis to take an inventory of current situation of the entity and to identify target market segments by generating the opportunities that are in alignment with the strengths of the entity; and wherein the method is for generating a growth master plan for the future period.
US11983726B2
A consumption prediction method includes the following steps: calculating a personal preference correlation coefficient; inputting historical environment data, a historical consumption record and the personal preference correlation coefficient into a first neural network model; a training model is generated by the first neural network model; and determining whether the accuracy rate of the training model is higher than the training threshold. When the accuracy rate of the training model is higher than the training threshold, the training model is regarded as a prediction model.
US11983719B2
An ATM equipped with forensic card reader identification validation is provided. The ATM may include a real ID card slot. The real ID card slot may accept real ID cards. The ATM may include a call communications module. The call communications module may communicate with a third-party network. Upon insertion of a real ID card at the ATM, the ATM may retrieve security details from the real ID card. The ATM may transmit the security details to the third-party network via the call communications module. The third-party network may verify the security details with one or more databases which are accessible by the third-party network. Upon failure to verify the security details, the third-party network may transmit a failed verification response to the ATM.
US11983717B1
Methods and systems of authorizing transaction requests are disclosed. A financial institution computing system includes a network circuit exchanging information over a network, a customer database storing financial and identification code information for a plurality of customers, and a transaction circuit. The transaction circuit receives a transaction request over the network that specifies a financial account and includes a first identification code provided by an authentication device in conjunction with a separate customer computing device. The transaction circuit authenticates the transaction request by determining whether the first identification code is associated with an authorized user of the financial account specified in the transaction request, authorizes the transaction request, and transmits a confirmation to a transaction terminal over the network via the network circuit.
US11983708B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for processing and settling financial transactions. An example method comprises receiving a transaction from an originator. The transaction comprises information associated with an identification of an initiating user or the account. The method comprises determining the actual account number, transmitting a financial services transaction request comprising the actual account number to a financial institution, receiving a response, and transmitting a response back to the originator. Another method comprises receiving, from a user device, a request to associate a financial account with a user account. The method comprises generating and sending an association message to a payment network and receiving a key associated with the financial account for use in initiating financial transactions. Another method comprises utilizing such a key to generate and process a transaction request. Other systems, methods, and media are also provided.
US11983705B1
A method for preventing the double-spending of digital currency that transfers between multiple distributed ledger technology (DLT) networks. The method includes receiving a message including a smart contract and executing the smart contract. The method further includes detecting a transaction request to transfer the first digital currency from the first DLT network to the second DLT network. The method further includes destroying the digital currency and creating, based on the unit of fiat currency, a second digital currency of a second type on the second DLT network. The method further includes transferring, responsive to detecting the transaction request, the first digital currency from the first DLT network to the second DLT network.
US11983704B2
The present invention relates to a virtual token-based settlement providing system, a virtual token generation apparatus, a virtual token verification server, a virtual token-based settlement providing method, and a virtual token-based settlement providing program. The present invention comprises: a step for receiving a virtual token provided by a virtual token generation means, by a virtual token verification means; a step for extracting multiple detailed codes included in the virtual token by the virtual token verification means; a step for searching for a storage location of an actual card number on the basis of the multiple detailed codes by the virtual token verification means; and a step for transmitting the searched actual card number to a payment settlement service server or a financial company server.
US11983703B2
Disclosed is a method and system, in FIG. 1, for verifying authenticity of specific personal data responsive to a unique wallet address (70) on a public ledger (66) of an unregulated platform (60). The wallet contains one or more non-transferable NFTs each locked to the wallet and related to specific personal data. The non-transferable NFT was minted from a regulated platform (27) to which there is a record (76) in the public ledger. Supplying the unique address of the wallet to a service supplier affects a log-in of a client (18) to the service supplier (90), whereafter message interactions over a network (12) between the service supplier and the unregulated platform (60) permits searching for a relevant (72) non-transferable NFTs (74) stored in the wallet and related to the specific personal data. Return of any relevant non-transferable NFT related to the personal data thus verifies authenticity of the specific personal data by association with a regulated platform.
US11983694B2
According to one embodiment, an information processing device connectable to peripheral devices for retail transaction processing includes an interface for connecting to a plurality of peripheral devices, a storage unit including an unrestricted storage area and a restricted storage area, and a processor. The processor is configured to acquire device information from each of the plurality of peripheral devices connected to the interface, identify whether the acquired device information meets to a first condition, generate a first key from at least a portion of the acquired device information if the first condition is met, then use the generated first key to unlock a first area of the restricted storage area. The processor then executes a first processing program that was stored in the unlocked first area.
US11983693B2
Systems and related methods facilitating payments with a mobile device are discussed herein. Circuitry in a networked-based payment system may be configured to receive payment information from a first device. The first device may include circuitry configured to wirelessly receive wallet identifying data from the payment system. The wallet identifying data may be used to secure messages between the first device and another device over a wireless link. For example, the first device may be configured to send the wallet identifying data to a second device, which may then communicate with the payment system. In response, consumer identifying data associated with the wallet identifying data may be received by the second device from the payment system. In some embodiments, use of wallet identifying data may be applied to other communications, such as for messages that authorize payment.
US11983691B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an intuitive platform for non-contact instructions regarding resource allocation. In this way, a user may utilize one or more specific gestures which are captured, analyzed, and responded to by the system of the invention in order to initiate or complete one or more resource activities such as a resource transfer, resource transfer split, or other resource action.
US11983689B2
A computer-implemented method comprising receiving captured sensor data; detecting, based on the captured sensor data, a person proximate a point of sale terminal; determining a category for the detected person proximate the point of sale terminal; and selectively providing access to functionality at the point of sale terminal based on the determined category of the detected person.
US11983686B2
Systems and methods comprising determining a first user in proximity to a point of sale (POS) device of a second user, the POS device having detected an identity of the first user and a number of devices associated with the POS device. The number of devices is compared to a baseline number of devices in proximity to the POS device, which is based on a time of day and calculated from a time period prior to the time of day. Based on a determination that the number differs from the baseline number by more than a threshold amount, data is generated that includes an indication configured to be displayed utilizing a client application executing on a device of the first user, wherein user interaction with the indication enables the user to at least one of initiate or modify a transaction with the second user.
US11983682B2
A physical cryptocurrency may comprise a physical medium and an attached processor. The processor may generate a public-private key pair, or the public-private key pair may be generated in a secure and auditable manner external to the processor and stored on the processor. The private key may enable execution of a smart contract on a blockchain to transfer an asset from a starting address to a destination address on the blockchain.
US11983667B2
Automated inventory management and material (or container) handling removes the requirement to operate fully automatically or all-manual using conventional task dedicated vertical storage and retrieval (S&R) machines. Inventory requests Automated vehicles plan their own movements to execute missions over a container yard, warehouse aisles or roadways, sharing this space with manually driven trucks. Automated units drive to planned speed limits, manage their loads (stability control), stop, go, and merge at intersections according human driving rules, use on-board sensors to identify static and dynamic obstacles, and human traffic, and either avoid them or stop until potential collision risk is removed. They identify, localize, and either pick-up loads (pallets, container, etc.) or drop them at the correctly demined locations. Systems without full automation can also implement partially automated operations (for instance load pick-up and drop), and can assure inherently safe manually operated vehicles (i.e., trucks that do not allow collisions).
US11983665B2
A system and method are provided for integrating a plurality of supply chain networks, the system comprising interfaces to vendors, consolidation centers, warehouses, retail facilities, and last mile delivery companies to enable multiple retailers to use at least one facility or transportation vehicle from another supply chain or delivery network to utilize excess capacities. The system provides a management service for exposing, abstracting, and integrating multiple supply chain network elements from different parties into a single supply chain and delivery network.
US11983653B2
A computing platform is configured to: (i) at a first time, input data values for a first set of data variables associated with a given construction project into a first machine-learning model that functions to output a prediction of a first set of reference projects that are similar to the given construction project, (ii) based on historical data for the first set of reference projects, determine a predicted value for a parameter of the given construction project, (iii) at a second time, input data values for a second set of data variables associated with the given construction project into a second machine-learning model that functions to output a prediction of a second set of reference projects that are similar to the given construction project, and (iv) based on historical data for the second set of reference projects, determine an updated predicted value for the parameter of the given construction project.
US11983648B2
Data associated a plurality of user interface elements may be retrieved from at least one database associated with a service business, such as a casino. At a first time, a first indication to turn on a first subset of the plurality of user interface elements may be received. The user interface elements may include content management, task management, property management, action management, player profiling, comp management, player development, asset tagging and flagging, profitability and comparative analysis, etc. Each of the first subset of user interface elements may be populated with the respective data associated that user interface element.
US11983647B2
A method for a first electronic device comprises generating a decision-making data structure using a machine learning data structure; transmitting, to a second electronic device, the decision-making data structure; receiving, from the electronic device, result data regarding a result of performing a selected action selected from the decision-making data structure; and updating the machine learning data structure using the result data.
US11983641B2
According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, the disclosure relates to an application system and server kit that create and serve digital twin-enabled applications. This disclosure also relates to a hub-and-spoke classification system. This disclosure also relates to a location-based services framework that leverages a generative content process to improve location prediction. This disclosure also relates to virtual reality and augmented reality applications, as well as digital agents that support various types of applications.
US11983636B2
A model retraining tool is provided for utilizing a knowledge graph to retrain analytical models used in production. The model retraining tool retrains the analytical models to improve performance of the analytical models in an efficient and resource conserving manner.
US11983633B2
An information processing apparatus (2000) acquires input data (10) and generates, by use of a neural network (30), condition data (50) that indicate one or more conditions satisfied by the input data (10). The information processing apparatus (2000) determines prediction data (20) by use of a value determined based on correct answer data (42) associated with example data (40) that satisfy at least a part of conditions indicated by the condition data (50).
US11983632B2
The disclosure describes one or more implementations of a neural network architecture pruning system that automatically and progressively prunes neural networks. For instance, the neural network architecture pruning system can automatically reduce the size of an untrained or previously-trained neural network without reducing the accuracy of the neural network. For example, the neural network architecture pruning system jointly trains portions of a neural network while progressively pruning redundant subsets of the neural network at each training iteration. In many instances, the neural network architecture pruning system increases the accuracy of the neural network by progressively removing excess or redundant portions (e.g., channels or layers) of the neural network. Further, by removing portions of a neural network, the neural network architecture pruning system can increase the efficiency of the neural network.
US11983629B1
Systems and methods for training machine learning models are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a semi-labeled set of training samples including a first set of training samples, where each training sample in the first set is assigned a known label, and a second set of training samples, where each training sample in the second set has an unknown label, determining a first loss component, the first loss component providing a loss associated with the first set, determining a second loss component, the second loss component having a value which increases based on a difference between a distribution of individually predicted values of at least the second set and an expected overall distribution of at least the second set, and training the machine learning model, based on the first loss component and the second loss component, to predict labels for unlabeled input data.
US11983618B2
Advancing beyond Interpretability and explainability approaches that may uncover what a Deep Neural Network (DNN) models, i.e., what each node (cell) in the network represents and what images are most likely to activate the model provide a mimicked type of learning of generalization applicable to previously unseen samples. The approach provides an ability to detect and circumvent adversarial attacks, with self-verification and trust-building structural modeling. Computing systems may now define what it means to learn in deep networks, and how to use this knowledge for a multitude of practical applications.
US11983597B2
A method for manually reading a code marked on an article having a first main face on a first side and a second main face, opposite the first main face, on a second side, wherein, with the article being fixed, a portable device equipped with an optical imaging system including at least one optical sensor is positioned on the first side of the article so as to place the optical sensor facing the code in a reading direction corresponding to the observation direction of the imaging system, and wherein, with the code being illuminated by a light source located on the second side of the article, at least one image of the code is acquired by the optical imaging system.
US11983589B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of amending a fingerprint template for a user of a smart card, where the user of the smart card is progressively enrolling based on comparison and/or using a separate credential such as a PIN code. The present disclosure also relates to a corresponding smart card and to a computer program product.
US11983588B2
A label printing program running on a computing system can associate assets with unique identifiers (UIDs) corresponding to ID tag-bearing labels that are designed to be affixed to the assets. In response to user input selecting an asset for which ID tag-bearing labels should be printed, the label printing program can send command(s) to a printing system that cause an ID tag reader within the printing system to read an ID tag from an unprinted label and determine a UID associated with the ID tag. In response to receiving the UID from the printing system, the label printing program can update a data record that is associated with the asset with the UID associated with the ID tag. The printing system can also print relevant asset information on the unprinted label, thereby creating a printed label that can be affixed to the asset.
US11983586B2
A ceramic circuit board includes a ceramic base material, a metal layer (first metal layer), and a marker portion. The marker portion is formed on the surface of the first metal layer. The surface of the metal layer (first metal layer) may be plated. When the surface of the metal layer (first metal layer) is plated, the marker portion may be formed on the plating.
US11983578B2
A computer program product may cause a processor to perform various operations in a composable computing system. The operations may include accessing a system resource database including, for each of a plurality of disaggregated computing hardware resources within the composable computing system, data corresponding to hardware characteristics for the hardware resource and a power domain characteristic of a power domain that supplies power to the hardware resource. The operations may further include identifying a workload request that requests performance of a workload and identifying a power domain requirement for the workload. Still further, the operations may include selecting a subset of the disaggregated computing hardware resources to be included in a first computing subsystem, wherein each hardware resource selected to be included in the first computing subsystem complies with the identified power domain requirement for the workload, provisioning of the first computing subsystem, and assigning the first computing subsystem to perform the workload.
US11983577B2
Some embodiments provide a method for clustering a set of data compute nodes (DCNs), which communicate with each other more frequently, on one or more host machines. The method groups together guest DCNs (GDCNs) that (1) execute on different host machines and (2) exchange network data among themselves more frequently, in order to reduce interhost network traffic. The more frequently-communicating GDCNs can be a set of GDCNs that implement a distributed application, GDCNs of a particular tier in a multi-tier network architecture (e.g., a web tier in a three-tier architecture), GDCNs that are dedicated to a particular tenant in a hosting system, or any other set of GDCNs that exchange data among each other regularly for a particular purpose.
US11983574B1
Certain aspects of the disclosure provide systems and methods for receiving a request to process a workload on a remote processing system; determining one or more workload requirements associated with processing the workload; and processing the one or more workload requirements with a contextual bandit machine learning model to generate a processing configuration for the remote processing system. The remote processing system provisions resources based on the processing configuration and processes the workload.
US11983572B2
Examples described herein relate to a method and a system, for example, a workload controller, for accessing purged workloads. An alert indicative of an attempt to access a purged workload of workloads deployed in a workload environment may be received by the workload controller. The purged workload may include one or both of a deactivated workload or an archived workload. The workload controller may detect the attempt to access the purged workload based on port mirrored data traffic. Further, in some examples, the workload controller may activate the purged workload based on the alert.
US11983567B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for performing parallel data processing, including: receiving data for parallel processing from a data processing requestor; generating a plurality of data sub-blocks; determining a plurality of data portions in each data sub-block of the plurality of data sub-blocks; changing an order of the plurality of data portions in at least one data sub-block of the plurality of data sub-blocks; providing the plurality of data sub-blocks, including the at least one data sub-block comprising the changed order of the plurality of data portions, to a plurality of processing units for parallel processing; and receiving processed data associated with the plurality of data sub-blocks from the plurality of processing units.
US11983566B2
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques for scheduling deep learning tasks in hardware are described. One accelerator circuit includes multiple fixed-function circuits that each processes a different layer type of a neural network. A scheduler circuit receives state information associated with a respective layer being processed by a respective fixed-function circuit and dependency information that indicates a layer dependency condition for the respective layer. The scheduler circuit determines that the layer dependency condition is satisfied using the state information and the dependency information and enables the fixed-function circuit to process the current layer at the respective fixed-function circuit.
US11983561B2
As part of a container initialization procedure, a maximum number of hardware threads per processor core in a set of cores of a computer system are enabled, the container initialization procedure configuring an operating system executing on the computer system for container execution and configuring a first container for execution on the operating system. From a set of available cores in the set of cores, an execution core is selected. In the selected execution core, a number of threads per core to be used during execution of the first container is configured, the number of threads per core specified for the container initialization procedure by a first simultaneous multithreading (SMT) parameter. Using the configured execution core, the first container is executed, the executing virtualizing the operating system.
US11983555B2
Systems and methods for storage snapshots for nested virtual machines. An example method may comprise running, by a host computer system, a hypervisor managing a first virtual machine associated with a first virtual device. Responsive to creating a second virtual machine by the hypervisor, requesting, by the first virtual machine, a first snapshot of the first virtual device. The hypervisor generates the first snapshot of the first virtual device and forwards the first snapshot of the first virtual device to the second virtual machine.
US11983548B2
A method is described for processing keyed data items that are each associated with a value of a key, the keyed data items being from a plurality of distinct data streams, the processing including collecting the keyed data items, determining, based on contents of at least one of the keyed data items, satisfaction of one or more specified conditions for execution of one or more actions and causing execution of at least one of the one or more actions responsive to the determining.
US11983543B2
An information processing device includes processing circuitry configured to determine whether or not there is integrity in predetermined data regarding a boot sequence of an Operating System (OS) during execution of shutdown of the OS, arid suspend shutdown of the OS when it is determined that there is no integrity in the predetermined data.
US11983530B2
Systems and methods described herein may relate to providing a dynamically configurable circuitry able to process data associated with a variety of matrix dimensions using one or more complex number operations, one or more real number operations, or both. Configurations may be applied to the configurable circuitry to program the configurable circuitry for a next operation. The configurable circuitry may process data according to a variety of operations based at least in part on operation of a repeated processing element coupled in a compute network of processing elements.
US11983525B2
A container image is received, the container image including a container manifest referencing a first base operating system layer and an application layer. An execution compatibility is determined between the application layer and a second base operating system layer, different from the first operating system layer. An updated container image, an updated container manifest, or the updated container image and the updated container manifest is generated in which the first base operating system layer is replaced with the second base operating system layer.
US11983523B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system for copying, at a new node, reservation metadata volumes of an old node. While a software upgrade is in progress, volume reservation command processing may be enabled on both the new node and the old node when copying is complete. Separate logic may be run to process a volume reservation command of the volume reservation command processing. The old node may be switched to a primary mode, wherein the new node may be switched to a secondary mode to synchronize volume reservation metadata with a primary copy. When the software upgrade is complete, the new node may be switched to a single mode to use only a volume reservation database of the new node.
US11983519B2
Examples of aborting installation of a firmware bundle are described. In an example, an abort installation command is received. The firmware bundle includes items, each item corresponding to one of a firmware for a hardware component and a system software component. A first set of items is identified from the items, where the first set of items includes one of an item installed successfully, an item for which installation is under progress, and a combination thereof. A second set of items is identified from the items, where the second set of items is pending installation. A first subset of items is identified from the second set, based on predefined dependency information, where operability of an item from the first set is dependent on an item from the first subset. The first subset of items is installed prior to aborting installation of the firmware bundle.
US11983517B2
A hardware acceleration method includes obtaining compilation policy information and a source code, where the compilation policy information indicates that a first code type matches a first processor and a second code type matches a second processor; analyzing a code segment in the source code according to the compilation policy information; determining a first code segment belonging to the first code type or a second code segment belonging to the second code type; compiling the first code segment into a first executable code; sending the first executable code to the first processor; compiling the second code segment into a second executable code; and sending the second executable code to the second processor.
US11983510B2
Apparatus for evaluating a mathematical function for a received input value includes a polynomial block configured to identify a domain interval containing the received input value over which the mathematical function can be evaluated, the mathematical function over the identified interval being approximated by a polynomial function; and evaluate the polynomial function for the received input value using a set of one or more stored values representing the polynomial function over the identified interval to calculate a first evaluation of the mathematical function for the received input value; and a CORDIC block for performing a CORDIC algorithm, configured to initialise the CORDIC algorithm using the first evaluation of the mathematical function for the received input value calculated by the polynomial block; and implement the CORDIC algorithm to calculate a refined evaluation of the mathematical function for the received input value.
US11983502B2
The example embodiments are directed toward improvements in document classification. In an embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising generating a set of sentences based on a document; predicting a set of labels for each sentence using a multi-label classifier, the multi-label classifier including a self-attended contextual word embedding backbone layer, a bank of trainable unigram convolutions, a bank of trainable bigram convolutions, and a fully connected layer the multi-label classifier trained using a weakly labeled data set; and labeling the document based on the set of labels. The various embodiments can target multiple use cases such as identifying related entities, trending related entities, creating ephemeral timeline of entities, and others using a single solution. Further, the various embodiments provide a weakly supervised framework to train a model when a labeled golden set does not contain a sufficient number of examples.
US11983495B2
An evaluation device includes a first calculation unit configured to calculate feature quantities of respective words, the feature quantities corresponding to text data in which a target of any goal of the SDGs is described and text data in which an outline of one or more first services for which a contribution to the goal that is clear is described, a generation unit configured to generate a sentence feature matrix based on the feature quantities of the respective words, a second calculation unit configured to calculate, when text data in which an outline of a second service is described is input, feature quantities of respective words, and an evaluation unit configured to evaluate a degree of a contribution of the second service to the goal based on the feature quantities of the respective words relevant to the second service and the sentence feature matrix.
US11983487B2
A document creation assistance apparatus includes a tree structure generation unit configured to analyze a learning document for system development and generate a tree structure representing separate sections of the learning document, a frequency calculation unit configured to calculate, per leaf node of the tree structure, a frequency vector of a word that appears, a question extraction unit configured to extract, according to the frequency vector, a word about which a user is to be questioned, a question presentation unit configured to present a question about the extracted word to the user and receive an answer, and a document generation unit configured to generate a document with the extracted word and the answer set in a section of the separate sections of the leaf node according to the separate sections of the tree structure.
US11983479B2
A method of fabricating an integrated circuit includes placing a first set of conductive feature patterns on a first level, placing a second set of conductive feature patterns on a second level, placing a first set of via patterns between the second set of conductive feature patterns and the first set of conductive feature patterns, placing a third set of conductive feature patterns on a third level different from the first level and the second level, placing a second set of via patterns between the third set of conductive feature patterns and the second set of conductive feature patterns, and manufacturing the integrated circuit based on at least one of the above patterns of the integrated circuit.
US11983467B2
A Rapid Aero Modeling program and process may be applied to computational experiments such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD) programs to obtain aerodynamic models which may be in the form of polynomial equations. The program and process may be utilized to estimate (develop) aerodynamic models appropriate for flight dynamics studies, simulations, and the like. Feedback loops are provided around computational codes to rapidly guide testing toward aerodynamic models that meet user-defined fidelity criteria. A user has the freedom to choose a specific level of fidelity in terms of prediction error, in advance of a CFD test (computation).
US11983465B2
An input assistance system includes a terminal device including a display screen, an acquisition unit, a recognition unit, an input item display unit, a recognition result display unit, and a reception unit. The acquisition unit acquires utterance voice data of a user. The recognition unit performs voice recognition of the utterance voice data to generate text data. The input item display unit displays a plurality of input items including the input item associated with the text data. The recognition result display unit displays the text data. The reception unit accepts an operation of selecting the input item associated with the text data displayed by the recognition result display unit from the plurality of input items displayed by the input item display unit. The reception unit accepts the operation of selecting the input item associated with the text data when the plurality of input items and the text data are displayed.
US11983461B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for displaying augmented reality content. The program and method provide for causing, by a messaging application running on a device, a camera of the device to capture an image; receiving by the messaging application, speech input to select augmented reality content for display with the image; determining at least one keyword included in the speech input; determining that the at least one keyword indicates an object depicted in the image and an action to perform with respect to the object; identifying, from plural augmented reality content items, an augmented reality content item that corresponds to performing the action with respect to the object; and displaying the augmented reality content item with the image.
US11983460B2
Method and system for playing audio on a device, the method comprising the steps of a component of a digital work initiating a request for audio data during a rendering of the digital work, the digital work including video data. In response to the request, receiving the audio data. While continuing the rendering of the digital work on the device, suspending playback of first audio data currently playing on the device and playing the received audio data on the device. When the received audio data stops playing continuing with the rendering of the digital work on the device and resuming playback of the first audio data previously playing on the device.
US11983453B1
A printing apparatus includes a sensor and a processing circuit. The sensor detects a width of a printing medium. The processing circuit acquires detected width information based on detection of the width by the sensor. The processing circuit applies, if printing setting information on the width indicated by the detected width information is stored in a storage unit, a printing setting to the printing apparatus based on the printing setting information on the width indicated by the detected width information.
US11983436B2
A memory controller includes a buffer memory including memory banks, one or more host access units configured to perform an access to the buffer memory for a host, one or more memory access units configured to perform an access to the buffer memory for a memory device, and a processor configured to control an operation of the memory controller. The processor divides the memory banks into an external memory bank group for an external operation related to the host, and an internal memory bank group for an internal operation within a memory system. The host access units access the external memory bank group. The memory access units access the external memory bank group to perform the external operation, and access the internal memory bank group to perform the internal operation.
US11983435B2
A system having a processing device and a controller, operatively connected to a memory sub-system via a communication channel, to: store information identifying an amount of available capacity of a buffer of the memory sub-system; transmit, through the communication channel to the memory sub-system, one or more write commands to store data in memory components of the memory sub-system, where the memory sub-system queues the one or more write commands in the buffer; update the information by deducting, from the amount of available capacity, an amount of buffer capacity used by the one or more write commands to generate a current amount of available capacity of the buffer; and determine whether to generate an information request to the memory sub-system based at least in part on the current amount of available capacity.
US11983424B2
A read disturb information isolation system includes a storage subsystem including a plurality of blocks that each include a plurality of rows, and a read disturb information isolation subsystem that is coupled to the storage system. For at least one of the plurality of blocks, the read disturb information isolation system retrieves data from at least a subset of rows in that block, identifies read disturb information for that data, performs at least one isolation operation on that read disturb information to generate isolated read disturb information, and provides that isolated read disturb information to a read temperature identification subsystem. The read temperature identification subsystem may then use the isolated read disturb information provided by the read disturb information isolation subsystem to generate a local logical storage element read temperature map.
US11983418B2
A data storage device comprising a non-volatile storage medium configured to store user data, a data port configured to transmit data between a host computer system and the data storage device, a data security indicator, and a controller. The controller is configured to selectively control access of the host computer system to the user data based on security configuration data of the data storage device. The controller is further configured to respond to the occurrence of one or more operations, the operations being any of: (i) a data access operation requested or performed, by the host computer system, on the data storage device to access the storage medium via the data port; and (ii) a security control operation requested or performed, by an external device, on the data storage device to store, retrieve or update the security configuration data of the data storage device. The response of the controller includes generating an indicator control signal to cause the data security indicator to indicate one or more security parameters associated with the one or more operations.
US11983415B2
A memory management method for a memory storage device is provided. The memory management method includes: detecting effective information of at least one operation event performed by the memory storage device in a first mode; and adjusting a threshold value according to the effective information. The threshold value is configured to determine whether to instruct the memory storage device to enter the first mode.
