US12207073B2
A computer implemented system for rendering captured audio soundfields to a listener comprises apparatus to deliver the audio soundfields to the listener. The delivery apparatus delivers the audio soundfields to the listener with first and second audio elements perceived by the listener as emanating from first and second virtual source locations, respectively, and with the first audio element and/or the second audio element delivered to the listener from a third virtual source location. The first virtual source location and the second virtual source location are perceived by the listener as being located to the front of the listener, and the third virtual source location is located to the rear or the side of the listener.
US12207070B2
A sound output control device includes: an orientation detecting unit configured to detect a state of orientation of a face of a user; an ambient sound obtaining unit configured to obtain ambient sound; an ambient sound reducing processing unit configured to perform, based on the ambient sound, processing of reducing the ambient sound; and a sound output control unit configured to cause sound to be output with the ambient sound reduced by the ambient sound reducing processing unit, when the detected orientation of the face of the user is in a first state, and make audibility of the ambient sound higher than in a state where the ambient sound has been reduced by the ambient sound reducing processing unit, when the detected orientation of the face of the user is in a second state changed from the first state.
US12207068B2
An audio apparatus, e.g. for rendering audio for a virtual/augmented reality application, comprises a receiver (201) for receiving audio data for an audio scene including a first audio component representing a real-world audio source present in an audio environment of a user. A determinator (203) determines a first property of a real-world audio component from the real-world audio source and a target processor (205) determines a target property for a combined audio component being a combination of the real-world audio component received by the user and rendered audio of the first audio component received by the user. An adjuster (207) determines a render property by modifying a property of the first audio component indicated by the audio data for the first audio component in response to the target property and the first property. A renderer (209) renders the first audio component in response to the render property.
US12207059B2
An individual cutoff frequency for an individual secondary path measurement is determined. First and second acoustic transducer-to-eardrum responses below and above the cutoff frequency are determined using an individual secondary path measurement, a reduced dimensionality estimate, and a least squares estimate. A sound pressure level at an eardrum of the user is predicted using the first and second receiver-to-eardrum responses.
US12207058B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to determine performance of audience measurement meters. An example apparatus disclosed herein is to cause an audio output device of a meter to emit an audio signal into an environment, the audio signal based on a test pattern including a first plurality of watermarks and cause an audio input device of the meter to collect data from the environment during emission of the audio signal. Additionally, the example apparatus is to determine whether a second plurality of watermarks decoded from the data match the first plurality of watermarks and based on a difference between the first plurality of watermarks and the second plurality of watermarks indicative of a fault, cause an alert to be transmitted to a device associated with an audience measurement company that issued the meter.
US12207057B2
A system and method are presented for treating tinnitus which include identifying separate treatment signal settings for a patient having a heard tinnitus noise in a left ear and a right ear by separately selecting each ear in turn. Treatment signal settings for a selected ear are identified by presenting audible signal to the selected ear at a variety of frequencies, amplitudes, phases and shapes in order to provides an audible signal that is near to that of a perceived tinnitus sound. Storing the frequency, amplitude, phase and wave shape as the separate treatment signal settings for the selected ear. Using the treatment signal settings for the left ear to generate a left ear treatment signal that is presented to the left ear, and using the treatment signal settings for the right ear to generate a right ear treatment signal that is presented to the right ear.
US12207042B2
A loudspeaker includes a support, a magnetic assembly, a first vibration assembly, and a second vibration assembly. The first vibration assembly and the second vibration assembly are respectively arranged on a first side and a second side opposite to the first side of the support; the first vibration assembly includes a first voice coil and a first vibration diaphragm, the second vibration assembly includes a second voice coil and a second vibration diaphragm, the first vibration diaphragm and the second vibration diaphragm are both connected to the support; and the support is provided with an accommodating space for arranging the magnetic assembly, a magnetic gap is formed between the magnetic assembly and the support, the first voice coil and the second voice coil are both at least partially located in the magnetic gap, the first vibration assembly and the second vibration assembly emit ultrasonic waves having different frequencies.
US12207040B2
A method and system is disclosed for a headset with force isolation, where the headset comprises a headband having two upper headband sections coupled by a center block and two ear cups, where each ear cup is coupled to one of the two upper headband sections. The two upper headband sections may include side support strips between which a movable strip may be placed, thereby increasing the rigidness of the headband when fully extended between the side support strips. The rigidness of the headband may decrease when the movable strips are retracted from between the side support strips and into the center block utilizing a slider knob. The side support strips may be plastic and the movable strip may be metal. The center block may be more rigid than the side support strips. The center block may be plastic. The headband may include headband endcaps at lower ends of the headband.
US12207038B2
A flexible arm that is configured to be located between and physically and electrically connect an acoustic module of an open-ear headphone to a battery housing of the open-ear headphone. The flexible arm includes a flexible printed circuit that extends through the entire original resting length of the flexible arm and comprises a conductor that is configured to carry electrical energy between the acoustic module and the battery housing. A first interface structure is coupled to one of the acoustic module and the battery housing. At least one link member is pivotably coupled to the first interface structure. A flexible material encases at least some of the flexible printed circuit, at least some of the at least one link member, and at least some of the first interface structure.
US12207034B2
The present disclosure may provide an acoustic device. The acoustic device may include a housing, at least one low-frequency acoustic driver, at least one high-frequency acoustic driver, and a noise reduction assembly. The housing may be configured to be rested on a shoulder of a user. The at least one low-frequency acoustic driver may be carried by the housing and configured to output first sound from at least two first sound guiding holes. The at least one high-frequency acoustic driver may be carried by the housing and configured to output second sound from at least two second sound guiding holes. The noise reduction assembly may be configured to receive third sound and reduce noise of the third sound.
US12207026B2
Dual and multi-modulator projector display systems and techniques are disclosed. In one embodiment, a projector display system comprises a light source; a controller, a first modulator, receiving light from the light source and rendering a halftone image of said the input image; a blurring optical system that blurs said halftone image with a Point Spread Function (PSF); and a second modulator receiving the blurred halftone image and rendering a pulse width modulated image which may be projected to form the desired screen image. Systems and techniques for forming a binary halftone image from input image, correcting for misalignment between the first and second modulators and calibrating the projector system—e.g. over time—for continuous image improvement are also disclosed.
US12207020B2
Provided is a data distribution system 1 including one or more sensor devices 10 to acquire sensing data and a server 20 to accept a distribution request from one or more requestors requesting distribution of predetermined data capable of being generated from the sensing data.
US12207017B2
A vehicular recording control device includes a capture-data acquisition unit configured to acquire capture data captured by a first capturing unit that captures a vicinity of a vehicle, an event detection unit configured to detect an event to the vehicle, a stop detection unit configured to detect a stop of the vehicle after the event detection unit detects the event, and a recording control unit configured to save, in a case where the event is detected by the event detection unit, as event record data, at least capture data corresponding to a first period resulting from the detection of the event.
US12207013B2
A media router for down-sampled video routing is provided. The media router includes input cards, cross-point cards and output cards. The input cards include input terminals to receive high bandwidth video signals, a compression module to compress the high bandwidth video signals to generate low bandwidth video signals, and output terminals to transmit the low bandwidth video signals. The cross-point cards include input ports to receive the low bandwidth video signals generated by the input cards, output ports to transmit the low bandwidth video signals, and a cross-point switch for routing the low bandwidth video signals between the input ports and a designated output port. The output cards include input ports to receive the compressed video signal from a cross-point card, a decompression module for converting the compressed video signal into an uncompressed video signal, and output ports for transmitting the uncompressed video signal.
US12207007B2
An image sensor includes a test image generator configured to receive pixel data of a group of pixels including channel that corresponds to a size of a plurality of row regions of a pixel array that includes the plurality of row regions and a plurality of column regions, and is configured to generate test image data based on the pixel data, and an interface configured to transmit the test image data from the test image generator to a test device. The test image generator is configured to divide the pixel data into a first column region corresponding to 2n-th column region of the column regions of the pixel data and a second column region corresponding to 2n−1-th column region of the column regions of the pixel data and configured to generate a test image based on the first column region.
US12207006B2
The present invention relates to a solid-state imaging device capable of highly accurate authentication. The solid-state imaging device includes a light receiving unit and a control unit. The light receiving unit includes event-driven pixels that output the occurrence of an event on the basis of a threshold. The control unit is a control unit that controls the light receiving unit, and is configured to set a first threshold for the event-driven pixels, and, in a case where an event based on the first threshold has been detected, set a second threshold smaller than the first threshold for the event-driven pixels.
US12207002B2
In described examples, an integrated circuit includes first, second, third, and fourth image processing blocks, a data selection circuitry, and a pipeline memory. An input of the first image processing block receives raw image data. An input of the second image processing block is coupled to an output of the first image processing block. An input of the third image processing block is coupled to an output of the second image processing block. A first input of the data selection circuitry is coupled to an output of the first image processing block, and a second input of the data selection circuitry is coupled to an output of the second image processing block. A data input of the pipeline memory is coupled to an output of the data selection circuitry, and an output of the pipeline memory is coupled to an input of the fourth image processing block.
US12207000B2
A shooting method, performed by an electronic device, the electronic device includes an operating system and is provided with a functional camera, an application layer of the electronic device is provided with a third-party application, and the shooting method includes: in response to a shooting operation on a shooting interface of the third-party application, sending a data processing request to a framework layer of the operating system by the third-party application, the data processing request being a request for indicating to process initial image data collected by the functional camera; sending the data processing request to a hardware abstraction layer of the operating system by the framework layer; and processing the initial image data by the hardware abstraction layer in response to the data processing request to obtain target image data, and sending the target image data to the third-party application by the hardware abstraction layer.
US12206997B2
An image capture device may capture two hemispherical views of a scene. The two hemispherical view of the scene may be stitched along a stitch line. The image capture device may be rotated to align the stitch line with a mid-line of a panoramic field of view of the scene. Separate exposure settings may be used to capture the two hemispherical views of the scene, with the exposure settings increasing the dynamic range of the scene depicted within the panoramic field of view of the scene. The panoramic field of view of the scene may be punched out as panoramic visual content.
US12206995B2
A portable inspection device comprises a lighting component configured to provide an adjustable level of illumination, a camera having a wide angle lens, configured for recording a video of an area to be inspected, a memory for storing video data captured by the camera and a touch screen to receive input from a user, and to display output video. The device further comprises a controller to: receive an instruction from a user to initiate a video recording using the camera; determine a measure of the brightness of ambient lighting in the area to be inspected; adjust the level of illumination of the so lighting component; store recorded video data in the memory; receive a video playback instruction from a user to initiate playback of recorded video data stored in the memory; and initiate playback of the recorded video data in response to receiving the video playback instruction.
US12206992B2
A first frame of image data is captured at a first illumination intensity during a first time segment. A second frame of image data is captured at a second illumination intensity during a second time segment. The first frame and the second frame are combined and outputted as a compensated frame.
US12206986B2
A camera mode to use for capturing an image or video is selected by estimating high dynamic range (HDR), motion, and light intensity with respect to a scene of the image or video to capture. An image capture device includes a HDR estimation unit to detect whether HDR is present in a scene of an image to capture, a motion estimation unit to determine whether motion is detected within the scene, and a light intensity estimation unit to determine whether a scene luminance for the scene meets a threshold. A mode selection unit selects a camera mode to use for capturing the image based on output of the HDR estimation unit, the motion estimation unit, and the light intensity estimation unit. An image sensor captures the image according to the selected camera mode.
US12206984B2
A system and method for controlling surveillance cameras is enclosed. In the system, a surveillance camera system includes surveillance cameras configured as VoIP server endpoints. The surveillance cameras receive messages from client devices such as mobile user devices and computer workstations functioning as VoIP client endpoints. The client devices establish a voice communications channel with the surveillance cameras for receiving and controlling one or more streams of image data sent by the surveillance camera over the voice communications channel to the client device. In a preferred embodiment, the voice communications channel includes a control session based on Session Information Protocol (SIP) and a data channel that is based on Real time transfer protocol (RTP) The data channel preferably operates in half duplex mode, which limits the potential for collisions on the data channel when the surveillance cameras are transmitting their image data to the client devices.
US12206982B2
This invention provides an information processing apparatus comprising a first acquisition unit which acquires first operation member arrangement information related to an arrangement of an operation member of a first electronic device having an operation member to which a user-set function is assignable, and first setting value information representing a relation between the operation member and the user-set function, a second acquisition unit which acquires second operation member arrangement information related to an arrangement of an operation member of a second electronic device, a conversion unit which converts the first setting value information into second setting value information for the second electronic device, based on the first and second operation member arrangement information, and a transmission unit which transmits the second setting value information to the second electronic device.
US12206980B2
A device displays, in a first display region of a camera user interface, a first live view from a first camera. While displaying the first live view from the first camera, the device detects movement of a first user input (e.g., a first contact on a touch-sensitive surface). In accordance with a determination that the movement of the first user input meets first movement criteria, the device moves the first live view in the first display region in accordance with the movement of the first user input, displays a second live view from a second camera, and moves the second live view in the first display region in accordance with the movement of the first user input.
US12206974B2
An optical element driving mechanism is provided, including a fixed part, a movable part, and a driving assembly. The movable part includes a holder, and a supporting element. The holder holds an optical element. The supporting element is connected to the holder. The driving assembly drives the movable part to move relative to the fixed part. The holder uses the supporting element as a fulcrum and moves relative to the fixed part around the first axis and the second axis. The first axis is not parallel to the second axis.
US12206971B2
An information processing system is provided. The system is mounted on a mobile entity and includes: an imaging unit configured to capture an image of a subject; and a plurality of mirror units, wherein: at least a first mirror unit and a second mirror unit of the plurality of mirror units are disposed on an optical axis of the imaging unit, the first mirror unit is used in such a manner that an imaging range of the imaging unit is a constant area of the subject, and the second mirror unit is used to switch a gaze direction of the imaging unit.
US12206965B2
The present invention relates to enhancing the image capturing devices, and to enhance the image producing devices, in such a way that they can capture and produce 3D images without the need of any gear to be worn by the viewers. The proposed solution is inspired by ray optics, geometry, mirrors, diamond cuts, eyes, rods & cones of human eyes, and retina design of human eyes. It doesn't “trick” the eyes and brain, it doesn't manipulate the images like current technologies do to give the 3D effect. The invention describes how the light sensors and light emitters, and their layouts to be changed in imaging devices like cameras and TV screens, to capture and produce 3D images, whether or not the directional information can be captured by image sensors and emitters.
US12206963B2
Systems and methods for hyperspectral and multispectral imaging are disclosed. A system includes a lens and an imaging device having a plurality of pixel sensors. A focus corrector is located within the optical path to refract at least a portion of the incoming light and change the focusing distance of specific wavelengths of light to converge at a focal plane. The focus corrector is selected based upon the imaging system to reduce an overall measure of deviation between a focal length curve for the lens and a focus position curve for pixel sensors to produce focused imaging data for a broad spectrum of light, including beyond the visible range.
US12206962B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and device for generating video preview content, a computer device and a storage medium. The method for generating video preview content includes parsing a video to be processed, to obtain all image frames of the video to be processed and generate a list of ordered image frames; processing the list of the ordered image frames by image recognition to filter out a slice header and a slice tail of the video; and generating preview content of the video based on a list of the filtered image frames.
US12206959B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to signaling multiple media data types in a container file format, for example, ISOBMFF, in an efficient manner. In the context of a signaling method, media type definitions overloaded in an instance a plurality of media type definitions is present in compatible media type list, wherein a media type definition is associated with a media type. The method then indicates, using the compatible media type list, presence of a plurality of media types in a metadata or multimedia box. Corresponding apparatuses and computer program products are also provided.
US12206958B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to extend a time range supported by a watermark are disclosed. Example watermark encoding apparatus disclosed herein determine which one of a plurality of timestamp cycles is to be represented by a timestamp of a watermark, the timestamp including a set of timestamp symbols, a first subset of data symbols and a second subset of data symbols. Disclosed example apparatus also modify the first subset of data symbols of the watermark based on a further timestamp symbol not included in the set of timestamp symbols of the timestamp, but not modify the second subset of data symbols based on the further timestamp symbol, the further timestamp symbol to identify the one of the plurality of timestamp cycles to be represented by the timestamp of the watermark. Disclosed example apparatus further embed the watermark in a piece of media.
US12206951B2
Systems and methods are described herein for presenting user selected scenes. A media guidance application may generate for display a listing for a media asset, wherein a play length of the media asset includes a non-selectable play length portion and a selectable play length portion. The media guidance application may generate for display a first scene option corresponding to a first scene and a second scene option corresponding to a second scene. The media guidance application may receive a user selection of the first or second scene option and incorporate the selected scene into the selectable play length portion of the media asset. The media guidance application may generate for display the media asset with the selected scene incorporated into the selectable play length portion.
US12206950B2
A request, from an end user device associated with a user, for supplemental media is received. Based on the request, metadata and a broadcast time associated with a primary media stream transmitted to the end user device is determined. Based on the metadata and the broadcast time, supplemental media from an account of the user on a platform is retrieved. A supplemental media stream, that includes the supplemental media, is sent in synchronization with the primary media stream.
US12206949B2
The system described herein implements synchronized playback of data related to an event. The system receives information that defines a type of event, as well as a time at which the event occurs. Moreover, the information defines an environment in which the event occurs. The system maps the type of event to data sources associated with the environment. Furthermore, the system maps the time at which the event occurs to a predefined timeframe that precedes and/or overlaps with the time at which the event occurs. The system retrieves respective datasets from the data sources and generates respective visualizations for the datasets. The system displays the visualizations in a layout and provides user controls that enable a user to implement synchronized playback of the event from the perspective of the data sources. For example, the synchronized playback can cycle through a sequence of data display states for the datasets.
US12206941B2
Systems and methods for a computer-based process that determines when a viewer is likely to skip over supplemental content and adjusts supplemental content presentation to compensate. Systems of embodiments of the disclosure may utilize various inputs to determine the likelihood of skipping supplemental content, including cursor position at or near specified icons or other UI elements, as well as user actions such as gaze direction, various motions or actions, controller manipulations, and the like. Once a likelihood of skipping supplemental content is determined, various actions may be taken in response, including without limitation selection of supplemental content that conveys its intended message prior to skipping, supplemental content that can be played at increased speed, and designation of supplemental content slots as skippable or non-skippable.
US12206936B2
A method and system for controlling implementation of dynamic content modification. The disclosure provides for using at least one steganographically-encoded timestamp in a media stream transmitted to a media client as a basis to determine a transmission delay for media-stream transmission to the media client, and for providing the determined transmission delay as a basis to facilitate control over whether to have the media client implement dynamic content modification. In addition, the disclosure provides for receiving respectively from each of various media clients a report indicating transmission delay determined for the media client based on such steganographically-encoded timestamp data, and using the transmission delays for the media clients to establish a dynamic-content-modification footprint that could be used to control whether, where, and to what extent dynamic content modification will be applied.
US12206934B2
Provided is a mobile information terminal that performs data transmission and reception, the data transmission and reception including video data reception. The mobile information terminal includes a communication management execution module that obtains a communication amount of data transmitted and received by the mobile information terminal in a predetermined period, and a remote viewing execution module that compares the obtained communication amount to a preset predetermined value and makes an image quality of the video data selectable according to a relationship between the obtained communication amount and the predetermined value.
US12206932B2
An exemplary method including: receiving downstream data including a first video stream and first content information, the first video stream being transmitted from a first device, the first content information describing a graphical object; receiving first interaction information indicating a first user interaction feedback to the graphical object at the first device, generating a first content texture including the graphical object, an appearance of the graphical object being determined using the first content information and the first user interaction feedback included in the first interaction information; generating a video frame including the first content texture and a second content texture, the second content texture being generated from the first video stream; displaying the video frame at the first device and a second device; receiving a second user interaction feedback to the video frame at the second device; and transmitting second interaction information indicating the user interaction feedback.
US12206931B2
A cable may be satisfactorily used that has a specific function such as a register that holds specification data and a current consumption unit such as an element for adjusting signal quality. The cable is connected between a first electronic device and a second electronic device. A determination unit determines whether or not the first electronic device is a compatible electronic device. A control unit performs control to operate in a compatible mode when the first electronic device is a compatible electronic device and operate in a non-compatible mode when the first electronic device is not a compatible electronic device on the basis of the determination result by the determination unit. Furthermore, an electronic device is connected to an external device via the cable. The determination unit determines whether or not the cable is a compatible cable. The control unit performs control to operate in the compatible mode when the cable is a compatible cable and operate in the non-compatible mode when the cable is not a compatible cable on the basis of the determination result by the determination unit.
US12206927B2
A display device and a method for controlling same are disclosed. The display device compares device information of an external electronic device stored in the display device with device information transmitted by the external electronic device, thereby being capable of accurately recognizing a change in the external electronic device communicatively connected with the display device in a state in which the display device is turned off.
US12206912B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video data processing. In some examples, an apparatus for video data processing includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry determines a first syntax element for coding control in a first scope of coded video data in a bitstream. The first syntax element is associated with a coding tool for processing transform coefficients with a dynamic range that is extended from a predetermined dynamic range. The dynamic range is associated with an extended precision. Then, in response to the first syntax element being a first value indicative of disabling of the coding tool in the first scope, the processing circuitry decodes the first scope of coded video data in the bitstream that includes one or more second scopes of coded video data without invoking the coding tool.
US12206907B2
A global index value is generated for selecting a global reshaping function for an input image of a relatively low dynamic range using luma codewords in the input image. Image filtering is applied to the input image to generate a filtered image. The filtered values of the filtered image provide a measure of local brightness levels in the input image. Local index values are generated for selecting specific local reshaping functions for the input image using the global index value and the filtered values of the filtered image. A reshaped image of a relatively high dynamic range is generated by reshaping the input image with the specific local reshaping functions selected using the local index values.
US12206903B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for encoding video data into a bitstream and for decoding video data received in a bitstream. A second control flag indicating whether or not to use multi-hypothesis prediction for intra and inter mode is generated and transmitted only conditionally, upon a determination whether or not separate merge list technique for subblock merge candidates is used. On the other hand, a decoder is capable of deciding usage of multi-hypothesis prediction for intra and inter mode and separate merge list technique for subblock merge candidates even though the second control flag is transmitted only conditionally.
US12206895B2
A video coding/decoding method and device, according to the present invention, may enable: deriving an intra-frame prediction mode of a current block; configuring a reference pixel for the intra-frame prediction of the current block; and carrying out the intra-frame prediction of the current block on the basis of the intra-frame prediction mode and the reference pixel. The intra-frame prediction mode of the current block is derived on the basis of any one of MPM candidates or a predetermined default mode.
US12206893B2
Video/picture coding of improved coding efficiency with supporting varying resolution and/or efficiently handling region-wise packing.
US12206887B2
An image decoding method according to the present invention includes reconstructing a residual block by inverse-quantizing and inverse-transforming an entropy-decoded residual block, generating a prediction block by performing intra prediction on a current block, and reconstructing an picture by adding the reconstructed residual block to the prediction block, wherein generating the prediction block includes generating a final prediction value of a prediction target pixel included in the current block based on a first prediction value of the prediction target pixel and a final correction value calculated by performing an arithmetic right shift on a two's complementary integer representation for an initial correction value of the prediction target pixel by a binary digit of 1. Accordingly, upon image encoding/decoding, computation complexity may be reduced.
US12206883B2
A method of encapsulating an encoded bitstream representing one or more images includes providing description of images and/or sub-image picture, providing composed picture description, and outputting the bitstream. The description of images and/or sub-image pictures identifying portions of the bitstream representing the images and/or sub-images of the one or more images is provided. The composed picture description of at least one composed picture formed by one or more images and/or sub-image pictures also is provided. The bitstream, together with the composed picture description, is output as an encapsulated data file.
US12206880B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method, an apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for video decoding. The apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry can decode, from a bitstream, pictures associated with views of respective layers in a coded video sequence (CVS). The processing circuitry is configured to determine, based on a first supplemental enhancement information (SEI) message and a second SEI message, positions of the views to be displayed in one dimension. The first SEI message includes scalability dimension information (SDI) and the second SEI message includes multiview view position (MVP) information. The processing circuitry is configured to display the decoded pictures based on the positions of the views in the one dimension.
US12206875B2
A method of compressing feature data includes: receiving feature data; performing spatial down sampling on the received feature data by applying a pixel unshuffle operation; and performing channel reduction on the spatially down sampled feature data by applying a non-linear two dimensional convolution with an activation.
US12206864B2
A method of decoding video data including, receiving a first block of video data, receiving a first syntax element indicating if a coding mode is to be used for the first block of video data in the case that the first block of video data is associated with a number of non-zero transform coefficients greater than or equal to a threshold, explicitly decoding a value of the received first syntax element, and applying the coding mode to the first block of video data in accordance with a value of the first syntax element.
US12206858B2
During video encoding or decoding, cross-component prediction can be used to predict a chroma sample from collocated reconstructed luma samples. The prediction can be based on a gradient of the collocated reconstructed luma samples, a down-sampled value of the collocated reconstructed luma samples, or a combination thereof. An exemplary method includes: determining a first value associated with a chroma sample, by applying a first gradient pattern to reconstructed values of a first plurality of luma samples; determining a second value associated with the chroma sample, by applying a down-sampling filter to reconstructed values of a second plurality of luma samples; and predicting the chroma sample based on the first value and the second value.
US12206856B2
An image decoding method according to the present document comprises the steps of: when an ISP is applied to a current block and the width or height of a sub-partition block is less than or equal to 2, applying LFNST to the transform coefficients to derive modified transform coefficients; deriving residual samples for the objective block on the basis of an inverse primary transform for the modified transform coefficients; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of the residual samples for the objective block, wherein when the sub-partition block is an N×2 block or a 2×N block, (M×2) or (2×M) number of modified transform coefficients are derived by applying an LFNST matrix to a predetermined number of transform coefficients in an upper left M×2 area or 2×M (M≤N) area of the sub-partition block.
US12206851B2
Techniques are described for compressing and decompressing data using machine learning systems. An example process can include receiving a plurality of images for compression by a neural network compression system. The process can include determining, based on a first image from the plurality of images, a first plurality of weight values associated with a first model of the neural network compression system. The process can include generating a first bitstream comprising a compressed version of the first plurality of weight values. The process can include outputting the first bitstream for transmission to a receiver.
US12206849B2
A method for decoding a video according to the present invention may comprise: determining merge target candidate blocks of a current coding block, specifying at least one among the merge target candidate blocks, and generating a merged block by merging the specified merge target candidate block and the current coding block.
US12206847B2
An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus of the present invention may divide one picture into a plurality of division units, determine whether to perform filtering on a boundary of a current division unit based on a predetermined flag, and perform filtering on the boundary of the current division unit in response to the determination.
US12206844B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus including processing circuitry for video decoding. The processing circuitry can decode coded information of a coding block in a picture of a coded video sequence. The coded information indicates a clipping index m. The clipping index m indicates a clipping value for a filter that is applied to the coding block. The processing circuitry can determine the clipping value associated with the clipping index m. The clipping value can be dependent on a bit depth B and the clipping index m. The clipping value for each value of the clipping index m can be independent from N. N is a total number of allowed clipping values that include the clipping value. The processing circuitry generates a filtered coding block by applying the filter corresponding to the clipping value to the coding block.
US12206836B1
An optical arrangement includes at least one pair of displays, each pair having a first display and a second display configured to generate light in a visible spectral range. For each pair of displays, the optical arrangement includes a first polarizer configured to polarize the light incident from the first display, a second polarizer configured to polarize the light incident from the second display. The optical arrangement also includes first and second polarizing beam splitters for each pair of displays. Each polarizing beam splitter is configured to receive the polarized light from the first and second polarizers. Each polarizing beam splitter is also configured to reflect one of an s-polarized component and a p-polarized component of the received polarized light into at least one field of view (FOV) and transmit the other of the s-polarized component and the p-polarized component of the received polarized light into the subject FOV(s).
US12206830B2
Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to devices, systems, and methods for separately processing an image stream to generate a first set of images for display by a set of displays and a second set of images for storage or transfer as part of a media capture event. Specifically, a first set of images from an image stream may be used to generate a first set of transformed images, and these transformed images may be displayed on a set of displays. A second set of images may be selected from the image stream in response to a capture request associated with a media capture event, and the second set of images may be used to generate a second set of transformed images. A set of output images may be generated from the second set of transformed images, and the set of output images may be stored or transmitted for later viewing.
US12206829B2
A method for decoding a 360-degree image includes: receiving a bitstream obtained by encoding a 360-degree image; generating a prediction image by making reference to syntax information obtained from the received bitstream; combining the generated prediction image with a residual image obtained by dequantizing and inverse-transforming the bitstream, so as to obtain a decoded image; and reconstructing the decoded image into a 360-degree image according to a projection format. Here, generating the prediction image includes: checking, from the syntax information, prediction mode accuracy for a current block to be decoded; determining whether the checked prediction mode accuracy corresponds to most probable mode (MPM) information obtained from the syntax information; and when the checked prediction mode accuracy does not correspond to the MPM information, reconfiguring the MPM information according to the prediction mode accuracy for the current block.
US12206827B2
An image forming apparatus includes one or more controllers that control reading of a plurality of documents, an image processing, a printing, and a post-processing, wherein in a case where the post-processing is set, and when a main scanning direction size is alignable to a main scanning direction size of one of the documents by applying, to an image of each document, at least one of image processing among rotation in the unit of 90 degrees, enlargement/reduction, and margin increase/decrease adjustment, the controller allows to perform the post-processing by aligning the main scanning direction size of each image with respect to the alignable size as a reference size.
US12206826B2
This disclosure describes an electronic device that can be installed within an access control system in parallel with a legacy interface device. The electronic device may perform steps of determining a set of configuration settings associated with an access control system to which the electronic device is electrically connected, receiving, by the electronic device, a first signal in a format associated with the access control system, configuring, based on the set of configuration settings, one or more signal pathways within the electronic device, generating, by routing the first signal through the one or more signal pathways, a second signal in a second format, and providing the second signal to at least one second electronic device.
US12206824B2
A video conference system has a multi-camera setup to allow automatic switching of video feeds without intervention from a video conference host. The video conference system obtains video feeds from multiple cameras at the same location and displays the video feed from one of the cameras in a primary area of a display. The video conference system determines a relevance score based on a detected object. The video conference system automatically displays a video feed in the primary area of the display based on the relevance score of the video feed.
US12206821B1
Certain aspects of the disclosure are directed to customization of a contact center, using a data communications server. According to a specific example, the data communications server includes circuitry configured and arranged to provide data communications services to a plurality of remotely-situated client entities. The data communications server further provides a user interface for each respective remotely-situated client entity, the user interface including a display of communications-based campaigns, tools for contact center communications (e.g., interactive voice response (IVR) tools), and data analytics. Moreover, the data communications server provides a display on the user interface which may include selectable components to create for the associated remotely-situated client entity, a customized way for handling data communications by the data communications server. Accordingly, the data communications server may handle communications for the associated remotely-situated client entity according to the provided customization.
US12206819B2
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for implementing mobile terminating call. According to an embodiment, a subscriber management node obtains, from a mobility management node, an indication that indicates whether a packet switching (PS) connection is currently active for a terminal device. The subscriber management node receives, from a server, a first query about whether a PS access domain is to be used for a terminating call to the terminal device. The subscriber management node sends a response to the server based on the obtained indication.
US12206814B2
The present disclosure provides details on an intermediary service bureau (ISB) system which includes an ISB center that acts as an intermediary communication center between communication devices used by correctional facilities and contract providers. The ISB records communications, stores security data, and provides front end processing to facilitate an inmate to communicate with an outside party by way of a contract provider. Further, the ISB provides accounting services for inmates and friends and family that use services provided the contract provider. The contract provider provides security and routing services for the ISB by obtaining data from the ISB and updating data at the ISB according to the communications.
US12206813B1
Methods, systems, and devices for intruder detection are described. A security and automation system may include a camera configured to monitor a zone of a premises. The security and automation system may detect a person in the zone, for example using the camera, a motion sensor, or another sensor. The security and automation system may determine that the person has remained in the zone for a threshold duration. The security and automation system may generate a notification (e.g. an audiovisual notification) based on determining that the person has remained in the zone for the duration. In some examples, the notification may include a verbal message, a flashing light, etc., to indicate to the person that video recording was initiated. The techniques described herein may inform an intruder that video is being recorded, which may discourage an intruder from an intended action (e.g., theft, property damage, etc.), among other benefits.
US12206812B2
Integrating buyer and/or merchant functionality with discoverable applications is described. In an example, applications associated with a service provider can be stored in a repository associated with the service provider. At least a part of an application of the applications is associated with a particular, discrete functionality. The service provider can determine context data associated with a user computing device and can select, based at least in part on the context data, the application from the applications, wherein at least the part of the application is to be surfaced on the user computing device. The service provider can cause a user interface associated with at least the part of the application to be presented via the user computing device, wherein the user interface enables a user of the user computing device to input data for enabling the particular, discrete functionality, and wherein a portion of the context data is used to customize the user interface for the user.
US12206810B2
Provided is a roll-slide mobile terminal in which a front area of a flexible display unit is variable, for solving a problem of an electric field portion narrowing due to a structure for the variation of the front area, the roll-slide mobile terminal comprising a first frame, a second frame sliding in a first direction with respect to the first frame, the flexible display unit, a first guide rail fixed to the first frame to be parallel to the front area of the flexible display unit and provided in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, a first slider moving in the second direction along the first guide rail, and a link rotatably fastened to each of the first slider and the second frame to move the second frame according to movement of the first slider.
US12206809B2
An easily disassembled lens module in a terminal device includes a lens assembly, a circuit board, and a structural member. The circuit board includes a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion which are connected in sequence. The first portion is connected to the lens assembly, the second portion and the third portion protrude from the lens assembly. The structural member includes a connecting portion fixed on the third portion and at least one pulling portion protruding from the third portion. After installation in the terminal device, the lens assembly can be disassembled by using the at least one pulling portion to pull on the structural member so that the lens assembly can be disassembled without using tools and without causing damage.
US12206799B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to securely authenticating communicating devices. In various embodiments, a computing device receives, via a network connection with a network, a first certificate for a first public key pair of the computing device. The computing device provides the first certificate to an offline accessory device and receives a second certificate for a second public key pair maintained by the offline accessory device. The computing device performs a verification of the second certificate and, responsive to the verification being successful, interacts with the offline accessory device. In some embodiments, prior to providing the first certificate, the computing device determines an ordering in which the first and second certificates are to be exchanged by the first computing device and the offline accessory device, and the first certificate is provided to the offline accessory device in accordance with the determined ordering.
US12206788B2
Methods and systems are described herein for facilitating blockchain operations in decentralized applications by offering enhanced efficient when conducting blockchain operations using cryptography-based, digital ledgers through the use of specialized indexing. For example, as opposed to relying on raw blockchain data to power decentralized applications, the methods and systems use a blockchain indexer. The blockchain indexer provides a queryable record of a subset of blockchain operations.
US12206787B2
A system and method to permit brand owners to maintain control over their valuable brands in a virtual economy. The system and method feature a mark to permit legitimate branded items to be identified. Optionally and preferably, the system and method also enable non-legitimate, “fake” or fraudulent branded items to be identified. Such branded items include but are not limited to, any type of trademark, including without limitation any type of word mark, color, logo, slogan or any other suitable type of trademark; any object designed by or associated with the brand; and any item featuring any component or material that is trademarked, patented or copyrighted.
US12206778B2
One or more keys are derived from a master key by executing a plurality of encryption operations. A first encryption operation uses the master key to encrypt a plaintext input having a plurality of bytes. Multiple intermediate encryption operations are performed using a respective intermediate key generated by a previous encryption operation to encrypt respective plaintext inputs having a number of bytes. At least two bytes of a plaintext input have values based on a respective set of bits of a plurality of sets of bits of an initialization vector, wherein individual bits of the respective set of bits are introduced into respective individual bytes of the plaintext input and the respective set of bits has at least two bits and at most a number of bits equal to the number of bytes of the plaintext input.
US12206776B2
An example method includes receiving an encrypted biometric enrollment data and user identifier data. The encrypted biometric enrollment data includes at least one biometric enrollment sample from a user encrypted using an encryption key. The encryption key is generated based on a user secret and the user identifier is associated with the user. The user identifier is matched with a stored user secret. A decryption key is generated based on the stored user secret. The encrypted biometric enrollment data is decrypted using the decryption key. The at least one biometric enrollment sample is retrieved from the decrypted biometric enrollment data. The at least one biometric enrollment sample is processed using a biometric processing algorithm to generate a biometric reference template. A biometric reference template identifier uniquely identifying the biometric reference template is generated. An encryption key is generated based on the stored user secret and encrypts an enrollment confirmation message.
US12206771B2
A secondary fragment of an encryption key is received. The secondary fragment is associated with an authentication process of a user. The secondary fragment is one of a plurality of secondary fragments of the encryption key. The user is authenticated (e.g., by validating a username/password). The encryption key is regenerated using the secondary fragment and a primary fragment of the encryption key. In response to regenerating the encryption key using the secondary fragment and the primary fragment, and authenticating the user: access is granted, to the user, by unencrypting an encrypted data record using the regenerated encryption key.
US12206767B2
A transmitter device for sending an encrypted message to a receiver device in an identity-based cryptosystem, the identity-based cryptosystem includes a transmitter trusted center connected to the transmitter device and a receiver trusted center connected to the receiver device. The transmitter device is configured to: receive, from the transmitter trusted center, two public authentication keys; check if a set of conditions related to a transmitter trusted center public key, to a receiver trusted center public key, and to a transmitter authentication key comprised in the two public authentication keys are satisfied; determine a ciphertext set comprising an encrypted message if the set of conditions are satisfied; send the ciphertext set to the receiver device.
US12206761B2
A method includes receiving data and a plurality of values at a processor. The data can include real-valued data and/or complex data. The plurality of values includes one of a plurality of random values or a plurality of pseudo-random values. The method also includes generating an automorphism, via the processor, based on the plurality of values, and partitioning the data, via the processor, into a plurality of data blocks. The automorphism includes at least one of a linear transformation or an antilinear transformation. Each data block from the plurality of data blocks can have a predefined size. The method also includes applying the automorphism, via the processor, to each data block from plurality of data blocks, to produce a plurality of transformed data blocks, and causing transmission of a signal representing the plurality of transformed data blocks.
US12206759B1
A digital steganography system comprises a message sender in electronic communication with a message receiver through a social media platform. The message sender uses a compute device configured to conceal a secret digital message in the semantic components of a digitally synthesized image which is uploaded onto the social media platform and published in a social media post. As part of the message encoding process, the compute device for the message sender coverts the digital message into binary code, applies encryption and error-correction algorithms, and then implements image synthetization operations to yield the digitally synthesized image. The message receiver is provided with a compute device configured to identify the social media post, automatically download the synthesized image, and apply an inverse set of the image synthetization operations to yield binary code which is subsequently decoded and decrypted in order to extract the original covert message.
US12206753B1
A method of clocking a data channel of a storage device includes generating a single time-base frequency signal, deriving from the single time-base frequency signal, using a plurality of frequency-modification techniques, a plurality of individual clock signals, each respective one of the individual clock signals being for clocking a respective one of reading, writing and servo functions of the data channel. When the storage device is a disk storage device having a rotational frequency, generating a single time-base frequency signal may include generating a time-base frequency signal based on the rotational frequency. Deviation of the single time-base frequency from the rotational frequency may be detected, and the deviation may be compensated for. Each technique of the frequency-modification techniques may be a digital frequency-modification technique, such as a digital timing recovery technique or a digital frequency division technique.
US12206743B2
A control device mountable on a movable apparatus includes a position information acquisition unit configured to acquire position information of the movable apparatus, a position information notification unit configured to notify an information processing device of the position information acquired by the position information acquisition unit, a distribution connection area acquisition unit configured to acquire, from the information processing device, distribution connection area information corresponding to the position information notified by the position information notification unit, a transmission unit configured to transmit any one of a subscription registration request and a subscription cancellation request to the information processing device on the basis of an area indicated by the distribution connection area information acquired by the distribution connection area acquisition unit and a position indicated by the position information acquired by the position information acquisition unit, and a reception unit configured to receive a published message transmitted from the information processing device in response to the request transmitted by the transmission unit.
US12206734B2
One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for implementing synchronous replication. For example, a synchronous replication relationship may be established between a first storage controller hosting local storage and a second storage controller hosting remote storage (e.g., replication may be specified at a file, logical unit number (LUN), or any other level of granularity). Data operations and offloaded operations may be implemented in parallel upon the local storage and the remote storage. Error handling operations may be implemented upon the local storage and implement in parallel as a best effort on the remote storage, and a reconciliation may be performed to identify any data divergence from the best effort parallel implementation. Storage area network (SAN) operations may be implemented upon the local storage, and upon local completion may be remotely implemented upon the remote storage.
US12206727B2
Systems and methods for displaying mobile ads on a mobile device of a user are disclosed. In various embodiments, a mobile application (app) is provided to the mobile device for installation, where the mobile app is configured to display mobile ads to a device screen of the mobile device. A server communicatively coupled to the mobile device tracks a reward associated with the user where the reward is based on enabling the mobile device to receive mobile ads. The server transmits one or more mobile ads to the mobile device, which, upon receipt at the mobile device, causes the mobile app to display the one or more mobile ads outside of the mobile app.
US12206723B1
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for testing video streaming on a wireless network. An example method includes receiving selection of a video streaming resource for streaming on the wireless network. The method includes recording, at a mobile device, one or more test samples of the video streaming resource streamed over the wireless network. The method includes recording, at a test system, one or more reference samples of the video streaming resource streamed over a wired network distinct from the wireless network. The method includes calculating one or more quality of experience (QoE) performance indicators for video streaming of the video streaming resource on the wireless network by comparing the test samples and the reference samples of the video streaming resource.
US12206719B2
Techniques are described for providing and managing an interactive communication session between client computing devices via a shared visual interaction environment that is customizable to include selected functionality and visual representations. In some situations, the described techniques include using selected visible layers that each present one or more types of visual information or other visual effects corresponding to one or more predefined and/or user-defined functionality types, and in some situations to include using a virtual object that is positioned on a layer in an interactive communication session at a specified real-world geographical location and is visible to at least some users participating in the interactive communication session who are physically present at that real-world geographical location, such as to enable such participant users to verify their presence at that real-world location using private data that is visible or otherwise perceivable from a virtual object at that location.
US12206712B2
A method includes identifying a first group of objects generated by security tools during a first time interval and containing cotemporal, analogous characteristics identifying a first endpoint device connected to a computer network; based on the first group of objects, confirming detection of the first endpoint device by a first security tool and a second security tool during the first time interval; identifying a second group of objects generated by security tools during a second time interval and containing cotemporal, analogous characteristics identifying the first endpoint device; based on the second group of objects, confirming detection of the first endpoint device by the second security tool during the second time interval; and responsive to absence of detection of the first endpoint device by the first security tool during the second time interval, generating a source remove event specifying removal of the first security tool from the first endpoint device.
US12206709B2
A method of managing security rules may include extracting metadata from a data packet received at a first network device. The metadata including network metadata and network system metadata. The method may further include distributing the metadata to at least one service endpoint registered with the first network device, receiving from the at least one service endpoint, an indication as to how traffic associated with the data packet is to be handled, and enabling the traffic based at least in part on feedback received from the at least one service endpoint and creating a first service flow hash entry of a hash table associated with the data packet at the first network device. The first service flow hash entry identified each of a number of services using a unique number. The method may further include distributing the hash table including the first service flow hash entry across a fabric to at least a second network device.
US12206706B2
Techniques are disclosed for securing traffic flowing across multi-tenant virtualized infrastructures using group key-based encryption. In one embodiment, an encryption module of a virtual machine (VM) host intercepts layer 2 (L2) frames sent via a virtual NIC (vNIC). The encryption module determines whether the vNIC is connected to a “secure wire,” and invokes an API exposed by a key management module to encrypt the frames using a group key associated with the secure wire, if any. Encryption may be performed for all frames from the vNIC, or according to a policy. In one embodiment, the encryption module may be located at a layer farthest from the vNIC, and encryption may be transparent to both the VM and a virtual switch. Unauthorized network entities which lack the group key cannot decipher the data of encrypted frames, even if they gain access to such frames.
US12206702B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that has a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations of performing a packet analysis of protocol data unit (PDU) headers of inbound Internet and non-Internet traffic; determining whether the PDU headers identify the presence of a quantum payload and/or via deep packet inspection; detecting a presence of attack vectors in the quantum payload responsive to a determination that the PDU headers identify the presence of the quantum payload, wherein the attack vectors originate from a quantum computer, and wherein the attack vectors are cryptanalytically relevant; generating an alert responsive to detecting the presence of the attack vectors; and isolating compromised network elements, sets of elements, and/or other network components and/or subsystems, and route traffic around the compromised network elements, sets of elements, and/or other network components and/or subsystems. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12206693B1
The disclosed techniques relate to a graph-based network security analytic framework to combine multiple sources of information and security knowledge in order to detect risky behaviors and potential threats. In some examples, the input can be anomaly events or simply regular events. The entities associated with the activities can be grouped into smaller time units, e.g., per day. The riskiest days of activity can be found by computing a risk score for each day and according to the features in the day. A graph can be built with links between the time units. The links can also receive scoring based on a number of factors. The resulting graph can be compared with known security knowledge for adjustments. Threats can be detected based on the adjusted risk score for a component (i.e., a group of linked entities) as well as a number of other factors.
US12206688B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for protecting data. One system includes a readiness system comprising executable instructions to identify a security posture of an entity based on entity data and model the security posture and at least one security objective to generate a set of attributes of the entity. The system can further include a cybersecurity connection system comprising executable instructions to generate a cybersecurity protection plan corresponding to an attribute to protect the entity, wherein the cybersecurity protection plan is activated in response to an input by the entity. The system can further include an incident system comprising the executable instructions to model a plurality of cybersecurity protection plans between the entity and a third-party. The system can further include a remediation system comprising the executable instructions execute one or more remediation actions to mitigate a vulnerability or security gap based on the security posture of the entity.
US12206686B2
The present disclosure relates to Overlay Content Forwarding (OCF) Methods to transfer data across a wide area network without introducing a single point of data breach or wire-tapping on a Zero Trust Data transfer paradigm. Methods are applied on a system built upon Data Transport Controllers (DTC) and USC with AIOps capabilities. System modules are deployed across various geo locations in a Wide Area Network, operating at the control of Universal Security Controller (USC). USC extracts system, security and storage activity telemetry data from DTC controllers, update Routes through XML updates and Routing update exchanges, to orchestrate Autonomous, de-duplicated, segmented data forwarding across exclusive path overlay network guided by AIOps mechanisms. Data is segmented in unintelligible manner based on information theory and sent across different, exclusive path across DTC nodes in an overlay network in different application sessions and reassembled at destination DTC node to recover the original content. Segment transfer across overlay support de-duplication in-transit as an overlay based storage reduction service.
US12206682B2
A security appliance samples data about software defined infrastructures (SDIs) of a cloud computing environment to incrementally build models that map resource attributes indicated in fields to data types. The security appliance uses the model(s) to provide context sensitive help in policy rule constructions.
US12206677B2
An information handling system may include at least one processor and a memory. The information handling system may be configured to determine names for a plurality of other information handling systems that are on-premises at a particular datacenter having a local network associated therewith; poll a selected subset of the plurality of other information handling systems via the local network; based on results of the polling, determine whether the information handling system is on-premises at the particular datacenter; and in response to a determination that the information handling system is on-premises at the particular datacenter, enable access to at least one sensitive administration operation associated with the particular datacenter.
US12206672B2
Techniques for controlling access to segmented data of a plurality of users that is requested by at least one data consumer device. In response to conditions specified in communications between at least one data aggregator system and the at least one data consumer device, information of a number of users meeting specified search criteria are shared (e.g., for a limited time). Use of the data in violation of the specified conditions may trigger penalties under a smart contract on a distributed ledger or blockchain.
US12206651B2
In an example embodiment, a system includes a first controller configured to generate a network key and transform the network key and a second controller configured to obtain the transformed network key and form a network with the first controller, each of the first controller and the second controller being configured to generate a same symmetric key using the network key and values from the other of the first controller and second controller.
US12206647B2
Disclosed are various examples for securing enterprise resources using a virtual private network. At least one computing device that can authenticate a client device for a virtual private network (VPN) connection based on a first device identifier received from the client device and a second device identifier received from a remote management service. The at least one computing device can determine that a network event associated with the client device has been observed and execute a machine learning routine to identify a pattern of access for the client device. A network access anomaly is determined in response to a network interaction of the client device deviating from the pattern of access for the client device. A remedial action is performed based on an anomaly type associated with the network access anomaly.
US12206638B2
A message management method based on time and location is applied to the network system. Comprises obtaining a user account, a location information and a time information through an electronic device, and transferring the user account, the location information and the time information to a message server; obtaining a geographic information from a map database based on the location information, and displaying a region of the geographic information on a display of the electronic device; and in a display page of the display, using the user account, the time information and the region as a filter condition, obtaining a name, an avatar of a relevant user from a user database, and obtaining a message of the relevant user from a message database, and displaying the name, avatar and message of the relevant user on the display page according to the sending location of the message.
US12206632B2
A method, apparatus, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium for controlling user access through content analysis of an application are disclosed. The method for controlling access may include understanding a public level according to honorific language use by analyzing chat contents for each chat partner registered in an application, by the at least one processor; and controlling user access to the application based on the public level for each chat partner, by the at least one processor.
US12206625B2
A terminal device and a method for measuring cross-link interference. The method includes receiving time-frequency resource configuration information from a base station, wherein the time-frequency resource configuration information includes configuration information of measurement time-frequency resources for measuring the cross-link interference. The method also includes determining measurement time-frequency resources for measuring the cross-link interference according to the time-frequency resource configuration information. The method further includes measuring the cross-link interference on the measured time-frequency resources and feeding back the measurement result of the cross-link interference to the base station.
US12206623B2
A configuration can be received that configures a UE with a single configured CSI process for a serving cell. A highest CQI index value can be derived for which a single PDSCH TB with a combination of corresponding modulation scheme and TB size is received with a TB error probability not exceeding a target TB BLER value. The single PDSCH transport block can occupy a CSI reference resource. A CSI request can be received in either a subslot or a subframe. The CSI reference resource can be defined by the subslot in which the CSI request is received if the CSI request is received in the subslot. The CSI reference resource can be defined by the subframe in which the CSI request is received if the CSI request is received in the subframe.
US12206622B2
Apparatus and methods of Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) Acknowledgement (ACK) feedback for multiple Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) based multiple Transmit Receive Points (TRP) transmission are disclosed. The apparatus includes: a receiver that receives a plurality of configurations of control resource sets (CORESETs), wherein each CORESET comprises a plurality of resource blocks (RBs) in frequency domain and a plurality of symbols in time domain, and time-frequency resources identified by the CORESET are used to transmit a Downlink Control Information (DCI); a processor that determines a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) Acknowledgement (ACK) feedback selected from a group consisting of: a separate HARQ-ACK feedback and a joint HARQ-ACK feedback; and a transmitter that transmits the determined HARQ-ACK feedback; wherein the separate HARQ-ACK feedback is transmitted through a plurality of uplink resources; and the joint HARQ-ACK feedback is transmitted through one uplink resource.
US12206618B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may communicate with a base station as part of a wireless communications system. The UE may identify a configuration for one or more repetitions of an uplink control channel transmission, where each repetition of the one or more repetitions including a first quantity of symbols indicated by the configuration. The UE may determine a quantity of resource blocks for each repetition of the one or more repetitions. The UE may then identify that a second quantity of symbols is available to the UE to transmit a repetition of the one or more repetitions, and the second quantity of symbols may be less than the first quantity of symbols. The UE may transmit, to a base station, the repetition on the second quantity of symbols using the quantity of resource blocks for each repetition with the first quantity of symbols.
US12206617B2
Certain embodiments are directed to a system and method of physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission termination. The system and method can include a user equipment (UE) that can receives a downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a PUSCH transmission overlapped with repetitions of a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process for the UE and terminates the PUSCH transmission upon detection of the DCI after a fixed number of symbols where the fixed number of symbols is counted from a symbol after the last symbol of a control resource set (CORESET).
US12206609B2
Aspects relate to configuration of phase-tracking reference signals (PT-RSs) in sidelink networks. A sidelink PT-RS configuration for a transmitting wireless communication device may be configured based on a sidelink channel state information (CSI) report received from a receiving wireless communication device. The transmitting wireless communication device may further transmit the sidelink PT-RS configuration to the receiving wireless communication device.
US12206607B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for on-demand UE positioning. For example a method may include transmitting a request that comprises one or more parameters based on a request configuration, to at least one of a plurality of base stations of a network, to participate in at least one of an uplink UE positioning procedure or a downlink UE positioning procedure, and receiving signaling from the at least one of the plurality of base stations of the network in response to the request.
US12206595B2
Examples described herein relate to method, resource management system, and non-transitory machine-readable medium for redeploying a computing resource. Data related to a performance parameter corresponding to a plurality of computing resources deployed on a plurality of host-computing nodes may be received. The performance parameter is associated with one or both of: communication between computing resources of the plurality of computing resources, or communication of the plurality of computing resources with a network device. Further, for a computing resource of the plurality of computing resources, a candidate host-computing node is determined from the plurality of host-computing nodes based on the data related to the performance parameter and the computing resource may be redeployed on the candidate host-computing node.
US12206592B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may be configured to generate a set of data packets that are to be transmitted to a base station, where each data packet of the set of data packets is associated with a respective packet expiration time. The UE may transmit an indication of packet expiration information associated with the set of data packets, where the packet expiration information is based on a set of packet expiration times associated with the set of data packets. The UE may receive, from the base station, scheduling information associated with at least a subset of the set of data packets, where the scheduling information is based on the packet expiration information. The UE may then transmit at least one data packet of the subset data packets to the base station in accordance with the scheduling information.
US12206589B2
A communication control apparatus configured to control bands for flows monitors the amount of communication of each of the flows input to the communication line in a predetermined monitoring period. When a sum of the amounts of communication of the flows acquired by the monitoring exceeds a predetermined threshold, the communication control apparatus restricts the communication bands for the top N flows in the descending order of the amount of communication input to the communication line, according to the amounts of communication of the flows. In contrast, the communication control apparatus does not restrict the communication bands for flows lower than the top N flows.
US12206584B1
Embodiments of a secure communication network are disclosed. To implement the embodiments, an ingress core node that includes a processor and a memory storing computer-executable instructions, is presented. The instructions, when executed, cause the processor to receive a data packet. The instructions further cause the processor to compare a slice identifier (ID) associated with the received data packet with one or more slice IDs in an access control list (ACL). The instructions further cause the processor to filter the received data packet based on the comparison indicating an occurrence of a match between the slice ID associated with the data packet and one of the one or more slice IDs in the ACL. The instructions further cause the processor to transmit the filtered data packet to an egress core node of the core network via one or more intermediate core nodes of the core network.
US12206574B2
Systems and methods for detecting one or more physical communication link breaks are disclosed. An indication of a failure of one or more network layer links may be received. A physical layer link associated with the one or more network layer links may be determined based on the indication of the failure, and based on data indicating one or more associations between network layer links and physical layer links. A score may be determined indicating a probability that the physical layer link comprises a failure associated with a break in a physical communication link of the physical layer link based on determining a total quantity of the network layer links associated with the physical layer link, and based on a quantity of one or more network layer links associated with the indication of the failure.
US12206558B2
A system described herein may monitor, on an ongoing basis, a Key Performance Indicators (“KPIs”) associated with a wireless network. The system may receive, from a particular device, a monitoring policy specifying one or more criteria, and may compare the criteria associated with the monitoring policy to the monitored KPIs. The system may determine, based on the comparing, that the criteria associated with the monitoring policy is satisfied; may determine a particular subset of the monitored KPIs based on the monitoring policy and further based on determining that the criteria associated with the monitoring policy is satisfied; and may output the particular subset of the monitored KPIs to the second device. The system may monitor the wireless network via private interfaces that are not exposed to devices external to the wireless network.
US12206552B2
Various aspects of methods, systems, and use cases for multi-entity (e.g., multi-tenant) edge computing deployments are disclosed. Among other examples, various configurations and features enable the management of resources (e.g., controlling and orchestrating hardware, acceleration, network, processing resource usage), security (e.g., secure execution and communication, isolation, conflicts), and service management (e.g., orchestration, connectivity, workload coordination), in edge computing deployments, such as by a plurality of edge nodes of an edge computing environment configured for executing workloads from among multiple tenants.
US12206549B2
A system for managing a core network is provided. The system includes a first computing device including at least one processor in communication with at least one memory device. The first computing device is in communication with a core network. The at least one memory device stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor cause the at least one processor to store a plurality of historical data associated with the core network, receive current state data from the core network, compare the plurality of historical data with the current state data to determine at least one future state of the core network, and adjust the operation of the core network based on the at least one future state.
US12206546B2
In an approach to automatic device enrollment in an IoT network, responsive to receiving a request to add a new device to an IoT network, device metadata is requested from the new device. Responsive to receiving the device metadata, the device metadata is confirmed with the device manufacturer using secure information services. Responsive to confirming the device metadata with the device manufacturer, configuration data for the new device is gathered from a repository, where the configuration data is gathered from devices with a same context type in the repository. Responsive to gathering the configuration data for the new device from the repository, the new device is enrolled in the IoT network using the configuration data.
US12206545B2
An electronic monitoring system is described that receives data from a particular monitoring system, receives data from multiple other monitoring systems, analyzes data received from the particular monitoring system irrespective of data received from the multiple other monitoring systems, based on the analysis determines whether one or more events occur at the particular environment, and in response to determining that a particular event occurs at the particular environment, evaluates the particular event against a set of rules, selects, based on the evaluation results, a particular subset of the multiple other monitoring systems to serve as a cooperative monitoring network, assesses data received from the particular subset of the multiple other monitoring systems, based on the assessment, tracks, in connection with the particular event, events detected by the particular subset of the multiple other monitoring systems, and handles the particular event based on the tracked events.
US12206535B1
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for efficiently transmitting wireless communication signals are provided. An artificial neural network (ANN) is configured to take in an input data symbol sequence and generate a corresponding discrete-time Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) sequence therefrom. The ANN combines multiple baseband signal-processing operations, one of which includes OFDM modulation. Training data tunes the ANN to provide the discrete-time OFDM signal with at least one of a low multiple input multiple output (MIMO) condition number, a predetermined number of eigenvalues above a threshold value, low peak-to-average-power ratio (PAPR), a low bit error probability, or a high bandwidth efficiency.
US12206527B2
Orthogonal differential vector signalling (ODVS) techniques are described. The ODVS encoding schemes described herein generate one sub-channel for each bit by multiplying each bit by a different row in a transmitter encoding matrix to produce a set of sub-channels. Each wire carries a signal that is a superposition of elements from all of the sub-channels in the set. The transmitter encoding matrix is selected such that its rows (i.e. sub-channels) are mutual orthogonal. This means that the receiver can decode the signals received from all wires in concert to reliably recover the original bits. The transmitter encoding matrix applies weights to each sub-channel of the set, with the absolute magnitude of the weights decreasing as the number of wires associated with the respective sub-channel increases.
US12206526B2
In one aspect, an apparatus includes: a fast Fourier transform (FFT) engine to receive and convert a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) samples into a plurality of frequency carriers; a detector coupled to the FFT engine to determine a channel estimate for a first frequency carrier using a first channel estimate for the first frequency carrier and a plurality of other channel estimates, each of the plurality of other channel estimates for one of a plurality of neighboring frequency carriers within an evaluation window, and determine a log likelihood ratio (LLR) for the first frequency carrier using the channel estimate for the first frequency carrier; and a decoder coupled to the detector to decode a first OFDM symbol comprising the first frequency carrier using the LLR for the first frequency carrier.
US12206519B2
Techniques discussed herein can facilitate handshake procedures for Point-to-Multipoint (P2MP) communication in connection with various DSL (Direct Subscriber Line) technologies. Various embodiments can employ different methods of separation of signaling to arrange P2MP handshake procedures based on existing Point-to-Point (P2P) handshake procedures. Example embodiments can employ one of separation in frequency, separation in time, or separation in transmission power level.
US12206512B2
Methods and apparatuses for scheduling enhancement for eMTC are disclosed. A method comprises determining a HARQ process number for a transport block (TB), wherein the HARQ process number is determined by at least one of a HARQ process field of a control signal, a fixed HARQ process number, a HARQ process number of earliest scheduled process in a time duration, a HARQ process number of a process with earliest feedback in a time duration, a scrambling code of the TB, and a predefined HARQ process number of a process in an earliest feedback bundle; and transmitting the TB with the determined HARQ process number.
US12206508B2
A terminal includes a reception unit that receives, from a base station, a plurality of DCIs for scheduling a DL resource, an UL resource, and an SL resource, and DL data transmitted in a DL resource scheduled by the DCI, a transmission unit that multiplexes a HARQ response corresponding to the DL data, and a HARQ response corresponding to at least one of the SL resource or SL data that is transmitted in the SL resource, and transmits the multiplexed HARQ response to the base station via a UL shared channel in the UL resource scheduled by the DCI, and a control unit that determines a HARQ codebook, based on a DAI included in the DCI that schedules the UL resource, among the plurality of DCIs, and the DAI is assumed to be determined based on specific DCI among the plurality of DCIs.
US12206499B2
A computer-implemented method includes receiving data packets that each encode a data transmission. The data packets include real-time data packets and non-real-time data packets. The method further includes comparing at least a portion of each of the data packets with a characterization sequence, where the real-time data packets are identified based on the portion of the real-time data packets matching the characterization sequence. The non-real-time data packets are identified based on the portion of the real-time data packets not matching the characterization sequence. The method also includes generating a real-time sequence and a non-real-time sequence of data packets. Furthermore, the method includes providing the real-time sequence to a communication interface to transmit the real-time sequence to a real-time processing system. Moreover, the method includes providing the non-real-time sequence to the communication interface to transmit the non-real-time sequence to a non-real-time processing system.
US12206497B2
Methods and systems for two-dimensional (2D) coding are described for broadcast, multicast or groupcast applications. Two or more information code blocks (CBs) are transmitted to a plurality of intended receiving nodes. One or more cross-CB check blocks are generated, each cross-CB check block being generated based on a set of cross-CB bits, the set of cross-CB bits including at least one bit selected from each of at least two of the information CBs. At least one cross-CB check block is transmitted to at least one of the intended receiving nodes.
US12206495B2
A digital radio receiver receives an encoded digital radio signal comprising a plurality of bits. The receiver determines a plurality of soft bits representing estimates of the bits and stores the soft bits in a rate de-matching buffer. The receiver calculates a first linear combination of soft bits from a first subset of the buffer and a second linear combination of soft bits from a second subset of the buffer. The receiver calculates a ratio between the first and second linear combinations and compares the ratio to an expected value. The receiver then determines its operational state based on the comparison.
US12206483B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) may establish multiple unicast connections with multiple other UEs. The first UE may then determine individual sets of transmission parameters for each of the multiple other UEs, where the individual sets of transmission parameters may enable the first UE to receive transmissions from the multiple other UEs on a same set of time and frequency resources via a spatial division multiplexing scheme. For example, each of the individual sets of transmission parameters may include a transmission schedule adjustment, a transmit power, a transmit time, an indication of the time and frequency resources, or a combination thereof. The first UE may then transmit each of the individual sets of transmission parameters to a respective UE of the multiple other UEs.
US12206482B2
Beam management performed for user equipment in a network. A method is performed by a network node. The method includes collecting performance feedback per beam upon having started to perform a current run of a beam management procedure. The performance feedback is derived from network statistics. The beam management procedure may include determining a candidate beam set from a set of available beams. The beam management procedure may include determining a beam switching command per user equipment for at least some of the user equipment.
US12206475B2
A communication device for detecting an object includes a power module, an antenna array, a first sensor pad, a second sensor pad, and a control unit. The antenna array is excited by the power module, and is configured to provide a first beam group and a second beam group. The first sensor pad is disposed adjacent to the first side of the antenna array. A first capacitance is formed between the first sensor pad and the object. The second sensor pad is disposed adjacent to the second side of the antenna array. A second capacitance is formed between the second sensor pad and the object. The control unit controls the power module according to the first capacitance and the second capacitance, so as to selectively apply at least one power backoff operation to the first beam group and/or the second beam group.
US12206474B2
According to one example embodiment, a method is provided including initializing a first recurrent neural network with a first vector; iteratively training a weight matrix for one or more layers of the first recurrent neural network, wherein W(t) is the weight matrix of the layer of the first recurrent neural network corresponding to iteration t, and wherein W(t) is based at least on a channel covariance matrix; the first vector; and an output from a previous layer of the first recurrent neural network corresponding to iteration, t−1: and determining a first eigenvector based on a converged output from the first recurrent neural network, wherein the first eigenvector is used to perform beamforming for multiple input multiple output reception and/or transmission.
US12206473B2
A wireless communication system includes a sensing unit that detects an obstacle currently present between a transmitting station and a receiving station. There is an environment memory that stores information on a detection result of the sensing unit, an environment prediction unit that predicts a variation in a radio wave propagation environment between the transmitting station and the receiving station from the information stored in the environment memory. There is further a simulation calculation unit that simulates an environment in which a communication path between the receiving station and a reflector and a communication path between the transmitting station and the reflector are a line-of-sight environment on the basis of a prediction result of the environment prediction unit and calculates a control parameter of the reflector that achieves the environment. Further, a reflector control unit controls the reflector in accordance with the control parameter calculated by the simulation calculation unit.
US12206469B2
The present invention discloses a near-field broadband uplink MIMO transmission method assisted by a dynamic metasurface antenna. The method includes: Broadband signals sent by a plurality of users distributed in a near-field region are processed with a large-size dynamic metasurface antenna as a receive antenna on a base station side, which can reduce system hardware costs and power consumption; and compared with the current hybrid beamforming based on a phase shifter and a conventional antenna, hybrid beamforming based on the dynamic metasurface antenna can effectively improve transmission performance. The present invention proposes an algorithm framework jointly designing a dynamic metasurface antenna and a baseband beamformer and including method such as matrix-weighted mean square error sum (MWMSE) minimization, alternate optimization, matrix vectorization, and MM. The present invention implements near-field broadband large-scale MIMO uplink transmission assisted by a dynamic metasurface antenna with low algorithm complexity and good convergence.
US12206466B2
A method of communicating between a first electronic communication device of a plurality of electronic communication devices and a wireless communication initiating device for reading the first electronic communication device. The method comprises receiving, at the first electronic communication device, a communication signal from the wireless communication initiating device and determining a first characteristic value relating to the communication signal. The method further comprises receiving at least a second characteristic value relating to a communication signal received by at least a second electronic communication device that is connected to the first electronic communication device and initiating communication with a reading device based on the first and second value.
US12206455B1
Wavelength-multiplexed subranging electro-optic modulator (SEOM) for high dynamic range applications
Described herein is a solution to address the intrinsic nonlinearity of analog signals and the restrictions this places on the signals dynamic range. The subject matter described herein produces linear electro-optic modulation over a dramatically wider range of the input signal amplitude. This is accomplished by a distributed multiwavelength design that “folds” the large dynamic range across multiple linear subranges, with each subrange being addressed using an optical wavelength. As a result, the subrange within the wide dynamic range of the input signal is captured by the linear portion of the transfer function of a single transfer function. Several physical implementations of this subject are presented herein. This innovation enables the efficient use of optical links for the transmission and processing of analog and multilevel signals, overcoming the limitations that were once hindering progress in this field.
US12206448B2
Channel access in unlicensed spectrum may be a function of the type of physical channel and/or a procedure that initiated a transmission. An LBT procedure may be performed as a function of beam management. A WTRU may access a channel using multiple channel access methods associated with multiple uplink transmissions based on a determination of persistent interference associated with the channel. Channel access methods may be performed with different parameters or characteristics based on the resource type/timing of the transmission/measurements of DL/UL RS. Channel access methods may be characterized by a sensing duration, an ED threshold, a beam width, and/or a beam direction. Different ED thresholds may be applied as a function of one or more characteristics of an applicable beam. Multiple sensing methods and/or related parameters may be applied as a function of the type of physical channel and/or the type of procedure associated with a transmission.
US12206446B2
A system includes a network node device operable to dynamically connect to different networks and different types of networks based on factors including latency and noise levels in each network. The system allows for low power transmission of data packets as well as obfuscation of transferred data packets by splitting packets for a single file across multiple nodes in a mesh network, where the mesh network then recombines the signals to externally convey the data. The system leverages the use of LoRa communication across one or more networks to communicate critical data, such as location data for particular devices, at long ranges with minimized risk of detection.
US12206441B2
An error correction component and ΔTΘM compensation function determine correction factors from a feedback signal to use by digital predistortion to cancel distortion caused by a power amplifier and also determine correction factors that may be used to determine Time of Arrival of an isolation leakage signal. Correction factors may be stored in, or retrieved from, multiple ΔTΘM functions, which may be part of an ASIC along with the error correction component. The isolation leakage signal may be canceled within the error correction component, resulting in a leakage residual signal that may facilitate determining the ToA of the leakage signal. Cancelling the isolation leakage signal facilitates better sensitivity in detecting the presence of, or ToA of, other signals present at the same port of a circulator from which the isolation leakage signal flows to the error correction component.
US12206439B2
A power amplifier circuit is provided that includes a transmission circuit, a control circuit, a first terminal, and a second terminal. The transmission circuit includes an amplifier element that amplifies power of a radio frequency signal. The control circuit controls the transmission circuit. The first terminal receives a serial data signal that is based on a serial data standard. The second terminal receives a digital signal different from the serial data signal. The control circuit then controls the transmission circuit in response to the digital signal received from the second terminal.
US12206432B2
A frequency synthesizer includes: a time-to-digital converter configured to output a time-to-digital value corresponding to a time event of a trigger signal with respect to an operating clock signal; a comparison unit configured to compare a value based on the time-to-digital value with a target value; an oscillation unit configured to generate the synthesizer signal; and a frequency adjustment unit configured to adjust a frequency of the synthesizer signal based on a comparison result of the comparison unit. The time-to-digital converter includes: a state transition unit configured to start a state transition in which an internal state transitions based on the time event of the trigger signal and output state information indicating the internal state; a transition state acquisition unit configured to acquire and hold the state information in synchronization with the operating clock signal; and a calculation unit configured to calculate the time-to-digital value according to the number of transition times of the internal state based on the state information acquired by the transition state acquisition unit.
US12206427B2
In described examples, a circuit includes a multiplexer. The multiplexer receives an input voltage and a calibration signal. An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is coupled to the multiplexer and generates an output code in response to the calibration signal. A storage circuit is coupled to the ADC and stores the input code representative of the calibration signal at an address corresponding to the output code. The stored input code includes an index value and a coarse value.
US12206426B2
A system and method for equalization of a linear or non-linear system. The system includes an adder configured to add an analog reference signal and an input signal, a processing system configured to process a sum of the analog reference signal and the input signal, a non-linear equalizer (NLEQ) configured to process an output of the processing system to remove a distortion incurred by the processing system, a calibration circuitry configured to generate a reconstructed reference signal in digital domain based on measurement of the analog reference signal, and generate coefficients for the NLEQ based on the reconstructed reference signal and the output of the processing system, and a subtractor configured to subtract the reconstructed reference signal from an output of the NLEQ. The analog reference signal may be a sinusoid including single or multiple tones of sinusoids. The non-linear system may be an analog-to-digital converter (ADC).
US12206414B2
According to one embodiment, electronic circuitry includes a transmission circuit to output a waveform including a plurality of pulse waveforms in response to an input signal. The pulse waveforms include a first transmit pulse waveform, and a second transmit pulse waveform following the first transmit pulse waveform, and the first transmit pulse waveform is larger in amplitude than the second transmit pulse waveform.
US12206410B2
A programmable device may have logic circuitry formed in a top die and memory and specialized processing blocks formed in a bottom die, where the top die is stacked directly on top of the bottom die in a face-to-face configuration. The logic circuitry may include logic sectors, logic array blocks, logic elements, and other types of logic regions. The memory blocks may include large banks of multiport memory for storing data. The specialized processing blocks may include multipliers, adders, and other arithmetic components. The logic circuitry may access the memory and specialized processing blocks via an address encoded scheme. Configured in this way, the maximum operating frequency of the programmable device can be optimized such that critical paths will no longer need to traverse any unused memory and specialized processing blocks.
US12206408B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a level shift circuit, a chip and a display device. By setting first and second voltage clamping modules, and by adjusting first clamping voltage by controlling bias voltage input to the first voltage clamping module and adjusting second clamping voltage by controlling bias voltage and second bias voltage input to the second voltage clamping module, respective operating and output voltages of the first and the second voltage clamping modules and the shift module are within small range. Therefore, even the level shift circuit is designed by using devices with breakdown voltage lower than the difference between the first and second power supply voltages, the devices in the level shift circuit may be avoid being breakdown. Accordingly, some process platforms that cannot produce high-breakdown voltage devices may produce chips including the level shift circuit in the embodiment, and the restrictions on the process platform are reduced.
US12206406B2
An example circuit includes a plurality of light emitters connected in parallel between a first node and a second node. The circuit also includes a plurality of capacitors, with each capacitor corresponding to one of the light emitters, and a plurality of discharge-control switches, with each discharge-control switches corresponding to one of the capacitors. The circuit further includes a pulse-control switch connected to the plurality of light emitters. During a first period, the pulse-control switch restricts current flow, and each of the plurality of capacitors is charged via the first node. During a second period, one or more of the plurality of discharge-control switches allows current flow that discharges one or more corresponding capacitors. During a third period, the pulse-control switch allows current flow that discharges one or more undischarged capacitors of the plurality of capacitors through one or more corresponding light emitters.
US12206397B2
An integrated circuit may be provided with power switching circuitry. The power switching circuitry may include a primary power switch and multiple auxiliary power switches. A power gating control circuit may output control signals for selectively activating the primary power switch and at least one of the auxiliary power switches to charge a gated voltage. One or more voltage detectors may be configured to monitor the gated voltage and to activate the remaining auxiliary power switches in response to detecting that the gated voltage exceeds one or more thresholds. Configured and operated in this way, inrush current surge protection can be achieved while charging up the gated voltage sufficiently fast.
US12206390B2
A gate drive circuit is used in a dynamic characteristic test on a power semiconductor, the gate drive circuit includes a voltage source configured to change a gate voltage of a gate of the power semiconductor, a plurality of resistance setting circuits connected in parallel with the voltage source and the gate, and a switching circuit connecting at least one resistance setting circuit of the resistance setting circuits to the voltage source and the gate.
US12206383B2
Disclosed is a dual-band phase shifter in which series/parallel resonance circuits are applied to a polyphase filter to implement a phase shifter, which is a core block of a multi-channel RFIC for implementing a phased array antenna system. The dual-band phase shifter may be configured by converting a capacitor (C) of an LC circuit or a CL circuit in the RFIC into a series resonance circuit and converting an inductor (L) thereof into a parallel resonance circuit, so that a signal generator operating in one frequency band can operate in a dual-band.
US12206374B2
A power amplifying circuit includes a single-ended amplifier, a differential amplifier, a first balun transformer, a second balun transformer, and a first switching circuit. The single-ended amplifier operates in a first mode and a second mode different from the first mode. The differential amplifier operates in the second mode. The first balun transformer converts an unbalanced output signal from the single-ended amplifier into a differential signal and outputs the differential signal to the differential amplifier. The second balun transformer converts a balanced output signal from the differential amplifier into an unbalanced output signal. The first switching circuit outputs the unbalanced output signal from the single-ended amplifier in the first mode and outputs the unbalanced output signal from the second balun transformer in the second mode.
US12206373B2
A distributed amplifier includes: a transmission line having an input end that an input signal is input to; a transmission line having an output end that an output signal is output from; an input termination resistor connected to an end terminal of the transmission line; a plurality of unit cells arranged along the transmission lines, and having input terminals connected to the transmission line and output terminals connected to the transmission line; and a variable current source having one end connected to the end terminal of the transmission line and another end connected to a power supply voltage, and capable of adjusting a current amount between the transmission line and the power supply voltage.
US12206372B2
A radio-frequency generator, including a power amplifier module including a power amplifier, a pickup module connected to an output of the power amplifier to generate a pickup signal, and an output configured to be connected to the respective output of the amplifier and configured to output a radio-frequency output signal. The radio-frequency generator includes a measurement module configured to receive the pickup signal and to generate a measurement signal based on the one pickup signal; and a radio-frequency signal generation module configured to generate two or more carrier signals of different frequency, and to provide a drive signal as input to the power amplifier module, and a regulation module configured to receive the measurement signal, and to regulate the power of the radio-frequency output signal based on the measurement signal.
US12206363B2
Apparatus and methods for load modulated power amplifiers are provided. In certain embodiments, a load modulated power amplifier system includes a power amplifier that receives a radio frequency signal at an input and provides an amplified radio frequency signal at an output, and a controllable load impedance coupled to the output of the power amplifier. The controllable load impedance receives an envelope signal that changes in relation to an envelope of the radio frequency signal, and the envelope signal is operable to control an impedance of the controllable load impedance to modulate a load at the output of the power amplifier.
US12206349B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for protecting an escrow clutch of a self-service terminal. The systems and methods may include actuating a motor of the self-service terminal to cause an escrow clutch of the self-service terminal to spin at a rate. As the clutch spins, a determination as to when a clutch slippage exceeds a preset slippage rate may be made. When the clutch slippage exceeds the preset slippage rate, the motor may be actuated to cause the escrow clutch to spin at a second rate. The second rate may less than the first rate.
US12206346B2
An electric machine is provided. A polyphase machine is provided. A power inverter is electrically connected to the polyphase machine. A controller is electrically connected to the power inverter, wherein the controller provides switching signals to the power inverter, wherein the controller comprises a trajectory calculator that provides an optimized trajectory for transitioning the polyphase machine from a first torque to a second torque.
US12206343B1
Kinetic-powered battery systems for musical instrument that can build a charge based on some or all of the physical motion exerted upon the musical instrument. This physical motion can arise from any conceivable activity, including (but not limited to) handling, travel activity, playing the musical instrument and/or intentionally shaking the musical instrument to build a charge prior to use. The kinetic rechargeable power system for musical instruments has application in any conceivable musical instrument, including (but not limited to) acoustic and electric instruments, wireless transmitters or microphones or any related sound reinforcement equipment currently using batteries and subject to movement in travel, setup, use, or intentional movement to create sufficient charge.
US12206340B2
A method for arranging a generalized multilevel converter switching topology with switched capacitors for converting DC current into AC current, wherein the arrangement can be configured with regard to predetermined output voltage levels. With the same number of semiconductor switches, a higher number of voltage levels can be achieved in comparison to previous methods. Depending on the given problem, a maximum output voltage of the AC current may vary from significantly lower values than the input voltage of the DC current up to a multiple of these values. The generalized circuit topology may be adapted to a desired number of voltage levels by a repeatable arrangement of voltage level units that can be arranged in a row and to a multiphase load by a corresponding selection of a number of sub-modules. Furthermore, a modular multilevel converter configured with the circuit topology is described.
US12206338B2
An inverter is disposed adjacent to one end of a motor in a rotational axis direction. The inverter includes a plurality of power modules each including a switching element, a smoothing capacitor, busbars that connect the power modules to the smoothing capacitor, and a thin case that accommodates these components. The plurality of power modules are disposed at the periphery of the smoothing capacitor and arranged in the circumferential direction. The busbars are formed to extend in the circumferential direction. An inner edge portion of each of the busbars connected to a terminal of the smoothing capacitor has an arc shape or a circular shape.
US12206330B2
A method of DC-DC power conversion includes converting a DC link voltage to a DC output voltage for a load that is lower than the DC link voltage using a buck converter. The method includes controlling the buck converter in a normal switching mode in response to the DC link voltage being below a predetermined high threshold. The method also includes controlling the buck converter in a rate limited switching mode in response to the DC link voltage being at or above the predetermined high threshold.
US12206327B2
A DC-DC converter includes a ramp generator, a threshold voltage circuit, and a control circuit. The ramp generator is configured to generate a voltage ramp. The threshold voltage circuit is configured to generate a threshold voltage. The control circuit is coupled to the ramp generator and the threshold voltage circuit. The control circuit includes a digital pulse width modulator (DPWM) circuit and a loop compensation circuit coupled to the DPWM circuit. The DPWM circuit is configured to generate a power stage switch control signal responsive to a loop compensation value. The loop compensation circuit is coupled to the DPWM circuit. The loop compensation circuit is configured to calculate the loop compensation value responsive to the voltage ramp exceeding the threshold voltage.
US12206320B2
A DCR current sensing circuit used in a switching converter having a power switch and an inductor. The DCR current sensing circuit has a current sensing capacitor coupled in series with a current sensing resistor to form a RC circuit, a current mirror, a first and a second compensation circuits, wherein the RC circuit is coupled in parallel with the inductor. The current mirror generates a first mirror current signal and a second mirror current signal based on a voltage across the current sensing capacitor. The first compensation circuit receives the first mirror current signal and generates a first current sensing signal for meeting a first requirement of the switching converter. The second compensation circuit receives the second mirror current signal and generates a second current sensing signal for meeting a second requirement of the switching converter.
US12206318B2
An electric machine has a rotor and a stator defined by a stator laminated core (15). The rotor and the stator are separated from one another by a can (20) for the cooling of the stator using a liquid coolant. The electric machine has a stator component (100) formed as a single piece and composed of the stator laminated core (15) and of a plastics workpiece (10) molded thereon. The plastics workpiece (10) is formed as the can (20).
US12206316B2
A unit includes a housing configured to accommodate a gear connected to a motor, and a cover having a portion sandwiched between the gear and the motor, wherein a catch guide is provided in the housing, the catch guide has an opening that opens toward the gear, and the catch guide has a portion that overlaps a radial side surface of the cover when viewed in a radial direction.
US12206314B2
A blower includes a stationary portion including an inlet and an outlet, a rotating portion provided to the stationary portion, and a motor adapted to drive the rotating portion. The inlet and outlet are co-axially aligned. The stationary portion includes a housing, a stator component provided to the housing, and a tube providing an interior surface. The rotating portion includes one or more bearings that are provided along the interior surface of the tube to support a rotor within the tube. In an embodiment, the blower is structured to supply air at positive pressure.
US12206303B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for switched reluctance machines having a rotor comprising a plurality of rotor core assemblies configured to form a reluctance torque tunnel having at least a first reluctance tunnel segment and a second reluctance tunnel segment and a stator having a plurality of coils configured to form a coil winding assembly, the coil winding assembly positioned within the reluctance torque tunnel, such that at least one of the plurality of coils is surrounded by the first reluctance tunnel segment or the second reluctance tunnel segment, alternatively the rotor may be the coil winding assembly and the stator may be the reluctance torque tunnel.
US12206302B2
An induction motor with on-rotor slip power recovery may have a rotor and a stator element. The rotor element has a rotor winding system with a number of winding units wound-distributed for inducing a rotor magnetic field. Each winding unit has an induction and an augmentation subwinding. The induction subwinding has two legs of each a number of induction conductor segments. The induction subwinding induces an emf that drives a rotor current in the rotor winding system to generate a basic induction component for the rotor magnetic field when the induction conductor segments move in the stator element. The augmentation subwinding has two legs of each a number of augmentation conductor segments aligned parallel to the induction conductor segments. The augmentation subwinding being wound that the two legs of augmentation conductor segments are immediately next to each other and positioned mid-way between the two legs of induction conductor segments.
US12206300B2
A method for arranging an electric machine on a transmission, having the steps of providing a stator housing, inserting a hollow cylindrical stator into the stator housing such that the stator is rotationally fixed in the stator housing, and aligning the stator housing with the transmission. Additional steps include securing the stator housing on the transmission, inserting a rotor having a rotor hollow shaft into the stator, securing the rotor to a transmission input shaft, placing a bearing shield having a bearing pin on a receiving opening of the stator housing such that the bearing pin engages in a rotor cavity of the rotor hollow shaft and in a pivotally attached bearing device arranged in the rotor cavity such that the rotor is mounted so as to be rotatable about the rotor longitudinal axis.
US12206295B2
An object is to improve estimation accuracy of the internal distribution state of a rotating electric machine. The rotating electric machine includes a stator; a rotor rotatably provided on a radially inner side of the stator; a shaft provided as a rotary shaft of the rotor; a bracket supporting the shaft rotatably relative to the stator via a bearing; and a sensor provided to the shaft between the rotor and the bearing.
US12206293B2
A liquid-cooled rotor for an electromechanical energy converter has a rotor shaft designed, at least in portions, as a hollow shaft and having a first, open axial end, a liquid-guiding device extending through the first end into the rotor shaft, wherein an annular liquid space is between the liquid-guiding device and the rotor shaft in the radial direction, and the liquid-guiding device has an interior space for guiding liquid and a liquid inlet opening into the interior space and arranged at a first axial end of the liquid-guiding device, the liquid-guiding device, at a second axial end, is received in the rotor shaft and guiding relative to the rotor shaft, and has a liquid outlet opening fluidically connecting the interior space to the annular liquid space, and the liquid outlet opening is between the first and second ends of the liquid-guiding device in the axial direction.
US12206289B2
A rotor assembly is disclosed, including a rotatable rotor shaft defining a central axis, the rotor shaft coupled to a rotor core, the rotor core including a plurality of rotor pole pieces circumferentially located about the central axis, each pair of adjacent pole pieces being separated by a space, said rotor core comprising a plurality of core magnets located in the spaces separating the adjacent pole pieces; at least one magnet retainer plate positioned adjacent the rotor core and connected to the rotatable rotor shaft, the at least one magnet retainer plate including a plurality of circumferentially spaced magnet slots and balancing slots located between adjacent magnet slots, the balancing slots configured to receive a balancing weight; and, compression springs located in the balancing slots, each compression spring located adjacent a respective core magnet when the at least one magnet retainer plate is located adjacent the rotor core.
US12206279B2
A system for charging a device can include a housing and a first solar panel, a second solar panel connected in series to the first solar panel, and a third solar panel connected in series to the first solar panel and the second solar panel. The system can include a boost converter including an input channel connected to the first, second, and third solar panels and an output channel configured to couple to the device. The system can include a charge pump including a first flying capacitor connected between the first solar panel and the third solar panel and a second flying capacitor connected between the second solar panel and the third solar panel. The system can include a controller configured to selectively switch connectivity between the set of solar panels and the set of flying capacitors to route current to the boost converter.
US12206278B2
An apparatus for wired and wireless charging of an electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a display on a surface of the housing, a battery mounted in the housing, a circuit electrically connected with the battery, a conductive pattern positioned in the housing, electrically connected with the circuit, and configured to wirelessly transmit power to an external device, a connector on another surface of the housing and electrically connected with the circuit, a memory, and a processor electrically connected with the display, the battery, the circuit, the connector, and/or the memory. The circuit is configured to electrically connect the battery with the conductive pattern to wirelessly transmit power to the external device and electrically connect the battery with the connector to transmit power to the external device by wire, simultaneously or selectively, with wirelessly transmitting power to the external device.
US12206276B2
Devices and methods described herein facilitate rapid wireless recharging, while reducing risk of injury, damage, or discomfort caused by heat generated during recharging. The embodiments described herein are useful in a variety of context, including for IoT devices, personal electronics, electric vehicles, and medical devices, among others. Such devices can prevent localized overheating of the device.
US12206275B2
A power source system has a first system having a first power supply path and a first power source supplying a power source voltage, a second system having a second power supply path and a second power source having a battery being charged by the power source voltage, an intersystem switch, a switching controller switching the intersystem switch between an open state and a closed state, and a charging discharging part, arranged between the second power source and a connection node of a connection path on the second power supply path. The charging discharging part performs charging of the battery by the power source voltage and discharging of the battery based on a discharging request after completion of battery charging, and performs charging of the battery before the switching controller switches the intersystem switch to the open state from the closed state when overvoltage occurs in any system under the closed state of the intersystem switch.
US12206274B2
A power supply mode setting method is provided, with said method including: in a detection time period, controlling the power regulating circuit in a power transmission state, and detecting a charge current to obtain a detected value; determining in which one of a TC range, a CV range and a CC range the detected value locates; adjusting the power regulating circuit to a power off state for a first duration when the detected value is in the TC range; keeping the power regulating circuit in the power transmission state for a second duration when the detected value is in the CV range; and keeping the power regulating circuit in the power transmission state for a third duration when the detected value is in the CC range. A power regulating circuit and a charging device adapting said method are also provided.
US12206269B1
The rechargeable television remote is an electric device. The rechargeable television remote is configured for use with an audio-visual display. The rechargeable television remote remotely controls the operation of the audio visual display. The rechargeable television remote comprises a base station and a remote station. The base station is an electric device. The remote station is an electric device. The remote station forms a physical electric connection with the base station. The base station provides electric energy to the remote station through the physical electric connection. The base station and the remote station further communicate with each other using a wireless communication link. The base station transmits operating commands to the remote station through the wireless communication link. The remote station remotely controls the operation of the audio visual display.
US12206261B2
A control method includes in response to a predetermined contact event between a writing interaction device and an electronic device, performing, by the electronic device, a charging protocol adaptation process on the writing interaction device to obtain a target charging protocol to be adopted, performing a charging process for the writing interaction device based on the target charging protocol, and obtaining one or more communication protocol parameters transmitted by the writing interaction device using the target charging protocol during the charging process, identifying a target communication protocol adopted by the writing interaction device based on the one or more communication protocol parameters, and controlling the target communication protocol to take effect on the electronic device to communicate with the writing interaction device based on the target communication protocol in response to the electronic device receiving an interaction operation of the writing interaction device.
US12206260B2
A WIRT system uses synchronizable PPM waveforms to convey information and power from an ET to a remote, far-field EH. In so doing, the solution presented herein reduces receiver complexity, optimizes power transfer, and meets information transfer requirements. The synchronizable PPM waveform comprises a plurality of pulsed-modulation symbols, each of which comprises one or more pulses position-modulated responsive to the information to be conveyed to the EH. The ET configures at least one pulse in each symbol of said synchronizable PPM waveform according to one or more synchronization constraints to enable symbol synchronization at the EH. The EH converts the RF power of the received synchronizable PPM waveform to a DC voltage, and synchronizes the received PPM waveform to extract the information in the PPM waveform.
US12206259B2
According to various embodiments, there may be provided an electronic device comprising a coil, an inverter configured to provide power to the coil, a power providing circuit, a communication circuit, and a control circuit, wherein the control circuit is configured to control the power providing circuit to apply a first voltage to an input terminal of the inverter, the inverter outputting a first magnitude of power based on the application of the first voltage, control the power providing circuit to apply a second voltage lower than the first voltage to the input terminal of the inverter, based on the application of the first voltage being maintained for a specific time, identify, through the communication circuit, a first control error packet from the wireless power receiving device, while applying the second voltage, and identify a first value included in the first control error packet.
US12206251B1
A blender using different charging modes with wireless charging is disclosed. Exemplary implementations may include a base assembly, a container assembly, an electrical motor, a blending component, a control interface, blending control circuitry, charging control circuitry, and/or other components. The base component may include a rechargeable battery and a wireless charging interface. The charging control circuitry may be configured to make different types of detections related to the availability and/or usage of electrical power and related to the usage and alignment of the wireless charging interface with an external charging structure. The charging control circuitry may conduct electrical power to the rechargeable battery using at least two different charging modes, thus providing different amounts of electrical power to the rechargeable battery in different charging modes.
US12206241B2
A redundant power supply has a first power supply, which is disconnectedly connected to a busbar by means of a first tie switch and is connectable to a first load without a tie switch, and having a second power supply, which is disconnectedly connected to the busbar by means of a second tie switch and is connectable to the first load without a tie switch, and having a third power supply, which is disconnectedly connected to the busbar by means of a third tie switch and is connectable to a second load without a tie switch, and having a fourth power supply, which is disconnectedly connected to the busbar by means of a fourth tie switch and is connectable to the second load without a tie switch. All of the tie switches are closed during trouble-free operation.
US12206239B2
An object of the present invention is to enable two or more power supply units constituting a power supply system to be synchronized to stably operate the power supply system. A power supply system 100 includes two or more power supply units 10 to 13, the power supply units 10 to 13 cooperating to supply DC power to a shared load 22, the power supply units 10 to 13 including a power supply main circuit 30 that converts AC power inputted from the outside into DC power; a control unit 36 that controls the power supply main circuit 30; a pair of synchronous terminals Z1, Z2 respectively connected to a pair of synchronous signal lines ZCL; a transmission unit 35 that outputs a trigger signal TG by establishing conduction between the pair of synchronous signal lines ZCL; and a reception unit 35 that detects a conductive state between the pair of synchronous signal lines ZCL and that receives the trigger signal TG, wherein the power supply main circuit 30 stops outputting based on timing of receiving the trigger signal TG.
US12206235B2
A discharge detection system of the present invention includes a plurality of filter circuits electrically connected to each of a plurality of electrical circuits and configured to pass a noise; a plurality of amplifiers electrically connected to each of the plurality of filter circuits and configured to amplify a level of the noise passed through the filter circuit; and a processor electrically connected to each of the plurality of amplifiers and configured to detect occurrence of discharge based on the noise level amplified by the amplifier. The processor is set to have an amplification factor of the amplifier and a threshold related to the noise level. If a noise at a level of the threshold or more is output from each of two or more of the amplifiers, the processor executes a process of reducing the amplification factor of each of the two or more amplifiers, and a process of specifying any one of the noises by comparing the level of the noise output from each of the two or more amplifiers having the reduced amplification factor.
US12206230B2
The present invention provides a power cable system prefabricated in a building structure, the building structure contains at least one floor, and each floor has at least one starting column, a plurality of main beams and a plurality of auxiliary beams, the main beams are connected with the starting column, and the auxiliary beams are respectively connected with the main beams and the starting column; wherein main wires, first secondary wires, second secondary wires, and third secondary wires are correspondingly prefabricated on the starting column, the main beams, and the auxiliary beams respectively. Through those structure, the workers can quickly construct a power cable system while construct the beam-column system, which can significantly improve the construction efficiency.
US12206229B2
The present disclosure relates to splice enclosures adapted for providing cable repairs. The splice enclosures can include a bracket arrangement that allows for variable placement of splice modules on platforms of the bracket arrangement. The bracket arrangement can also provide cable anchoring locations.
US12206228B2
The invention relates to an electrical conductor for the conduction of electrical current through an opening of a housing wall, wherein the electrical conductor is enclosed, at least in a first sealing segment by a sealing body made from an elastic material. The electrical conductor can be inserted with the sealing body into an opening of a housing wall for sealing between sealing body and housing wall. The electrical conductor has a materially bonded connection to the sealing body, and a fastening part is provided on the conductor and has an axial through-opening through which the electrical conductor is inserted, wherein the fastening part extends radially, starting from the axial through-opening, in a first axial segment which has the maximum radial extension of the fastening part perpendicular to the axial through-opening. The fastening part has, on one side or two sides of the first axial segment, a second axial segment and/or a third axial segment respectively forming a radially circumferential separation region for a casting tool. The invention furthermore relates to a corresponding method for production.
US12206218B2
The metallization pattern includes a pair of first metal films on the respective pair of first surfaces, and a second metal film on the pair of second surfaces to connect the pair of first metal films. The support block includes a connection conductor connecting the pair of first metal films, the connection conductor being a castellation conductor and/or a via conductor, the castellation conductor being on the pair of third surfaces of the ceramic body, the via conductor being through the ceramic body between the pair of first surfaces. The mounting substrate is mounted on one of the pair of first surfaces. One end of the first wire is bonded to a corresponding one of the pair of first metal films or the connection conductor, at a position adjacent to or overlapping with the connection conductor, on another of the pair of first surfaces.
US12206217B2
A control system includes a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), a digital-to-analog conversion (DAC) circuit, an external TEC driver, and a pump chip. The field-programmable gate array (FPGA) includes a pump driver and a thermoelectric-cooler (TEC) controller. The digital-to-analog conversion (DAC) circuit is coupled to the FPGA. The external TEC driver is external to the FPGA and coupled to the FPGA. The pump chip includes a pump and a TEC and is coupled to the DAC circuit and the external TEC driver.
US12206208B2
A connector includes an enclosure having a top wall provided with a fitting and a mounting section; a retaining member including a main body fitted in the fitting section, an extended section extended forward from the main body and having a hook section projected beyond the top wall for retaining a mating female connector thereto, and an elastic section extended rearward from the main body and located in the mounting section; and a linkage assembly holding the retaining member between it and the mounting section and including a first linking member located above the elastic section and a second linking member connected to the first linking member and the enclosure. When the second linking member is pulled, the first linking member is brought to push the elastic section downward, such that the main body, the extended section and the hook section elastically bias downward simultaneously to release the female connector.
US12206204B2
To prevent electric conductance impairment of an electric connecting part between an electronic control unit and an internal connector in a reliable manner even when the electric connecting part between the electronic control unit and the internal connector is placed in an environment where oil mist or electroconductive substances are present, the electronic control unit includes a main part, a first conductive connection portion provided at a lower end of the main part and configured to be electrically connected to the internal connector, and an outer shell member extending downward so as to surround the first conductive connection portion, and to be open only at a lower end thereof, and wherein the internal connector is provided with a housing including a part defining an annular recess opened upward on an outer periphery thereof, the lower end of the outer shell member being received in the annular recess when the electronic control unit is connected to the internal connector.
US12206202B2
A holding frame for a plug connector, for receiving contact inserts, includes: a main frame, which has a first side wall, a second side wall opposite the first side wall, a first end wall, and a second end wall opposite the first end wall, the first side wall, the second side wall, the first end wall, and the second end wall enclosing an interior of the main frame into which the contact inserts are insertable in an insertion direction; and a plurality of wall segments, each of which has a fastening region via which the contact inserts which are inserted into the interior of the main frame are holdable on the main frame. In a mounted position, each wall segment of the plurality of wall segments is arranged on a receiving section formed on the first side wall or on the second side wall.
US12206175B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a conductive part coupled to a non-conductive, an antenna structure including a substrate disposed in an internal space of the housing and at least one antenna element disposed to form a beam pattern in a first direction in the substrate, at least one conductive dummy plate disposed between the at least one antenna element and the housing in the internal space, and a wireless communication circuit configured to transmit and/or receive a wireless signal in a specified frequency band through the at least one antenna element. The antenna structure is disposed at a position at least partially overlapped with the non-conductive part, and the at least one conductive dummy plate is disposed at a position at least partially overlapped with the at least one antenna element, when the housing is viewed from the outside of the electronic device.
US12206162B2
A three-dimensional graphene antenna includes a three-dimensional graphene radiation layer, a dielectric substrate, a metal layer and a feeder line. The three-dimensional graphene radiation layer is made from porous three-dimensional graphene. A preparation method of the porous three-dimensional graphene includes steps of preparing pressurized solid particles by pressurizing gas into solid micro particles, mixing the pressurized solid particles with a graphene oxide dispersion liquid, removing liquid nitrogen under high pressure and low temperature such that the graphene oxide flakes enwrap around the pressurized solid particles, obtaining a graphene oxide block containing the pressurized solid particles by extruding, sublimating the pressurized solid particles in the graphene oxide block into gas, forming holes in the graphene oxide block and annealing, thereby obtaining the three-dimensional graphene. The three-dimensional graphene has a porous three-dimensional conductive network structure, which is able to be in any shape without any pollution.
US12206157B2
A semiconductor package includes a semiconductor die, an encapsulation layer and at least one antenna structure. The encapsulation layer laterally encapsulates the semiconductor die. The at least one antenna structure is embedded in the encapsulation layer aside the semiconductor die. The at least one antenna structure includes a dielectric bulk, and a dielectric constant of the dielectric bulk is higher than a dielectric constant of the encapsulation layer.
US12206155B2
In an aspect, an apparatus is disclosed that includes a surface-mounted integrated circuit package housing an active oscillator circuit; an integrated ceramic resonator formed from a ceramic substrate having an upper planar surface receiving the surface-mounted integrated circuit package, the integrated ceramic resonator including a plurality of conductive walls forming a conductive periphery of a ceramic cavity in the ceramic substrate, a conductive rod extending vertically into the ceramic cavity, wherein the conductive rod is isolated from contact with the conductive periphery of the ceramic cavity, a first conductive material extending vertically through the upper planar surface of the ceramic substrate for connecting the conductive periphery of the ceramic cavity to the surface-mounted integrated circuit package housing the active oscillator circuit; and a second conductive material extending through the upper planar surface of the ceramic substrate for connecting the conductive rod to the surface-mounted integrated circuit package.
US12206154B2
Disclosed is a device including a first line, a second line including a first section disposed on a first side of the first line and a second section disposed on a second side of the first line, the second side being opposite to the first side and the second section being separate from the first section by a distance, and at least one bridge electrically connecting an end of the first section with an end of the second section and extending across the first line. The device may be a directional coupler that achieves significantly higher directivity than conventional directional coupler structures, and hence, improves power detection accuracy.
US12206147B2
A digital phase shifter of the present invention is a digital phase shifter in which digital phase shift circuits are cascade-connected, each of the digital phase shift circuits including a signal line, a pair of inner lines provided on both sides of the signal line, a pair of outer lines provided on outer sides of the inner lines, a first ground conductor connected to one ends of the inner lines and one ends of the outer lines, a second ground conductor connected to the other ends of the outer lines, and a pair of electronic switches provided between the other ends of the inner lines and the second ground conductor. The digital phase shift circuits include a multi-row structure constituted by a front row and a rear row, the front row and the rear row are adjacent to each other, and the ground pattern is connected to the front row at one point.
US12206145B2
A fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell unit including a fuel cell, an anode flow path, a cathode flow path, and a heat exchanger configured to heat the cathode gas to be supplied to the fuel cell; and a manifold attached to the fuel cell unit and configured to distribute and supply the cathode gas to the cathode flow path. The cathode flow path includes a main flow path passing through the heat exchanger, a bypass flow path bypassing the heat exchanger and connected to the main flow path, and a partial reformation flow path through which a gas for partial oxidation reformation is supplied to the anode flow path.
US12206139B2
A battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a positive electrode lead which is connected to the positive electrode, and a protective tape which covers the positive electrode lead. The protective tape includes a base material layer and an adhesive layer that is arranged on the base material layer; and the adhesive layer contains an adhesive material and a filler which contains at least one compound that is selected from among phosphoric acid group-containing compounds, boric acid group-containing compounds and silicic acid group-containing compounds.
US12206137B2
Disclosed here is a battery including: an exterior body having a bottom wall; and a winding electrode body in which positive electrode, negative electrode and separator are wound about a winding axis. The winding electrode body has a flat shape having a pair of curvature parts having a curved outside surface and a flat part that connects the pair of curvature parts to each other and has a flat outside surface. When a line perpendicular to the winding axis of the winding electrode body and perpendicular to the bottom wall of the exterior body is assumed as L1, a portion positioned at an outermost periphery of the negative electrode in at least one of the pair of the curvature parts faces a portion positioned on a winding inner peripheral side of the negative electrode via the separator and not via the positive electrode on the line L1.
US12206134B2
An ultrasonic bonding method for electrical contacting a plurality of battery cells of a battery block. A first connection point is produced in that a bonding tool is heated directly, and a first connection contact surface of a first battery cell and/or a connection conductor is/are heated locally and indirectly by a laser beam directed toward the bonding tool. The connection conductor is pressed against the first connection contact surface of the first battery cell. The bonding tool is excited to vibrate ultrasonically, the ultrasonic vibrations being transferred from the bonding tool to the connection conductor. A second connection point is produced in that the connection conductor is pressed against a second connection contact surface of a second battery cell of the battery block or a common connection contact of the battery block by the bonding tool and excited to vibrate ultrasonically.
US12206128B2
A sheet-type cell disclosed in this application includes an outer case and a power generation element contained in the outer case. The power generation element includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, and an electrolyte solution. The separator is constituted by a porous resin sheet. The outer case includes a first outer case member and a second outer case member. Each outer case member includes a thermally fusible resin layer. The first outer case member and the second outer case member are disposed on respective opposite sides of the power generation element. A periphery of the first outer case member and a periphery of the second outer case member are sealed by thermally welding, with a periphery of the separator interposed between the peripheries of the first and second outer case members.
US12206121B2
The present application discloses an improved aluminum cover plate of a battery, including a cover plate, a metal sheet and an electrode column. The electrode column penetrates and is arranged in rivet holes of the cover plate and the metal sheet, and is riveted with the metal sheet. A first sealing ring is arranged between a cap portion and a nail portion of the electrode column and the cover plate. A second sealing ring is arranged on an outer periphery of the nail portion of the electrode column, and the second sealing ring is clamped and arranged between the cover plate and the metal sheet. The first sealing ring and the second sealing ring are arranged separately.
US12206119B2
A pouch for a secondary battery according to an embodiment of the present invention for solving the above problem includes: a surface protection layer made of a first polymer and formed at the outermost layer; a sealant layer made of a second polymer and formed at the innermost layer; a gas barrier layer made of a metal and stacked between the surface protection layer and the sealant layer; and a heat dissipation layer made of ceramic, stacked between the surface protection layer and the sealant layer, and configured to release heat to the outside of the pouch when a predetermined pressure is applied thereto.
US12206115B2
A computational method for determining a location and an amount of a transition metal M in surface facets of a Pt—M alloy using a density functional theory includes receiving a particle size and a surface facet distribution of the Pt—M alloy and a total concentration of M in the Pt—M alloy; calculating a total number of M atoms in the Pt—M alloy based on the particle size and the surface facet distribution of the Pt—M alloy and the total concentration of M in the Pt—M alloy; and predicting a mixing energy between Pt and at least one of the total number of M atoms in a subsurface layer of each of the surface facets of the Pt—M alloy when Pt is mixed with the at least one of the total number of M atoms.
US12206110B2
A cathode material for sulfide-based all-solid-state batteries, in which Li3V2(PO4)3 (LVP) is doped with a transition metal having an oxidation number of +5 or more and the surface of the cathode material is substituted with a halogen element so as to have improved surface stability and energy density and to suppress side reactions with a solid electrolyte, a manufacturing method thereof, and an all-solid-state battery using the same.
US12206105B2
Disclosed is a positive electrode material for a high-power lithium ion battery. The positive electrode material is in form of secondary particles with a hollow microsphere structure, and a shell of the secondary particles is formed by aggregating a plurality of primary particles. The secondary particles have a uniform particle size, a loose and porous surface, and a large specific surface area. The obtained particles are regular in shape, stable in material structure, so that the positive electrode material has high rate performance and excellent cycle performance. The disclosure also provides a preparation method for the positive electrode material comprising (1) synthesizing a NixCoyMz(OH)2 precursor by a co-precipitation method, such that the precursor has a central portion consisted by fine particles and a shell portion consisted by large particles having a larger particle size than that of the fine particles; (2) mixing the precursor and a lithium salt uniformly, and adding an oxide of a doping element during the mixing, and then sintering the mixture to provide a LiaNixCoyMzO2 positive electrode material. The preparation method is simple and low cost, and can be industrialized.
US12206097B2
A cathode active material includes a plurality of cathode active compound particles and a coating disposed over each of the cathode active compound particles. The coating includes a lithium (Li)-ion conducting oxide containing lanthanum (La) and titanium (Ti).
US12206093B2
A positive electrode layer for an all-solid-state battery, includes a first phase including a positive electrode active material containing Li, a second phase including a garnet-type solid electrolyte containing Li, Bi, M2, and O, and a third phase different from the first phase and the second phase. The third phase includes a Li—Bi-M2-O-based compound containing Li, Bi, M2, and O, and M2 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ca, Sr, Ba, Mg, Y, and Rb.
US12206084B2
A metal-oxygen battery including: a battery core, gas container and a movable member. The battery core including a metal anode; a non-aqueous electrolyte; a porous cathode; and terminals for providing electrical power from the battery core. The gas container being configured to hold a pressurized gas at least partially comprising oxygen. The movable member being configured to be movable from a non-activated position in which the pressurized gas in the container is sealed from entering the porous cathode and an activated position in which the pressurized gas flows into the porous cathode to activate the battery core.
US12206078B2
A charging method for an electrochemical device includes the following steps: in a first cycle stage, a charging stage of the first cycle stage has a first cut-off voltage; and in a second cycle stage, a charging stage of the second cycle stage has a second cut-off voltage, and the second cut-off voltage is less than the first cut-off voltage. According to the charging method for an electrochemical device, an electronic device, and a readable storage medium provided in the present application, the risk of cyclic gas generation of the electrochemical device can be effectively prevented, and the service life of the electrochemical device can be improved.
US12206077B2
The present invention provides a battery safety test device includes: a mechanical switch element having one end connected to either a battery positive or negative electrode and the other end connected to an electronic switching element; the electronic switching element having one end connected to the mechanical switch element and the other end connected to the other of the battery positive or negative electrode; a voltage sensor for measuring a voltage of the battery after the mechanical switch element and the electronic switching element are turned on; and a current sensor for measuring a current of the battery after the mechanical switch element and the electronic switching element are turned on.
US12206076B2
An apparatus for evaluating insulation of the secondary battery is configured to apply alternating current (AC) voltage to a cell of the secondary battery and to determine whether the corresponding cell is insulated through impedance acquired based on output signals in response to the applied AC voltage.
US12206071B2
An electrochemical cell including an additive mixture for alleviating the symptoms of overcharge is disclosed. The additive mixture may include a combination of at least two of diethyl allylphosphonate, 4-fluorobiphenyl, and 1-phenyl-1-cyclohexene. For example, an electrolyte may include allylphosphonate and 4-fluorobiphenyl. In yet another example, an electrolyte may include 1-phenyl-1-cyclohexene.
US12206068B2
Provided is a novel solid electrolyte material of high density and high ionic conductivity, and an all-solid-state lithium ion secondary battery that utilizes the solid electrolyte material. The solid electrolyte material has a chemical composition represented by Li7-3xGaxLa3Zr2O12 (0.08≤x<0.5), has a relative density of 99% or higher, belongs to space group I-43d, in the cubic system, and has a garnet-type structure. The lithium ion conductivity of the solid electrolyte material is 2.0×10−3 S/cm or higher. The solid electrolyte material has a lattice constant a such that 1.29 nm≤a≤1.30 nm, and lithium ions occupy the 12a site, the 12b site and two types of 48e site, and gallium occupies the 12a site and the 12b site, in the crystal structure. The all-solid-state lithium ion secondary battery has a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a solid electrolyte. The solid electrolyte is made up of the solid electrolyte material of the present invention.
US12206063B2
A button cell includes a housing having a cell cup with a flat bottom area and having a cell top with a flat top area. The button cell also includes an electrode-separator assembly winding disposed within the housing. The electrode-separator assembly winding includes a multi-layer assembly that is wound in a spiral shape about an axis. The multi-layer assembly includes a positive electrode formed from a first current collector coated with a first electrode material, a negative electrode formed from a second current collector coated with a second electrode material, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The button cell further includes a winding core around which the multi-layer assembly is wound. The winding core provides a contact pressure on a first metal foil output conductor in an axial direction to facilitate electrical contact between the first metal foil output conductor and the housing.
US12206061B2
An electronic device may have a display. The display has pixels configured to display an image. The display is mounted in a housing. The housing may include head-mounted support structures configured to support the display for viewing through lenses. The pixels of the display may be covered by a layer of thin-film encapsulation. The thin-film encapsulation may be covered with a cover layer such as a glass cover layer that is attached to the thin-film encapsulation layer by a layer of adhesive. To suppress internal light reflections, the display may include reflection suppression structures. The reflection suppression structures may include an antireflection layer and/or polarizer and waveplate layers. The reflection suppression structures may be formed on an outwardly facing surface of the cover layer and/or between the thin-film encapsulation layer and the cover layer.
US12206058B2
In an embodiment a method for producing optoelectronic semiconductor devices includes providing at least one optoelectronic semiconductor chip with at least one contact side, generating at least one coating region and at least one protection region on the contact side or on at least one of the contact sides, applying at least one liquid coating material to the at least one contact side, wherein the at least one coating material wets the at least one coating region and does not wet the at least one protection region and solidifying the at least one coating material into at least one electrical contact structure on the at least one coating region such that the semiconductor chip is capable of being energized through the at least one contact structure.
US12206049B2
An inorganic light-emitting diode substrate includes: a base, a plurality of epitaxial layer structures disposed on the base, a passivation layer, and a plurality of second electrodes disposed on a side of the passivation layer away from the base. The base includes a base substrate and a plurality of first electrodes disposed on the base substrate. The plurality of epitaxial layer structures are spaced apart, and each first electrode is coupled to one epitaxial layer structure. The passivation layer is made of photoresist. The passivation layer covers surfaces, away from the base, of the plurality of epitaxial layer structures, and fills gaps between the plurality of epitaxial layer structures. The passivation layer has a plurality of via holes, and each second electrode is coupled to one epitaxial layer structure through at least one via hole.
US12206037B2
A photovoltaic device includes a substrate, a semiconductor stack and a transparent tunnel junction. The semiconductor stack includes an n-type layer selected from a first transparent conductive oxide layer, or a window layer, or both; and a p-type absorber layer disposed on the n-type layer, wherein the absorber layer consists essentially of CdSexTe(1-x), wherein x is from 1 to about 40 at. %. The transparent tunnel junction comprises a transparent interface layer of CdyZn(1-y)Te doped to be p+type, and a transparent contact layer doped to be n+type, and the interface layer is disposed between the p-type absorber layer and the transparent contact layer. In bifacial embodiments, the tunnel junction forms a transparent back contact and electrode; and in multi-junction embodiments, the tunnel junction forms a diode-like connector between top and bottom cells. The transparent contact layer may comprise tin oxide or zinc oxide doped with aluminum, fluorine or indium. The photovoltaic device may also include an electron reflector layer and/or an optical reflector layer.
US12206036B2
A power conversion system for converting optical energy received from a fiber optic line to electrical energy, the system comprises a housing, a heat sink within the housing, a high power connector coupled to the line and having an end positioned within the housing, beam forming optics within the interior space positioned proximal to the connector, and a partially spherical end array and annular arrays of photovoltaic chips.
US12206031B2
A number of Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) devices including combinations of PIN and Schottky diodes, with integrated passive electrical components fabricated and electrically connected among them, are described herein, along with new process techniques for forming the MMIC devices. In one example, a monolithic semiconductor includes a substrate, a plurality of layers of semiconductor materials over the substrate, Schottky and Ohmic contacts on a first subset of the plurality of layers for a Schottky diode, and PIN diode Ohmic contacts on a second subset of the plurality of layers for a PIN diode. The device can also include an etch stop layer between the first subset of the plurality of layers and the second subset of the plurality of layers. The etch stop layer facilitates selective etching and isolation of the Schottky diode from the PIN diode by consecutive etchings.
US12206030B2
Process flow for a stacked power diode and design of the resulting diode is disclosed. Blanket epitaxy over heavy doped wafers is performed. By controlling dopant addition during epitaxy, desired n-type, diode base, and p-type doping profiles and thicknesses achieved. V-groove pattern if formed on wafers by depositing mask film, lithography and anisotropic etch. Islands surrounded by V-grooves define individual diodes. V-grooves serve as side insulation. Next, oxidation step passivates V-grooves. Further, the mask film is stripped to open diode contact areas on both sides of wafers. Next high melting point metal and low melting point metal films are selectively electroplated on all open silicon surfaces. Stacking is performed on wafer level by bonding of desired wafer count by solid-liquid interdiffusion process. Wafer stacks are sawed into individual stacked diode dies along outer slopes of V-grooves. Final stacked devices can be used as DSRD—drift step recovery diodes. Compared to DSRDs made by known methods, better fabrication yield and higher pulse power electrical performance is achieved.
US12206029B2
A diode structure includes a substrate having a first conductivity type, a first well region having a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type and disposed in the substrate, a first doped region having the first conductivity type and disposed in the first well region, a ring-shaped well region having the second conductivity type, disposed in the first well region and surrounding the first doped region, an anode disposed on the first doped region, a second well region having the second conductivity type, separated from the first well region and disposed in the substrate, a second doped region having the second conductivity type and disposed in the second well region, and a cathode disposed on the second doped region.
US12206024B2
A transistor includes a vertical stack containing, in order from bottom to top or from top to bottom, a gate electrode, a gate dielectric, and an active layer and located over a substrate. The active layer includes an amorphous semiconductor material. A crystalline source region including a first portion of a crystalline semiconductor material overlies, and is electrically connected to, a first end portion of the active layer. A crystalline drain region including a second portion of the crystalline semiconductor material overlies, and is electrically connected to, a second end portion of the active layer.
US12206021B2
A negative differential resistance device includes a dielectric layer having a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface, a first semiconductor layer that includes a first degenerated layer that is on the first surface of the dielectric layer and has a first polarity, a second semiconductor layer that includes a second degenerated layer that has a region that overlaps the first semiconductor layer and has a second polarity, a first electrode electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer, a second electrode electrically connected to the second semiconductor layer, and a third electrode on the second surface of the dielectric layer and which has a region overlapping at least one of the first semiconductor layer or the second semiconductor layer.
US12206014B2
A gate electrode includes a main portion formed of a gate electrode material, and a gate electrode barrier layer disposed between the main portion and a barrier layer and formed of a conductive material that prevents the gate electrode material from diffusing into the barrier layer. A surface of the main portion in a region above a first insulating layer faces a periphery without a layer of the conductive material being formed.
US12206012B2
A method includes performing an atomic layer deposition (ALD) process to form a dielectric layer on a wafer. The ALD process comprises an ALD cycle includes pulsing calypso ((SiCl3)2CH2), purging the calypso, pulsing ammonia, and purging the ammonia. The method further includes performing a wet anneal process on the dielectric layer, and performing a dry anneal process on the dielectric layer.
US12206007B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes the steps of forming a gate structure on a substrate, forming an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer on the gate structure, forming a contact hole in the ILD layer adjacent to the gate structure, performing a plasma doping process to form a doped layer in the ILD layer and a source/drain region adjacent to the gate structure, forming a conductive layer in the contact hole, planarizing the conductive layer to form a contact plug, removing the doped layer to form an air gap adjacent to the contact plug, and then forming a stop layer on the ILD layer and the contact plug.
US12206005B2
A structure has stacks of semiconductor layers over a substrate and adjacent a dielectric feature. A gate dielectric is formed wrapping around each layer and the dielectric feature. A first layer of first gate electrode material is deposited over the gate dielectric and the dielectric feature. The first layer on the dielectric feature is recessed to a first height below a top surface of the dielectric feature. A second layer of the first gate electrode material is deposited over the first layer. The first gate electrode material in a first region of the substrate is removed to expose a portion of the gate dielectric in the first region, while the first gate electrode material in a second region of the substrate is preserved. A second gate electrode material is deposited over the exposed portion of the gate dielectric and over a remaining portion of the first gate electrode material.
US12206000B2
A method for forming a high electron mobility transistor is disclosed. A mesa structure having a channel layer and a barrier layer is formed on a substrate. The mesa structure has two first edges extending along a first direction and two second edges extending along a second direction. A passivation layer is formed on the substrate and the mesa structure. A first opening and a plurality of second openings connected to a bottom surface of the first opening are formed and through the passivation layer, the barrier layer and a portion of the channel layer. In a top view, the first opening exposes the two first edges of the mesa structure without exposing the two second edges of the mesa structure. A metal layer is formed in the first opening and the second openings thereby forming a contact structure.
US12205994B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a source/drain region and a gate electrode adjacent the source/drain region, forming a hard mask over the gate electrode, forming a bottom mask over the source/drain region, wherein the gate electrode is exposed, and performing a nitridation process on the hard mask over the gate electrode. The bottom mask remains over the source/drain region during the nitridation process and is removed after the nitridation. The method further includes forming a silicide over the source/drain region after removing the bottom mask.
US12205993B2
A p-type semiconductor region is formed in a front surface side of an n-type semiconductor substrate. An n-type field stop (FS) region including protons as a donor is formed in a rear surface side of the semiconductor substrate. A concentration distribution of the donors in the FS region include first, second, third and fourth peaks in order from a front surface to the rear surface. Each of the peaks has a peak maximum point, and peak end points formed at both sides of the peak maximum point. The peak maximum points of the first and second peaks are higher than the peak maximum point of the third peak. The peak maximum point of the third peak is lower than the peak maximum point of the fourth peak.
US12205987B2
A wafer includes a substrate and at least one intermediate layer formed on a surface of the substrate. The at least one intermediate layer covers the surface of the substrate at least partially. An outer surface of the at least one intermediate layer is directed away from the surface of the substrate. The wafer further includes nanostructures grown on the outer surface of the at least one intermediate layer. The at least one intermediate layer is formed in such a way that positions of growth of the nanostructures are predetermined on the outer surface of the at least one intermediate layer. At least one nanostructure material of the nanostructures is assembled at the positions of growth of the nanostructures.
US12205980B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes forming a plurality of isolation regions on a semiconductor substrate, forming a protective layer in a resistor region of the semiconductor substrate, after forming the protective layer, etching a gate dielectric layer to form first and second gate dielectric layers of a transistor in a transistor region of the semiconductor substrate, removing the protective layer, forming first and second dummy gate stacks over the first and second gate dielectric layers, respectively, forming a resistor in the resistor region, forming third and fourth dummy gate stacks over the resistor, and replacing each of the first, second, third, and fourth dummy gate stacks with a conductive material.
US12205978B2
A light emitting diode device including a substrate, a plurality of terminals disposed on the substrate, and a plurality of light sources disposed on the substrate, electrically connected to the plurality of terminals, and configured to emit light, in which each of the light sources includes a light emitting diode chip, and a wall surrounding side surfaces of the light emitting diode chip, at least one of the light sources includes a wavelength converter disposed on the light emitting diode chip, and at least two light sources share the wall.
US12205965B2
An imaging device capable of image processing is provided. The imaging device can retain analog data (image data) obtained by an image-capturing operation in a pixel and perform a product-sum operation of the analog data and a predetermined weight coefficient in the pixel to convert the data into binary data. When the binary data is taken in a neural network or the like, processing such as image recognition can be performed. Since enormous volumes of image data can be retained in pixels in the state of analog data, processing can be performed efficiently.
US12205964B2
The present technology relates to a light receiving device and a distance measurement system that enable light to be surely received by a reference pixel. A light receiving device includes a plurality of pixels each including a light receiving element having a light receiving surface, and a light emission source provided on an opposite side of the light receiving surface with respect to the light receiving element. The plurality of pixels includes a first pixel including a light shielding member provided between the light receiving element and the light emission source, and a second pixel including a light guiding unit that is configured to propagate a photon and is provided between the light receiving element and the light emission source. The present technology can be applied to a distance measurement system or the like that detects a distance to a subject in a depth direction, for example, for example.
US12205946B2
An interfacial structure, along with methods of forming such, are described. The structure includes a first interfacial layer having a first dielectric layer, a first conductive feature disposed in the first dielectric layer, and a first thermal conductive layer disposed on the first dielectric layer. The structure further includes a second interfacial layer disposed on the first interfacial layer. The second interfacial layer is a mirror image of the first interfacial layer with respect to an interface between the first interfacial layer and the second interfacial layer. The second interfacial layer includes a second thermal conductive layer disposed on the first thermal conductive layer, a second dielectric layer disposed on the second thermal conductive layer, and a second conductive feature disposed in the second dielectric layer.
US12205940B2
A semiconductor package structure includes a substrate, including first conductive pads and packaging pads opposite to the first conductive pads, one or more semiconductor chips stacking on the substrate, a molding compound encapsulating the semiconductor chips, first metal wires connecting the semiconductor chips to the packaging pads, a first metal pad on a side of the molding compound opposite to the substrate, and a second metal wire located in the molding compound and connecting the first metal pad to a chip-contact pad of a semiconductor chip of the semiconductor chips.
US12205937B2
A display device is disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, provided is a display device comprising a display panel having a first display area and a second display area on the outside of the first display area, wherein the display panel comprises: a first substrate which includes a main pixel unit disposed in the first display area and having main pixels, and a GIP unit disposed in the second display area and generating a gate signal; and a second substrate which is bonded to the first substrate and includes an auxiliary pixel unit disposed in the second display area and having auxiliary pixels, the GIP unit supplying the gate signal to the main pixels and the auxiliary pixels.
US12205927B2
An array substrate is provided. In the array substrate, an organic material layer includes a first planar portion, a bending portion and a second planar portion which are connected in sequence. The first planar portion and the second planar portion are disposed on both sides of a base substrate. A lead structure includes a first lead portion, a bent lead portion and a second lead portion which are connected in sequence, wherein the first lead portion is disposed outside the first plane portion, the bent lead portion is disposed outside the bending portion, and the second lead portion is disposed outside the second plane portion. An LED layer and a control circuit are respectively disposed on the both sides of the base substrates.
US12205914B2
A semiconductor package includes a base substrate; a redistribution substrate disposed on the base substrate, and that includes first insulating layers and redistribution pattern layers disposed on the first insulating layers, respectively; a semiconductor chip disposed on the redistribution substrate and electrically connected to the redistribution pattern layers; and a chip structure disposed on the redistribution substrate adjacent to the semiconductor chip and electrically connected to the semiconductor chip through the redistribution pattern layers, wherein the semiconductor chip includes a body that has an active surface that faces the redistribution substrate; first and second contact pads spaced apart from each other below the active surface; a first bump structure and a passive device electrically connected to the first connection pad at a lower level from the first connection pad; and a second bump structure electrically connected to the second connection pad at a lower level from the second connection pad.
US12205911B2
A package includes a first die that includes a first metallization layer, one or more first bond pad vias on the first metallization layer, wherein a first barrier layer extends across the first metallization layer between each first bond pad via and the first metallization layer, and one or more first bond pads on the one or more first bond pad vias, wherein a second barrier layer extends across each first bond pad via between a first bond pad and the first bond pad via, and a second die including one or more second bond pads, wherein a second bond pad is bonded to a first bond pad of the first die.
US12205910B2
An integrated circuit device may include a multi-material toothed bond pad including (a) an array of vertically-extending teeth formed from a first material, e.g., aluminum, and (b) a fill material, e.g., silver, at least partially filling voids between the array of teeth. The teeth may be formed by depositing and etching aluminum or other suitable material, and the fill material may be deposited over the array of teeth and extending down into the voids between the teeth, and etched to expose top surfaces of the teeth. The array of teeth may collectively define an abrasive structure. The multi-material toothed bond pad may be bonded to another bond pad, e.g., using an ultrasonic or thermosonic bonding process, during which the abrasive teeth may abrade, break, or remove unwanted native oxide layers formed on the respective bond pad surfaces, to thereby create a direct and/or eutectic bonding between the bond pads.
US12205907B2
Integrated circuit (IC) chips and seal ring structures are provided. An IC chip according to the present disclosure includes a circuit region and a seal ring region surrounding the circuit region. The seal ring region includes a first active region extending lengthwise in a first direction and a first gate structure disposed on the first active region. The first gate structure extends lengthwise in a second direction that is tilted from the first direction. The first direction and the second direction form a tilted angle therebetween.
US12205901B2
A device structure may include an interconnect-level dielectric material layer located over a substrate, a first metal interconnect structure embedded in the interconnect-level dielectric material layer and including a first metallic barrier liner and a first metallic fill material portion, and an overlying dielectric material layer. An opening in the overlying dielectric material layer may be formed entirely within an area of the first metallic barrier layer and outside the area of the first metallic fill material portion to reduce plasma damage. A second metal interconnect structure contacting a top surface of the first metallic barrier liner may be formed in the opening. An entirety of a top surface the first metallic fill material portion contacts a bottom surface of the overlying dielectric material layer.
US12205894B2
A routing pattern is provided. The routing pattern includes a first routing region, a second routing region and an interconnection region. The first routing region includes a plurality of first conductive lines extending along a first direction. The plurality of first conductive lines has a first pitch along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The second routing region includes a plurality of second conductive lines extending along the first direction. The plurality of second conductive lines has a second pitch along the second direction, and the second pitch is approximately equal to the first pitch. The interconnection region includes two body parts and a connecting part connecting to the body parts. The body parts are disposed separately along the first direction. A width of the connecting part along the second direction is smaller than a width of the body parts along the second direction.
US12205893B2
A method for forming a semiconductor structure includes: providing a substrate, and forming a dielectric layer and a mask layer, where the mask layer is arranged with a first opening; forming a first barrier layer on a sidewall of the first opening, where the first barrier layer surrounds and forms a second opening; forming a second barrier layer filling the second opening; removing the first barrier layer and the second barrier layer by a first etching process until the first barrier layer or the second barrier layer is completely removed; and removing the dielectric layer exposed by the first opening and part of the substrate exposed by the first opening to form a bit-line contact opening.
US12205885B2
An array of metal-oxide-metal (MOM) capacitors formed in an integrated circuit (IC) structure may be used for evaluating misalignments between patterned layers of the IC structure. The array of MOM capacitors may be formed in a selected set of patterned layers, e.g., a via layer formed between a pair of metal interconnect layers. The MOM capacitors may be programmed with different patterned layer alignments (e.g., built in to photomasks or reticles used to form the patterned layers) to define an array of different alignments. When the MOM capacitors are formed on the wafer, the actual patterned layer alignments capacitors may differ from the programmed layer alignments due a process-related misalignment. The MOM capacitors may be subjected to electrical testing to identify this process-related misalignment, which may be used for initiating a correcting action, e.g., adjusting a manufacturing process or discarding misaligned IC structures or devices.
US12205876B2
This application provides an embedded packaging structure, a preparation method thereof, and a terminal device. The embedded packaging structure includes a substrate frame, and a first through hole and a second through hole that run through the substrate frame in a thickness direction of the substrate frame. A metal connection electrode is disposed in the first through hole, an electronic component is embedded in the second through hole, and a pin of the electronic component is exposed at a hole opening of the second through hole. The substrate frame is made of silicon or a ceramic. Compared with a prior art substrate frame formed by using a resin material, the substrate frame in this application has better heat dissipation performance, moisture resistance, and strength in addition to providing insulation.
US12205871B2
In some examples, a quad flat no lead (QFN) semiconductor package comprises a flip chip semiconductor die having a surface and circuitry formed in the surface; and a conductive pillar coupled to the semiconductor die surface. The conductive pillar has a distal end relative to the semiconductor die, the distal end having a cavity including a cavity floor and one or more cavity walls circumscribing the cavity floor. The one or more cavity walls are configured to contain solder.
US12205855B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and an associated process tool. The method includes generating electromagnetic radiation that is directed toward a perimeter of a pair of bonded workpieces and toward a radiation sensor that is arranged behind the perimeter of the pair of bonded workpieces. The electromagnetic radiation is scanned along a vertical axis. An intensity of the electromagnetic radiation that impinges on the radiation sensor is measured throughout the scanning. Measuring the intensity includes recording a plurality of intensity values of the electromagnetic radiation at a plurality of different positions along the vertical axis extending past top and bottom surfaces of the pair of bonded workpieces. A position of an interface between the pair of bonded workpieces is determined based on a maximum measured intensity value of the plurality of intensity values.
US12205851B2
Radio-frequency (RF) switching devices having improved voltage handling capability. In some embodiments, a switching device can include a first terminal and a second terminal, and a plurality of switching elements connected in series to form a stack between the first terminal and the second terminal. The switching elements can have a non-uniform distribution of a parameter that results in the stack having a first voltage handling capacity that is greater than a second voltage handling capacity corresponding to a similar stack having a substantially uniform distribution of the parameter.
US12205841B2
An electrostatic chuck includes a ceramic plate, an adsorption electrode, a ground electrode, and a wiring. The adsorption electrode is built-in near one surface of the ceramic plate. The ground electrode is arranged in the ceramic plate between the other surface of the ceramic plate and the adsorption electrode, and can be connected to a ground potential. The wiring is connected to the ground electrode in the ceramic plate and extends to the one surface of the ceramic plate.
US12205834B2
The present application provides a temperature calibration method for a semiconductor machine, including following steps: providing at least one temperature calibration sheet, the temperature calibration sheet comprising a transistor having a voltage-temperature characteristic curve corresponding to a set current; placing the temperature calibration sheet in a measurement region of the semiconductor machine; energizing the temperature calibration sheet at an energizing current being the same as the set current, and measuring a voltage of the transistor; and, obtaining a temperature of the transistor according to the voltage-temperature characteristic curve of the transistor by using the voltage as a known parameter, the temperature being a temperature of the measurement region of the semiconductor machine. The accuracy of temperature calibration is greatly improved, the performance of the semiconductor machine and the yield of the semiconductor manufacturing process are also improved.
US12205833B2
The inventive concept provides an apparatus and method for removing a film formed on a substrate. A method for treating the substrate includes a primary solvent dispensing step of dispensing an organic solvent onto the substrate to remove a photoresist film on the substrate and an ozone dispensing step of dispensing a liquid containing ozone onto the substrate to remove organic residue on the substrate, after the primary solvent dispensing step.
US12205832B2
A substrate debonding apparatus includes a chuck attached to a second surface opposite to the first surface of the semiconductor substrate via a second adhesive layer. The chuck is configured to support a lower portion of a base film having a cross-sectional area in a horizontal direction greater than a cross-sectional area of the semiconductor substrate in the horizontal direction. The semiconductor debonding apparatus further includes a fixing ring arranged above the chuck and configured to fix in position an edge portion of the base film, and a cover ring arranged above the fixing ring and configured to adjust a diameter of an opening exposing the carrier substrate. The cover ring includes a guide frame arranged above the fixing ring, and a plurality of cover blades configured to move in a horizontal direction determined by the guide frame.
US12205831B2
A cleaning apparatus includes: a cleaning tank that defines a cleaning space for cleaning a wafer; a wafer rotation mechanism that is arranged inside the cleaning tank and holds and rotates the wafer; a cleaning member that contacts and cleans a surface of the wafer, is rotatable around a central axis extending in a lateral direction, and has a length in an axial direction longer than a radius of the wafer; a swing mechanism that swings the cleaning member around a swing axis located inside the cleaning tank to move the cleaning member from a retracted position outside of the wafer to a cleaning position directly above the wafer; a second cleaning means that cleans the surface of the wafer; and a second swing mechanism that swings the second cleaning means around a second swing axis located inside the cleaning tank to pass directly above a center of the wafer.
US12205826B2
A method for forming a semiconductor substrate arrangement includes: forming a mask on a semiconductor substrate, the semiconductor substrate including and a metallization layer arranged on an insulation layer, the metallization layer arranged between the mask and insulation layer; forming a layer of electrically conductive coating on the metallization layer, the electrically conductive coating formed in at least one opening of the mask on regions of the metallization layer that are not covered by the mask; and after forming the electrically conductive coating, removing the mask. Forming the mask includes either applying an even layer of material on the metallization layer, or applying the material of the mask on the metallization layer such that the thickness of the mask in a region adjacent to edges of the mask is greater than the thickness of the regions of the mask further away from the edges.
US12205822B2
Implementations described herein provide a method of forming a semiconductor device. The method includes forming a nanostructure having a first set of layers of a first material and a second set of layers, alternating with the first set of layers, having a second material. The method further includes depositing a hard mask on a top layer of the first set of layers, the hard mask including a first hard mask layer on the top layer of the first set of layers and a second hard mask layer on the first hard mask layer. The method also includes depositing elements of a cladding structure on sidewalls of the nanostructure and the hard mask. The method further includes removing a top portion of the cladding structure. The method further includes removing the second hard mask layer after removing the top portion of the cladding structure.
US12205821B2
A topological material includes a lattice crystalline structure; and a material defect in the lattice crystalline structure that is treatable by hydrogen passivation that chemically mitigates an electronic charge associated with the material defect. The lattice crystalline structure includes dangling bonds in an atomic arrangement of the material defect of the lattice crystalline structure, and the hydrogen passivation may apply hydrogen to chemically passivate the dangling bonds of the material defect. The hydrogen passivation may be achieved by diffusing hydrogen into common materials of the lattice crystalline structure. The hydrogen passivation may chemically and/or electrostatically neutralize an electronic activity associated with the material defect.
US12205819B2
A semiconductor device includes a first transistor and a second transistor. The first transistor includes: a first source and a first drain separated by a first distance, a first semiconductor structure disposed between the first source and first drain, a first gate electrode disposed over the first semiconductor structure, and a first dielectric structure disposed over the first gate electrode. The first dielectric structure has a lower portion and an upper portion disposed over the lower portion and wider than the lower portion. The second transistor includes: a second source and a second drain separated by a second distance greater than the first distance, a second semiconductor structure disposed between the second source and second drain, a second gate electrode disposed over the second semiconductor structure, and a second dielectric structure disposed over the second gate electrode. The second dielectric structure and the first dielectric structure have different material compositions.
US12205816B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes: forming a first conductive feature in a first dielectric layer disposed over a substrate; forming a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer; etching the second dielectric layer using a patterned mask layer to form an opening in the second dielectric layer, where the opening exposes the first conductive feature; performing an ashing process to remove the patterned mask layer after the etching; wet cleaning the opening after the ashing process, where the wet cleaning enlarges a bottom portion of the opening; and filling the opening with a first electrically conductive material.
US12205814B2
The invention provides (a) a time-of-flight mass spectrometer with an acceleration region, a single-stage or multi-stage reflector, and an ion detector, further comprising an additional reflector whose potential has, at least in a subregion, a two-dimensional logarithmic potential component and a two-dimensional octopole potential component, and (b) methods for operating the time-of-flight mass spectrometer.
US12205811B2
A sample support for polymer-spray mass spectrometry includes a support substrate comprising a polymer. The support substrate is configured to support a sample on a surface of the support substrate. The sample support also includes a reservoir formed on the surface of the support substrate. The reservoir is configured to hold a spray solvent.
US12205804B2
A sputter target assembly comprising a Si target and a backing plate is provided wherein the backing plate is bonded to the target. The Si target comprises a smooth, mirror-like surface and has a surface roughness of less than about 15.0 Angstroms. Methods are provided for producing silicon target/backing plate assemblies wherein a silicon blank is processed to remove scratches from the blank surface resulting in a mirror like surface on the target, and a surface roughness of 15.0 Angstroms or less. The method comprises a first and second cleaning step with the first step being performed before the scratch removal step, and the second step being performed after the scratch removal.
US12205801B2
In a plasma processing apparatus, a controller specifies a time point when a current starts to flow between an edge ring and a DC power supply after beginning an application of a negative DC voltage to the edge ring from the DC power supply. The controller specifies, from a voltage measurement value indicating a voltage of the edge ring at the time point, an estimate of a self-bias voltage of the edge ring generated by a supply of a radio frequency power. The controller sets a sum of an absolute value of the estimate of the self-bias voltage and a set value as an absolute value of the negative DC voltage to be applied to the edge ring by the DC power supply.
US12205800B2
A plasma processing apparatus includes: a chamber; a stage provided in the chamber; a microwave transmission window provided on a wall surface of the chamber; a microwave supply configured to supply microwaves into the chamber via the microwave transmission window; a shower plate configured to partition an interior of the chamber into a plasma generation space, which is a region where the microwave transmission window is disposed, and a processing space, which is a region where the stage is disposed; and a protrusion protruding from the shower plate into the plasma generation space and including a conductor in at least a portion of the protrusion.
US12205799B2
A plasma processing apparatus includes: a processing container; a ceiling wall forming a part of the processing container and including an opening; and a transmission window configured to close the opening, wherein the opening under the transmission window is formed as a recess portion, wherein the recess portion is a supply port for supplying electromagnetic waves from the transmission window into the processing container, wherein first gas supply holes are formed on a lower surface of the ceiling wall, and wherein second gas supply holes are formed on an inner surface of the recess portion.
US12205798B2
A high-frequency power supply apparatus includes the following elements. A first power supply supplies first power to a load by outputting a first voltage whose fundamental frequency is higher than a second voltage output by a second power supply. A period signal generation circuit generates a period signal matching a frequency and a phase of the second voltage. A waveform control circuit generates a modulation signal for performing frequency modulation on a fundamental wave signal of the first voltage, and adjusts an output timing of the modulation signal in accordance with a timing of the period signal. The first power supply generates a first frequency signal by performing frequency modulation on the fundamental wave signal of the first voltage by using the modulation signal. The first power supply performs power amplification on the first frequency signal and outputs, to the load, the first frequency signal as first power.
US12205796B2
A radio frequency (RF) power generator adapted for coupling to a multi-station integrated circuit fabrication chamber may include an oscillator to provide a periodic signal and one or more preamplifiers each having an input port to receive a signal from the oscillator and having an output port to provide an amplified signal. The RF generator may additionally include one or more constant-gain amplifiers, each having an input port to receive a signal from the one or more preamplifiers, and an output port configured for coupling an amplified signal to an electrode for generating a plasma in an assigned station of the multi-station integrated circuit fabrication chamber.
US12205792B2
A detector may be provided with an array of sensing elements. The detector may include a semiconductor substrate including the array, and a circuit configured to count a number of charged particles incident on the detector. The circuit of the detector may be configured to process outputs from the plurality of sensing elements and increment a counter in response to a charged particle arrival event on a sensing element of the array. Various counting modes may be used. Counting may be based on energy ranges. Numbers of charged particles may be counted at a certain energy range and an overflow flag may be set when overflow is encountered in a sensing element. The circuit may be configured to determine a time stamp of respective charged particle arrival events occurring at each sensing element. Size of the sensing element may be determined based on criteria for enabling charged particle counting.
US12205781B2
A base unit for a keyboard is presented. The base unit has a substantially rectangular layout. The base unit includes an equipment portion, formed so that it can be equipped with a plurality of key switches for the keyboard. The equipment portion is arranged on a first side of the base unit. The base unit further comprises at least one coupling portion for mechanically coupling the base unit to an accessory module for the keyboard. Each coupling portion includes a first coupling feature and a second coupling feature. The first coupling feature is arranged on the first side of the base unit, and the second coupling feature is arranged on a second side of the base unit facing away from the first side. Each coupling feature is arranged parallel to a long side of the base unit continuously between narrow sides of the base unit. The first coupling feature is formed for positive locking with a first mounting feature of the accessory module. The second coupling feature is formed for positive locking with a second mounting feature of the accessory module.
US12205779B2
A self-power wireless switch according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a lower body, an upper body rotatably coupled, through a rotating shaft, to one side of the lower body; a switch cover rotatably coupled to one side of the lower body, or rotatably coupled to one side of an upper cover, a switch member capable of contacting the switch cover, a printed circuit board (PCB) comprising a contact unit which may contact the switch member that has been pressed by a user, and a generator positioned at the lower surface of the PCB and supplying power to the PCB. When the user presses the switch cover, the upper body rotates, and pressure is applied to a generator bar formed on the generator, and thus power is generated.
US12205773B2
An electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor element. The capacitor element includes an anode body, a dielectric layer disposed on a surface of the anode body, a solid electrolyte layer covering at least a part of the dielectric layer, and a first layer covering at least a part of the solid electrolyte layer. The first layer is in contact with the solid electrolyte layer. The first layer constitutes at least a part of the cathode lead-out layer. An electrode potential Ps of the solid electrolyte layer is higher than an electrode potential P1 of the first layer.
US12205768B2
A multilayer electronic component includes a body including a capacitance formation portion including dielectric layers and internal electrodes alternately disposed in a first direction, and a cover portion disposed on both end surfaces of the capacitance formation portion, facing each other in the first direction, and having a first surface and a second surface opposing each other in the first direction, a third surface and a fourth surface connected to the first and second surfaces and opposing each other in a second direction, and a fifth surface and a sixth surface connected to the first to fourth surfaces and opposing each other in a third direction, and external electrodes disposed on the third and fourth surfaces. The internal electrodes and the dielectric layers protrude more outwardly than the cover portion in the second direction, and a groove is disposed at an end of the dielectric layer in the second direction.
US12205766B2
A broadband multilayer ceramic capacitor can include at least one active electrode layer including a first active electrode and a second active electrode. The first active electrode can have a central portion extending away from a base portion in a longitudinal direction. The second active electrode can include at least one arm extending away from a base portion towards the first end and overlapping the central portion of the first active electrode. A first shield electrode in a shield electrode region can have a central portion extending from a base portion. A second shield electrode can include an arm overlapping the central portion of the first shield electrode in the longitudinal direction. The shield electrode region can be spaced apart from the active electrode region by a shield-to-active distance that is greater than an active electrode spacing distance between respective active electrodes of the plurality of active electrodes.
US12205762B2
Feedstock and heterogeneous structure for tough rare earth permanent magnets and production therefor
New types of particle feedstocks and heterogeneous grain structures are provided for rare earth permanent magnets (REPMs) and their production in a manner to significantly enhance toughness of the magnet with little or no sacrifice in the hard magnetic properties. The novel tough REPMs made from the feedstock have heterogeneous grain structures, such as bi-modal, tri-modal, multi-modal, laminated, gridded, gradient fine/coarse grain structures, or other microstructural heterogeneity and configurations, without changing the chemical compositions of magnets.
US12205761B2
A method for manufacturing a shaker device using 3D-printing (i.e., additive manufacturing). An electromagnet is formed by producing a bobbin body and winding an electrical conductor on the bobbin body to form an electromagnet coil. A cylindrical body is 3D-printed and the bobbin body with the electromagnet coil is coupled within an interior of the cylindrical body. A piston assembly is then positioned within the bobbin assembly. The shaker device is operated by controllably applying a magnetic field through the electromagnet coil that impinges a permanent magnet of the piston assembly to cause movement of the cylindrical body relative to the piston. By using these 3D printing techniques, the composition of materials can be varied within a single component part, fine structural details can be included in the components, and components can be 3D printed directly on each other to eliminate tolerance issues relating to small variations in component size.
US12205759B2
A coil component according to one embodiment of the present invention includes: a first insulator body containing first magnetic metal particles; a second insulator body containing second magnetic metal particles; a first coil conductor provided in the first insulator body and wound around a coil axis for N1 turns such that intervals between adjacent turns are g1; and a second coil conductor provided in the second insulator body and wound around the coil axis for N2 turns such that intervals between adjacent turns are g2. In the embodiment, a first coil surface of the first coil conductor faces a second coil surface of the second coil conductor, and a distance T between the first coil surface and the second coil surface satisfies a relationship T≥g1×N1+g2×N2.
US12205755B2
An inductor structure includes a first connecting component, a second connecting component, and a center-tap terminal. In the inductor structure, a first port of the first connecting component is coupled to a first wire, and a second port of the first connecting component is coupled to a second wire. The second connecting component disposed above or beneath the first connecting component in an interlaced manner. The center-tap terminal is coupled to one of the first connecting component and the second connecting component. The center-tap terminal is disposed on a layer that is different from the layer where the first connecting component is disposed or the layer where the second connecting component is disposed.
US12205749B2
A thin inductor component includes an element body having a principal surface and a side surface perpendicular to the principal surface. An inductor wire extends in parallel with the principal surface. From the inductor wire, a first vertical wire extends in a direction toward the principal surface, and a first support wire extends in parallel with the principal surface. The first vertical wire and the first support wire are connected to a first pad of the inductor wire. When a virtual tangent is drawn at a connection point of the inductor wire main body to the first pad with respect to the center axis of the wire main body when viewed from the thickness direction, the first support wire extends from the first pad in parallel with the virtual tangent and the center axis of the first support wire and the virtual tangent are located on different straight lines.
US12205741B2
A coil component includes a core including a winding core portion, a first flange portion, and a second flange portion, and a first wire and a second wire that are wound around the winding core portion in the same direction and that form a winding portion. The winding portion includes a second intersecting portion along a third side surface of the winding core portion at a position on the winding portion nearest to the second flange portion.
US12205738B2
A method of producing a sintered magnet is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method of producing a sintered magnet comprises, sintering a R—Fe—B based magnetic powder to produce a sintered magnet; wherein the R is Nd, Pr, Dy, Ce or Tb, and infiltrating a eutectic alloy into the sintered magnet, wherein the eutectic alloy contains Pr, Al, Cu and Ga, and wherein infiltration the eutectic alloy includes applying the eutectic alloy to the sintered magnet and heat-treating the sintered magnet to which the eutectic alloy is applied.
US12205734B2
A variable-structure stacked cable topology includes: a plurality of sections of stacked cables. The plurality of sections of the stacked cables are connected sequentially. The sections of the stacked cables includes a plurality of base tapes at an equal quantity. The plurality of base tapes are connected mutually. At least one of the plurality of base tapes is a superconducting tape. A cable topological structure is formed by sequentially connecting a plurality of sections of stacked cables. Each of the sections of the stacked cables is provided with superconducting tapes or a combination of superconducting tapes and copper tapes to form a variable-structure cable topological structure. By packaging a different number of superconducting tapes in each area, this section of cable can be twisted into a coil in such a way that a critical current of the whole coil can be approximately uniform along a length direction of the cable.
US12205733B2
A shielded electrical cable includes conductor sets extending along a length of the cable and spaced apart from each other along a width of the cable. First and second shielding films are disposed on opposite sides of the cable and include cover portions and pinched portions arranged such that, in transverse cross section, the cover portions of the films in combination substantially surround each conductor set. An adhesive layer bonds the shielding films together in the pinched portions of the cable. A transverse bending of the cable at a cable location of no more than 180 degrees over an inner radius of at most 2 mm causes a cable impedance of the selected insulated conductor proximate the cable location to vary by no more than 2 percent from an initial cable impedance measured at the cable location in an unbent configuration.
US12205731B2
A method for manufacturing an electronic component includes: a preparation step of preparing an electrode-forming body for electronic components; and an electrode forming step of forming an electrode on an outer surface of the electrode-forming body for electronic components, wherein in the electrode forming step, a conductive resin layer is formed on the electrode-forming body for electronic components by using a conductive resin composition containing a metal powder, a resin binder, and an organic solvent, wherein 20.0% by mass or more of the metal powder is a flaky metal powder, and 70.0% by mass or more of the resin binder is a silicone resin. According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a method for manufacturing an electronic component having reduced restrictions on design and manufacturing and high manufacturing efficiency, in addition to high moisture resistance.
US12205728B2
A nuclear reactor facility may include a reactor building, a reactor vessel housed within the reactor building, and an auxiliary cooling system integrated with the reactor building. The reactor building has a visible section above a ground level and a buried section below the ground level. The reactor vessel contains a fuel core and is housed within the buried section of the reactor building below the ground level. The auxiliary cooling system includes a plurality of ducts integrated with the reactor building and is configured to passively cool the reactor vessel via natural air circulation.
US12205727B2
Systems and methods for selecting a treatment regimen for a particular patient are provided. The treatment regimen is selected using a first data store including a first plurality of patient records for a first plurality of patients, and a second data store including efficacy rates of a plurality of treatment regimens against a plurality of infections and infection-causing pathogens. The system, or a user of the system, identifies a first infection of the particular patient and a first treatment regimen to be prescribed to treat the first infection. A second plurality of patient records is generated by identifying, in the first plurality of patient records of the first data store, patient records associated with diagnosis or treatment of the first infection. The second plurality of patient records are appended with efficacy rates for the first infection from the second data store. Systems and methods of the present disclosure can use these appended records to generate a dynamic model configured to determine a likelihood estimation that the first treatment regimen is an appropriate treatment regimen to treat the first infection.
US12205723B2
Diagnosis is assisted by acquiring microscopical observation image data while specifying the position, classifying the image data into histological types with the use of AI, and reconstructing the classification result in a whole lesion. There is provided a pathological diagnosis assisting method that can provide an assistance technology which performs a pathological diagnosis efficiently with satisfactory accuracy by HE staining which is usually used by pathologists. Furthermore, there are provided a pathological diagnosis assisting system, a pathological diagnosis assisting program, and a pre-trained model.
US12205720B2
Disclosed is a method for assessing a cognition and movement disease or disorder in a subject. In the method, a qualimetric activity parameter for cognition and/or fine motoric activity measurements is determined from a dataset of measurements obtained from the subject using a mobile device. The qualimetric activity parameter is compared to a reference and the disease or disorder is thereby assessed. A method identifying whether a subject will benefit from a therapy for a cognition and movement disease or disorder is also disclosed. The method can be carried out with a mobile device having a processor, a sensor and a database as well as software that carries out the method. Also disclosed is a system having a mobile device with a sensor and a remote device having a processor and a database and software that carries out the method for assessing a cognition and movement disease or disorder.
US12205712B2
Examples described herein may include a surgical computing device that directs data communications to surgical networks. The surgical computing device may include a processor that is configured to determine a present network locus, wherein the present network locus is any of a first surgical network or a second surgical network; identify a data communications session; determine a surgical data type of the data communication session, wherein the surgical data type is any of a first type of surgical data or a second type of surgical data, and direct the data communications session to the first surgical network if the surgical data type is the first type of surgical data or to the second surgical network if the surgical data type is the second type of surgical data.
US12205710B2
Provided are an image generation device, an image generation method, an image generation program, a learning device, a learning method, and a learning program that can check an efficacy of a medicine. A processor acquires a medical image including a lesion and information related to a type of medicine to be administered to a patient, from whom the medical image has been acquired, and an administration period of the medicine. The processor generates, from the medical image, a post-administration image indicating the lesion after the medicine is administered to the patient for the administration period.
US12205709B2
Each of a first server installed inside a medical institution and a second server installed on a network outside the medical institution includes a server program that receives a processing request for a medical image and that outputs a processing result by executing image processing corresponding to the processing request. An image processing distributor calculates a processing waiting time required until the processing result is obtained in a case where each server executes the image processing on the medical image, based on a required time required for executing the image processing on the medical image, a network connecting situation, and the number of processing requests in a processing waiting state inside each server, and transmits the processing request for the medical image to a server having a shorter processing waiting time.
US12205708B2
A medical image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to acquire medical image data representing a region including a target site, divide the medical image data into a plurality of pieces of divisional data according to an anatomical structure, extract a target region corresponding to the target site from each of the pieces of divisional data according to a particular condition, and cause an output circuit to output information on the extracted target region.
US12205698B2
A method includes obtaining prescribing drug information and published guidelines for each of a plurality of ADMs available for managing glucose levels, and receiving patient information associated with a patient. The method also includes ordering total demerit values from lowest to highest, selecting a predetermined number of recommended ADMs associated with the lowest total demerit values, and determining a recommended dosage for each recommended ADM. The method also includes transmitting a therapy regimen to a patient device associated with the patient. The therapy regimen includes the recommended ADMs and the recommended dosage for each recommended ADM.
US12205685B2
To efficiently assess, prioritize, and re-assess individuals respectively for intervention OR for ongoing programs/activities OR for personalized rehabilitation or training activities: A Computerized Interactive Psychological Assessment Protocol including the steps of: using a predetermined interactive media, interfacing with a client, (A) accepting some predetermined goal-relevant self-assessment responses from the client, regarding the client's respective motivation, belief, know-how, state-of-mind, activity, etc.; (B) accepting self-characterization responses from the client, regarding the client's respective personality; (C) preferably electronically characterizing the responses according to at least one metric from the list: client's response time, client's preference, among interactive task/query modes, and client's respective response physiology; and (D) electronically storing a data representation of the responses and characterizations, along with a time stamping, for use in a longitudinal analysis of the client psychological development.
US12205682B2
Techniques to suggest chemical compounds with a desired flavor profile or that can be used to recreate functional properties of a target chemical compound, using artificial intelligence, are disclosed. An artificial intelligence model is trained on source chemical compounds with known flavors. The artificial intelligence model learns relationships between the source chemical compounds and their known flavors and generates source chemical compound projected embeddings and true flavor projected embeddings. From either the source chemical compound projected embeddings or the true flavor projected embeddings, one or more chemical compounds for the identified target chemical compound or the identified desired flavor profile may be determined based on a similarity search.
US12205679B2
Genomic data is written to disk in a compact format by dividing the data into segments and encoding each segment with the smallest number of bits per character necessary for whatever alphabet of characters appears in that segment. A computer system dynamically chooses the segment boundaries for maximum space savings. A first one of the segments may use a different number of bits per character than a second one of the segments. In one embodiment, dividing the data into segments comprises scanning the data and keeping track of a number of unique characters, noting positions in the sequence where the number increases to a power of two, calculating a compression that would be obtained by dividing the genomic data into one of the plurality of segments at ones of the noted positions, and dividing the genomic data into the plurality of segments at the positions that yield the best compression.
US12205677B2
A method of analyzing biological data is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining biological data containing at least an expression level of MX dynamin-like GTPase 1 (MX1) and an expression level of C-reactive protein (CRP) in the blood of a subject, calculating a distance between a segment of a curved line and an axis defined by a direction, the distance being calculated at a point over the curved line defined by a coordinate along the direction, and correlating the distance to the presence of, absence of, or likelihood that the subject has, a bacterial infection.
US12205675B2
Described herein are various methods of collecting and processing of tumor and/or healthy tissue samples to extract nucleic acid and perform nucleic acid sequencing. Also described herein are various methods of processing nucleic acid sequencing data to remove bias from the nucleic acid sequencing data. Also described herein are various methods of evaluating the quality of nucleic acid sequence information. The identity and/or integrity of nucleic acid sequence data is evaluated prior to using the sequence information for subsequent analysis (for example for diagnostic, prognostic, or clinical purposes). The methods enable a subject, doctor, or user to characterize or classify various types of cancer precisely, and thereby determine a therapy or combination of therapies that may be effective to treat a cancer in a subject based on the precise characterization.
US12205666B2
A pipe latch circuit may include first and second latching circuit groups. The first latching circuit group may control a latching operation and an output operation based on a plurality of pipe input control signals. The second latching circuit group may control a latching operation and an output operation based on the plurality of pipe input control signals and a plurality of pipe output control signals.
US12205662B2
A memory system includes a plurality of memory devices; and a memory controller configured to perform an initial training operation to set a plurality of time codes corresponding to the plurality of memory devices, respectively, receive a plurality of data signals read from the plurality of memory devices, as internal data signals, according to the plurality of time codes, respectively, and adjust the plurality of time codes based on the internal data signals and error pattern maps generated by collecting error location information for the internal data signals.
US12205661B2
A memory device includes a memory cell array including memory cells arranged in a plurality of rows; an ECC engine configured to detect an error in first data that is read from the memory cell array in response to a read command and a read address, to output a first error occurrence signal, and to correct the error in the first data; a row fail detector configured to output a fail row address, which indicates a fail row among the plurality of rows; and a flag generator configured to receive the read address, the first error occurrence signal, and the fail row address, and to generate a decoding state flag, which indicates whether an error is detected and whether an error is corrected, and a fail row flag, which indicates that a read row address included in the read address is the fail row address.
US12205658B2
Memory devices, or memory systems, described herein may include a controller (e.g., SSD controller) and a NAND memory device for storing inflight data. When the power loss event occurs, a memory system maintains (i.e., not un-select) the existing memory block being programmed at the time of power loss. The existing program operation at the event of power loss can be suspended by controller. The inflight data can be re-sent by controller directly to NAND latches, when power loss event was detected. The memory system can select a next, immediate available erased page and begin one-pulse programming to store the inflight data, without ramping down the program pump and program pulse, which was in use before the power loss event. The existing programming voltage is used to store/program the inflight data via single pulse programming. When power is restored, the inflight data is moved/programmed to another block for good data reliability.
US12205656B2
A memory device and a method for programming the same may include, applying program loops to a plurality of memory cells of the memory device to adjust threshold voltages of the plurality of memory cells to desired target states, each of the program loops including a program section and a verification section, programming the memory cells of a first page, storing a number of first program loops used to complete the programming of the memory cells of the first page to a first target state, programming the memory cells of a second page to the first target state, the second page adjacent to the first page, and performing a verification operation on the second page.
US12205655B2
In one example, a method of testing a plurality of non-volatile memory cells in an array of non-volatile memory cells, wherein the array is arranged in rows and columns, wherein each row is coupled to a word line and each column is coupled to a bit line, and wherein each word line is selectively coupled to a row decoder and each bit line is selectively coupled to a column decoder, comprises asserting, by the row decoder, all word lines in the array; asserting, by the column decoder, all bit lines in the array; performing a deep programming operation on the array of non-volatile memory cells; and measuring a total current received from the bit lines.
US12205653B2
A memory device includes an array of memory cells arranged in sub-blocks. Memory cells of a sub-block are coupled to a pillar of the array and are associated with multiple wordlines. To perform a read operation, control logic coupled with the array performs operations including: tracking a length of time that a selected wordline takes to reach a pass voltage before being able to read data from a memory cell associated with the selected wordline; in response to the length of time satisfying a first threshold criterion, causing a first delay time to pass before reading the data; and in response to the length of time satisfying a second threshold criterion that is longer than the first threshold criterion, causing a second delay time to pass before reading the data, the second delay time being longer than the first delay time.
US12205644B2
A nonvolatile memory device is provided to include a plurality of memory cells operable to store data, each memory cell structured to include a resistance change layer exhibiting different resistance states with different resistance values for representing data, a write circuit suitable for generating a write pulse in a write mode to write data in a memory cell of the plurality of memory cells, and a read circuit suitable for generating a read pulse in a read mode to read data from a memory cell of the plurality of memory cells, wherein the memory cells are each structured to be operable in writing or reading data when a range of a voltage level change of the read pulse corresponding to a pulse width change of the read pulse is within a range of a voltage level change of the write pulse corresponding to a pulse width change of the write pulse.
US12205643B2
Provided are memory devices and memory systems. The memory device includes a memory cell array in a first semiconductor layer and including word lines stacked in a first direction, and channel structures passing through the word lines in the first direction; a control logic circuit in a second semiconductor layer located below the first semiconductor layer in the first direction; and a physical unclonable function (PUF) circuit including a plurality of through electrodes passing through the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, and configured to generate PUF data according to resistance values of the plurality of through electrodes, and generate the PUF data based on a node voltage between through electrodes connected in series, among the plurality of through electrodes.
US12205642B2
According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a memory cell including a resistance change memory portion and a switching portion, and a voltage applying circuit carrying out, at a time of writing data to the memory cell, an operation of applying a voltage of a first polarity to the memory cell and applying a first voltage to the memory cell, an operation of applying a voltage of a second polarity to the memory cell and applying a second voltage to the memory cell, an operation of applying a voltage of the first polarity to the memory cell and applying a third voltage to the memory cell, or an operation of applying a voltage of the second polarity to the memory cell and applying a fourth voltage to the memory cell.
US12205640B2
A method is provided that includes reading a plurality of resistance-switching memory cells comprising a block of data, decoding the block of data using an error correction code decoder, and based on results of the decoding, selectively performing an overwrite-read process to read the block of data. The overwrite read process determines a change in resistance of the resistance-switching memory cells in response to a write pulse.
US12205639B2
A programming method of a memory device comprising a multi-level cell is introduced. The programming method includes applying a sequence of program pulses comprising at least one set pulse and at least one reset pulse to the multi-level cell; determining whether the resistance of the multi-level cell is in a target range after each program pulse of the sequence of program pulses is applied to the multi-level cell; keeping applying the sequence of program pulses to the multi-level cell in response to determining that the resistance of the multi-level cell is not in the target range; and stopping applying the sequence of program pulses to the multi-level cell in response to determining that the resistance of the multi-level cell is in the target range.
US12205636B2
A write assist circuit includes a first power control circuit and second power control circuit, each comprising a first switch and second switch. The first switch of first power control circuit has first drive strength and is configured to be controlled by a column select line, a power control line, a first bit line, and a power supply. The first switch of the second power control circuit has the first drive strength and is configured to be controlled by the column select line, the power control line, a second bit line, and the power supply. The second switch has a second drive strength and is configured to be controlled by the power control line. The first switches are configured to be controlled using input data on first- and second-bit line, respectively, for altering power supply to first inverter and second inverter of SRAM bitcell.
US12205631B2
A random access memory, including a write transistor with a gate electrically connected to a write word line and a drain electrically connected to a write bit line, a first read transistor and a second read transistor with gates electrically connected to a source of the write transistor to form a storage node, drains electrically connected to a read bit line and a common source electrically connected to a read word line so that the first read transistor and a second read transistor are in parallel connection, and a capacitor electrically connected to the storage node.
US12205618B2
Indexing of media sources available to media composition applications, such as video editing applications and digital audio workstations, is extended to sources of an arbitrary type, including non-file type sources. Examples of such sources include devices using baseband video and audio protocols, network ports and physical devices connected via USB, Thunderbolt, etc. The sources are discovered and indexed even when not previously known to the application with the result that any available bitstream becomes available to the application. Applications access the sources via feeders, which are addressable portals through which media essence is received. The indexing methods involve the instantiation of a hierarchy of plug-in software modules by a format-handling subsystem of the application or by a media indexing service servicing one or more applications.
US12205612B2
An action identification device acquires sound data from a microphone, calculates a feature amount of the sound data, determines whether or not a user is present in a space in which the microphone is installed, calculates a noise feature amount indicating a feature amount of noise based on the calculated feature amount and stores the calculated noise feature amount in a noise feature amount storage unit in a case where the user is not present in the space, subtracts the noise feature amount stored in the noise feature amount storage unit from the calculated feature amount to extract an action sound feature amount indicating a feature amount of an action sound generated by an action of the user in a case where the user is present in the space, and identifies an action of the user by using the action sound feature amount.
US12205610B2
An utterance imaging device reduces a cognitive load on utterance details by extracting some character strings from character strings recognized as sounds from an utterance, acquiring an image based on the some character strings, and outputting the image to a position corresponding to a speaker related to the utterance.
US12205597B2
A voice processing system includes: a first acquisition processor that acquires voice data corrected by a microphone installed in a microphone-speaker device; a second acquisition processor that acquires authentication information of a wearer who wears the microphone-speaker device, the authentication information being acquired by an authentication information acquirer installed in the microphone-speaker device; and a control processor that executes predetermined processing related to the voice data, which is acquired by the first acquisition processor, on the basis of the authentication information acquired by the second acquisition processor.
US12205594B2
A system and method for controlling an electronic eyewear device using voice commands receives audio data from a microphone, processes the audio data to identify a wake word, and upon identification of a wake word, processes the audio data to identify at least one action keyword in the audio data. The audio data is provided to one of a plurality of controllers associated with different action keywords or sets of action keywords to implement an action. For example, the audio data may be provided to a settings controller to adjust settings of the electronic eyewear device when the action keyword is indicative of a request to adjust a setting of the electronic eyewear device or to a navigation controller to navigate to the system information of the electronic eyewear device when the action keyword is indicative of a request to navigate to system information of the electronic eyewear device.
US12205589B1
Techniques for processing speculative data using data history information are described. A system may receive, at a first component, first data and second data for use in a first operation. The component may use metadata associated with each of the first data and the second data to determine that the first data and the second data correspond to different versions of data of the same data type. Based on such a determination, the component may cease processing corresponding to the first operation with respect to the first data and the second data.
US12205583B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to receive a request for a process based on a spoken voice of a user, and in a case where the request includes a first setting and a second setting that are in a prohibition relationship, perform a control for performing the process with the first setting in a case where the first setting is spoken earlier than the second setting in the spoken voice.
US12205579B2
Methods and systems for dynamically updating machine learning models that provide conversational responses through the use of a configuration file that defines modifications and changes to the machine learning model are disclosed. For example, the configuration file may be used to define an expected behavior and required attributes for instituting modifications and changes (e.g., via a mutation algorithm) to the machine learning model.
US12205575B2
Implementations disclosed herein are directed to federated learning of machine learning (“ML”) model(s) based on gradient(s) generated at corresponding client devices and a remote system. Processor(s) of the corresponding client devices can process client data generated locally at the corresponding client devices using corresponding on-device ML model(s) to generate corresponding predicted outputs, generate corresponding client gradients based on the corresponding predicted outputs, and transmit the corresponding client gradients to the remote system. Processor(s) of the remote system can process remote data obtained from remote database(s) using global ML model(s) to generate additional corresponding predicted outputs, generate corresponding remote gradients based on the additional corresponding predicted outputs. Further, the remote system can utilize the corresponding client gradients and the corresponding remote gradients to update the global ML model(s) or weights thereof. The updated global ML model(s) and/or the updated weights thereof can be transmitted back to the corresponding client devices.
US12205573B2
A user assistance device aids validation of transactions on payment terminals. A payment terminal that accepts a payment card at a point of sale can be detected. A transaction amount for validation can be determined from the payment terminal. Subsequently, audio of the transaction amount can be generated. Playing of the audio on a user assistance device can then be triggered, allowing a user to hear the transaction amount before accepting or rejecting the transaction. Further, transaction information can be analyzed and used to suggest whether a customer should accept or reject the transaction.
US12205567B1
An arpeggiation controller musical instrument operable to receive a user hand gesture and play an arpeggiation pattern. The musical instrument includes an X-Y pad operable to detect the user hand gesture. The user hand gesture sets one or more parameters of the arpeggiation pattern. The musical instrument also includes an arpeggiation generator operable to create the arpeggiation pattern based on the user hand gesture.
US12205565B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to automatically generate new music content. In some embodiments, a computing system receivers user input specifying a user-defined music control element. The computing system may train a machine learning model to change both composition and performance parameters based on user adjustments to the user-defined music control element. In embodiments in which composition and performance subsystems are on different devices, one device may transmit configuration information to another device, where the configuration information specifies how to adjust parameters based on user input to the user-defined music control element. Disclosed techniques may facilitate centralized learning for human-like music production while allowing individualized customization for individual users. Further, disclosed techniques may allow artists to define their own abstract music controls and make those controls available to end-users.
US12205550B2
The disclosure discloses an image display method, an image display device and a display system. The method includes: according to a image to be displayed, determining a maximum brightness value of pixel points in a panel partition to obtain a backlight brightness value corresponding to a backlight partition; acquiring a light diffusion curve of the backlight of the backlight partition incident on the panel partition corresponding to the backlight partition; calculating a compensation ratio of a target pixel to the light diffusion curve, the compensation ratio is a ratio of the maximum brightness value to an actual brightness value; calculating a pixel compensation value of the target pixel according to the image to be displayed and the compensation ratio; adjusting a pixel value of the target pixel point according to the pixel compensation value.
US12205541B2
An array substrate and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a plurality of pixel driving circuits, each of which includes a driving transistor, a first light emitting control transistor, a compensation transistor, a first initialization transistor and a second initialization transistor; a first electrode of the first initialization transistor and a first electrode of the first light emitting control transistor are connected to a first node; a first electrode of the second initialization transistor and a first electrode of the compensation transistor are connected to a second node, a second electrode of the first initialization transistor is configured to receive the first initialization signal, and a cathode of the light emitting element is configured to receive a first driving signal, and a difference between a potential of the first initialization signal and a potential of the first driving signal is less than 1.5V.
US12205533B2
A display panel and a light emitting signal generator thereof are provided. The light emitting signal generator includes an output stage circuit, a first control signal generator, a second control signal generator, a switch, and a capacitor. The output stage circuit generates a light emitting signal according to a first control signal and a second control signal. The first control signal generator generates the first control signal at a first control end. The second control signal generator generates the second control signal at a second control end. The switch is coupled between the first control end and the output stage circuit. The first capacitor is coupled to the first control end.
US12205532B2
A scan driver includes a plurality of stages. A n-th stage among the plurality of stages includes a first input unit controlling a voltage of a first node in response to a previous carry signal, a scan output unit outputting a current scan signal corresponding to a scan clock signal in response to the voltage of the first node, a first switching unit controlling a voltage of a second node in response to the previous carry signal, a sensing output unit outputting a current sensing signal corresponding to a sensing clock signal in response to the voltage of the second node, a carry output unit outputting a current carry signal corresponding to a carry clock signal in response to the voltage of the second node, and a second switching unit controlling the voltage of the second node in response to the sensing clock signal or the carry clock signal.
US12205530B2
A scan circuit is provided. The scan circuit includes a plurality of stages. A respective stage of the scan circuit includes a respective scan unit configured to provide a control signal to one or more rows of subpixels. A respective scan unit includes a first subcircuit, a second subcircuit, a third subcircuit, a fourth subcircuit. A pull-up node is coupled to the second subcircuit, the third subcircuit, and the fourth subcircuit. A pull-down node is coupled to the second subcircuit, the third subcircuit. The denoising subcircuit is coupled to a pull-up node and the input terminal, or coupled between a third power supply voltage terminal and the pull-down control node.
US12205527B2
A display panel has a non-display area and a display area including first and second display areas. The display panel includes pixel circuits located in the display area, and driving circuits located in the non-display area. Each pixel circuit includes a driving transistor and a first transistor electrically connected to a gate of the driving transistor. The pixel circuits include first pixel circuits electrically connected to pixels located in the first display area and second pixel circuits electrically connected to pixels located in the second display area. A gate of the first transistor in the first pixel circuit and a gate of the first transistor in the second pixel circuit are coupled to different driving circuits.
US12205521B2
The invention relates to various aspects of a μ-LED or a μ-LED array for augmented reality or lighting applications, in particular in the automotive field. The μ-LED is characterized by particularly small dimensions in the range of a few μm.
US12205512B2
An output buffer circuit includes a first transistor supplying a first high-voltage power supply voltage in a case of being ON in response to a voltage of an input signal received through a gate; a second transistor supplying a second high-voltage power supply voltage in the case of being ON in response to a voltage of the input signal received through a gate; an output control part that shifts a transistor, of the first and second transistors, being ON to OFF at a time of voltage change of the input signal by changing the voltage in the gate thereof, and turns a transistor being OFF to ON by changing the voltage in the gate thereof at a rate of change based on a current value controlled by a bias voltage, and a bias modulation part that sets a voltage value of the bias voltage to a designated voltage value.
US12205510B2
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a device may include a pulsed emission electronic display having multiple display pixels in order to display an image frame. The display may pulse one or more display pixels of over a plurality of sub-frames within the image frame based on display image data. The device may also include image processing circuitry to generate the display image data based on source image data indicative of an image to be displayed during the image frame. Additionally, the image processing circuitry may dither an order of the plurality of sub-frames.
US12205508B2
The disclosure includes: a decoder generating multiple input voltages each having one or the other of two reference voltages selected from multiple reference voltages, using a high voltage digital data signal obtained by increasing the amplitude of a low voltage digital data signal; and a differential amplifier including multiple differential pairs and receiving the input voltages at the non-inverting input terminals of the differential pairs and receiving an output voltage signal at the inverting input terminals to generate an output voltage signal having one of the voltage levels obtained by dividing the two reference voltages into a power of 2. The differential amplifier includes: multiple current sources generating tail currents flowing through the tails of the differential pairs; and multiple clamp transistors provided respectively between the tails of the differential pairs and the current sources and holding a voltage applied to each current source at or below a low voltage.
US12205503B2
Disclosed are a source driver and a method of detecting crack of a display panel. A source driver may comprise a first circuit configured to apply first data to data lines connected to sub-pixels of a display panel to charge a first driving voltage; and a second circuit formed on the display panel that applies the first driving voltage to a detection line formed on the display panel to detect the presence of cracks in the display panel based on the illumination status of the sub-pixels, wherein the detection line includes a first detection node and a second detection node formed on one side of the display panel along its extension direction, wherein the first detection node is connected to data lines of the first and third sub-pixels, and wherein the second detection node is connected to data line of the second sub-pixel.
US12205501B2
The present disclosure provides an electronic device including a substrate, a plurality of bumps, a plurality of diodes, and a shielding layer. The substrate has a plurality of first through holes. The bumps are disposed on the substrate. The diodes are disposed on the substrate. The shielding layer is disposed on the substrate. One of the bumps is located between two adjacent ones of the diodes in a cross-sectional view, and the shielding layer overlaps at least a portion of the bumps and at least a portion of the first through holes.
US12205498B2
A display device is disclosed. The display device of the present disclosure may comprise: a flexible display panel; a roller which elongates and on or from which the display panel is wound or unwound; a first frame to which one end of the roller is rotatably coupled; a second frame to which the other end of the roller is rotatably coupled and faces the first frame with respect to the roller; and a door assembly which is positioned to be adjacent to the distal end of the display panel unwound from the roller, and is pivotably connected to the first frame and the second frame.
US12205493B2
A question-and-answer application that displays topic-specific biographical information about users when presenting certain content elements is described. The topic-specific biographical information for a user may be displayed in various contexts, such as with an answer to a question on a question page for the question, or with information identifying a user who is following a question or a topic. With some embodiments, a user's topic-specific biographical information may be provided by the user, provided or suggested by another user, or obtained from an external data source.
US12205492B2
A gastrointestinal simulator system includes a thermoregulated bath, two glass beakers situated within the thermoregulated water bath, and a pump. The beakers simulate the stomach and intestines and are coupled together using a tube. A sieve, positioned within the “stomach,” has a plurality of 2 mm holes on its surface to mimic in vivo conditions, where only particles smaller than 2 mm in diameter are transferred to the “intestines.” These collected particles move from “stomach” (specifically, from the sieve) to the “intestines” through the tube coupling the beakers. Cameras may be located inside the water bath for monitoring/recording of the digestion. Alerts, such as voice alerts, may be generated to notify users of any important information and instructions. After digestion, reports of the digestion are automatically generated and stored in a data repository. One or more users are notified that the reports are available for access.
US12205490B2
The present application provides apparatus for simulating radio-guided surgery using a light source (8) and a probe (13) having a light detector (16). Specifically, the apparatus includes a subject model (1) that has an enclosure (6) with an opening (4, 5) that extends from an exterior of the subject model (1) into the enclosure (6). The subject model (1) also includes a light source (8) that is disposed within the enclosure (6). The apparatus also includes a probe (13) for deployment by a user through the opening (4, 5) into the enclosure (6). The probe (13) has a light detector (16) configured to detect light emitted by the light source (8) for localization of the light source (8) within the enclosure (6).
US12205489B2
Described herein are examples of weld training systems that show (e.g., transparent and/or translucent) “ghost” images of a welding tool on a display screen of a welding headgear to indicate target positions and/or target orientations of an actual welding tool. In some examples, the weld training systems may additionally “reset” the target tool image to a position closer to the actual welding tool if the target tool image gets too far away. The ability to “reset” the target tool image to a position closer to the actual welding tool may help in minimizing a risk that an operator 106 will overcompensate to try to catch up with the target tool image, which can be detrimental to the weld. Additionally, resetting the target tool image to a position closer the welding tool may allow an operator to better perceive and/or understand differences in orientation and/or other technique parameters.
US12205488B2
Systems and methods to mimic a target food item using artificial intelligence are disclosed. The system can learn from open source and proprietary databases. A prediction model can be trained using features of the source ingredients to match those of the given target food item. A formula comprising a combination of most relevant source ingredients and their proportions can be determined using the trained prediction model. A set of existing recipes can be used as a dataset to train a recurrent neural network (RNN) and/or other suitable models. The RNN can be used to determine a recipe to mimic the target food item. The recipe may comprise a cooking process for the set of ingredients in the formula and can be cooked by a chef. The recipe may be further modified as necessary based on human feedback on sensorial descriptors.
US12205487B2
A robot control system for coding education may include: a robot configured to move according to a tangible block including a command, and having a plurality of motors therein; a control unit configured to independently control the plurality of motors; and a tile board corresponding to the space in which the robot moves. The control unit may include a line detection unit configured to detect a line of the tile board in order to check whether the robot moves according to the tangible block. The line detection unit may include line information which is configured in a different manner depending on whether the line is present within a detection radius of the line detection unit. The order information of the tangible block may be read by a block recognition algorithm, and the block recognition algorithm may map the tangible block placed on a 3D space to a 2D space.
US12205473B2
Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to provide navigation control and/or docking assist for mobile structures. A navigation control system includes a logic device, one or more sensors, one or more actuators/controllers, and modules to interface with users, sensors, actuators, and/or other modules of a mobile structure. The logic device is configured to receive navigation control parameters from a user interface for the mobile structure and perimeter sensor data from a perimeter ranging system mounted to the mobile structure. The logic device determines navigation control signals based on the navigation control parameters and perimeter sensor data and provides the navigation control signals to a navigation control system for the mobile structure. Control signals may be displayed to a user and/or used to adjust a steering actuator, a propulsion system thrust, and/or other operational systems of the mobile structure.
US12205463B2
A vehicle may transmit, to a network entity, a lane use request message associated with a lane for the vehicle. The network entity may identify lane information associated with a lane for a vehicle. The network entity may identify vehicle information associated with the vehicle. The network entity may transmit, to the vehicle, and the vehicle may receive, from the network entity, a lane use grant message based on at least one of the identified lane information or the identified vehicle information. The lane use grant message may be indicative of a permission for the vehicle to use the lane. The vehicle may not be permitted to use the lane without the permission. The lane may correspond to a flexible direction lane, an emergency lane, a road shoulder, an HOV lane, or a passing lane.
US12205458B2
A method of communicating an emergency alert includes receiving, by a central content controller (CCC), audiovisual (AV) content from a plurality of sources, encoding the content, transmitting the encoded content to regional controllers (RCs) associated with respective market areas (MAs) for broadcasting over the air (OTA), determining existence of one or more alerts, for each existing alert, identifying recipients designated for receiving the alert and transmitting the alert to devices associated with the identified recipients over a network.
US12205451B2
A device for monitoring the level or amount of a material within a container is provided. The device includes a detection mechanism that can be a direct detection mechanism or an indirect detection mechanism. When the detection mechanism senses an upper level of the substance in the container that is below a predetermined lower limit for the substance, the mechanism operates an alarm mechanism to emit an alarm to alert an individual to the low level of the substance within the container. The alarm can wirelessly communicate a salt level state to a wireless network or a device on a wireless network that can transmit the status through the Internet to any remote location. In one aspect, the alarm can be sent on a mesh network with a device that can transmit the status and other conditions through the Internet and to an application executing on a mobile device.
US12205445B2
The invention relates to a device for monitoring a motor vehicle, in particular a motorcycle (2), configured to be connected to an interface (3) of the motor vehicle (2), the device comprising: —a processor (1a) associated with a memory (1b), —a geolocation module (1c), —a vibration detection module (1d) and/or a fall detection module (1f), —a mobile application module (1g) for exchanging information on the vehicle with a mobile application server (4), —a silent alert module (1i) via the mobile application server (4) according to vibration detection module data (1d) or fall detection module data (1f), characterized by: —a mobile internet network connection module (1i), —an audible alarm (5), and in that the mobile application module (1g) is configured to remotely control the audible alarm (5).
US12205444B2
An identification system uses a local cache for performing identifications. An identity system device may store identity information and identification information. An electronic device stores a cache of a portion of the identity information and a part of the identification information. The electronic device receives user input, determines an identity by comparing the user input to the cached identification information (such as by comparing a received digital representation of a biometric with cached biometric identification information), and performs an action using information in the cached identity information that is associated with the identity. The electronic device may update the identity information stored by the identity system device based on the action.
US12205441B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to gaming system including a plurality of networked electronic gaming machines and a wireless network that communicates with mobile devices carried by attendants. The system detects when an electronic gaming machine is engaged by a player and disables at least one adjacent electronic gaming machine. When the player disengages from the electronic gaming machine, it is disabled and an attendant is dispatched to the electronic gaming machine via their mobile device to implement a cleaning protocol. When the cleaning protocol is completed, the attendant so indicates via an input on the mobile computing device, and the electronic gaming device is enabled for play.
US12205438B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for provisionally crediting a financial account of a gaming environment based on player funds received by gaming devices in the form of wagers. The financial account can be maintained at a financial institution. The player funds can be currency, electronic funds, or combinations therefor. Once the currency is physically transferred to the financial institution, the provisional credit can be converted to a full credit. Similarly, for wagers using electronic funds, once the settled funds are received by the financial institution, the provisional credit can be converted to a full credit. Using provisional credits, benefits from the funds can be enjoyed by the gaming operator prior to the physical currency and/or settled funds being received and processed by the financial institution.
US12205436B2
A fraud detection system which detects fraud in a game of performing collection and redemption of chips in accordance with a win or lose result includes a camera which captures an image of chips contained in a chip tray of a dealer, an image analyzing apparatus which analyses the image captured by the camera to detect an amount of the chips contained in the chip tray, a card distribution device which determines a win or lose result of a game, and a control device which compares the win or lose result of the game and the amount of the chips contained in the chip tray before and after collection and redemption of the chips to detect fraud.
US12205426B1
A system for controlling access to a secure room containing a plurality of safety deposit boxes, comprises a motion detector, a biometric sensor, and a plurality of contact sensors, wherein each of the safety deposit boxes is associated with at least two contact sensors. The system includes a processor that is configured to unlock the gate when a plurality of access conditions are satisfied, which may include: collecting via the biometric sensor a biometric sensor a biometric credential that matches a reference biometric credential in a user database; and determining the secure room is unoccupied based on at least a predetermined period of no motion detected by the at least one motion sensor. The processor may also be configured to generate a box-accessed event identifying one of the safety deposit boxes when all of the contact sensors associated with that safety deposit box are simultaneously opened.
US12205424B1
Described herein are examples of non-contact systems and methods for managing door access. In an example, a door access device can comprise an array of sensors for detecting one or more movements or poses of an individual in proximity to a door. The device can have a first array of sensors located on a first side of the door associated with a first priority, and a second array of sensors located on a second side of the door associated with a second priority lower than the first priority. In use, requests associated with movements or poses detected by the first array of sensors can be given priority over requests associated with movements or poses detected by the second array of sensors.
US12205423B2
It is provided a system comprising a lock device and a key device for use in access control to a physical space. The key device comprises: an electronic key module configured to communicate with an electronic lock module of the lock device for access control; and a permanent magnet configured to close a magnetically controllable switch of the lock device to thereby power an electronic lock module of the lock device. The lock device comprises: the electronic lock module configured to communicate with the electronic key module to evaluate whether to grant access; a power source; and the magnetically controllable switch provided between the power source and the electronic lock module such that the magnetically controllable switch is closable by the permanent magnet of the key device to power the electronic lock module.
US12205418B2
A method for early warning is provided. The method clusters normal historical data of normal cars into groups based on the car subsystem to which they belong. The method extracts (i) features based on group membership and (ii) feature correlations based on correlation graphs formed from the groups. The method trains an Auto-Encoder and Auto Decoder (AE&AD) model based on the features and the feature correlations to reconstruct the normal historical data with minimum reconstruction errors. The method reconstructs, using the trained AE&AD model, historical data of specific car fault types with reconstruction errors, normalizes the reconstruction errors, and selects features of the car faults with a top k large errors as fault signatures. The method reconstructs streaming data of monitored cars using the trained AE&AD model to determine streaming reconstruction errors, comparing the streaming reconstruction errors with the fault signatures to predict and provide alerts for impending known faults.
US12205414B2
A vehicle setting system includes an occupant data acquisition processor, a server apparatus including a provisional generation processor, a provisional acquisition processor, and a setting processor. The occupant data acquisition processor acquires or estimates physical data regarding an occupant on board the vehicle, at least in a case with absence of a setting value for the occupant held in a vehicle memory of a vehicle. The provisional generation processor acquires the physical data regarding the occupant, and generates a provisional setting value for the relevant occupant. The provisional acquisition processor acquires the provisional setting value. The setting processor records, in a vehicle memory of the vehicle, the provisional setting value as the setting value for the occupant, and provides the vehicle with setting of the provisional setting value.
US12205413B2
A method for acquiring data, in an electronic acquisition module, detected by a sensor embedded on a vehicle with a predefined trajectory, including the following operations implemented in real time by an electronic acquisition module including a database defining, for each of a plurality of points of the predefined trajectory, a set of subsections of interest indicating at least one subsection of interest in the acquisition zone of the sensor: determining a next position of the moving vehicle on the predefined trajectory of the moving vehicle, and determining, as a function of at least the subsection of interest defined by the database for the point corresponding to the determined position, the value of a parameter included among acquisition of the data by the embedded sensor in the next position, or a processing parameter of the data captured by the embedded sensor in the next position.
US12205411B2
Embodiments include systems and methods to obtain an International Air Transport Association (IATA) license plate number of a checked luggage item of a passenger and queries a database for a primary identifier (PID) that is associated with a security screening image (SSI) of contents of the checked luggage item or a contents list (CL) derived from the SSI, based on the obtained IATA license plate number. The systems and methods de-personalize security screening image (SSI) file sharing data to comprise the PID and a hyperlink to the database or a secondary shared memory location to access the SSI or the CL. The system and method assemble a communication package that includes the SSI file sharing data. The communication package is devoid of personal identifiable information of the passenger. The systems and methods communicate the assembled communication package to an authorized computer workstation associated with a border-crossing country.
US12205392B2
An image forming apparatus includes a control device, acting as a controller that analyzes a source image acquired through a reading operation by the document reading device, detects a response input field included in the source image and a question item corresponding to the response input field, on a basis of predetermined format information, extracts a character string representing the response written in the response input field, and additionally writes the extracted character string, in the character string file already stored in the character string file storage device and designated by the user through the operation device, in association with the character string representing the question item, recorded in the character string file.
US12205390B2
A system for identifying handwritten characters on an image using a classification model that employs a neural network. The system includes a computer having a processor and a memory device that stores data and executable code that, when executed, causes the processor to read and convert typed text on the image to machine encoded text to identify locations of the typed text on the image; identify a location on the image that includes handwritten text based on the location of predetermined typed text on the image; identify clusters of non-white pixels in the image at the location having the handwritten text, where constraints are employed to refine and limit the clusters; generate an individual and separate cluster image for each identified cluster; and classify each cluster image using machine learning and at least one neural network to determine the likelihood that the cluster is a certain character.
US12205384B2
A processing apparatus includes at least one memory storing one or more instructions and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to execute the one or more instructions to acquire an image of a management target, where the image includes an object. The at least one processor is configured to execute the one or more instructions to further determine, based on layout information indicating locations of pieces of equipment installed in the management target and indicating a location of a marker installed in the management target, to which of the pieces of equipment the object included in the image is equivalent.
US12205381B2
A vehicular control system includes a camera, a radar sensor and a processor operable to process image data captured by the camera and radar data captured by the radar sensor. The system determines that it is not safe to proceed with an intended turn at an intersection responsive to determination that the intended turn at the intersection will not be completed before an estimated time to arrival of an approaching vehicle at the intersection elapses and/or determination that a pedestrian is present at the intersection where the equipped vehicle will turn. The system determines that it is safe to proceed with the intended turn at the intersection responsive at least in part to determination that the intended turn at the intersection will be completed before the estimated time to arrival elapses and determination that no pedestrian is present at the intersection where the equipped vehicle will turn.
US12205365B2
In some embodiments, space objects may be detected within shortwave infrared (SWIR) images captured during the daytime. Some embodiments include obtaining a stacked image by stacking shortwave infrared (SWIR) images. A spatial background-difference image may be generated based on the stacked image, and a matched-filter image may be obtained based on the spatial background-difference image. A binary mask may be generated based on the matched-filter image. The binary mask may include a plurality of bits each of which including a first value or a second value based on whether a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) associated with that bit satisfies a threshold condition. Output data may be generated based on the spatial background-difference image and the binary mask, where the output data provides observations on detected space objects in orbit.
US12205364B2
Described herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for validating or rejecting automated detections of an entity being tracked within an environment in order to generate a track representative of a travel path of the entity within the environment. The automated detections of the entity may be generated by an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm. The track may represent a travel path of the tracked entity across a set of image frames. The track may contain one or more tracklets, where each tracklet includes a set of validated detections of the entity across a subset of the set of image frames and excludes any rejected detections of the entity. Each tracklet may also contain one or more user-provided detections in scenarios in which the tracked entity is observed or otherwise known to be present in an image frame but automated detection of the entity did not occur.
US12205362B2
In one aspect, a method for inspecting features of an image using an image inspection controller that includes a processor communicatively coupled to a memory is described. The method includes receiving, at the processor, an input image, performing, on the input image, one of a semantic segmentation process and an object classification process to generate an output image, and prompting a user to select between approving the displayed output image, and at least one of i) performing an additional semantic segmentation process on the displayed output image, and ii) performing an additional object classification process on the displayed output image.
US12205356B2
Methods and systems for detecting faults include capturing an image of a scene using a camera. The image is embedded using a segmentation model that includes an image branch having an image embedding layer that embeds images into a joint latent space and a text branch having a text embedding layer that embeds text into the joint latent space. Semantic information is generated for a region of the image corresponding to a predetermined static object using the embedded image. A fault of the camera is identified based on a discrepancy between the semantic information and semantic information of the predetermined static image. The fault of the camera is corrected.
US12205354B1
Provided is a training method for an image recognition model, a spinneret plate detection method, a spinneret plate detection device, and a storage medium, relating to the fields of image recognition and deep learning technologies. The training method includes: processing a spinneret plate sample image based on a first image recognition model to obtain annotation state information of each micro hole in the spinneret plate sample image, wherein the spinneret plate sample image is a projection image formed on an imaging member after light emitted by a light source passes through each micro hole of a spinneret plate sample and is amplified by an amplifying member, the annotation state information is used to characterize a shape state of a micro hole corresponding thereto; and training a preset image recognition model based on the spinneret plate sample image and the annotation state information to obtain a target image recognition model.
US12205353B2
An imaging system and method uses grouping and elimination to label images of unknown items. The items may be stacked together with known or unknown items. The items may be packages, such as packages of beverage containers. A machine learning model may be used to infer skus of the packages. The machine learning model is trained on known skus but is not trained on unknown skus. Multiple images of the same unknown sku are grouped using the machine learning model. Elimination based upon lists of expected skus is used to label each group of unknown skus.
US12205344B2
A fundus color photo image grading method and apparatus, a computer device, and a storage medium are provided. The method comprises: obtaining an original image, enhancing the original image, and obtaining a target image (S100); performing color processing on the original image and the target image, and respectively obtaining a first processed image and a second processed image (S200); using a pre-trained grading model to perform processing on the first processed image and the second processed image, and obtaining a target grading result (S300). Multi-color space first and second processed images act as model inputs, and prediction is performed by means of fused features on a whole image scale to implement the classification and grading of common fundus color photo diseases, so as to automatically screen fundus color photos with pathological changes, achieve a pre-screening effect, and improve operational efficiency.
US12205334B2
A system and method for object perception is provided comprising one or more sensors for sensing and delivering to a processor environmental data inputs with reference to an object viewing point. The processor uses the data inputs to determine and select light outputs to be emitted from one or more displays. The light outputs are modulated to comprise one or more wavelengths of light that elicit one or more targeted vision responses in order to facilitate object perception from the object viewing point. The light outputs can be modulated according to how the environmental parameters sensed change over time (e.g light conditions). Light outputs may include the emission of equiluminance based wavelengths of light and peak sensitivity wavelengths of light to elicit peripheral and foveal vision responses, respectively.
US12205327B2
A device, system, and/or method may be used to provide an adaptive alignment. A first video data may be received. The first video data may comprise a first video frame and a second video frame. Sensor pose data may be determined. The pose data may be associated with the first video frame and the second video frame. An adjusted video frame may be determined based on the first video frame and a motion indicated by the pose data. A frame adjustment value may be determined by comparing a first pixel from the adjusted video frame to a second pixel from the second video frame. The frame adjustment value may correlate the pose data to the first video data. A second video data may be determined by applying the frame adjustment value.
US12205321B2
The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for determining an attitude angle of a camera fixed to a rigid object in a vehicle along with an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU). In some embodiments, the method includes: obtaining IMU attitude angles outputted from the IMU and images captured by the camera; determining a target IMU attitude angle corresponding to each frame of image based on respective capturing time of the frames of images and respective outputting time of the IMU attitude angles; and determining an attitude angle of the camera corresponding to each frame of image based on a predetermined conversion relationship between a camera coordinate system for the camera and an IMU coordinate system for the IMU and the target IMU attitude angle corresponding to each frame of image.
US12205316B2
The ambient illuminance sensor system disclosed herein includes a light sensor to generate a series of ambient illuminance values from an area surrounding a computing device, a human presence sensor configured to detect presence of a human in vicinity of the computing device, and computer implemented instructions for determining ambient illuminance level (AIL) based on at least in part on the series of ambient illuminance values, determining presence of a human in vicinity of the light sensor, and based on at least in part on determining that the AIL is below a threshold and that a human is present, applying a hysteresis filter to process the series of ambient illuminance values.
US12205308B2
An image processing apparatus includes circuitry that estimates a first geometric transformation parameter aligning first output image data with the original image data, the first output image data being acquired by reading a first output result, and a second geometric transformation parameter aligning second output image data with the original image data, the second output image data being acquired by reading a second output result. The circuitry associates, based on the first and second geometric transformation parameters, combinations of color components of the first and second output image data, corresponding to pixels of the original image data, to generate pixel value association data, and determines, based on the pixel value association data, a mapping for estimating color drift between the first output image data and the second output image data from the original image data. The original image data is subjected to color conversion based on the mapping.
US12205307B2
Scanning device for scanning an environment and enabling an identification of scanned moving objects
The present disclosure relates to a scanning device being configured to enable efficient identification of scanned measurement points being associated with moving objects in an otherwise static environment. The scanning device is built as total station or laser scanner being typically used for scanning an environment and enabling, based on the scanning, the generation of a three dimensional (3D) point cloud representing the scanned environment.
US12205298B2
Disclosed in the present disclosure is a method for processing remote sensing images by fusing elevation information. The method includes the steps: acquiring an image data set, and preprocessing the image data set to obtain an image set; performing simple linear iterative clustering (SLIC) segmentation processing on the image set, introducing elevation information through weighting and setting a threshold in the SLIC segmentation processing process to obtain pre-segmentation results; updating a neighborhood relationship among clusters on the basis of the pre-segmentation results by using a data structure of a neighborhood array, and establishing a comprehensive similarity criterion of weighting combined with elevation features; and finally, for ground objects with complex elevation, setting determination conditions before merging according to elevation differences between adjacent clusters, and performing region merging by setting weight coefficients of different sizes in comprehensive similarity indexes according to determination results to complete image processing.
US12205295B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for performing operations comprising: receiving a monocular image that includes a depiction of a whole body of a user; generating a segmentation of the whole body of the user based on the monocular image; accessing a video feed comprising a plurality of monocular images received prior to the monocular image; smoothing, using the video feed, the segmentation of the whole body generated based on the monocular image to provide a smoothed segmentation; and applying one or more visual effects to the monocular image based on the smoothed segmentation.
US12205293B2
Methods and systems are provided for identifying shape-based atypical segmentations. In one example, a method includes receiving a segmentation of a region of interest (ROI) of a medical image, the segmentation output by a segmentation model, calculating a confidence metric of the segmentation that indicates how well a shape of the segmentation can be encoded by an encoding of one or more principal modes of shape variation of a set of previously determined segmentations of the ROI, and responsive to the confidence metric meeting a predetermined condition relative to a threshold, displaying the segmentation, storing the segmentation, and/or using the segmentation in one or more downstream processes; otherwise, prompting a user to perform a manual segmentation.
US12205289B2
According to one embodiment, a medical information processing method generates a high-contrast image by applying conversion processing to a first medical image captured by a first diagnostic apparatus and having a first contrast in a region of interest, the high-contrast image having a contrast higher than a contrast of a second medical image obtained by a second diagnostic apparatus. The method generates a pseudo second medical image by applying image processing to the high-contrast image, the pseudo second medical image simulating the second medical image and having a second contrast lower than the first contrast. The method trains a model using the pseudo second medical image as input data and the high-contrast image as ground truth data, and generates a trained model.
US12205282B2
Bovine embryo evaluation using AI/ML analysis of real-time video for predicting female-sex offspring
A computer-implemented method for predicting the likelihood an embryo will produce a bovine female offspring by processing video image data derived from video of a target embryo. The method includes receiving image data derived from video of a target embryo taken at substantially real-time frame speed during an embryo observation period of time. The video contains recorded morphokinetic movement of the target embryo occurring during the embryo observation period of time. The movement is represented in the received image data and the received image data is processed using a model generated utilizing machine learning and correlated embryo outcome data to predict the likelihood the target embryo will produce a bovine female offspring.
US12205276B2
A system for facilitating lesion analysis accesses a first data structure comprising a plurality of entries including anatomic location information and annotation information associated with a plurality of lesions represented in a first set of cross-sectional images. The system displays a respective representation of each of the plurality of entries and presents a second set of cross-sectional images. The system receives user input triggering selection of a particular entry of the plurality of entries of the first data structure. In response to the user input, the system (i) presents a particular cross-sectional image and a particular lesion of the first set of cross-sectional images associated with the particular entry, (ii) identifies a predicted matching cross-sectional image from the second set of cross-sectional images, and (iii) presents the predicted matching cross-sectional image simultaneously with the particular cross-sectional image, particular anatomic location information, and particular annotation information.
US12205275B2
An information processing device includes at least one memory storing a program, and at least one processor that, by executing the program, causes the information processing apparatus to acquire an image group obtained by imaging a subject under a plurality of imaging conditions, to select at least one inference model from a plurality of inference models on the basis of at least one imaging condition among the plurality of imaging conditions, and to perform inferencing on images in the acquired image group by using the selected inference model.
US12205273B2
Provided is an artificial intelligence vision inspection system for a wiring harness, the system minimizing personnel expenses and maximizing inspection performance by automatically determining visual failure of a wiring harness in an artificial intelligence type that uses a deep learning model.
US12205272B2
According to one aspect of the present invention, a pattern inspection apparatus includes a uniform sizing processing circuit configured to resize a line width of a design pattern being a basis of the figure pattern by using a uniform sizing amount which has been set in advance; a reference image generation circuit configured to generate a reference image corresponding to the secondary electron image by performing image development on data of the design pattern whose line width has been resized; and a line-width dependent correction circuit configured to correct a line width of a figure pattern in the secondary electron image by using a correction amount which has been set in advance depending on a line width size.
US12205261B2
Systems and apparatus are disclosed to detect constituents using a sensor arrangement. A sensor apparatus for detecting constituents of a material includes a first sensor, which interacts with the material, and is configured to measure an optical spectrum of the material. Further, the first sensor is coupled to an evaluation device that is configured to output an output value relating to the level of the one or more constituents in the material with the aid of the measured spectrum and calibration data. The sensor apparatus further includes a second sensor configured to analyse the material examined by the first sensor and to output a signal relating to the level of the one or more constituents in the material. The sensor apparatus further includes a calibration data generating device configured to generate the calibration data for the evaluation device with the aid of the signal of the second sensor.
US12205256B2
A reduced noise image can be formed from a set of images. One of the images of the set can be selected to be a reference image and other images of the set are transformed such that they are better aligned with the reference image. A measure of the alignment of each image with the reference image is determined. At least some of the transformed images can then be combined using weights which depend on the alignment of the transformed image with the reference image to thereby form the reduced noise image. By weighting the images according to their alignment with the reference image the effects of misalignment between the images in the combined image are reduced. Furthermore, motion correction may be applied to the reduced noise image.
US12205254B1
Methods and systems for AI-driven video stylization are provided. An example method includes acquiring an input frame of an input video and a text including a prompt for transforming the input video to obtain an output video, warping the input frame to generate a warped frame, encoding the warped frame into an image latent and the text into a text embedding, generating a first noise for a portion of the image latent, adding the first noise to the image latent to obtain a noisy image latent, providing the noisy image latent and the text embedding to a neural network to generate a second noise for the portion of the image latent, where the neural network is trained to denoise the noisy image latent, modifying the noisy image latent based on the second noise, and decoding the noisy image latent into an output frame of the output video.
US12205248B2
An image processing method and an image processing unit for performing image processing determines a set of one or more filtered pixel values, wherein the one or more filtered pixel values represent a result of processing image data using a set of one or more filtering functions. A total covariance of the set of one or more filtering functions is identified. A refinement filtering function is applied to the set of one or more filtered pixel values to determine a set of one or more refined pixel values, wherein the refinement filtering function has a covariance that is determined based on the total covariance of the set of one or more filtering functions.
US12205246B2
An image filtering arrangement comprising a controller configured to receive an image data file; propose zero or more regions of interest for the image data file; and to select adaptive filtering for at least one of the proposed zero or more regions of interest and apply the selected adaptive filtering to the at least one of the proposed zero or more regions of interest.
US12205245B2
An image processing apparatus includes at least one processor or circuit configured to execute a plurality of tasks including an image acquiring task configured to acquire a first image and a second image that have been obtained by imaging at imaging positions different from each other, an image restoration processing task configured to acquire a first restored image and a second restored image by performing image restoration processing for the first image and the second image respectively, and a pixel increasing processing task configured to acquire a pixel increased image using the first restored image and the second restored image.
US12205236B2
Apparatus and methods for the stitch zone calculation of a generated projection of a spherical image. In one embodiment, a non-transitory computer-readable apparatus comprising a storage apparatus, the storage apparatus comprising instructions configured to, when executed by a processor apparatus, cause a computerized apparatus to identify a stitch line associated with an equatorial area of a plurality of spherical images; re-orient the plurality of spherical images in accordance with the stitch line; and project the re-oriented plurality of spherical images to a selected image projection type.
US12205230B2
Methods and systems for presenting digital content on a see-through display are disclosed. In some embodiments, the digital content is presented based on a display attribute associated with personal information related to a user of a wearable head device comprising the see-through display. In some embodiments, the digital content is associated with a geo-spatial location of a physical structure, and presenting the digital content on the see-through display comprises indicating a spatial relationship between the digital content and the physical structure.
US12205225B2
A method is described which includes receiving a number of object images of an object. Each object image corresponds to a different view direction. First and second object images correspond to first and second directions. A mesh is determined corresponding to the target region of the object surface based on a first subset of the number of object images. Diffuse and specular maps are determined corresponding to the target region of the object surface based on processing a second subset of the object images using a deep learning neural network model trained to estimate diffuse and specular albedo components based on an input image. A tangent normal map is determined corresponding to the target region of the object surface based on high-pass filtering each object image of the second subset. The method also includes storing and/or outputting the mesh, the diffuse map, the specular map and the tangent normal map.
US12205221B2
Model data of a virtual model imitating an object model is generated based on photographed data obtained by photographing the object model including a joint structure. A given applied joint structure is applied to the virtual model. The virtual model based on the model data is disposed in a given virtual space. Virtual model management data including the model data and data of the applied joint structure is stored in a predetermined storage section or is externally output as data for causing a joint of the virtual model to function.
US12205219B1
A system, method or compute program product for generating stereoscopic images. One of the methods includes identifying, in a first three-dimensional coordinate system of a first three-dimensional virtual environment, a location and orientation of a first virtual object that is a virtual stereoscopic display object; identifying an eyepoint pair in the first virtual environment; identifying, in a second three-dimensional coordinate system of a second three-dimensional virtual environment, a location and orientation of a second virtual object that is in the second virtual environment; for each eyepoint of the eyepoint pair, rendering an inferior image of the second virtual object; for each eyepoint of the eyepoint pair, render a superior image of the first virtual environment, comprising rendering, in the superior image for each eyepoint, the corresponding inferior image onto the virtual stereoscopic display object; and display, on a physical stereoscopic display, the first virtual environment.
US12205218B2
A graphics processing unit (GPU) or other apparatus includes a plurality of shader engines. The apparatus also includes a first front end (FE) circuit and one or more second FE circuits. The first FE circuit is configured to schedule geometry workloads for the plurality of shader engines in a first mode. The first FE circuit is configured to schedule geometry workloads for a first subset of the plurality of shader engines and the one or more second FE circuits are configured to schedule geometry workloads for a second subset of the plurality of shader engines in a second mode. In some cases, a partition switch is configured to selectively connect the first FE circuit or the one or more second FE circuits to the second subset of the plurality of shader engines depending on whether the apparatus is in the first mode or the second mode.
US12205217B2
One embodiment provides a method comprising, at a runtime library executed by a processor of a data processing system, receiving an input frame having objects to be stylized via a style transfer network associated with the runtime library, wherein the style transfer network is a neural network model trained to apply one or more visual styles to an input frame, performing instance segmentation on the input frame to generate one or more instance masks to identify one or more objects to be stylized, generating one or more stylized frames for each style to transfer to the input frame, and merging, via the one or more instance masks, stylized objects from one or more stylized frames with un-stylized content from the input frame to generate an output frame with per-instance stylization.
US12205216B2
Systems and methods for permitting large scale user defined communications comprising animated scenes rendered in real-time are provided. Indications are received from sending ones of user devices regarding desire to create the user defined communications. User selections are received from templates generated at the sending user devices. Particular content items are retrieved from content databases in accordance with the user selections. Metadata is transmitted to receiving user devices that is sufficient to, when selected, cause generation of a custom animated scene with the particular content items in real-time at a viewing user device.
US12205213B2
A technique for rendering an input geometry includes generating a first segmentation mask for a first input geometry and a first set of texture maps associated with one or more portions of the first input geometry. The technique also includes generating, via one or more neural networks, a first set of neural textures for the one or more portions of the first input geometry. The technique further includes rendering a first image corresponding to the first input geometry based on the first segmentation mask, the first set of texture maps, and the first set of neural textures.
US12205206B2
Disclosed are an image processing method and an electronic device, which relate to the field of image processing technologies. An electronic device draws a first layer, renders the first layer, and buffers the rendered first layer in a buffer queue. The electronic device finishes drawing the first layer before a first time, and the electronic device draws a second layer, renders the second layer, and buffers the rendered second layer in the buffer queue before the first time, where the first time is a time of arrival of a first vertical synchronization signal for triggering the electronic device to draw the second layer.
US12205195B2
One or more devices, systems, methods and/or non-transitory, machine-readable mediums are described herein for specifying one or more events in an augmented reality (AR) environment relative to a real-world (RW) environment. A system can comprise a memory that stores executable components, and a processor, coupled to the memory, that executes or facilitates execution of the executable components. The executable components can comprise a visual component that analyzes captured visual content of a RW environment, an interface component that integrates the visual content of the RW environment with AR content of an AR environment overlaying the RW environment, and a design component that facilitates in-situ placement of the AR content in the AR environment based on the visual content being overlayed, wherein the AR content comprises a specification of an event to be executed in the RW environment that triggers a virtual asset in the AR environment.
US12205193B2
Devices and methods method of tiled rendering are provided which comprises dividing a frame to be rendered, into a plurality of tiles, receiving commands to execute a plurality of subpasses of the tiles, interleaving execution of same subpasses of multiple tiles of the frame by executing one or more subpasses as skip operations, storing visibility data, for subsequently ordered subpasses of the tiles, at memory addresses allocated for data of corresponding adjacent tiles in a first direction of traversal and rendering the tiles for the subsequently ordered subpasses using the visibility data stored at the memory addresses allocated for corresponding adjacent tiles in a second direction of traversal, opposite the first direction of traversal.
US12205188B2
A multicamera image processing system is disclosed. In various embodiments, image data is received from each of a plurality of sensors associated with a workspace, the image data comprising for each sensor in the plurality of sensors one or both of visual image information and depth information. Image data from the plurality of sensors is merged to generate a merged point cloud data. Segmentation is performed based on visual image data from at least a subset of the sensors in the plurality of sensors to generate a segmentation result. One or both of the merged point cloud data and the segmentation result is/are used to generate a merged three dimensional and segmented view of the workspace.
US12205155B1
Systems and methods for authenticating access to multiple data stores substantially in real-time are disclosed. The system may include a server coupled to a network, a client device in communication with the server via the network and a plurality of data stores. The server may authenticate access to the data stores and forward information from those stores to the client device. An exemplary authentication method may include receipt of a request for access to data. Information concerning access to that data is stored and associated with an identifier assigned to a client device. If the identifier is found to correspond to the stored information during a future request for access to the store, access to that store is granted.
US12205153B2
A sales support system according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: at least one memory configured to store instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: generate a purchase product list including a product registered using a portable terminal through an operation of a customer and a price based on a set price referred to for registration of the product; and update a price of a registered product included in the purchase product list to a new set price when an execution condition of a price updating process is satisfied.
US12205148B2
A method, system and product including obtaining offline user information at an end device, wherein the offline user information is obtained from offline sensors of the end device; based on the offline user information, generating a user profile indicating that a user of the end device matches at least one micro-segment, wherein the at least one micro-segment comprises at least one detailed population category; based on the at least one micro-segment, selecting a campaign from a set of one or more campaigns retained at a server, wherein the campaign comprises one or more rules for displaying at least one content item; monitoring the offline sensors of the end device to identify real time user activities; and upon identifying, based on the real time user activities, that a rule of the one or more rules for displaying a content item is complied with, displaying the content item in the end device.
US12205147B2
This application provides a feature processing method and apparatus for an artificial intelligence (AI) recommendation model, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes obtaining input data, and converting a data structure of the input data into a uniform sample structure; determining a feature group identifier and a feature extraction function that correspond to the AI recommendation model; extracting a feature group identifier, a feature identifier and a feature value of the input data from the converted input data according to the feature extraction function; and constructing a sample of the AI recommendation model according to the feature group identifier, the feature identifier and the feature value of the input data.
US12205146B2
The present disclosure proposes a device for executing an advertisement service and a method for operating the same, for providing a targeted advertisement according to an advertisement execution condition determined for a terminal on the basis of scanning data obtained by scanning wireless local area networks (WLANs) (for example, Wi-Fi) in an addressable TV advertisement environment. The present disclosure also proposes a device for executing an advertisement service for providing a targeted advertisement for a combination of member terminals and visitor terminals located within a home in an addressable TV advertisement environment.
US12205145B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses and articles of manufacture for mobile advertisement systems are disclosed. A mobile advertising system in accordance with the present disclosure comprises a device capable of determining a geolocation of the device, at least one sensor, coupled to the device, for determining at least a motion of the device, a display, coupled to the device in which the display faces in a direction; and a camera, coupled to the device, in which the camera captures an scene in the direction, in which the device sends at least one image to the display based at least in part on the geolocation of the device, the determined motion of the device, and the scene in the direction, and the display shows the at least one image in the direction.
US12205141B2
A system and method for providing and synthesizing data for publishers operating in the connected television ecosystem. Data from third party reporting platforms may be combined to present a unified view. Audience engagement may be measured, observed, and combined in a novel manner, providing unique insights to users.
US12205139B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for attributing payment vehicle purchase events to previous activity of a purchaser. One method comprises: receiving purchase information associated with a purchase event by a purchaser; comparing the received purchase information to a profile data store to identify a purchaser profile associated with the purchaser, the profile data store comprising a plurality of purchaser profiles, wherein each purchaser profile comprises payment vehicle data and a tracking element; determining the tracking element of the identified purchaser profile; identifying one or more activities of the purchaser using the tracking element of the identified purchaser profile; for each of the identified one or more activities, assessing the strength of attributing the purchase event to the activity, using environmental and/or behavioral data associated with the tracking element; and determining whether to attribute the purchase event to one or more of the identified activities based on the assessment.
US12205136B2
An ad player presents ads in association with a video player by evaluating an associated ad script. The ad player transforms data included in the ad script into operational instructions. Hence, the ad player flexibly and dynamically configures itself and presents ads in accordance with the contents of the ad script, enabling a publisher to modify advertising aspects simply by modifying the ad script. The ad script can comprise a script in a tag-based markup language that is readable by the ad player. For example, the ad script can include one or more tags, each tag including one or more attributes that are each set to a value. The ad player determines the values of the attributes and presents ads in accordance with associated ad characteristics or behaviors.
US12205135B2
Generating an asset ontology. Obtaining current transaction information associated with a current transaction, the current transaction information being obtained in response to the current transaction being processed by a point of sale system. Updating a subscriber profile based on the current transaction information. Selecting one or more subscriber roles based on the updated subscriber profile. Identifying one or more assets based on the one or more subscriber roles and the asset ontology. Selecting one or more incentives based on the one or more assets. Providing the one or more incentives to a subscriber system, thereby causing the subscriber system to present the one or more incentives at substantially the same time as the current transaction is processed by the point of sale system.
US12205134B2
Methods and systems may support dynamic, real-time or near-real-time processing, analysis, and processing of data to automatically identify and obtain coupons corresponding to consumer products such that, in response to receiving a request to purchase one or more products, qualifying coupons may be automatically identified, retrieved, and applied to the purchase.
US12205132B2
Decentralized computer systems and methods are disclosed for using a debit network as an intermediary between distributed ledgers. One method includes: receiving, at a first blockchain network from a merchant, transaction information comprising a consumer identification, an issuer identification from a payment vehicle presented for a transaction, and a transaction amount in resources of a first type, wherein the merchant and/or its acquirer are participants of the first blockchain network but the consumer and/or issuer are not participants of the first blockchain network; sending the transaction information to a debit network; identifying, using the debit network, a second blockchain network having the consumer and/or the issuer as participants, using the received consumer identification or issuer identification; and if participants of the second blockchain network accept the transaction, generating a new immutable entry to the second blockchain network indicating a change in the resources of a second type.
US12205129B2
An information management system (1) includes an odor sensor (2) and an information processor (3). The odor sensor (2) senses an odor emitted from a source (T). The information processor (3) includes a preference information inputter (11) and a user information acquirer (12). The user information acquirer (12) acquires user information indicating the attribute of a user. The preference information inputter (11) inputs preference information indicating the preference of the user for the odor sensed by the odor sensor (2). A storage (20) associates odor information indicating the kind of the odor sensed by the odor sensor (2), the user information acquired by the user information acquirer (12), and the preference information input into the preference information inputter (11) with each other, and stores the odor information, the user information, and the preference information.
US12205122B2
A customer service system for providing customer service using a robot for customer service is provided. A first acquisition unit acquires first information regarding a topic provided by a person in charge of response in a negotiation between a visitor and the person in charge of response. A second acquisition unit acquires a detection result regarding speech and behavior of the visitor by the robot. An estimation unit estimates a reaction of the visitor on a basis of the detection result acquired by the second acquisition unit. An output unit outputs second information regarding the reaction estimated by the estimation unit.
US12205117B1
A method of generating a virtual reality payment authentication entry interface includes receiving, over a computer network, a request for payment authorization; identifying a virtual reality interface; generating a plurality of payment authentication characters in the virtual reality interface; receiving user input associated with at least one character of the plurality of payment authentication characters in the virtual reality interface; and generating a payment authorization response to the request for payment authorization based on the received user input.
US12205116B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for executing an electronic transaction using a digital wallet. One method includes receiving a guest checkout request and electronic transaction data from an electronic transaction browser. Whether a user is enrolled in the digital wallet system may be determined by the digital wallet system. The digital wallet system may authorize an electronic transaction based on the electronic transaction data upon determining the user is not enrolled in the digital wallet system. The digital wallet system may initiate a digital wallet enrollment upon authorizing the electronic transaction. The digital wallet system may store the user data in the digital wallet system and transmit a verification request to the electronic transaction browser. The digital wallet system may receive a verification response from the electronic transaction browser and may generate a digital wallet enrollment status message based on the verification response.
US12205113B2
An access device comprises a shared storage, a first network module for connecting to a wide-area network; a second network module for connecting to a user device in a local area with the access device, and a processor coupled to the first and the second network modules and for executing instructions stored in a non-volatile memory to realize following steps: having the user device connecting to a third party server via the wide-area network for making a first online financial arrangement with an electronic account of an owner of the access device, and having the user device connecting to the wide-area network or the shared storage after the first online financial arrangement is successfully done.
US12205112B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are presented for an Embedded Data Transaction Exchange Platform (EDT-X) that generates marker data about relevant data of a transaction, and reliably stores the marker data in a permanent data storage, such as a block chain distributed ledger. The EDT-X platform does not generate the actual information that explains who was involved in the transaction or what the contents of the transaction were, but rather generates marker data that can reliably lead to tracing back to that information. The marker data may be permanently stored in a permanent data storage entity, such as a block chain distributed ledger. The data about the content of the transaction may be anonymously stored in a secure database, and the marker data pointing to the content of the transaction may be retrieved from the block chain distributed ledger to look up where the content data is stored in the secure database.
US12205110B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to methods, apparatuses, computer readable media and systems for providing, along with a token, a token assurance level and data used to generate the token assurance level. At the time a token is issued, one or more Identification and Verification (ID&V) methods may be performed to ensure that the token is replacing a PAN that was legitimately used by a token requestor. A token assurance level may be assigned to a given token in light of the type of ID&V that is performed and the entity performing the ID&V. Different ID&Vs may result in different token assurance levels. An issuer may wish to know the level of assurance and the data used in generating the level of assurance associated with a token prior to authorizing a payment transaction that uses the token.
US12205108B2
Systems and methods for secure digital asset transactions. An offline system includes a custodian computer, digital asset accounts accessible by the custodian computer and a centralized ledger maintained by the custodian computer. The custodian computer is in communication with public ledger computers of a public ledger, and receives transaction data associated with digital assets from among entity computers. Each account is prefunded with digital asset funds. The custodian computer monitors a transaction parameter of the transaction data and, in accordance with the monitoring, generates a transfer instruction indicating transfer of funds between the first and second accounts, updates the centralized ledger responsive to the transfer instruction, and transfers the funds between the first and second accounts, responsive to the transfer instruction. The transfer instruction remains offline and is not transferred to the public ledger.
US12205087B2
Disclosed are a system and a method for communicating with a financial institution over a communication network to manage payments of payee initiated by a sender. The system includes a database for storing a plurality of modules, a central server for monitoring and updating the plurality of modules, a processing unit that processes the plurality of modules. The plurality of modules includes a notification module, a payee module, a dashboard module, a refunds module, a payment process module, and a remittance summary module. The notification module allows the sender to send a payment summary to each payee. The payee module allows the payee to upload the payee's details, to select a mode of payment to receive the payment. The payment process module processes the payment as per the mode selected by the payee in the payee module, further processes the payment via cheque mode if the payee fails to update the mode of payment in a pre-defined duration. The remittance summary module displays a summary of the payments made by the sender to the payee.
US12205083B1
Disclosed embodiments may include a method for systems and methods for providing mobility-impaired transactional or identify documents processing. The method may include receiving login credentials associated with an account and a request to deposit a check into the account, and identifying, using an image recognition model, a presence of a check in a visual field of the image capture device. Then the method may include obtaining, via the image capture device, a plurality of digital images of a front side of the check, and generating, based on the plurality of digital images of the front side of the check, a composite image of the front side of the check. The method may further include creating a recording of an endorsement gesture and transmitting the composite image of the front side of the check and the recording of the endorsement gesture to a back-end server.
US12205070B2
A product return/replacement device performs return/replacement of products, the device having a computer and a printer. The computer is equipped with: a read unit that reads a return/replacement reception code that indicates that the consumer has made a return/replacement reservation; a communication unit that transmits the return/replacement code read by the read unit to an external return/replacement server, and receives from the return/replacement server a delivery code for managing the delivery status of the product; and a processor for causing the printer to print a label displaying the delivery code transmitted from the return/replacement serve. The consumer can affix the printed label to the product for return/replacement, and when the read unit has read the delivery code displayed on the label affixed to the product, the communication unit transmits the delivery code read by the read unit to the external return/replacement server.
US12205058B2
According to one aspect, a computer-implemented method of discovering processes for robotic process automation (RPA) includes: recording a plurality of event streams, each event stream corresponding to a human user interacting with a computing device to perform one or more tasks; concatenating the event streams; segmenting some or all of the concatenated event streams to generate one or more application traces performed by the user interacting with the computing device, each application trace corresponding to one of the one or more tasks performed by the user; clustering the traces according to a task type; identifying, from among some or all of the clustered traces, one or more candidate processes for robotic automation; prioritizing the candidate processes; and selecting at least one of the prioritized candidate processes for robotic automation. Corresponding systems and computer program products are also described.
US12205056B2
The disclosed technology provides solutions for providing an accurate pick-up location for an autonomous vehicle and a rider during a ride hailing pick-up. A method of the disclosed technology can include steps for determining map information associated with at least one thoroughfare for routing an autonomous vehicle, wherein the map information is based on location data associated with a client device requesting the autonomous vehicle; receiving sensor data from the client device corresponding to the at least one thoroughfare; determining, based on the sensor data and the map information, a first position of the client device relative to the at least one thoroughfare; and routing the autonomous vehicle based on the first position of the client device relative to the at least one thoroughfare. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
US12205052B2
Embodiments provide for a computer system and method to employ a sequence invariant model to determine user intentions, based on monitoring of real-time activities of the user.
US12205034B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for data processing. In a method for data processing, a first electronic device processes data based on a first data processing model to generate an initial result. A data size of the initial result is smaller than a data size of the data. The first electronic device sends the initial result to a second electronic device. The initial result is adjusted at the second electronic device and based on a second data processing model to generate an adjusted result. The second electronic device has more computing resources than the first electronic device, the second data processing model occupies more computing resources than the first data processing model, and an accuracy of the adjusted result is higher than that of the initial result.
US12205033B2
Techniques are provided for determining classifications based on WSIs. A varied-size feature map is generated for each training WSI by generating a grid of patches for the training WSI, segmenting the training WSI into tissue and non-tissue areas, and converting patches comprising the tissue areas into tensors. Bounding boxes are generated based on the patches comprising tissue areas and segmented into feature map patches. A fixed-size feature map is generated based on a subset of the feature map patches. A classifier model is trained to process fixed-size feature maps corresponding to the training WSIs such that, for each fixed-size feature map, the classifier model is operable to assign a WSI-level tissue or cell morphology classification or regression based on the tensors. A classification engine is configured to use the trained classifier model to determine a WSI-level tissue or cell morphology classification or regression for a test WSI.
US12205032B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for selecting an action to be performed by a reinforcement learning agent interacting with an environment. In one aspect, a method comprises: receiving a current observation; for each action of a plurality of actions: randomly sampling one or more probability values; for each probability value: processing the action, the current observation, and the probability value using a quantile function network to generate an estimated quantile value for the probability value with respect to a probability distribution over possible returns that would result from the agent performing the action in response to the current observation; determining a measure of central tendency of the one or more estimated quantile values; and selecting an action to be performed by the agent in response to the current observation using the measures of central tendency for the actions.
US12204995B2
A method, system, and arrangement for resetting qubits are disclosed. An example system includes one or more quantum circuit refrigerators for resetting qubits. Each of the quantum circuit refrigerators includes a tunneling junction and a control input for receiving a control signal. Photon-assisted single-electron tunneling takes place across the respective tunneling junction in response to a control signal. Capacitive or inductive coupling elements between the qubits and the quantum circuit refrigerators couple each qubit to the quantum circuit refrigerator(s). The qubits, quantum circuit refrigerators, and coupling elements are located in a cryogenically cooled environment. A common control signal line to the control inputs crosses into the cryogenically cooled environment from a room temperature environment.
US12204989B2
A method, apparatus, and system include a cooling system comprising a payload refrigeration unit, control refrigeration unit, and a signal interface. The payload refrigeration unit has a set of payload cooling components that operate to cool a payload. The control refrigeration unit has a set of control circuit cooling components in a control circuit. The signal interface connecting the payload is located in the payload refrigeration unit in the control circuit located in the control refrigeration unit.
US12204988B2
A quantum computing device configured to receive code written using one or more of a plurality of programming languages and convert the received code into quantum assembly language that can be executed by one or more quantum processing units of the quantum computing device. The quantum computing device also includes a hybrid memory cube storage device configured to function as storage for the high data throughput rates associated with the quantum processing units.
US12204982B1
An object includes an NFC tag, which includes NFC data. The object also includes a barcode, which is an encoded representation of barcode data. When someone wants to access the NFC tag data, the object is presented to an object-reading system that includes both an NFC reader and a barcode reader. The barcode reader is used to read the barcode on the object in order to obtain the barcode data contained within the barcode. The barcode data is then used to establish a secure communication channel between the NFC tag in the object and the NFC reader. The NFC reader then utilizes the secure communication channel to read the NFC tag in the object.
US12204978B2
A detection activity of a card may be sensitive to capacitance changes in one or more pads on the card, where a capacitance change detected in a pad during a first time period does not affect a capacitance change detected in the pad during subsequent time period(s). Accordingly, the detection activity may remain sensitive to a faster-moving device with greater accuracy in a determination of position, velocity and/or acceleration of the faster-moving device in relation to the card. A second detection activity may follow a first detection activity, which may increase a probability of a successful communication sequence subsequent to the first detection activity.
US12204972B2
A location designation RFID tag for use in a storage facility includes an inlay, a first layer disposed on a first side of the inlay and having a first thickness, and a second layer disposed on a second side of the inlay. The first layer has a first thickness and the second layer has a second thickness. The inlay includes substrate, an antenna disposed on the substrate, and an integrated circuit disposed on the substrate. The location designation RFID tag may be easily and non-invasively placed and relocated on a floor of a storage facility in a manner that mitigates, and likely resolves, the issues experienced by known RFID tags when placed on a floor. Utilizing an inlay having a long, thin antenna, reduces the overall thickness of the location designation RFID tag, which allows layers to be disposed on the inlay that include a sufficient thickness to improve durability, mitigate detuning, and allow movable devices to readily pass over the location designation RFID tag.
US12204966B2
A card core includes a body defining a cutout and a discontinuity. The cutout includes an opening in the body defined by an edge and the discontinuity includes a channel defined by the body extending from an outer surface of the body to the cutout. The cutout is sized and configured to define a gap between an element positioned in the cutout and the edge to electromagnetically isolate the element from the body.
US12204965B2
A card includes a metallic card body having a front face, a rear face, and a peripheral surface extending between the front face and the rear face, and either a rear beveled peripheral surface or a front beveled peripheral surface. The rear beveled peripheral surface extends around the metallic card body where the rear face meets the peripheral surface and is colored to cover a metallic color of the metallic card body, and the front beveled peripheral surface extends around the metallic card body where the front face meets the peripheral surface and is colored to cover the metallic color of the metallic card body.
US12204963B1
An apparatus for controlling the printing on wire or cable. The apparatus including a processor, a bus connected to the processor, a user input connected to the bus, a display screen connected to the user input and the bus, a first storage system connected to the bus, data stored in the first storage system and displayable on the display screen, wherein the data includes manufacturing and print information, a printer connected to the bus, wherein the printer prints the data on the wire or cable, a communication device connected to the bus, and an identification device connected to the bus, wherein identification device receives information from a user.
US12204957B2
A system for bulk updating resource data of parameters included in a view is provided. The system includes at least one processor configured to: receive a user request to bulk import data in a file including rows of the data, each row corresponding to a different instance of the view; make an import data API call to bulk import the data into one or more tables to which the data of the parameters is to be saved; make a save data API call to update existing resource data of the parameters, stored in the one or more tables, with the data included in the file; and update, in the one or more tables, the existing resource data of the parameters for the plurality of instances with the data included in the file, wherein the import data save data APIs are generic across a plurality of views and tables.
US12204956B2
A method includes the steps of providing a computer with a processor, a system clipboard for storing data, and a custom clipboard for storing data, and performing a copy step N times, wherein N is an integer greater than zero. The copy step includes receiving a copy event for an Nth piece of data to the system clipboard, and intercepting the copy event for the Nth piece of data and saving the Nth piece of data in the custom clipboard. Then, after performing the copy step N times, the method includes performing a paste step P times, wherein P is an integer greater than one and less than or equal to N, and the paste step includes receiving a paste event for a Pth piece of data, and intercepting the paste event of the Pth piece of data and reading the Pth piece of data from the custom clipboard.
US12204952B2
Systems and methods for thermal management of computing systems are provided. The systems and methods described herein guarantee a thermal envelope of a computing system while preserving the compute and render performance capabilities of the computing system by implementing a thermal-aware scheduling policy, adjusting an amount of available memory bandwidth to computing resources, adjusting an amount of memory utilization by one or more applications executed by the computing resources, and/or allocating cache to workloads based on memory demands.
US12204951B2
The present application discloses a DIKW resource transfer method and device for purpose-oriented calculation and inference. The method includes: determining a resource to be matched by traversing a first resource system corresponding to a receiver based on an acquired target purpose, and determining a target resource based on the resource to be matched and a second resource system. The embodiments of the present disclosure can reduce the waste of the target resource, lowering transfer loss, and decrease the risk of transfer failure.
US12204947B2
A resource management device (100) includes: a virtualized resource reservation unit (114) that receives a reservation request for a virtualized resource, and allocates and reserves the virtualized resource included in the reservation request; and a virtualized resource state management unit (115) that, when reservation performed for the reservation request fails, releases reservations of virtualized resources already reserved (existing reservations), allocates and reserves the virtualized resource included in the reservation request, and performs re-reservation for the existing reservations by allocating virtualized resources to the existing reservations. When the virtualized resource state management unit (115) fails in the re-reservation even for one or some of the existing reservations, reservation information is unchanged in a state stored when the virtualized resource reservation unit (114) fails in the reservation performed for the reservation request.
US12204943B1
A system and method for dynamically generating a data processing pipeline. A processor receives data including one or more data types from a data source. A set of sub-pipelines are created based on the one or more data types, wherein each sub-pipeline of the set of sub-pipelines includes one or more processing layers. Further, the one or more data types and volume of data assigned to each processing layer of the one or more processing layers is determined. Subsequently, the resource allocation to the one or more processing layers is done dynamically based on the one or more data types, the data source, and the volume of the data.
US12204935B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses provide support for allowing thread forward progress in a processing system and that improves quality of service. One system includes a processor; a bus coupled to the processor; a memory coupled to the processor via the bus; and a floating point unit coupled to the processor via the bus, wherein floating point unit comprises hardware control logic operative to: store for each thread, by a scheduler of the floating point unit, a counter; increase, by the scheduler, a value of the counter for each thread corresponding to a thread when at least one source ready operation exist for the thread; compare, by the scheduler, the value of the counter to a predetermined threshold; and make other threads ineligible to be picked by the scheduler when the counter is greater than or equal to the predetermined threshold.
US12204922B2
A computing system delegates a request between a first container in user mode of an operating system on a webserver system and a second container in the user mode of the operating system. The operating system includes a kernel. A service in the second container creates a delegation queue in the kernel of the operating system. The service adds an identifier as a property of the delegation queue in the kernel, wherein the identifier is unique across the first container and the second container. A router executing in the first container opens the delegation queue in the kernel using the identifier, responsive to the adding operation. The request is delegated to the service executing in the second container via the delegation queue in the kernel, responsive to the opening operation.
US12204920B2
This document describes techniques for suggesting actions based on machine learning. These techniques determine a task that a user desires to perform, and presents a user interface through which to perform the task. To determine this task, the techniques can analyze content displayed on the user device or analyze contexts of the user and user device. With this determined task, the techniques determine an action that may assist the user in performing the task. This action is further determined to be performable through analysis of functionalities of an application, which may or may not be executing or installed on the user device. With some subset of the application's functionalities determined, the techniques presents the subset of functionalities via the user interface. By so doing, the techniques enable a user to complete a task more easily, quickly, or using fewer computing resources.
US12204915B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first controller, a first memory configured to store a first basic input output system (BIOS) and first firmware for controlling the first controller and functionally connected to the first controller, a second memory configured to store second firmware corresponding to the first firmware and a second BIOS corresponding to the first BIOS, and a second controller functionally connected to the first memory, the second memory, and the first controller, wherein the second controller is configured to compare the first firmware and the second firmware during power-on when the electronic device is applied with power, and turn on the first controller at least based on a result of the comparison, and wherein the first controller is configured to, in response to being turned on by the second controller, control a system of the electronic device to be booted.
US12204913B2
A system and method for installation and configuration of computing resources where a local attribute that uniquely identifies a deployed device is used with a query to a remote domain name server to receive one or more responses to the query, the responses from the domain name server providing the steps and operations to implement an expected local configuration which is then validated and implemented in each the deployed device.
US12204909B2
Systems and methods related to direct swap caching with zero line optimizations are described. A method for managing a system having a near memory and a far memory comprises receiving a request from a requestor to read a block of data that is either stored in the near memory or the far memory. The method includes analyzing a metadata portion associated with the block of data, the metadata portion comprising: both (1) information concerning whether the near memory contains the block of data or whether the far memory contains the block of data and (2) information concerning whether a data portion associated with the block of data is all zeros. The method further includes instead of retrieving the data portion from the far memory, synthesizing the data portion corresponding to the block of data to generate a synthesized data portion and transmitting the synthesized data portion to the requestor.
US12204905B2
Software instructions are executed on a processor within a computer system to configure a streaming engine with stream parameters to define a multidimensional array. The stream parameters define a size for each dimension of the multidimensional array and a pad value indicator. Data is fetched from a memory coupled to the streaming engine responsive to the stream parameters. A stream of vectors is formed for the multidimensional array responsive to the stream parameters from the data fetched from memory. A padded stream vector is formed that includes a specified pad value without accessing the pad value from system memory.
US12204904B2
Described herein are systems and methods for dynamic designation of instructions as sensitive. For example, some methods include detecting that a first instruction of a first process has been designated as a sensitive instruction; checking whether a sensitive handling enable indicator in a process state register storing a state of the first process is enabled; responsive to detection of the sensitive instruction and enablement of the sensitive handling enable indicator, invoking a constraint for execution of the first instruction; executing the first instruction subject to the constraint; and executing a second instruction of the first process without the constraint.
US12204886B2
A system and a method for managing cloud deployment configuration files and container base images for applications is provided. One or more application source code associated with configuration files and container images of applications are analyzed based on one or more pre-defined rule sets for determining cloud platform best-practice violations associated with the application source code. Further, impact on the application source code due to cloud platform changes is identified based on one or more search sets. Further, one or more remediation actions are executed for rectifying the determined cloud platform best-practice violations associated with the impacted application source code based on one or more remediation types. Base images of the container images are validated to be secure and without vulnerabilities. Lastly, a test run is triggered to determine that the remediation actions have not removed functionalities associated with the application source code.
US12204877B2
Systems and methods for dynamically generating application programming interfaces and managing functions associated with a data object type. In an aspect, the system accesses an object definition for a type of data object. The system generates an application programming interface associated with the type of data object, based at least partly on the object definition. The system determines a change to the object definition for the type of data object and updates the application programming interface based at least partly on the change to the object definition.
US12204875B2
Methods, computer readable media, and devices for rapid prototyping of both user experience and technical features in a combined approach. One method may include creating a set of known user experience (UX) components including a user interface element representing at least one of a data element and a data interaction, creating a UX screen including a set of UX elements within a UX prototyping tool, translating the UX screen into a set of standardized UX components, publishing the set of standardized UX components by mapping the set of standardized UX components to synthetic data, and validating a technical aspect of the published set of standardized UX components based on user interaction with the published set of standardized UX components.
US12204861B2
A facility for representing a mandate occurring in an authority document with a control is described. For each of one or more controls in a set of existing controls, the facility determines a similarity score measuring the similarity of the mandate and the control; where the similarity score exceeds a similarity threshold, the facility links the mandate to the control. Where the mandate is not linked to any control in the set of controls, the facility adds a control to the set of controls that is based on the mandate, and links the mandate to the added control.
US12204855B1
A document is obtained that include natural language text and a set of conditions are extracted from the document. In at least one embodiment, the set of conditions is extracted using a machine learning model trained on other natural language text. A validation process is performed to result in a validated set of conditions and a machine-readable data structure is generated to indicate one or more conditions of the validated set of conditions expressed within the document.
US12204854B2
Techniques are described for training and/or utilizing sub-agent machine learning models to generate candidate dialog responses. In various implementations, a user-facing dialog agent (202, 302), or another component on its behalf, selects one of the candidate responses which is closest to user defined global priority objectives (318). Global priority objectives can include values (306) for a variety of dialog features such as emotion, confusion, objective-relatedness, personality, verbosity, etc. In various implementations, each machine learning model includes an encoder portion and a decoder portion. Each encoder portion and decoder portion can be a recurrent neural network (RNN) model, such as a RNN model that includes at least one memory layer, such as a long short-term memory (LSTM) layer.
US12204852B2
Provided are a sentence proofreading assistance apparatus, a sentence proofreading assistance method, and a sentence proofreading assistance program for assisting in sentence proofreading when creating a picture book. The sentence proofreading assistance apparatus includes a requirement input unit that receives information on a development level of a target person and information on a purpose of creating a picture book, an acquisition unit that acquires a check content and a rule corresponding to both pieces of information received by the requirement input unit, a sentence analysis unit that analyzes, when receiving a sentence of a picture book to be proofread, the sentence of the picture book, and a proofreading information output unit that checks an analysis result by the sentence analysis unit in accordance with the check content and outputs proofreading information based on the rule for proofreading the sentence.
US12204847B2
Embodiments described herein provide a method for text summarization. The method includes receiving a training dataset having at least an uncompressed text, a compressed text, and one or more information entities accompanying the compressed text. The method also includes generating, using a perturber model, a perturbed text with the one or more information entities being inserted into the compressed text. The method further includes training the perturber model based on a first training objective, and generating, using the trained perturber model, a perturbed summary in response to an input of a reference summary. The method further includes generating, via an editor model, a predicted summary by removing information from the perturbed summary conditioned on a source document of the reference summary, and training the editor model based on a second training objective.
US12204845B2
A system is configured to provide a dashboard creation system. Panels associated with queries for retrieving information from a database are shown in a user interface. Various other user interfaces show query code, panel display settings, function code, dependencies, etc. Queries in a first query format access a data source. Queries in a second query format access a cache database that is synchronized with the data source.
US12204843B2
A document architecture system includes an intelligent document processing engine that can receive raw data streamed from external data source(s), analyze the raw data to identify triggering events, apply rules to the triggering events identified, break down the raw data accordingly, and generating messages in an internal format to represent the pieces of data without any formatting or layout information. The messages can be augmented with custom metadata and stored as fragments that reference, but that do not physically incorporate, the messages. The stored fragments can be used by the document process engine to intelligently render documents and versions thereof. Some embodiments store only unique fragments, resulting in a significant reduction in storage requirements and an extremely efficient way of processing huge amounts of data (e.g., millions of documents) for document production. The messages and fragments are in internal formats under control of the document architecture system.
US12204841B2
A modeling method includes the following: acquiring electrical parameters of each sub-structure in a through silicon via (TSV) structure; obtaining an electrical topology network model according to a connection relationship of each TSV structure between two dies; and obtaining a simulation model for simulation based on the electrical topology network model and the electrical parameters.
US12204839B2
A method is disclosed herein. The method includes: providing, by an electronic design automation (EDA), a trigger signal to an application programming interface (API); providing, by the API, first parameters associated with parameterized cells in a netlist of an integrated circuit (IC); adjusting, by the API, the first parameters to generate second parameters associated with the parameterized cells in the netlist of the IC; updating, by the API, the netlist of the IC according to the second parameters; and performing, by the EDA, a simulation according to the netlist.
US12204827B2
A method for establishing an electrochemical model for an ion battery is provided. The ion battery includes a negative electrode region, a positive electrode region, and a diaphragm arranged between the negative electrode region and the positive electrode region. The negative electrode region includes a negative electrode current collector, a negative electrode liquid phase and a negative electrode solid phase. The positive electrode region includes a positive electrode current collector, a positive electrode liquid phase and a positive electrode solid phase. The method includes: defining negative electrode parameters for describing a solid-liquid interface structure between the negative electrode liquid phase and the negative electrode solid phase in the negative electrode region and positive electrode parameters for describing a solid-liquid interface structure between the positive electrode liquid phase and the positive electrode solid phase in the positive electrode region; establishing a partial differential equation set and a boundary condition for describing a charging process and a discharging process of the ion battery based on the negative electrode parameters and the positive electrode parameters; and solving the partial differential equation set to establish the electrochemical model for the ion battery. Each of the solid-liquid interface structure in the negative electrode region and the solid-liquid interface structure in the positive electrode region is a folded structure, and includes multiple repeated folded substructures.
US12204821B2
The disclosure generally pertains to generating floorplans. An example method to do so involves generating a three-dimensional polygonal mesh representation of at least a portion of a building (one floor of the building, for example). The three-dimensional polygonal mesh representation is generated from images captured by a smartphone, for example. The method further includes generating an edge existence probability mask based on depth information obtained by using a LiDAR device on the smartphone, for example. The edge existence probability mask represents a confidence level associated with identifying an edge of a wall. A pictorial rendering of the building or a part of the building can be generated based on identifying edges and walls of the building by utilizing the three-dimensional polygonal mesh representation and the edge existence probability mask. The pictorial rendering may be used, for example, to provide interior design assistance with respect to a room of the building.
US12204813B2
A server system includes a cloud application program, a system framework, a forwarding program, and an audio capturing program. The server system inputs first audio data of the cloud application program to the system framework, processes the first audio data through the system framework to obtain second audio data, and transmits the second audio data to the forwarding program. The second audio data is then transmitted from the forwarding program to the audio capturing program according to a communication connection between the forwarding program and the audio capturing program. The audio capturing program transmits the second audio data to a local application program of a terminal. Because the second audio data obtained after processing through the system framework is directly sent to the audio capturing program through the forwarding program, a transmission link of audio data is shortened, thus reducing the delay in delivering audio data.
US12204812B2
Embodiments of an electronic device are disclosed. The electronic device may include a USB Type-C connector including at least one configuration channel (CC) pin and a processor operatively connected to the USB Type-C connector. The processor may be configured to: obtain first information of a connected audio output device by using a USB driver; transmit the first information and/or audio card information of the audio output device to an audio framework through a USB framework; control the audio framework to access an interface corresponding to the audio card information; and activate, when at least a portion of second information of the audio output device is obtained through the USB driver while accessing the interface, the interface by transmitting the at least a portion of the second information to the audio framework through the USB framework. Various additional embodiments in addition to the disclosed embodiments are possible.
US12204809B2
According to an embodiment, an electronic device includes a display module including a main display and a sub-display. The electronic device includes a memory configured to store computer-executable instructions. The electronic device includes a processor configured to execute the instructions by accessing the memory. The instructions, when executed, may cause the processor to, in response to a state of the electronic device executing an application being changed to a partially unfolded intermediate state, display a graphic object associated with switching a screen display of the application from the main display to the sub-display on a partial area of the main display. The instructions, when executed, may cause the processor to, in response to the graphic object being displayed in a specified position on the partial area before the state of the electronic device is changed to a folded state, display a screen of the application on the sub-display.
US12204806B2
A display control chip includes a first memory and a computing circuit. The first memory is configured to store a plurality of character images respectively corresponds to a plurality of characters of a character encoding format. The computing circuit is coupled with the first memory, and is configured to receive first update data generated by encoding input data according to the character encoding format, and is configured to use the first update data to update text data in a second memory. When the computing circuit reads the text data in the second memory, the computing circuit is configured to: search among the plurality of character images to find a plurality of target images corresponding to the text data; and output first display data according to the plurality of target images, in which the first display data is for generating a first display picture including the plurality of target images.
US12204803B2
A system for obtaining a file on a network and printing the file, comprises: a determination unit configured to determine a type of an account of a user; a decision unit configured to decide a printing target file from a plurality of files on the network in accordance with a condition corresponding to the type determined by the determination unit; and a printing unit configured to obtain the printing target file decided by the decision unit from the network and print the printing target file.
US12204780B2
Described apparatuses and methods relate to self-refresh arbitration. In a memory system with multiple memory components, an arbiter is configured to manage the occurrence of self-refresh operations. In aspects, the arbiter can receive one or more self-refresh request signals from at least one memory controller for authorization to command one or more memory components to enter a self-refresh mode. Upon receiving the one or more self-refresh request signals, the arbiter, based on a predetermined configuration, can transmit one or more self-refresh enable signals to the at least one memory controller with authorization to command the one or more memory components to enter the self-refresh mode. The configuration can ensure that fewer than all memory components simultaneously enter the self-refresh mode. In so doing, memory components can perform self-refresh operations without exceeding an instantaneous power threshold. The arbiter can be included in, for instance, a Compute Express Link™ (CXL™) memory module.
US12204775B1
A storage system with reduced power consumption includes a storage apparatus that saves data in accordance with a data input/output request from a host or outputs the saved data, the storage system including a plurality of components each configured to operate in a first power mode or at least one second lower power mode in a switchable manner, a condition monitoring module monitoring each of the plurality of components, and a power mode control module that determines a power mode of at least one component to be the second power mode, according to a processing load related to each of the plurality of components and which corresponds to a result of monitoring by the condition monitoring module, and operates the at least one particular component in the power saving mode, in which the plurality of components perform mutual control with the storage apparatus in accordance with the data input/output request.
US12204771B2
Techniques of implementing software filtered non-volatile memory in a computing device are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting an entry being written to a guest admin submission queue (gASQ) by a memory driver of a virtual machine hosted on the computing device. Upon detecting the entry written to the gASQ by the memory driver, the command in the entry is analyzed to determine whether the command is allowed based on a list of allowed or disallowed commands. In response to determining that the command in the entry is not allowed, without sending the command to the non-volatile memory, generating an execution result of the command in response to the entry being written to the gASQ by the memory driver. As such, potentially harmful commands from the memory driver are prevented from being executed by the non-volatile memory.
US12204764B2
A first memory device of a memory system is coupled to a memory controller through a first channel, and includes a first memory die set as a metadata memory die including a plurality of memory blocks to which metadata is to be written, and including one or more memory dies set as user data memory dies including a plurality of memory blocks to which user data is to be written. A memory controller of the memory system selects a second memory die among the memory dies set as the user data memory dies, migrates metadata written to the first memory die to the second memory die, migrates user data written to the second memory die to the first memory die, sets the first memory die as a user data memory die, and sets the second memory die as a metadata memory die.
US12204760B2
A method of storing data includes: determining the write priority of data, in response to a write request for data by a host; writing the data into a first type of memory cell, in response to the write priority of data being a first write priority; and writing the data into a second type of memory cell, in response to the write priority of data being a second write priority. The second write priority is higher than the first write priority, and the write speed of the second type of memory cell is higher than the write speed of the first type of memory cell.
US12204759B1
Semiconductor devices, packaging architectures and associated methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a multi-chip module (MCM) is disclosed. The MCM includes a common substrate and a first integrated circuit (IC) chip disposed on the common substrate. The first IC chip includes a first memory interface. A second IC chip is disposed on the common substrate and includes a second memory interface. A first memory device is disposed on the common substrate and includes memory and a first port coupled to the memory. The first port is configured for communicating with the first memory interface of the first IC chip. A second port is coupled to the memory and communicates with the second memory interface of the second IC chip. In-memory processing circuitry is coupled to the memory and controls transactions between the first memory device and the first and second IC chips.
US12204757B1
A technique for processing strong ordered transactions in a direct memory access engine may include retrieving a memory descriptor to perform a strong ordered transaction, and delaying the strong ordered transaction until pending write transactions associated with previous memory descriptors retrieved prior to the memory descriptor are complete. Subsequent transactions associated with memory descriptors following the memory descriptor are allowed to be issued while waiting for the pending write transactions to complete. Upon completion of the pending write transactions, the strong ordered transaction is performed.
US12204753B2
The present disclosure generally relates to improved unaligned deallocated logical block transfer. Rather than stalling the data-path in unaligned deallocated LBA scenarios, the data-path will work regularly while ignoring the unaligned deallocated indication. The old and non-valid data received for the unaligned deallocated LBA will be written to the host. The device controller will detect the unaligned deallocated LBA and overwrite the data with other values such as 0's or 1's as specified in the standard. The implementation increases the performance of unaligned deallocated commands and the endurance of the NVM. The implementation also simplifies the logic implemented in the device controller.
US12204748B2
A virtual keyboard setting method includes: determining an operation region and a trigger region, the operation region being a region operated in a screen for using an input method, and the trigger region being a region covered by an external entity when touching the screen; determining a display region of a virtual keyboard according to the operation region; determining an area of a virtual key in the virtual keyboard according to the trigger region; and setting the virtual keyboard according to the display region of the virtual keyboard and the area of the virtual key.
US12204742B1
Beamforming systems for personalized in-vehicle audio delivery to multiple passengers simultaneously
Systems and methods are provided herein for providing personalized audio for different users in a vehicle. This may be accomplished by a vehicle entertainment system determining the positions of one or more users within the vehicle. The vehicle entertainment system may then select a zone configuration based on the determined positions and output audio according to the selected zone configuration. For example, a first user sitting in the back of the vehicle may be located in a first zone of the selected zone configuration and a second user sitting in the back of the vehicle may be located in a second zone of the selected zone configuration. The vehicle entertainment system may output a first piece of audio to the first zone and a second piece of audio to the second zone using one or more techniques (e.g., beamforming).
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An information processing device includes a reception unit configured to receive designation of a plurality of products by a user, and a display control unit configured to display thumbnail images corresponding to at least a part of the plurality of products and a floor map on which icons indicating pieces of positional information of at least two or more products of the plurality of products are displayed in an identifiable manner. The display control unit displays the icons and the thumbnail images in such a way that the correspondence between them can be identified.
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A system configured to generate a three-dimensional scene of a physical environment. In some cases, the system may present the three-dimensional scene such that the user is able to view the model in various different types. The system may also allow the user to capture various measurements associated with the scanned physical environment by selecting different portions of the scene.
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A display device includes a display panel divided into a display area and a non-display area, and an input sensing unit disposed on the display panel and divided into an active area and a non-active area. The input sensing unit includes a plurality of sensing electrodes overlapping the active area and including a plurality of first sensing electrodes extending in a first direction, and a plurality of second sensing electrodes extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, a plurality of first trace lines respectively connected to the plurality of first sensing electrodes and including an inside portion overlapping the active area, and a dummy electrode unit overlapping the inside portion in the first direction. The dummy electrode unit is adjacent to the plurality of sensing electrodes in the second direction and does not overlap the plurality of sensing electrodes in the first direction.
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A finger tapping measurement processing terminal that measures a finger tapping motion and processes a measurement result includes: a touch panel that is provided on one surface of a terminal, is capable of displaying information related to the finger tapping motion, and is tapped by one of two fingers of a same hand of a user who holds the terminal; finger detectors that detect a motion of one finger tapping the touch panel; and a processor that performs processing of measuring a two-finger distance during a finger tapping motion between the other of the two fingers holding another surface of the terminal located on an opposite side of the touch panel and the one finger tapping the touch panel based on detection information obtained by the finger detectors.
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The present application provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a plurality of data lines and a first demultiplexer. In the first demultiplexer, each first channel wire is connected to at least two data lines. Each first control unit includes a plurality of first switching elements. At least one data line is connected to the first channel wire through M first switching elements connected in parallel, and M≥2. The display panel includes a display area, and the first control unit is arranged in the display area.
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Provided is an electronic pen which communicates with a position detection sensor through electromagnetic induction, including a coil, a columnar magnetic core including a through hole in an axial direction of the magnetic core, a capacitor constituting a resonant circuit together with the coil, and a rod-shaped core body inserted through the through hole of the magnetic core, in which the magnetic core includes a front portion, a back portion, and a middle portion interposed between the front portion and the back portion, an outside diameter of the middle portion is smaller than an outside diameter of the front portion of the magnetic core and an outside diameter of the back portion of the magnetic core, and the coil is wound around the middle portion of the magnetic core.
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An electronic pen includes a casing, an opening portion formed on one side of the casing, a core body that projects outside of the casing through the opening portion, a pen module part, and a core body insertion member disposed in the casing and having a hollow space that houses the core body. The hollow space includes a hollow portion between an inner circumferential surface of the core body insertion member and an outer circumferential surface of the core body when the core body insertion member houses the core body, the hollow portion communicating, via the opening portion, with a first space external to the electronic pen. The hollow portion is separated from a second space in which the pen module part is disposed within the casing.
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Embodiments of display control based on dynamic user interactions generally include capturing a plurality of temporally sequential images of the user, or a body part or other control object manipulated by the user, and computationally analyzing the images to recognize a gesture performed by the user. In some embodiments, the gesture is identified as an engagement gesture, and compared with reference gestures from a library of reference gestures. In some embodiments, a degree of completion of the recognized engagement gesture is determined, and the display contents are modified in accordance therewith. In some embodiments, a dominant gesture is computationally determined from among a plurality of user gestures, and an action displayed on the device is based on the dominant gesture.
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Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a haptics panel and a driving method thereof, and a haptics apparatus. The driving method includes: receiving a touch signal, and judging a touch position of a user on the haptics panel according to the touch signal; judging a characteristic frequency area to which the touch position belongs; determining characteristic mode displacement field distribution of the base substrate according to the characteristic frequency area to which the touch position belongs, wherein the characteristic mode displacement field distribution contains vibration displacement phase information at each position of the base substrate; dividing a plurality of piezoelectric devices arranged in an array contained in the haptics panel into at least one vibration area according to the vibration displacement phase information of the characteristic mode displacement field distribution; and loading voltage signals on at least part of the piezoelectric devices in the vibration area.
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A method, system, and computer program product is provided for drawing and fine-tuned motor controls. The method may include displaying data comprising an activation zone via a display of a user device; receiving gaze data from a user comprising a gaze point; and determining a location of the gaze point is within the activation zone. Additionally, the method may include moving a cursor in a direction of the gaze point based on determining the location of the gaze point is within the activation zone, where moving the cursor causes an action. Data associated with the action may be displayed via the display of the user device.
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A method, an apparatus, and a system for video communications include: transmitting, from a first apparatus using a network, a first video stream of a first user to a second apparatus of a second user, wherein the first user is in video communication with the second user; receiving, from the second apparatus using the network, a second video stream of the second user; determining, by a processor, a reaction of the second user to an area of interest in the first video stream using the second video stream; and updating, in response to the reaction of the second user to the area of interest in the first video stream, a parameter for encoding the area of interest in the first video stream at the first apparatus.
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A differentially private security system communicatively coupled to a database storing restricted data receives a database query from a client. The database query includes a relation specifying a set of data in the database upon which to perform the query and privacy parameters associated with the query. The differentially private security system determines a worst-case privacy spend for the query based on the privacy parameters and the relation. The differentially private security system performs the query upon the set of data specified by the relation and decrements the determined worst-case privacy spend from a privacy budget associated with the client. The differentially private security system records the worst-case privacy spend and the query at a log and determines a privacy budget refund based on queries recorded in the log. The differentially private security system applies the determined privacy budget refund to the privacy budget associated with the client.
