US11375939B2
Apparatus, including a set of N electrodes (22), configured to be located in proximity to an epidermis (24) of a subject, and to acquire signals generated by electric sources within the subject. The apparatus also includes a set of M channels, configured to transfer the signals, where M is less than N, and a switch (40), configured to select, repetitively and randomly, M signals from the N electrodes and to direct the M signals to the M channels. The apparatus further includes a processor (28), configured to activate the switch, and to receive and analyze the M signals from the M channels so as to determine respective positions of the electric sources within the subject.
US11375936B2
A wearable medical system configured to be worn by a person, comprising a support structure configured to be worn by the person, a monitoring device configured to monitor at least one physiological parameter of the person, wherein the at least one physiological parameter includes an electrocardiogram (ECG) reading of the person, an electrode coupled to the support structure, an energy storage device configured to store an electric charge for use in delivering a shock to the person through the electrode, and a biasing mechanism comprising at least one of an inflatable device, a hydraulic device, an electromagnetic device, and/or a screw gun device, the biasing mechanism configured to transition from the unbiased state to the biased state responsive to a value of the at least one physiological parameter reaching a threshold. The electrode is more movable with respect to the person's body in the unbiased state than the biased state.
US11375925B1
A sensor probe has a connector and the connector's corresponding receptacle on a console have security mechanisms that ensure that the connector and the receptacle are properly connected and mated. The connector and receptacle can have physical security features that block insertion of the connector into the receptacle if they are not aligned in a proper orientation. The console can also include a software security feature that allows optical measurements from the sensor probe only if the connector of the sensor probe and receptacle on the console are connected properly. An adapter can also be used to convert a conventional receptacle mounted on a console into a receptacle with security features.
US11375918B2
Methods of characterizing the brain of a subject, comprising: (a) performing a multispectral multislice magnetic resonance scan on the brain of a subject, (b) storing image data indicative of a plurality of magnetic resonance weightings of each of a plurality of slices of the brain of the subject to provide directly acquired images, (c) processing the directly acquired images to generate a plurality of quantitative maps of the brain indicative of a plurality of qMRI parameters of the subject, (d) constructing a plurality of magnetic resonance images indicative of white matter structure from the quantitative maps, and (e) generating a spatial entropy map of the brain of the subject from the plurality of magnetic resonance images; and/or generating a myelin water map of the brain of the subject from the plurality of magnetic resonance images.
US11375916B2
An electrophysiology map, for example a map of arrhythmic substrate, can be generated by acquiring both geometry information and electrophysiology information pertaining to an anatomical region, and associating the acquired geometry and electrophysiology information as a plurality of electrophysiology data points. A user can select two (or more) electrophysiological characteristics for display, and can further elect to apply various filters to the selected electrophysiological characteristics. The user can also define various relationships (e.g., Boolean ANDS, ORs, and the like) between the selected and/or filtered characteristics. The user-selected filtering criteria can be applied to the electrophysiology data points to output various subsets thereof. These subsets can then be graphically rendered using various combinations of colorscale, monochrome scale, and iconography, for example as a three-dimensional cardiac electrophysiology model.
US11375915B2
Disclosed is a system that includes pressure sensors to assist in monitoring pressure at a selected location. Pressure sensors may be applied to or incorporated into catheters and/or shunts positioned within a patient. A monitoring system may then receive signals from the pressure sensors to monitor pressure at the location over time.
US11375911B2
The present invention provides a carotid physiological parameter monitoring system, comprising: an electrocardiographic (ECG) monitoring device, a carotid pulse wave detector, and at least one controller. The ECG monitoring device is disposed on a user's left and right wrists or on the user's chest to obtain ECG waveforms. The carotid pulse wave detector is disposed on the user's neck at a position corresponding to the user's carotid arteries for obtaining carotid pulse waveforms. The controller is provided in at least one of the ECG monitoring device, the carotid pulse wave detector, and a mobile device, wherein the controller is configured to obtain the user's carotid physiological parameter(s) (which may include carotid pulse wave velocity or carotid blood pressure) by calculating with the ECG waveforms and/or the carotid pulse waveforms.
US11375910B2
A pulse sensing device including main body with at least a pair of sensors, a power source, a power connector, at least one light source electrically coupled to the at least a pair of sensors and a divider configured to separate the power source from the power connector, a casing surrounding the main body, and, an adhesive layer located on a surface of the casing.
US11375909B2
A method for determining one or more physiological parameters of a subject. The method includes providing a plurality of images of a vessel of the subject in response to illumination of the vessel to light of different wavelengths; converting each of the plurality of images of the vessel into at least two grayscale images, thereby generating a plurality of first grayscale images of a first wavelength range and a plurality of second grayscale images of a second wavelength range, the first wavelength range and the second wavelength range being different from each other; and determining the one or more physiological parameters of the subject based on at least the plurality of first grayscale images and the plurality of second grayscale images.
US11375905B2
This disclosure is directed to devices, systems, and techniques for monitoring a patient condition. In some examples, a medical device system includes processing circuitry configured to determine a plurality of pulse transit time (PTT) intervals, determine, based on an accelerometer signal, a posture of a patient from a plurality of postures corresponding to each PTT interval of the plurality of PTT intervals, classify each PTT interval of the plurality of PTT intervals based on the respective posture of the patient corresponding to the respective PTT interval, and monitor, based on the classified plurality of PTT intervals, a patient condition.
US11375900B2
The present invention relates to methods and devices for characterizing wounds, and in particular to the use of Raman spectroscopy to characterize the state of healing of a wound.
US11375895B2
A method of fabricating a stretchable and flexible electronic device includes forming each of the functional layers is by: (i) forming on an elastomer substrate a conductive interconnect pattern having islands interconnected by bridges; (ii) applying a conductive paste to the islands; (iii) positioning at least one functional electronic component on each island; and (iv) applying heat to cause the conductive paste to reflow. An elastomer encapsulant is formed over the functional electronic components and the conductive interconnect pattern on each of the functional layers. The elastomer encapsulant has a Young's modulus equal to or less than that of the substrate. The encapsulant includes a pigment to increase absorption of laser light. At least one via is laser ablated, which provides electrical connection to any two functional layers. The via is filled with solder paste to create a bond and electrical connection between the functional layers.
US11375885B2
The present specification describes a control mechanism to control fluid flow through one or more fluid channels that supply fluid to the distal tip of an endoscope. A pump is provided with an endoscope to control the flow of fluid from an external source to a combination of fluid channels within the endoscope, which supply fluid to front and side jets of a multi-jet endoscope assembly. The pump is preferably dual-direction pump that enables control of fluid to either the front jet or to the front and side jets of the endoscope.
US11375883B2
A light-scanning endoscope is provided with: a light-scanner that causes an optical fiber to be vibrated; a controller that causes light to be emitted from the optical fiber with the same phase as the vibrations; an adjusting unit that adjusts a distortion correction amount on the basis of a shape of a row of irradiation positions of the light on an imaging subject; and a phase correcting unit that corrects the phase in which the light is emitted on the basis of the adjusted distortion correction amount.
US11375882B2
An endoscope system includes an illuminator configured to switch between a first illumination light and a second illumination light for which a ratio of a quantity of light is 1/α, an objective optical system, an image sensor, an optical path splitter which is disposed between the objective optical system and the image sensor, the optical path splitter has an optical path splitting surface, a first reflecting surface, and a second reflecting surface. A processor acquires for each of the first illumination light and the second illumination light, a first image pickup signal and a second image pickup signal, combines the first image pickup signal and the second image pickup signal for the first illumination light and the first image pickup signal and the second image pickup signal for the second illumination light, and generates an image of a high dynamic range. Here, α denotes a coefficient.
US11375880B2
A rigid endoscope including: a shaft; a body disposed at a proximal end of the shaft, a fiber image guide mounted to move longitudinally within the shaft and body; a securing section for securing the fiber image guide, the securing section being positioned within the body; a sliding element mounted to move longitudinally within the body; and a protective sheath encasing the fiber image guide; wherein the fiber image guide is twisted, for image rotation, in a longitudinal portion corresponding to the protective sheath.
US11375872B2
A dishwasher for treating dishes according to an automatic cycle of operation includes a tub at least partially defining a treating chamber with an access opening, a sump fluidly coupled to the tub, and a liquid recirculation circuit fluidly coupling the sump to the treating chamber. The liquid recirculation circuit includes at least one rotating spray tube having a longitudinal body axis defining a rotational axis. The at least one rotating spray tube comprises a hollow tube having first and second opposing ends with the first end fluidly coupled to the liquid recirculation circuit and the second end comprising a drain valve. The hollow tube has a single wall and a longitudinal body axis defining a rotational axis and plurality of spray nozzles are arranged about the longitudinal body axis on an exterior of the single wall.
US11375870B2
A wet cleaning device, in particular a wet wiping device, has a cleaning roller which is rotatable about a roller axis and has a cleaning lining. In order to create a wet cleaning device in which the regeneration effect is optimized, in particular while using a minimum of liquid, the wet cleaning device has a decelerating element to assist the removal of liquid and/or of dirt from the cleaning roller, which element has an impact edge directed radially outwards with respect to the roller axis and is arranged between fibers of the cleaning lining during a regeneration operation in such a way that the free ends of the mechanically unloaded fibers project outwards in the radial direction beyond the impact edge.
US11375859B1
A shower tent assembly is provided. The shower tent assembly includes a fixed plate fixed to an automobile and a tent fabric, wherein supporting arms are rotatably connected to two sides of the fixed plate separately and a middle connector is connected between outer end portions of the supporting arms; the supporting arms, the fixed plate and the middle connector each are connected to upper connecting bands, an upper end of the tent fabric is connected to lower connecting bands corresponding to the upper connecting bands, length adjusting units are arranged between the upper connecting bands and the lower connecting bands, and the upper connecting bands and the lower connecting bands are connected to the length adjusting units. By arranging the length adjusting units, a height of the tent fabric is adjusted, so that the height of the tent fabric is convenient to use the shower tent assembly.
US11375838B2
A locker for unattended storage and automated access of stored goods including a locker housing having at least one environmentally controlled compartment with an environmentally controlled access opening, an air inlet duct and an air outlet duct; a door sealingly engaging the environmentally controlled access opening; an automated latch engaging the door and movable between a locked position and an unlocked position; an access control unit in communication with the automated latch; and an environmental control unit removably housed in the locker housing, the environmental control unit having duct interfaces engagable with the air inlet duct and with the air outlet duct for circulating air between the at least one environmentally controlled compartment and the environmental control unit, and the environmental control unit having an electric power connector engagable with an electric power outlet in the locker housing in communication with a source of electric power.
US11375837B2
A multi-use footwear tool that has an attachment mechanism with two complementary pieces that can be separated to split the multi-use footwear tool into two sections. A first section of the multi-use footwear tool is an elongated shoehorn and a second section of the multi-use footwear tool is an elongated body. The elongated shoehorn has a shoehorn and the elongated body has a hook. The elongated shoehorn and the elongated body can be attached into one long multi-use footwear tool or separated into individual pieces using the attachment mechanism.
US11375836B2
A multi-functional device comprises a device body defined by a first wall that includes a first inner face and a first outer face, a second wall that includes a second inner face and a second outer face, and a third wall that includes a third inner face and a third outer face. The second wall is connected to and extends from the first wall at a first interface on a first lateral side of the first wall. The third wall is connected to and extends from the first wall at a second interface on a second lateral side of the first wall. The multi-functional device comprises a hook arranged on the device body configured to facilitate removal of a sock from a foot of a user, and a plurality of ridges arranged on the device body configured to facilitate placement of a sock over a foot of a user.
US11375833B2
A container assembly includes a container, e.g., configured for containing a beverage, where the container has a connecting structure, and a carrier assembly that includes a carrier having an engagement structure configured for releasable connection to the connecting structure of the beverage container to releasably connect the beverage container to the carrier assembly. The carrier assembly also includes a chip engaged with the carrier such that the chip is carried by the carrier, where the chip stores electronic payment information and is configured for transmitting the electronic payment information to an external computer for authorizing payment.
US11375829B2
A support pillow assembly includes a body having a first portion and a second portion. The first portion may include a first recess and/or a first channel. The first channel may extend from a top of the first recess. The second portion may include a second recess and/or a second channel. The second channel may extend from a top of the second recess. The body may include a curved configuration. The body may include a semispherical configuration. The first recess and/or the second recess may be substantially circular. The first channel and/or the second channel may be substantially rectangular. The first recess and/or the second recess may be configured to at least partially receive a first ear cup and/or a second ear cup of the pair of over-ear headphones, respectively.
US11375821B1
A convertible meditation cushion that facilitates multiple postural positions for meditation, including sitting, kneeling, and lying down. The preferred embodiment of the cushion has three semi-circular segments that are connected in series with hinges. The hinges allow the three semi-circular segments to be rotated with respect to one another to create a variety of configurations to facilitate the multiple postural positions for meditation.
US11375820B2
A seating arrangement includes a seat portion, a back portion, a support member caused to move between first and second positions, and a back recline lock arrangement that includes an actuator, a lock member caused to move between a locked position when the actuator is in an engaged position where the lock member prevents the support member from moving from the first position toward the second position, and an unlocked position when the actuator is in a disengaged position, and wherein the actuator is configured to move from the disengaged position to the engaged position when the chair back is in the reclined position, and the lock member is prevented from moving from the unlocked position to the locked position until the back assembly is moved from the reclined position to the upright position.
US11375819B2
A chair device, a mattress device, and a propping device are provided. The chair device includes a support stand, a seat module disposed above the support stand, a connection module disposed at one side of the seat module, a back support module connected to the connection module and disposed at one side of the seat module, a first pressure adjustment module disposed in the seat module, a second pressure adjustment module disposed in the back support module, a first pressure sensing module disposed in the seat module, a second pressure sensing module disposed in the back support module, and a control module. The control module adjusts the first pressure adjustment module according to first sensed pressure signals from the first pressure sensing module, and adjusts the second pressure adjustment module according to second sensed pressure signals from the second pressure sensing module.
US11375817B2
The embodiments relate to a geometric under structure, central and outer hub for a GFN plastic chair base. The geometric shape and dimensions are critical components to the overall strength of the chair base hub and arms when either vertical or rotational forces are applied at the central hub. The central hub is of sufficient thickness to maintain dimensional stability when the forces are applied. The overall geometry and material composition enable the hub area to be constructed with minimal plastic wall thickness while optimizing the physical strength of the article and facilitating high production rate.
US11375809B2
A wishing well table is to temporarily hold gifts. The wishing well table includes a table formed of a table top supported by a plurality of legs. The wishing well table further includes an aperture disposed through the tabletop. A removable pouch is attached to the aperture to receive the gifts. Finally, a wishing well is disposed over the aperture having an opening to receive the gifts to fall through the aperture into the removable pouch.
US11375805B2
Described herein is a multi-purpose portable platform stage for elevating a platform of the stage over a surface on which the stage is placed, that can be converted by a single person individually without assistance from an operational configuration in which one or more persons can stand, move and operate on the platform without the platform collapsing, and in which one or more objects can be placed and used on the platform, by or without such persons, without the platform collapsing, to a portable configuration in which the single person can carry the stage individually without assistance.
US11375802B2
An oral care implement has an overall length extension extending between a proximal end and a distal end, the distal end being opposite the proximal end. The oral care implement comprises a head at the proximal end and a handle, the handle being at least partially made from a material having a density being higher than the density of the material of the head. The oral care implement has a center of gravity located at a distance measured from the distal end, and the ratio of said distance to the overall length extension of the oral care implement is from about 0.30 to about 0.45, preferably from about 0.35 to about 0.42, further preferably from about 0.38 to about 0.41.
US11375799B2
A device for providing safety during the process of installing eyelash extensions onto the natural eyelashes of a subject, especially when the installation is automatic. In some embodiments, the placing of extensions is carried out by a robotic mechanism utilizing computer vision, and in some embodiments, a barrier is created between the robotic mechanism and the subject in order to protect the subject in the event of a malfunction.
US11375798B2
A bangle and makeup kit combination assembly and method of operation provide a personal adornment, such as an annular-shaped bangle, that discretely stores and efficiently dispenses individual components of a makeup kit. The assembly comprises a makeup kit comprising multiple makeup components, such as eye and brow liners, trays, mirrors, and a makeup applicator. The assembly further comprises a bangle having an outer ornamental cover that is defined by a decorative surface. The bangle further comprises an outer annular member, a middle makeup retention member having slots that correspond with makeup components, and an inner annular layer. The bangle also includes an edge locking mechanism that secures the annular members and makeup kit components into the ornamental bangle configuration until disassembly for access to the makeup kit is desired. In this manner, the bangle can be worn as an ornament, and then disassembled to access the makeup kit contained therein.
US11375796B2
A container having: a container body having a stick-type cosmetic material embedded therein; a container cap for opening/closing the container body; a side button provided on a side surface of the container cap; a moving member elastically moving up and down by means of an elastic member on the inside of the container cap, and having a fastening part formed therein; a fixing member for restricting the separation of the moving member from the container cap; and an operating member fastened to or unfastened from the fastening part of the moving member by elastically moving back and forth by means of the button, thereby having a structure in which the fastening of the operating member and the moving member is released so as make the container body, which is inserted into the moving member while the moving member is elastically moved to the lower side.
US11375795B2
A cosmetic product, in particular a powdery cosmetic product, includes a lid that is mounted rotationally mobile with respect to a base between at least one closed position and one open position of the case, first locking mechanism to lock the lid in a closed position, a dispensing device arranged between the lid and the base, and that is mounted rotationally mobile between at least one lowered position and one raised position, the dispensing device including a control member intended to be actuated to command the dispensing of the cosmetic product, and second locking mechanism to lock the dispensing device in the lowered position The control member of the dispensing device is configured to command the unlocking of the first locking mechanism of the lid and the unlocking of the second locking mechanism of the dispensing device.
US11375790B2
A wallet having first and second locking fixtures, the wallet configured to secure money, credit cards and identification with the added advantage in some embodiments that the contents are viewable within the wallet even when the first and second locking fixtures are securely closed.
US11375788B2
The present invention relates to a luggage with a support. The luggage with the support according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a main body unit having a storage space therein; a cover unit closing the storage space of the main body unit; and a frame unit provided on a rear surface of the main body unit to form a support supporting the main body unit. Here, the frame unit includes: a first frame having one side fixed to a lower portion of the main body unit and the other side that is rotatable; and a second frame moving along the rotation of the first frame and forming the support with the first frame.
US11375786B2
Embodiments include a pack bag including an outer container and an inner removable accessory organizer. The inner removable accessory organizer includes multiple compartments. The outer container includes an external easy-access portal through which contents of at least one of the compartments of the inner organizer are accessible. The pack bag includes a second external easy-access portal through which contents of another compartment of the inner organizer are accessible. The inner organizer includes a first pull handle to unfold and deploy the compartments when bundle straps are unfastened, and a second pull handle to fold the compartments one atop the other when the bundle straps are unfastened. When the bundle straps are fastened, the compartments are held together as a single bundled unit, such that the inner organizer is liftable as the single bundled unit out of the outer container simultaneously using the first pull handle and the second pull handle.
US11375781B2
Multicolored flexible wearables include a first portion having a first flexible polymer forming a toroid and including one or more colorants, a first surface, a second surface, and a recess in the first surface not reaching the second surface. A second portion formed of a second flexible polymer fills a majority of the recess and includes one or more colorants. The first and second flexible polymers have different colors and are permanently bonded together. Precious material particles may be disposed within the first and/or second flexible polymers. One or more of the colorants may have a color matching a color of the precious material particles. One method of bonding the portions includes depositing a liquid second portion into the recess and then curing it. Another method includes depositing a solid second portion into the recess and then curing a liquid layer of polymer between the first portion and second portion.
US11375766B2
An adjustable helmet having first and second shells and a single actuator comprising at least one tooth, the single actuator being moveable between: a first locked position, wherein the at least one tooth retains the first and second shells and the first and second shells define a first hollow space; a released position, wherein the at least one tooth no longer retains the first and second shells such that one of the first and second shells is moveable relative to the other of the first and second shells; and a second locked position, wherein the at least one tooth retains the first and second shells and the first and second shells define a second hollow space, the second hollow space being different than the first hollow space.
US11375748B2
The present invention relates to a storage container assembly configured to prevent child tampering with contents therein. The storage container assembly includes a base container and a lid, rotationally joined to the base container. The present invention relates to an improved storage container assembly creating a reusable storage container, a rigid storage container, a non-flammable storage container and a storage container having an airtight seal between the base container and the lid.
US11375738B2
A dirt removal and piling machine is ideally suited for use in cleaning and piling individualized and non-uniformly shaped workpieces, preferably sugar beets but also potatoes, other tuber crops, and even with aggregate rocks for a tilting receiving station. A further aspect of the present machine includes a workpiece unloading or receiving station which can tip sideways after a dump truck unloads the workpieces and longitudinally drives therethrough. In another aspect, the machine also includes a cleaning station having rotatable rollers, an underlying dirt conveyor and a moveable dirt dumping conveyor, hopper or bucket adjacent an end of the dirt conveyor and external to the rollers. Furthermore, another aspect of the machine includes an automatic and/or robotic sampling arm which is operable to remove a tuber crop workpiece sample and automatically package the sample after the sample has moved through a cleaning station.
US11375727B2
Soft and creamy lipid-based food fillings suitable for high-temperature, high-pressure cooking co-extrusion are provided. In one approach, the filling includes about 30 to about 45 weight percent of an edible lipid having a melting point of about 45° C. or lower, about 0.5 to about 5 weight percent of a high oil-binding capacity material having an oil-binding capacity of at least about 100%, about 10 to about 30 weight percent of amorphous materials, and less than 30 weight percent sugar, sugar alcohol, or combinations thereof. The fillings generally have a particle size distribution with D50 of about 25 microns or less. Preferably, the fillings have a low water activity of about 0.45 or less and are substantially free of polyhydric alcohols and polyhydric alcohol-based humectants. The fillings maintain their soft and creamy texture after high-temperature, high-pressure cooking co-extrusion, subsequent baking, and throughout storage.
US11375717B2
A single-dose oral formulation of spinosad and lufenuron and methods for its use in the extended control of a flea infestation on a domestic animal such as a dog without emesis.
US11375711B2
The invention relates to a method to manufacture meat-based matrices and the matrices obtained thereof useful as bait for ant control. The method of the invention comprises (a) cleaning and mincing or slicing meat; (b) cooking the meat; (c) dewatering the meat; (d) grinding and sifting the meat to obtain meat particles; and (e) adding sugar and a preservative. Additionally, a nitrate source and an active ingredient can be incorporated into the matrices.
US11375708B2
Compositions and heterodissemination methods for controlling unwanted target insect populations are disclosed. In preferred embodiments, the target insects are mosquitos or house flies and the heterospecific insects are non-biting midges and soldier flies respectively.
US11375706B2
A regulating and/or control system for an agricultural machine includes a distributor linkage for spreading material, such as fertilizer, plant protection products, or seeds, the distributor linkage being pivotable about at least one axis of rotation extending in the direction of travel, with at least one first sensor device for determining the inclination of the distributor linkage; and a data processing device for processing the sensor signals. The system further includes at least one second sensor device for determining the centrifugal force FF and/or the centrifugal acceleration aF acting upon the first sensor device when the machine is turning corners, where the data processing device is configured such that an inclination measurement error of the first sensor device can be corrected based on the sensor signals of the second sensor device.
US11375687B2
A cattle guard assembly includes a cattle guard that is positionable in a depression in a roadway extending along a fence line. In this way the cattle guard inhibits livestock from crossing the fence line in the roadway. The cattle guard is comprised of a resiliently compressible material thereby resisting impact damage. Additionally, the cattle guard is comprised of a non-oxidizing material to resist corrosion. The cattle guard comprises a plurality of modular units thereby facilitating the cattle guard to have a selectable width for accommodating a variety of roadway widths. Each of the modular units is comprised of a molded, unitary structure such that said modular units resist breaking. Each of the modular units includes a base and a grate, and the grate is positionable in an existing cattle guard base for replacing an existing grate in an existing cattle guard.
US11375685B1
A pressure activated recharging cooling platform for cooling an object is provided. The cooling platform comprises a temperature regulation layer, a support layer, and a channeled covering layer. The temperature regulation layer is adapted to hold a composition. The temperature regulation layer has a plurality of angled segments, wherein angled segments within a sealed perimeter of the temperature regulation layer are formed by a top side and a bottom side at a predefined distance, and channels, wherein the channels substantially form sides by contacting the top side with the bottom side at a distance lesser than the predefined distance. The support layer is substantially bonded to the bottom side of the temperature regulation layer and is comprised of material sufficiently pliable to deform and sufficiently rigid to withstand collapse in response to the weight of the object. The channeled covering layer encompasses the support and temperature regulation layers.
US11375681B1
The invention provides seeds and plants of tomato line FDS-XJ16-6057. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato line FDS-XJ16-6057 and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a tomato plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato line FDS-XJ16-6057 comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
US11375679B2
The invention is in the field of Brassica carinata breeding (i.e., Ethiopian mustard breeding), specifically relating to Brassica carinata variety AGR159-4A1A. The present invention relates to seeds, plants or parts thereof, cells, methods of making, and uses of this variety and its progeny.
US11375678B2
A water distribution assembly includes a water capture cup adapted to hold a volume of water, the capture cup including an open recess disposed centrally thereon extending upward into the internal volume thereof, a location spike having a fin configuration, the location spike having a bottom portion and a top portion, the top portion culminating at a central stem, the bottom and top portion separated by a flange, the location spike fitted into the recess of the capture cup extending orthogonally below and above the bottom of the capture cup, and a water regulator with a central emitter valve disposed centrally above the capture cup, the regulator cup connected to a water inlet line via a feed stem and to a vertical feeder tube below center, the feeder tube extending downward and connected at the remaining end over the central stem of the location spike.
US11375672B2
System for hedge pruning and method for making and using the same. An exemplary system for hedge pruning includes a mounting assembly for connecting to a mobile platform, the mounting assembly defining a pivot point region thereon, a cutting arm rotatably coupled to the mounting assembly at the pivot point region. And a blade assembly connected to an end region of the cutting arm such that the blade assembly prunes a hedge along an arc defined based upon rotation of the cutting arm about the pivot point region. Advantageously, the system provides an ability to discriminate selected plants in a hedge to improve grove health and exploit alternate bearing nature of certain groves, resulting in a more consistent production each year. Differentiated treatment can be provided within a row of the plants while pruning the hedges in an automated manner that is more efficient than manual pruning.
US11375666B2
A corn head assembly for an agricultural harvester includes a plurality of row units for processing corn plants in rows. Adjustable dividers are provided between adjacent row units to direct laterally adjacent corn plants into adjacent row units. Each adjustable divider has an adjustable divider point with an adjustable operating height profile between a shorter, lowermost position and a taller, uppermost position to adjust the operating height of the adjustable divider for different harvesting conditions.
US11375665B2
A harvest header for a harvesting machine includes a carrying frame, a mechanism for receiving or cutting harvest material from a field, a control device, a power-operated actuator operably controlled by the control device, and a transverse conveyor screw movably controlled between two or more positions. The position of the transverse conveyor screw is adjustably controlled by the actuator in order to transport the harvest material to a discharge opening. The control device independently controls the actuator based on at least one harvest material property.
US11375663B2
A ground contour sensing system and method for a vehicle with a mowing head. The system includes a sensor system that measures a ground contour in front of the mowing head, and generates contour measurement signals; and a controller that determines whether to move the mowing head based on the contour measurement signals, and generates movement commands for the mowing head when it determines to move the mowing head. The mowing head can include tilt and lift cylinders, and the controller can determine whether to move the mowing head using the tilt or lift cylinders. The sensor system can include a pivot arm that moves in response to changes in the ground contour, and an angle sensor that measures an angle of the pivot arm. There can be one or more sensor systems positioned between the right and left sides of the mowing head.
US11375658B2
An agricultural system includes an arm that supports a cutter bar assembly and is coupled to a fluid-filled biasing member such that the fluid-filled biasing member imparts a torque onto the arm. The agricultural system further includes an actuator and a controller. The actuator is coupled to the fluid-filled biasing member and is configured to move the fluid-filled biasing member relative to the actuator to change the torque imparted by the fluid-filled biasing member onto the arm. The controller is configured to determine a target position of the arm associated with a leveled configuration of the cutter bar assembly, receive an input to set the cutter bar assembly in the leveled configuration, and output a signal to instruct the actuator to set the fluid-filled biasing member relative to the actuator based on the target position upon receiving the input to set the cutter bar assembly in the leveled configuration.
US11375654B2
A harvesting header for traversing a field to perform a harvesting operation includes a first frame assembly adapted to be coupled to a work machine and a second frame assembly suspended forward of the first frame assembly. The second frame assembly may pivot relative to the first frame assembly. A suspension system is coupled to the second frame assembly and provides a suspension force to the second frame assembly. A controller is operably coupled to the suspension system, and a slope detection system is disposed in electrical communication with the controller for communicating a slope of the field to the controller during the harvesting operation. The controller operably controls the suspension system by adjusting the suspension force based on the slope of the field.
US11382232B1
A self-standing data center infrastructure system includes a bottom frame and a collapsible top frame that are configured to be inserted into a standard shipping container for transport to a data center location. At the data center location the bottom frame is secured to a floor of the data center and the top frame is mounted as a pre-assembled unit on the bottom frame. The top frame is then expanded to provide infrastructure support to one or more rows of racks. Also, the racks may be secured to the bottom frame without the need for additional anchoring of the racks.
US11382225B2
A power adapter unit may include, in an example, a first piece comprising an enclosure to place a power adapter therein; a second piece to contain the power adapter within the power adapter unit; and a cable wrapping surface formed by the second piece being coupled to the first piece.
US11382224B2
A hermetically sealed electronic package may include a thermal panel having a panel interior surface and a panel exterior surface with electronic device(s) in thermal communication with the panel interior surface. An enclosure, isolating environmental communication from internal electronic devices and modules, may be coupled to the thermal panel, and the enclosure may have an enclosure interior surface and an enclosure exterior surface. A plurality of electrical feedthroughs may be coupled to the package enclosure for signal and data transmission, and the conducting pin(s) in every electrical feedthrough may be bonded by a hydrophobic sealing material for harsh environmental electrical signal, data and power transmission. The ratio of sealing length over sealing bead diameter in the electrical feedthrough subassembly may have a preferred value from 2 to 3; and the ratio of the sealing bead diameter over pin diameter in the electrical feedthrough subassembly may have a preferred value from 1.5 to 2.0, where a preferred thermal stress resistance could be designed for making highly hermetic sealed electronic package.
US11382217B2
A surface treated copper foil 1 includes a copper foil 2, and a first surface treatment layer 3 formed on one surface of the copper foil 2. The first surface treatment layer 3 of the surface treated copper foil 1 has a Ni concentration of 0.1 to 15.0 atm % based on the total amount of elements of C, N, O, Zn, Cr, Ni, Co, Si, and Cu, in an XPS depth profile obtained by performing sputtering at a sputtering rate of 2.5 nm/min (in terms of SiO2) for 1 minute. A copper clad laminate 10 includes the surface treated copper foil 1 and an insulating substrate 11 adhered to the first surface treatment layer 3 of the surface treated copper foil 1.
US11382208B2
The invention relates to a device (10) for a vehicle (1) for detecting an activation action in a detection region (51), and in particular for mounting on a vehicle part (5), in order to activate a function of the vehicle (1) depending on the detection, comprising: a multi-layer printed circuit board (20), at least one electrically conductive sensor element (31) for capacitive sensing in the detection region (51), wherein the sensor element (31) is arranged on the printed circuit board (20), at least two shielding elements (40) for shielding (41) for the sensing.
US11382199B2
A control apparatus and method for controlling a haptic device are disclosed. The control apparatus can comprise: a haptic pattern data generation unit for generating first haptic pattern data corresponding to a bit pattern of content; a wireless data generation unit for generating wireless data including the first haptic pattern data and identification data of at least one target haptic device by which the first haptic pattern data is to be received; and a wireless data transmission unit for transmitting the generated wireless data through an antenna.
US11382189B2
A method for diagnosing an electromagnetic cooking device includes selecting a frequency from a set of frequencies in a bandwidth of radio frequency electromagnetic waves; setting a subset of a set of radio frequency feeds to output a radio frequency signal of the selected frequency; measuring a forward power level for the subset of the set of radio frequency feeds that is outputting the radio frequency signal; measuring a forward and backward power level for the set of radio frequency feeds; and processing the measurements of the forward and backward power levels to determine an operating condition of the electromagnetic cooking device based on the processing of the measurements of the forward and backward power levels.
US11382188B2
Microwave systems and new applications of microwave in medical, chemical and materials manufacturing and processing, food and health industries as well as in analytical chemistry instrumentation for in situ study of microwave effects are provided. In the case of medical applications, the microwave based damage is conducted in a way to diminish ablating or damaging the collateral tissue and to increase the probability of procedure achievement.
US11382170B1
A battery selector system, which has at least one battery selector having a knob, a core assembly, and a housing. The core assembly has a chassis core cover, a chassis core, a chassis core contact plate, a main printed circuit board, and a secondary printed circuit board. The core assembly further has a wireless microcontroller, which connects to a wireless network. The housing has electrical terminal studs. The knob, the core assembly, and the housing are assembled creating a sealed unit. Each of the electrical terminal studs is connected to a battery, loads, or ground. The at least one battery selector connects through a wireless network, whereby the battery selector coordinates management functions via the wireless network. The at least one battery selector is a physical power controller for distributing loads to a cluster of batteries.
US11382156B2
The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method of performing user equipment capability procedure for supporting vehicle communication in a next generation mobile communication system is provided.
US11382155B2
System and methods for out-of-band pairing sterile medical device with non-sterile devices without compromising sterility thereof. A system includes a sterile medical device; a non-sterile computing device; at least one near field communication (NFC) tag; and a sterile packaging enclosing the sterile medical device. In one example, a sterile percutaneous needle guidance device needs to pair and communicate with a non-sterile computer. The sterile device has an NFC tag embedded in the sterile device and an NFC tag embedded in the sterile packaging. The two NFC tags include identification information duplicate of each other. Before opening the sterile packaging either NFC tag can be scanned with the non-sterile device to initiate wireless pairing. If the sterile package is opened before pairing, the NFC tag contained in the packaging can be brought out of the sterile field and scanned with the non-sterile computer thus preserving the sterility of the sterile device.
US11382153B2
Provided is a communication system that includes an electronic timepiece and a communication apparatus, in which, when the electronic-timepiece communication unit demands a communication connection to the communication apparatus, the communication-apparatus control unit inquires whether or not the electronic timepiece is included in the connection approval list that is stored in the communication-apparatus storage unit, in which, in a case where the electronic timepiece is included in the connection approval list, the communication-apparatus communication unit establishes a communication connection to the electronic timepiece and performs data communication through which at least clock time data is sent to the electronic timepiece, and in which, in a case where the electronic timepiece is not included in the connection approval list, the communication-apparatus communication unit does not establish the communication connection to the electronic timepiece.
US11382145B2
A plurality of methods for unicast and group communication delivery of Downlink (DL) group communication data to a plurality of User Equipment's (UEs) are used by embodiments of this invention. These methods include two architectures wherein both architectures include a first AMF, AMF-1, which has an N1 connection to UE and both AMF-1 and a second AMF, the network control function, have an N2 connection to the RAN. In the first architecture, AMF-1 supports unicast data delivery and a second AMF, the network control function, supports GC data delivery. AMF-1 and the network control function have no direct connection between each other in the first architecture. In the second architecture, AMF-1 supports unicast data delivery and the network control function supports group communication data delivery. In the second architecture, the network control function and AMF-1 are connected by an interface.
US11382141B2
The present invention provides a method performed by user equipment, a method performed by a base station, user equipment, and a base station. The method performed by user equipment includes: transmitting to a base station a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection resume request; receiving an RRC response message transmitted by the base station and used as a response to the RRC connection resume request; in the case where the UE has transmitted the RRC connection resume request on the basis of Early Data Transmission (EDT), performing first security processing on the RRC response message; and in the case where the UE has not transmitted the RRC connection resume request on the basis of the EDT, performing second security processing on the RRC response message.
US11382140B2
Provided herein is design of early data transmission in wireless communication system. An apparatus for a user equipment (UE) includes a processor configured to: encode a physical random access channel (PRACH) sequence from a plurality of PRACH sequence for transmission via a PRACH to perform a random access procedure, wherein indication of support of early data transmission (EDT) that is transmitted during the random access procedure is based on at least one of the plurality of PRACH sequences, higher layer signaling, PRACH resources, PRACH formats, and a payload from the UE; and send the PRACH sequence to a radio frequency (RF) interface; and the RF interface to receive the PRACH sequence from the processor. Design of random access response (RAR) is also disclosed herein.
US11382138B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to random access in a communication system. A first device receives a criterion to select a random access type for performing random access to a second device. The first device further determines whether the first device is allocated a contention-free random access resource for a certain random access type, and then performs the random access to the second device based on the determination and conditionally based on the criterion. As such, in the case where contention-free random access resource has been allocated for a certain random access type, the device can conditionally apply the criterion for selection of the random access type and can thus perform random access with improved efficiency.
US11382135B2
A method includes: configuring, by a base station, at least two types of random access resources, where the at least two types of random access resources include a first-type random access resource and a second-type random access resource; and different types of random access resources are in a one-to-one correspondence with different sending beam forms of a terminal; or the first-type random access resource is associated with resources of different downlink signals, and the second-type random access resource is not associated with the resources of the different downlink signals.
US11382134B2
A physical AP manages a plurality of BSSs through VAPs. The AP sends a trigger frame to reserve a TXOP including resource units the nodes access to transmit data during the reserved TXOP. To improve channel utilization, the trigger frame identifies a plurality of groups, nodes of which are allowed to access the resources units to transmit data during the reserved TXOP. Thus, the AP receives, during the reserved TXOP, data from one node of a first group identified in the trigger frame and data from one node (separate from the first one) of a second and separate group identified in the trigger frame. A single access by the AP to the medium is thus required, reducing the channel occupation due to control frames. In some embodiments, the number of trigger frames can be drastically reduce, while offering resource units to several BSSs.
US11382122B2
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for allowing cell access. In one aspect there is provided a method, which may include determining, by a user equipment whether a cell allows a communication type, wherein the determining is based on at least one of a scheduling information included in a first type of broadcast message received by the user equipment or a receipt of a second type of broadcast message by the user equipment; and initiating, by the user equipment based on at least the determining, a connection to cell, when at least one of the scheduling information or the second type of broadcast message indicates the communication type is allowed in the cell. Related systems, articles of manufacture, and the like are also disclosed.
US11382117B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining uplink grants for multiple modes. One method (600) includes determining (602), over a first time period, a first mode uplink grant corresponding to a first mode. Determining the first mode uplink grant comprises receiving the first mode uplink grant. The method (600) includes determining (604) autonomously, over a second time period, a second mode uplink grant corresponding to a second mode. The second mode is different from the first mode. The method (600) includes using (606) the first mode uplink grant and the second mode uplink grant to transmit data based on an uplink grant availability corresponding to the first mode uplink grant and the second mode uplink grant.
US11382111B2
The present specification provides a method for reporting aperiodic channel state information (ACSI) in a wireless communication system. More specifically, the method, which is performed by a terminal, comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, downlink control information (DCI) including a reporting trigger for each of first ACSI and second ACSI and a reporting timing for each of the first ACSI and the second ACSI; and transmitting low-priority ACSI, which is determined among the first ACSI and the second ACSI on the basis of a predetermined rule, to the base station at a reporting time point determined on the basis of a delayed reporting timing.
US11382108B2
A data transmission method is disclosed to improve service scheduling flexibility. The method includes: sending, by a base station, configuration information to a terminal, where the configuration information includes symbol quantity information, and the symbol quantity information is used to indicate a quantity of symbols that are used when the base station performs data exchange with the terminal; and sending, by the base station to the terminal, data transmitted in unit of a symbol, or receiving data transmitted in unit of a symbol, where the data occupies m symbols in a time domain, and m is a quantity that is indicated in the configuration information and that is of symbols that are used.
US11382096B2
Disclosed are a method and a device for signal transmission. The method includes: determining a transmission mode of a first signal according to at least one of the following: relationship information between a first spatial filtering parameter and a second spatial filtering parameter; a third reference signal associated with the second signal; relationship information between a first reference signal and a second reference signal; relationship information between DCIs corresponding to the first and the second signals; whether a time interval between the first and second signals being greater than predetermined threshold; information type of information in the first signal; time delay information required for switching the spatial filtering parameters; a configuration information indicating whether the first signal and the second signal share one spatial filtering parameter; and sending or receiving the first signal using the determined transmission mode.
US11382095B2
A first access network device sends indication information to a second access network device within a first time segment of a first subframe. The first subframe includes a second time segment and the first time segment, the second time segment is used by the first access network device to communicate with a first terminal device, the indication information includes first information, and the first information indicates a communication type of the first access network device within a first target time segment of a second subframe. The first access network device further communicates with a second terminal device or the first terminal device based on a communication type indicated by the first information within the first target time segment. The second access network device can detect a signal interference status in time, and the second access network device can use an interference coordination technology in time.
US11382093B2
A configuration for local coordination between the child node and parent node to enable SDM communication between the parent and child node, without input or interaction from the CU. The apparatus receives, from a CU, an indication including an allocation of resources. The apparatus determines a type of communication with a second node based on the allocation of resources. The apparatus communicates with the second node based on the determined type of communication and utilizing the allocated resources. The apparatus coordinates with a parent node to utilize the allocated resources in a SDM operation between the child node and the parent node.
US11382087B2
A communication technique for convergence of a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system with an IoT technology, and a system therefor. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology. A method of a terminal of a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station, downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling of data transmission/reception, checking priority information related to the DCI, based on the priority information, determining whether to perform data transmission/reception scheduled according to the DCI, and if the data transmission/reception is determined to be performed, performing the data transmission/reception, wherein the priority information is indicated by a priority information field in the DCI, is a value configured by higher layer signaling, or is related to a format of the DCI.
US11382083B2
A method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises: receiving, from a base station (BS), configuration information including resource allocation information for a sidelink and an uplink (UL) channel, wherein the sidelink is established between the UE and another UE; receiving, from the BS, downlink control information (DCI) including sidelink resource allocation information; identifying resources for a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) response of the sidelink based on the configuration information and the sidelink resource allocation information; and transmitting, to the BS, the HARQ response of the sidelink via physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources.
US11382075B2
A system and method for providing an MAP for an unsolicited grant to a modem in a wireless backhaul environment based on centralized small cell (cSC) data received at a modem termination system (MTS) is described herein.
US11382070B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a UE and a base station for wireless communications. A UE transmits a first characteristic radio signal in a first radio resource, a first sequence being used for generating the first characteristic radio signal; transmits a second characteristic radio signal in a second radio resource, a second sequence being used for generating the second characteristic radio signal; and transmits a first radio signal in a third radio resource. Herein, parameters of a channel that the first radio signal goes through are related to parameters of a channel that the second characteristic radio signal goes through; a first ID is used for determining at least one of the second sequence or the first radio signal. The presents disclosure can reduce conflicting access to the UE, thereby enhancing the capacity of access to the UE.
US11382054B2
Provided are an information indication method and device. The method comprises operations as follows. A terminal device receives a synchronization signal block (SSB) transmitted by a network device (301). The terminal device acquires indication information according to frequency-domain position information of the SSB. The indication information is used to indicate an attribute of a carrier associated with the SSB, the attribute of the carrier comprises whether the carrier is used in a licensed carrier system or an unlicensed carrier system (302).
US11382051B2
The present invention is directed to suppress deterioration of communication throughput and so on even when a group common TPC command is used. In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, a user terminal has a receiving section that receives downlink control information (DCI) regarding transmit power control (TPC) commands transmitted in a common search space and a control section that identifies a position of a TPC command corresponding to each of carriers included in the DCI based on information regarding positions of the TPC commands for the respective carriers in a cell.
US11382044B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, apparatus, and computer programs encoded on a computer storage media for determining a transmit power of an uplink transmission to one or more serving cells in a secondary cell group (SCG). In one aspect, a wireless device may determine a deadline prior to the uplink transmission to the one or more serving cells in the secondary cell group. The wireless device may determine whether to perform a semi-static uplink transmission that is not scheduled by a DCI format to a serving cell in a master cell group. The wireless device may and adjust a transmit power of the uplink transmission to the one or more serving cells in the secondary cell group in response to determining to perform the semi-static uplink transmission to the serving cell in the master cell group.
US11382040B2
Provided are a method by which a first device performs wireless communication, and a device for supporting same. The method can comprise the steps of: transmitting one or more reference signals (RSs) to a second device on the basis of first transmit power; receiving, from the second device, information related to a channel state measured on the basis of the one or more RSs; changing the first transmit power to second transmit power on the basis of the information related to the channel state; and transmitting the one or more RSs to the second device on the basis of the second transmit power.
US11382039B2
A terminal state indicating method, a terminal state determining method, a base station and a terminal are provided. The terminal state indicating method includes: transmitting a subsequence in a predetermined subsequence set, the predetermined subsequence set includes at least one subsequence, each of the at least one subsequence is configured to indicate that at least two terminals are in a target state, and the target state includes a wake-up state or a sleep state.
US11382036B2
A method and mobile transceiver for asset tracking is provided. In one aspect, a method of operating a mobile transceiver comprising a processor, a memory, a satellite receiver, and at least one wireless transceiver is provided. The method comprises: searching, via a wireless transceiver, for wireless services for connection to a wireless network supported by the wireless transceiver; in response to a determination that more than one wireless service is available: determining whether the mobile transceiver is in a battery powered mode; in response to a determination that the mobile transceiver is in the battery powered mode, selecting a most power efficient wireless service from the more than one available wireless service in accordance with a basic power profile of the available wireless service stored in a memory of the mobile transceiver, wherein the basic power profile includes a power efficiency rating indicator of a wireless access technology of each of the available wireless services supported by the mobile transceiver; and in response to a determination that only one wireless service is available, selecting the available wireless service.
US11382029B2
Accordingly the embodiments herein provide a method for provisioning Minimum System Information (MSI) for User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The method includes decoding Primary Broadcast Channel (PBCH) to acquire a first Master Information Block (MIB) periodically transmitted by base station. Further, the method includes determining to perform one of bar a cell from which the first MIB is acquired for a pre-determined period of time and acquire second MIB transmitted on Secondary Broadcast Channel (SBCH) by base station based on cell barring indication received in the first MIB. Furthermore, the method includes transmitting a request message to the base station to obtain at least one SI block of the OSI. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving a list of system configuration indexes (SCIs) and corresponding configuration of SI blocks, from the base station based on SI storage capability of the UE indicated to the base station.
US11382028B2
A communication system comprises a fixed network comprising access points for mm wave radio communication using directional beams. A wireless modem of a vehicle comprises a first search circuit searching for a beacon transmission in a first frequency channel. A first data receiver extracts data from a detected beacon signal including: an indication of a first access point transmitting the beacon signal; a first load value indicative of a loading of the first access point; and an indication of a second access point having overlapping coverage with the first access point. Another receiver extracts data from a second beacon signal transmitted by the second access point in a second frequency channel including a second load value indicative of a loading of the second access point. A controller selects a target access point dependent on the first and second load values, and initializes a link setup with the target access point.
US11382027B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a remote radio head may transmit, during a user equipment (UE) RRH discovery procedure with a UE, an RRH identifier to the UE for reporting to a base station (BS) associated with the RRH and the UE; receive, from the BS, communication configuration information based at least in part on transmitting the RRH identifier, wherein the communication configuration information includes at least one of scheduling information or configuration information; and communicate with the UE in accordance with the communication configuration information. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11382019B2
A session management method by a terminal in which a network initiates a session deactivation procedure to deactivate one or more sessions of a terminal. After the terminal in an inactive mode establishes an RRC connection to a new second base station, the second base station indicates, through RRC connection reconfiguration, the terminal to delete related information of the to-be-deactivated session, or the second base station uses an RRC connection resume response message to carry an identifier of the one or more to-be-deactivated sessions, and the terminal deletes session-related information corresponding to the identifier of the one or more to-be-deactivated sessions. In this way, the terminal is enabled to process the related information of the to-be-deactivated session in a timely manner.
US11382018B2
Systems, devices, and techniques described herein are directed to improved wireless handovers based on device movement. User equipment (UE) can be wirelessly connected to a network via a serving cell, while handover operations allow the UE to transition a connection from the serving cell to a candidate cell to facilitate mobility and connection continuity. In some cases, the serving cell can be a wide area network and the candidate cell can be a small cell, whereby the small cell utilizes millimeter wavelength communications. In some cases, where a candidate cell can provide a higher quality connection compared to the serving cell, a handover decision can be based at least in part on motion data associated with the UE. For example, if a speed of the UE is above a threshold, the UE or network can be prevented from initiating a handover from the serving cell to the candidate cell.
US11382002B2
A radio network (6) and a radio terminal (4) are configured to, when the radio terminal (4) is using a first cell (10) served by a first radio station (1) as a primary cell and a second cell (20) served by a second radio station (2) as a secondary cell, change the secondary cell form the second cell (20) to a third cell (30) while keeping communication status information regarding the radio terminal (4) on the second cell (20). It is thus, for example, possible to enable a communication service in the secondary cell to be continued after the secondary cell is changed when the radio terminal which is simultaneously using a plurality of cells served by different radio stations changes the secondary cell from a cell of one radio station to a cell of another radio station.
US11382000B2
A method for distributing packets of a data traffic over aggregated radio links connecting a node of a packet-switched wireless communication network to a further node of the packet-switched wireless communication network includes, at an indoor unit of the node, configuring at least one set of distribution rules indicating, for each of a first radio link and a second radio link of the aggregated radio links, an association between the radio link and a subset of values of a priority parameter carried within the packets. The method also includes, upon reception of a packet of the data traffic, distributing the packet over the first radio link or the second radio link on the basis of the priority parameter value carried within the packet and the associations.
US11381992B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for data source reporting are disclosed. A method includes receiving, by a network provider, data types a customer user is to have reported from one or more data sources of the customer user, wherein the reporting is from data sources, and wherein the wireless reporting is through a wireless uplink between the data sources to a base station, providing, by the network provider, options of data packages to the customer, wherein the options of data packages are selected from the set of data packages based on the data types provided by the customer user, and receiving, by the network provider, from the customer user, a selection of a data package from the provided options of data packages, wherein the selected data package includes one or more data types, and when data within the selected data package are to be reported.
US11381991B2
Provided are a measuring method, a network device, and a terminal device. The method is applied to a 5G communication system. The method comprises: a network device sending measurement configuration information to a terminal device, the measurement configuration information comprising configuration information concerning a plurality of sending opportunities for a first reference signal on an unlicensed frequency band; the network device sending, on the plurality of sending opportunities, the first reference signal to the terminal device. According to the measuring method provided in the embodiments of the present invention, the network device configures the terminal device with the measurement configuration information, such that a 5G terminal device on an unlicensed frequency band can measure a received reference signal.
US11381984B2
Systems, methods, and related technologies for device classification are described. In certain aspects, one or more properties are selected based on associated respective ranks. The selected one or more properties are used with information associated with the device to determine a classification. The classification may then be stored.
US11381980B2
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for establishing a cell using system information of neighboring cells on the basis of interference environments of the neighboring cells in a wireless communication system. The method according to the present invention comprises the steps of: detecting, by a base station, cell IDs of neighboring cells by using synchronization signals transmitted from the neighboring cells; checking whether resources, to which common reference signals (CRS) transmitted from the neighboring cells are transmitted, overlap with each other, on the basis of the cell IDs; estimating channels of the neighboring cells by using the CRSs; and determining an interference environment for establishing a cell by using the result of the checking and the estimated channels.
US11381979B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to defining and using unlicensed band, or sub-band, combinations for Carrier Aggregation (CA) for a wireless communication system that utilizes a standalone unlicensed technology (e.g., MulteFire or Fifth Generation (5G) New Radio (NR)). In general, a wireless device is configured with a CA combination that includes a Primary Cell (PCell) in a non-Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) spectrum and one or more Secondary Cells (SCells), at least one of which is in a DFS spectrum. In this manner, standalone operation in unlicensed spectrum utilizing DFS spectrum is provided.
US11381976B2
Disclosed is a pairing method and a pairing system for a wireless headset, the pairing method comprising: establishing, by an intermediate device, wireless communication connections respectively with a first wireless earpiece and a second wireless earpiece, and sending pairing information respectively to the first wireless earpiece and the second wireless earpiece based on the established wireless communication connections; and establishing, by the first wireless earpiece and the second wireless earpiece, a wireless communication link between the first wireless earpiece and the second wireless earpiece based on the pairing information. By the above pairing method, pairing between the first wireless earpiece and the second wireless earpiece can be realized conveniently.
US11381974B2
A method and an attack detection function (200), for detection of a distributed attack in a wireless network (206) to which multiple wireless devices are connected via network nodes (210). It is checked whether characteristics of a traffic flow from each of a plurality of wireless devices (208) fulfil a predefined threshold condition related to abnormal traffic originating from the wireless devices, or not. When detecting that said characteristics of traffic flow fulfil the threshold condition, changes of the traffic flows from the wireless devices are identified, e.g. based on statistics on previous traffic originating from the wireless devices. It can then be determined whether the wireless devices are used in the distributed attack, based on said identified changes of the traffic flows.
US11381972B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to optimizing authentication and management of wireless devices in zero trust computing environments. In some embodiments, a computing platform may receive, from a user computing device, a connection request. Subsequently, the computing platform may generate, using an artificial-intelligence engine, a profile for the connection request. Based on the profile for the connection request generated using the artificial-intelligence engine, the computing platform may determine that the connection request is valid. In response to determining that the connection request is valid, the computing platform may establish a connection with the user computing device. Based on establishing the connection with the user computing device, the computing platform may assign an identity to the user computing device. After assigning the identity to the user computing device, the computing platform may monitor behavior of the user computing device based on the identity assigned to the user computing device.
US11381966B2
An identification adapter for an identification device has a reading unit and a control unit. The control unit is connected to the reading unit via a data communication connection. The identification adapter has a receiving unit for wirelessly receiving identification data (ID). Also, the identification adapter has a data transmission unit designed to transmit the received identification data (ID) to the control unit on the same data communication connection as the reading unit.
US11381957B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, embodiments that include accessing a group of user controlled mobile equipment access point names in response to the device detecting a user controlled mobile equipment access point name elementary file (EF_UMEAPN) stored in a memory of a universal integrated circuit card (UICC). An operator stores access point name information and the access point name information comprises the EF_UMEAPN. Further embodiments include configuring the device according to the group of user controlled mobile equipment access point names. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11381948B2
A method is disclosed for switching connections of Bluetooth headsets. The method includes indicating, on a user interface of the first Bluetooth device, (i) the first Bluetooth device has a first Bluetooth connection with a Bluetooth headset, and (ii) a second Bluetooth device has no Bluetooth connection with the Bluetooth headset. Also, the method includes receiving user input to establish a second Bluetooth connection between the second Bluetooth device and the Bluetooth headset. Further, the method includes sending a message to the Bluetooth headset. The message includes a unique device identifier of the second Bluetooth device. The message represents a command for the Bluetooth headset to establish the second Bluetooth connection with the second Bluetooth device. Responsive to the message, the Bluetooth headset (i) releases the first Bluetooth connection with the first Bluetooth device and (ii) establishes the second Bluetooth connection with the second Bluetooth device.
US11381933B2
A first horizontal axis of a plane of a display is determined based on a user input. Angular movement data of the display is collected. A second horizontal axis of the plane of the display is determined based on the angular movement data. A second user input on the display is mapped based on the second horizontal axis.
US11381929B2
A system receives a vehicle data snapshot. The system compares characteristics of the vehicle data snapshot to a database of known characteristics, the known characteristics identifying one or more instances corresponding to an instance type identified in a geo-fence request, the instance types in the geo-fence request having been submitted for geo-fencing around occurrences of instances of the instance type. Responsive to identifying an existence of an instance at a location where the vehicle data snapshot was taken, based on the comparison, the system establishes a geo-fence around the identified instance and transmits the established geo-fence to one or more vehicles associated with the geo-fence request.
US11381928B2
Disclosures in the present invention relate to a system and method of generating and optimising unique address parameters for entities described by addresses and locations. The system in the present invention stores multiple addresses mapped with their estimated physical locations in a database. A first address is parsed and broken down into at least nationality, state, city, town, locality, sub-locality, street, landmark, building, floor number, identification number, postal code, zip code or any other address identifying parameter. Similar addresses are searched for in the list of stored addresses and their addresses and locations are matched with the address and location of the first address to generate a unique address parameter.
US11381926B2
A method expedites processing and playing of binaural sound during an electronic communication between a first user and a second user. An electronic device of the first user convolves sound into binaural sound for the second user before the binaural sound transmits to the electronic device of the second user. In this way, the binaural sound is already convolved and ready to play upon receipt at the electronic device of the second user.
US11381925B2
A multi-channel decorrelator for providing a plurality of decorrelated signals on the basis of a plurality of decorrelator input signals is configured to premix a first set of N decorrelator input signals into a second set of K decorrelator input signals, wherein K
US11381924B2
A system, method, hearing aid and software for providing a network connection for a computer device to at least one hearing aid having a gateway to the Internet. The system includes a user account server providing a user account database, each user account includes a unique identity for an associated hearing aid; a control server providing a hearing aid connection register including the unique identity of hearing aids associated with current connection information; and a network connection handling element for detecting the presence of a wireless connection between the hearing a and gateway, and for uploading current connection information to the control server. On receiving connection information, the control server updates the hearing aid connection register, and provides the current connection information to a requesting computer device. The computer device can establish a direct connection to the hearing aid based on current connection information requested from the control server.
US11381914B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for controlling audio using an asymmetric channel of an audio conference. An audio control method may include establishing, by a processor included in a computer apparatus, a bi-directional media session having an asymmetric channel structure between a first participant among a plurality of participants participating in an audio conference and a mixer, receiving, by the processor, first audio data from the first participant through a media session of a first channel structure in the bi-directional media session, mixing, by the processor, second audio data of at least two participants excluding the first participant from among the plurality of participants, using a multichannel, and transferring, by the processor, the mixed audio data of the at least two participants mixed using the multichannel to the first participant through a media session of a second channel structure in the bi-directional media session.
US11381902B2
An earpiece including an intra-auricular support, a projection element coupled thereto, and a flexible body disposed thereon and inside an external ear canal of an ear, and a moldable earpiece material moldable about the intra-auricular support to conform to the auricle of an ear and curable to provide a fixed configuration of the earpiece.
US11381895B2
A display device includes a display panel including a display layer including light-emitting elements disposed on a substrate, and a sensor electrode layer disposed on the display layer. The sensor electrode layer includes a first sound electrode and a second sound electrode; a vibration layer electrically contacting the first sound electrode and the second sound electrode and being deformed in response to a first sound driving voltage applied to the first sound electrode and a second sound driving voltage applied to the second sound electrode; and sensor electrodes disposed on the vibration layer. The sensor electrodes sense an input.
US11381894B2
A device with linear slots for water drainage is provided. The device comprises: a bezel covering a cavity and a microphone/speaker mounted therein, the bezel having outer and inner faces, the inner face facing the cavity; linear slots through the bezel between the faces, the linear slots being obliquely angled relative to an upright axis of the bezel; linear slats separating the linear slots at the bezel and forming sides thereof having dimensions selected to promote formation of water droplets thereon of a size which overcome water surface tension and flow out of the linear slots when the bezel is exposed to one or more of mist, rain, water and humidity; and one or more recesses at the inner face, adjacent to the linear slots, the one or more recesses to collect water from the water droplets as the water flows out of the linear slots.
US11381876B2
An apparatus for managing network enabled devices including a processor, a number of network interfaces, communicatively connected to the processor and a non-transitory storage medium. The modules may include a broadcast content obtain module, an other media obtain module, a content aggregate module, an aggregated content send module, a command receive module, and an instruction send module. The apparatus may request that an overlay be displayed on a device so that a user may instruct an instruction send module to interact with an Internet of Things device.
US11381875B2
A user interface allows for blending of television program choices from which a viewer may select, the blending representing options for linear and non-linear programming presented together within a single hierarchy of a designated category. The blending may further include managed content relevant to the designated category, where desired. Such designated categories may include television programming categories and/or content categories. The options for linear and non-linear programming may be presented together within a single screen of the user interface.
US11381874B2
An electronic device and method for personalization of curated offerings of a media application is provided. The electronic device selects a user interface (UI) element from a set of UI elements on a UI displayed on a display device based on a first user input. The selected UI element is associated with a media application accessible via the electronic device. The electronic device controls the display device to display a callout window within proximity of the selected UI element and within a display area of the UI based on the selection of the UI element. The electronic device selects a set of curated offerings of the media application based on user information and presentation metadata associated with the selected UI element and further controls the display device to populate the displayed callout window with a set of user-engageable items linked to the selected set of curated offerings.
US11381870B2
Channel bonding is realized in a receiving apparatus that receives terrestrial digital broadcasting compliant with an ATSC 3.0 Standard. A receiving section selects any one of a plurality of frequency channels as a bonding source channel and receives a frame from the bonding source channel. A control section performs processing for obtaining one frequency channel in which packets are to be bonded with the bonding source channel among the plurality of frequency channel as a bonding destination channel on the basis of the frame and processing for controlling the receiving section to newly receive a frame from the bonding destination channel. A decoding section decodes the frame and acquires the packets. A bonding section bonds together the packets corresponding to the bonding source channel and the packets corresponding to the bonding destination channel.
US11381866B2
A wideband receiver system comprises a wideband analog-to-digital converter (ADC) module and a digital frontend (DFE) module. The wideband ADC is configured to concurrently digitize a band of frequencies comprising a plurality of desired channels and a plurality of undesired channels. The DFE module is coupled to the digital in-phase and quadrature signals. The DFE module is configured to select the plurality of desired channels from the digitized band of frequencies, and generate an intermediate frequency (IF) signal comprising the selected plurality of desired channels and having a bandwidth that is less than a bandwidth of the band of frequencies, where the generation comprises frequency shifting of the selected plurality of desired channels. The IF signal may be a digital signal and the DFE is configured to output the IF signal via a serial or parallel interface.
US11381852B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for altering or otherwise obscuring a progress bar to prevent spoilers in a media asset. A media asset is generated for display and an input is detected from a user during playback of the media asset. A determination is made whether the input comprises a command to display a progress bar. In the affirmative, a determination regarding a current point of playback of the media asset and the type of segment is made. An entry is retrieved from a database that maps the type of segment to a range of time. A determination is made whether the remaining time of the media asset is within the range of time. In the affirmative, a determination whether displaying the progress bar would spoil the media asset is made. In response to determining that displaying the progress bar would spoil the media asset, the progress bar is refrained from generating display.
US11381851B2
A computer implemented method for inserting advertisement content into a program content stream includes receiving, by a headend content server, the program content stream. The program content stream includes an advertisement insertion cue. The method further includes detecting the advertisement insertion cue in the program content stream, and the advertisement insertion cue indicates an insertion point in the program content stream for inserting an advertisement. The method further includes modifying the advertisement insertion cue to indicate an expiration date and time for playout of a first advertisement content to be inserted into the program content stream, and inserting the first advertisement content into the program content stream.
US11381847B2
Techniques for coding coefficients in a residual block are described. A video coder (e.g., video encoder or video decoder) may code (e.g., encode or decode), in an interleaving manner, coefficient information on a coefficient-by-coefficient basis for coefficients in a residual block of a current block of the video data in a first pass, wherein the coefficient information for a coefficient includes one or more of a significance flag indicating whether a value of the coefficient is not zero, a parity flag indicating whether the value of the coefficient is odd or even, a sign flag indicating whether the value of the coefficient is positive or negative, and one or more greater than flags indicating whether an absolute value of the coefficient is greater than respective threshold values, and after the first pass, code remainder information for coefficients in the residual block of the current block in a second pass.
US11381844B2
Disclosed is a prediction method adopting in-loop filtering. According to the present invention, a prediction method for encoding and decoding video comprises the following steps: generating a residual block of the current block through an inverse quantization and inverse transform; generating a prediction block of the current block through an intra-prediction; performing in-loop filtering on the current block in which the residual block and the prediction block are combined; and storing the current block, on which the in-loop filtering is performed, in a frame buffer for an intra-prediction of the next block to be encoded. As described above, prediction is performed using an in-loop filter during processes for encoding and decoding video, thereby improving the accuracy of prediction and reducing errors in prediction, thus improving the efficiency of video compression and reducing the amount of data to be transmitted.
US11381840B2
A method of point cloud geometry decoding in a point cloud decoder can include receiving a bitstream including a slice of a coded point cloud frame, and reconstructing an octree representing a geometry of points in a bounding box of the slice where a current node of the octree is partitioned with a quadtree (QT) partition or a binary tree (BT) partition.
US11381835B2
Systems and methods for integrated graphics rendering are disclosed. In certain embodiments, the systems and methods utilize a graphics engine, a video encoding engine, and remote client coding engine to render graphics over a network. The systems and methods involve the generation of per-pixel motion vectors, which are converted to per-block motion vectors at the graphics engine. The graphics engine injects these per-block motion vectors into a video encoding engine, such that the video encoding engine may convert those vectors into encoded video data for transmission to the remote client coding engine.
US11381812B2
Disclosed is a boundary filtering method for intra prediction, relating to the video encoding technology filed. Whether boundary filtering is performed on an intra prediction block or not is adaptively selected by means of a rate distortion optimization decision; during filtering, a filter coefficient exponentially attenuated relative to distance to boundary is adopted to perform filtering on the first N rows or the first N columns of the intra prediction block by means of an intra prediction block filter, and different filtering strengths are used according to different sizes of the prediction blocks. Therefore, the boundary distortion problem of intra prediction block is solved, the intra prediction precision is improved, and the encoding efficiency of intra prediction block is increased; and the practicability and the robustness of the boundary filtering technology are improved.
US11381802B2
Customer wide angle lenses and methods and apparatus for using such lenses in individual cameras as well as pairs of cameras intended for stereoscopic image capture are described. The lenses are used in combination with sensors to capture different portions of an environment at different resolutions. In some embodiments ground is capture at a lower resolution than sky which is captured at a lower resolution than a horizontal area of interest. Various asymmetries in lenses and/or lens and sensor placement are described which are particularly well suited for stereoscopic camera pairs where the proximity of one camera to the adjacent camera may interfere with the field of view of the cameras.
US11381798B2
An image processing apparatus comprises a processing unit which executes determination processing for determining a parameter to be used in development processing of a target playback frame within a RAW movie file, based on a difference between a parameter for the target playback frame and a parameter used in development processing of a proceeding frame, a developing unit which performs development processing on a RAW image of the target playback frame using the determined parameter, and a control unit which, when a playback start position is designated by a user, determines a parameter for a frame of interest corresponding to the playback start position, by causing the processing unit to execute the determination processing for each of a plurality of frames from a frame that is a preset number of frames before the frame of interest to the frame of interest.
US11381797B2
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that that modify audio of played back AV content based on context in accordance with some implementations. In some implementations audio-visual content of a physical environment is obtained, and the audio-visual content includes visual content and audio content that includes a plurality of audio portions corresponding to the visual content. In some implementations, a context for presenting the audio-visual content is determined, and a temporal relationship between one or more audio portions of the plurality of audio portions and the visual content is determined based on the context. Then, synthesized audio-visual content is presented based on the temporal relationship.
US11381796B2
Provided herein is an image-sensing device and a method for auto white balance. An image signal processor is used to perform the method. In the method, an RGBIr photo sensor receives an image with data over red, green and blue channels. The image data over the red, green and blue channel is firstly restored. A series of weights are calculated according to the image data over an infrared channel. The weights are allocated to the image data so as to adjust the infrared ratios over the red, green and blue channels for reducing infrared effect on auto white balance. After that, an infrared weighting calculation is performed for adjusting the infrared values over the red, green and blue channels of the image. A set of white balance gains are obtained. An auto white balance is performed for obtaining a new image with infrared crosstalk compensation.
US11381792B2
A projection system and a positioning method capable of positioning a projected image are provided. The projection system includes a projection device, an image capturing device, and a determination module. The projection device projects a plurality of display grid points. The image capturing device captures images of the plurality of display grid points to obtain a plurality of display results corresponding to the plurality of display grid points. The determination module receives the plurality of display results. The determination module controls the projection device not to project at least one unrecognizable display grid point corresponding to the at least one unrecognizable display result when determining that the plurality of display results include the at least one unrecognizable display result. The invention is provided to improve the accuracy of matching or stitching of a projected image.
US11381788B2
An imaging device includes pixels each including a holding portion, and an output unit, and a control unit that controls readout of pixel signals. The pixels include first to fourth pixels that output signals based on light of first to fourth wavelength ranges. A first unit pixel includes the first and second pixels but no third pixel, which share the holding portion. A second unit pixel includes the first and third pixels but no second pixel, which share the holding portion. A third unit pixel includes the first and fourth pixels but neither second nor third pixel, which share the holding portion. The control unit reads, from the first unit pixel, a signal in which signals of the first and second pixels are added in the holding portion, and reads, from the third unit pixel, a signal in which signals of the first pixels are added in the holding portion.
US11381785B2
Systems and methods for automatically capturing visual data of a seed placed by a seed planting machine (e.g., a crop row planter). An electronic controller is configured to receive a signal indicative of a seed being dispensed by the seed planting machine and to trigger a camera to capture an image of the dispensed seed in response to a determination, based on the signal, that the seed has been dispensed by the seed planting machine. In some implementations, the system includes a seed sensor configured to detect a seed moving through a seed tube that dispensed seeds from the seed planting machine. In other implementations, the system is configured to detect a new seed being dispensed by the seed planting machine by analyzing image data captured by a camera.
US11381782B2
A position and pose determination unit (103) is configured to determine a position and an pose of the video acquisition unit (110) in such a way that a level of hiding caused by overlapping of objects becomes low based on environmental object information indicating an environmental object including a structural object present in the monitored area and a placed object placed in the structural object, and staying characteristic information indicating a staying characteristic of the object determined depending on the environmental object. The analysis and display unit (111) is configured to perform at least one of analyzing a video captured by the video acquisition unit (103) at the position and the pose determined by the position and pose determination unit (110) and displaying the video.
US11381769B2
An imaging device includes a first substrate and a second substrate stacked thereon. The first substrate includes: a photoelectric converter that converts incident light into a signal charge; a first transistor that outputs a signal corresponding to the signal charge, a gate of the first transistor being connected to the photoelectric converter; and a second transistor, one of a source and a drain thereof being connected to the photoelectric converter, the other of the source and the drain thereof being connected to a source or a drain of the first transistor. The second substrate includes: a constant current source circuit that is connected to one of the source and the drain of the first transistor; and a bias circuit that is connected to the other of the source and the drain of the first transistor and that generates a first voltage and a second voltage different therefrom.
US11381761B2
An imager pixel comprising a micro-platform supported by phononic nanowires, the nanowires providing an extreme-level of thermal isolation from a surrounding substrate. The micro-platform in embodiments comprises thermal sensors sensitive to heat from absorbed incident longwave/shortwave photonic irradiation. In embodiments, the pixel photonic sensing structure comprises both a thermal sensor together with a separate photodiode/phototransistor/photogate for sensing RGB and NIR wavelengths. Some embodiments comprise a micro-platform with an integral Peltier thermoelectric element permitting in situ refrigeration to cryogenic temperatures.
US11381760B2
An infrared imaging apparatus having thin film spatial filters in a stacked array to filter and collate light generated internally by the infrared imaging apparatus such that the light generated impacts a detection area of the imaging apparatus at or near a critical angle. The index of refraction of the detection area being subject to change when irradiated with infrared light such that the amount of light generated internally and reflected to a light detector attached to the imaging apparatus varies with the intensity of the irradiating infrared light.
US11381758B2
A preferred method of acquiring virtual or augmented reality (VAR) scenes can include at a plurality of locations of interest, providing one or more users with a predetermined pattern for image acquisition with an image capture device and for each of the one or more users, in response to a user input, acquiring at least one image at the location of interest. The method of the preferred embodiment can also include for each of the one or more users, in response to the acquisition of at least one image, providing the user with feedback to ensure a complete acquisition of the virtual or augmented reality scene; and receiving at a remote database, from each of the one or more users, one or more VAR scenes. One variation of the method of the preferred embodiment can include providing game mechanics to promote proper image acquisition and promote competition between users.
US11381756B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and method for performing operations comprising: receiving, by a messaging application, an image from a camera of a user device; receiving input that selects a user-customizable effects option for activating a user-customizable effects mode; in response to receiving the input, displaying an array of a plurality of effect options together with the image proximate to the user-customizable effects option; and applying a first effect associated with a first effect option of the plurality of effect options to the image.
US11381755B2
An image capture apparatus comprises a photometry unit that acquires photometric information that indicates brightness of a captured image of a subject, a control unit that controls exposure based on the photometric information, and a correction unit that, at a time of acquiring a plurality of images, which are to be used when generating a time-lapse moving image and are obtained by consecutive image capturing of a subject, obtains a difference between first photometric information acquired prior to a first image capturing in the consecutive image capturing and second photometric information based on an image obtained by performing the first image capturing in a state in which exposure control has been performed, and corrects photometric information at the time of second and subsequent image capturing in the consecutive image capturing using the difference.
US11381752B2
A pixel array uses two sets of pixels to provide accurate exposure control. One set of pixels provide continuous output signals for automatic light control (ALC) as the other set integrates and captures an image. ALC pixels allow monitoring of multiple pixels of an array to obtain sample data indicating the amount of light reaching the array, while allowing the other pixels to provide proper image data. A small percentage of the pixels in an array is replaced with ALC pixels and the array has two reset lines for each row; one line controls the reset for the image capture pixels while the other line controls the reset for the ALC pixels. In the columns, at least one extra control signal is used for the sampling of the reset level for the ALC pixels, which happens later than the sampling of the reset level for the image capture pixels.
US11381742B2
An optical apparatus attachable to an image pickup apparatus and switchable a power state between a first state and a second state that consumes a power less than the first state includes a driver that drives a driven member, a first detector configured to detect a driving amount of the driver or whether the driven member is located at a predetermined position, a memory that stores a signal value of the first detector when the power state of the optical apparatus is switched from the first state to the second state, and a determiner that determines that the driver is in an abnormal state when the signal value stored in the memory and the signal value of the first detector when the power state of the optical apparatus is switched from the second state to the first state are different from each other.
US11381735B2
An electronic device according to the present invention, includes: at least one image sensor configured to be able of capturing an image of a first capturing range and an image of a second capturing range different from the first capturing range; and at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: a control unit configured to control to in response to an operation on a first position on a side, which is oriented in a first direction, of the electronic device, capture an image of the first capturing range by the at least one image sensor, and in response to an operation on a second position on a side, which is oriented in a second direction different from the first direction, of the electronic device, capture an image of the second capturing range by the at least one image sensor.
US11381733B2
A camera platform apparatus (102) sequentially moves an image capturing direction of an image capturing apparatus (101) with respect to an object to be inspected. The image capturing apparatus (101) acquires a captured image of each section of the object by performing image capturing in each image capturing direction. A computational operation apparatus (103) records a focus control position for each section of the object whose image is captured by the image capturing apparatus (101) in each image capturing direction. In a case where AF is not successful when image capturing is performed on a section whose image is not yet captured, the computational operation apparatus (103) sets an allowable range of the focus control position for the section for which the AF is not successful based on the recorded focus control positions, and the computational operation apparatus (103) controls the image capturing apparatus (101) to perform focus BLK image capturing within the set range.
US11381729B1
Embodiments of the disclosure relate generally to automatic focus selection in a multi-imager environment. Embodiments include methods, systems, and apparatuses configured for capturing by a first image sensor, a first image of a visual object with a background associated with a subject. A characteristic difference between the visual object in the first image and the background in the first image is determined and a distance determination mode is selected based on the determined characteristic difference. Accordingly, a distance to the subject is calculated based on the selected distance determination mode and a second image sensor is controlled to capture a second image of the subject, based on the calculated distance to the subject.
US11381728B2
An image capture apparatus that detects, from an image, a subject area and a characteristic area within the subject area is disclosed. The image capture apparatus sets an AF area to the characteristic area and detects a defocus amount for the AF area and defocus amounts for peripheral areas of the AF area. The image capture apparatus corrects the defocus amount detected for the AF area based on the defocus amounts detected for the peripheral areas and adjusts focus of an imaging optical system based on the corrected defocus amount.
US11381723B2
An apparatus and system for an image capture device that captures images utilizing a lens made of a plurality of lenslets that each capture an image. Utilizing information of the lenslets and range of view of the lenslets, the system can modify the image being captured to capture information chosen by a user and ignore other image information. For example, the system can chose a particular distance for object capture, pan/tilt/zoom information, focal length information, depth of field information, or the like. Other embodiments are described herein.
US11381722B2
An electromagnetic wave detection apparatus (10) includes a first propagation unit (16), second propagation unit (17), first detector (19), and second detector (20). The first propagation unit (16) propagates electromagnetic waves incident on a reference surface (ss) in a particular direction at each pixel (px). The second propagation unit (17) includes first through sixth surfaces (s1 to s6). The second surface (s2) separates electromagnetic waves propagated in a second direction (d2) and propagates the electromagnetic waves in a third direction (d3) and fourth direction (d4). The fourth surface (s4) emits electromagnetic waves propagated in the fourth direction (d4) towards the reference surface (ss) and propagates electromagnetic waves incident again from the reference surface (ss) in a fifth direction (d5). The first detector (19) detects electromagnetic waves emitted from the third surface (s3). The second detector (20) detects electromagnetic waves emitted from the sixth surface (s6).
US11381719B2
An imaging device includes an imaging unit that captures an image of a subject, a substrate on which the imaging unit is mounted, a lens barrel holding a lens, a shield plate surrounding the substrate and including a metal, and a case accommodating the substrate, the lens barrel, and the shield plate and including a metal. The shield plate is in contact with the case. The substrate includes a ground potential portion electrically connected to the shield plate and the case.
US11381718B2
An embodiment of the present invention relates to a camera module comprising: a housing comprising a through hole; a lens module disposed in the through hole; a connector penetrating the housing and extending to an outside from an inside of the housing; a first substrate unit located inside the housing and having an image sensor mounted thereon; a second substrate unit disposed inside the housing and connected to the connector; and a flexible substrate for electrically connecting the first substrate and the second substrate unit, wherein the flexible substrate is coupled to a lower surface of the first substrate unit and a side surface of the second substrate.
US11381714B2
An image processing device includes an interface and a control circuit. The interface is configured to receive input line signals in synchronization with input horizontal synchronization signals, respectively. The control circuit is configured to store line image data contained in each of input line signals in the order of reception, generate internal horizontal synchronization signals, and output internal line signals containing the line image data in the input line signals, in synchronization with the internal horizontal synchronization signals, respectively. The input line signals include a first input line signal containing first line image data, and the internal line signals include a first internal line signal containing the first line image data. A horizontal cycle of the internal horizontal synchronization signal corresponding to the first internal line signal is less than a horizontal cycle of the input horizontal synchronization signal corresponding to the first input line signal.
US11381709B2
An image reading device includes a first scanner, a second scanner, and circuitry. The first scanner is configured to read a first side of a recording medium. The second scanner is configured to read a second side of the recording medium. The circuitry is configured to generate a first correction value to correct misalignment between the first side and the second side. The circuitry is configured to input a second correction value. The circuitry is configured to correct an image based on the first correction value and the second correction value.
US11381697B2
The information processing apparatus includes a display. The information processing apparatus accepts user operations via a GUI (graphical user interface) displayed on the display. When the service ends, the forgotten item notification screen is displayed on the display. In the forgotten item notification screen, a forgotten item reminder unit is provided for reminding a user who left behind a reminder target item, including the property of the user used in connection with the service. An individual reminder section is provided in a forgotten item reminder unit, to give an individual reminder to prevent the occurrence of leaving behind of each reminder target item, for a first-type item for which retrieval cannot be detected and a second-type item for which retrieval can be detected but which has not been retrieved, from among the reminder target items.
US11381688B2
An image forming apparatus includes a first reading unit configured to read a first image on a first surface of a document, a second reading unit configured to read a second image on a second surface of the document different from the first surface, a printing unit configured to print a third image on a sheet, and a setting unit configured to set resolution of the third image printed by the printing unit. The printing unit prints the third image on the sheet with the resolution set by the setting unit. The printing unit also prints a fourth image with resolution lower than or equal to a threshold, without using the set resolution, the fourth image used for correction of at least a color value obtained by reading the second image using the second reading unit.
US11381675B2
The disclosure discloses a command based interactive system (100) and a method thereof. The system (100) includes an electronic device (102) and an AI engine (108). The electronic device (102) includes a detection module (206), a switching module (208), and a recording module (210). The detection module (206) detects a call and a user input, first context data of the call, and/or pre-setting information. The switching module (208) enables the electronic device (102) to receive a command from the user. The recording module (210) records the command. The AI engine (108) includes an analyser (222), and a communication module (226). The analyzer (222) analyzes the command, and generates conversational threads based on the analysed command. The communication module (226) transmits the conversational threads to the caller.
US11381670B2
An electronic device including circuitry configured to perform control in a manner that a Physical Layer Convergence Protocol (PLCP) header format is selected from a plurality of PLCP header formats; and append the selected PLCP header to a physical layer packet for transmission.
US11381661B2
A method for creating a dynamic element in content performed by a dynamic element management system is disclosed. The method includes receiving a content request for the dynamic element from a client device, the content request comprising a uniform resource locator (URL) of an external data source from which to retrieve content for the dynamic element; identifying the data source based on the URL; forwarding the content request to the identified data source; receiving metadata corresponding to the content hosted by the data source; and forwarding the metadata to the client device for display in a dynamic element placeholder on the client device.
US11381658B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a plurality of operational profiles that are to be shared by a plurality of devices; assigning a first operational profile of the plurality of operational profiles to a first device of the plurality of devices; assigning a second operational profile of the plurality of operational profiles to a second device of the plurality of devices; facilitating provision of the first operational profile on the first device; and facilitating provision of the second operational profile on the second device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11381653B2
Systems and methods for tracking media file playback are provided. A request to upload a media file and metadata associated with the media file is received. Next, the media file and metadata is uploaded via a blockchain protocol. Next, a request to play the media file is received from a client device or a digital service provider (DSP) platform. The request to play the media file is validated via the blockchain protocol. Upon validating the request to play the media file, the media file is transmitted for playback at the client device or DSP platform. Last, the number of times the media file is played is tracked via the blockchain protocol.
US11381652B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to generating real-time suggested actions for a user based on their user profile attributes. In various embodiments, a server system may select, in real-time, a particular action to suggest to a user based on profile attributes associated with a user account of the user. The server system may then provide a message indicative of this particular action to a user device associated with the user. In some embodiments, the server system may then receive an indication that the user has initiated the particular action. In response to this indication, the server system may update the profile attributes associated with the user account to indicate that the user has initiated the particular action. Using these updated profile attributes, the server system may then select, in real-time, an updated action to suggest to the user that is different from the particular action.
US11381649B2
A network device monitors communications between a server and a client. The network device simulates certain types of required responses to the server to maintain a persistent session between a client and the server when the actual connection may be intermittent. The network device condenses application screens from the server to streamline user interaction between the client and the server. The network device stores required records for a transaction and provides them to a client for offline processing and then synchronizes stored offline transaction data from the client with the server.
US11381645B2
Internet of Things (IoT) configurable event and action sequencing mechanisms for interconnecting various IoT events together to achieve an event and action sequencing process that may efficiently enable complex uses of the data available in IoT systems.
US11381637B2
A device receives, from a first compute instance, a Remote Latency Call, that includes a target round trip time (RTT), a function, and one or more arguments for the function. The device determines, responsive to the Remote Latency Call, a first cluster of compute instances that satisfies the target RTT. The device migrates code associated with the function to a second compute instance within the first cluster of compute instances, and passes the arguments to the second compute instance for execution of the function.
US11381616B2
A multimedia management system includes a multimedia device and a backend server. The multimedia device includes a memory programmed with a mobile application, a processor module, a wireless communication module configured to communicate over a wireless communication link, and a first multimedia device configured to capture a first video or image and a second video or image and store it as first multimedia content and second multimedia content. The mobile application is configured to transmit the first and second multimedia content over the wireless communication link via the wireless communication module. The backend server is communicably coupled to the multimedia device via the wireless communications link and configured to execute a persistent internet accessible request protocol for receiving, updating, and storing transmitted videos. The multimedia management system is useful for hosting and remotely managing multimedia content.
US11381607B2
Disclosed are an IMS user registration method and device. The method comprises: after an HSS receives a registration request of a user terminal having no authentication data, acquiring configuration information of the user terminal; obtaining an authentication verification code ResponseHSS by using a random number and an attribute identifier of the user terminal, wherein the attribute identifier comprises an IMSI, an IMEI and an IMS identifier; sending the random number to the user terminal, and receiving a response verification code Response fed back by the user terminal; and determining whether the Response is the same as the ResponseHSS, and if so, sending the registration request to an application server to carry out registration of the user terminal. The technical problem in the prior art of greatly affecting the security of an enterprise network due to the fact that a device used by an IMS user cannot be controlled is solved.
US11381599B2
A method of generating cyber chaff can include determining a cell of a grid of cells to which a first feature and a second feature of user data maps, identifying a cell type of the cell, the cell type indicating whether the cell is an active cell, an inactive cell, or a sub-process cell, and providing cyber chaff based on cyber chaff data associated with either (a) one or more cells of the inactive cell type or (b) one or more cells of the sub-process cell type.
US11381596B1
Analyzing and mitigating website privacy issues by automatically classifying cookies. In some embodiments, a method may include identifying a cookie for a website, obtaining a cookie generation flow related to generation of the cookie, obtaining a cookie sharing flow related to sharing of the cookie, extracting features related to the cookie generation flow and the cookie sharing flow, determining flow patterns in the cookie generation flow and the cookie sharing flow, automatically creating a stratified classification for the cookie based on the features and the flow patterns that explains how the cookie interacts with a website and with third-party resources loaded on the website, determining whether the stratified classification for the cookie exceeds a weighted suspiciousness threshold value, and in response to determining that the stratified classification for the cookie exceeds the weighted suspiciousness threshold value, determining that the cookie is suspicious and initiating a security action on the cookie.
US11381594B2
A device includes a processor and a memory. The processor effectuates operations including monitoring enterprise network traffic associated with one or more user equipment (UE). The processor further effectuates operations including comparing the enterprise network traffic to a UE profile associated with each of the one or more UE. The processor further effectuates operations including determining whether the comparison indicates that a predetermined threshold has been exceeded. The processor further effectuates operations including in response to the indication that the predetermined threshold has been exceeded, generating an alert, wherein exceeding the predetermined threshold is indicative of a denial of service attack on an enterprise network or an attempt to remove enterprise data via the one or more UE.
US11381588B2
A system, a method, and a computer program for remediating a cyberattack risk for a computing resource located at a node in a computer network having a plurality of nodes. The solution includes receiving vulnerability score data that has a severity level for a vulnerability in the computing resource at the node, receiving a number of installations value (NCRi) that indicates a number of instances the computing resource is included in the plurality of nodes, determining a percentile of occurrence value (POCRi) for the computing resource based on the number of installations value (NCRi), applying a severity adjustment matrix to the severity level to determine a true severity level for the vulnerability in the computing resource, reprioritized the vulnerability in the computing resource based on the true severity level, and mitigating the cyberattack risk for the computing resource based on the true severity level.
US11381587B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to data management. A computer system may evaluate network traffic to extract and group data objects based on their content satisfying similarity criteria, and to identify baseline behavior with respect to those data objects. The computer system may generate data-defined network (DDN) data structures that include a content class and one or more behavioral classes. The content class may be indicative of one or more of the data objects that have been grouped based on them satisfying the similarity criteria. The one or more behavioral classes may indicate baseline behavior of those data objects within the content class as determined from evaluation of the network traffic. The computer system may detect, using the DDN data structures, anomalous data behavior within network traffic. In response to detecting anomalous data behavior, the computer system may prevent network traffic corresponding to the anomalous data behavior from being communicated.
US11381584B1
A customer in a computing resource service provider environment provisions a virtual machine instance configured with access to sensitive data in a secure storage facility. The virtual machine instance is provisioned specifically to generate reports using a subset of the sensitive data to satisfy different reporting requirements associated with governing entities and agencies. After generating the reports, the virtual machine instance is then removed from the computing resource service environment such that the sensitive data is inaccessible.
US11381583B1
A system and associated methods for the detection of anomalous behavior in a system. In some embodiments, time-series data that is obtained from the system (such as log data) may be used as an input to a process that converts the data into greyscale values. The greyscale values are used to construct an “image” of the system operation that is used as an input to a convolutional neural network (CNN). The image is used to train the neural network so that the neural network is able to recognize when other input “images” constructed from time-series data are anomalous or otherwise indicative of a difference between the prior (and presumed normal or acceptable) and the current operation of the system.
US11381581B2
Conventional email filtering services are not suitable for recognizing sophisticated malicious emails, and therefore may allow sophisticated malicious emails to reach inboxes by mistake. Introduced here are threat detection platforms designed to take an integrative approach to detecting security threats. For example, after receiving input indicative of an approval from an individual to access past email received by employees of an enterprise, a threat detection platform can download past emails to build a machine learning (ML) model that understands the norms of communication with internal contacts (e.g., other employees) and/or external contacts (e.g., vendors). By applying the ML model to incoming email, the threat detection platform can identify security threats in real time in a targeted manner.
US11381578B1
A system and method are disclosed for network-based file analysis for malware detection. Network content is received from a network tap. A binary packet is identified in the network content. A binary file, including the binary packet, is extracted from the network content. It is determined whether the extracted binary file is detected to be malware.
US11381577B2
A technique utilizes a security heat map associated with a geographic region. The technique involves receiving, by a server, current heat scores for one or more endpoint devices located within the geographic region. The technique further involves providing, by the server, for areas within the geographic region, respective aggregate heat scores based on the current heat scores for the one or more endpoint devices. The technique further involves, based on the respective aggregate heat scores for the areas within the geographic region, generating, by the server, a security heat map defining one or more security zones within the geographic region. The technique further involves imposing, by the server, security policies on the one or more endpoint devices based on the security heat map.
US11381573B2
Implementations of this specification include identifying a plurality of transactions to be executed in the blockchain, wherein the transactions are arranged in an execution order, wherein the transactions include one or more smart contract calls to smart contracts each having a whitelist identifying one or more accounts that are authorized to execute the smart contract, and wherein the execution order includes a smart contract call to a smart contract that does not have a whitelist arranged after the plurality of transactions; identifying groups of transactions within the plurality of transactions; instructing nodes of the blockchain network to execute each of the groups of transactions in parallel; determining that the nodes of the blockchain network have completed executing all of the groups of transactions; and in response, instructing the nodes of the blockchain network to execute the smart contract call that does not include a whitelist.
US11381571B2
A client application is specified by a target tenant and represented in an OAuth provider, along with a corresponding secret. A source tenant consents to permissions to be executed by the client application on a resource of the source tenant. A target service uses the secret to obtain an access token from an authorization server coupled to the source tenant and uses the access token to obtain access, specified by the permissions, to the resource served by a source service acting on behalf of the source tenant.
US11381563B1
A permissions management system (PMS) defines the permissions associated with a user and thereby the activities the user can perform with any specific object and/or application or class of objects and/or applications. However, such a PMS requires an administrator to either authorise each permission individually or default permissions to a configuration previously established. The former is time consuming and the latter does not eliminate the former in establishing the roles initially or new roles or custom configurations. According, methods and systems for automating the establishment of permissions and their ongoing maintenance are presented based upon an initial discovery phase of actions performed by either the user or an administrator followed by an automated harmonization phase and a verification phase. This verification phase may employ human interactions or be automated exploiting an artificial intelligence engine.
US11381558B2
Providing a blockchain device enrollment service includes creating an enrollment smart contract that controls access to a service by the device; creating a pools smart contract associated with managing a plurality of different endpoints, wherein the pools smart contract is registered with the enrollment smart contract; registering and configuring a manufacturer smart contract with the enrollment smart contract; and registering and configuring a service provider smart contract with the enrollment smart contract.
US11381555B2
Techniques for securing a single page application (SPA) are provided. An API server that receives an API call from an SPA to navigate a first user to a first state of the SPA navigates the first user to the first state of the SPA and generates a first token indicating that the first user has accessed the first state of the SPA. When the API server receives a request from the first user to navigate to a second state of the SPA (the request including the first token), the API server verifies that the first token indicating that the first user has accessed the first state of the SPA is valid for the second state of the SPA before navigating the first user to the second state of the SPA. Additionally, the API server expires the first token upon navigating the first user to the second state of the SPA.
US11381554B2
A working method of an NFC dynamic token, comprising the following steps: after detecting that a preset press key is triggered, the NFC dynamic token activates NFC communication and builds connection with a mobile device via NFC channel; when the NFC dynamic token receives a second instruction from the mobile device, the NFC dynamic token obtains a seed key from the second instruction, stores the seed key and sends a message that writing is successful to the mobile device; when the NFC dynamic token receives a third instruction from the mobile device, the NFC uses self-stored seed data to generate a dynamic password and sends the dynamic password to the mobile device via the NFC channel. According to the present invention, the seed key is written into the NFC dynamic token via the NFC channel, which improves security and flexibility of the dynamic token.
US11381538B2
A system and method permit users to selectively search for, and identify short segments (called snippets) of music. The user may enter one or more search terms for which they are searching within a database of musical selections. Once the search terms have been defined, the user initiates the search by selecting the search button. The system searches for one or more of the musical selections that most closely match the user's search parameters, and returns those musical selections as search results back to the user. The user then selects one of the results of the search that they like best. Once the selection is made, the user may input recipient information for the person to which they would like to send this musical selection. This musical selection may then be sent to the recipient by the system.
US11381535B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content communicating, displaying, generating, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods determine and display message content within a portion of a message inbox in a manner that is specific to the type message content. According to some embodiments, when a message is received in a message inbox of a user, the message content can be opened for display within a dedicated portion of the inbox, thereby enabling improved message content retrieval, access and navigation within a message platform or message application.
US11381534B2
A communication server device that mediates communication information transmitted and received between a plurality of communication terminals provides people who are participating in a conversation using real-time chat with information that can create a trigger to prompt them to end the conversation. Included are a chat log update unit (13) that causes a chat log DB (15) to update and store communication information transmitted or received between a plurality of communication terminals in association with information of transmission or reception time; a conversation duration update unit (14) that causes a conversation duration DB (16) to update and store a duration from the time when the information is stored in the chat log DB (15); and an ongoing conversation determination unit (12) that presents, based on the duration stored in the conversation duration DB (16), interruption information related to the duration to the plurality of communication terminals in response to receiving a request to end transmission and reception of the communication information from at least one of the plurality of communication terminals.
US11381532B2
A group-based communication platform can present, via a client device of the group-based communication platform, a user interface that includes a user interface element, interaction therewith, invoking a command associated with an external system. Based at partly on receiving an indication of an interaction with the user interface element, the group-based communication platform can cause payload data to be provided to the external system, wherein the payload data is associated with an indication of the command invoked via the interaction. Based at least partly on causing the payload data to be provided to the external system, a response to the payload data can be received and an interactive dialog can be presented via the user interface. The interactive dialog can be configured to prompt a user of the client device for data to be provided to the external system for performing a processing action associated with the command.
US11381526B2
Multi-tenant optimized serverless placement using network interface card and commodity storage may be provided. A first request to execute a first function may be received. Next, it may be determined to execute the first function at a first network interface card. The first network interface card may include a plurality of processors. Then, a container may be created at the first network interface card. The container may have at least one processor of the plurality of processors. The first function may be executed at the container.
US11381525B2
An apparatus includes a first port coupled to a first apparatus through a ring line, a second port coupled to a second apparatus through a second line, the second apparatus disposed external to the ring line, the second line configured redundantly with a first line between the first apparatus and the second apparatus, a third port coupled to the first apparatus through a control line for a control signal concerning the first line, and circuitry that detects a fault in the control line, wherein the circuitry detects a fault in the second line, switches the second line from an active line to a standby line in accordance with the detection of the fault in the second line, and while the fault in the control line is detected, shuts down the first port in accordance with the detection of the fault in the second line.
US11381523B2
Methods and structures are disclosed for self-automating a process of determining a device's location based on its network address. A computing device includes a network interface configured to communicate with a physical port of a network switch and a memory configured to store a plurality of different initialization protocols each associated with a corresponding network address of a plurality of network addresses. Each of the initialization protocols may be associated with a different physical location. The computing device also includes a processor configured to attempt to connect to the network switch via the network interface using a network address from the stored plurality of network addresses. In response to connecting with the network switch using the network address, the processor identifies a corresponding initialization protocol associated with the network address and executes the corresponding initialized procedure.
US11381522B2
Apparatus and method of monitoring ethernet communication for vehicle and vehicle including the same
Disclosed are an apparatus and method of monitoring Ethernet communication for a vehicle and a vehicle including the same. The apparatus includes a traffic statistics data acquisition unit configured to acquire traffic from each of ports of an Ethernet switch, a database (DB) configured to store communication information between controllers connected to the Ethernet switch, a switching path check unit configured to check a switching path of the Ethernet switch, and a monitoring unit configured to calculate a reference value of normal traffic for each port, between ports, and for each traffic flow of the Ethernet switch based on communication information between the controllers and a switching path, to compare the calculated reference value of the normal traffic with traffic acquired from each port of the Ethernet switch, and to monitor whether a communication state of the Ethernet switch is abnormal.
US11381521B2
The present invention relates to a switch including a plurality of input ports, a plurality of output ports, at least one output port, called observation port, being connected to an observation module able to analyze the traffic of the frames passing through via the switch, and a conveying component configured to convey each frame. The switch is configured to transmit, to the observation modules via the observation port, only frames according to a first observation condition and a second observation condition. The compliance of a frame with the first observation condition is determined as a function of an observation field and the compliance with the second observation condition is determined as a function of the identifier and/or of an input and/or output port associated with this frame.
US11381506B1
Adaptive load balancing may be implemented for a distributed system. An evaluation of criteria for creating a mapping for an identifier associated with requests may be performed. The created mapping may route requests to a distributed system to request handling nodes that cache request information for performing the requests. When requests are received, if an identifier determined to be associated with the request is mapped to request handling nodes, then the request may be sent to the identified request handling nodes instead of performing a load balancing technique to select a request handling node for the request.
US11381505B2
In some examples, a device initiates an acknowledgement storm detection process in response to failover of a network connection from a first input/output (I/O) module to a second I/O module. The acknowledgement storm detection process includes determining whether desynchronization between a received packet and a sent packet satisfies a criterion, and in response to determining that the desynchronization between the received packet and the sent packet satisfies the criterion, initiate an action to recover from the desynchronization.
US11381503B2
The present disclosure provides a data packet routing method and a data packet routing device. The data packet routing method includes receiving and resolving an initial route resolution request message to obtain a requested domain name in the initial route resolution request message; determining whether there is a specified domain name resolution server corresponding to the requested domain name; if there is a specified domain name resolution server corresponding to the requested domain name, modifying a default destination address of the initial route resolution request message to an address of the specified domain name resolution server, so as to obtain a routing information request message; searching for routing information corresponding to the routing information request message; and sending a data packet to a destination address corresponding to the requested domain name.
US11381502B2
A method for notifying binding information, including: acquiring, by an allocation node, SR-TE path information; binding, by the allocation node, an IPV6 SID corresponding to the SR-TE path information with the SR-TE path information so as to obtain SRV6 binding information between the SR-TE path information and the IPV6 SID; and notifying, by the allocation node, the SRV6 binding information to a preset node through an extended PCEP.
US11381494B2
A method and a system for providing communication analysis of the user equipment (UE) based on network analysis is disclosed. The method provides communication analysis of the UE in a form as UE communication statistics or UE communication prediction by analyzing network data collected from the network function (NF) device.
US11381492B1
An instrumentation analysis system processes data streams received from servers executing instrumented software. The system determines a set of servers that satisfy a given criteria, for example, a set of servers with high resource utilization. The set of servers may be determined by the system based on triggers or specified by a user. The system analyzes properties of servers to determine a property that characterizes the set of servers. The property characterizing the servers is provided to users via a user interface or alerts for further analysis, for example, to analyze the cause of high resource utilization.
US11381485B1
A communication pathway between a plurality of network nodes within a network is established. A DIS election operation is executed to determine a first network node among the plurality of network nodes as the DIS for the network and creating a first pseudo node for the first network node, and with each network node of the plurality of network nodes, monitoring connectivity between the first network node and the other network nodes of the plurality of network nodes within the network, and monitoring adjacencies with the other network nodes of the plurality of network nodes within the network. Whether the connectivity between the first network node and the other network nodes of the plurality of network nodes within the network is in a synchronous state with the adjacencies with the other network nodes of the plurality of network nodes may be determined.
US11381483B2
A maintenance recommendation for containerized services can find a time to perform maintenance on a particular service based on resource usage patterns such that the maintenance will have a reduced impact on dependent services. The dependent services can be determined for the particular service based on network interactions between the services.
US11381482B2
The present invention allows a user to review the routing of various communications. The system receives incoming communications for analysis by a smart routing engine (SRE) software module. The SRE module analyzes the communication at various system routing points, which is used by SRE to route the communication to an appropriate party. The SRE updates a routing log at each point to ensure a record of the reasons for routing the communication in a certain way. The routing log passes with the communication. This ensures that the ultimate recipient of the communication understands why they have received the communication and reduces the time required for a communication to be acted upon.
US11381480B2
A control method for collecting traffic statistics includes a control node obtains a statistics collection instruction, where the statistics collection instruction is used to instruct to collect traffic statistics of a target data flow, generates a traffic statistics collection policy according to the statistics collection instruction, where the traffic statistics collection policy includes a matching identifier of the target data flow, a first command, and a second command, and sends the traffic statistics collection policy to a forwarding node. The first command is used to instruct the forwarding node to set a traffic identifier for the target data flow based on the matching identifier, the second command is used to instruct the forwarding node to add traffic generated by a target packet to a traffic statistics collection result corresponding to the traffic identifier which is used to describe the traffic of the target data flow.
US11381478B2
In one embodiment, a method includes providing a first profile to a plurality of edge routers of the SD-WAN, the plurality of edge routers operable to interface a plurality of devices to the SD-WAN. The first profile enables the plurality of edge routers to discover which devices of the plurality of devices support a first application. The method includes receiving, from one or more of the edge routers, information indicating which devices of the plurality of devices support the first application and building a first application fabric based on the information indicating which devices of the plurality of devices support the first application.
US11381476B2
A file is created in a standardized format that defines a type of a containerized application and includes information for deployment of the containerized application. A single parser of the standardized format is thus enabled to deploy different types of containerized applications. The standardized file format includes an application definition. The application definition includes a service, a port list, a container list, a volume mount list, an access mode list, a resource usage list, or any suitable combination thereof. A client device presents a user interface that allows a user to select a containerized application to execute. An application server parses an application template file for the selected containerized application and, based on the information in the application template file, causes one or more servers (e.g., one or more Kubernetes cluster nodes) to execute the containerized application.
US11381474B1
In an example, a method includes obtaining, for a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) system having a plurality of a wide area network (WAN) links for an SD-WAN service, a first service level agreement (SLA) rule that matches a first application, the first SLA rule having a first priority that indicates a priority of the first application; obtaining, for the SD-WAN system, a second SLA rule that matches a second application, the second SLA rule having a second priority that indicates a priority of the second application; assigning, for the SD-WAN system, the first application and the second application to a first WAN link of the plurality of WAN links; and in response to determining that the first WAN link has violated the first SLA rule that matches the first application, assigning, by the SD-WAN system, the second application to a second WAN link of the plurality of WAN links.
US11381472B2
Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses are presented for computer-assisted visualization of network devices. One example involves receiving a plurality of standardized network description files describing a plurality of vehicular communication networks connecting a plurality of electronic control units (ECU) for a vehicle. Each of the plurality of standardized network description files may describe a vehicular communication network in the plurality of vehicular communication networks. Each vehicular communication network may comprise a subset of the plurality of ECUs and one or more network communications paths interconnecting the subset of ECUs. The example can further involve automatically generating, based on the standardized network description files, a visual topology representation of the plurality of vehicular communication networks connecting to the plurality of ECUs. The visual topology representation may include at least one ECU connected to at least two vehicular communication networks in the plurality of vehicular communication networks.
US11381471B2
A system for early predicting of impending data overflow situations in data networks, comprising one or more sensors being networked computers that do not provide services, for collecting monitored data regarding network traffic volume from content providers to an Internet Service Provider (ISP) entering or exiting the ISP via peering autonomous systems connected to the ISP via physical links; one or more processors executing one or more deep learning models, being adapted to: identify over the data network being handovers alternative peering links, which are not inherent Private Network Interconnects (PNI) between the content providers and the ISP; determine static or dynamic threshold for dataflow anomaly associated with overflow; for each alternative handover, predict impending overflow situation by applying ML algorithms to the collected data that corresponds to the each alternative handover.
US11381466B2
With a network design apparatus, a network design method, and a network design processing program, a network configuration is designed for a network in which a transfer apparatus is disposed at each of a plurality of communication hubs and the communication hubs are connected via a link by a link portion apparatus in the transfer apparatus. In design of a network configuration, a threshold value of an inter-end delay and the number of redundant paths are calculated for each line on the basis of topology information, line information, and design parameter information. A path candidate set is calculated for each line on the basis of the threshold value of the inter-end delay and the number of redundant paths.
US11381465B2
A network design apparatus, a network design method, and a network design processing program design a network configuration for a network in which a transfer apparatus is disposed at each of a plurality of communication hubs, and the communication hubs are connected via a link by a link portion apparatus in the transfer apparatus. In design of the network configuration, the optimal path candidates of each of the lines minimizing a total cost value in the overall network is calculated. In the calculation of the optimal path candidates of each of the lines, only a path candidate of each of the lines can be selected, and a combination candidate of link portion apparatuses for each of the links is derived uniquely from the selected path candidate of each of the lines.
US11381459B2
The present invention relates to service providing system and method for preventing a hidden camera, a service providing apparatus therefor, and a non-transitory computer readable medium having a computer program recorded thereon, and more particularly, to service providing system and method for preventing a hidden camera, a service providing apparatus therefor, and a non-transitory computer readable medium having a computer program recorded thereon which configures a relay device connected to a network in a building for detecting a hidden camera in the interior of the building, easily detects the hidden camera by analyzing a connection state of the hidden camera connected to the corresponding relay device, and then blocks the network connection of the corresponding hidden camera.
US11381447B2
A method of dynamic staging in a client device includes: receiving, at the client device, a staging profile identifier definition; generating a staging profile identifier corresponding to one of a plurality of staging data files stored at a server, by: detecting a dynamic field in the staging profile identifier definition; retrieving a set of prompt definitions according to the dynamic field; presenting prompts via an output assembly of the client device according to the prompt definitions; receiving input data corresponding to the prompts via an input assembly of the client device; retrieving a selected parameter corresponding to the input data; and replacing the dynamic field with the selected parameter to generate the staging profile identifier; and retrieving the one of the plurality of staging data files by transmitting a request to the server including the staging profile identifier.
US11381446B2
Systems and methods include obtaining network communication information about hosts in a network and applications executed on the hosts; automatically generating one or more microsegments in the network based on analysis of the obtained network communication information, wherein each microsegment of the one or more microsegments is a grouping of resources including the hosts and the applications executed on the hosts that have rules for network communication; automatically generating a meaningful name for the one or more microsegments based on a plurality of techniques applied to information associated with the hosts; and displaying the automatically generated one or more microsegments and the corresponding automatically generated meaningful name.
US11381441B2
A millimeter-wave communication system includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter is configured to be connected to a waveguide that is transmissive at millimeter-wave frequencies, the waveguide having a propagation parameter that varies with frequency at the millimeter-wave frequencies. The transmitter is configured to generate a millimeter-wave signal comprising multiple sub-carriers that are modulated with data, wherein each sub-carrier is modulated with a respective portion of the data and is subjected to only a respective fraction of a variation in the propagation parameter, and to transmit the millimeter-wave signal into a first end of the waveguide. The receiver is configured to receive the millimeter-wave signal from a second end of the waveguide, and to extract the data from the multiple sub-carriers.
US11381437B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a communication system to generate a waveform by multiplexing multiple user data. The system comprises at least one transceiver, a multiplexer and a processor. The at least one transceiver configured to perform at least one of receiving a plurality of data from a transmitter, and transmitting a generated waveform to a destination. The multiplexer configured to multiplex a plurality of data associated with a plurality of users, to generate multiplexed data. The processor is configured to perform a rotation operation on the multiplexed data to produce a rotated data. Also, the processor is configured to transform the rotated data using Fourier transform to produce transformed data. Further, the processor is configured to map the transformed data using a predefined number of subcarriers to produce a mapped data sequence and thereafter, process the mapped data sequence to generate the waveform.
US11381430B2
A radio frequency (RF) transceiver includes a reference signal source to generate a reference signal, a local RF source to generate a local RF signal and a mixed-signal phase/frequency detector to compare the reference signal to the local RF signal, and to generate a difference signal from the comparison, wherein the difference signal comprises a modulation component and an error component. The transceiver also includes a receiver front end to receive and downconverts an angle-modulated RF signal to a baseband signal, a quadrature modulator configured to angle-modulate the reference signal source with the baseband signal.
US11381421B2
Systems and methods described herein provide for assigning classifications to signals and corresponding messages for prioritization and transmission across a vehicle CAN bus. The assigned classifications are used to prioritize messages, signals, and nodes of the vehicle CAN bus. The classifications are used to prioritize critical messages and high priority messages that control operations of the vehicle system.
US11381420B2
An in-vehicle relay device prevents an anomaly of a control command exchanged over networks having different transmittable data sizes in a frame. The in-vehicle relay device relays communication between multiple control devices in a vehicle over the networks to which the control devices are connected. The in-vehicle relay device receives control data from a first control network. The control data includes, in a frame, a plurality of control commands to be executed by at least one of the control devices. The in-vehicle relay device determines, as a first determination, whether types of the control commands included in the frame form a first combination that is preset as a combination of control commands that are executable simultaneously. The in-vehicle relay device thereafter determines, as a second determination, whether the control data is anomalous by using the result of the first determination, and outputs the result of the second determination.
US11381417B2
Disclosed herein are a sleep management method includes obtaining sleep data of a user, obtaining a sleep state of the user on the basis of the sleep data, and controlling at least one home appliance on the basis of the sleep state of the user, and the sleep data includes signals corresponding to a heart rate, respiration rate, and movement of the user detected by a piezoelectric sensor.
US11381406B2
A physical unclonable function is disclosed. A highly random distribution of magnetic particles within a thermoplastic polymer is created by magnetizing magnetizable particles in solid pellet feed material before feeding the solid pellets into an injection molding machine. Other devices and processes are disclosed.
US11381405B1
A system for authenticating a user at a relying party application using an authentication application and automatically redirecting to a target application includes a processor. The processor is configured to 1) make an API call that comprises (i) an authentication challenge that corresponds to an authentication request and (ii) a call back URL that is specified by a relying party application; 2) retrieve at least one of a target application link or a null value from a table; 3) authenticating the user based on an authentication challenge response to the at least one authentication challenge; and 4) invoking the target application link from the table to automatically redirect from the authentication application to the target application specified in the target application link.
US11381398B2
A method for re-keying an encrypted data file, the data file being stored chunkwise on a storage entity (SE), data file chunks being encrypted with a global secret, and the method being performed by one or more computing devices, includes updating the global secret for encryption data for a data chunk to be re-keyed such that an output of a non-interactive oblivious key exchange is used to identify the private key of the data chunk to be re-keyed with a new private key, wherein the non-interactive oblivious key exchange uses an oblivious protocol; and reencrypting the data chunk to be re-keyed with the updated global secret.
US11381384B2
A system, method, and computer-readable storage medium is provided for storing, in a blockchain system, at least one generic finite blockchain comprising representative blocks, each corresponding to at least one step in a multi-step process; dynamically generating at least one finite blockchain instance based on said at least one generic finite blockchain; receiving, by a processor, change evidence data pertaining to at least one step in said multi-step process; and performing an update operation comprising updating the at least one finite blockchain instance based on said change evidence data.
US11381376B2
A method for synchronizing networks is disclosed. A first wired communication system having a first time base is set up in a first network. A second wired communication system having a second time base is set up in a second network. The first network and the second network are connected to a wireless communication system via a first translation unit and a second translation unit, respectively. The first translation unit and the second translation unit are synchronized to one another according to a third time base of the wireless communication system independently of the first time base and the second time base. A third synchronization message is transmitted from the first translation unit to the second translation unit. A transmission time for the third synchronization message in the third time base is determined and is used to synchronize the second time base to the first time base.
US11381375B1
A first timing error of a network device is determined based at least in part on a first received network message from a timing synchronization source. At a first instance, it is determined whether the first timing error exceeds a threshold. In response to a determination at the first instance that the first timing error exceeds the threshold, a clock of the network device is corrected based at least in part on the first received network message. A second timing error of the network device is determined based at least in part on a second received network message from the timing synchronization source. At a second instance, it is determined whether the second timing error exceeds the threshold. In response to a determination at the second instance that the second timing error does not exceed the threshold, the clock of the network device is allowed to function without correction.
US11381374B2
A method in which a media server detects a media stream from a gateway which is only capable of sending a stream from a half duplex source. Call setup, such as a floor request from the gateway or the half duplex source, is not required. The media server then blocks media streams from full duplex sources to create half duplex communication, without using a buffer. Once the stream from the gateway has ended, the server detects streams from other sources and restores full duplex communication. A communication server carries out the method and is capable of detecting whether or not the server is connected to a half duplex source, such as a Land Mobile Radio (LMR) gateway, and then altering behavior according to that source. In doing so, the server enables either half duplex or full duplex operation, depending upon whether the source data originates from the half duplex source.
US11381369B2
A base station of a wireless communication system is disclosed. The base station of the wireless communication includes a communication module, and a processor. The processor generates a preemption indicator indicating a preempted resource. In this case, the resource indicated by the preemption indicator does not include an orthogonal frequency divisional multiplexing (OFDM) symbol configured as an uplink (UL) symbol by a radio resource control (RRC) signal. The processor is configured to transmit the preemption indicator to a user equipment of the wireless system based on a predetermined period.
US11381367B2
An apparatus may configure x subframes with a subslot configuration that includes y subslots, y being greater than x. In an aspect, each subslot of the y subslots may include a first portion having one or more symbols for carrying at least one of data or control information, a second portion having a gap, and a third portion for carrying ACK/NACK information associated with the first portion. In an aspect, the second portion may be between the first portion and the third portion. In an aspect, the second portion and the third portion may include at most one symbol. The apparatus may send information indicating the subslot configuration to at least one neighboring base station. The apparatus may communicate content with a user equipment (UE) during at least one of the y subslots.
US11381359B2
A structure of a transmission time frame for Time Division Duplex (TDD) two-way communication over a frequency bandwidth is provided. The transmission time frame is assigned for a first direction of communication and is temporally divided into a plurality of transmission symbols. A fraction of the frequency bandwidth for a selected transmission symbol from the plurality of transmission symbols is assigned to a second direction of communication, the second direction being opposite to the first direction.
US11381356B2
Provided are a data transmission method and a terminal. In the method, a terminal receives Downlink Control Information (DCI) sent by a network side device; the terminal detects downlink data sent by the network side device based on the DCI; and the terminal determines, according to an index of a time element for transmitting downlink information or according to a time element offset between the time element for transmitting the downlink information and a time element for transmitting feedback information corresponding to the downlink data, a resource index of a target uplink control channel resource for transmitting the feedback information, the downlink information including at least one of the DCI and the downlink data.
US11381355B2
An information determination method, an information determination apparatus, and a device are provided. The information determination method includes: for multiple configurations of uplink grant-free transmission, detecting uplink transmission on a resource corresponding to at least one of the multiple configurations; and in a case that a first configuration corresponding to a resource where the uplink transmission is detected is not a predetermined configuration, determining an HARQ ID of the detected uplink transmission according to association information between the first configuration and the predetermined configuration.
US11381346B2
Methods, systems, and storage media are described for the prioritization of services for control and data transmission for new radio (NR) systems. In particular, some embodiments may be directed to the prioritization of hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) transmissions. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11381345B2
Disclosed are a data feedback, sending and receiving method and device, a receiving device and a sending device. The data feedback method includes generating a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) for transmitted data; and feeding back the HARQ-ACK to a sending end.
US11381337B2
A jamming radio signal is selectively outputted based on an access signal. The jamming radio signal is configured to prevent an interrogation signal of a vehicle to complete an authentication of a vehicle key of the vehicle.
US11381327B2
Proactive systems for monitoring, diagnosing, and providing a plan of corrective action for Radio Frequency (RF) hardware components as part of a greater system or network in telecommunications. The system can be used for remote sites and in conjunction with current network management tools as the most prolific and fundamental piece of instrumentation in telecommunication networks. The system can be used simply as an RF development instrument for any industry requiring the use of high frequency signals. It consists of four sensor modules that are wirelessly linked to a receiver module which could be miles away. The sensors are RF power detector, Spectrum Analyzer, Interference Cancelling Synthesizer, dual function RF power detector and spectrum analyzer. The data gathered allows the user to create a profile for specific malfunctions in the RF chain, as well as interference direction, strength and source type leading to remotely deployed solution, and a mobile network.
US11381323B1
A telematics verification system for the testing of a vehicle telematics system, including: a conductive ground plate adapted to be disposed under a vehicle when testing the vehicle telematics system using the telematics verification system; a conductive cover adapted to be disposed over and about an exterior surface of the vehicle and an antenna of the vehicle when testing the vehicle telematics system using the telematics verification system; a downlink antenna adapted to be arranged inside the conductive cover, wherein the downlink antenna is configured to wirelessly transmit a downlink signal inside the conductive cover, wherein the downlink signal is wirelessly receivable by the antenna of the vehicle; and an uplink antenna adapted to be arranged inside the conductive cover, wherein the uplink antenna is configured to wirelessly receive an uplink signal inside the conductive cover, wherein the uplink signal is wirelessly receivable from the antenna of the vehicle.
US11381322B2
A method of measuring a total radiated power of a device under test by a test system with a base station simulator, a measurement antenna assigned to the base station simulator and a control and/or measurement equipment is described. The method includes: establishing a radio resource control connection between the device under test and the base station simulator via the measurement antenna; activating an uplink-beam lock function at the device under test; and performing a total radiated power measurement by the control and/or measurement equipment while continuously sending a downlink signal from the base station simulator via the measurement antenna to the device under test. A test system is further described.
US11381315B2
Disclosed is an optical transmitter module including a directly modulated laser transmitter based on a directly modulated laser (DML) and an arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) chip that is vertically polished. The directly modulated laser transmitter includes a directly modulated laser chip array including one or more directly modulated laser chips, an impedance matching circuit that allows each of the one or more directly modulated laser chips to operate at a critical speed of 100 Gbps per channel or higher, and a radio frequency-flexible printed circuit board (RF-FPCB) that transmits a radio frequency (RF) modulating signal to the directly modulated laser chip array. The arrayed waveguide grating chip includes an optical waveguides that transfer multi-channel optical signals and a wavelength multiplexer that multiplexes the multi-channel optical signals. The directly modulated laser transmitter and the arrayed waveguide grating chip are spaced apart from each other and are optically coupled in chip-to-chip.
US11381313B2
An integrated optical transceiver includes a transmitter unit and a receiver unit each provided on a surface region of a substrate member. The transmitter unit includes four laser devices configured to output four laser lights and a set of four power splitter devices coupled to the four laser lights to split each of the four laser lights to two replicated transmit paths. The receiver unit has two replicated receive paths each including a photodetector device and a transimpedance amplifier device coupled to the photodetector device. A planar light circuit block is mounted on the substrate member and includes a multiplexer device configured to couple the four laser lights of the transmitter unit and multiplex to one output light delivered to an optical output port and a demultiplexer device configured to receive an input light from an optical input port and demultiplex to four input optical signals for the receiver unit.
US11381293B2
A method for operating a user equipment (UE) comprises receiving, from a base station (BS), CSI feedback configuration information; determining, based on the CSI feedback configuration information, CSI feedback including, for each layer l of a total number of v layers, an indicator i1,8,l indicating an index of a strongest coefficient among KNZ,l coefficients, wherein l∈{1, . . . , v} is a layer index, v≥1 is a rank value, and KNZ,l is a number of non-zero coefficients for layer l; determining a payload of the indicator i1,8,l for each layer l based on the rank value; and transmitting, to the BS, over an uplink (UL) channel, the CSI feedback including the indicator i1,8,l each layer l of the total number of v layers.
US11381283B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for codebook transmission are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving at least one downlink transmission and indication information corresponding to the at least one downlink transmission and generating a codebook including at least one piece of feedback information corresponding to the at least one downlink transmission. The at least one downlink transmission includes a target downlink transmission corresponding to an actual occasion and a pair of a target frequency domain resource and a reference occasion. A location of feedback information corresponding to the target downlink transmission in the codebook corresponds to indication information corresponding to the target downlink transmission. The actual occasion includes a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring occasion at which downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling or carrying the target downlink transmission is located or a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) reception occasion at which the target downlink transmission is located.
US11381273B2
A wireless communication device is provided for transmitting and receiving a high frequency signal having a first frequency for communication. The wireless communication device includes a base material, an antenna pattern formed on the base material, and a loop-shaped conductor pattern. The loop-shaped conductor pattern is formed on the same surface of the base material on which the antenna pattern is formed and arranged on both sides of the antenna pattern along an extending direction of the antenna pattern. A physical perimeter of the conductor pattern is shorter than the physical total length of the antenna pattern.
US11381256B2
A parity interleaving apparatus and method for variable length signaling information are disclosed. A parity interleaving apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a processor configured to generate a parity bit string for parity puncturing by segmenting parity bits of an LDPC codeword whose length is 16200 and whose code rate is 3/15, into a plurality of groups, and group-wise interleaving the groups using an order of group-wise interleaving; and memory configured to provide the parity bit string for parity puncturing to a parity puncturing unit.
US11381252B1
A method for decoding a codeword includes partitioning the codeword into a plurality of component codewords where each of the component codewords comprising a respective plurality of bits. The respective plurality of bits in each of the plurality of component codewords are interleaved. Each of the plurality of interleaved component codewords are decoded along two dimensions to produce (i) a set of first decoding results and (ii) a set of second decoding results. A short error event is then detected and corrected based on (i) the set of first decoding results and (ii) the set of second decoding results.
US11381249B2
The invention proposes a method and a device for arithmetic encoding of a current spectral coefficient using preceding spectral coefficients. The preceding spectral coefficients are already encoded, and both the preceding and current spectral coefficients are comprised in one or more quantized spectra resulting from quantizing a time-frequency-transform of video, audio or speech signal sample values.
US11381236B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward designs and methods of improving driving of switching devices. One proposed solution to improving driving of switching devices is an auxiliary control circuit that selectively guides the switching device through at least one switching region, permitting an improved operation of the switching device.
US11381225B1
A single ended receiver includes a current mode logic circuit, a differential to single amplifier, and a voltage detector. The current mode logic circuit is configured to receive an input signal and a reference voltage value and is configured to output a first output signal. The differential to single amplifier is coupled to the current mode logic circuit and is configured to receive the first output signal and to output a second output signal. The voltage detector is coupled to the differential to single amplifier and is configured to output a control signal to the differential to single amplifier according to the reference voltage value. The differential to single amplifier is further configured to adjust a voltage value of the differential to single amplifier internal signal according to the control signal, so that a duty cycle of the second output signal is adjusted.
US11381224B2
Technologies are provided for generation of programmable pulse signals using inverse chaotic maps, without reliance on a clocking signal. Some embodiments of the technologies include an apparatus that can receive a sequence of bits having a defined number of bits, where the sequence of bits represent a desired continuous pulse signal having a programmable width in time-domain. The apparatus can also can receive a precursor continuous pulse signal having an arbitrary width in time-domain that fits within the dynamic range of the apparatus. The apparatus can generate the desired continuous pulse signal by transforming the precursor continuous pulse signal using the sequence of bits and an inverse chaotic map.
US11381223B2
A power supply system includes: a first power storage device; a second power storage device having a lower voltage than the first power storage device; a DC-DC converter including a choke coil, a first switching element, a diode connected in parallel with the first switching element, and a second switching element; a semiconductor relay configured to switch a connection state between a second end of the choke coil and the second power storage device; and a controller configured to perform PWM control of the first switching element and the second switching element to control ON and OFF of the semiconductor relay. When an ON time of the second switching element is controlled to become zero and a current flowing out from the second power storage device exceeds a first reference current, the controller reduces a duty ratio of an ON time of the first switching element.
US11381222B2
An apparatus for performing baseline wander correction (BLWC) with the aid of differential wander current sensing includes filters and a correction circuit. The filters are positioned in a front-end circuit of a receiver and coupled to a set of input terminals of the receiver, and filter a set of input signals on the set of input terminals to generate a set of differential signals on a set of secondary terminals, for further usage by the receiver. The correction circuit is positioned in the frontend circuit and electrically connected to the set of input terminals and the set of secondary terminals, and performs BLWC on the set of differential signals according to the set of input signals. In the correction circuit, amplifiers and resistors form a differential wander current sensor to sense differential wander current, and a set of current mirrors generate corresponding baseline wander compensation current to perform BLWC.
US11381220B2
Acoustic wave filter devices is disclosed. The device includes a piezoelectric layer, an input electrode and an output electrode located on a top surface of the piezoelectric layer and physically separated from one another, and a counter electrode having a top surface connected to a bottom surface of the piezoelectric layer. The input and output electrodes each include a base and at least one extension extending from the base. The at least one extension of the input electrode extending alongside and in a generally opposite direction to and separated by a gap width from an adjacent extension of the at least one extensions of the output electrode. In some embodiments, the at least one extension of the input or output electrodes has a width that can changes from a first end of the at least one extension to a second end.
US11381217B2
A radio frequency circuit includes a multilayer substrate, series arm circuits in a first path connecting the input/output terminals (T1 and T2) on the multilayer substrate, a parallel arm circuit in a second path connecting a node on the first path and a ground, a wiring A on the multilayer substrate connected to the input/output terminal (T1) as a part of the first path, a wiring B on the multilayer substrate connected to the input/output terminal (T2) as a part of the first path, and a wiring C on the multilayer substrate as a part of the second path. The parallel arm circuit includes an impedance variable circuit, the wiring A and the wiring B in a layer different from the multilayer substrate. When viewed in a plan view, the wiring C does not overlap with the wiring A and the wiring B.
US11381203B2
A transmitter that reduces 3rd order harmonic (HD3) and inter modulation distortion (IMD3) for a gm stage of a mixer while reducing flicker noise is disclosed. The transmitter may include a balanced mixer, a transconductance stage connected to the mixer, and a bias circuit. The bias circuit may include a programmable current source configured to provide a reference current. Further, the bias circuit may include a replica circuit configured to replicate a DC signal of the transconductance stage. The bias circuit may also include a bias transistor configured to level shift a bias signal obtained from a signal source based on the reference current and the DC signal of the transconductance stage as determined from the replica circuit.
US11381199B2
The invention relates to a solar roof system (2) comprising: a roof surface (18) having solar panels (20); at least two base support elements (4) for retaining the roof surface (18), wherein each base support element (4) has a main support (6) which is formed by a closed hollow profile which is bent in a bending region (8) by less than 90 degrees and more than 60 degrees, and which has at least one straight first support section (10) connected to the bending region (8), wherein the first support section (10) serves to retain the roof surface (18); at least three framework elements (12, 14, 16, 42) by means of which the first support section (10) is secured down on a bend outer side (17) of the bending region (8) in the intended installed state of the solar roof system (2); and at least two mount adapters (24) assigned to the base support elements (4) for securing the base support elements (4) to a mount (26).
US11381185B2
A power control circuit includes a converter, a signal generation circuit, and control circuitry. The converter includes a switching circuit. The converter transforms an output voltage from a power generator. The signal generation circuit operates the switching circuit of the converter. The control circuitry changes an operation of the switching circuit.
US11381184B2
There is provided a driving circuit for a stepping motor, including: a counter electromotive force detection circuit configured to detect a counter electromotive force generated in a coil; a current value setting circuit configured to generate a current set value based on the counter electromotive force; a constant current chopper circuit configured to generate a pulse-modulated signal which is pulse-modulated so that a detected value of a coil current flowing through the coil approaches a target amount based on the current set value; and a logic circuit configured to control a bridge circuit connected to the coil according to the pulse-modulated signal, wherein the driving circuit is configured to output the current set value to outside or to access the current set value from the outside.
US11381181B2
A system and method for adjusting the alignment and location of a magnet. A first actuator exerts a first applied force to urge the magnet in a first axial direction and a first biasing device exerts a first opposing force. The first applied force and opposing forces are modulated relative to each other to position the magnet at a lateral location. A second actuator exerts a second applied force to urge the magnet in a first angular direction about a pivot axis and a second biasing device exerts a second opposing force. The second applied and opposing forces are modulated relative to each other to position the magnet at a select angular orientation relative to the magnet holder. The magnet is secured to the magnet holder after positioning. The magnet can also be rotated about its geometric centerline to position its magnetic axis.
US11381178B2
A piezoelectric drive device includes a rotor having a driven part and rotating around a rotation axis, a vibrating unit having a piezoelectric element and applying a drive force for rotating the rotor to the driven part by displacement of the piezoelectric element, and a bearing supporting the rotor. The driven part has a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion sequentially connected, the first portion has a predetermined region along an axial direction of the rotation axis and coupled to an inner ring of the bearing within the predetermined region, the second portion overlaps with the bearing in a plan view from the axial direction, and the third portion has a contact surface in contact with the vibrating unit at an inner side of both ends of the predetermined region in a plan view from a direction perpendicular to the axial direction.
US11381174B2
A direct-current voltage conversion circuit having on/off control with a dead-time period performed alternately on a first switch and a second switch included in a direct-current voltage conversion circuit. When alternating current flows in a series circuit part including two transformers magnetically independent, current flows in an output circuit including a secondary side of one transformer, and energy is accumulated in the other transformer. The permeabilities of the magnetic cores in the first and second transformers is between 15 and 120.
US11381173B2
A switching regulator which has load transient quick response ability includes at least one power stage circuit and a control circuit. The control circuit includes a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal generation circuit and a quick response (QR) signal generation circuit. The PWM signal generation circuit generates a PWM signal according to an output voltage and a QR signal, to control a power switch of the corresponding power stage circuit, thus converting an input voltage to the output voltage. The QR signal generation circuit includes a differentiator circuit and a comparison circuit. The differentiator circuit performs a differential operation on a voltage sensing signal related to the output voltage, to generate a differential signal. The comparison circuit compares the differential signal with a QR threshold signal, such that when the differential signal exceeds the QR signal, the PWM signal generation circuit performs a QR procedure.
US11381169B2
The technology described herein is directed to a DC input power supply unit with an auxiliary boost control circuit (or controller) that facilitates continuous supply of power to a standby output load of the power supply unit in a bootloader mode. More specifically, the auxiliary boost circuit (or controller) is configured to assume control of a primary power boost stage from a primary controller in a bootloader mode so that the power supply unit can continue to supply power to the standby output with a protection function regardless of the state of the power supply unit or primary controller.
US11381167B2
A converter circuit includes a power stage circuit configured to convert an input voltage received by an inductor to an output voltage provided at an output; a control circuit configured to generate input pulses to control the power stage circuit; a slope compensation circuit configured to provide a compensation signal to the control circuit for overcoming a sub-harmonic oscillation in the converter circuit, wherein the control circuit is configured to generate the input pulses based at least in part on the compensation signal; a slope compensation adjustment circuit configured to determine a rate of change of a current at the inductor and to provide a slope compensation adjustment signal based on the determined rate of change; and a modulation circuit configured to modulate the compensation signal with the slope compensation adjustment signal to produce the adjusted slope compensation signal.
US11381166B2
The present disclosure provides a switch power supply circuit, which includes a step-down transistor, a control module, a first switch transistor, a second switch transistor, a third switch transistor, and a power switch transistor. In the switch power supply circuit of the present disclosure, the first terminal of the second switch transistor is directly coupled with the input voltage, and the second switch transistor can directly obtain sufficient driving current from the input voltage to drive the power switch transistor. The present application can ensure the reliability and efficiency of the system without an additional energy storage capacitor, which reduces the costs of the system.
US11381163B2
A resonant charge pump circuit includes a resonant circuit having a bucket capacitor and a bucket inductor connected in series, and a switching circuit connected to the resonant circuit. The switching circuit switches to a first state that enables current to flow from an input terminal into the resonant circuit to charge the bucket capacitor and the bucket inductor, and switches to a second state that enables current to flow from the resonant circuit to discharge the bucket capacitor and the bucket inductor to an output terminal. The resonant circuit controls current flow into and out from the resonant circuit when the switching circuit switches between the states. The resonant charge pump circuit also includes a timing circuit that controls when the switching circuit switches between the states.
US11381157B1
A motor drive is provided, which includes a control circuit, a first transistor, a first comparison circuit, a second transistor and a load. The control circuit includes a first output terminal and a second output terminal; the first output terminal outputs a first control signal; the second output terminal outputs a second control signal whose phase is inverse to the phase of the first control signal. The gate of the first transistor receives the first control signal. The first comparison circuit compares the gate-source voltage with a reference voltage to generate a first comparison signal. When the first comparison signal shows that the first control signal is reduced to be lower than the reference voltage, the second control signal generated by the second output terminal is transmitted to the gate of the second transistor.
US11381152B2
A signal processor is configured to perform a process equivalent to performing a series of fixed-to-rotating coordinate conversion, a predetermined process and then rotating-to-fixed coordinate conversion, while maintaining linearity and time-invariance. The signal processor performs a process given by the following matrix G: G = [ F ( s + j ω 0 ) + F ( s - j ω 0 ) 2 F ( s + j ω 0 ) - F ( s - j ω 0 ) 2 j - F ( s + j ω 0 ) - F ( s - j ω 0 ) 2 j F ( s + j ω 0 ) + F ( s - j ω 0 ) 2 ] where F(s) is a transfer function representing the predetermined process, ω0 is a predetermined angular frequency and j is the imaginary unit.
US11381148B2
A camera module shielded against electromagnetic interference but of reduced size comprises a voice coil motor, a circuit board, and a base between voice coil motor and circuit board. The voice coil motor comprises conductive housing. The circuit board comprises a conductive wire itself comprising shielded wire, ground pad, and a surrounding and grounded closed ground loop. The base comprises a main body and a conductive loop sleeved thereon. A first side of the conductive loop is electrically connected to the conductive housing, a second side of the conductive loop is electrically connected to the closed ground loop. The conductive housing, the conductive loop, and the closed ground loop form a shield against electromagnetic interference. The disclosure further provides an electronic device including the camera module.
US11381146B2
In a drive device having a tubular linear motor with a stator (1), an armature (2) and a bottom flange (30), the stator (1) is arranged on the bottom flange (30) in thermal contact with the bottom flange (30). The stator (1) is fluid-tightly enclosed by stainless steel. The bottom flange (30) consists at least partly of a material having a higher thermal conductivity than stainless steel. The stator (1), together with the bottom flange (30), is enclosed by a casing (40) made of stainless steel which is in thermal contact with the bottom flange (30) and encloses the bottom flange (30) and the stator (1) in common. The stator (1) is a tubular stator (1) having drive coils (12) arranged therein and also having a longitudinal axis and a through-hole (11) which extends through the tubular stator (1) coaxially with the longitudinal axis. The armature (2) has a fluid-tight armature tube (21) made of stainless steel, in which permanent magnets (23) are arranged, and is arranged so as to be movable relative to the tubular stator (1) in the through-hole (11) in the direction of the longitudinal axis. The tubular stator (1) and the bottom flange (30) are so arranged relative to one another that a portion of the tubular stator (1) is in thermal contact with the bottom flange (30).
US11381139B2
To provide a motor inhibiting emission of electromagnetic noise (EMC) to the outside and a rotary apparatus including the motor. The rotary apparatus (10) of the present disclosure includes: a housing (20); a motor (40) arranged inside the housing (20); a circuit board (50) arranged inside the housing (20) and electrically connected to the motor (40); and a flexible wiring board (44) electrically connecting the motor (40) to the circuit board (50), the motor (40) including a frame (41a) formed with a conductive member, the frame (41a) electrically connected via the flexible wiring board (44) to a ground of the circuit board (50).
US11381136B2
A vehicle drive device includes: a first rotary electric machine; a second rotary electric machine that is arranged below the first rotary electric machine; and a case having a rotary electric machine housing portion that houses the first rotary electric machine and the second rotary electric machine. The first rotary electric machine and the second rotary electric machine are cooled by a refrigerant flowing inside the case, and in the rotary electric machine housing portion, a guide portion that prevents the refrigerant, which has cooled the first rotary electric machine, from being applied to the second rotary electric machine is provided.
US11381134B2
A Sub-Terrestrial Updraft Tower (STUT), combination subsurface Downdraft/Updraft Tower, comprising an Inner Updraft Shaft and Outer Downdraft Shaft, housing the Inner Updraft Shaft, receiving air flow from air-inlets at surface level into Outer Downdraft Shaft. Upon reaching the bottom of the Outer Downdraft Shaft, air flow reverses In direction, inward and upward, into the Inner Updraft Shaft. Volumetric Displacement or airflow is induced and sustained via the injection of air and heat into the Downdraft/Updraft respectively; driving a plurality of sustained system pressure biases, and fed by temperature differentials that are initiated, sustained, and enhanced due to the configuration, orientations and functions of numerous STUT elements including partitions, thermal barrier coatings, air intake and cowlings; creating coherent, accelerated airflow to pass through/within a ringed shaped, diverging converging Vertical Axis Vertical Airflow Nozzle and Turbine (VAVANT); airflow causes rotation of VAVANT, and summation of torque forces at VAVANT hub, shaft, gearbox, and power head, generate EMF, and electrical power.
US11381133B2
The invention relates to a spur gear (1) for a transmission (35) for a brushless electric motor (10), having a toothed portion (32), with a receiving bore (38) formed in the region of the toothed portion (32) in order to receive a rotor shaft (30), and having a signal generating portion (34) rotationally fixed to the toothed portion (32) with multiple magnetic field generating regions (48), which are adapted to interact with a magnetic field sensing element (50) especially a Hall element, in order to detect the rotary angle position of the spur gear (1) as it turns about an axis of rotation (20).
US11381131B2
An electric drive device includes: a motor housing for housing an electric motor, wherein the motor housing includes an end face part opposite to an output part of a rotating shaft of the electric motor; and an electronic control part arranged at the end face part. The electronic control part includes a control circuit part, a power supply circuit part, and a power conversion circuit part, which are covered by a metal cover, wherein the metal cover is fixed water-tightly to the end face part. The end face part includes a power conversion heat dissipation region and a power supply heat dissipation region. Each of the control circuit part and the power supply circuit part is contained on a circuit board, wherein the circuit board is placed along a plane perpendicular to the rotating shaft, and layered with each other in an axial direction of the rotating shaft.
US11381125B2
A rotor for an electric machine is provided. Permanent magnets are disposed on the rotor such that the permanent magnets cannot carry out any tangential movement. The rotor may have four shoulders that extend away from a shell surface of the rotor in a radial direction. Primary permanent magnets that are disposed so as to be mutually contiguous and contiguous to the respective shoulders and accordingly cannot be displaced are in each case located between the shoulders. Secondary permanent magnets are disposed on the shoulders such that an annulus of magnets that is free of gaps and voids and is not movable in the tangential direction is formed.
US11381121B2
An apparatus and a method for controlling the power transfer coverage of a wireless power transmission network are disclosed. The method for controlling the power transfer coverage of a wireless power transmission network, which includes a plurality of peripheral devices for receiving power from a main device through a resonant channel within the power transfer coverage of the main device, comprises the steps of: checking a wireless power transmission network disconnection state of any one of the plurality of peripheral devices by a procedure gradually decreasing the amount of transmission power of the main device; and forming the power transfer coverage on the basis of the amount of transmission power at the moment of the wireless power transmission network disconnection.
US11381118B2
An example method is provided for detecting and classifying foreign objects, performed at a computer system having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs configured for execution by the one or more processors. The method includes obtaining a plurality of electrical measurements while a wireless-power-transmitting antenna is transmitting different power beacons. The method also includes forming a feature vector according to the plurality of electrical measurements. The method further includes detecting a presence of one or more foreign objects prior to transmitting wireless power to one or more wireless power receivers by inputting the feature vector to trained one or more classifiers, wherein each classifier is a machine-learning model trained to detect foreign objects distinct from the one or more wireless power receivers.
US11381104B2
An energy system for providing electrical energy to a device where the energy system includes: a first battery for providing a first electrical power over a first time period; a second battery for providing a second electrical power over a second time period, the second battery being a type different from a type of the first battery, the second power being greater than the first power and the second time period being smaller than the first time period; and a controller for controlling initiation of the first battery and the second battery at predetermined times to satisfy a specific power requirement of the device over a time period including the first and second time periods.
US11381101B1
Systems, methods, and devices for controlling charging of vehicles, to avoid charging during charge-adverse time periods or during charge restriction events. This can advantageously reduce cost to vehicles owners, and or provide access to reward incentives. Further, power distribution entities (utility providers) advantageously have increased control over power distribution to avoid over-burdening of power distribution infrastructure. Further, systems and methods for determining or inferring whether a vehicle is connected to a charge station are described, which can be used to inform automatic restriction of vehicle charging.
US11381091B2
The invention provides a processing circuit with multiple power supply ports and an electronic device. The processing circuit includes: N power supply ports; a first-level power supply; N middle transmission modules, connected between the first-level power supply and the corresponding power supply port, wherein at least one of which is used as a second-level power supply; and a charging protocol control module. The charging protocol control module is respectively connected to the first-level power supply, the N power supply ports, and the N middle transmission modules. The second-level power supply operates in a switching power mode or a pass through mode. In the pass through mode, the output voltage of the second-level power supply matches the input voltage received by the first-level power supply, and the output voltage of the second-level power supply is not adjustable.
US11381085B2
An operational support device sets an execution time of overfiring serving as an operation of a power generation facility at an output higher than a rated output. The device includes a life index value acquisition unit that acquires a life index value at a start time, the life index value being an index indicating a life of the power generation facility and changing in value in one direction with the output of the power generation facility; an output pattern setting unit that sets an output pattern per unit time of the power generation facility from the start time to a stop time based on the life index value such that the life index value reaches a predetermined value; and an overfiring setting unit that sets, based on the output pattern, a time in a period from the start to the stop time at which the overfiring is to be performed.
US11381075B2
Voltage converter having overcurrent protection. In some embodiments, a voltage converter can include a voltage converting circuit configured to receive an input voltage and generate an output voltage. The voltage converter can further include an overcurrent protection circuit coupled to the voltage converting circuit and having a detection unit configured to detect an overcurrent condition associated with the voltage converting circuit. The overcurrent protection circuit can further include a consumption unit configured to selectively consume and thereby reduce a current in a path associated with the voltage converting circuit based on the detection of the overcurrent condition.
US11381072B2
A circuit protection system is provided herein that minimizes the disconnection time of a circuit while protecting other electrical components. Some configurations comprise a set of parallel circuit interruption devices, each connected in series with respective fuses. A control device sets a state of the circuit interruption device based on a current of the circuit. Under certain current loads, the circuit is interrupted without causing a fuse to blow. Under other current loads, the circuit is interrupted by having one or more fuses blow.
US11381068B2
Disclosed herein are an electrical wiring structure with connection points arranged on side walls and a building construction method, which can improve convenience of electrical wiring construction and reduce electrical wiring materials. The electrical wiring structure includes a first power wire drawn out of a distribution box and disposed through a first conduit embedded in a concrete-made bottom base of an indoor space, a first joint box embedded at a predetermined height in a first side wall formed in the indoor space and electrically connected to the first power wire, a first light wire electrically connected to the first joint box, and a second joint box embedded at a predetermined height in a second side wall formed in the indoor space and electrically connected to the first joint box by a second power wire disposed through a second conduit embedded in the bottom base of the indoor space.
US11381059B2
A process for creating a stabilized diode laser device is disclosed, where the stabilized diode laser device includes a unibody mounting plate and several chambers aligned along a transmission axis. Various optic components are placed in the chambers, and based on a transmission through the chambers, the optic components are aligned and secured within the chambers.
US11381055B2
A laser system includes: a laser light source; a light detector configured to output an electric current proportional to an output laser light of the laser light source; a resistor network configured to convert the electric current output from the light detector to a monitor voltage; and a regulator configured to control an intensity of the output laser light based on a comparison between the monitor voltage and a voltage corresponding to a control target value, wherein the resistor network comprises at least two branch circuits connected in parallel with each other, and the branch circuits include respective digital potentiometer circuits commonly formed in a single device.
US11381049B2
The invention relates to a crimping pliers network (39) which comprises pressing pliers (2), an electronic control unit (31) (in particular a smartphone or a tablet) as well as a data storage device (37) (in particular a cloud storage (38)). According to the invention, a die (3, 4) of the pressing pliers (2) comprises an identifier (18, 19) which can be captured by a capturing device (21) of the pressing pliers. Data (48) from the data storage device (37) and being specific for the captured identifier (18, 19) is provided to the control unit (31). The data might be a desired pressing force curve (49), a desired pressing displacement curve (50) and/or information concerning a workpiece for which the dies (3, 4) are designated. In this way, it is possible to increase the process safety when using the crimping pliers (2). Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for pressing a workpiece.
US11381048B2
The invention relates to a crimping tool locator (12) for a crimping tool (1), especially crimping plier (2). The crimping tool locator (12) comprises an accommodating body (14) with at least one accommodation (21) for a workpiece (10), especially a plug (11). The accommodating body (14) comprises a securing device (24), by which the workpiece (10) is securable in the interior of the accommodation (21). The securing device (24) can be realized as a latching device, locking device or friction device.
US11381041B2
The present disclosure discloses an electrical connector including an insulating body, a plurality of conductive terminals, a shielding shell and an outer metal shell. The insulating body has a tongue plate. The plurality of conductive terminals include a ground terminal and a signal terminal. Each of the ground terminal and the signal terminal includes a contact portion exposed on the tongue plate. The outer metal shell is provided with a mounting portion for being mounted to a circuit board. The shielding shell is in contact with the ground terminal, and the outer metal shell is in contact with the shielding shell. There is no need to provide any mounting part on the shielding shell to be directly mounted on the circuit board, thereby saving installation space and improving installation convenience.
US11381028B2
A coaxial cable connector includes a nut housing having a rearward cable receiving end and a forward end opposite said rearward end, a front nut assembly coupled to the forward end of the nut housing, and a conductive metal tubular insert shaft supported within the nut housing or the front nut assembly. The front nut assembly includes an entry body housing and a conductive terminal pin extending from a forward end of the front nut assembly, and the conductive metal tubular insert shaft has a rearward end portion. A nonconductive plastic tubular support sleeve has a forward end portion coupled with the rearward end portion of the conductive metal tubular insert shaft, a tubular gripping ferrule radially surrounds the metal insert shaft and the plastic support sleeve, and a tubular outer sleeve radially surrounds at least a portion of said gripping ferrule. The gripping ferrule and the tubular outer sleeve are configured to be moved relative to one another in an axial direction such that the gripping ferrule and the tubular outer sleeve are configured to engage one another, thereby causing the gripping ferrule to radially compress around the conductive metal tubular insert shaft and the nonconductive plastic tubular support sleeve.
US11381027B2
An electronic connector has a first shell, a second shell, a space, and at least one fixing unit. The first shell has a cover segment and at least one first assembling segment mounted securely on the cover segment. The second shell has at least one second assembling segment arranged with the first assembling segment of the first shell along the width direction of the electronic connector. The space is formed between the cover segment of the first shell and the second shell. The first assembling segment of the first shell is located in the space. The fixing unit is mounted through the first assembling segment of the first shell and the second assembling segment of the second shell along the width direction. Therefore, wires will not be restricted by the first assembling segment and the second assembling segment in the width direction.
US11381025B2
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing composed of a plurality of parallel partitions each extending in a longitudinal direction, and plural rows of contact modules each extending in the longitudinal direction and disposed in the housing. Each contact module includes a plurality of contacts integrally formed within an insulator/wafter which extends in a longitudinal direction. In each contact module, each contact includes a main body with opposite contacting arms on upper and lower sections. The contact modules are successively assembled downwardly in the housing by plural assembling poles each of which retainably extends through plural contact modules in the transverse direction and retained in the corresponding positioning grooves formed in the corresponding partitions, respectively.
US11381024B2
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing and a plurality of contacts retained thereto. Each contact includes a retaining section, a contacting section in front of the retaining section, and a mounting section behind the retaining section. A plurality of independent glue reservoirs are formed on a rear side of the housing via crossing partitions. A tiny passage is formed in an exterior face of the partition to communicate the neighboring glue reservoirs so as to assure the even/same height of the hardened glue blocks in respective glue reservoirs.
US11381012B2
An electrical connector includes a conductive housing having a first receiving portion with an open end, a movable terminal having a first end inserted into the first receiving portion via the open end, the movable terminal having a second receiving portion, and a first elastic piece located in a space defined by the first receiving portion and the second receiving portion. A second end of the movable terminal opposite to the first end protrudes movably out of the first receiving portion against an elasticity of the first elastic piece. The first end of the movable terminal has a first elastic arm elastically abutting an inner side wall of the first receiving portion. The movable terminal is electrically connected to the conductive housing by each of the first elastic piece and the first elastic arm.
US11380998B2
Example radar systems are presented herein. A radar system may include radiating elements configured to radiate electromagnetic energy and arranged symmetrically in a linear array. The radiating elements comprise a set of radiating doublets and a set of radiating singlets. The radar system also includes a waveguide configured to guide electromagnetic energy between each of the plurality of radiating elements and a waveguide feed. The waveguide feed is coupled to the second side of the waveguide at a center location between a first half of the plurality of radiating elements and a second half of the plurality of radiating elements. The waveguide feed is configured to transfer electromagnetic energy between the waveguide and a component external to the waveguides. The radar system may also include a power dividing network defined by the waveguide and configured to divide the electromagnetic energy transferred by the waveguide feed based on a taper profile.
US11380988B2
In some aspects, an apparatus includes a transformer including a first inductor, a second inductor, and a third inductor. The apparatus also includes a power amplifier coupled to the first inductor, a first antenna coupled to a first terminal of the second inductor, a second antenna coupled to a second terminal of the second inductor, a first switch coupled between the first terminal of the second inductor and a ground, a second switch coupled between the second terminal of the second inductor and the ground, and a low-noise amplifier coupled to the third inductor.
US11380983B2
Radomes for a base station antenna include a first dielectric layer having a first dielectric constant and a first thickness, a second dielectric layer having a second dielectric constant and a second thickness, the second dielectric layer being positioned on an outer side of the first dielectric layer; and a third dielectric layer having a third dielectric constant and a third thickness, the third dielectric layer being positioned on an outer side of the second dielectric layer. Each of the first and third dielectric constants is greater than the second dielectric constant.
US11380980B2
An electronic device includes a housing including a first plate facing in a first direction, a second plate facing in a second direction, and a side member surrounding a space between the first plate and the second plate, a support member interposed between the first plate and the second plate and including a metallic structure, an antenna structure mounted on the support member and including a first surface facing in a third direction toward the side member, and a polymer structure disposed in a space surrounded by the first plate, the support member, the side member, and the first surface of the antenna structure, and coupled to the metallic structure. The coupled metallic structure and polymer structure includes a groove bounded by the first surface, a second surface on the polymer structure forming an acute angle with the first surface, and a third surface substantially perpendicular to the second surface.
US11380974B2
A technique relates to a superconducting airbridge on a structure. A first ground plane, resonator, and second ground plane are formed on a substrate. A first lift-off pattern is formed of a first lift-off resist and a first photoresist. The first photoresist is deposited on the first lift-off resist. A superconducting sacrificial layer is deposited while using the first lift-off pattern. The first lift-off pattern is removed. A cross-over lift-off pattern is formed of a second lift-off resist and a second photoresist. The second photoresist is deposited on the second lift-off resist. A cross-over superconducting material is deposited to be formed as the superconducting airbridge while using the cross-over lift-off pattern. The cross-over lift-off pattern is removed. The superconducting airbridge is formed to connect the first and second ground planes by removing the superconducting sacrificial layer underneath the cross-over superconducting material. The superconducting airbridge crosses over the resonator.
US11380971B2
A tunable power absorbing termination for a waveguide transmission line includes a section of waveguide having a front power feed end, a back power extracting end, and guidewalls extending between the front and back end thereof. A coolant circulating dielectric taper extends into the section of waveguide in an inclined orientation relative to a guidewall of the section of waveguide such that the point end of the taper extends substantially to the front power feed end of the waveguide section. The inclined orientation of the dielectric taper creates a free volume of space adjacent the taper behind the front power feed end of the waveguide section into which a tuner element is introduced which is position adjustable within the free volume of space to provide the power absorbing termination with a tuning capability.
US11380962B2
A non-woven fiber mat for lead-acid batteries is provided. The non-woven fiber mat includes glass fibers coated with a sizing composition, a binder composition, and organic active compounds, wherein the organic active compounds are effective in reducing or preventing sulphation in lead-acid batteries.
US11380959B2
A housing assembly for a high-voltage energy accumulator of a motor vehicle, wherein the housing assembly comprises a housing for accommodating multiple accumulator modules, which housing comprises an outer side, which, in a state in which the multiple accumulator modules are accommodated in the housing, faces away from the multiple accumulator modules. In this case, the housing assembly includes an electrically insulating insulation element, which is arranged in at least one defined region of the outer side of the housing which, when the housing is located in its intended installation location in the motor vehicle, faces toward at least one vehicle electrical system component of a vehicle electrical system (comprised by the motor vehicle having a reduced voltage level in relation to the high-voltage energy accumulator.
US11380955B2
Disclosed is a battery module, which includes a plurality of battery cells disposed to face each other and arranged side by side at least in a first direction, a module cover configured to accommodate the plurality of battery cells and formed to have at least one open side, and a pair of buffering members located between one side of a battery cell located at an outermost side in the first direction among the plurality of battery cells and a side of the module cover so that at least a part thereof is in contact with the sides of the battery cells and the module cover, respectively, wherein the buffering member is a leaf spring having at least one bent portion.
US11380954B2
Various embodiments of the present invention relate to a secondary battery, and the technical problem to be solved is to provide a secondary battery having a cathode terminal-integrated cap plate, which prevents the occurrence of weld defects during welding of a bus bar. To this end, the present disclosure provides a secondary battery comprising: a case; an electrode assembly received in the case; and a cap plate coupled to the case so as to protect the electrode assembly, wherein the cap plate includes a terminal part to which the electrode assembly is electrically connected and which is formed integrally with the cap plate, and the terminal part is thicker than the cap plate.
US11380949B2
A coolant distribution interface for a battery system includes a battery module housing comprising a coolant channel, and at least one mounting portion located at an entrance of the coolant channel, wherein the mounting portion comprises a first sealing section and a second sealing section; a matching housing comprising a matching coolant channel, and at least one matching mounting portion located at an entrance of the matching coolant channel, wherein the matching mounting portion comprises a first matching sealing section and a second matching sealing section; a joint coolant channel configured to connect the coolant channel of the mounting portion and the matching coolant channel of the matching mounting portion; a shared sealing element locating between the second sealing section and the second matching sealing section; a channel sealing element sealing the first sealing section and first matching sealing section against the joint coolant channel; a security chamber configured to form by the mounting portion, the matching mounting portion, the shared sealing element and channel sealing element; and a testing channel connecting the security chamber with an outside of the battery module housing and the matching housing, wherein the test channel is penetrated at least one of the battery module housing and the matching housing.
US11380943B2
A system includes an energy storage system having a plurality of batteries and a monitoring system operably coupled to the energy storage system. The monitoring system is configured to receive a first measurement corresponding to a characteristic from at least one of the plurality of batteries, determine a baseline from the first measurement, receive a second measurement from the at least one of the plurality of batteries, and compare the second measurement with the baseline to identify an issue with the at least one of the plurality of batteries. The monitoring system is also configured to perform a remediation action in response to the identified issue.
US11380936B2
The present disclosure relates to a gel polymer electrolyte for a lithium-air battery containing a zwitterion salt in a specific amount and to a lithium-air battery including the same and thus having a prolonged battery lifetime, thereby suppressing volatilization of the electrolyte and imparting the lithium-air battery with interfacial stability by inhibiting the formation of dendrites at a lithium anode and suppressing side reactions between the lithium anode and the liquid electrolyte. Moreover, the use of the zwitterion salt can improve the lithium-ion transference number, thereby increasing the lifetime of the battery.
US11380930B2
A fuel cell is disclosed. The fuel cell includes a cell stack including a plurality of unit cells stacked in a first direction, an enclosure surrounding side portions of the cell stack and including at least one opening to expose at least one of opposite end portions of the cell stack therethrough, first and second end plates respectively disposed at the opposite end portions of the cell stack, and a gasket disposed between a target end plate disposed in the at least one opening in the enclosure, among the first and second end plates, and the enclosure in order to seal the cell stack.
US11380926B2
An electrochemical reaction cell comprising an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, and a membrane electrode assembly (MEA). The MEA is positioned between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode. The anode electrode, the cathode electrode, and the MEA each have a corrugated shape and are contained within a recess of a housing.
US11380924B2
There is disclose a fuel cell system including at least one fuel cell and a duct to supply oxidant to the cathode of the at least one fuel cell. The duct includes at least one sorbent getter adapted to extract volatile species from the oxidant. The sorbent getter includes at least one member of the group consisting of magnesium oxide, calcium oxide and manganese oxide. The sorbent getter provides the advantage of extracting volatile species from the oxidant stream.
US11380921B2
A system includes an electrical storage device that stores an electric power generated by a fuel cell, an electric load to which the electric power is supplied using the electric power of the fuel cell and/or the electrical storage device, and an electric power control part that controls supply of the electric power to the electric load, and the electric power control part performs warming-up control of the fuel cell when an electric power requested to be generated at the fuel cell is less than a predetermined value, and causes the fuel cell to generate an electric power that is greater than the electric power requested to be generated at the fuel cell and causes to store excess electric power in the electrical storage device when the electric power requested to be generated at the fuel cell is equal to or greater than the predetermined value.
US11380919B2
When starting of a fuel gas consuming device configured to consume a fuel gas is instructed, an electric power is supplied to a fuel gas sensor that has a predetermined unstable period until an accuracy of fuel gas detection reaches a predetermined level after having been supplied with electric power, supply of the fuel gas from a fuel gas supply device to the fuel gas consuming device is started by opening an electric valve that is electrically opened and shut off. When a signal from the fuel gas sensor exhibits behavior of approaching a predetermined determination threshold value before the unstable period has elapsed, the electric valve is shut off. When the signal from the fuel gas sensor is less than a predetermined determination value in a predetermined period after the electric valve has been shut off, the electric valve is opened.
US11380915B2
A power supply system includes a power generation facility configured to supply power to a consumer and a server configured to communicate with the facility. The facility includes a fuel cell configured to generate, using fuel gas supplied via a supply path of the fuel gas to the consumer, power to be supplied to the consumer, and a measurement unit configured to measure a supply amount of the fuel gas used for the power generation. The server includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information concerning a supply amount of the fuel gas supplied to the consumer, and a specifying unit configured to specify, based on a measurement result of the measurement unit received from the facility and the information, a supply amount of the fuel gas not used for the power generation in the supply amount of the fuel gas supplied to the consumer.
US11380912B2
A compressor included in a fuel cell system comprises a compression chamber configured to compress the air by a rotating body; and a drive chamber arranged to separate from the compression chamber, provided with a driving mechanism that is placed therein to drive the rotating body, configured such that oil flows through, and placed to communicate with a first end portion of a depressurization pipe. When being viewed in a direction opposed to one side face of a fuel cell, a cooling medium piping and the depressurization pipe including a rising portion that is extended vertically upward are arranged to intersect with each other on the one side face.
US11380906B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a positive electrode material which contains a positive electrode active material, and a dielectric material having a perovskite crystal structure. In the positive electrode material, in an X-ray diffraction pattern (vertical axis: diffraction intensity, horizontal axis: diffraction angle 2θ (rad)) obtained by X-ray diffraction measurement using a CuKα ray, a highest intensity peak which is a peak derived from the dielectric material and has the highest intensity is in a range satisfying 2θ=31° to 32°, and a half width x of the highest intensity peak satisfies the following expression: 0.22≤x≤0.33.
US11380897B2
Disclosed in the present disclosure is a preparation method of a graphene flower, mainly lying in spray-drying graphene oxide solution to obtain a graphene oxide flower and then performing reduction on the same to obtain a graphene flower. Also disclosed in the present disclosure is use of the graphene flower in a lithium sulfur battery. The present disclosure is easy to operate, low cost, and suitable for scaled production, can improve the rate capability of a lithium sulfur battery while ensuring the high energy ratio of the lithium sulfur battery, thus greatly improving the energy density thereof, and can be applied in the field of high energy storage material and devices.
US11380889B2
Disclosed are an electrode for a rechargeable lithium battery and a rechargeable lithium battery. The electrode includes a current collector, a first active material layer, and a second active material layer. The first active material layer is formed on the current collector and includes a first active material. The second active material layer is formed on the first active material layer. The second active material layer includes a second active material having an active material and a meltdown polymer disposed on the surface of the active material.
US11380888B2
An electrode and a lithium secondary battery including the same. By preparing an electrode including an electrode active layer formed using a structure capable of supporting an electrode active material, safety and charge and discharge properties of a battery are improved due to morphological characteristics of the electrode active material being supported inside the structure.
US11380884B2
A liquid composition for an electrode composite material is provided. The liquid composition comprises an active material, a dispersion medium, and a polymerizable compound. A viscosity of the liquid composition at 25 degrees C. is a viscosity at which the liquid composition is dischargeable from a liquid discharge head.
US11380882B2
A method for producing a M-carbonate precursor of a Li-M oxide cathode material in a continuous reactor, wherein M=NixMnyCozAn, A being a dopant, with x>0, y>0, 0≤z≤0.35, 0≤n≤0.02 and x+y+z+n=1, the method comprising the steps of: —providing a feed solution comprising Ni-, Mn-, Co- and A-ions, and having a molar metal content M″ feed, —providing an ionic solution comprising either one or both of a carbonate and a bicarbonate solution, the ionic solution further comprising either one or both of Na- and K-ions, —providing a slurry comprising seeds comprising M′-ions and having a molar metal content M′ seeds, wherein M′=Nix′Mny′Coz′A′n′, A′ being a dopant, with 0≤x′≤1, 0≤y′≤1, 0≤z′≤1, 0≤n′≤1 and x′+y′+z′+n′=1, and wherein the molar ratio M′ seeds/M″ feed is between 0.001 and 0.1, —mixing the feed solution, the ionic solution and the slurry in the reactor, thereby obtaining a reactive liquid mixture, —precipitating a carbonate onto the seeds in the reactive liquid mixture, thereby obtaining a reacted liquid mixture and the M-carbonate precursor, and —separating the M-carbonate precursor from the reacted liquid mixture.
US11380878B2
A method for manufacturing the display device includes preparing a display panel on which a folding area folded with reference to a virtual folding axis and first and second non-folding areas, which are adjacent to both sides of the folding area, are defined and which displays an image, providing a resin on a first surface of the display panel, primarily hardening the resin, and secondarily hardening first and second resin areas of the resin, which respectively correspond to the first non-folding area and the second non-folding area of the display panel.
US11380874B2
An organic light emitting diode includes: a first electrode layer; a second electrode layer on the first electrode layer and facing the first electrode layer; a first light emitting layer between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer and comprising a phosphorescent material; a first hole control layer between the first electrode layer and the first light emitting layer; a second light emitting layer between the first light emitting layer and the second electrode layer and comprising a fluorescent material; and a charge generating layer between the first light emitting layer and the second light emitting layer, the first hole control layer having a thickness equal to or greater than 100 angstroms and equal to or smaller than 900 angstroms.
US11380873B2
A display panel and an electronic device are disclosed. The display panel includes a light-emitting layer, an encapsulation layer, and a touch layer. The light-emitting layer includes a plurality of pixel units and a plurality of isolating units disposed among the pixel units. The touch layer includes at least an insulating dielectric layer covering the encapsulation layer, and a plurality of touch units. The touch layer further includes a plurality of recessed portions disposed on the insulting dielectric layer and corresponding to the pixel units.
US11380859B2
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a main display region, a first bendable region, a second bendable region, and a first hollow region. The first bendable region and the main display region are connected to each other and arranged along a first direction. The first bendable region is capable of being bent away from a light-exiting surface of the display panel through a first bending axis. The second bendable region and the main display region are connected to each other and arranged along a second direction. The second direction intersects the first direction. The second bendable region is capable of being bent away from the light-exiting surface of the display panel through a second bending axis. An intersection point of extension lines of the first bending axis and the second bending axis is located in the first hollow region.
US11380844B2
A semiconductor device including at least one variable resistance device is provided. A variable resistance element includes: an ion supply layer having a top, a bottom and a sidewall connecting the top to the bottom; an ion-receiving layer having an inner sidewall connected to at least a portion of the sidewall of the ion supply layer; a gate pattern connected to an outer sidewall of the ion-receiving layer; and a source pattern connected to one of the top or bottom of the ion supply layer, and a drain pattern connected to the other one or the top or bottom of the ion supply layer. A resistance of the ion supply layer is varies depending on an amount of ions supplied from the ion supply layer to the ion-receiving layer in response to a voltage applied to the gate pattern.
US11380843B2
A method is presented for improved linearity of a phase change memory (PCM) cell structure. The method includes forming a bottom electrode over a substrate, constructing a PCM stack including a plurality of PCM layers each having a different crystallization temperature over the bottom electrode, and forming a top electrode over the PCM stack. The crystallization temperature varies in an ascending order from the bottom electrode to the top electrode.
US11380842B2
A method may include forming a via opening in a dielectric layer, depositing a first conductive layer along a bottom and a sidewall of the via opening, depositing a second conductive layer on top of the first conductive layer. The method may further include recessing the first conductive layer to form a trench and exposing a sidewall of the second conductive layer, depositing a non-conductive material in the trench, and depositing a phase change material layer on top of the dielectric layer. The top surface of the second conductive layer may be in direct contact with a bottom surface of the phase change material layer.
US11380838B2
A memory device method of fabrication that includes a first electrode having a first conductive layer including titanium and nitrogen and a second conductive layer on the first conductive layer that includes tantalum and nitrogen. The memory device further includes a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) on the first electrode. In some embodiments, at least a portion of the first conductive layer proximal to an interface with the second conductive layer includes oxygen.
US11380825B2
A light emitting element includes an LED element that emits an excitation light having a single peak wavelength within a range of greater than or equal to 380 nm and less than or equal to 500 nm; a fluorescent body to which at least a portion of the excitation light enters to emit fluorescence; and a light extraction surface that emits an output light formed by superimposing the excitation light and the fluorescence. The output light exhibits light emission over a range of at least greater than or equal to the peak wavelength of the excitation light and less than or equal to 1050 nm, and all of the output light have a light emission intensity of greater than or equal to a light emission intensity at 1050 nm within a range of at least the peak wavelength of the excitation light to 1050 nm.
US11380822B2
The purpose of the invention is to both improve the luminance of a SCASN-based phosphor and achieve deep-color rendering properties. Provided is a red phosphor having a main crystal phase having the same crystal structure as a crystal structure of CaAlSiN3, the main crystal phase represented by the general formula MAlSiN3, wherein an internal quantum efficiency, as measured when the red phosphor is excited by light having a wavelength of 455 nm, is 71% or more, and M in the general formula represents an element group containing at least three elements selected from Eu, Sr, Mg, Ca, and Ba, the element group containing Eu, Sr, and Ca as essentials, and a Eu content is 4.5 mass % or more and 7.0 mass % or less, a Sr content is 34.0 mass % or more and 42.0 mass % or less, and a Ca content is 0.8 mass % or more and 3.0 mass % or less.
US11380815B2
A method of fabricating a micro light emitting diode (LED) panel is provided. The method includes forming a semiconductor material substrate, forming a plurality of transistor devices, transferring and bonding the transistor devices onto a circuit substrate, and transferring a plurality of micro LED devices from a micro LED device substrate to the circuit substrate. The semiconductor material substrate includes a carrier, a release layer, an inorganic insulation layer, and a semiconductor material layer. The release layer is located between the carrier and the inorganic insulation layer. The semiconductor material layer is bonded to the release layer through the inorganic insulation layer. Electron mobility of the semiconductor material layer is greater than 20 cm2/V·s. The transistor devices are disposed on the release layer and are electrically connected to the circuit substrate. The micro LED devices are electrically connected to the transistor devices. A micro LED panel is also provided.
US11380801B2
Embodiments described herein provide thin film transistors (TFTs) and processes to reduce plasma induced damage in TFTs. In one embodiment, a buffer layer is disposed over a substrate and a semiconductor layer is disposed over the buffer layer. A gate dielectric layer is disposed over the semiconductor layer. The gate dielectric layer contacts the semiconductor layer at an interface. The gate electrode is disposed over the gate dielectric layer. The gate dielectric layer has a Dit of about 5e10 cm−2 eV−1 to about 5e11 cm−2 eV−1 and a hysteresis of about 0.10 V to about 0.30 V improve performance capability of the TFT while having a breakdown field between about 6 MV/cm and about 10 MV/cm.
US11380795B2
A semiconductor device comprising an oxide semiconductor film, a gate electrode, a first insulating film, a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a second insulating film is provided. Each of a top surface of the gate electrode, a top surface of the source electrode, and a top surface of the drain electrode comprises a region in contact with the second insulating film. A top surface of the first insulating film comprises a region in contact with the gate electrode and a region in contact with the second insulating film and overlapping with the oxide semiconductor film in a cross-sectional view of the oxide semiconductor film. The oxide semiconductor film comprises a region in contact with the first insulating film and a region in contact with the second insulating film and adjacent to the region in contact with the first insulating film in the cross-sectional view.
US11380794B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes: forming a gate structure over a fin that protrudes above a substrate; forming source/drain regions over the fin on opposing sides of the gate structure; forming a first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer successively over the source/drain regions; performing a first etching process to form an opening in the first dielectric layer and in the second dielectric layer, where the opening exposes an underlying electrically conductive feature; after performing the first etching process, performing a second etching process to enlarge a lower portion of the opening proximate to the substrate; and forming a contact plug in the opening after the second etching process.
US11380791B2
A semiconductor device includes a first impurity region, a channel pattern, a second impurity region, a gate structure, a first contact pattern, a second contact pattern and a spacer. The first impurity region may be formed on a substrate. The channel pattern may protrude from an upper surface of the substrate. The second impurity region may be formed on the channel pattern. The gate structure may be formed on a sidewall of the channel pattern and the substrate adjacent to the channel pattern, and the gate structure may include a gate insulation pattern and a gate electrode. The first contact pattern may contact an upper surface of the second impurity region. The second contact pattern may contact a surface of the gate electrode. The spacer may be formed between the first and second contact patterns. The spacer may surround a portion of a sidewall of the second contact pattern, and the spacer may contact a sidewall of each of the first and second contact patterns.
US11380789B2
A vertical power device is disclosed, the device having a top side and a bottom side, and the device comprising (i) a substrate; (ii) a layered group III-Nitride based device stack formed atop the substrate; (iii) a first vertical group III-Nitride based device and a second vertical group III-Nitride based device formed in the group III-Nitride based device stack, wherein the first vertical group III-Nitride based device and the second vertical group III-Nitride based device are electrically connected; and (iv) a first vertical device isolation structure that isolates the first vertical group III-Nitride based device from the second vertical group III-Nitride based device. Also disclosed are a vertical power system integrating vertical power devices and a process for fabricating a vertical power device.
US11380785B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a gate structure, semimetallic source/drain structures, and source/drain contacts. The gate structure is over the substrate. The semimetallic source/drain structures are respectively on opposite sides of the gate structure, in which a band structure of each of the semimetallic source/drain structures has a valence band and a conduction band at different symmetry k-points. The source/drain contacts land on top surfaces of the semimetallic source/drain structures, respectively.
US11380784B2
Provided is a semiconductor device that includes a first conductivity type well region below a gate runner portion, wherein a diode region includes first contact portions, a first conductivity type anode region, and a second conductivity type cathode region; wherein the well region contacts the diode region in the first direction, and when an end of the well region, an end of at least one of first contact portions, and an end of the cathode region that face one another in the first direction are imaginary projected on an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate, a first distance is longer than a second distance, the first distance being a distance between the end of the well region and the end of the cathode region, and the second distance being a distance between the end of the well region and the end of the at least one first contact portion.
US11380778B2
A method of forming a fin field effect transistor device is provided. The method includes forming a plurality of vertical fins on a substrate. The method further includes forming a bottom source/drain layer adjacent to the plurality of vertical fins, and growing a doped layer on the bottom source/drain layer and sidewalls of the plurality of vertical fins. The method further includes forming a dummy gate liner on the doped layer and the bottom source/drain layer, and forming a dummy gate fill on the dummy gate liner. The method further includes forming a protective cap layer on the dummy gate fill, and removing a portion of the protective cap layer to expose a top surface of the plurality of vertical fins.
US11380775B2
A complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) semiconductor device includes a substrate. The CMOS semiconductor device further includes an isolation region in the substrate. The CMOS semiconductor device further includes a P-metal gate electrode extending over the isolation region, wherein the P-metal gate electrode includes a first function metal and a TiN layer doped with a first material. The CMOS semiconductor device further includes an N-metal gate electrode extending over the isolation region, wherein the N-metal gate electrode includes a second function metal and a TiN layer doped with a second material different from the first material, a portion of the P-metal gate electrode is between a portion of the N-metal gate electrode and the substrate, and a portion of the TiN layer doped with the second material is between the portion of the P-metal gate electrode and the substrate.
US11380773B2
A semiconductor memory device of an embodiment includes a semiconductor layer; a gate electrode including a first portion, a second portion provided to be spaced apart from the first portion, and a spacer provided between the first portion and the second portion; and a first insulating layer provided between the semiconductor layer and the gate electrode and including a first region containing a ferroelectric, a ferrielectric, or an anti-ferroelectric, a second region containing a ferroelectric, a ferrielectric, or an anti-ferroelectric, and a boundary region provided between the first region and the second region. The first region is positioned between the first portion and the semiconductor layer, the second region is positioned between the second portion and the semiconductor layer, the boundary region is positioned between the spacer and the semiconductor layer, and the boundary region has a chemical composition different from that of the spacer.
US11380772B2
A semiconductor device and a method of forming the same are provided. In one embodiment, the semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of channel regions including first, second, and third p-type channel regions as well as first, second, and third n-type channel regions, and a plurality of gate structures. The plurality of gate structures includes an interfacial layer (IL) disposed over the plurality of channel regions, a first high-k (HK) dielectric layer disposed over the first p-type channel region and the first n-type channel region, a second high-k dielectric layer disposed over the first n-type channel region, the second n-type channel region, the first p-type channel region, and the second p-type channel region; and a third high-k dielectric layer disposed over the plurality of channel regions. The first, second and third high-k dielectric layers are different from one another.
US11380761B2
A semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region spaced apart from each other by a trench in the substrate; and a gate structure in the trench, wherein the gate structure includes: a gate dielectric layer formed on a bottom and sidewalls of the trench; a first gate electrode positioned in a bottom portion of the trench over the gate dielectric layer; a second gate electrode positioned over the first gate electrode; and a dipole inducing layer formed between the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode and between sidewalls of the second gate electrode and the gate dielectric layer.
US11380759B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to a transistor with an embedded isolation layer in a bulk substrate and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a bulk substrate; an isolation layer embedded within the bulk substrate and below a top surface of the bulk substrate; a deep trench isolation structure extending through the bulk substrate and contacting the embedded isolation layer; and a gate structure over the top surface of the bulk substrate and vertically spaced away from the embedded isolation layer, the deep trench isolation structure and the embedded isolation layer defining an active area of the gate structure in the bulk substrate.
US11380758B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device with an air gap and a boron nitride cap for reducing capacitive coupling in a pattern-dense region and a method for preparing the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a first metal plug and a second metal plug disposed over a pattern-dense region of a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device also includes a third metal plug and a fourth metal plug disposed over a pattern-loose region of the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device further includes a boron nitride layer disposed over the pattern-dense region and the pattern-loose region of the semiconductor substrate. A first portion of the boron nitride layer between the first metal plug and the second metal plug is separated from the semiconductor substrate by an air gap, and a second portion of the boron nitride layer between the third metal plug and the fourth metal plug is in direct contact with the semiconductor substrate.
US11380752B2
A stretchable display panel is provided. The stretchable display panel includes a plurality of encapsulated islands; and a plurality of bridges connecting the plurality of encapsulated islands. A respective one of the plurality of bridges connects two adjacent encapsulated islands of the plurality of encapsulated islands along an extension direction from a first one of the two adjacent encapsulated islands to a second one of the two adjacent encapsulated islands. The respective one of the plurality of bridges includes a plurality of first parts and a plurality of second parts alternately arranged. The stretchable display panel includes an insulating layer. The insulating layer includes a plurality of insulating blocks respectively in the plurality of first parts. The insulating layer is at least partially absent in the respective one of the plurality of second parts.
US11380748B2
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) dual screen display is provided, including a first OLED display panel and a second OLED display panel opposite to the first OLED display panel. Both edges of the first OLED display panel and both edges of the second OLED display panel are adhered by a sealant. Both the first OLED display panel and the second OLED display panel include an open area and a non-open area, and the non-open area is provided with a black matrix.
US11380747B2
The present disclosure provides a display panel, a display device, and a method for manufacturing a display panel. The display panel includes a pixel unit. The pixel unit includes a plurality of sub-pixel units. Each of the plurality of sub-pixel units includes at least one transparent film layer. Each of the plurality of sub-pixel units is divided into a light-emitting area and a light-transmitting area, and the quantity of the transparent film layer in the light-transmitting area is smaller than the quantity of the transparent film layer in the light-emitting area.
US11380744B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provided a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a plurality of pixel defining units, each of the plurality of pixel defining units has a pixel hole for arranging a sub-pixel, and a first guide groove section connecting to the pixel hole, and the first guide groove sections corresponding to two adjacent pixel defining units are connected to each other to form a first guide groove.
US11380742B2
A display panel includes a light emitting layer, and the light emitting layer includes a pixel defining layer, a plurality of light emitting structures, and a plurality of supporting structures located on the pixel defining layer. Each of the supporting structures includes a first support column and a second support column, the first support column is a hollow cylinder, the second support column is located inside the first support column, a height of the second support column is greater than a height of the first support column, and a shortest distance between the first support column and the second support column is greater than or equal to a radius or a side length of the second support column.
US11380740B2
The present application discloses a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a substrate; an active switch, which is arrange on the substrate and includes a first active switch and a second active switch; a pixel, which is arrange on the substrate and coupled to the first active switch and includes a quantum dot light-emitting diode; and a light sensor, which is arrange on the substrate and coupled to the second active switch and includes a quantum dot light sensing layer.
US11380734B2
An OLED display including first, second, and third color pixels on a substrate, each including a first electrode, an organic emission layer, a second electrode, and a capping layer, in which the first color pixel emits green light, and each of the second and third color pixels emits a color of light other than green, the organic emission layer of the first color pixel includes first and second emission layers that emit light, the organic emission layer of the second or third color pixel includes a third emission layer that emit light, the second and third emission layers include both a host and a dopant, the first emission layer includes the host, but not any dopants therein, and the second emission layer is disposed on the first electrode, and the first emission layer is disposed on the second emission layer.
US11380722B2
An image sensor device includes a digital pixel that includes a photo detector, a comparator, and a memory circuit, a pixel driver that controls the digital pixel, and a digital logic circuit that performs a digital signal processing operation on a digital signal output from the digital pixel. The photo detector and a first portion of the comparator are formed in a first semiconductor die, a second portion of the comparator, the memory circuit, and the pixel driver are formed in a second semiconductor die under the first semiconductor die, and the digital logic circuit is formed in a third semiconductor die under the second semiconductor die.
US11380721B2
A gate structure includes a gate and a first isolation structure having a top surface and a bottom surface. The gate includes a first sidewall adjacent to the first isolation structure, a second sidewall, a first horizontal surface adjacent to a bottom edge of the first sidewall and a bottom edge of the second sidewall, the first horizontal surface being between the top surface of the first isolation structure and the bottom surface of the first isolation structure. The gate also includes a second horizontal surface adjacent to a top edge of the second sidewall. An effective channel width defined by the gate structure includes a height of the second sidewall and a width of the second horizontal surface.
US11380713B2
An array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a display panel are provided, the array substrate includes a base substrate and a first conductive layer, a first insulating layer, a second conductive layer and a third conductive layer which are sequentially stacked on the base substrate, the first insulating layer insulates the first conductive layer from the second conductive layer, the first conductive layer includes a first signal line, the second conductive layer includes a second signal line and a first connection part spaced apart from each other, the third conductive layer includes a second connection part, the first connection part is electrically connected with the first signal line through a first via hole in the first insulating layer; the second connection part is electrically connected with the first connection part and the second signal line to constitute a connection structure electrically connecting the first signal line with the second signal line.
US11380704B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a P-type transistor and a first N-type transistor. The P-type transistor includes a first semiconductor layer containing carbon, a P-type second semiconductor layer provided on the first semiconductor layer, a third semiconductor layer provided on the second semiconductor layer and containing carbon. The first N-type transistor includes a fourth semiconductor layer containing carbon, an N-type fifth semiconductor layer provided on the fourth semiconductor layer, a sixth semiconductor layer provided on the fifth semiconductor layer and containing carbon.
US11380700B2
A vertical memory device includes lower circuit patterns, a second substrate, a capacitor, gate electrodes, and a channel. The lower circuit patterns are formed on a first substrate including first, second and third regions. Contact plugs are formed in the second region. Through vias are formed in the third region. The second substrate is formed on the lower circuit patterns. The capacitor is formed on the lower circuit patterns, and includes a first conductor, a dielectric layer structure, and a second conductor. The first conductor is spaced apart from the second substrate at the same height as the second substrate. The dielectric layer structure is formed on the first conductor. The second conductor is formed on the dielectric layer structure. The gate electrodes are spaced apart from each other on the second substrate in a vertical direction. The channel extends through the gate electrodes in the vertical direction.
US11380692B2
A semiconductor device includes a stacked structure, channel layers passing through the stacked structure, a well plate located under the stacked structure, a source layer located between the stacked structure and the well plate, a connection structure coupling the channel layers to each other and including a first contact contacting the source layer and a second contact contacting the well plate, and an isolation pattern insulating the source layer and the well plate from each other.
US11380688B2
A semiconductor device that can be miniaturized or highly integrated is provided. The semiconductor device includes a transistor and a capacitor. The transistor includes a metal oxide and a first conductor that is electrically connected to the metal oxide. The capacitor includes a first insulator which is provided over the metal oxide and which the first conductor penetrates; a second insulator provided over the first insulator and including an opening reaching the first insulator and the first conductor; a second conductor in contact with an inner wall of the opening, the first insulator, and the first conductor; a third insulator provided over the second conductor; and a fourth conductor provided over the third insulator. The first insulator has higher capability of inhibiting the passage of hydrogen than the second insulator.
US11380687B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same are provided. Semiconductor devices may include a substrate including first and second regions, first active fins extending in a first direction on the first region, second active fins extending parallel to the first active fins on the second region, and single diffusion break regions between two first active fins. Single diffusion break regions may be spaced apart from each other in the first direction. The semiconductor devices may also include a lower diffusion break region between two second active fins and extending in a second direction that is different from the first direction and upper diffusion break regions on the lower diffusion break region. The upper diffusion break regions may be spaced apart from each other in the first direction, and each of the upper diffusion break regions may overlap the lower diffusion break region.
US11380686B2
A semiconductor device includes first and second transistors on a substrate. The first transistor includes a first N-type active region, a first gate electrode having a first work function layer, and a first gate dielectric layer having high-k dielectrics containing La. The first work function layer includes a first layer having TiON, a second layer having TiN or TiON, a third layer having TiON, a fourth layer having TiN, and a fifth layer having TiAlC. The second transistor includes a first P-type active region, a second gate electrode having a second work function layer, and a second gate dielectric layer having high-k dielectrics. The second work function layer includes the fifth layer directly contacting the second gate dielectric layer.
US11380680B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, first and second wells of a first conductivity type, a third well of a second conductivity type, different from the first conductivity type, a first doped region of the first conductivity type in the second well, a metal-oxide-semiconductor device, and a feature. The metal-oxide-semiconductor device is at least partially disposed within the substrate and includes a gate structure disposed above the first well. The gate structure, the first doped region, or the combination thereof is configured to be floated. The feature is disposed adjacent to the metal-oxide-semiconductor device. The feature extends into the substrate with a first depth and a portion of the metal-oxide-semiconductor device extends into the substrate with a second depth smaller than the first depth.
US11380676B2
A semiconductor system includes a control device, and a semiconductor apparatus coupled with the control device through a first line and a second line. A loading of the second line is greater than a loading of the first line, wherein the semiconductor apparatus includes a first receiving circuit which is electrically coupled with the first line and a second receiving circuit which is electrically coupled with the second line. Further a loading between the first line and the first receiving circuit is greater than a loading between the second line and the second receiving circuit.
US11380674B2
Disclosed are an array substrate, display panel and display device. The array substrate includes: a substrate, where the substrate includes a display area and a peripheral circuit area surrounding the display area; the peripheral circuit area is provided with a gate drive circuit; the gate drive circuit includes a group of shift registers connected in cascade; a first metal layer; a second metal layer; scan lines and connection structures corresponding to the scan lines one-to-one; where the first metal layer includes the scan lines; the second metal layer includes the connection structures; the shift registers include scan signal output ends; the scan signal output ends are electrically connected to the scan lines one-to-one through the connection structures; at least one end of at least one scan line is provided with an electrostatic dispersion structure; the electrostatic dispersion structure includes an electrostatic dispersion line or an first electrostatic dispersion ring.
US11380661B2
A display device is provided. The display device includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, a plurality of light-emitting units disposed on the first surface of the substrate, and a plurality of conductive structures extending into the substrate from the second surface of the substrate. The plurality of conductive structures are electrically connected to the plurality of light-emitting units.
US11380656B2
The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, a first conductive member, a second conductive member, an insulating member, a first main terminal, and a second main terminal. The first main terminal and the second main terminal, respectively, extend from the first conductive member and the second conductive member. The first main terminal and the second main terminal, respectively, have a first projecting portion and a second projecting portion projecting outside of the insulating member. The first projecting portion and the second projecting portion, respectively, have a first facing portion and a second facing portion at which plate surfaces of the first and second projecting portions face each other across a gap, and a first non-facing portion and a second non-facing portion at which the plate surfaces of the first and second projecting portions do not face each other.
US11380655B2
A method includes thinning a semiconductor substrate of a device die to reveal through-substrate vias that extend into the semiconductor substrate, and forming a first redistribution structure, which includes forming a first plurality of dielectric layers over the semiconductor substrate, and forming a first plurality of redistribution lines in the first plurality of dielectric layers. The first plurality of redistribution lines are electrically connected to the through-substrate vias. The method further includes placing a first memory die over the first redistribution structure, and forming a first plurality of metal posts over the first redistribution structure. The first plurality of metal posts are electrically connected to the first plurality of redistribution lines. The first memory die is encapsulated in a first encapsulant. A second plurality of redistribution lines are formed over, and electrically connected to, the first plurality of metal posts and the first memory die.
US11380654B2
A radio-frequency module including a mounting substrate that has mounting faces opposed to each other; a PA that is mounted on the mounting face, that is a radio-frequency component, and that has an emitter terminal; a through electrode that is connected to the emitter terminal of the PA and that passes through the mounting faces of the mounting substrate; and a ground terminal connected to the through electrode.
US11380651B2
A semiconductor package includes a base substrate; a printed circuit board disposed on the base substrate; a first chip stack disposed on the base substrate on one side of the printed circuit board, and including first semiconductor chips offset-stacked in a first offset direction facing the printed circuit board; a second chip stack disposed on the first chip stack, and including second semiconductor chips offset-stacked in a second offset direction facing away from the printed circuit board; a third chip stack disposed on the base substrate on the other side of the printed circuit board, and including third semiconductor chips offset-stacked in the second offset direction; and a fourth chip stack disposed on the third chip stack, and including fourth semiconductor chips offset-stacked in the first offset direction, wherein the second and fourth chip stacks are electrically connected with the base substrate through the printed circuit board.
US11380647B2
A sintering press to sinter electronic components on a substrate comprises a pressing unit comprising a multi-rod cylinder having a front head and a rear head which jointly delimit a compression chamber. In the front head, presser rods parallel and independent of each other are slidingly supported. Each presser rod is coaxial and barycentric to a respective electronic component to be sintered and has a thrust section proportional to the force to be applied to the respective electronic component. In the compression chamber a sealing membrane extends, which is deformed so as to abut against the presser rods for transferring the sintering pressure on each presser rod.
US11380643B2
An integrated circuit package is disclosed. The integrated circuit package comprises a first integrated circuit die and a second integrated circuit die. The integrated circuit package further includes a substrate, wherein both the first integrated circuit die and the second integrated circuit die are connected to the substrate. The substrate includes an interconnect bridge embedded within the substrate, wherein the interconnect bridge includes at least one metal trace component, wherein the metal trace component includes rounded corners on a bottom portion of the metal trace component.
US11380630B2
Integrated circuit package (ICP) with: (i) stored information pertaining to an amount and/or value of precious material present in the ICP; and (ii) sensor for detecting an amount of precious material present in the ICP. In some embodiments the ICP is embedded in a smart card for use with a smart card reader system that can communicate data to and/or from the ICP.
US11380621B2
A semiconductor wafer processing susceptor for holding a wafer having an orientation notch during deposition of a layer on the wafer, having a placement surface for supporting the semiconductor wafer in the rear edge region of the wafer, the placement surface having a stepped outer delimitation, and an indentation of the outer delimitation of the placement surface for placement of the partial region of the edge region of the rear side of the wafer in which the orientation notch is located onto a partial region of the placement surface delimited by the indentation of the outer delimitation of the placement surface. The susceptor is used in a method for depositing a layer on a wafer having an orientation notch, and wafers made of monocrystalline silicon upon which layers are deposited using the susceptor have greater local flatness on both front and rear sides proximate the orientation notch.
US11380613B2
An integrated circuit (IC) package is described. The IC package includes a die, having a pad layer structure on back-end-of-line layers on a substrate. The die also includes a metallization routing layer on the pad layer structure, and a first under bump metallization layer on the metallization routing layer. The IC package also includes a patterned seed layer on a surface of the die to contact the first under bump metallization layer. The IC package further includes a first package bump on the first under bump metallization layer.
US11380601B2
A semiconductor chip is mounted on a substrate in a face-down manner. A metal film is arranged on a back surface of the semiconductor chip facing an opposite side from the substrate away from an edge of the back surface. A sealing resin layer seals the semiconductor chip with a part of the metal film being exposed from the sealing resin layer.
US11380599B2
There is provided a semiconductor module including: a base for semiconductor cooling; a stacked substrate provided above the base; a semiconductor chip provided above the stacked substrate; a coating layer provided on an upper surface of the semiconductor chip; and a sealing resin for sealing the semiconductor chip, in which the base is in contact with the sealing resin.
US11380576B2
A multilayer composite structure and a method of preparing a multilayer composite structure are provided. The multilayer composite structure comprises a semiconductor handle substrate having a minimum bulk region resistivity of at least about 500 ohm-cm and an isolation region that impedes the transfer of charge carriers along the surface of the handle substrate and reduces parasitic coupling between RF devices.
US11380571B2
The present disclosure provides an electrostatic chuck for holding a wafer. The electrostatic chuck includes at least one dielectric layer, an electrode layer coupled to the dielectric layer, and a chuck base. The chuck base includes a plurality of lock holes. The dielectric layer and the electrode layer are disposed on the chuck base. Each of the lock holes of the chuck base includes a first portion and a second portion connected to the first portion. The first portion has a first opening on a bottom surface of the chuck base. The second portion has a second opening on the bottom surface of the chuck base. A width of the second opening of the second portion is smaller than a width of the first opening of the first portion.
US11380566B2
A system for a semiconductor fabrication facility includes a manufacturing tool including a load port, a maintenance crane, a rectangular zone overlapping with the load port of the manufacturing tool, a plurality of first sensors at corners of the rectangular zone, an OHT vehicle, a second sensor on the OHT vehicle, a third sensor on the load port, and a control unit. The first sensors are configured to detect a location of the maintenance crane and to generate a first location data. The second sensor is configured to generate a second location data. The control unit is configured to receive the first location data of the maintenance crane and the second location data of the OHT vehicle. The control unit further sends signals to the second sensor and the third sensor or to cut off the signal to the second sensor.
US11380548B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure, comprising providing a substrate; forming a fin structure over the substrate; depositing an insulation material over the fin structure; performing a plurality of ion implantations in-situ with implantation energy increased or decreased stepwise; and removing at least a portion of the insulation material to expose a portion of the fin structure.
US11380547B2
A plasma processing method of etching an organic film through a mask having an opening is provided. The mask is formed on the organic film, and is made of a silicon-containing film. The method includes rectifying a shape of the mask. The rectifying of the shape of the mask includes refining a side wall of the opening of the mask, and etching an upper surface of the mask.
US11380544B2
A laser annealing device includes a stage, a laser generator, and a reflective member. The stage supports a substrate with a thin film formed thereon to be processed, and may be moved in a first direction at a set or predetermined speed. The laser generator irradiates a first area of the thin film with a laser beam while the stage is moved. The reflective member reflects a part of the laser beam, which is reflected from the first area of the thin film, to a second area of the thin film. The first area and the second area are spaced apart from each other.
US11380543B2
A substrate is provided with a monocrystalline silicon-germanium layer with a first surface covered by a protective oxide obtained by wet process and having a degradation temperature. The protective oxide is transformed into fluorinated salt which is then eliminated. The substrate is placed in a processing chamber at a lower temperature than the degradation temperature and is subjected to a temperature ramp up to a higher temperature than the degradation temperature. The first surface is annealed in a hydrogen atmosphere devoid of silicon, germanium and precursors of the materials forming the target layer. When the temperature ramp is applied, a silicon precursor is inserted in the processing chamber between a loading temperature and the degradation temperature to deposit a monocrystalline buffer layer. A mono-crystalline target layer is deposited by chemical vapour deposition.
US11380532B2
In an imaging mass spectrometer for analyzing the same kind of samples using results of imaging mass spectrometric analysis performed on those samples, a measurement section (1) acquires mass spectrometric data by performing an analysis on each of the micro areas on a sample. A region-of-interest setter (32) sets an ROI on each sample, and divides each ROI into the same number of subregions each including the micro areas so that the subregions correspond to each other on the samples respectively covering roughly identical sites on the samples. An individual-index-value calculator (33) calculates an individual index value for each subregion, using mass spectrometric data acquired at the micro areas in the subregion, the individual index value reflecting a similarity or difference among the samples in terms of a degree of expression of each m/z value. A general-index-value calculator (34) calculates a general index value for each m/z value among the ROIs of the samples, using the individual index values calculated for the ink values for each subregion included in each ROI.
US11380531B2
A method of operating a mass spectrometer that allows for high-speed operation is disclosed. The method consists in separating the various steps needed to produce a mass spectrum into three or more conceptual stages in a pipeline, such that the instrument is performing steps to process more than two precursor-ion species simultaneously. In general, the number of stages in the pipeline should at least one more and, preferably, at least two more than the number of buffering storage devices in the instrument. The presently-taught methods and apparatus allow for nearly 100% duty cycle of ion accumulation for precursors of interest.
US11380530B2
A method and apparatus for sputter depositing an insulation layer onto a surface of a cavity formed in a substrate and having a high aspect ratio. A target formed from a material to be included in the insulation layer and the substrate are provided in a substantially enclosed chamber defined by a housing. A plasma is ignited within the substantially enclosed chamber and a magnetic field is provided adjacent to a surface of the target to contain the plasma adjacent to the surface of the target. A voltage is rapidly increased to repeatedly establish high-power electric pulses between a cathode and an anode. An average power of the electric pulses is at least 0.1 kW, and can be much greater. An operational parameter of the sputter deposition is controlled to promote sputter depositing of the insulation layer in a transition mode between a metallic mode and a reactive mode.
US11380529B2
Methods and systems for generating high resolution reconstructions of 3D samples imaged using slice and view processes where the electron interaction depth of the imaging beam is greater than slice thicknesses. Data obtained via such slice and view processes is enhanced with a depth blur reducing algorithm, that is configured to reduce depth blur caused by portions of the first data and second data that are resultant from electron interactions outside the first layer and second layer, respectively, to create enhanced first data and second enhanced data. A high-resolution 3D reconstruction of the sample is then generated using the enhanced first data and the enhanced second data. In some embodiments, the depth blur reducing algorithm may be selected from a set of such algorithms that have been individually configured for certain microscope conditions, sample conditions, or a combination thereof.
US11380526B2
A stage on which a substrate is disposed includes: a base embedded with an adsorption electrode therein; a focus ring provided above the adsorption electrode and adsorbed and held on the base; and a deposit control ring provided radially inside the focus ring on the base. A gap is formed between the focus ring and the deposit control ring in a radial direction to separate the focus ring and the deposit control ring.
US11380521B2
Carbon materials having carbon aggregates, where the aggregates include carbon nanoparticles and no seed particles, are disclosed. In various embodiments, the nanoparticles include graphene, optionally with multi-walled spherical fullerenes and/or another carbon allotrope. In various embodiments, the nanoparticles and aggregates have different combinations of: a Raman spectrum with a 2D-mode peak and a G-mode peak, and a 2D/G intensity ratio greater than 0.5, a low concentration of elemental impurities, a high Brunauer-Emmett and Teller (BET) surface area, a large particle size, and/or a high electrical conductivity. Methods are provided to produce the carbon materials.
US11380518B2
A measurement system comprising: a measurement apparatus observing a sample based on an observation condition including parameters; and an observation condition database storing data in which a search key related to the sample and the observation condition, a control unit calculating information on an observation condition of a sample is configured to: receive an observation condition search request including a search key related to a target sample; refer the observation condition database to search for the first data matching or similar to the search key related to the target sample included in the observation condition search request, calculate, based on the searched first data, a candidate observation condition of the measurement apparatus for observing the target sample, and output display data for presenting the candidate observation condition.
US11380517B2
Provided herein are systems and methods for spatially resolved optical metrology of an ion beam. In some embodiments, a system includes a chamber containing a plasma/ion source operable to deliver an ion beam to a wafer, and an optical collection module operable with the chamber, wherein the optical collection module includes an optical device for measuring a light signal from a volume of the ion beam. The system may further include a detection module operable with the optical collection module, the detection module comprising a detector for receiving the measured light signal and outputting an electric signal corresponding to the measured light signal, thus corresponding to the property of the sampled plasma volume.
US11380516B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving measured linescan information describing a pattern structure of a feature, applying the received measured linescan information to an inverse linescan model that relates measured linescan information to feature geometry information, and identifying, based at least in part on the applying the received measured linescan model to the inverse linescan model, feature geometry information that describes a feature that would produce a linescan corresponding to the received measured linescan information. The method also includes determining, at least in part using the inverse linescan model, feature edge positions of the identified feature, analyzing the feature edge positions to determine errors in the manufacture of the pattern structure, and controlling a lithography tool based on the analysis of the feature edge positions.
US11380511B2
A charged particle beam source, such as for use in an electron microscope, can include an electrically conductive support member coupled to a base, a mounting member coupled to the support member and defining a bore, and an emitter member received in the bore and retained by a fixative material layer flowed around the emitter member in the bore.
US11380502B2
Provided is an electromagnetic switch control device capable of stabilizing a contact pressure by predicting a near-future value of an operation coil current and performing control such that the near-future value does not fall below a holding current threshold value by a control unit. An electromagnetic switch control device 1 opens and closes 13 by an electromagnetic force corresponding to energization of operation coils 16 and 17, and includes PWM control units 21 to 23 that perform PWM pulse width modulation control of a current value A flowing through the operation coils 16 and 17. The PWM control units 21 to 23 estimate the near-future predicted current value flowing through the operation coils 16 and 17 by using a terminal voltage V of the operation coils 16 and 17, and perform PWM control based on the estimated current value. The predicted current value Y is estimated by using an impedance Z of the operation coils 16 and 17. The impedance is a variable obtained by current values A1 and A2 and terminal voltages V1 and V2 of the operation coils 16 and 17, and a constant approximated over a predetermined period from a latest past to a present time is used. The impedance is updated for each predetermined period.
US11380500B2
A direct-current circuit breaker includes a circuit breaker unit and a circuit unit that generates an oscillating current. The circuit unit includes a capacitor and a reactor, a high-speed closer, and a lightning arrester. The circuit breaker unit and the high-speed closer are aligned in a first direction with a distance therebetween that is equal to or longer than a certain spatial distance. The capacitor and the lightning arrester are aligned in a second direction intersecting the first direction with a distance therebetween that is equal to or longer than the spatial distance. A combination of the circuit breaker unit with the high-speed closer and a combination of the capacitor with the lightning arrester are aligned in a third direction intersecting the first direction and the second direction with a distance therebetween that is equal to or longer than the spatial distance.
US11380490B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a ceramic body including a dielectric layer, a plurality of first and second internal electrodes disposed inside the ceramic body, exposed to the first and second surfaces, and having ends exposed to the third or fourth surface, and a first side margin portion and a second side margin portion disposed on side portions of the plurality of first and second internal electrodes exposed to the first and second surfaces. A ratio Db/Da satisfies 1.00 to 1.07, inclusive, where ‘Db’ is a distance, in a stacking direction of the dielectric layer, between both end points of respective edge regions of the first side margin portion and the second side margin portion, and ‘Da’ is a distance in a central region of the ceramic body in the stacking direction.
US11380487B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a body including a dielectric layer and first and second internal electrodes disposed with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween; first and second connection electrodes penetrating the body in a direction perpendicular to the dielectric layer and connected to the first internal electrode; third and fourth connection electrodes penetrating the body in a in a direction perpendicular to the dielectric layer and connected to the second internal electrode; first and second external electrodes disposed on both surfaces of the body, and connected to the first and second connection electrodes; and third and fourth external electrodes connected to the third and fourth connection electrodes, and at least a portion of the first and second connection electrodes is exposed to the surface of the body.
US11380481B2
A radio transmitter includes a power amplifier configured to receive an input voltage signal and output an output voltage signal; a transformer configured to receive the output voltage signal and output a load voltage signal to a load; a sensing inductor configured to output a sensed current signal in accordance with a magnetic coupling with the transformer; a digitally controlled phase shifter configured to receive the output voltage signal and output a phase-shifted voltage signal in accordance with a phase control code; a mixer configured to output a mixed current signal in accordance with a mixing of the sensed current signal and the phase-shifted voltage signal; and a transimpedance amplifier with of a low-pass response configured to convert the mixed current signal into a mean voltage signal.
US11380476B2
In a multilayer coil component, a ferrite element body includes a first element body portion and a second element body portion adjacent to each other in an axial direction of the multilayer coil, in which a dielectric constant of the second element body portion is lower than a dielectric constant of the first element body portion, and a magnetic permeability of the second element body portion is higher than a magnetic permeability of the first element body portion. The inventors newly found that the first element body portion and the second element body portion contribute to coil characteristics when a coil winding portion is provided to extend over the first element body portion and the second element body portion. In the multilayer coil component, desired coil characteristics can be obtained by adjusting proportions of the first element body portion and the second element body portion in the ferrite element body.
US11380474B2
An electronic device includes an inductor bridge that connects first and second circuits. The inductor bridge includes an insulating base material and a conical coil in the insulating base material. The conical coil includes loop shaped conductors arranged in a winding axis direction. Inner and outer diameters of the loop shaped conductors change is one way in the winding axis direction. A large-diameter loop shaped conductor, which is one of the loop shaped conductors that has the largest inner and outer diameters, is disposed such that the inner and outer diameters thereof relatively extend along the insulating base material compared with the other loop shaped conductors when the inductor bridge is bent.
US11380472B2
Various embodiments include, for example, a magnetic-dielectric film-based inductor that can be embedded in an electronic package for use as an integrated voltage-regulator, multiple conductive regions to provide electrical interconnects to the magnetic-dielectric-based inductor from other devices, multiple conductive pillars that are electrically coupled to and formed over at least some of the conductive regions, and a magnetic-dielectric layer formed over at least some of conductive regions and conductive pillars. The magnetic-dielectric layer is formed by a multi-layer formation technique having multiple dielectric-material layers and multiple magnetic-material layers. Each of the magnetic-material layers is interspersed with at least one of the dielectric-material layers. Other devices, apparatuses, and methods are described.
US11380471B2
A spiral inductor includes a spiral trace and a plurality of first projections extending along a first edge of the spiral trace. The spiral inductor may further include a plurality of second projections extending along a second edge of the spiral trace, the second edge being opposite the first edge.
US11380469B2
Tunable electronic units and associated systems, as well as methods for tuning characteristic properties of soft electronic units (e.g., inductance, capacitance, and resistance) and fabricating soft tunable planar inductors, axial inductors, capacitors, and resistors, are provided. Disclosed systems and methods enable standardized tuning of different types of soft electronic units (e.g., including a soft inductor, capacitor, and resistor, etc.), and enable remote tuning while maintaining a tuned value without expending power. In certain embodiments, electrical properties of the soft electronic units are tuned using a mobile component (e.g., ferrofluid and iron powder) dragged with a permanent magnet inside a soft fluidic channel. This may be used for applications and devices which need to be soft and flexible, such as implantable electronics, wearable devices, and skin electronics.
US11380464B2
A surge arrestor includes an active part extending along a longitudinal direction of the surge arrester, a first electrode having a first interlocking part, a second electrode resting against a second end of the active part, a flexible insulating housing, and a second interlocking part formed on an inner surface of the flexible insulating housing. The flexible insulating housing includes: a support member mechanically connecting and supporting the assembly of the first electrode, the active part and the second electrode, which has a plurality of supporting elements being arranged parallel to the longitudinal direction of the surge arrester and being arranged laterally at sides of the assembly of the first electrode, the active part and the second electrode, and an insulating expandable part with a plurality of sheds extending outwards, being moulded around the support member and being spaced apart from the assembly.
US11380463B2
A superconducting coil according to the present disclosure includes: a substrate having a first surface and a second surface; a superconducting layer having a third surface and a fourth surface; respective stabilization layers; and respective protective layers. The second surface is opposite to the first surface. The fourth surface is opposite to the third surface. The superconducting layer is disposed on the substrate such that the third surface faces the second surface. The respective stabilization layers are disposed on the first surface and the fourth surface. The respective protective layers are disposed on the stabilization layers. Adhesion strength between each of the stabilization layers and each of the protective layers is lower than strength of the superconducting layer.
US11380459B2
An insulated wire includes a conductor, and a flame-retardant insulation layer that includes a resin composition including a flame retardant and is arranged around the conductor, and a water-blocking layer that is arranged around the flame-retardant insulation layer and has a water absorption of not more than 0.5% at saturation. The thickness of the water-blocking layer is not less than 25 μm.
US11380457B1
A deformable yet mechanically resilient microcapsule having electrical properties, a method of making the microcapsules, and a circuit component including the microcapsules. The microcapsule containing a gallium liquid metal alloy core having from about 60 to about 100 wt. % gallium and at least one alloying metal, and a polymeric shell encapsulating the liquid core, said polymeric shell having conductive properties.
US11380449B2
A control drum system for a nuclear reactor including a reactor core, including an ex-core reflector including a plurality of cylindrical apertures, a plurality of control drum assemblies, each control drum assembly including a drive shaft, a drum cylinder affixed to a bottom end of the drive shaft, and a planetary gear attached to a top end of the drive shaft, wherein each drum cylinder is rotatably received in a cylindrical aperture, a first control drum drive motor operably connected to a first control drum assembly, and an annular ring gear that is operably connected to the planetary gear of each of the control drum assemblies so that all the control drum assemblies rotate simultaneously.
US11380446B2
A radiation resistant high-entropy alloy is provided, having an FCC structure, defined by general formula of FeCoNiVMoTixCry, where 0.05≤x≤0.2, 0.05≤y≤0.3, x and y are molar ratios. The radiation resistant high-entropy alloy has excellent irradiation resistance and is subject to radiation hardening saturation at high temperature (600° C.) in a condition of a high dose (1-3×1016 ions/cm2) of helium ion irradiation. A lattice constant of the high-entropy alloy decreases abnormally after irradiation. The high-entropy alloy has a radiation resistance far higher than that of a conventional alloy and has an excellent plasticity and specific strength. In an as-cast condition and at room temperature, a tensile break strength of the high-entropy alloy is higher than 580 MPa, an engineering strain (a tensile elongation) of the high-entropy alloy is greater than 30%.
US11380441B1
The present disclosure is related to a method of geo-clustering of data for de-identification of a dataset. The method includes generating a plurality of geoclusters based on a plurality of geocodes. The geocodes may include ZIP codes or postal codes. The method further includes identifying the geoclusters having the smallest population. The geocluster having the smallest population is iteratively merged with the nearest geocluster until a minimum population threshold is met. Once the smallest geocluster meets the minimum population threshold, the plurality of geoclusters can be used to cluster the geocodes within a dataset to be de-identified.
US11380439B2
Provided herein is an engagement and care support platform (“ECSP”) computer system including at least one processor in communication with at least one memory device for facilitating senior user engagement. The processor is programmed to: (i) register a user through an application, (ii) register a caregiver associated with the user through the application, (iii) generate a senior profile based upon user personal and scheduling data, (iv) build a daily interactive user interface that reflects the senior profile, (v) display the daily interactive user interface at a first client device associated with the user, (vi) cause the first client device to initiate a daily interaction prompt to the user, (vii) determine whether any user interaction was received in response to the daily interaction prompt, and (viii) transmit a daily update message to a second client device associated with the caregiver, including an indication of whether any user interaction was received.
US11380434B2
In various formats and various technologies across the health care systems/locations, there is a huge need to integrate and make it easier for the user to apply all these technologies across the board, without the need to become an IT/software expert or hire one in-house, which is very expensive and duplicative effort for other similar organizations in the health care industry to do the same exact function. This document describes a software system that allows our system (ViTelNet) to design, configure, deploy, and run sophisticated custom applications across a variety of hardware platforms, without writing any code. In one example, we describe a method/system for the telehealth platform. In one example, we describe the development tools for such a platform. Many variations and examples are also presented.
US11380428B2
In various embodiments, the predicted location of a user within an institutional space is associated with a node at or near that location, and a virtual desktop is prepared before a user has actually logged on and authenticated. Although users are not accorded access to applications and sensitive data until they have properly authenticated themselves, the virtual desktop and associated data are assembled and retrieved in the background in order to eliminate delay following log-on.
US11380416B2
A storage device may include a memory device and a memory controller. The memory device may include a memory block including a plurality of pages. When a sudden power off is detected in which power supplied to the memory device is abnormally interrupted during a normal program operation on one page among the plurality of pages, the memory controller may control the memory device to perform a dummy program operation on a selected page among the plurality of pages after the sudden power-off. The memory controller may control the memory device to perform the normal program operation and the dummy program operation by using an Incremental Step Pulse Program (ISPP) method. The memory controller may control the memory device to perform the dummy program operation in a smaller number of program loops as compared with the normal program operation.
US11380415B2
A memory device includes: a memory cell array comprising a plurality of memory cells, the plurality of memory cells comprising a plurality of data memory cells including a first data memory cell and a plurality of backup memory cells including a first backup memory cell; a storage storing an error table configured to record errors in the plurality of data memory cells, the error table including a plurality of error table entries, each error table entry corresponding to one of the plurality of data memory cell and having an address and a failure count; and a controller configured to replace the first data memory cell with the first backup memory cell based on the error table.
US11380383B2
An electronic device includes a command generation circuit configured to generate a refresh command and a driving control signal, which are enabled during an all-bank refresh operation, according to a logic level combination of an internal chip selection signal and an internal command address. The electronic device also includes a buffer control circuit configured to generate, from the refresh command and the driving control signal, a first buffer enable signal for enabling a first group of buffers and a second buffer enable signal for enabling a second group of buffers.
US11380380B2
A non-volatile memory device including an array of memory cells coupled to word lines and a row decoder, which includes a first and a second pull-down stage, which are arranged on opposite sides of the array, and include, respectively, for each word line, a corresponding first pull-down switching circuit and a corresponding second pull-down switching circuit, which are coupled to a first point and a second point, respectively, of the first word line. The row decoder moreover comprises a pull-up stage, which includes, for each word line, a corresponding pull-up switching circuit, which can be electronically controlled in order to: couple the first point to a supply node in the step of deselection of the word line; and decouple the first point from the supply node in the step of selection of the word line.
US11380379B2
A memory device comprises an array of memory cells, a physically unclonable function PUF circuit in the memory device to generate a PUF code, a data path connecting a first circuit to a second circuit in the memory device coupled to the array of memory cells, and logic circuitry to encode data on the data path from the first circuit using the PUF code to produce encoded data, and to provide the encoded data to the second circuit.
US11380376B2
An exemplary memory is configurable to operate in a low latency mode through use of a low latency register circuit to execute a read or write command, rather performing a memory army access to execute the read or write command. A control circuit determines whether an access command should be performed using the low latency mode of operation (e.g., first mode of operation) or a normal mode of operation (e.g., second mode of operation). In some examples, a processor unit directs the memory to execute an access command using the low latency mode of operation via one or more bits (e.g., a low latency enable bit) included in the command and address information.
US11380369B2
A semiconductor device includes logic circuitry including a transistor disposed over a substrate, multiple layers each including metal wiring layers and an interlayer dielectric layer, respectively, disposed over the logic circuitry, and memory arrays. The multiple layers of metal wiring include, in order closer to the substrate, first, second, third and fourth layers, and the memory arrays include lower multiple layers disposed in the third layer.
US11380364B2
A method for determining edits of a subject video reel, comprising steps of opening an original EDL, reading every line of the original EDL, identifying event names representing each shot and identifying a source file. Each event includes at least a camera time code for the shot length, and a location time code indicating location of the shot in the source file. Locating events and picking up the in and out camera time codes from the shot names, noting shot names and camera times for shots found to have common in and out times, identifying every VFX shot and storing VFX names. Next, the software compares camera times for the shots in the first temporary file with camera times for the same shots in the second temporary file; preparing a result EDL file listing exclusively all VFX shots in which changes were found, and detailing the changes.
US11380362B2
Systems and methods provide for editing of spherical video data. In one example, a computing device can receive a spherical video (or a video associated with an angular field of view greater than an angular field of view associated with a display screen of the computing device), such as by a built-in spherical video capturing system or acquiring the video data from another device. The computing device can display the spherical video data. While the spherical video data is displayed, the computing device can track the movement of an object (e.g., the computing device, a user, a real or virtual object represented in the spherical video data, etc.) to change the position of the viewport into the spherical video. The computing device can generate a new video from the new positions of the viewport.
US11380354B2
A recording head includes a nanorod configured to heat a hotspot on a recording media, a plasmonic plate configured to concentrate an electric field to excite the nanorod, and a heat sink configured to dissipate heat from the nanorod. The recording head includes a first diffusion barrier plate configured to resist diffusion of materials between the plasmonic plate and the nanorod and a second diffusion barrier plate configured to resist diffusion of materials between the heat sink and the nanorod. The first diffusion barrier plate is disposed between the nanorod and the plasmonic plate and is coupled to a bottom surface of the nanorod. The second diffusion barrier plate is disposed between the heat sink and the nanorod and is coupled to the top surface of the nanorod.
US11380334B1
Methods and Systems for Interactive Online Language Learning in a Pandemic-aware World. An acoustic-representation-enabled method for teaching an acoustic representation corresponding to a sequence of cantillations of a Hebrew Bible verse, the method comprising: (a) computationally displaying, using a computing device, a Hebrew Bible verse, (b) computationally analyzing a Hebrew Bible verse to identify therein a sequence of cantillation symbols, (c) computationally analyzing the sequence of cantillation symbols to computationally generate a chanting acoustic representation of an ordered sequence of Hebrew Bible trope names corresponding to the sequence of cantillation symbols, (d) computationally by an acoustic-representation-enabled process, changing the pitch level of the chanting acoustic representation of the ordered sequence of Hebrew Bible trope names corresponding to the sequence of cantillation symbols, and (e) playing, using a computing device, the chanting acoustic representation of the ordered sequence of Hebrew Bible trope names corresponding to the sequence of cantillation symbols.
US11380331B1
In one example, a method includes method comprising: receiving audio data generated by a microphone of a current computing device; identifying, based on the audio data, one or more computing devices that each emitted a respective audio signal in response to speech reception being activated at the current computing device; and selecting either the current computing device or a particular computing device from the identified one or more computing devices to satisfy a spoken utterance determined based on the audio data.
US11380314B2
A voice recognizing apparatus includes a sound input unit, a voice level calculating unit, a noise level calculating unit, a character converting unit, a reliability calculating unit, and a necessary voice level calculating unit. The sound input unit is configured to receive electrical signals as voice and noise signals converted from voice of a talker and noise in environment, respectively. The voice level calculating unit and the noise level calculating unit are configured to calculate, as voice and noise levels, levels of the voice and noise signals, respectively. The character converting unit is configured to perform conversion of a waveform of the electric signal as the voice signal into a character string. The reliability calculating unit is configured to calculate reliability of the conversion. The necessary voice level calculating unit is configured to calculate a necessary voice level on the basis of the voice and noise levels and the reliability.
US11380302B2
A method for multi-channel voice activity detection includes receiving a sequence of input frames characterizing streaming multi-channel audio captured by an array of microphones. Each channel of the streaming multi-channel audio includes respective audio features captured by a separate dedicated microphone. The method also includes determining, using a location fingerprint model, a location fingerprint indicating a location of a source of the multi-channel audio relative to the user device based on the respective audio features of each channel of the multi-channel audio. The method also includes generating an output from an application-specific classifier. The first score indicates a likelihood that the multi-channel audio corresponds to a particular audio type that the particular application is configured to process. The method also includes determining whether to accept or reject the multi-channel audio for processing by the particular application based on the first score generated as output from the application-specific classifier.
US11380287B2
A display system including a PC and an HMD, and in the display system, the PC includes an I/F unit configured to output image data, the HMD includes an I/F unit configured to acquire the image data output by the PC, an image display unit configured to superimpose an image on an outside scene visually recognized in a state where the HMD is worn, and to display the image, and a display controller configured to cause the image display unit to display the image data acquired by the I/F unit, and the display controller causes the image display unit to display the image data in correspondence to a position of the PC visually recognized as an outside scene.
US11380286B2
According to an embodiment, an electronic device may include at least one processor, a display, a memory configured to store image frames, and a display controller configured to output the image frames. The at least one processor may be configured to transmit a first image frame to be output through the display, based on a first timing signal received from the display controller, identify a state of the electronic device, transmit first control information for changing a timing of the first timing signal, in response to transmitting the first control information for changing the timing of the first timing signal, receive a second timing signal from the display controller, and transmit, to the memory, a second image frame to be output through the display, based on the received second timing signal. The timing of the second timing signal may differ from the timing of the first timing signal.
US11380285B2
According to various embodiments, a method of operating an electronic device, which has a foldable housing that causes first and second portions of a display to face each other in a folded state and to be directed in the same direction in an unfolded state and an illuminance sensor that is disposed on a surface on which the second portion is formed, includes a process of determining an angle formed by the first portion and the second portion using data received from an angle detecting sensor; a process of checking out a reference value corresponding to the determined angle in a lookup table; a process of correcting a first illuminance value from the illuminance sensor using the checked reference value; and a process of controlling brightness of the display based on the corrected first illuminance value at least in part.
US11380281B2
A common voltage compensation circuit and a compensation system for a display panel are provided. A compensation circuit includes a compensating unit configured to receive a common voltage outputted by the display panel; compensate the common voltage according to a compensation coefficient; and output the compensated common voltage to the display panel; and an adjusting unit configured to connect with a controlling unit in a phase of adjusting the display panel; receive an adjustment signal outputted by the controlling unit; and adjust the compensation coefficient of the compensating unit according to the adjustment signal.
US11380274B2
A driving method for driving an electrophoretic display comprising four types of particles, the first type of particles and the third type of particles are positively charged, and the second type of particles and the fourth type of particles are negatively charged, the method comprises the steps of: (i). applying a first driving voltage to the pixel of the electrophoretic display for a first period of time at a first amplitude to drive the pixel to a color state of the fourth type of particle at the viewing side; and (ii). applying a second driving voltage to the pixel of the electrophoretic display for a second period of time, opposite to that of the first driving voltage and a second amplitude smaller than that of the first amplitude, to drive the second type particle towards the non-viewing side.
US11380269B2
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels and a display panel driver configured to drive the display panel. Here, the display panel driver is configured to receive input image data, to drive the display panel at a first driving frequency when the input image data corresponds to a moving image, and to select one of a plurality of flicker lookup tables based on the first driving frequency and drive the display panel at a second driving frequency based on the flicker lookup table when the input image data corresponds to a still image.
US11380266B2
A display device includes a light emitting diode including a first electrode and a second electrode, a first transistor connected between the first voltage line and the first electrode of the light emitting diode, a sixth transistor connected between the drain electrode of the first transistor and the first electrode of the light emitting diode, and a seventh transistor connected between the second voltage line and the first electrode of the light emitting diode and including a gate electrode for receiving an initialization scan signal, wherein an active period of the scan signal and an active period of the initialization scan signal are non-overlapping with each other and the active period of the initialization scan signal is longer than the active period of the scan signal.
US11380262B2
A display device and an OLED array substrate, the OLED array substrate includes a non-transparent display area and a transparent area, wherein the non-transparent area is provided with first OLED sub-pixels arranged in a first array and the transparent display area is provided with second OLED sub-pixels arranged in a second array; the first OLED sub-pixels are driven by a part of data signal channels of a display driver integrated chip, the second OLED sub-pixels are driven by a remaining part of the data signal channels of the display driver integrated chip; data in all the data signal channels correspond to one frame of screen display in the display area; when the second OLED sub-pixels are driven, the transparent display area performs a display function; when the second OLED sub-pixels are not driven, the transparent display area performs a light transmitting function.
US11380261B2
A pixel circuit, a pixel driving method and a display device are provided. The pixel circuit includes a light emitting element, a driving circuit, an energy storage circuit, an initialization circuit, a compensation control circuit, a light emitting control circuit and a written-in control circuit. The initialization circuit writes an initialization voltage into a control end of the driving circuit under the control of a first gate driving signal so as to conduct the connection between a first end of the driving circuit and a second end of the driving circuit; the compensation control circuit is configured to conduct the connection between the control end of the driving circuit and the second end of the driving circuit under the control of the second gate driving signal.
US11380250B1
A display apparatus has a self-luminous pixel module, a first non-self-luminous pixel module, and a pulse width modulation (PWM) driving circuit. The self-luminous pixel module has a plurality of self-luminous pixels. The first non-self-luminous pixel module is disposed on the self-luminous pixel module and has a plurality of first non-self-luminous pixels. The self-luminous pixel module of the display apparatus is used as a backlight for the non-self-luminous pixel module. The PWM driving circuit provides first PWM signals to the self-luminous pixel module to control values of brightness of the self-luminous pixels and provides second PWM signals to the first non-self-luminous pixel module to control values of transmittance of the first non-self-luminous pixels.
US11380245B2
The present disclosure discloses a display drive method, a display drive apparatus, a display apparatus, and a wearable device. The display drive method includes: receiving an original display data signal; sampling the original display data signal based on a clock input signal to obtain a display mode signal, a gate line scanning signal, and an initial data voltage signal; shifting the initial data voltage signal according to the display mode signal to obtain a data voltage signal; and controlling the display apparatus to display based on the display mode signal, the gate line scanning signal, and the data voltage signal.
US11380242B2
A display device includes a controller to generate a start frame control signal having a first level in an active period and a second level in a blank period, a load signal toggling between the first level and the second level in the active period and having the second level in the blank period, and a data signal including image data in the active period and a training pattern in the blank period, and a data driver to recover the image data from the data signal based on an internal clock signal to provide display pixels with data voltages in the active period, and to perform a training operation for the internal clock signal using the training pattern in the data signal when both of the start frame control signal and the load signal are maintained as the second level for more than a reference time in the blank period.
US11380238B2
A method for determining gray scale values of pixels is provided, which includes the following operations: determining gray scale values of pixels to be displayed of a current display picture and a picture type of the current display picture; determining a target refresh rate according to the picture type; determining a target gray scale correction value according to the target refresh rate, and determining target gray scale values according to the target gray scale correction value and the gray scale values, the target refresh rate and the target gray scale correction value are negatively correlated. A display panel and a computer readable storage medium are also provided. The present disclosure slows down the color unevenness of the display panel.
US11380236B2
A sub-pixel arrangement structure, a mask device, and a display device are provided. The sub-pixel arrangement structure includes: a reference sub-pixel array, a plurality of third sub-pixels, and a plurality of fourth sub-pixels. In the reference sub-pixel array, each row of sub-pixels or each column of sub-pixels includes: first sub-pixels and second sub-pixels, both of which are arranged alternately; in either or both of first and second directions of the sub-pixels in the reference sub-pixel array, one of the third sub-pixels is arranged between any two adjacent sub-pixels in the reference sub-pixel array; and one of the fourth sub-pixels is arranged among any four adjacent sub-pixels in the reference sub-pixel array, and a center of the one of the fourth sub-pixels is located between two rows of sub-pixels of the four sub-pixels arranged in two rows and two column.
US11380227B2
A truss system configured as a rectangular frame and a rigging plate is provided. The rectangular frame comprises an interconnected assembly of rectangular tubes. The rigging plate is removably attached to a top surface of the rectangular frame and includes an overhanging portion that overhangs a front side of the rectangular frame. The overhanging portion includes a plurality of attachment apparatuses for suspending at least one video display from the overhanging portion such that the video display(s) overhangs the front side of the rectangular frame.
US11380225B2
A force-orienting display assembly comprising a number of display segments rotatably mounted on a movable surface, the display segments positioned proximally to each other, in a manner which reassembles picture segments to display a number of properly oriented, non-inverted pictures in a plurality of viewing orientations, where the mounting surface comprises a drum or a flat vertical surface is disclosed.
US11380213B2
In an approach for training customer service agents using persona-based chatbots, a processor retrieves customer service interaction information. A processor analyzes, using natural language processing, the customer service interaction information, wherein the analyzing includes preprocessing and aggregating the customer service interaction information. A processor interacts with a user. A processor provides feedback to the user, based on the user's style and performance during training.
US11380207B2
A system and method of positioning a set of vehicles (102) with respect to an object (104) and a set of targets (106). Embodiments can generate (302) an isovist using data obtained from at least one sensor associated with the object and use it to compute (304) an estimated position of each target with respect to the object. Embodiments can compute (306) a plurality of positions for each vehicle based on the estimated positions of the targets, with each position having an associated value representing a number of the targets at their estimated positions that are within a predetermined proximity of the vehicle at that position. Embodiments can select (308) a subset of the positions based on the associated values, and position (310) the set of vehicles based on the selected subset of the positions.
US11380205B2
The invention relates to a complex proximity safety and warning system. The invention provides a safety system comprising a generator that generates a magnetic field that establishes a boundary, where the generator is capable of receiving radio frequency signals. Also provided is a radio frequency device that sends radio frequency signals, the radio frequency device being capable of sensing the magnetic field and generating a radio frequency response.
US11380200B2
A server device includes a storage unit configured to store vehicle information including vehicle behavior information and position information, a region specifying unit configured to specify a warning road region where a sudden stop of a vehicle occurs a plurality of times based on the stored vehicle information, and a notification unit configured to, when the sudden stop of the vehicle occurs in the specified warning road region, notify terminal devices that correspond to vehicles located in the warning road region and in a vicinity of the warning road region of information regarding the warning road region.
US11380196B1
A traffic warning system for first responders, such as the police, firefighters, and paramedics, that allows a first responder to wirelessly communicate their pending approach to an intersection with a multimedia warning system mounted and hardwired to a conventional traffic light and operated via an integrated remote control device or mobile phone application (“mobile app”) using radio frequencies, BLUETOOTH® technology, wireless digital technology, or the like.
US11380180B2
The invention provides a notification apparatus 1 including an alarm sound generating unit 2 for generating alarm sounds, a location information obtaining unit 3 for obtaining location information, an activating unit 4 for activating the alarm sound generating unit 2 and the location information obtaining unit 3, a communication unit 5 for performing low-power wide-area wireless communication, and a control unit 6 for transmitting notification information via the communication unit 5 if the control unit 6 fails to obtain the location information from the location information obtaining unit 3 after the activating unit 4 activated the alarm sound generating unit 2, the notification information including notification apparatus identifying information identifying the notification apparatus a and notification occurrence information indicative of occurrence of notification.
US11380166B2
Methods and systems facilitate the adjustment of probabilities of triggering different bonus games in a slot machine where the probability adjustment is based on supplemental data. Programming and data structure design are provided to implement a bonus trigger probability adjusting arrangement based on supplemental data input. Such supplemental data includes the state of a dynamic interactive game theme sequence displayed at the gaming machine. Player inputs can alter the sequence of the theme display and affect the adjustment of probabilities.
US11380164B2
A gaming system including one or more progressive awards. Each progressive award is associated with a plurality of different progressive award reset values. Upon a progressive award triggering event occurring and the progressive award being provided to one or more players, the gaming system resets the progressive award to a randomly selected one of the plurality of different progressive award reset values associated with the provided progressive award. Thus, upon a determination to provide a progressive award to a player, that progressive award is reset to a randomly selected value which may be above the reset value historically associated with such a progressive award.
US11380163B2
An electronic gaming machine performs operations comprising: (i) receiving, from a first player of the electronic gaming machine, a first credit contribution; (ii) receiving, from a second player of the electronic gaming machine, a second credit contribution; (iii) aggregating the first credit contribution and the second credit contribution to create a combined credit balance; (iv) determining, based on the first credit contribution and the second credit contribution, a relative contribution of each of the first player and the second player to the combined credit balance; (v) determining, in response to at least one mutual wager, at least one outcome of the wagering game; (vi) one of incrementing and decrementing the combined credit balance based on the at least one outcome; (vii) receiving, from at least one of the first player and the second player, an instruction to cash out of the wagering game; and (viii) distributing a pro rata share of the combined credit balance to the at least one player in proportion to the relative contribution of the at least one player.
US11380160B1
Hybrid gaming machines, platforms, systems, and/or methods have both skill-based gaming element and game-of-chance gaming elements, and include a linked contest; wherein contest software may monitor gaming activity from a plurality of players playing on a plurality of hybrid gaming machines that have both skill-based gaming element and game-of-chance gaming elements; and wherein that contest software may reward a prize to one or more players of that plurality of players who have won the contest, based on a predetermined aspect of the player's game play on those hybrid gaming machines that have both skill-based gaming element and game-of-chance gaming elements. The skill-based gaming elements may include use of three-dimensional (3D) virtual interactive worlds or portions thereof. The game-of-chance gaming elements may include use of random number generator(s) and/or pay table(s). The game-of-chance gaming elements may comply with gaming regulatory agencies.
US11380158B2
In one embodiment, a gaming system, method, and device may have a memory having a plurality of power management rules and a processor configured to receive a power status information from another device, retrieve at least one power management rule from the memory, and configure a power state of the gaming device or its peripheral device based on the power status information and the at least one power management rule.
US11380149B2
A locking and unlocking system includes a portable terminal and a server. The portable terminal includes a service providing unit, a first sending unit, and a first receiving unit. The service providing unit provides a use reservation service for a vehicle or facilities by communicating with another server. The first sending unit sends a first signal to the server in response to a request from the service providing unit. The first signal requests authentication information used for locking and unlocking. The first receiving unit receives the authentication information from the server. The server includes a second receiving unit and a second sending unit. The second sending unit sends a second signal including the authentication information to the portable terminal when the second receiving unit receives the first signal.
US11380143B2
A method and system to determine a selected service response for servicing a damaged portion of a vehicle using a vehicle technician system. The selected service response is based upon a digital media file acquired with the vehicle technician system and representative of the damaged portion of the vehicle. The digital media file is communicated from the vehicle technician system to an authority such as a vehicle owner. The communication may be indirectly through an intermediary such as a vehicle service management system. Inasmuch as the digital media file is inherently unbiased, the authority evaluates the digital media file when considering the appropriate service, such as repairing or replacing a damaged part. The authority then selects a selected service response based at least in part on the digital media file and the selected service response is thereafter applied to the vehicle.
US11380141B2
The present disclosure discloses a vehicle diagnosis method including: sending a login request of a user to a server; returning vehicle type selection data after the server has verified an authenticity of the user successfully; displaying a vehicle type selection interface related to the vehicle type selection data and sending a corresponding vehicle type data to the server based on a vehicle type selected by the user on the vehicle type selection interface via the user equipment; sending corresponding vehicle type data to the server; returning a vehicle diagnosis interface related to the vehicle type data by the server; controlling relevant vehicle terminal to perform corresponding vehicle diagnosis operation by the server when the server receives a vehicle diagnosis instruction as input by the user on the vehicle diagnosis interface; afterwards, displaying vehicle diagnosis operation result fed back by the vehicle terminal through the user equipment.
US11380139B2
An identifier is received with a portion of a postal address. That portion is compared against multiple additional postal addresses associated with the identifier. If a match is detected, a confirmation is transmitted to a requestor who originally sent the identifier and the portion of the postal address.
US11380135B2
Exemplary embodiments are directed to a system of enhancing biometric analysis matching. A processing device is configured to analyze the probe short-range and broadband iris texture information of a probe image for iris biometric authenticity, and based on the biometric authenticity of the probe short-range iris texture information and the probe broadband iris texture information, determine the biometric authenticity of the subject. Exemplary embodiments are also directed to a system of enhancing biometric analysis matching efficiency. The processing device generates an optimized order of enrollment iris biometric data includes a listing of the enrollment iris biometric data ordered by closest match to furthest match between the probe and enrollment broadband iris texture information. The processing device analyzes the iris biometric data for biometric authenticity starting with the closest match between the probe and enrollment broadband iris texture information.
US11380133B2
A domain adaptation-based object recognition apparatus includes a memory configured to store a domain adaptation-based object recognition program and a processor configured to execute the program. The processor learns a generative model for generating a feature or an image similar to a gallery image on the basis of domain adaptation in association with an input probe image and learns an object recognition classification model by using a learning database corresponding to the gallery image and the input probe image, thereby performing object recognition using the input probe image.
US11380125B2
An optical reader apparatus is configured to detect epidermal ridges of a body part using specular reflection contrast detection. The optical reader apparatus comprises a display comprising a transparent cover and a substrate comprising an array of active pixels. The active pixels serve as an illuminator of the optical reader apparatus. The apparatus also comprises a pinhole array and an optical sensor optically coupled to the display via the pinhole array. The optical sensor comprises an array of photosensors arranged on a substrate. The array of photosensors is configured to detect light reflected via specular reflection by the transparent cover. A processor, coupled to the display and the optical sensor, is configured to control reading of signals from the photosensors and to control illumination of selected active pixels in accordance with a predefined scanning pattern that covers a sensing region of the transparent cover during a body part reading operation.
US11380110B1
Vehicles and methods for detecting a three-dimensional (3D) position of a traffic sign and controlling a feature of the vehicle based on the 3D position of the traffic sign. An image is received from a camera. The image is processed using a neural network. The neural network includes a traffic sign class block regressing a traffic sign class for a traffic sign included in the image and a rotation block regressing an orientation for the traffic sign. Dimensions for the traffic sign are retrieved from an information database based on the traffic sign class. A 3D position of the traffic sign is determined based on the dimensions of the traffic sign and the orientation of the traffic sign. A feature of the vehicle is controlled based on the 3D position of the traffic sign.
US11380105B2
A practical method and system for transportation agencies (federal, state, and local) to monitor and assess the safety of their roadway networks in real time based on traffic conflict events such that corrective actions can be proactively undertaken to keep their roadway systems safe for travelling public. The method and system also provides a tool for evaluating the performance of autonomous vehicle/self-driving car technologies with respect to safety and efficiency.
US11380103B2
A surveillance performance (information expressing uncertainty of information relating to a potential risk area in a region that requires monitoring) and a tracking performance (information expressing the product of an importance level of a potential risk area and a coverage ratio (an overlap rate between potential risk areas and moving bodies)) are mutually analyzed, and plural moving bodies are allotted to either surveillance or tracking. Potential risk areas that require monitoring are determined such that the surveillance performance and the tracking performance respectively satisfy predetermined levels. The plural moving bodies are allocated to potential risk areas determined to be potential risk areas that require monitoring (simultaneous optimization). The respective moving bodies subject to simultaneous optimization start moving toward their allocated potential risk areas to monitor the potential risk areas.
US11380101B2
In various embodiments, a Data Processing System for Generating Interactive User Interfaces and Interactive Game Systems Based on Spatiotemporal Analysis of Video Content may be configured to: (1) enable a user to select one or more players participating in a substantially live (e.g., live) sporting or other event; (2) determine scoring data for each of the one or more selected players during the sporting or other event; (3) track the determined scoring data; (4) generate a custom (e.g., to the user) user interface that includes the scoring data; and (5) display the custom user interface over at least a portion of a display screen (e.g., on a mobile computing device) displaying one or more video feeds of the sporting or other event. In this way, the system may be configured to convert a video feed of a sporting event into an interactive game.
US11380093B2
A method to detect a roadway edge includes calculating a first likelihood of a roadway edge from an aerial image of a roadway by shifting a centerline of the roadway perpendicular to the centerline and overlapping the centerline with image gradients. A second likelihood of the roadway edge is determined using a vehicle telemetry fitting a probability distribution to telemetry points along the roadway. The first likelihood of the roadway edge and the second likelihood of the roadway edge are fused to identify a final likelihood of the roadway edge.
US11380090B2
A method for object recognition at an interactive information system (IIS) includes capturing, using an imaging device of the IIS, a first image of a first representative object which represents a first one or more object disposed about the IIS; analyzing, by a computer processor of the IIS and based on a category model, the first image to determine a first representative category of the first one or more object; retrieving, by the computer processor and based on the first representative category, a first representative object model of a plurality of object models that are stored on a remote server; and analyzing, by the computer processor and based on the first representative object model, the first image to determine a first representative inventory identifier of the first representative object, which represents a first one or more inventory identifier corresponding to the first one or more object respectively.
US11380085B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for normalizing the titer of a first stain to a titer of the same stain in a template image. Also disclosed are methods of assessing stain titer levels.
US11380084B2
Systems and methods for image classification include receiving imaging data of in-vivo or excised tissue of a patient during a surgical procedure. Local image features are extracted from the imaging data. A vocabulary histogram for the imaging data is computed based on the extracted local image features. A classification of the in-vivo or excised tissue of the patient in the imaging data is determined based on the vocabulary histogram using a trained classifier, which is trained based on a set of sample images with confirmed tissue types.
US11380081B2
Provided is an image processing apparatus including a memory storing at least one instruction, and a processor configured to execute the at least one instruction stored in the memory to obtain first feature information by performing a convolution operation on a first image and a first kernel included in a first convolution layer among a plurality of convolution layers, obtain at least one piece of characteristic information, based on the first feature information; obtain second feature information, based on the first feature information and the at least one piece of characteristic information, obtain third feature information by performing a convolution operation on the obtained second feature information and a second kernel included in a second convolution layer that is a layer next to the first convolution layer among the plurality of convolution layers, and obtain an output image, based on the third feature information.
US11380077B2
The present disclosure generally relates to creating and editing avatars, and navigating avatar selection interfaces. In some examples, an avatar feature user interface includes a plurality of feature options that can be customized to create an avatar. In some examples, different types of avatars can be managed for use in different applications. In some examples, an interface is provided for navigating types of avatars for an application.
US11380067B2
A system configured to present virtual content in an interactive space may comprise one or more of a light source, an optical element, one or more physical processors, non-transitory electronic storage, and/or other components.
US11380056B2
Disclosed are herein a three-dimensional (3D) object acquisition method and an object acquisition apparatus using artificial light photographs. A 3D object acquisition method according to an embodiment of the present invention includes receiving a plurality of images of a 3D object photographed by a camera, reconstructing spatially-varying bidirectional reflectance distribution functions for the 3D object based on the plurality of images received, estimating shading normals for the 3D object based on the reconstructed spatially-varying bidirectional reflectance distribution functions, and acquiring 3D geometry for the 3D object based on the estimated shading normals.
US11380053B2
One embodiment is directed to a system for presenting views of a very large point data set, comprising: a storage system comprising data representing a point cloud comprising a very large number of associated points; a controller operatively coupled to the storage cluster and configured to automatically and deterministically organize the point data into an octree hierarchy of data sectors, each of which is representative of one or more of the points at a given octree mesh resolution; and a user interface through which a user may select a viewing perspective origin and vector, which may be utilized to command the controller to assemble an image based at least in part upon the selected origin and vector, the image comprising a plurality of data sectors pulled from the octree hierarchy.
US11380050B2
A face image generation method includes: determining, according to a first face image, a three dimensional morphable model (3DMM) corresponding to the first face image as a first model; determining, according to a reference element, a 3DMM corresponding to the reference element as a second model, the reference element representing a posture and/or an expression of a target face image; determining, according to the first model and the second model, an initial optical flow map corresponding to the first face image, and deforming the first face image according to the initial optical flow map to obtain an initial deformation map; obtaining, through a convolutional neural network, an optical flow increment map and a visibility probability map that correspond to the first face image; and generating the target face image according to the first face image, the initial optical flow map, the optical flow increment map, and the visibility probability map.
US11380049B2
In various embodiments, a finite aperture omni-directional camera is modeled by aligning a finite aperture lens and focal point with the omni-directional part of the projection. For example, each point on an image plane maps to a direction in camera space. For a spherical projection, the lens can be orientated along this direction and the focal point is picked along this direction at focal distance from the lens. For a cylindrical projection, the lens can be oriented along the projected direction on the two dimensional (2D) xz-plane, as the projection is not omni-directional in the y direction. The focal point is picked along the (unprojected) direction so its projection on the xz-plane is at focal distance from the lens. The final outgoing ray can be constructed by sampling of a point on this oriented lens and shooting a ray from there through the focal point.
US11380024B1
Instant Situational Awareness Visualization Module enables new types and classes of Human Computer Interface enhancements where the Humans can easily and simultaneously see where objects are relative within or outside AR shapes as viewed as a picture-in-a-picture inset that provides an overhead view of terrain/map.
US11380023B2
Introduced here are techniques for relighting an image by automatically segmenting a human object in an image. The segmented image is input to an encoder that transforms it into a feature space. The feature space is concatenated with coefficients of a target illumination for the image and input to an albedo decoder and a light transport detector to predict an albedo map and a light transport matrix, respectively. In addition, the output of the encoder is concatenated with outputs of residual parts of each decoder and fed to a light coefficients block, which predicts coefficients of the illumination for the image. The light transport matrix and predicted illumination coefficients are multiplied to obtain a shading map that can sharpen details of the image. Scaling the resulting image by the albedo map to produce the relight image. The relight image can be refined to denoise the relight image.
US11380020B2
In a network communications environment supporting realtime communications between respective network nodes of a user and other communicants in virtual areas each of which is associated with its own respective set of communicant members, a graphical user interface is provided in connection with the user's network node. The graphical user interface includes controls for establishing presence in respective ones of the virtual areas, managing realtime communications with other communicants in respective ones of the virtual areas, and presenting different views of communicants associated with the network communications environment. Based on user input in connection with the graphical user interface, a presence is established for the user in a selected one of the virtual areas, realtime communications are administered between the user and one or more communicants who are present in the selected virtual area, and a visualization that shows graphical representations, locations of presence, and realtime activities of communicants across respective ones of the virtual areas is displayed.
US11380006B2
A radiography machine provides information about the absolute dimension of imaged objects with as few as two images taken along a common axis at different separations. The information gathered in this way may also be used to deduce absolute or relative separation of the objects along the common axis.
US11380002B2
This application discloses a map element extraction method and apparatus, and a server. The map element extraction method includes obtaining a laser point cloud and an image of a target scene, the target scene including a map element; performing registration between the laser point cloud and the image to obtain a depth map of the image; performing image segmentation on the depth map of the image to obtain a segmented image of the map element in the depth map; and converting a two-dimensional location of the segmented image in the depth map to a three-dimensional location of the map element in the target scene according to a registration relationship between the laser point cloud and the image.
US11380000B2
An operation detection device according to an embodiment is an operation detection device that detects an object approaching an operation unit. The operation detection device includes: a sensor that detects a distance from the object as a plurality of pixels; and an object detection unit that detects the object. The object detection unit specifies a first pixel corresponding to the distance that is the shortest among the plurality of pixels, scans a plurality of second pixels located around the first pixel, and detects the object when the number of second pixels for which a difference between a distance corresponding to each of the second pixels and the shortest distance is equal to or less than a predetermined value, among the plurality of second pixels, is equal to or greater than a predetermined number.
US11379994B2
The disclosure relates to a method and an imaging device for generating a motion-compensated image of a target object. The disclosure further relates to a corresponding computer program and a computer-readable storage medium. In the method, a reference image is generated from projection images of a target object. Furthermore, a motion field which characterizes a motion of the target object shown is determined iteratively. In each case, after a predetermined number of iterative acts, the existing reference image is replaced by a provisional motion-compensated image, which is then used for the further iteration. The initial reference image is generated without using a synchronization or gating-signal that characterizes a motion of the target object.
US11379988B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for extracting an edge of an object in a depth image, a storage medium, and a computer device, to provide a solution which is simple to implement and accurate in edge extraction. The method for extracting an edge of an object in a depth image includes: calculating at least two sets of edge pixels of a first depth image using at least two edge detection algorithms; and acquiring a final set of edge pixels by combining the at least two sets of edge pixels. The solution according to the embodiments of the present disclosure is simple to implement, and may obtain a more accurate set of edge pixels, thereby obtaining an accurate pixel-level segmentation result.
US11379979B2
A computer system includes an input configured to receive a first image of medication located in a receptacle, memory, and a processor configured to execute instructions including creating a second image based on the first image, dividing pixels of the second image into first and second subsets, and scanning the second image along a first axis to count, for each point along the first axis, a number of pixels in the first subset along a line perpendicular to the first axis that intersects the first axis at the point. The instructions also include estimating positions of first and second edges of the receptacle along the first axis based on the counts of the pixels, defining an opening of the receptacle based on the estimated positions of the first and second edges, and outputting a processed image that indicates areas of the image that are outside of the defined opening.
US11379978B2
A medical image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to apply a first trained model to input image data to obtain a first output based on the input data, where the input data includes clinical data. The processing circuitry is further configured to apply a second trained model to the input data to obtain a second output based on the input data, where the first trained model and the second trained model have been trained in dependence on a hierarchical relationship between the first output and the second output. The hierarchical relationship includes at least one of: a spatial hierarchy, a temporal hierarchy, an anatomical hierarchy, and a hierarchy of clinical conditions.
US11379966B1
System and method of implementing an Impurity Detection System in Continually Running Water employing spatially separated smartphone video cameras equipped with periscopic lens attachments, a water flow meter, a sensor operated reagent dispensing system, a light reflecting chamber with patterned surface and optically transmissive windows, and machine vision software for image analysis. The smartphone is equipped with custom optical lens attachments including a periscope that improves spatial separation between camera images. The water flow meter bends according to the amount of water flow, and the sensors modulate the amount of dispensed reagents, such as orthotolidine (C14H16N2). The apparatus monitors the varied levels of impurities, including turbidity and fluorescence, within continually running water, and triggers alarm signals. Machine vision software subsequently analyzes the spatially separated images and matches existing databases to identify key contaminant characteristics.
US11379963B2
An information processing method, device, cloud-based processing device, and computer program product are related to the field of data processing technologies and can cause an increased efficiency in detecting whether a road area contains a depression region. The information processing method includes: acquiring a depth image; processing the depth image to obtain a means-by-row graph, based on which a road area in the depth image is determined; determining a suspected depression region in the road area; and judging over the suspected depression region based on a depression threshold to determine whether the depth image contains a depression region.
US11379957B1
Methods, systems, and devices for head wearable display devices are described. A device may capture a set of images over a set of orientations using a set of cameras positioned on an outward facing surface of the device. The set of images include a first subset of images captured by a first camera and a second subset of images captured by a second camera. The device may detect a set of facial features in each of the first subset of images and the second subset of images, and measure a set of inter-pupillary distances over the set of orientations based on the set of facial features in each of the first and second subset of images. The device may determine an inter-pupillary distance parameter based on aggregating the set of inter-pupillary distances over the set of orientations. The device may calibrate based on the inter-pupillary distance parameter.
US11379953B2
A system comprises a picture and metadata captured by a content capture system; a recognizable characteristic datastore configured to store recognizable characteristics of different users; a module configured to identify a time and a location associated with the picture based on the metadata, and to identify one or more potential target systems within a predetermined range of the location at the time; a characteristic recognition module configured to retrieve the recognizable characteristics of one or more potential users associated with the potential target systems, and evaluate whether the picture includes one or more representations of at least one actual target user from the potential users based on the recognizable characteristics of the potential users; a distortion module configured to distort a feature of the representations of the least one actual target user in response to the determination; a communication module configured to communicate the distorted picture to a computer network.
US11379950B1
Systems and methods directed to placing content are described. More specifically, content is received and depth information corresponding to an external environment of the computing device is obtained. An indication to associate the content with a location based on the depth information is received from a user. Information for at least one plane associated with the depth information at the location is obtained and at least a portion of the content is warped to match the at least one plane based on the depth information.
US11379949B1
Multiple single lens distortion regions and one or more boundary regions may be determined within an image. Individual single lens distortion regions may have pixel displacement defined by a single lens distortion and individual boundary regions may have pixel displacement defined by a blend of at least two lens distortions. Multiple lens distortions may be simulated within the image by shifting pixels of the image input positions to output positions based on locations of pixels within a single lens distortion region and the corresponding single lens distortion or within a boundary region and a blend of corresponding lens distortions.
US11379937B2
A power management server comprises a controller configured to select based on a predetermined standard, from among a plurality of facilities including a distributed power supply, a first facility in which first processing is applied to the distributed power supply and a second facility in which second processing is applied to the distributed power supply. The first processing is processing of controlling an output power of the distributed power supply by using a first target value as a target value for purchased power purchased by the facility from a power provider. The second processing is processing of controlling the output power of the distributed power supply by using a second target value as the target value for the purchased power, the second target value being greater than the first target value.
US11379932B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving information from a social network and identifying one or more topics of interest from the received information. The method also includes converting text from the received information to one or more social intents and determining, based on the topics of interest and the social intents, a media recommendation. The method further includes receiving account information from a user account, the account information including one or more entitlements. The method further includes determining that the media recommendation complies with the entitlements and automatically adding the media recommendation to a social watchlist associated with the user account.
US11379930B1
A computer-implemented method for the targeted gathering of tax data for use with tax preparation software includes a computing device presenting to the user a plurality of interview questions or statements. The computing device creates a user profile based on the responses to the interview questions or statements. The computing device identifies highly relevant tax topics based on user profile and executes a user interface manager to automatically generate interview questions or statements on said highly relevant tax topics. The user then confirms whether other tax topics apply to the user. The computing device executes a tax calculation engine of the tax preparation software configured to compute a tax liability or refund amount.
US11379927B1
A system and method to manage liability risk selection in the Small-to-Medium Enterprises business sector facilitates the insurance underwriting and delivery process using a combination of blockchain and Artificial Intelligence technologies. The approval process and the insurance rates are determined using a process that analyzes the answers of potential insureds in response to a set of questions designed by insurance experts to evaluate the performance and the value of the potential insured's organizations. The system also obtains information from social media and news data relating to the businesses of the potential insureds. The system enables an insurance broker to provide real time product delivery and collaboration through a private permissioned blockchain platform. The system and method provide a comprehensive and unique insurance underwriting and policy delivery solution that provides stable rates and rapid turnaround, in several minutes compared to several weeks using conventional insurance underwriting processes.
US11379923B1
A system and method for automatically screening applicants for disability insurance in real-time, and if the results are favorable, automatically communicating acceptances and issuing policies via wireless communication. An applicant's BMI is calculated, and the applicant is rejected if the BMI is too high or low. The applicant's prescription drug history is obtained, and the applicant is rejected if the history shows use of a drug associated with a serious medical condition. The acceptance or rejection and a premium for the insurance product may be set based upon the real-time screening results and communicated to the applicant. Additionally, an occupation class assigned to the applicant may be confirmed, a motor vehicle report for the applicant may be obtained, and an insurance information report for the applicant may be obtained. If the applicant is rejected, they may be allowed to apply for the insurance product using an alternate non-real-time process.
