US11776563B2
A method includes receiving an overlapped audio signal that includes audio spoken by a speaker that overlaps a segment of synthesized playback audio. The method also includes encoding a sequence of characters that correspond to the synthesized playback audio into a text embedding representation. For each character in the sequence of characters, the method also includes generating a respective cancelation probability using the text embedding representation. The cancelation probability indicates a likelihood that the corresponding character is associated with the segment of the synthesized playback audio overlapped by the audio spoken by the speaker in the overlapped audio signal.
US11776550B2
A device includes one or more processors configured to receive an audio data sample and to provide the audio data sample to a dynamic classifier. The dynamic classifier is configured to generate a classification output corresponding to the audio data sample. The one or more processors are further configured to selectively access a particular device based on the classification output.
US11776545B2
An apparatus includes a processor to: receive a request to perform speech-to-text conversion of a speech data set; perform pause detection to identify a set of likely sentence pauses and/or speaker diarization technique to identify a set of likely speaker changes; based the set of likely sentence pauses and/or the set of likely speaker changes, divide the speech data set into data segments representing speech segments; use an acoustic model with the data segments to derive sets of probabilities of speech sounds uttered; store the sets of probabilities in temporal order within a buffer queue; distribute the sets of probabilities from the buffer queue in temporal order among threads of a thread pool; and within each thread, and based on set(s) of probabilities, derive one candidate word and select either the candidate word or an alternate candidate word derived from a language model as the next word most likely spoken.
US11776544B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides an artificial intelligence (AI) apparatus for recognizing a speech of a user, the artificial intelligence apparatus includes a memory to store a speech recognition model and a processor to obtain a speech signal for a user speech, to convert the speech signal into a text using the speech recognition model, to measure a confidence level for the conversion, to perform a control operation corresponding to the converted text if the measured confidence level is greater than or equal to a reference value, and to provide feedback for the conversion if the measured confidence level is less than the reference value.
US11776536B2
Systems and methods of the present technical solution enable a multi-modal interface for voice-based devices, such as digital assistants. The solution can enable a user to interact with video and other content through a touch interface and through voice commands. In addition to inputs such as stop and play, the present solution can also automatically generate annotations for displayed video files. From the annotations, the solution can identify one or more break points that are associated with different scenes, video portions, or how-to steps in the video. The digital assistant can receive input audio signal and parse the input audio signal to identify semantic entities within the input audio signal. The digital assistant can map the identified semantic entities to the annotations to select a portion of the video that corresponds to the users request in the input audio signal.
US11776532B2
The disclosure relates to an audio processing apparatus (200) configured to classify an audio signal into one or more audio scene classes, the audio signal comprising a component signal. The apparatus (200) comprises: processing circuitry configured to classify the component signal of the audio signal as a foreground layer component signal or a background layer component signal; obtain an audio signal feature on the basis of the audio signal; select, depending on the classification of the component signal, a first set of weights or a second set of weights; and to classify the audio signal on the basis of the audio signal features, the foreground layer component signal or the background layer component signal and the selected set of weights.
US11776531B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for performing speech recognition. In some implementations, acoustic data representing an utterance is obtained. The acoustic data corresponds to time steps in a series of time steps. One or more computers process scores indicative of the acoustic data using a recurrent neural network to generate a sequence of outputs. The sequence of outputs indicates a likely output label from among a predetermined set of output labels. The predetermined set of output labels includes output labels that respectively correspond to different linguistic units and to a placeholder label that does not represent a classification of acoustic data. The recurrent neural network is configured to use an output label indicated for a previous time step to determine an output label for the current time step. The generated sequence of outputs is processed to generate a transcription of the utterance, and the transcription of the utterance is provided.
US11776530B2
An apparatus for speech model with personalization via ambient context harvesting, is described herein. The apparatus includes a microphone, context harvesting module, confidence module, and training module. The context harvesting module is to determine a context associated with the captured audio signals. A confidence module is to determine a confidence of the context as applied to the audio signals. A training module is to train a neural network in response to the confidence being above a predetermined threshold.
US11776523B2
In the sound insulation apparatus, a sound wave transmitter configured to transmit sound waves with frequencies including the frequencies of propagation sound waves from a sound source and a sound wave receiver configured to receive the sound waves transmitted from the sound wave transmitter are coupled such that the orientation of a sound wave transmission surface of the sound wave transmitter and the orientation of a sound wave receiving surface of the sound wave receiver intersect each other and one pair set is formed. The one pair set is disposed in plurality such that the sound wave transmission surface of one set is spaced from and opposed to the sound wave receiving surface of another set and a space surrounding the sound source is formed. The sound waves transmitted from each of the sound wave transmitters are mixed with the propagation sound waves.
US11776522B2
A sound isolating wall assembly includes a plurality of walls defining a space between the plurality of walls. At least one acoustic scatterer is disposed within the space between the plurality of walls. The at least one acoustic scatterer has an opening and at least one channel. The at least one channel has a channel open end and a channel terminal end, with the channel open end being in fluid communication with the opening.
US11776519B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel displaying an image and a vibration generating device disposed on a rear surface of the display panel to vibrate the display panel. The vibration generating device includes a piezoelectric structure including a first region and a second region, the first region has a vibration characteristic of a first frequency, and the second region has a vibration characteristic of a second frequency which differs from the first frequency.
US11776518B2
An automated music composition and generation system including a system user interface for enabling system users to review and select one or more musical experience descriptors, as well as time and/or space parameters; and an automated music composition and generation engine, operably connected to the system user interface, for receiving, storing and processing musical experience descriptors and time and/or space parameters selected by the system user, so as to automatically compose and generate one or more digital pieces of music in response to the musical experience descriptors and time and/or space parameters selected by the system user. Each digital piece of composed and generated music contains a set of musical notes arranged and performed in the digital piece of music. The engine includes: a digital piece creation subsystem and a digital audio sample producing subsystem supported by virtual musical instrument libraries.
US11776517B2
A holder includes a body defining two prongs joined with each other at proximal ends thereof, each prong from two prongs has a distal end. The holder defines a hollow interior defined by the two prongs and an opening between distal ends, the opening being in an open communication with the hollow interior. A pivot is provided on a distal end of one prong from the two prongs. A protrusion is provided on a distal end of another prong from the two prongs. A rigid retainer may be provided in a pivot connection at the pivot and in a detachable connection at the protrusion. The holder may be designed with a pivot to independently pivot about a mounting member in each of a vertical and a horizontal plane.
US11776516B2
Systems and methods for mapping parts in a digital sheet music file for a harmony. The method may include receiving a selection of a music segment for part mapping, receiving a digital sheet music representation of the selected music segment, and determining a plurality of plausible part mapping for the digital sheet music representation. A part mapping identifies one or more distinct musical parts in the digital sheet music representation, each of said one or more distinct musical parts corresponding to a performer of the harmony. The method may also include analyzing one or more features of the plurality of plausible part mapping to identify a highest probability part mapping based on previously stored information, and outputting the highest probability part mapping.
US11776514B1
A hybrid-material construction for string instruments may include providing an internal lattice framework structure encased in a composite material to produce a final form of a string instrument. The framework structure may provide a lightweight structural support system within a finished instrument to reduce overall weight while maintaining strength of the instrument.
US11776513B2
The invention relates to a bow for a bowed string musical instrument, which comprises a narrow stick and one or more strips or hairs for rubbing the strings of a bowed string musical instrument. The bow incorporates at least one illuminating means, a processing means able to activate and control the illuminating means, and a power supply battery for the electrical power supply of the illuminating means, all said elements being disposed on the narrow stick.
US11776508B2
A system includes a display monitor compatible with a video specification having a reference EOTF while exhibiting an actual EOTF that deviates from the reference EOFT. The system further includes a video source subsystem operable to determine an approximated EOTF representative of the actual EOTF based on user input received from a display of at least one test pattern to the user via the display monitor. The at least one test pattern is intended to elicit input from the user based on a visual inspection of the at least one test pattern by the user. The video source subsystem further is to convert color values of each video image of a stream of images to corresponding non-linear codewords based on the approximated EOTF, and transmit the codewords to the display monitor for display as display images representative of the video images.
US11776496B2
Improved methods for driving a four particle electrophoretic medium including a scattering particle and at least two subtractive particles. Such methods allow displays such as a color electrophoretic display including a backplane having an array of thin film transistors, wherein each thin film transistor includes a layer of metal oxide semiconductor. The metal oxide transistors allow faster, higher voltage switching, and thus allow direct color switching of a four-particle electrophoretic medium without a need for top plane switching. As a result, the color electrophoretic display can be updated faster and the colors are reproduced more reliably.
US11776495B2
A controller acquires video data, determines provisional luminance values for backlight blocks based on the video data, determines an adjustment coefficient for a backlight block of interest selected from the backlight blocks, determines an adjusted luminance value for the backlight block of interest based on the provisional luminance value and the adjustment coefficient for the backlight block of interest, and controls the backlight block of interest in accordance with the adjusted luminance value. In determining the adjustment coefficient, the controller calculates a statistic of provisional luminance values for reference backlight blocks including backlight blocks adjacent to the backlight block of interest, calculates a relative value of the statistic with respect to the provisional luminance value for the backlight block of interest, and determines the adjustment coefficient for the backlight block of interest based on the relative value and a predefined function.
US11776493B2
A backlight module and a display device are provided. The backlight module includes a backlight and a driving circuit for driving the backlight. In the driving circuit corresponding to at least one backlight unit in the backlight, a data signal input module is configured for inputting a first data signal to a first point during a detection stage, and inputting a compensated second data signal to the first point according to a threshold voltage detected by a detection module during a display stage. The present invention improves uniformity of light emission of the backlight module.
US11776489B2
A control device that controls a liquid crystal display device, the control device includes: an obtainer that obtains a first video signal; a determiner that determines a first backlight value as a reference luminance of a backlight of the liquid crystal display device, using a first luminance characteristic of the first video signal; a tone map processor that performs tone mapping on the first video signal based on the first backlight value and a peak luminance displayable by the liquid crystal display device, and outputs a second video signal obtained through the tone mapping; and a generator that generates a control signal for local dimming control on the liquid crystal display device based on the first backlight value and the second video signal, and outputs the control signal to the liquid crystal display device.
US11776486B2
A first capacitance element provided corresponding to a bit D0, a second capacitance element provided corresponding to a bit D1, and a third capacitance element and a fourth capacitance element provided corresponding to a bit D2, and electrically coupled in parallel are included. An area S1 where electrodes of the first capacitance element overlap in plan view is smaller than half an area S2 where electrodes of the second capacitance element overlap in plan view, an area in which electrodes of the third capacitance element overlap in plan view is substantially the same as the area S2, and an area where electrodes of the fourth capacitance element overlap in plan view is substantially the same as the area S2.
US11776474B2
A pixel includes a driving transistor, a switching transistor, and first and second capacitors. The gate of the driving transistor is disposed below a first insulating layer, and a first conductive pattern defining a first electrode of the first capacitor is disposed below the first insulating layer. A second conductive pattern defining a second electrode of the first capacitor and a first electrode of the second capacitor is disposed on the first insulating layer, a third conductive pattern defining a second electrode of the second capacitor is disposed on a second insulating layer covering the second conductive pattern, and the data line is disposed above the second insulating layer.
US11776472B2
The present disclosure relates to a display device and a driving method thereof, and the display device according to an example embodiment includes a pixel unit including a plurality of pixels, and a light emission driver outputting a light emission control signal having different light emission cycles according to a driving frequency and a required luminance to the pixel unit.
US11776467B1
Disclosed herein is an LED driver chip capable of being used for master chip and slave chip. In case that the LED driver chip of the disclosure is used for the master, the strobe clock signal may be used as a reference clock signal. The 1-st to the n-th frequency clock signals, which are relatively simple to generate, may be provided as the 1-st to the n-th gray clock signals. In case that the LED driver chip of the disclosure is used for the slave, the external clock signal may be used as a reference clock signal. The 1-st to the n-th delay clock signals, which have a phase according to the reference clock signal, may be provided as the 1-st to the n-th gray clock signal. As a result, the LED driver chip of the disclosure can be used for both a master chip and a slave chip.
US11776465B2
A display module is provided. The display module includes a module substrate; a plurality of pixels provided on an upper surface of the module substrate; and a plurality of micro pixel controllers, each of the plurality of micro pixel controllers being configured to control at least two pixels among the plurality of pixels and being provided in a space between the at least two pixels on the upper surface of the module substrate, wherein at least one of the plurality of micro pixel controllers includes a slope waveform generator configured to generate a slope waveform used to control a brightness of each of the at least two pixels.
US11776463B2
A display device includes a light emitting unit, first and second capacitors, and first and second switches. The light emitting unit emits light according to a voltage level of a first node. A first terminal of the first capacitor is coupled to the first node, and a second terminal of the first capacitor is coupled to a second node. A first terminal of the second capacitor is coupled to the second node, and a second terminal of the first capacitor is coupled to the light emitting unit. A first terminal of the first switch is coupled to the first node, and a second terminal of the first switch is coupled to the light emitting unit. The second switch is configured to be turned on before the first switch is turned on, and a first terminal of the second switch is coupled to the first node.
US11776461B2
A circuit for generating a PWM signal includes a shift register having a plurality of clock-controlled register units. Each clock-controlled register unit has an input and an output. The circuit also includes a write unit configured to set the outputs of the register units each to a designated logical value. The circuit further includes a clock generator configured to drive the register units with a common clock signal. The register units are connected in series. The shift register is configured to output the PWM signal at an output contact. The PWM signal is a chronological sequence of the logical values set in the register units, the PWM signal assumes each of the logical values with the duration of one clock of the clock signal, the clock signal is cyclic, during one cycle the duration of successive clocks changes, and the clock signal is identical per cycle.
US11776451B2
A voltage drop compensation system and a display driving device for compensating for a voltage drop of a display panel. The voltage drop compensation system generates a voltage drop compensation value for each of a plurality of regions into which a test image of a panel is divided, and the display driving device compensates for a voltage drop for each region of image data using the voltage drop compensation value.
US11776445B2
It is intended to make it possible to make a favorable display of, for example, images of low frame-rate content, with a high-luminance and high-contrast television set. On the basis of an image stream having a first frame rate, for each frame, an object having luminance exceeding a luminance threshold value and/or a motion amount exceeding a motion-amount threshold value is detected as a target object. An image stream having a second frame rate larger than the first frame rate is acquired by inserting, between every pair of two consecutive frames in the image stream having the first frame rate, a predetermined number of frames of interpolated images obtained by performing motion compensation for causing the target object to sequentially move.
US11776438B2
A detecting method of a pixel circuit, a driving method of a display panel and a display device are provided. The pixel circuit includes a driving transistor, and the detecting method comprises: in a first charging cycle, applying a first data voltage to a gate electrode of the driving transistor, and in a first time duration, obtaining a first sensing voltage at a first electrode of the driving transistor and determining whether the first sensing voltage is equal to a first reference sensing voltage; and in a second charging cycle, applying a second data voltage to the gate electrode of the driving transistor, and in a second time duration, obtaining a second sensing voltage at the first electrode of the driving transistor and determining whether the second sensing voltage is equal to a second reference sensing voltage.
US11776434B2
A method and apparatus for avoidance of damage to concealed mechanical elements during construction or repair of a structure. In one embodiment, a tag is provided for installation on a plumbing or similar element prior to such element being concealed by further construction. The tag is adapted to engage a concealed element in such a way that an indicator portion of the tab remains visible after further concealing structure is installed. The visible tab's location identifies the location of concealed elements and is preferably provided with indicia identifying such purpose. In a further embodiment of the invention, adhesive indicator tape is used in conjunction with an indicator tab. The indicator tape is adapted to be applied over concealing structure to generally identify the location and extent of concealed elements that may be susceptible to puncture or damage during subsequent construction or repair phases of a project.
US11776430B1
The present invention relates to the technical field of researching and developing a seismic fault motion simulation experimental instrument, and particularly relates to a matching box body structure for simulating fault motion and a seismic fault simulation experimental platform, including a left box body and a right box body arranged in a left and right matching manner, wherein the inner cavities of the left box body and the right box body communicate with each other and form an accommodating cavity for accommodating a soil layer, both the left box body and the right box body include a main box body, two sides along the left direction and right direction have openings, and the top side has an opening; and an end cover.
US11776427B2
An inflatable exhibit of a heart includes an inflatable infrastructure inflatable to a three-dimensional partial representation of the heart at a scale greater than at least, 10:1, but more preferably greater than 20:1, and most preferably, greater than 25:1. The infrastructure includes a cross-sectional plane thereacross. The exhibit further includes a walk-through passageway defined, at least, in part by the inflated infrastructure, and extending through the inflated infrastructure. The cross-sectional plane defines a plane of the passageway.
US11776424B2
A carbonate microfluidic model with controllable nanoscale porosity and methods are described. The method for fabricating a carbonate nanofluidic micromodel with controllable nanoscale porosity for studying fluid behaviors in an underground oil-reservoir environment includes: disposing a plurality of polymer spheres into a transparent flow cell; initiating crystallization of the plurality of polymer spheres to form a template with an opal structure; filling the transparent flow cell with a calcium-based solution and a carbonate-based solution to form nanocrystals in voids of the opal structure; and removing the template formed by crystallization of the plurality of polymer spheres from the transparent flow cell leaving an inverse opal structure with a plurality of nanoscale pores and a carbonate surface. The model includes: a transparent flow cell including a first end defining an inlet and a second end defining an outlet; and an inverse opal structure of carbonate inside the transparent flow cell.
US11776423B2
Connection boxes for gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) training systems are described. In some examples, a connection box of the GTAW training system coordinates delivery of welding-type power to a GTAW torch during training. In some examples, a remote control (e.g., foot pedal) may be activated at different levels to command different levels of welding-type power be delivered to the GTAW torch from a welding-type power supply. In some examples, the connection box may selectively enable or disable communication between the remote control and welding-type power supply during training. In some examples, this selective enablement/disablement may be based on whether the GTAW training system is in a live-arc mode or simulation mode.
US11776420B2
An AR system to assist with installation of wire harnesses identifies landmarks in the installation environment and continuously orients 3D models of the wire harness components with reference to the landmarks in 3D space. The 3D models are rendered in an AR device to correspond to the placement in 3D space with respect to the landmarks. The installation process is broken down into steps and sub-steps. An installer may install the wire harness according to predefined steps and be presented with higher granularity instructions upon request. The higher granularity sub-steps may include additional 3D models.
US11776417B2
A method for predictively updating one or more user parameters associated with a user of a learning system includes predicting, based on the one or more user parameters, a predicted activity of the user, receiving an actual activity of the user, comparing the predicted activity to the actual activity, and updating the one or more user parameters in response to determining that the predicted activity does not match the actual activity. The method may further include scheduling one or more learning interactions based on the one or more updated learning parameters, where the scheduling includes selecting at least one of a timing of the one or more learning interactions or a type of the one or more learning interactions.
US11776413B2
A method for processing flight data includes acquiring, by detecting devices carried by one or more first aerial vehicles, environmental data associated to a position region; and sending, by the one or more first aerial vehicles, the environmental data to an external device. The environmental data is configured to generate a flight control instruction for controlling an operation of a second aerial vehicle while the second aerial vehicle is within the position region.
US11776409B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, Internet of Things systems, and storage mediums for street management in a smart city. The method may include obtaining, based on the object platform, street monitoring information of a target area through the sensor network platform; determining, according to the street monitoring information, distribution of fallen leaves on the street, the distribution of fallen leaves including a total amount of fallen leaves and a count of fallen leaf piles; determining, based on the distribution of fallen leaves, cleaning difficulty of each street in the target area; determining, based on the total amount of fallen leaves and the cleaning difficulty, at least one street to be cleaned from the target area; and determining, based on the at least one street to be cleaned, a fallen leaf cleaning route of the target area.
US11776408B2
Upon report of an emergency incident, a system may dispatch one or more initial entities to respond to the incident and model an initial scene, based on the reported data. The system may further determine the availability of travel data, request available travel data and advise an entity of path feasibility. The system also determines availability of onsite data covering one or more locations associated with the incident and requests available onsite data. This data is used to update the scene model and determine additional necessary dispatches, data gathering, or both. Until additional data is determined to be no longer needed, the processor is configured to continue to: dispatch entities based on the updated scene model; determine the availability of additional onsite desired based on the updated scene model; request the new onsite data; and update the scene model based on any onsite data received responsive to any additional requests.
US11776407B2
A cargo detection system for detecting overhanging cargo on a motor vehicle comprises a sensor system configured to provide cargo measurement data for cargo loaded onto the motor vehicle by measuring at least one of exterior dimensions of cargo protruding over an outer edge of the motor vehicle and an opening condition of a tailgate of the motor vehicle. The system further comprises a control device configured to assess, based on the cargo measurement data of the sensor system, whether cargo is overhanging from the motor vehicle and to calculate an updated vehicle length and/or vehicle width for the motor vehicle accounting for the overhanging cargo.
US11776402B2
Among other things, techniques are described for forecasting occupancy of a vehicle location. This includes receiving, by at least one processor, status information of a parking location the status information representing an availability of the parking location; predicting, by the at least one processor, a future status of the parking location based on the received status information; determining, by the at least one processor, a destination based on the predicted future status of the parking location; and providing, by the at least one processor, the predicted future status to a controller of a vehicle for controlling the vehicle to drive to the destination.
US11776398B2
Technologies and techniques for merging/resolving MAP data and signal phase and timing (SPaT) messages for traffic light data prediction a vehicle in an intelligent transportation system. SPaT data and/or MAP data may be received in a vehicle from a direct source and a network source, and processed to merge data from the two different platforms. The merging of the data allows a vehicle to generate inferences relating to traffic light data received on direct, low-latency, connections, while taking advantage of the more comprehensive data provided from the network source.
US11776394B2
Provided is a technology that allows, inter alia, two different patrol-vehicles to be used to enforce parking regulations. Unique systems and methods, inter alia, allow a patrol vehicle or the like to collect parking data pertaining to parked vehicles, and to wirelessly transmit such parking data to a server. A later patrol vehicle or the like can wirelessly receive parking data related to parking events related to its parking enforcement situation and determine whether parking violations, such as overtime or permit sharing violations, are occurring using a combination of parking data generated locally and extraneous parking data collected by the previous patrol vehicle.
US11776391B2
Systems and apparatuses for receiving data from a plurality of sensors and using the data, as well as other data, to generate a parking recommendation for an autonomous vehicle and instruct the autonomous vehicle to travel to the recommended parking location are provided. Data may be received from a plurality of sensors within a first autonomous vehicle, as well as from other vehicles and/or structures. Historical parking data associated with the first autonomous vehicle may also be extracted. In some examples, an expected future trip of the first autonomous vehicle may be determined. The system may then evaluate the data to generate a parking recommendation for the first autonomous vehicle. The system may generate and transmit instructions for traveling from a current location to the recommended parking location and may cause the first autonomous vehicle to travel to the recommended parking location.
US11776389B2
An inter-vehicle optical network a plurality of lights, a plurality of optical sensors arranged around the perimeter of the vehicle configured to gather light data regarding a light intensity and gradient of incoming light, a controller communicatively coupled with the plurality of lights and the plurality of optical sensors. The controller configured to receive the light data from the plurality of optical sensors, detect in the light data a second flashing light pattern emitted by an adjacent vehicle with a rhythm, a color, and/or a light intensity, adjust the light level of each light of the plurality of lights based on the light data, adjust the first flashing light pattern in response to the second flashing light pattern, and adjust the first flashing light pattern to synchronize the first flashing light pattern with the second flashing light pattern.
US11776379B2
A tool notification system for determining tool usage information that would be otherwise unavailable or not easily discoverable by comparing information output by a tool and information obtained from a source. The tool notification system includes a tool operatively coupled to a sensor which may communicate information about the use, location, or other status of the tool to a processing system of the tool notification system. The processing system also receives the information from the source, which may include information about the parts supplied to the tool, the designated location of the tool, or other threshold parameters associated with supplying or using the tool. The processing system is configured to compare the information output from the tool and the information from the source and determine whether a condition is met for thereby sending a notification about tool usage.
US11776364B2
Embodiments of the present invention set forth systems, apparatuses and methods for providing a lock and improve feature in gaming devices. Accordingly, a gaming device can be configured to include a video poker game where items associated with cards in poker hand, or card positions where the cards in the poker hand are displayed, can be locked, held, stuck, or otherwise maintained and a secondary game event is played where additional items can be received. The items may provide credits, bonus opportunities, progressives, multipliers, or other types of awards, modifiers, or beneficial game enhancements.
US11776363B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods for providing opportunities to enhance gaming results over a plurality of gaming events. In one embodiment, award enhancements such as wild cards and/or payout modifiers migrate through a multi-hand poker array over multiple poker games, thereby changing the award enhancement opportunities as the award enhancements migrate.
US11776352B2
A graphical user interface for a gaming console is configured to render a first graphical element in a first region that includes multiple user selectable resource objects, detect a first touching operation at a first location in the first region to select and highlight a resource, detect a first touching operation and a second touching operation in the second region, render an instance of the resource at a first and second location in the second region, determine if a time period of the first and second touching operation exceeds a predetermined time period, and if so, render multiple instances of the resource at the first and second location in the second region, wherein a number of rendered the multiple instances of the resource is determined by a duration that the time period of the second touching exceeds the predetermined time period.
US11776346B2
Disclosed are a sheet-type medium conveying device and a cash recycling and handling apparatus. The sheet-type medium conveying device includes a first passage plate, a second passage plate and a driving mechanism. The first passage plate and the second passage plate are oppositely arranged. A passage is formed between the first passage plate and the second passage plate, and configured for a sheet-type medium to pass through. The driving mechanism is configured to drive a first end of the first passage plate and a first end of the second passage plate to get close to or away from each other.
US11776343B2
A face authentication apparatus includes a face image acquisition unit, a collation unit, a time measurement unit, and a threshold change unit. The face image acquisition unit acquires a face image of an authentication target. The collation unit performs face authentication on the face image of the authentication target on the basis of a threshold. The time measurement unit measures the elapsed time from the time of starting operation of the face authentication apparatus. The threshold change unit restricts changing of the threshold to a value larger than a value determined depending on the measured elapsed time.
US11776339B2
Control system, control method, and computer readable medium for opening and closing a security gate
A control system that controls opening-closing of a security gate which is provided in a facility in which a plurality of mobile robots travels autonomously is provided. The control system performs: receiving a passing-through reservation signal for passing through the security gate; and allowing a plurality of mobile robots to consecutively pass through the security gate while the security gate opens its gate once when passing-through reservation signals are received from the plurality of mobile robots.
US11776335B1
Enhancing operation of powered tools is provided. Access permissions for tools and access devices are stored to in vehicle memory. Presence of a tool within proximity to the vehicle is detected. Presence of access devices configured to provide access to the vehicle are detected utilizing passive access functionality of the vehicle. Access to an auxiliary power source of the vehicle is allowed for powering the tool responsive to the access permissions granting access due to the presence of the access devices.
US11776332B2
A sensing module for monitoring a cabin of a vehicle includes an environmental sensor configured to sense organic compounds in ambient air of the cabin and a particle sensor configured to detect particulate matter in the ambient air. The sensing module further includes a controller operably connected to the environmental sensor and the particle sensor and configured to receive sensor signals from the environmental sensor and the particle sensor and to transmit data to a remote server via the Internet. The sensing module has a housing configured to mount to a windshield of the vehicle. The housing supports the environmental sensor, the particle sensor, and the controller.
US11776331B2
A control device as a noise estimation device is applied to a vehicle including an internal combustion engine as a power source and a transmission as a power transmission mechanism. The control device is provided with a storage device that stores mapping data, which is data that defines a mapping learned by machine learning, and a CPU as an execution unit. When variables on an output of the power source and variables indicating a state of the power transmission mechanism are input as input variables, the mapping outputs, as output variables, variables indicating a sensory level of noise caused when rattling sound generated by the operation of the power transmission mechanism is transmitted to a cabin of the vehicle. The CPU estimates the sensory level based on the values of the output variables output from the mapping by inputting the values of the input variables into the mapping.
US11776323B2
A liveliness prediction output is provided from a liveliness biometric analysis task that is determined by a deep neural network based on an image provided from an image sensor wherein the liveliness biometric analysis task is performed in a deep neural network that includes a common feature extraction neural network and a plurality of task-specific neural networks including a face detection neural network, a body pose neural network and a liveliness neural network including a region of interest (ROI) detection neural network and a texture analysis neural network to determine the liveliness biometric analysis task by inputting the image to the common feature extraction neural network to determine latent variables. The latent variables can be input to the face detection neural network and the liveliness neural network. Output from the face detection neural network can be input to the ROI detection neural network.
US11776317B2
Provided is an information processing system including: a comparison information acquisition unit that acquires comparison information regarding iris comparison generated based on an iris image including an iris of a recognition subject; and a display image generation unit that generates a display image including an image indicating a content of the comparison information in association with positions in the iris.
US11776313B2
The disclosure provides for a scanning apparatus. The scanning apparatus may be configured to capture identifying information of a user and may comprise one or more infrared emitters, at least one image sensor configured to capture image data in a field of view, and a controller in communication with the scanning apparatus. The controller may be configured to activate the one or more infrared emitters, control the at least one image sensor to capture a first image in the field of view, deactivate the one or more infrared emitters, and control the at least one image sensor to capture a second image in the field of view.
US11776307B2
Arrangement for acquiring images for producing a head related transfer function filter is disclosed. In the arrangement the camera of a mobile phone or similar portable device is adjusted for the imaging. All acquired images are analyzed and only suitable images are sent further for producing the head related transfer filter. The arrangement is further configured to provide instructions to the user so that the whole head and other relevant body parts are sufficiently covered.
US11776301B2
A fingerprint detection apparatus and an electronic device are provided. The fingerprint detection apparatus is applied under a display screen to implement under-screen optical fingerprint identification, including: a fingerprint sensor; the fingerprint sensor includes: N groups of sub-pixels, where N is a positive integer greater than 1; and different groups of sub-pixels in the N groups of sub-pixels respectively receive light signals with different characteristics in light signals returned by reflection or scattering via a finger, and light signals received by each group of sub-pixels in the N groups of sub-pixels are used to form one pixel in a fingerprint image of the finger.
US11776284B2
A device and a process to count a number of colonies present in a set of samples. The colony counting device has a storage device with plural storage locations. A handling system is operative to convey samples to analyze from storage locations to an analysis area and from the analysis area to storage locations. An imaging device is operative to acquire a plurality of images of a sample to analyze, the plurality of images including all or a part of the analysis area. A processing unit is operative to implement, for each sample to analyze, a detection step to detect the presence of colonies by analyzing an image of the plurality of images of the sample and a determination step to determine the number of colonies present in the sample by counting the colonies whose presence have been detected during the detection step.
US11776280B2
A method performed by an apparatus is described. The method includes receiving map data that is based on first image data, second image data, and a similarity metric. The first image data can be received from a first vehicle and represent an object. The second image data can be received from a second vehicle and represent the object. The similarity metric can be associated with the object represented in the first image data and the object represented in the second image data. The method can also include storing, by a vehicle, the received map data and localizing the vehicle based on the stored map data.
US11776277B2
An apparatus for identifying the state of an object inputs time series images into a first classifier to detect an object region including a predetermined object from each image, determines whether the region of each image is in a mixed state in which the region includes another object other than the object, chronologically inputs characteristics obtained from pixel values of the region of each image into a second classifier having a recursive structure, and applies a recursively used internal state of the second classifier stored in a memory to the second classifier, identifying the state of the object involving time-varying changes in outward appearance. The apparatus rejects the latest internal state when the region of each image is in the mixed state. The apparatus updates the internal state stored in the memory with this latest internal state when the region is not in the mixed state.
US11776260B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for providing an availability status associated with a facility. One system includes an illumination indicator, a thermal grid array sensor, and an electronic controller. The thermal grid array sensor is configured to sense an outside region, an entryway region, and an inside region associated with a facility subsystem. The electronic controller is configured to determine the current availability status as unavailable responsive to the thermal grid array sensor detecting a heat signature in the outside region, subsequently in the entryway region, and subsequently in the inside region. The electronic controller is also configured to determine the current availability status as available responsive to the thermal grid array sensor detecting the heat signature in the inside region, subsequently in the entryway region, and subsequently in the outside region. The electronic controller is further configured to control the illumination indicator to indicate the current availability status.
US11776253B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for displaying object names in association with augmented reality content. The program and method provide for receiving, by a messaging application running on a device, a first request to identify plural objects based on an image captured by a camera of the device; identifying, in response to receiving the first request, the plural objects based on the image; for each of the plural objects, determining at least one attribute of the object, and calculating a number of augmented reality content items, from plural augmented reality content items, corresponding to the at least one attribute of the object; selecting, from the plural objects, an object with a largest calculated number of corresponding augmented reality content items; and displaying a name for each of the plural objects based on the selecting.
US11776252B2
This disclosure generally relates to method and system for asset inspection using unmanned aerial vehicles. Regular inspection of assets in any environment is time consuming and involves physical risk and injury to the property. The method includes receiving a plurality of input images of an asset using unmanned aerial vehicle and generates a 3D point cloud based on overlapped images identified from the plurality of input images of the asset being inspected. Further, anomalies are detected and defects are observed in the one or more objects of interests based on the change observed in each 2D image frame from the plurality 2D image frames in a specific view with an identical objects of interest of the 2D image frame. A pyramidal view map is created for the plurality 2D image frames by mapping each pixel of the plurality 2D image frames with the plurality of input images.
US11776245B2
A computer-implemented method and system provide the ability to determine and provide a safety risk analysis for construction. Construction related data is obtained and includes textual data and a visual artifact for the construction project. A construction safety context is identified based on the construction related data. Based on the construction safety context, a safety participant risk score that assigns a numerical safety risk participant value to any entity involved in the construction project is determined. Based on the safety risk participant score, a safety project score that assigns a risk level on a per-project basis is determined. The safety risk analysis is presented based on the safety participant risk score and safety project score, via a graphical user interface.
US11776242B2
A computer implemented method for recognizing a hand gesture using a random forest model includes training the random forest model. The method also includes obtaining image data. The method further includes clustering a plurality of pixels from the image data to generate a plurality of clusters. Moreover, the method includes analyzing the plurality of clusters using a rejection cascade to generate a plurality of selected candidates. In addition, the method includes analyzing the plurality of selected candidates using a classification decision tree from the random forest model. The method also includes skeletonizing the plurality of selected candidates to generate a one dimension plus branches hand model. The method further includes analyzing the one dimension plus branches hand model using a regression decision tree from the random forest model.
US11776239B2
Disclosed is a liveness test method and liveness test apparatus. The liveness test method includes determining a presence of a subject using a radar sensor, performing a first liveness test on the subject based on radar data obtained by the radar sensor, in response to the subject being present, acquiring image data of the subject using an image sensor, in response to a result of the first liveness test satisfying a first condition, and performing a second liveness test on the subject based on the image data.
US11776234B2
Example systems and methods of selection of video frames using a machine learning (ML) predictor program are disclosed. The ML predictor program may generate predicted cropping boundaries for any given input image. Training raw images associated with respective sets of training master images indicative of cropping characteristics for the training raw image may be input to the ML predictor, and the ML predictor program trained to predict cropping boundaries for raw image based on expected cropping boundaries associated training master images. At runtime, the trained ML predictor program may be applied to a sequence of video image frames to determine for each respective video image frame a respective score corresponding to a highest statistical confidence associated with one or more subsets of cropping boundaries predicted for the respective video image frame. Information indicative of the respective video image frame having the highest score may be stored or recorded.
US11776228B2
A method for fabricating a custom cranial remodeling device for correction of cranial deformities in a subject is described. The method comprises generating a three-dimensional head data file for the subject. Predetermined reference points are identified on the head. The predetermined reference points are utilized to calculate contour lines on the head. A modified head shape data file is generated and juxtaposed with the head represented by the three-dimensional head data file having the contour lines thereon. The modified head shape data file is used to generate a shape for a desired custom cranial remodeling device, the shape having an interior surface to contact the head and an outer surface The contour lines establish peripheral edges for the custom cranial remodeling device.
US11776227B1
Disclosed herein are aspects for altering avatar backgrounds and rendering volumetric avatars in a three-dimensional virtual environment. An aspect begins by receiving, from a first device of a first user, configuration settings specifying how a background of a first user's avatar is to be presented to a second user in the 3D virtual environment. The aspect continues by capturing a video stream of the first user and altering portions of the video stream. The configuration settings and the video stream with the altered background are used to render the first user's avatar. Another aspect begins by receiving configuration settings and a video stream with a background. The aspect continues by rendering a front surface, back surface, and side surface of an avatar based on the configuration settings and video stream.
US11776225B2
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that enable presenting environments including visual representations of multiple applications. In one implementation, a method includes presenting a view of an environment at an electronic device on a display. The view includes visual representations of a plurality of applications. The method further includes determining to provide a first application with access to a control parameter. The control parameter is configured to modify at least a portion of the view of the environment with virtual content, and the portion of the view includes at least a portion of content outside of a view of a visual representation associated with the first application. The method further includes restricting access to the control parameter by other applications which prevents the other applications from modifying the at least the portion of the view of the environment via the control parameter.
US11776220B1
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for modifying a visual property of an object based on a geographic location associated with a device. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining a request to display an object that is associated with a set of one or more visual properties including a visual property that is dependent on a theme. Based on a particular theme, a set of one or more physical elements is identified that corresponds to the object. The one or more physical elements are associated with respective values for the visual property. A value for the visual property associated with the object is determined based on the respective values associated with the set of one or more physical elements. The object is displayed in accordance with the value for the visual property.
US11776206B1
An extended reality system and extended reality method for digital twins, in which the digital twin can be a virtual asset of a real asset. The real asset can be a real object. For example, an initiation of an event in relation to the real asset causes the extended reality method to generate one or more predicted virtual states which are predicted to achieve the event in the virtual asset. The event can be initiated through the real asset and through the virtual asset. The extended reality method can receive one or more further real states of the real asset which achieve the event. The extended reality method can generate a reality 3D map in an extended reality application which concurrently displays, in the 3D space, the virtual asset in the one or more predicted virtual states and the real asset in the one or more further real states.
US11776200B2
A computer includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to receive a plurality of first images of an environment in a first lighting condition, classify pixels of the first images into categories, mask the pixels belonging to at least one of the categories from the first images, generate a three-dimensional representation of the environment based on the masked first images, and generate a second image of the environment in a second lighting condition based on the three-dimensional representation and on a first one of the first images.
US11776199B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to systems and methods for generating multi-view interactive digital media representations in a virtual reality environment. According to particular embodiments, a plurality of images is fused into a first content model and a first context model, both of which include multi-view interactive digital media representations of objects. Next, a virtual reality environment is generated using the first content model and the first context model. The virtual reality environment includes a first layer and a second layer. The user can navigate through and within the virtual reality environment to switch between multiple viewpoints of the content model via corresponding physical movements. The first layer includes the first content model and the second layer includes a second content model and wherein selection of the first layer provides access to the second layer with the second content model.
US11776189B2
In implementations of systems for generating digital objects to animate sketches, a computing device implements a sketch system to receive input data describing a user sketched digital object having a pose and a non-photorealistic style. The sketch system generates a latent vector representation of the user defined non-photorealistic style using an encoder of a generative adversarial network. A digital object is generated having the pose and a non-photorealistic style using a generator of the generative adversarial network based on the latent vector representation of the user defined non-photorealistic style. The sketch system modifies the latent vector representation of the user defined non-photorealistic style based on a comparison between the user defined non-photorealistic style and the non-photorealistic style.
US11776185B2
An example system includes an electronic device and a server. The electronic device includes a display; a first communicator; and a first controller configured to: control to transmit, to the server, location data identifying locations of the electronic device. The server includes a second communicator; and a second controller configured to: control to receive the location data; identify a course of travel; link photograph images to locations on the course of travel; and control to transmit to the electronic device the course of travel and the photograph images. The first controller of the electronic device is configured to control to receive the course of travel and the photograph images and to control to display on the display, at the same time, a map image, the course of travel, and one or more of the photograph images linked to a selected location on the course of travel.
US11776184B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for image editing. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an image editing system for perform image object replacement or image region replacement (e.g., an image editing system for replacing an object or region of an image with an object or region from another image). For example, the image editing system may replace a sky portion of an image with a more desirable sky portion from a different replacement image. The original image and the replacement image (e.g., the image including a desirable object or region) include layers of masks. A sky from the replacement image may replace the sky of the image to produce an aesthetically pleasing composite image.
US11776178B2
A graphical chart indicating values for different types of shares of a business enterprise are described. A server can provide data representing price per share and enterprise values for a graphical chart. A selected enterprise value for the business enterprise can be received and values of different types of shares at that selected enterprise value can be determined. Data indicating the values of the different shares can then be provided for display upon the graphical chart.
US11776165B2
A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: encoding first information of a first current node or second information of a second current node, the first current node being included in an N-ary tree structure of first three-dimensional points included in a first three-dimensional point cloud, N being 2 or 4, the second current node being included in an octree structure of second three-dimensional points included in a second three-dimensional point cloud. The encoding of the first information or the second information includes encoding the first information using a first encoding pattern including a pattern common to a second encoding pattern used in encoding the second information.
US11776161B2
A method for identifying a pore color of at least one skin pore. The method includes obtaining at least one image of a subject, extracting a pore image from the obtained image, in which the extracted pore image identifies a boundary of the at least one skin pore, and superimposing the obtained image and the extracted pore image to identify the pore color within the identified boundary of the at least one skin pore.
US11776157B2
Disclosed are a panoramic image based jump position determination method and apparatus. The method includes steps of obtaining first and second original panoramic images having the same horizontal width; performing, based on posture data of cameras respectively shooting the two original panoramic images, an adjustment process on at least one of the two original panoramic images, so as to acquire first and second panoramic images; after the adjustment process, conducting a feature extraction process regarding the two panoramic images, and choosing, based on a result of the feature extraction process, a plurality of pairs of image columns on the two panoramic images, so as to select at least one pair of first image columns from among the plurality of pairs of image columns; and determining, based on the at least one pair of first image columns, jump positions on the first and second panoramic images for jumping between the two.
US11776154B2
Medical imaging systems and methods for representing a 3D volume containing at least one foreign object introduced into a tissue. Imaging methods may include provision of a 3D volume containing voxels of at least one foreign object and voxels of tissue surrounding the at least one foreign object, identification of the voxels of the at least one foreign object by application of a processing rule, segmentation of the voxels of the at least one foreign object from the voxels of the tissue surrounding the at least one foreign object while maintaining the 3D volume, generation of a synthetic volume from a residual volume and the volume of the at least one foreign object, and representation of the synthetic volume on a display device using a windowing system.
US11776151B2
A method for displaying a virtual object is disclosed, applied to an electronic device (10) having a display component (323) and a camera (324). The method includes: detecting an operation of starting an application by a user; in response to the operation, downloading a global submap and storing the global submap in a simultaneous localization and mapping SLAM system of the electronic device (10), where the global submap (123) is a submap corresponding to a location of the electronic device (10) in a global map; and displaying a location and a posture of the virtual object on the display component (323), where the location and the posture of the virtual object are obtained by performing pose calculation based on at least a video image collected by the camera (324) and the global submap (123).
US11776148B1
Computing a height of a building is performed by inputting a pair of two-dimensional (2-D) aerial images of a city along with their metadata. Using the metadata, a three-dimensional (3-D) vector from each image toward the location of the camera when each image was taken is determined. A plurality of pairs of corresponding image points from the images are computed, in each pair of image points an image point of one image identifies the same physical point on the building as the second image point of the second image. Next, the images are superimposed, and for each pair of image points, determine the intersection of the 3-D vector of the first image originating at the first image point with the 3-D vector of the second image originating at the second image point. Each intersection is a 3-D position and the height is determined from the median of these 3-D positions.
US11776141B1
Devices, methods, and non-transitory program storage devices (NPSDs) for an improved, so-called “hybrid” image registration process are disclosed herein, comprising: obtaining a first set of captured images, wherein the first set of captured images comprises a reference image and one or more bracketed images; and for each of the one or more bracketed images: performing a first (e.g., global) registration operation and a second (e.g., dense, or other localized) registration operation on the bracketed image with respect to the reference image, wherein each of the first and second registration operations produces an output; generating a blend map for the bracketed image, wherein each value in the blend map indicates whether to use the first or second registration operation output for a corresponding one or more pixels when registering the bracketed image with the reference image; and registering the bracketed image with the reference image, according to the generated blend map.
US11776139B2
A tracking method includes obtaining first characteristic information of a target object through a first camera; obtaining second characteristic information of the target object through a second camera; tracking the target object based on the first characteristic information through the first camera; obtaining attitude information of a first gimbal to which the first camera is mounted; and adjusting an attitude of a second gimbal to which the second camera is mounted based on the attitude information of the first gimbal to maintain consistency between the attitude of the second camera and an attitude of the first camera.
US11776129B2
Examples are described of segmenting an image into image regions based on depicted categories of objects, and for refining the image regions semantically. For example, a system can determine that a first image region in an image depicts a first category of object. The system can generate a color distance map of the first image region that maps color distance values to each pixel in the first image region. A color distance value quantifies a difference between a color value of a pixel in the first image region and a color value of a sample pixel in a second image region in the image. The system can process the image based on a refined variant of the first image region that is refined based on the color distance map, for instance by removing pixels from the first image region whose color distances fall below a color distance threshold.
US11776120B2
A method for predicting the morphological changes of liver tumor after ablation based on deep learning includes: obtaining a medical image of liver tumor before ablation and a medical image of liver tumor after ablation; preprocessing the medical image of liver tumor before ablation and the medical image of liver tumor after ablation; obtaining a preoperative liver region map, postoperative liver region map, and postoperative liver tumor residual image map; obtaining a transformation matrix by a Coherent Point Drift (CPD) algorithm and obtaining a registration result map according to the transformation matrix; training the network by a random gradient descent method to obtain a liver tumor prediction model; using the liver tumor prediction model to predict the morphological changes of liver tumor after ablation. The method provides the basis for quantitatively evaluating whether the ablation area completely covers the tumor and facilitates the postoperative treatment plan for the patient.
US11776117B2
For machine learning for abnormality assessment in medical imaging and application of a machine-learned model, the machine learning uses regularization of the loss, such as regularization being used for training for abnormality classification in chest radiographs. The regularization may be a noise and/or correlation regularization directed to the noisy ground truth labels of the training data. The resulting machine-learned model may better classify abnormalities in medical images due to the use of the noise and/or correlation regularization in the training.
US11776108B2
Methods and systems for detecting defects on a specimen are provided. One system includes one or more computer systems and one or more components executed by the one or more computer systems. The component(s) include a deep learning model configured for, for a location on a specimen, generating a gray scale simulated design data image from a high resolution image generated at the location by a high resolution imaging system. The computer system(s) are configured for generating a simulated binary design data image for the location from the gray scale simulated design data image. The computer system(s) are also configured for detecting defects at the location on the specimen by subtracting design data for the location from the simulated binary design data image.
US11776107B2
Provided are an inspection method, a program, an inspection device, and a printing device capable of realizing a uniform inspection in a defect inspection of a printed article using a special substrate. A method includes an imaging data acquisition step (S14) of acquiring imaging data (48) of a printed article using a special substrate, a non-printing region positional information acquisition step (S16) of acquiring information (44) for specifying a position of a non-printing region in the imaging data, the non-printing region corresponding to a substrate region of the printed article on which a pattern and a background of the pattern are not printed, an inspection step (S20) of specifying the non-printing region, analyzing the imaging data by applying a predetermined inspection rule (46), and performing an inspection of the printed article, and a notification step (S22) of performing a notification of an inspection result (50) and not performing a notification of an inspection result indicating that a defect is present in the substrate region of the printed article corresponding to the non-printing region.
US11776094B1
A system or method may be used to perform image processing. An example method may include extracting a plurality of sub-images corresponding to a plurality of regions of an image. A rating classification may be generated, using a machine learning trained model, for each of the plurality of sub-images, for example including a no-rating classification for at least one sub-image of the plurality of sub-images. The method may include creating, using the rating classification for each of the plurality of sub-images, a color map overlay of a grayscale image corresponding to the image. The color map overlay may include colors corresponding to respective rating classifications for the plurality of regions or a region without a color corresponding to the at least one sub-image having the no-rating classification. The method may include outputting the color map overlaid on the grayscale image.
US11776091B1
In one implementation, a method includes obtaining an image. The method includes generating a plurality of denoised images by denoising the image using a respective plurality of denoisers, wherein the plurality of denoisers includes a first denoiser associated with a first level of exposure and a second denoiser associated with a second level of exposure. The method includes generating a combined image by combining the plurality of denoised images.
US11776089B2
Apparatus and methods for the non-uniform downsampling of captured panoramic images. In one embodiment, a computing device is disclosed that includes a processing apparatus and a non-transitory computer readable apparatus comprising a storage medium have one or more instructions stored thereon. The one or more instructions, when executed by the processing apparatus, being configured to: receive captured images, the captured images obtained using two or more image sensors; non-uniformly downsample the received captured images; and encode the non-uniformly downsampled images. In some variants, the non-uniformly downsampled images take into account a desired area of interest within the captured images. In some implementations, the computing device includes an image capture device. Methods and non-transitory computer readable apparatus are also disclosed.
US11776082B2
A health and safety compliance system includes processor(s), where the processor(s) are communicatively coupled to a user interface. The user interface includes a display screen, where the display screen is capable of displaying electronic image(s) and is communicatively coupled to the processor(s). The system also includes (i) a sensor unit that is communicatively coupled to the processor(s) and is capable of detecting motion of a user, (ii) a liquid dispensing unit that is communicatively coupled to the processor(s), and (iii) a temperature detection unit that is communicatively coupled to the processor(s).
US11776081B1
The present disclosure provides a method and a system for predicting air quality in a smart city based on an Internet of Things. The method includes obtaining environmental monitoring data in a target area through a sensor network platform, the environmental monitoring data including at least one of air quality data, weather data, and satellite image data, predicting an air pollution situation in the target area through a regional prediction model based on the environmental monitoring data, the regional prediction model being a machine learning model, and sending prompt information, which is determined based on the air pollution situation in the target area, to a user platform through a service platform.
US11776080B2
The present invention provides for one or more server computers configured to receive user input from a user interface (UI) comprising a first and second job description. The server queries a database to identify a first and second competency score associated with the first and second job descriptions respectively. The server then generates a personalized course profile comprising a plurality of objectives stored in the database and each associated with a third competency score between the first and second competency scores. The server then renders a second UI including an ordered list of the objectives and UI controls for accessing assets associated with the objectives. The server then transmits the second UI to a client computer for display.
US11776075B2
Systems and restaurant locations for use with a mobile ordering system, and methods thereof, to provide at least more time-efficient pick up of orders by customers than with traditional ordering and pick up windows.
US11776073B2
Systems and methods for determining how to dispatch power to a property from a generator are provided. According to certain aspects, a controller associated with the generator may retrieve or access a set of data indicating time of use rates associated with utility power, performance characteristics of the generator, and/or energy usage data. Based on the data, the controller may determine a set point corresponding to when it may be beneficial to dispatch generator power to the property instead of utility power. At the set point, the controller may facilitate supplementing power from utility power with power from the generator. Additionally, the controller may collect usage and performance data associated with dispatch of the generator power.
US11776069B2
Systems and methods using IOT input to validate a loan guarantee are disclosed. An example system may include an Internet of Things (IoT) data input circuit to interpret a loan guarantee parameter; an IoT data collection circuit to collect data using at least one algorithm that is configured to monitor IoT information collected from and about an entity involved in a loan in response to the loan guarantee parameter; and a guarantee validation circuit to validate a guarantee for the loan in response to the monitored IoT information.
US11776048B2
A computer-implemented method for providing a user interface to a user includes receiving wearable article data describing wearable articles for physical shipment to users via electronic interactions; generating a user interface for an electronic transactions platform based at least on the received wearable article data; causing display of the user interface depicting one or more of the wearable articles; receiving a selection of a wearable article of the displayed one or more wearable articles via the user interface; determining a condition of the selected wearable article at least based on the received wearable article data in response to the selection; reserving the selected wearable article for a predetermined period of time in response to the selection; updating and causing display of the user interface depicting the selected wearable article and the determined condition; and determining whether the selected wearable article is purchased or borrowed during the predetermined period of time.
US11776046B1
Techniques are described for cross-device presentation. During a speech interaction with a conversational user interface (CUI) executing on an input device, such as a personal assistant (PA) device or other computing device, a user may utter one or more search terms to search for an item, such as a vehicle to purchase. The search term(s) may be employed by a search engine to identify one or more items that correspond to the search term(s). The search engine can generate recommendation information that includes a description of the item(s) corresponding to the search term(s). The recommendation information can be communicated to an output device that is registered to, or otherwise associated with, the user who spoke the search term(s) to the input device. In some instances, the recommendation information can be presented through speech output on the PA device or other device.
US11776044B2
A computer-implemented method for scheduling processing of an order for goods at a provider location obtains an arrival estimate for when a user associated with the order is expected to arrive at the provider location and uses the arrival estimate to schedule processing of the order. Processing may be scheduled so that completion of order processing is expected to substantially coincide with arrival of the user at the provider location. The method may also obtain an order completion estimate for when processing of the order is expected to be completed and use both the arrival estimate and the order completion estimate to schedule processing of the order. The method may update one or both of the arrival estimate and the order completion estimate. The method may be executed by a networked mobile wireless telecommunication computing device of the user, or by a data processing system associated with the provider.
US11776043B2
A user registers for an account with an account management system, configures account settings to permit the account management system to receive user computing device data from a user computing device associated with the user, and logs into the account via the user computing device. The account management system receives a user voice purchase command and determines a purchase command context based on the received user computing device data. The account management system identifies a product that the user desires to purchase based on the purchase command context and directs the user computing device web browser to a merchant website to set up a transaction for the identified product.
US11776032B2
The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for quickly and efficiently resolving customer service issues associated with online shopping. When a customer requiring assistance contacts a customer service agent, the agent may use the customer's identification information to search for the customer's account. After locating the customer's active shopping cart or the customer account, the agent may open a session to view and edit the customer's shopping cart information, order information or account information. The agent may use the one or more administrative options available to the agent and unavailable to the customer to make changes to the customer account as needed. After making changes to the customer account, the agent may direct the customer to refresh their customer account in order to get updated with the changes made by the agent, thus resolving the customer's issues quickly and efficiently.
US11776020B2
A system for multi-factorial physiologically informed refreshment selection using artificial intelligence, the system comprising a computing device, the computing device designed and configured to retrieve a biological extraction pertaining a user, wherein the biological extraction contains an element of user data; select, a nutritional machine-learning model using the biological extraction; determine a geolocation of the user; identify a provider located within the geolocation of the user, wherein the provider generates a plurality of refreshment possibilities; determine the compatibility of the plurality of refreshment possibilities utilizing the biological extraction and the nutritional model; and display the compatibility of the plurality of refreshment possibilities.
US11776018B2
Methods for generating one or more advertisement creatives for multiple advertisement types. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a selection and data entered in an electronic form, the selection being for two or more different advertisement types, the entered data being of one or more data types, the data types including text, image, audio, or video, generating two or more advertisement creatives using the entered data, the two or more advertisement creatives being for the selected two or more different advertisement types, and presenting the two or more advertisement creatives.
US11776016B2
This application relates to apparatus and methods for automatically determining and providing personalized user personas of a customer for specific platforms (e.g., applications). In some examples, a computing device receives a persona request identifying a user and a platform. In response, the computing device obtains user data associated with the user and a plurality of potential user personas from a database. For each of the plurality of potential user personas, the computing device then determines a combination score for the user based on the user data. The combination score indicates user's affinity to a corresponding potential user persona within the platform. The computing device selects at least one potential user persona of the plurality of potential user personas as a final user persona for the user and the platform based on the corresponding combination score.
US11776000B1
An automated teller machine (“ATM”) includes a network interface, a display device, and an input/output device. The ATM further includes a processing circuit including a processor and a memory, the memory structured to store instructions that are executable by the processor. The instructions cause the processing circuit to receive authentication information from the customer and authenticate the customer using the authentication information, retrieve a real-time rewards balance of a rewards account associated with the customer, generate a banner for the customer based on the real-time rewards balance, and display the banner to the customer. The banner is selectable and activates a rewards functionality of the ATM to cause the ATM to display a screen including at least one of the real-time rewards balance or an option for the customer to redeem the rewards balance held by the customer when the banner is selected.
US11775998B2
An information processing device includes a controller configured to acquire a record of a predetermined action for maintaining a commercial value of a first vehicle by a first user who rents the first vehicle from a first service that is a vehicle rental service, and provide an incentive to the first user when the record of the predetermined action is at a level equal to or higher than a predetermined reference.
US11775997B2
In some embodiments, a system for electronically validating coupons comprises a primary positive coupon database containing positive coupon data. The positive coupon data relates to one or more coupons known to the valid. The system further includes a computing system comprising a control circuit configured to execute a processing module that, when executed, receives electronic coupon data from a coupon comprising a machine-readable code, parses the electronic coupon data, compares the parsed electronic coupon data to the positive coupon data in the primary positive coupon database, and determines whether the coupon is valid by determining whether there is a match between the parsed electronic coupon data and the positive coupon data, and determining whether the coupon has expired based on an expiration date of the coupon contained in the parsed electronic coupon data and an identified expiration date.
US11775995B2
Provided is a computer-implemented method, system, and product for providing real-time offers based on geolocation and merchant category. The method includes receiving data associated with a plurality of transactions conducted by a plurality of merchants, the plurality of merchants including a first merchant associated with at least one first merchant category, determining an area of interest based on an estimated travel time to the first merchant from the plurality of merchants, determining a subset of merchants of the plurality of merchants within the area of interest associated with the at least one first merchant category, determining real-time market activity data associated with the first merchant and each merchant of the subset of merchants, and identifying a trend of increasing and/or decreasing transactions for the first merchant and each merchant of the subset of merchants.
US11775989B1
Disclosed embodiments may provide a framework to implement an omnichannel relevance analysis system. In response to a request to obtain an omnichannel relevance for a product, the system identifies a set of relevancy attributes and domain priorities and obtains product data sets associated with a set of platforms through which the product is made available. Using these product data sets, the system generates an omnichannel relevance index to indicate a position of the product in relation to sets of other products made available within the set of platforms.
US11775978B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media utilized for event-based authentication. One method includes recognizing an event and receiving, from a device, a withdrawal request of a user, wherein the withdrawal request includes a captured feature by the device. The method further includes determining that the user is associated with the recognized event using at least a geographic proximity between the event and the withdrawal request, wherein the geographic proximity is a given radius around a location of the event, and wherein the device is within the given radius and adjusting authentication rules based on the determination that the user is associated with the recognized event, wherein the adjustment of the authentication rules includes adjusting a matching threshold between the captured feature and a reference feature. The method further includes processing the withdrawal request for the user based on the adjusted authentication rules.
US11775973B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for authenticating access to an account using questions which allow users to provide textual information about transactions conducted by an account. A machine learning model may be trained to predict the guessability of merchants. A request for access to an account may be received, and transaction data for that account may be received. An authentication question may be presented. For example, a user may be prompted to list places they have shopped recently. A user response comprising text data may be received. The text data may be processed to identify one or more merchants. If the one or more merchant(s) are represented in the transaction data, the machine learning model may be used to determine the guessability of the one or more merchants. An authentication score may be determined based on the guessability, and access to the account may be provided.
US11775969B2
A computer-implemented method for predicting interchange charges includes: retrieving a historical transactions set, where each completed transaction in the set includes transaction features, a bank identification number (BIN), and a corresponding true interchange code; transforming all BINs in the set into a corresponding plurality of BIN features that comprise probabilities; creating a first training set including all transaction features, all pluralities of BIN features, and all true interchange codes associated with the historical transactions set; training a random forest model using the first training set and generating a second training set including rounded BIN features, rounded transaction features, discrete ones of the transaction features, and the true interchange codes; training the random forest model using the second training set to generate a trained random forest model for prediction of the interchange codes; and executing the trained random forest model for new transactions to generate corresponding predicted interchange codes.
US11775964B2
A system and method are provided for managing loyalty program accounts. The method is executed by a device and includes providing, from the device, access to a loyalty wallet application. The method also includes storing loyalty account information for a plurality of loyalty accounts in the loyalty wallet application and integrating a loyalty tracking application, operable from the device, with at least one transaction channel accessed via the device. The method also includes receiving transaction data from the at least one transaction channel; detecting, from the transaction data, that a transaction yet to be executed is eligible for a loyalty reward associated with one or more of the plurality of loyalty accounts; and modifying the transaction to use corresponding loyalty account information to obtain the loyalty reward. The method also includes enabling the modified transaction to be completed to obtain the loyalty reward.
US11775959B2
Methods, apparatus and computer programs for authorizing transactions are described. A server system receives, from a first computing device, verification information relating to a verification process for verifying a user associated with the first computing device. A verification status associated with the user is set in a memory of the server system, based on the verification information. The server system receives an authorization request for a payment transaction from a payment terminal, the request including an identifier associated with the user, and having been provided to the payment terminal by a payment device different from the first computing device. Responsive to receipt of the authorization request, the verification status associated with the user is identified, and a determination as to whether to authorize the payment transaction is made at least partly on the basis of the identified verification status.
US11775958B2
An electronic device, such as a payment reader, may include a physically unclonable function (PUF) source to generate a plurality of PUF values. The electronic device may also include circuitry to compare the plurality of PUF values from the PUF source to determine a degree of randomness of the at least one PUF source in generating the plurality of PUF values. The circuitry can then determine, based on the determined degree of randomness, whether to use the PUF values from the PUF source to perform a secure operation for the electronic device.
US11775945B2
A processor receives a signal representing data including event information detailing an event involving an entity having a registered ownership interest in a product and loads a portion of a distributed electronic ledger for tracking ownership information associated with the product. The distributed electronic ledger includes, within a block thereof and associated with the product, an event trigger list including entity data associated with each entity having a registered ownership interest in the product and a rules engine including rules associated with event triggers in the event trigger list. The processor determines whether a triggering event corresponding to the event is stored in the event trigger list and, when the event has a corresponding triggering event, determines the associated rule within the rules engine. The processor updates and saves the distributed electronic ledger by performing an action specified by the determined associated rule.
US11775939B2
A system includes a memory and at least one processor to receive a registration request from a first client computing device and send a response to the registration request to the first client computing device, receive a registration request from a second client computing device and send a response to the registration request to the second client computing device, receive a calendar invitation to share calendars from the first client computing device and send information associated with the calendar invitation to the second client computing device, and receive an automated calendar comparison request comprising a list of users, a period of time, and a time frame, determine a list of open times based on the list of users, the period of time, and the time frame, and transmit the list of open times.
US11775937B2
A system and method for workforce scheduling using dynamic capacity ranges are provided. A capacity model associates distances of locations within a service area from a depot with a series of appointment time windows such that appointment time windows having a relatively greater amount of available worker capacity are associated with a greater range of distances than appointment time windows having a relatively smaller amount of available worker capacity. After a distance from the depot to a location of an appointment to be scheduled is determined, appointment time window suggestions are automatically produced based on which appointment time windows as defined in the capacity model are associated with the location of the appointment to be scheduled. As capacity changes due to bookings, the capacity model is dynamically updated. A system and method for workforce routing, based at least in part on using dynamic capacity ranges, are also provided.
US11775936B1
Techniques for forecasting long duration floating holidays in online traffic are described. According to some embodiments, a machine learning service receives a request to train a time series forecast model on time series data of a user, receives an input for the time series forecast model that comprises a first feature weight that represents a first pivot day and a second feature weight that represents a second pivot day, performs a linear interpolation on the first feature weight and the second feature weight for a day between the first pivot day and the second pivot day to generate a linearly interpolated first weight of the first feature weight for a feature vector and a linearly interpolated second weight of the second feature weight for the feature vector, determines a first coefficient for the time series forecast model based at least in part on the time series data of the user, the linearly interpolated first weight of the first feature weight from the feature vector, and the linearly interpolated second weight of the second feature weight from the feature vector, generates, by the time series forecast model comprising the first coefficient, a prediction for a future day, and transmits the prediction to the user.
US11775935B1
Various embodiments of an apparatus, method(s), system(s) and computer program product(s) described herein are directed to an Event Logging Engine. The Event Logging Engine logs event data identifying at least one of: (i) activity of one or more regulated user accounts within a virtual meeting during occurrence of the virtual meeting and (ii) activity of the one or more regulated user accounts with respect to a virtual meeting resource after occurrence of the virtual conference meeting. The Event Logging Engine inserts at least one regulated user account timestamp in the logged event data where each regulated user account is associated with a respective compliance policy. The Event Logging Engine receives a request from an external source for logged event data related to a particular regulated user account. The Event Logging Engine provides access to the logged event data related to one or more timestamps identifying the particular regulated user account.
US11775933B2
Improved systems and methods of facilitating placement of candidates between employers and recruiters are provided. In various implementations, such systems and methods provide an integrated interface within the ATS platform for employers and integrated interface within the talent platforms for recruiters. In another implementation, a talent platform exchange is provided that permits disparate talent platforms to communicate and thus more effectively manage the hiring process from within the platform. To this end, interfaces and other components may be provided which facilitate communication between talent platforms and a talent platform exchange. Such communication capability would enable a direct hire marketplace where employers engage recruiters to fill positions through their presently implemented ATSs.
US11775932B2
A clinical documentation improvement (CDI) smart scoring method may include predicting, via per-condition diagnosis machine learning (ML) models and based on clinical evidence received by a system, a probability that a medical condition is under-documented and, via per-condition documentation ML models and based on documentation received by the system, a probability that a medical condition is over-documented. The under- and over-documentation scores are combined in view of special indicators and queryability factors, which can also be evaluated using ML query prediction models, to generate an initial CDI score. This CDI score can be further adjusted, if necessary or desired, to account for factors such as length of stay, payer, patient location, CDI review timing, etc. The final CDI score can be used to prioritize patient cases for review by CDI specialists to quickly and efficiently identify meaningful CDI opportunities.
US11775931B2
A system and associated methods for apportioning inventory units between a plurality of warehouse nodes operated by third parties in order to meet desired service levels are provided. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving a placement request for a set of inventory units from a merchant, the placement request including desired service levels for shipment of product to customers. The method includes accessing a database storing a plurality of node data sets, each node data set being associated with a warehouse node. Based on the node data sets and the placement request, a set of warehouse nodes for storing the inventory units is selected and a number of inventory units is apportioned to each selected warehouse node. The method also includes providing placement instructions including the selected warehouse nodes and the number of inventory units to ship to each selected warehouse node.
US11775928B1
An improved asset location system deploys gateways to communicate with transmitters that are attached to an asset. The gateways create a web of interlocking area where the gateways communicate with the same transmitters. These measurements are combined to increase the accuracy of location data provided to track or locate assets within an operations area.
US11775925B2
Technologies are described for determining route proposals for shipment of cargo using unique location identifiers (ULIs). For example, a pickup ULI and a delivery ULI can be received. The pickup ULI and the delivery ULI are in the ULI data structure format defined herein. A first geographic area representing a pickup leg can be determined for shipment of the cargo from the pickup ULI to a first transportation network location and a second geographic area representing a delivery leg can be determined for shipment of the cargo from a second transportation network location to the delivery ULI. The main leg of the shipment occurs between the first transportation network location and the second transportation network location and travels through one or more defined transportation networks. Route proposals can be generated for shipment of the cargo through the pickup leg, main leg, and/or delivery leg.
US11775917B2
[Problem] Provided are an information processing device, a system, and a method that are capable of, based on weather, determining the type of an article that is transportable by a vehicle. [Solution] An information processing device (500) includes an acquirer (510) that acquires weather information indicating weather in an area in which a vehicle is scheduled to move and a determiner (540) that, based on the acquired weather information, determines a type of an article that is transportable by the vehicle in the area.
US11775915B2
Systems and techniques disclosed in this patent document provide novel and efficient ground transportation of goods by self-driving trucks based on a system of infrastructures with shipping hub facilities serving as warehouses and services centers in accordance with unique characteristics of operating autonomous self-driving trucks without entirely relying on human drivers, including features to cover technological issues, fleet management issues, and customer service issues. In addition, the disclosed systems and techniques may be implemented to integrate other fleet services and modes of transportation of goods with transportation services by self-driving trucks.
US11775905B1
Systems and methods for text-to-speech audio processing and audio transduction include compiling a digital data collection program to be distributed to computing device(s), the compiling including receiving data collection information that includes textual data of query(s) to be included in the digital data collection program and implementing text-to-speech data processing of the textual data that generates audio data of the query(s). The compiled digital data collection program that includes the generated audio data is distributed to the computing device(s) for execution thereby facilitating displaying, via a user interface of a user device, the query(s) and facilitating providing, via the electroacoustic transducer, an audio output of the audio data corresponding to the displayed query(s). Response data input by a user of the user device and received in response to the query(s) is collected and aggregated with additional response data collected from other user(s) of the computing device(s).
US11775899B2
An information processing system, a device, and a method capable of identifying a time required for a vehicle to transport a product to a specified location specified by a user or an arrival time at which a product, transported by a vehicle, arrives at the specified location with high precision. An acceptor accepts product information relating to a product purchasable by a user and performance information indicating vehicle performance of a vehicle associated with the user. An identifier performs identification of a time required for the vehicle to transport the product relating to the accepted product information to a location specified by the user or identification of an arrival time at which the product arrives at the specified location, based on the accepted performance information.
US11775893B2
A method for workforce scheduling by a computer system is provided. The method includes receiving a first workforce schedule describing initial assignments of a plurality of workers to a plurality of shifts, each shift comprising one or more work activities, each work activity comprising an activity and a time interval, and storing the first workforce schedule in a memory. The method also includes receiving a cell size associated with each activity, and determining a quantity of workers in each work activity associated with each activity in the first workforce schedule. The method further includes determining cell size violations by dividing the quantity of workers assigned to each work activity by the cell size for the activity associated with the work activity. The method also includes modifying the first workforce schedule to minimize cell size violations, resulting in a second workforce schedule, and storing the second workforce schedule in the memory.
US11775884B2
Systems and methods are provided for receiving a request for services in a given location from a client device operated by a user and generating a set of features based on information included in the request for services in the given location. The systems and methods further provide for analyzing the set of features using a machine learning model to predict whether only services that can be instantly booked should be provided in response to the request for services in the given location, analyzing a prediction output by the machine learning model to determine that only services that can be instantly booked should be provided in response to the request for services in the given location, and generating a list with only services that can be instantly booked.
US11775879B2
An apparatus includes an estimator. The estimator estimates, based on a reservation status, an air quality within a space at a start time of a reservation to be made for the space.
US11775877B2
A method and system are provided for training a machine learning (ML) system for predicting delays in processing pipelines. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving labelled historical data pertaining to a pipeline, the labelled data including trigger objects initiating the pipeline and one or more processing times corresponding to one or more stages of the pipeline. The method includes identifying features associated with the trigger objects, formatting the labelled data and, randomly splitting the formatted labelled data into a full training dataset and a testing dataset. Additionally, the method includes distributing the full training dataset into several partial datasets and, in an ensemble ML system, training each of several ML subsystems using a respective partial dataset to provide a respective individual inference model predicting respective processing times, and deriving and storing an ML model for prediction of delays by aggregating the individual inference models.
US11775868B1
Techniques for making machine learning inference calls for database query processing are described. In some embodiments, a method of making machine learning inference calls for database query processing may include generating a first batch of machine learning requests based at least on a query to be performed on data stored in a database service, wherein the query identifies a machine learning service, sending the first batch of machine learning requests to an input buffer of an asynchronous request handler, the asynchronous request handler to generate a second batch of machine learning requests based on the first batch of machine learning requests, and obtaining a plurality of machine learning responses from an output buffer of the asynchronous request handler, the machine learning responses generated by the machine learning service using a machine learning model in response to receiving the second batch of machine learning requests.
US11775859B2
The technology disclosed describes systems and methods for generating feature vectors from resource description framework (RDF) graphs. Machine learning tasks frequently operate on vectors of features. Available systems for parsing multiple documents often generate RDF graphs. Once a set of interesting features to be considered has been established, the disclosed technology describes systems and methods for generating feature vectors from the RDF graphs for the documents. In one example setting, a machine learning system can use generated feature vectors to determine how interesting a news article might be, or to learn information-of-interest about a specific subject reported in multiple articles. In another example setting, viable interview candidates for a particular job opening can be identified using feature vectors generated from a resume database, using the disclosed systems and methods for generating feature vectors from RDF graphs.
US11775858B2
A method for performing a field operation of a field. The method includes obtaining historical parameter values of a runtime parameter and historical core datasets, where the historical parameter values and the historical core datasets are used for a first simulation of the field, and where each historical parameter value results in a simulation convergence during the first simulation, generating a machine learning model based at least on the historical core datasets and the historical parameter values, obtaining, during a second simulation of the field, a current core dataset, generating, using the machine learning model and based on the current core dataset, a predicted parameter value of the runtime parameter for achieving the simulation convergence during the second simulation, and completing, using at least the predicted parameter value, the second simulation to generate a modeling result of the field.
US11775857B2
This disclosure relates generally to artificial intelligence system, and more particularly to method and system for tracing a learning source of an explainable artificial intelligence (AI) model. In one example, the method may include receiving a desired behavior of the explainable AI model with respect to input data, generating a learning graph based on similarities among a plurality of learning sources with respect to the input data for the desired behavior and for a current behavior, retracing a learning of the explainable AI model by iteratively comparing the learning graph for the desired behavior and for the current behavior at each of a plurality of layers of the explainable AI model starting from an outer layer, and detecting the learning source responsible for the current behavior based on the retracing.
US11775855B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for a service for managing quantum computing resources are disclosed. A task management service receives a description of a task specified by a client. From a pool of computing resources of a provider network, the service selects a quantum computing resource for implementation of the task. The quantum computing resource comprises a plurality of quantum bits. The service causes the quantum computing resource to run a quantum algorithm associated with the task. The service receives one or more results of the quantum algorithm from the quantum computing resource.
US11775848B2
A computing system aggregates information from a plurality of information channels associated with a computing device and a user of the computing device. A user configures the access for the computing system to specific information channels at a user interface. Based on a knowledge base and by machine learning techniques, the computing system analyzes the aggregated information to identify information relevant to an intelligent action for execution on behalf of the user. The computing system identifies the intelligent action in the context of the user's preferences and permissions granted to the computing system. The computing system initiates execution of the intelligent action based on a confidence level derived from analysis of information contained the knowledge base and historical decisioning information. The computing system receives feedback for an executed action and incorporates the feedback in the knowledge base for future decisioning based on aggregated information.
US11775843B2
Embodiments relate to configuring artificial-intelligence (AI) decision nodes throughout a communication decision tree. The decision nodes can support successive iteration of AI models to dynamically define iteration data that corresponds to a trajectory through the tree.
US11775822B2
A method for generating a classification model using a training data set. An iterative procedure for training an ANN model, in which an iteration includes selecting a small sample of training data from a source of training data, training the model using the sample, using the model in inference mode over a larger sample of the training data, and reviewing the results of the inferencing. The results can be evaluated to determine whether the model is satisfactory, and if it does not meet specified criteria, then cycles of sampling, training, inferencing and reviewing results (STIR cycles) are repeated in an iterative process until the criteria are met. A classification engine trained as described herein is provided.
US11775819B2
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for automated configuration determinations for data center devices using artificial intelligence are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes obtaining input information pertaining to one or more device-related changes to a data center; obtaining telemetry data attributed to one or more devices in the data center; determining one or more device configurations for implementation in at least one device in the data center in connection with the one or more device-related changes by processing the input information and the obtained telemetry data using one or more artificial intelligence techniques; and performing at least one automated action based at least in part on the one or more determined device configurations.
US11775812B2
Methods, devices, and computer-readable media for multi-task based lifelong learning. A method for lifelong learning includes identifying a new task for a machine learning model to perform. The machine learning model trained to perform an existing task. The method includes adaptively training a network architecture of the machine learning model to generate an adapted machine learning model based on incorporating inherent correlations between the new task and the existing task. The method further includes using the adapted machine learning model to perform both the existing task and the new task.
US11775803B2
A system for accelerating an RNN network including: a first cache, which is used for outputting Wx1 to WxN or Wh1 to WhN in parallel in N paths in a cyclic switching manner, and the degree of parallelism is k; a second cache, which is used for outputting xt or ht-1 in the cyclic switching manner; a vector multiplication circuit, which is used for, by using N groups of multiplication arrays, respectively calculating Wx1xt to WxNxt, or respectively calculating Wh1ht-1 to WhNht-1; an addition circuit, which is used for calculating Wx1xt+Wh1ht-1+b1 to WxNxt+WhNht-1+bN; an activation circuit, which is used for performing an activation operation according to an output of the addition circuit; a state updating circuit, which is used for acquiring ct-1, calculating ct and ht, updating ct-1, and sending ht to the second cache; a bias data cache; a vector cache; and a cell state cache.
US11775800B2
Training neural networks to recognize matching items requires large data sets and long training times. Conversely, training a neural network with triplets of similar objects instead of triplets of identical objects relaxes constraints on the size and content of the data set, making training easier. Moreover, the notion of “similarity” can be almost arbitrary, making it possible to train the neural network to associate objects that aren't visually similar. For instance, the neural network can be trained to associate a suit with a tie, which is not possible with training on identical objects. And because the neural network is trained to recognize similar items, it can also recognize unfamiliar items if they are similar enough to the training data. This is a technical improvement over other neural networks, which can only recognize identical items, and over collaborative filtering systems, which can only recognize items for which they have enough data.
US11775799B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for managing buffers in a neural network implementation with heterogeneous memory are disclosed. A system includes a neural network coupled to a first memory and a second memory. The first memory is a relatively low-capacity, high-bandwidth memory while the second memory is a relatively high-capacity, low-bandwidth memory. During a forward propagation pass of the neural network, a run-time manager monitors the usage of the buffers for the various layers of the neural network. During a backward propagation pass of the neural network, the run-time manager determines how to move the buffers between the first and second memories based on the monitored buffer usage during the forward propagation pass. As a result, the run-time manager is able to reduce memory access latency for the layers of the neural network during the backward propagation pass.
US11775796B1
A method includes receiving a file, storing the file, generating a tag, receiving a scan of the tag, receiving a selection to retrieve the file, executing a tag recognition routine; and executing a content routine to present the file. A non-transitory computer readable medium includes containing program instructions that when executed, cause a server to receive a file, store the file, generate a tag, receive a scan of the tag, receive a selection to retrieve the file, execute a tag recognition routine; and execute a content routine to present the file. A system includes a processor, a printer device, and a memory including instructions that when executed cause the system to receive a file, store the file, generate a tag, receive a scan of the tag, receive a selection to retrieve the files, execute a tag recognition routine; and execute a content routine to present the file.
US11775795B2
A radio frequency identification (RFID) switch tag is disclosed. This RFID switch tag includes a base component having an ultra-high frequency (UHF) booster, and a detachable component having at least one UHF RFID module and a high frequency (HF) RFID module. In some embodiments, the detachable component is positioned in close proximity to the base component in a first configuration of the RFID switch tag such that the at least one UHF RFID module is sufficiently coupled to the UHF booster in the base component to form an UHF RFID system having a desired performance. The detachable component can also be separated from the base component to obtain a second configuration of the RFID switch tag, and the HF RFID module remains functional within the detached detachable component so that the detachable component can be used as a standalone HF RFID tag.
US11775791B2
Systems and methods are provided for ink estimation. One embodiment is a system for dynamic ink use estimation. The system includes a cloud computing system. The cloud computing system includes a cloud event service able to receive a print job and potential configurations of a printer selected for printing the print job, and to initialize virtual printers for the printer that each correspond with one of the potential configurations. The cloud computing system also includes the virtual printers, which are able to operate in parallel to estimate amounts of ink used for each configuration during printing of the print job, and to store the estimated amounts of ink in a cloud storage.
US11775787B2
A method of verifying an identity of objects in a production line may include transporting a plurality of objects along a production line. The method may include detecting an individual object of the plurality of objects using a proximity sensor. The method may include triggering a plurality of imaging sensors to capture an image of a barcode on an outer surface of the individual object based on detection of the individual object by the proximity sensor. The method may include determining whether data from the barcode matches predetermined barcode data.
US11775782B2
A method of auxiliary data capture control includes: storing, at a data capture device, a trigger condition and a baseline value captured by a sensor; controlling the sensor to obtain captured data; determining, based on the captured data and the baseline value, whether the trigger condition is satisfied, wherein the trigger condition includes whether the captured data exceeds the baseline value and whether a variance in the captured data over a configurable time period is below a variance threshold; and when the trigger condition is satisfied, controlling an auxiliary data capture sensor to obtain auxiliary captured data.
US11775781B2
The subject technology analyzes image data to recognize an object corresponding to an identification indicator of a physical item. The subject technology extracts verification metadata from the identification indicator, the verification metadata including information for verifying whether the physical item is an authentic item. The subject technology receives manufacturer verification information based at least in part on the verification metadata. The subject technology receives provenance information associated with the physical item based at least in part on the manufacturer verification information and the verification metadata. The subject technology causes display of a media overlay including the physical item based at least in part on the provenance information, wherein the media overlay includes an indication of authenticity of the physical item.
US11775775B2
Embodiments described herein provide a pipelined natural language question answering system that improves a BERT-based system. Specifically, the natural language question answering system uses a pipeline of neural networks each trained to perform a particular task. The context selection network identifies premium context from context for the question. The question type network identifies the natural language question as a yes, no, or span question and a yes or no answer to the natural language question when the question is a yes or no question. The span extraction model determines an answer span to the natural language question when the question is a span question.
US11775771B2
Systems, devices, and methods of the present invention calculate a rhetorical relationship between one or more sentences. In an example, a computer-implemented method accesses a sentence comprising a plurality of fragments. At least one fragment includes a verb and a words. Each word includes a role of the words within the fragment. Each fragment is an elementary discourse unit. The method generates a discourse tree that represents rhetorical relationships between the sentence fragments. The discourse tree includes nodes including nonterminal and terminal nodes, each nonterminal node representing a rhetorical relationship between two of the sentence fragments, and each terminal node of the nodes of the discourse tree is associated with one of the sentence fragments. The method matches each fragment that has a verb to a verb signature, thereby creating communicative discourse tree.
US11775770B2
Systems described herein may use machine classifiers to perform a variety of natural language understanding tasks including, but not limited to multi-turn dialogue generation. Machine classifiers in accordance with aspects of the disclosure may model multi-turn dialogue as a one-to-many prediction task. The machine classifier may be trained using adversarial bootstrapping between a generator and a discriminator with multi-turn capabilities. The machine classifiers may be trained in both auto-regressive and traditional teacher-forcing modes, with the maximum likelihood loss of the auto-regressive outputs being weighted by the score from a metric-based discriminator model. The discriminators input may include a mixture of ground truth labels, the teacher-forcing outputs of the generator, and/or negative examples from the dataset. This mixture of input may allow for richer feedback on the autoregressive outputs of the generator. Additionally, dual sampling may improve response relevance and coherence by overcoming the problem of exposure bias.
US11775767B1
A computerized method is disclosed including operations of receiving a plurality of request texts, and for each request text of the plurality of request texts: performing a pre-processing operation, performing a first text similarity procedure or a second text similarity procedure that each result in a determination of a most similar request text in a knowledge base, wherein the second text similarity procedure includes performance of word embedding operations, determining a degree of similarity between the current request text and the most similar request text, when the degree of similarity satisfies a similarity threshold comparison, associating an answer associated with the most request text with the current text request, and when the degree of similar does not satisfy the similarity threshold comparison, flagging the current request text or associating a placeholder answer with the current request text. Performing pre-processing may include removing stop words and punctuation and creating tokenized text.
US11775766B2
Embodiments of a method and an apparatus for improving a model based on a pre-trained semantic model are provided. The method may include: based on the pre-trained semantic model, obtaining an initial improved model, where semantic result information of an input vector is determined in the initial improved model based on a hash search method; and based on a model distillation method, training the initial improved model to obtain an improved model. Some embodiments can obtain the semantic result information of the input vector by performing the hash search method on the input vector, replace the original complex iterative calculation process of a semantic model, and obtain the improved model with few model parameters and high compression ratio.
US11775765B2
A computer implemented method for analyzing media content includes a step of providing a plurality of narrative files formatted in human readable format. Each narrative file includes a script and/or dialogues tagged with character names along with auxiliary information. Each script includes a plurality of portrayals performed by an associated actor or character. Linguistic representations of content of the narrative files in both abstract and semantic forms is determined. The linguistic representations are connected to higher order representations and mental states. The linguistic representations are connected to behavior and action. Interplay between language constructs and demographics of content creators is analyzed. Content representations towards individuals/groups are adapted to reflect heterogeneity in preferences.
US11775760B2
A man-machine conversation method includes: extracting a keyword from input information of a user; determining a candidate article according to the keyword; obtaining a plurality of sentences in the candidate article, and determining a score of each of the plurality of sentences; extracting part of the plurality of sentences based on the score of each of the plurality of sentences; and generating return information that includes the extracted part of the plurality of sentences.
US11775756B2
A dataset captioning system is described that generates captions of text to describe insights identified from a dataset, automatically and without user intervention. To do so, given an input of a dataset the dataset captioning system determines which data insights are likely to support potential visualizations of the dataset, generates text based on these insights, orders the text, processes the ordered text for readability, and then outputs the text as a caption. These techniques also include adjustments made to the complexity of the text, globalization of the text, inclusion of links to outside sources of information, translation of the text, and so on as part of generating the caption.
US11775743B2
Embodiments provide a technical solution that facilitates the digital enrollment and scheduling of activities across families, including blended families. The embodiments register, through a computer system, familial relationships within a family and represent the familial relationships in structured data stored in memory. Based on the represented familial relationships, embodiments receive information for enrolling children of the family in activities, such as via online provider-specific and state licensing forms, and store the enrollment information associated to the represented familial relationships in the memory. Upon user command, the embodiments search the stored enrollment information based on the represented familial relationships to determine a schedule of enrolled activities across each of the children. In response to searching, the embodiments determine a new activity suitable for a given child and at an available time in the determined schedule and through the system notify a parent user of the system of the new activity.
US11775740B2
The present disclosure relates to a system, method, and computer program for testing the accuracy of software that identifies user interface (UI) elements on a webpage (“the auto-identifier software”). The system enables a user to tag UI elements on a webpage with labels. The system creates a normalized specification for the webpage, where the specification includes a mapping of UI elements to normalized labels. The system uses the auto-identifier software to identify UI elements on the webpage. The system evaluates the performance of the auto-identifier software with respect to the webpage using the specification. The system displays diagnostics related to the performance of the auto-identifier software. In certain embodiments, the method is used for testing the accuracy of autofill software on a webform. In certain embodiments, the method is used for testing the accuracy of cart-scraper software on a checkout page.
US11775733B2
The technology disclosed relates to systems and methods for device-dependent display of an article from a PDF file that has multiple articles and a table of contents to the articles. The system can use a library to render the article from the PDF file. The rendering can include bounding boxes positioned at on-page coordinates that can include one or more images and multiple text blocks of glyphs. The system can detect at least one table in the PDF file that includes pages numbers and multiple columns. The system includes logic to partition a contiguous sequence of text representing the table into text blocks of entries and columns. The system includes logic to merge multiple text blocks that align horizontally with a single page number into a single text block. Table of contents is displayed in a device-dependent format including the entries from the merged text blocks.
US11775732B2
A computer-readable medium including computer-executable instructions providing a method of displaying arrays of computer-readable files, the method comprising causing a first array of computer-readable files to be displayed, said first array of computer-readable files being displayed along a timeline according to a first timescale; causing a second array of computer-readable files to be displayed, said second array of computer-readable files being displayed along a timeline according to a second timescale. An interface, a computerized system and a method for providing same is also disclosed therein.
US11775730B2
Aspects of the invention include a computer-implemented method of hierarchical large block synthesis (HLBS). At least a partial ring is created around an HLBS structure. The partial ring includes at least one or more of filler elements, which are engineering change order (ECO) books for adding repeaters to wire dominated nets, and decoupling capacitors of relatively large sizes. Certain areas of the HLBS structure within the partial ring that exhibit a unique characteristic are identified. Decoupling capacitors of the relatively large sizes are disposed in the certain areas. A remainder of the areas of the HLBS structure are filled with engineering change order (ECO) books and decoupling capacitors of relatively small sizes.
US11775729B2
A method and system disclosed for validating technology file design rules, including obtaining a technology file with design rules that are to be validated. An input test case library is obtained with design rule cell-views for each corresponding design rules. The design rule cell-view includes a first set of failed test cases. An output data is generated by using Design Rule Driven (DRD) tool, to test the design rules based on the design rule cell-views. The test output data provides a second set of failed test cases associated with the corresponding design rule. A validation result is determined for each of the plurality of design rules based on the first set of failed test cases and the second set of failed test cases associated with the design rule. Finally, a validation report is generated including the validation result for each design rules.
US11775728B2
A method for sample scheme generation includes obtaining measurement data associated with a set of locations; analyzing the measurement data to determine statistically different groups of the locations; and configuring a sample scheme generation algorithm based on the statistically different groups. A method includes obtaining a constraint and/or a plurality of key performance indicators associated with a sample scheme across one or more substrates; and using the constraint and/or plurality of key performance indicators in a sample scheme generation algorithm including a multi-objective genetic algorithm. The locations may define one or more regions spanning a plurality of fields across one or more substrates and the analyzing the measurement data may include stacking across the spanned plurality of fields using different respective sub-sampling.
US11775722B2
Systems and methods for generating an integrated circuit (IC) chip design are described. One of the methods includes receiving, on a data sheet, by a server, electrical parameters of a system on chip (SoC) to be designed. The method further includes receiving physical parameters of the SoC on the data sheet, generating a first design of the SoC according to the electrical parameters and the physical parameters, and receiving test parameters for testing the first design. The method further includes testing, via a design verification tool, the first design by applying the test parameters to the first design, receiving a second design of a second SoC, and coupling the second design to the first design to generate a first IC chip design. The method includes arranging the first IC chip design to be included on a shuttle for fabricating a first IC chip.
US11775719B1
Various embodiments provide a charge model for a cell instance for delay calculation of a circuit design that includes the cell instance, where the charge model can be part of electronic design automation (EDA) and used in timing analysis of a circuit design that includes the cell instance. The charge model generated by an embodiment can predict a charge at an input of a cell instance for an arbitrary input voltage waveform and can address (e.g., reduce or negate) a time delay impact the Miller effect has on the cell instance.
US11775717B2
A chip design method, a chip design device, a chip, and an electronic device are provided. The chip design method includes: determining at least one power state of the chip, one power state of the at least one power state including switch states of respective power domains on the chip in a chip operation mode, and the at least one power state including a first power state; determining control signals sent by changed power domains in the respective power domains in a case where a power state of the chip is switched to the first power state, in a case where the power state of the chip is switched to the first power state, switch states of the changed power domains changing; and analyzing timing dependency between the control signals to determine timing dependency between power domains to which the control signals act in the first power state.
US11775713B2
To increase the efficiency of electronic design automation, a register transfer level debug application client entity requests, from a register transfer level source navigator server, combined register transfer level and hardware aspect metadata including debug instrumentation. The register transfer level debug application client entity receives, from the register transfer level source navigator server, the combined register transfer level and hardware aspect metadata including the debug instrumentation. The register transfer level debug application client entity transforms the combined register transfer level and hardware aspect metadata including the debug instrumentation. The register transfer level debug application client entity renders the transformed combined register transfer level and hardware aspect metadata including the debug instrumentation.
US11775709B2
In various embodiments, an automobile modeling application generates automobile designs. In operation, the automobile modeling application determines a first parameter value associated with a first instance of a first parameterized automobile component. The automobile modeling application then computes a second parameter value associated with a second instance of a second parameterized automobile component based on a structural relationship between the first instance and the second instance. Subsequently, the automobile modeling application generates a computer-aided design (CAD) geometry model for an automobile based on the first parameter value, the second parameter value, and one or more functional relationships defined between two or more instances included in a set of parameterized automobile component instances. Advantageously, because the automobile modeling application automatically propagates changes throughout the automobile design, the amount of time required to make significant changes to the automobile design can be substantially reduced.
US11775704B2
The present invention discloses an optimization design method for structural parameters of biomass boiler economizers and belongs to the field of big data learning models. In the present invention, a sample database is established by utilizing historical operating big data of biomass boiler economizers, a heat exchanger residual self-attention convolution model is established based on a CNN and a self-attention mechanism, a plurality of target parameters to be optimized are quickly predicted through machine learning, and multi-target optimization of structural parameters to be optimized in the economizers can be performed in combination with an iterative optimization algorithm. Compared with traditional optimization for all variables of a biomass boiler economizer, the self-attention mechanism can automatically focus on features with high importance, to better optimize variables with high importance, making the subsequent optimization and adjustment convenient and quick, and greatly reducing the optimization cost.
US11775696B2
Embodiments of systems are disclosed herein to detect tampering and/or provide evidence of tampering without human interaction or oversight. In the disclosed embodiments, tampering is detected and tamper evidence is provided by incorporating at least one tamper-evident assembly and at least one processing device within an enclosure. The tamper-evident assembly includes a tamper-evident fastener having an integrated circuit (IC) chip, which is embedded within the tamper-evident fastener and configured to transmit a data signal through the tamper-evident fastener to the at least one processing device when the tamper-evident fastener is coupled to a surface of the enclosure to secure a point of entry on the enclosure. In some embodiments, the at least one processing device is configured to detect tampering and/or provide evidence of tampering when the data signal transmitted from the IC chip is not received.
US11775687B2
A method for authorizing a field value of a form field by means of a third-party field is provided. The method includes selecting one or more grantees; selecting a form to be authorized, and displaying fields which need control authorization of the permission to view field values by means of third-party fields; selecting one or more third-party fields for each field respectively, where the third-party field includes one or more options; and authorizing a viewing permission of a field value of an authorized field of form data corresponding to each option of each third-party field respectively.
US11775677B2
A system and a method are disclosed for securing sensitive data for transaction requests using tokenization and encryption. A secure transfer system secures sensitive information of transaction requests. The secure transfer system may receive a transaction request file and generate a modified transaction request file by tokenizing values in the received file. For each transaction request in the file, the system may store a representation of the untokenized values in a datastore in conjunction with an identifier of the transaction request. This identifier may be generated from the tokenized values. The secure transfer system may use the identifier to query the datastore for the representation of the untokenized values. The system may decrypt encrypted values in the representation to generate a transaction request file of detokenized values, which may be provided to an automated clearing house to fulfill the transaction requests.
US11775668B2
A messaging system may include an account module that maintains user accounts associated with user identifying data that include a first password required to access the user account. The messaging system may receive message data including a message and identification of one or more of the user accounts the message is to be shared. Upon request, the messaging system may issue a second password to one of the user accounts. When the second password is used to access the user account, the user account may revert to an original state wherein all personalized information, including payment information, associated with the user account is deleted and unrecoverable.
US11775666B2
Provided are methods and systems for federated redaction of select content in documents stored across multiple repositories. With the presently disclosed technology, multi-layer redaction policies can be defined in either regular expression or with pattern matching. The redaction policies are associated with one or more document classes, and applied to the associated documents in substantially real-time. Further, document governance policies can be defined such that users of certain roles may view certain content in an unredacted form, despite the presence of a redaction policy for the document.
US11775662B2
A method and apparatus of a device searches encrypted objects stored in a secure virtual storage space is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device receives a search query that includes a set of tokens and encrypts the set of tokens. The device further creates a hashed set of encrypted tokens using a second hash function. In addition, the device sends the hashed set of encrypted tokens to a first search server as a query. Furthermore, the device receives, from the first search server, a first set of encrypted object names as a search result. The device additionally determines a set of client-side indexes to search by hashing at least some of the first set of encrypted object names using a first hash function. The device further decrypts the set of encrypted object names. The additionally searches the set of client-side indexes using the set of decrypted object names.
US11775660B2
An apparatus receives data access parameters from an external device of a transmission destination, where the data access parameters includes an access ticket, a transmission condition to transmit data, and information on the transmission destination of the data, and the access ticket includes a first program accessible to the data whose utilization by others is authorized by a user. The apparatus generates a notice object corresponding to the information on the transmission destination, and transmits the notice object to the transmission destination. The apparatus executes the first program of the access ticket to acquire the data when the transmission condition is satisfied, and transmits the acquired data to the transmission destination to set the acquired data in the notice object.
US11775655B2
An artificial intelligence (AI) platform to support optimization of container builds and virtual machine mounts in a distributed computing environment. A provisioning file is subject to natural language processing (NLP) and a corresponding vector representation of the file is created and subject to evaluation by a set of artificial neural networks (ANN). A first ANN assesses the representation of the file with respect to compliance and operability, and the second ANN selectively assesses the representation of the file with respect to provisioning efficiency. The provisioning file is selectively process based on the provisioning efficiency, with the processing directed at provisioning a container build or mounting a VM.
US11775654B2
Examples described herein provide a computer-implemented method that includes detecting an anomaly associated with an object of a computer system and determining an importance classification of the object. An object relationship of the object is determined with respect to one or more other objects of the computer system. An impact score of the anomaly is determined based on the importance classification and the object relationship. An anomaly report is output with the impact score.
US11775644B2
Systems and methods for providing security services during a power management mode are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method comprises detecting with a mobile security system a wake event on a mobile device, providing from the mobile security system a wake signal, the providing being in response to the wake event to wake a mobile device from a power management mode, and managing with the mobile security system security services of the mobile device. Managing security services may comprise scanning a hard drive of the mobile devices for viruses and/or other malware. Managing security services may also comprise updating security applications or scanning the mobile device for unauthorized data.
US11775640B1
Systems and methods are described for detecting and preventing execution of malware on an on-demand code execution system. An on-demand code execution system may execute user-submitted code on virtual machine instances, which may be provisioned with various computing resources (memory, storage, processors, network bandwidth, etc.). These resources may be utilized in varying amounts or at varying rates during execution of the user-submitted code. The user-submitted code may also be unavailable for inspection for security or other reasons. A malware detection system may thus identify user-submitted code that corresponds to malware by monitoring resource utilization during execution of the code and generating a resource utilization signature, which enables comparison between the signature of the user-submitted code and resource utilization signatures of codes previously identified as malware. The malware detection system may then take actions such as notifying the user who requested execution or preventing execution of the user-submitted code.
US11775627B2
The device outputs, to a display device, display information on a symbol which is to be moved and displayed; acquires a face image of a subject which has been captured by an image capturing device at a capturing timing while the display device displays the symbol; detects, from the face image, a line-of-sight position; determines that the subject of the face image is a living body when one or more prescribed conditions including a case in which the line-of-sight position matches a display position of the symbol at the image-capturing timing are all satisfied; and outputs an authentication result indicating success of the authentication when the subject is determined to be a living body and the biometric authentication is successful, and outputs an authentication result indicating failure of the authentication when the subject is determined not to be a living body or when the biometric authentication fails.
US11775623B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to processing authentication requests to secured information systems using machine-learned user-account behavior profiles. A computing platform may receive an authentication request corresponding to a request for a user of a client computing device to access one or more secured information resources associated with a user account. The computing platform may capture one or more behavioral parameters and activity data associated with one or more interactions with one or more non-authenticated pages. Then, the computing platform may evaluate the one or more behavioral parameters and the activity data using a behavioral profile associated with the user account. Based on this evaluation, the computing platform may identify the authentication request as malicious and may generate and send one or more denial-of-access commands to prevent the client computing device from accessing the one or more secured information resources associated with the user account.
US11775622B2
Systems, methods, and related technologies for account access monitoring are described. In certain aspects, a login request associated with a device can be analyzed and a score determined. The score and a threshold can be used to determine whether to initiate an action.
US11775620B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for blocking screenshots and screen recordings of content are disclosed. A first media content frame is received from a first computer device. It is determined that one or more user interface elements are present in the first media content frame. The user interface elements are extracted from the first media content frame. The user interface elements are converted to video. The video is encrypted to prevent screenshot capture of the one or more user interface elements present in the first media content frame by a second computer device lacking a decryption key when the video is played on a digital screen of the second computer device. A second media content frame is generated including the first media content frame overlaid by the video. The second media content frame is transmitted to the second computer device for the second media content frame to be played.
US11775613B2
Methods of quickly and easily implanting a quick-connect heart valve prosthesis during a surgical procedure are provided. The heart valve may include a substantially non-expandable, non-compressible prosthetic valve and a plastically-expandable frame, thereby enabling attachment to the annulus without sutures. A system and method for deployment includes an integrated handle shaft and balloon catheter. A safety member disposed between the balloon catheter and handle shaft prevents premature catheter advancement prior to heart valve placement at the annulus, and also may prevent premature balloon inflation prior to full catheter advancement.
US11775606B2
Computer-implemented systems and methods for controlling presentation in a web application among remote users over a data network. A web application has a remote control user-interface (UI) element that allows one to turn on or off remote control presentation. Presentation data is shared in the web application among remote users depending on whether the remote control UI element is turned on or off. A system includes an inter-browser controller coupled to the web application. The web application outputs a page having a remote control UI element. The inter-browser controller controls sharing of presentation data selected by a first user through the web application to other remote users depending on whether the remote control UI element is turned on or off.
US11775604B2
A computer-implemented method of locating points of interest for a user in a geographic area is disclosed. A current state of the user is used as an index into a list of a plurality of current state functions to select at least one of the plurality of current state functions. Each current state function corresponds with a utility measure set where each utility measure set includes a plurality of utility measures ordered in a selected sequence. The computer is used to perform: (i) lexicographic optimization with respect to the plurality of current state functions so that the selected sequence of each utility measure set is optimally ordered, and (ii) rate a plurality of points of interest with respect to at least one of the plurality of optimized current state functions, and, based on the rating, to automatically select a set of points of interest for the user.
US11775603B2
A source system receives an indication to suppress a listing associated with an entity, wherein the indication is based at least in part on a confidence score from the source system indicating that the listing is a duplicate of a representative listing. A list of a provider systems that provide search results including the listing associated with the entity is identified. A first provider system is searched for a first listing matching the listing associated with the entity. The source system receives from the first provider system, a provider-supplied external identifier associated with the first listing. A request to suppress is transmitted to the first listing from a search result generated in response to a search request submitted via the first provider system.
US11775600B2
An apparatus includes an interface and a processor. The interface sends and receives data over a network. The processor uses the interface to transmit a first series of profiles to a first user that includes recommended profiles for a second user. The processor uses the interface to receive a selection from the first user of a profile corresponding to a third user. The processor uses the interface to transmit a second series of profiles to the third user that includes recommended profiles for the third user. The processor uses the interface to receive a selection from the third user of a profile corresponding to the second user. In response to receiving the selection from the first user of the profile corresponding to the third user and the selection from the third user of the profile corresponding to the second user, the processor enables communication between the second and third users.
US11775599B2
Systems and methods of presenting search results, in response to a general search query, are provided in a manner intended to improve the efficiency of a user that uses general search queries A given user may be interested in results of a specific type, and may consistently interact with the system in a similar manner following conducting a given search. The system tracks requests from a user following a presentation of search results in response to a general search query. This is stored as tracking information. The tracking information is processed to identify patterns in user behaviour, and search results for further search queries are then presented in a manner that takes into account the tracking information. In a specific embodiment, this is applied in an e-commerce context. The tracking information may be stored in association with commerce object types such as products, orders, returns, customers.
US11775597B2
A device receives user interface interaction data that identifies an interaction that a user has with an interface that displays an image of a vehicle. The device generates, by using a data model to process at least a portion of the image, an array of vectors that includes one or more vectors relating to vehicle characteristics of the vehicle. The device assigns one or more weights to the one or more vectors based on the user interface action data. The device determines, based on a similarity analysis, similarity scores that indicate similarities between the array of vectors that include the one or more vectors that have been weighted and other arrays relating to the vehicles depicted in the images. The device selects a subset of the images based on the similarity scores and causes the subset of the images to be displayed.
US11775587B2
To provide search capabilities in a process control system, a contextual knowledge repository is generated that organizes process plant-related data according to semantic relations between the process plant-related data and the process plant entities. When a user submits a process plant search query related to process plant entities within a process plant, search results are obtained by identifying a data set from the contextual knowledge repository which is responsive to the process plant search query. The search results are then presented on a user interface device based on the identified data set. To allow for searches to be performed by user interface devices external to the process plant, a data diode is disposed between a field-facing component and an edge-facing component of the process plant so that data flows from the field-facing component to the edge-facing component without flowing from the edge-facing component to the field-facing component.
US11775578B2
Text-to-visual machine learning embedding techniques are described that overcome the challenges of conventional techniques in a variety of ways. These techniques include use of query-based training data which may expand availability and types of training data usable to train a model. Generation of negative digital image samples is also described that may increase accuracy in training the model using machine learning. A loss function is also described that also supports increased accuracy and computational efficiency by losses separately, e.g., between positive or negative sample embeddings a text embedding.
US11775573B2
There is provided a method and a server for retraining a machine learning algorithm (MLA), the MLA having been trained to classify documents based on features thereof. A resource having a plurality of content items submitted by users is accessed. At least one content item associated with a document having been presented as a search result by a search engine server in response to a search query is identified. The at least one content item is analyzed based on a set of features to determine if the document has been misclassified by the MLA in response to the search query. In response to determining that the document has been misclassified, a training object is generated based on the misclassified document. Other misclassified documents are identified in a similar manner to obtain a set of training objects. The MLA is then retrained based on the set of training objects.
US11775567B2
A method includes, for each of a plurality of channels at a well site, converting channel data from a source data format to a common data format in real-time as the channel data is generated. The common data format includes a plurality of elements organized into a plurality of sets. Each element includes a minimum collection of fields. The method further includes, for each of the plurality of channels, storing the converted channel data in a data store as part of the at least one element.
US11775561B2
Systems and methods provide custom synchronization procedures in file synchronization. A primary agent is used to monitor for changes, create synchronization plans to synchronized changes, and execute the synchronization plan. The primary agent, however, interacts with one or more separate custom agents to customize the synchronization plans. One exemplary technique involves monitoring for local changes to a first copy of a file tree and updates from another computing device regarding remote changes to a second copy of the file tree. When a change to either copy is identified, a synchronization plan for the change is created based on a default synchronization procedure. The synchronization plan is sent to a custom agent for customization. The custom agent creates the custom synchronization plan by modifying the synchronization plan and sends the custom synchronization plan to the primary agent. The custom synchronization plan is then executed by the primary agent.
US11775532B1
Techniques for fully or comprehensively resolving relationships within and among different data sets are disclosed. The techniques evaluate identification tags of respective transaction records to resolve transitive relationships between and among the identification tags, which vary across the different data sets. Based on this resolving, the techniques comprehensively sort the identification tags into mutually exclusive sets of related identification tags. Additionally, the techniques resolve and sort identification tags that are transitively unrelated to every other identification tag. At least these features enable comprehensive identification and intelligent sorting of related/unrelated transaction records, provide enhanced transaction tracking and security, more efficient and accurate transaction record storage (and in particular, of composite records), and enhanced tracking accuracy of accounts or types of units) as compared to known techniques. The techniques utilize recursive resolution to comprehensively and accurately resolve all data relationships among the different data sets.
US11775524B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to maintaining a cache usable to locate data stored in a data structure. A computer system, in various embodiments, maintains a data structure having a plurality of levels that store files for a database. The files may include one or more records that each have a key and corresponding data. The computer system may also maintain a cache for the database whose entries store, for a key, an indication of a location of a corresponding record in a file of the data structure. In some embodiments, the computer system receives a request to access a particular record stored in the data structure where the request specifies a key usable to locate the particular record. The computer system may retrieve, from the cache via the key, a particular indication of a location of the particular record and may use the particular indication to access the particular record.
US11775519B2
A system executes a set of database operations and determines counts of instances that each key is specified for a corresponding column by any database operations on a database table. The system identifies each key which is associated with any determined count that satisfies a threshold as a corresponding frequently accessed key. The system creates an optimized index for each column which stores any frequently accessed key. The system inserts each frequently accessed key into a corresponding optimized index. The system receives a database operation that specifies a specific key for a specific column in the database table. If any optimized index matches the specific column and stores any frequently accessed key that matches the specific key, then the system references a matching frequently accessed key in a matching optimized index to access a record, which is associated with the specific column and the specific key, via the database table.
US11775518B2
Technologies described reduce the amount of time between requesting content and receiving the requested content. In some embodiments, a client provides a search query. A search result page is generated and, prior to returning the search result page to the client, some or all of the search results are asynchronously pre-fetched and cached. The search query can include custom parameters that are also included in the pre-fetch requests. Web addresses in the search results page can be modified to indicate whether a prefetch operation was initiated. Once a user activates one of the search results, the responding web server uses the cached data while generating a response.
US11775507B2
A computer-implemented method, medium, and system are disclosed. In one computer-implemented method, an invocation request sent by an initiator is received by a blockchain node in a blockchain network. The invocation request is associated with invocation of a smart contract in the blockchain network. The smart contract includes contract code, data, and pre-update metadata. A pre-update data structure described by the pre-update metadata is parsed by the blockchain node and by execution of the contract code. The pre-update data structure is associated with the data comprised in the smart contract. Following parsing of the pre-update data structure, the pre-update data structure is represented by the blockchain node using a computer programming language. The pre-update data structure specified by the computer programming language is sent by the blockchain node to the initiator.
US11775502B2
Embodiments of the present technology provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for facilitating anomaly detection. In some embodiments, a prediction model is generated using a training data set. The prediction model is used to predict an expected value for a latest (current) timestamp, which is used to determine that the incoming observed data value is an anomaly. Based on the incoming observed data value determined to be the anomaly or not, a corrected data value is generated to be included in the training data set. Thereafter, the training data set having the corrected data value is used to update the prediction model for use in determining whether a subsequent observed data value is anomalous. Such a process may be performed in an iterative manner to maintain optimized training data and prediction model.
US11775492B2
The current document is directed to a query-as-a-service system (“QAAS system”) that collects enormous volumes of data from network-connected entities, referred to as “Things” in the phrase “Internet of Things,” persistently stores the collected data and provides a distributed-query-execution engine that allows remote clients to continuously execute queries against the collected data. In a described implementation, both the raw data and query results are persistently stored in the QAAS system, with the raw data stored for significantly longer periods of time. Query results generated by the query-processing engine are securely transmitted to QAAS remote clients for distribution to file systems, storage.
US11775482B2
File metadata structures of a file system are analyzed. At least one metadata element that is duplicated among the analyzed file metadata structures is identified. The at least one identified metadata element is deduplicated including by modifying at least one of the file metadata structures to reference a same instance of the identified metadata element that is referenced by another one of the file metadata structures.
US11775477B1
One or more embodiments of the present invention include a memory and a processor. The memory includes a plurality of files, a master cluster record, and an operating system. The processor is configured to execute the operating system in order to locate and load each cluster of a file. Each file includes a plurality of clusters and each cluster includes a first pointer and a second pointer. The first pointer is linked to a previous cluster of a file and second pointer is linked to a subsequent cluster of the file using a double linked list data structure.
US11775461B2
A sensing system including analyte sensing devices, an interface device, and shared communication device. The interface device may be configured to receive a power signal and generate power for powering the sensing devices and to convey data signals generated by the sensing devices. The sensing system may be configured to receive addressed and unaddressed commands. The sensing devices may be configured to perform activities (e.g., measurement sequences) in parallel in response to the unaddressed commands (e.g., unaddressed measurement commands). The sensing devices may be configured to only perform activities (e.g., conveying measurement data) in response to addressed commands (e.g., addressed read measurement data commands) if the sensing devices determine that the addressed commands are addressed to them. The sensing devices may be configured to perform different measurement sequences in response to an unaddressed measurement command to minimize interference caused by the sensing devices performing the measurement sequences in parallel.
US11775460B2
Methods, systems, and devices for communicating data with stacked memory dies are described. A first semiconductor die may communicate with an external computing device using a binary-symbol signal including two signal levels representing one bit of data. Semiconductor dies may be stacked on one another and include internal interconnects (e.g., through-silicon vias) to relay an internal signal generated based on the binary-symbol signal. The internal signal may be a multi-symbol signal modulated using a modulation scheme that includes three or more levels to represent more than one bit of data. The multi-level symbol signal may simplify the internal interconnects. A second semiconductor die may be configured to receive and re-transmit the multi-level symbol signal to semiconductor dies positioned above the second semiconductor die.
US11775459B2
Memory devices, memory systems, and methods of operating memory devices and systems are disclosed in which a single command can trigger a memory device to perform multiple operations, such as a single refresh command that triggers the memory device to both perform a refresh command and to perform a mode register read. One such memory device comprises a memory, a mode register, and circuitry configured, in response to receiving a command to perform a refresh operation at the memory, to perform the refresh operation at the memory, and to perform a read of the mode register. The memory can be a first memory portion, the memory device can comprise a second memory portion, and the circuitry can be further configured, in response to the command, to provide on-die termination at the second memory portion of the memory system during at least a portion of the read of the mode register.
US11775458B2
Techniques for implementing and/or operating an apparatus, which includes a host system, a memory system, and a shared memory bus. The memory system includes a first memory type that is subject to a first memory type-specific timing constraint and a second memory type that is subject to a second memory type-specific timing constraint. Additionally, the shared memory bus is shared by the first memory type and the second memory type. Furthermore, the apparatus utilizes a first time period to communicate with the first memory type via the shared memory bus at least in part by enforcing the first memory type-specific timing constraint during the first time period and utilizes a second time period to communicate with the second memory type via the shared memory bus at least in part by enforcing the second memory type-specific timing constraint during the second time period.
US11775442B2
Systems and methods related to a memory system with a predictable read latency from media with a long write latency are described. An example memory system includes an array of tiles configured to store data corresponding to a cache line associated with a host. The memory system further includes control logic configured to, in response to a write command from a host, initiate writing of a first cache line to a first tile in a first row of the tiles, a second cache line to a second tile in a second row of the tiles, a third cache line to a third tile in a third row of the tiles, and a fourth cache line in a fourth row of the tiles. The control logic is configured to, in response to a read command from the host, initiate reading of data stored in an entire row of tiles.
US11775439B2
A computer system monitors usage of an application on a computing device to identify one or more pre-fetch situations corresponding to a user of the computing device. The computer system determines whether the computing device is in a situation that corresponds to at least one of the identified one or more pre-fetch situations. In response to determining that the computing device is in the situation that corresponds to the at least one of the identified one or more pre-fetch situations, the computer system causes data corresponding to the application to be pre-fetched.
US11775425B2
A storage system and method for enabling a software-defined dynamic storage response are provided. In one embodiment, a controller of a storage system is configured to receive an expected response time from a host; in response to receiving the expected response time from the host, cache a logical-to-physical address table entry of a wordline; and store the cached logical-to-physical address table entry of the wordline as metadata in a next wordline along with host data. Other embodiments are provided.
US11775424B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a non-volatile memory and a data map configured to manage validity of data written in the non-volatile memory. The data map includes a plurality of first fragment tables corresponding to a first hierarchy and a second fragment table corresponding to a second hierarchy higher than the first hierarchy. Each of the first fragment tables is used to manage the validity of each data having a predetermined size written in a range of physical address in the non-volatile memory allocated to the first fragment table. The second fragment table is used for each of the first fragment tables to manage reference destination information for referencing the first fragment table.
US11775418B2
Mechanisms and techniques for providing an isolated runtime environment are disclosed. Scoped properties are generated utilizing a namespace identifier. The namespace identifier is an identifier used to define a scope of at least an isolated application runtime context. Scoped objects are generated corresponding to one or more dependent services utilizing the one or more scoped properties and the namespace identifier. A target application is deployed to a container corresponding to the isolated application runtime context. The target application interacts with at least some of the dependent services utilizing the namespace identifier. At least one integration test is run on the target application in the container. The integration tests refer to the isolated application runtime context utilizing the namespace identifier.
US11775415B2
A processor comprising at least one processing module, each processing module comprising: an execution pipeline; memory; an instruction fetch unit comprising operable to switch between an operational mode and a debugging mode, the instruction fetch unit being configured so as, when in the operational mode, to fetch machine code instructions from the memory into the execution pipeline to be executed; and a debug interface for connecting to a debug adapter. The debug interface comprises a debug instruction register enabling the debug adapter to write a machine code instruction to the debug instruction register, and wherein the instruction fetch unit is configured so as, when in the debug mode, to fetch instructions from the debug instruction register into the pipeline instead of from the memory.
US11775409B1
Disclosed herein are systems and method for detecting problematic performance on a software instance. In one aspect, the method includes: receiving, from a first software instance, a log file that lists actions performed on a computing device over a period of time; parsing the log file to identify, from the actions, a first sequence of actions performed on a given object; analyzing similarity between the first sequence of actions performed on the given object and at least one other sequence of actions performed on at least one other object of a same type, wherein the at least one other sequence of actions is indicative of problematic performance; in response to determining, based on the analysis of similarity, that the first sequence of actions is similar to the at least one other sequence of actions, generating an alert indicating the problematic performance on the first software instance.
US11775406B2
A method includes determining, by an analysis system, a system aspect of a system for an issue recovery plan evaluation. The method further includes determining, by the analysis system, at least one evaluation perspective and at least one evaluation viewpoint for use in performing the issue recovery plan evaluation on the system aspect. The method further includes obtaining, by the analysis system, issue recovery plan data regarding the system aspect in accordance with the at least one evaluation perspective and the at least one evaluation viewpoint. The method further includes calculating, by the analysis system, an issue recovery plan rating as a measure of system issue recovery plan maturity for the system aspect based on the issue recovery plan data, the at least one evaluation perspective, the at least one evaluation viewpoint, and at least one evaluation rating metric.
US11775404B2
A method includes determining, by an analysis system, a system aspect of a system for an issue response planning evaluation. The method further includes determining, by the analysis system, at least one evaluation perspective and at least one evaluation viewpoint for use in performing the issue response planning evaluation on the system aspect. The method further includes obtaining, by the analysis system, issue response planning data regarding the system aspect in accordance with the at least one evaluation perspective and the at least one evaluation viewpoint. The method further includes calculating, by the analysis system, an issue response planning rating as a measure of system issue response planning maturity for the system aspect based on the issue response planning data, the at least one evaluation perspective, the at least one evaluation viewpoint, and at least one evaluation rating metric.
US11775400B2
A redundant processing fabric in an autonomous vehicle may include: processing, by a first processing unit of a plurality of processing units, sensor data from a first sensor of a plurality of sensors, where the plurality of processing units are coupled to the plurality of sensors via a switched fabric, wherein the plurality of processing units and plurality of sensors are included in the autonomous vehicle, wherein the sensor data corresponds to an environment external to the autonomous vehicle; determining a failure in processing the sensor data by the first processing unit; and severing, in the switched fabric, a first communications path between the first sensor and the first processing unit; and establishing, in the switched fabric, a second communications path between the first sensor and a redundant processing unit.
US11775397B2
Examples of systems described herein include a virtualized file servers. Examples of virtualized file servers described herein may support disaster recovery of the virtualized file server. Accordingly, examples of virtualized file servers may support metadata fixing procedures to update metadata in a recovery setting. Examples of virtualized file servers may support hypervisor-agnostic disaster recovery.
US11775395B2
A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes receiving a request to withdraw a point-in-time snapshot copy operation being implemented by a data consistency application; in response to determining that the data consistency application is creating a current consistency group, maintaining the withdrawal request while allowing the creation of the current consistency group by the data consistency application; and in response to determining that the data consistency application is idle, preventing a formation of a new consistency group by the data consistency application during the withdrawal of the point-in-time snapshot copy operation.
US11775363B1
A method for auditing a graph-based API includes obtaining a structure describing object types of the API and fields of the object types. A schema graph of the structure is generated including nodes representing object types. The nodes are connected by directed edges representing field resolution between object types. A line graph is generated and includes a node in place of each edge of the schema graph and edges in place of nodes of the schema graph. Frontiers of the line graph are determined, a frontier being subgraph of the line graph such that (1) the subgraph is rooted at a line graph node that represents a field of the API that accepts at least one field argument and (2) the subgraph is a maximal subgraph of the line graph that is disjoint from other line graph nodes that represent fields that accept at least one field argument.
US11775352B1
Methods and apparatuses are described for automated prediction of computing resource performance scaling using reinforcement learning. A server executes performance tests against a production computing environment comprising a plurality of computing layers to capture performance data for computing resources in the production environment, where the performance tests are configured according to transactions-per-second (TPS) values. The server trains a classification model using the performance data, the trained model configured to predict computing power required by the plurality of computing layers. The server identifies a target TPS value and a target cost tolerance for the production environment and executes the trained classification model using the target TPS value and the target cost tolerance as input to generate a prediction of computing power required by the plurality of computing layers.
US11775351B2
A method for processing data on a programmable logic controller includes a priority with a predetermined priority level assigned to at least one parallel processing section of a program of a master-processor core of a control task. Respective priority levels are inserted into a data structure as the respective master-processor core arrives at the parallel processing section. A parallel-processor core examines whether entries are present in the data structure and processes partial tasks from a work package of the master-processor core the priority level of which ranks first among the entries. A real-time condition of the control task is met by setting executing times of the programs for the master-processor core so that the master-processor core is capable of processing the partial tasks from the work packages without being supported by the parallel-processor core. The master-processor core further processes partial tasks not processed by the at least one parallel-processor core.
US11775330B2
Load balancing VM selection and movement is disclosed, including: selecting a combined predicted metric to be improved with respect to a plurality of storage devices; and determining a set of VMs to be moved from a first storage device included in the plurality of storage devices to a second storage device included in the plurality of storage devices such that the selected combined metric to improve is predicted to improve.
US11775329B1
Disclosed herein are systems and method for live migration of a guest OS, the method comprising: interrupting execution of the guest OS in the hypervisor on a source computing device, transferring a state of the guest OS from the hypervisor on the source computing device to a hypervisor on a target computing device, and resuming execution of the guest OS in the hypervisor on the target computing device without waiting for completion of pending I/O requests on the source, wherein the pending I/O requests are generated by the guest OS in the hypervisor on the source and have not been completed before the interruption of execution of the guest OS, and wherein after resuming execution of the guest OS, the guest OS in the hypervisor on the target computing device is allowed to generate new I/O requests without waiting for completion of pending I/O requests on the source computing device.
US11775328B2
A packet is received by a first virtual machine supported by a host system from a second virtual machine via a shared memory device that is accessible to a plurality of virtual machines supported by the host system. The first virtual machine determines that the second virtual machine is supported by the host system in view of receiving the packet via the shared memory device. Identification information associated with the second virtual machine is stored in a virtual bond data structure, wherein the identification information associated with the second virtual machine being present in the virtual bond data structure causes the first virtual machine to transmit a subsequent packet to the second virtual machine via the shared memory device.
US11775327B2
Apparatus and methods are described herein for multiple single level security (MSLS) domains including, but not limited to, a secure kernel hypervisor (SKH). The SKH configures a single multi-tenant cloud to host the MSLS domains. A cloud orchestration system (COS) configures the single multi-tenant cloud to set up a plurality of separate virtual work packages (VWPs) for the MSLS domains. A key management system (KMS) is configured to manage security objects associated with the MSLS domains.
US11775320B2
State machine engines are disclosed, including those having an inter-rank bus control system, which may include a register. The state machine engine may include a plurality of configurable elements, such that each of the plurality of configurable elements comprises a plurality of memory cells. These cells may analyze data and output a result of the analysis. The IR bus control system may halt a write operation of data to be analyzed by the cells based, at least in part, on one or more conditions.
US11775316B2
A method is implemented by a system on chip and includes: receiving a volume attaching request sent by the public cloud management component, where the volume attaching request includes an identifier of a system volume; and storing the identifier of the system volume based on the volume attaching request, where when the bare-metal server is started, the bare-metal server uses the identifier of the system volume to determine the system volume, and starts an operating system of the bare-metal server based on the system volume, and the system volume stores a file used for starting the operating system of the bare-metal server.
US11775312B2
A processing element includes a PIM cluster configured to read data from and write data to an adjacent DRAM subarray, wherein the PIM cluster has a plurality of processing cores, each processing core of the plurality of processing cores containing a look-up table, and a router connected to each processing core, wherein the router is configured to communicate data among each processing core; and a controller unit configured to communicate with the router, wherein the controller unit contains an executable program of operational decomposition algorithms. The look-up tables can be programmable. A DRAM chip including a plurality of DRAM banks, each DRAM bank having a plurality of interleaved DRAM subarrays and a plurality of the PIM clusters configured to read data from and write data to an adjacent DRAM subarray is disclosed.
US11775307B2
A cellular modem processor can include dedicated processing engines that implement specific, complex data processing operations. The processing engines can be arranged in pipelines, with different processing engines executing different steps in a sequence of operations. Flow control or data synchronization between pipeline stages can be provided using a hybrid of firmware-based flow control and hardware-based data dependency management. Firmware instructions can define data flow by reference to a virtual address space associated with pipeline buffers. A hardware interlock controller within the pipeline can track and enforce the data dependencies for the pipeline.
US11775304B2
Embodiments are disclosed for inserting profiling instructions into graphics processing unit (GPU) kernels. An example apparatus includes instructions, and at least one processor to execute the instructions to determine whether a GPU supports modification of entry point addresses, detect a first entry point address and a second entry point address of an original GPU kernel, create a corresponding instrumented GPU kernel from the original GPU kernel based on the determination by inserting at least one of first profiling initialization instructions or first jump instructions at the first entry point address of the instrumented GPU kernel, inserting at least one of second profiling initialization instructions or second jump instructions at the second entry point address of the instrumented GPU kernel, and inserting profiling measurement instructions into the instrumented GPU kernel.
US11775302B2
A digital data processor includes an instruction memory storing instructions each specifying a data processing operation and at least one data operand field, an instruction decoder coupled to the instruction memory for sequentially recalling instructions from the instruction memory and determining the data processing operation and the at least one data operand, and at least one operational unit coupled to a data register file and to an instruction decoder to perform a data processing operation upon at least one operand corresponding to an instruction decoded by the instruction decoder and storing results of the data processing operation. The operational unit is configured to increment histogram values in response to a histogram instruction by incrementing a bin entry at a specified location in a specified number of at least one histogram.
US11775301B2
A coprocessor with register renaming is disclosed. An apparatus includes a plurality of processors and a coprocessor respectively configured to execute processor instructions and coprocessor instructions. The coprocessor receives coprocessor instructions from ones of the processors. The coprocessor includes an array of processing elements and a result register set comprising storage elements respectively distributed within the array of processing elements. For a given member of the array of processing elements, a corresponding storage element is configured to store coprocessor instruction results generated by the given member. The result register set implements a plurality of contexts to store respective coprocessor states corresponding to coprocessor instructions received from different processors. Based on a determination that one of the contexts is inactive, the coprocessor is configured to store coprocessor instruction results corresponding to an active context within storage elements of the result register set corresponding to the inactive context.
US11775297B2
In a system providing transactional memory support, a transaction nesting depth testing instruction is provided for triggering processing circuitry 4 to set at least one status value to one of a plurality of states depending on a transaction nesting depth indicative of a number of executed transaction start instructions of a given thread for which the corresponding transaction remains unaborted and uncommitted, the plurality of states including a first state selected when the transaction nesting depth is 1 and at least one further state selected when the transaction nesting depth is greater than or less than 1. The supported ISA enables the setting of the at least one status value and a conditional branch conditional on the at least one status value being in the first state to be performed in response to a single transaction nesting depth testing instruction and a single conditional branch instruction.
US11775292B1
A partially completed user experience design can be completed by selecting a previous codified user experience design, and determining portions of a Finite State Machine of the previous codified user experience design that should be added to a FSM of the partially completed user experience design. This enables use of a previous codified user experience designs to complete the FSM of a partially completed user experience design. Previously codified user experience designs can also be used as the basis for creation of new user experience designs. A previously codified user experience design is selected, and newly created portions of the FSM that are to be added to the FSM of the previously codified user experience design are added to the FSM of the previously codified user experience design. In both instances, components and patterns of the user experience design are automatically substituted to ensure uniformity within the created design.
US11775289B2
Source code routines are generated for storage management in a storage code development management tool. A script that includes the source code routines is generated. The storage code development management tool receives indications based on an execution of an object code generated via execution of the script. The storage code development management tool modifies the source code routines based on the received indications.
US11775271B1
Techniques are described herein for translating source code in one programming language to source code in another programming language using machine learning. A method includes: receiving first source code in a first higher-level programming language; processing the first source code, or an intermediate representation thereof, using a sequence-to-sequence neural network model to generate a sequence of outputs, each including a probability distribution; generating second source code in a second higher-level programming language by, for each output in the sequence of outputs: determining a highest probability in the probability distribution associated with the output; in response to the highest probability exceeding a first threshold, generating a predicted portion of the second source code based on a token that corresponds to the highest probability; and in response to the highest probability not exceeding the first threshold, generating a placeholder; and outputting the second source code.
US11775270B1
Method and apparatus for parsing structured parameters of geocomputation language, device and medium
The embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the technical field of GeoComputation, and particularly relates to a method and an apparatus for parsing structured parameters of a GeoComputation language, a device and a storage medium, which aim to parse structured expressions in a DAS document. The method includes: reading GeoComputation task parameters in a DAS document; parsing a structured expression in the GeoComputation task parameters to obtain a task parameter containing a basic expression; and executing a corresponding GeoComputation task according to the task parameter containing the basic expression to obtain a calculation result.
US11775262B2
The present disclosure relates to a system for providing a multi-technology visual integrated data management and analytics development and deployment environment. In an embodiment, the system is configured to generate executable code suitable to carry out a data analytics request using a first software platform, migrate executable code for the first software platform to a second software platform, and cause executable code to be processed on the first or second software platform to perform the data analytics request.
US11775256B2
An N×N multiplier may include a N/2×N first multiplier, a N/2×N/2 second multiplier, and a N/2×N/2 third multiplier. The N×N multiplier receives two operands to multiply. The first, second and/or third multipliers are selectively disabled if an operand equals zero or has a small value. If the operands are both less than 2N/2, the second or the third multiplier are used to multiply the operands. If one operand is less than 2N/2 and the other operand is equal to or greater than 2N/2, the first multiplier is used or the second and third multipliers are used to multiply the operands. If both operands are equal to or greater than 2N/2, the first, second and third multipliers are used to multiply the operands.
US11775252B2
This is directed to controlling the output of audio based on the mode of an electronic device. In particular, this is directed to an electronic device having a sound mode, silent mode, and mute mode controlling the output of audio along different audio output routes. In the sound mode, all audio can be output, while only registered or authorized audio can be output in the silent mode. In the mute mode, no audio can be output. The sound and silent modes can be enabled using an interface of the device (e.g., a switch having two possible states), while the mute mode can be enabled using an accessory coupled to the device. To disengage the mute mode, a user can provide a corresponding instruction using the accessory, or providing an instruction on the device related to volume control. For example, a user can change the device volume using an on-device interface, or toggle a sound/silent switch to a sound mode.
US11775250B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for dynamic volume adjustment via audio classification. Example apparatus include at least one memory; instructions; and at least one processor to execute the instructions to: analyze, with a neural network, a parameter of an audio signal associated with a first volume level to determine a classification group associated with the audio signal; determine an input volume of the audio signal; determine a classification gain value based on the classification group; determine an intermediate gain value as an intermediate between the input volume and the classification gain value by applying a first weight to the input volume and a second weight to the classification gain value; apply the intermediate gain value to the audio signal, the intermediate gain value to modify the first volume level to a second volume level; and apply a compression value to the audio signal, the compression value to modify the second volume level to a third volume level that satisfies a target volume threshold.
US11775244B2
The present invention provides a data processing method and an electronic terminal. The electronic terminal obtains target data that includes at least one data item, converts the target data into a data image by using a data visualization technology, and then sets the data image as wallpaper, where the data image includes at least one graphic element, and the graphic element is in a one-to-one correspondence with the data item. The target data is user data, and may include operation event information of operating the electronic terminal by a user, or information that is associated with a user account and that is based on at least one network platform, so as to automatically generate the wallpaper, show the user data to the user by using the wallpaper, and improve user experience.
US11775232B2
A printer has a print engine to print images represented by a series of print data on the plurality of printing areas one by one. When an image printed on the printing area is determined to be a low quality image, the controller stops printing and reprint an image corresponding to the low quality image and images corresponding to discard-target images which are being printed or having been printed on the printing areas located upstream in the feeding direction with respect to the printing area on which the NG image has been printed on a new printing area located upstream in the feeding direction with respect to a printing position of the print engine in an order of the print data. The particular image printer is configured to overprint the particular image on the printing area on which the NG image or the discard-target image is printed.
US11775231B2
An image forming apparatus includes an enquirer that temporarily suspends production of a printed material, after at least one set of the printed materials has been produced, upon deciding that a print request has been sent from a predetermined remote location distant from an installation site of the image forming apparatus, and enquires whether the production of the printed material may be resumed, to a user through a network I/F, a response receiver that receives a response from the user, to the enquiry made by the enquirer, and a controller that resumes the production of the printed material, upon deciding that the response receiver has received a permission to resume the production of the printed material, from the user.
US11775225B1
A storage product manufactured as a computer component to facilitate network storage services. The storage product has a bus connector, a network interface, and a local storage device. A message selection configuration can be written into the storage product to control separation of incoming messages received in the network interface into first messages and third messages. The first messages are sent through the bus connector for processing by a local host system to generate second messages. The second messages and the third messages are sent to the local storage device. The local storage device processes the second messages and the third messages to implement the network storage services.
US11775211B2
The present technology relates to an electronic device. A memory controller according to the present technology may include a host interface controller, a plurality of buffers, and a memory operation controller. The host interface controller may sequentially generate a plurality of commands based on a request received from a host. The plurality of buffers may store the plurality of commands according to command attributes. The memory operation controller may compare a sequence number of a target command stored in a target buffer among the plurality of buffers with a sequence number of a standby command stored in remaining buffers, and may determine a process of the target command and a process of the standby command based on a comparison. wherein a buffer satisfying a flush condition among the plurality of buffers is selected as the target buffer.
US11775202B2
An apparatus comprises at least a first storage node of a plurality of storage nodes of a distributed storage system. The first storage node comprises a processor coupled to a memory. The first storage node is configured to receive from a host device a read operation directed to a particular portion of a logical address space of the storage system, where the logical address space is divided among the storage nodes. The first storage node is further configured to determine that the read operation is potentially part of a stream of multiple read operations directed to respective particular portions of the logical address space, and to send, to at least a second one of the storage nodes, an indication of the determination made by the first storage node. The stream of multiple read operations may comprise a sequential read stream directed to respective contiguous portions of the logical address space.
US11775199B2
A voltage of a conductive line, such as a control line, a data line, or a voltage supply line associated with a memory die may be monitored. A frequency response of the voltage may be analyzed to determine if the conductive line may be operating at or near a specific frequency, such as a resonance frequency. If the conductive line is operating at or near the specific frequency, an action, such as a memory operation, may be performed to mitigate the resonance of the conductive line. The monitoring, analyzing, and action performing may be accomplished with circuitry of the memory die.
US11775198B2
Various examples are directed to memory systems comprising a component and a processing device. The memory system may comprise a plurality of blocks. A first portion of the plurality of blocks may be retired and a second portion of the plurality of blocks may be unretired. The processing device receives a sanitize operation for the plurality of blocks. The processing device initiates a first erase cycle at a first retired block of the plurality of blocks. The processing device determines that the first erase cycle was not successful and sets an erase indicator to false.
US11775186B1
Dynamic configuration of storage volumes based on data usage metrics is provided. Data may be initially written to a relatively low-throughput storage volume that is managed according to a usage metric. For example, a burst balance metric may be monitored and, if it falls below a threshold or reduces at a rate exceeding a threshold, the system can dynamically change to writing data to a higher-throughput data storage volume. After a period of time and/or if performance criteria are satisfied, the system can dynamically change to writing data to a lower-throughput data storage volume.
US11775180B2
Disk based emulation of tape libraries is provided with features that allow easier management and administration of a backup system and also allow increased flexibility to both archive data on tape at a remote location and also have fast restore access to archived data files. Features include automatic emulation of physical libraries, and the retention and write protection of virtual tapes that correspond to exported physical tapes.
US11775178B2
Apparatus, media, methods, and systems are disclosed for improved data relocation based on read-level voltages. A data storage system may include a non-volatile memory device including a source region and a destination region. The destination region may include a first destination block and a second destination block. A controller may read first data in the source region using a first read-level voltage, and read second data in the source region using a second read-level voltage. The controller may associate, based on the first and second read-level voltages, each of the first data and the second data with a respective one of the first and the second destination blocks. The controller may cause each of the first and second data to be stored in the associated one of the first and second destination blocks.
US11775175B2
An amount of writing data to storage devices can be kept low in additional processing for solving the write hole problem. A storage system includes a computer(s), a nonvolatile storage device(s), and a high-speed storage device(s) which can be accessed at a higher speed than the above-mentioned storage device(s), and a drive log including write log information is recorded in the high-speed storage device. When the computer receives a write request for write data, the computer firstly performs drive log check processing and then performs data write processing. In the drive log check processing, if a redundant write log record is recorded in a drive log, the computer changes the write log status of the redundant write log record to “completed” by targeting at the drive log and the write log information and then proceeds to the data write processing; and if the redundant write log record is not recorded in the drive log, the computer proceeds to the data write processing without changing the drive log or the write log information.
US11775173B2
A method includes, in one non-limiting embodiment, sending a request from a mass memory storage device to a host device, the request being one to allocate memory in the host device; writing data from the mass memory storage device to allocated memory of the host device; and subsequently reading the data from the allocated memory to the mass memory storage device. The memory may be embodied as flash memory, and the data may be related to a file system stored in the flash memory. The method enables the mass memory storage device to extend its internal volatile RAM to include RAM of the host device, enabling the internal RAM to be powered off while preserving data and context stored in the internal RAM.
US11775172B1
Provided is a genome data compression method of compressing FASTQ-formatted genome data, the method including: storing, by a first core that is one of the M cores, fixed header data in the first line of the first piece of sequence data in a compression result storage; and allocating, by the first core, N (N is a natural number of 2 or greater) pieces of the sequence data to each of the other M-1 (M is a natural number of 4 or greater) cores (hereinafter, referred to as “the remaining cores”), and performing compression by each of the remaining cores to compress N*(M-1) pieces of the sequence data together in parallel processing, and storing a compression result in the compression result storage, wherein the compression performed by each of the remaining cores is performed, including: primary compression in which for the N pieces of the sequence data, a process of the following stages for each piece of the sequence data is repeated: a stage in which a fixed header in the first line is removed; a stage in which the second line is encoded; a stage in which an identifier in the third line is stored; and a stage in which run-length encoding is performed on the fourth line; and secondary compression in which a result of the primary compression of the N pieces of the sequence data is compressed according to a lossless compression algorithm.
US11775162B1
In some implementations, a system may transmit, to a user device associated with a user account, a first set of user interface (UI) data that indicates: a rectangular-shaped element, a track positioned on the rectangular-shaped element and having a first end and a second end, and an interaction element located at the first end of the track and slidable between the first and second ends of the track. The system may receive, from the user device, interaction data indicating an interaction, by a user of the user device, with the interaction element from the first end to the second end of the track. The system may transmit, to the user device, a second set of UI data that indicates: the rectangular-shaped element and an account identifier associated with the user account and positioned on the rectangular-shaped element.
US11775160B2
Example implementations may involve using a prompt to prevent inadvertent control or playback of audio content. When a mobile device receives input data indicating a command to play back audio content on a first playback device, the mobile device determines whether the mobile device is in proximity to the first playback device. If the mobile device determines that the mobile device within a given proximity to the first playback device, the mobile device transmits, via the network interface, one or more commands to instruct the first playback device to play back the audio content. However, if the mobile device determines that the mobile device outside the proximity, the mobile device displays a prompt indicating that the mobile device is the outside the given proximity to the first playback device and a selectable control that, when selected, transmits the one or more commands to play back the audio content.
US11775156B2
Methods, systems and computer program products for controlling display of different types of medical images and providing touchscreen interfaces for display on a mobile communication device and associated with different image types, e.g., different imaging modalities or different view modes. Detection of a multi-finger tap on the screen of the mobile communication device while viewing a first touchscreen interface for an image type invokes a second or auxiliary touchscreen interface for that image type having a subset of interface elements of the first touchscreen interface.
US11775151B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a computer system displaying user interfaces for accessing passes and transfer accounts. In some examples, passes are added to the computer system. In some examples, passes are accessed. In some examples, transfers relating to the passes and transfer accounts are displayed, such as in search user interfaces.
US11775144B2
A method provides visual analysis of datasets. The method is performed at a computer system. A user selects a data source. In response, the system presents a natural language interface for analysis of data in the data source and presents a map data visualization within the graphical user interface for selecting geospatial data points from the data source. In response to receiving a first user input to select a first set of one or more geographic regions, the system calculates the similarity between the first set of one or more geographic regions and a second set of one or more geographic regions, based on a range of socio-economic, demographic, and/or geographic data fields from the data source, using one or more statistical techniques (e.g., Jensen-Shannon Divergence (JSD)). The system then updates and displays the map data visualization according to the calculated similarity.
US11775138B2
Systems and methods are described for providing an email assistant options bar. An assistant engine of an email application can identify contacts of a user profile that the user interacts with the most frequently based on a set of rules. When a user interacts with an email in the email application using a predetermined input type, the assistant engine can display the email assistant options bar. The email assistant options bar can include icons representing the identified contacts that the user interacts with the most frequently and a set of actions that can be performed to interact with the contacts. Some examples of actions can include forwarding the selected email, calling a contact, and setting up a meeting. The user can select one or more of the contacts and one of the actions. The assistant engine can perform the selected action with the selected contact as the recipient.
US11775124B2
A display device including a display panel having a first area, a second area, and a plurality of pixels to provide an image during a frame period, and a touch panel including a first touch part including first and second touch coils insulated from each other, and a second touch part including first touch electrodes and second touch electrodes insulated each other, in which corresponding second scan signals are applied to the first touch electrodes disposed in the first area when corresponding first scan signals are applied to the first touch coils disposed in the second area during a first period of the frame period, the second touch coils are configured to provide first sensing signals according to a resonant frequency of an input device, and the second touch electrodes are configured to provide second sensing signals according to a variation in a capacitance.
US11775121B2
An electronic device includes a window having a modulus of about 55 GPa to about 80 GPa, an panel including an electronic element, and a plurality of adhesive layers between the window and the panel, wherein a sum of thicknesses of the adhesive layers is less than about 200 μm, wherein the adhesive layers include a first adhesive layer contacting the panel, and a second adhesive layer contacting the window, and wherein a thickness of the first adhesive layer is equal to or less than about ½ of the sum of the thicknesses of the adhesive layers.
US11775119B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for capacitive touch sensing using system-in-package components. In one embodiment, a device may include a flexible printed circuit, and a first system-in-package disposed on a first side of the flexible printed circuit. The first system-in-package may include a first molding compound, and a first electromagnetic interference shield disposed around an outer surface of the first molding compound. The device may include a first capacitive touch sensor, and a first stiffener disposed on a second side of the flexible printed circuit, where the first stiffener can be formed of a conductive material, and can be electrically coupled to both the flexible printed circuit and the first capacitive touch sensor. The first capacitive touch sensor may be configured to detect a change in capacitance via a change in electric field at the first electromagnetic interference shield.
US11775116B2
An input device is an input device provided for a table including a placement surface on which an object can be placed, and includes: a sensor that includes a touch sensor of a capacitive type for receiving a touch input on the placement surface; and a controller that determines, based on a detection result from the sensor, whether to enable or disable the touch input received by the touch sensor.
US11775115B2
In some embodiments, an electronic device dynamically assigns functionalities to one or more buttons depending on an orientation associated with the device.
US11775110B2
The present disclosure provides a display apparatus, a display panel of which includes a panel chip; a second bonding region of a main circuit board is provided with second display terminals coupled with first display terminals and second touch control terminals coupled with first touch control terminals; each of segment touch control lines includes a first segment coupled between one second touch control terminal and one main connector in a first region, and a segment coupled between a touch control chip and one main connector in a second region; a third region and a fourth region of a jumper connection circuit board are bonded with the first region and the second region respectively; the segment touch control lines are in one-to-one correspondence with jumper connection lines, each jumper connection line is coupled between one jumper connector in the third region and one jumper connector in the fourth region.
US11775107B1
A touch sensor having a visible area and a peripheral area includes a substrate, a metal nanowire layer, and a silver layer. The metal nanowire layer is disposed on a main surface of the substrate and defines a plurality of electrode portions corresponding to the visible area and a plurality of wiring portions corresponding to the peripheral area. The electrode portions are arranged at intervals, and the wiring portions are respectively connected to the electrode portions and arranged at intervals. Two adjacent electrode portions are spaced apart by a first spacer region, and two adjacent wiring portions are spaced apart by a second spacer region. The silver layer is disposed on the wiring portions and in contact with the wiring portions. A thickness of the substrate corresponding to the first spacer region is smaller than a thickness of the substrate corresponding to the second spacer region.
US11775101B2
According to certain embodiments, a foldable electronic device comprises: a flexible display; a first housing in which a first region of the flexible display is positioned; a second housing in which a second region of the flexible display is positioned; a hinge structure interposed between the first housing and the second housing and forming a folding axis; a sensor panel interposed between the flexible display and each of the first housing and the second housing, the sensor panel configured to identify input information of a stylus pen, and including a plurality of first vertical channels interposed the first housing and the first region of the flexible display and a plurality of second vertical channels disposed between the second housing and the second region of the flexible display; and a processor configured to control the sensor panel, wherein the processor is configured to: detect whether the foldable electronic device is folded; when the foldable electronic device is folded, transmit a deviation detection signal to at least one of the plurality of first vertical channels and receive the deviation detection signal through at least one of the plurality of second vertical channels; and correct the input information of the stylus pen using a compensation value corresponding to the received deviation detection signal.
US11775088B2
An interface for controlling at least one function of a unit of a motor vehicle, comprising a display screen (7) and at least one control member (2) comprising a mobile gripping element (2a) that is rotatably mobile about an axis (A), at least two conductive indicators (10) that are borne by the mobile element (2a) and that are mobile together with same and a guide (2b), the interface being characterized in that it comprises a capacitive sensor (6) comprising a plurality of electrodes (12) that are configured to detect a variation in the angular position of the conductive indicators (10) and in that the guide (2b) is at least partly fixed to the display screen (7) such that the mobile element (2a) partially covers the screen, the electrodes (12) being arranged in a contiguous region (6a) of the screen (7), such that the indicators (10) are movable so as to face the electrodes (12) when the mobile element (2a) is moved about its axis.
US11775084B2
Examples are disclosed relating to arming and managing power consumption of a haptic feedback component in a stylus prior to actuating the haptic feedback component to produce haptic output. In one example, at least on condition of detecting a first user interaction with the stylus, power is transmitted for at least a first time period to a haptic circuit communicatively coupled to the haptic feedback component. At least on condition of determining that the first time period expires, it is determined if a second user interaction with the stylus is detected. If the second user interaction is detected, the stylus continues transmitting power to the haptic circuit. If the second user interaction is not detected, the stylus ceases transmitting power to the haptic circuit.
US11775079B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for displaying augmented reality content. The program and method provide for displaying a carousel interface comprising multiple icons, each icon corresponding to a respective one of a plurality of augmented reality content items for displaying with an image captured by a device camera; receiving user input to navigate through display of the plurality of augmented reality content items while displaying the image; and in a case where the user input corresponds to a predefined type of gesture, navigating through display of the plurality of augmented reality content items while displaying the image, and omitting display of the carousel interface.
US11775078B2
The technology disclosed relates to operating a motion-capture system responsive to available computational resources. In particular, it relates to assessing a level of image acquisition and image-analysis resources available using benchmarking of system components. In response, one or more image acquisition parameters and/or image-analysis parameters are adjusted. Acquisition and/or analysis of image data are then made compliant with the adjusted image acquisition parameters and/or image-analysis parameters. In some implementations, image acquisition parameters include frame resolution and frame capture rate and image-analysis parameters include analysis algorithm and analysis density.
US11775073B1
In some embodiments, an integrated virtual button module includes a first transducer, a microcontroller, and a first driver circuit. The first transducer includes a transient strain-sensing element and is configured to generate first signals. The microcontroller is configured to obtain first data from the first signals and determine user inputs in accordance with at least the first data. The first driver circuit is configured to receive user feedback data and to generate a first user feedback signal in accordance with the user feedback data. The first driver circuit is electronically couplable to a first actuator. The user feedback data are determined in accordance with at least the user inputs. The first actuator emits a haptic signal and/or a first audio signal when driven by the first user feedback signal. Embodiments of an integrated virtual button system and a method of determining user input and providing user feedback are also disclosed.
US11775068B2
A system and method for controlling a non-tactile device including a receiving device configured to receive signals corresponding to a user's EEG or movements, translate the EEG or movements into directional intentions, transmit the directional intentions to a secondary device, receive a command for one or more actions from the secondary device based on the transmitted directional intentions and output at least one control signal to the non-tactile device based on the received command for one or more actions. The non-tactile device may receive signals corresponding to a user's EEG or movements using a gestural sensor and/or an EEG sensor.
US11775067B2
An image display device includes a display panel having a plurality of pixels, and a photoresistor pattern formed in a non-light emitting area between the plurality of pixels; a panel driving controller to drive light-emission control lines of the display panel; and a bio-signal detector that detects an output voltage of the photoresistor pattern which resistance is variable based on light reflected from the target object, and detects a bio-signal of the target object based on the detected output voltage, thereby, detecting the bio-signal of the target object using the image display light from the display panel may allow efficiently detecting the bio-signal without a separate light source or light source operation circuit for detecting the bio-signal.
US11775060B2
Systems and methods for hands-free scrolling are disclosed herein. An example method includes detecting an eye movement or gaze of a user relative to content displayed on a display screen of the computing device, the content being arranged along a y axis of the display screen, determining that the user has viewed a portion of the content provided on the display screen and where along the y axis the eye movement or gaze is directed; and automatically scrolling the content on the display in response to the eye movement or gaze of the user in relation to the y axis.
US11775057B1
A method for operating a head-mounted display device is presented. An RF face tracking system is operated at a first, lower power level. Based at least on an output of the RF face tracking system while operating at the first, lower power level, a first likelihood is determined that the head-mounted display device is positioned on a head of a user. If the first likelihood is greater than a first confidence threshold, the RF face tracking system is operated at a second, higher power level. A second likelihood that the head-mounted display device is positioned on the head of the user is determined based at least on an output of the RF face tracking system while operating at the second, higher power level. If the second likelihood is greater than a second confidence threshold, an eye-tracking system of the head-mounted display device is activated.
US11775053B2
A system for using artificial intelligence to analyze user activity data, the system comprising a computing device configured to receive from a user, at least a biological extraction and at least a user activity datum, determine a current user location, generate a diagnostic output as a function of the biological extraction, wherein the diagnostic output comprises a condition of the user, retrieve, from a fingerprint database, at least a datum of user fingerprint data, identify a plurality of compatible elements at the current user location as a function of the condition of the user, select at least a compatible element as a function of the fingerprint data, and present, via a graphical user interface, the at least a compatible element to a user device.
US11775052B1
This invention comprises a smart room comprising at least 4 non-planar arranged transmitters and an object equipped with a receiver and an orientation sensor. The object position and orientation are tracked at time points and a dataset is built which provides object orientation information and object position information at each time point.
US11775043B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for reducing the power consumption of a system. Techniques are described that queue a message, sent by a source engine of the system, in a queue of a destination engine of the system that is in a sleep mode. Then, a priority level associated with the queued message is determined. If the priority level is at a maximum level, the destination engine is brought into an active mode. If the priority level is at an intermediate level, the destination engine is brought into an active mode when a time, associated with the intermediate level, has elapsed. When the destination engine is brought into an active mode it processes all messages accumulated in its queue in an order determined by their associated priority levels.
US11775038B2
As described herein, a method performed in response to a client device undergoing an at least partial warm reset or reboot may include receiving a firmware commit request from a client device. The method may also include writing, at a first time, a firmware image associated with the client device into execution memory of volatile memory. The method may also include writing, at a second time, the firmware image associated with the client device into a memory slot of non-volatile memory.
US11775025B2
A display method for a device having a foldable screen includes: detecting a status of the foldable screen; displaying an application interface on one or more of a first screen of the foldable screen or a second screen of the foldable screen according to a first display policy if the status of the foldable screen is a support state or a folded state; or if the status of the foldable screen is an unfolded state, displaying the application interface on the foldable screen in the unfolded state according to a second display policy, where in the unfolded state the first screen and the second screen form a same plane or form an approximately same plane, and where the first display policy is different from the second display policy.
US11775022B1
Systems and methods involve a case assembly, stylus, cover assembly, and portable electronic device, the system includes a case assembly including an elongated aperture extending in a first direction through at least one interior wall portion and through at least one second exterior wall portion of a second side, the elongated aperture including an elongated linear dimension being the largest of a plurality of portions of an internal length dimension of an internal base surface of the case assembly; and including a cover assembly including a linear dimension at least as large as the elongated linear dimension of the elongated aperture. In addition, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.
US11775019B2
A protective case for a handheld electronic device is provided. The protective case can include a removable mounting system comprised of an interlocking member and a plurality of mounting bases. The protective case may further include a non-slip member to prevent the device from slipping on a surface and a magnet for attaching the device to a magnetic surface.
US11775017B2
The present disclosure is drawn to bendable displays for electronic devices. In one example, a first display region including a glass panel that is rigid, the glass panel including a first interlocking edge. A second display region can include a plastic panel that is bendable, the plastic panel including a second interlocking edge that is shaped to inversely correspond with the first interlocking edge. An interlock zone where the first interlocking edge can be joined with the second interlocking edge such that the first display region and the second display region form a continuous display panel that is bendable at a location along the second display region.
US11775016B2
A display device is provided. A display device according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a body, a moving plate, a bracket, a rack, an actuator and a driving gear. The bracket, rack, actuator and driving gear are coupled to one another to form a driving module, and the bracket comprises a moving guide, an upper cover and a heat dissipation fin. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the display device can be manufactured in which the moving plate can move reciprocatively in a stable manner with respect to the body, the heat dissipation of the actuator can be effectively performed, and the thickness and size of the driving module can be minimized.
US11775011B2
Disclosed is a wearable electronic device including: at least one sensor, a communication circuit, a processor, and a memory. The memory may store instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to: obtain sensor context information including information associated with an exercise state of a user of the wearable electronic device, control the wearable electronic device to transmit the sensor context information to an external electronic device at a second interval, adjust an interval of transmission of the sensor context information to a first interval based on a change of the sensor context information, and transmit the sensor context information to the external electronic device at the first interval using the communication circuit.
US11775010B2
A method for monitoring device usage includes: receiving user device information; based on the user interaction data, determining a state associated with the user device; and based on the state of the user device, determining a set of tap parameters. Additionally or alternatively, the method can include any or all of: determining a risk score based on at least on the set of tap parameters; determining an output based on the risk score; and/or any other suitable processes performed in any suitable order.
US11775005B2
An electronic eyewear device includes first and second systems on a chip (SoCs) having independent time bases that are synchronized by generating a common clock signal from a clock generator of the first SoC and simultaneously applying the common clock signal to a first counter of the first SoC and a second counter of the second SoC whereby the first counter and the second counter count clock edges of the common clock. The clock counts are shared through an interface between the first SoC and the second SoC and compared to each other. When the clock counts are different, a clock count of the first counter or the second counter is adjusted to cause the clock counts to match each other. The adjusted clock count is synchronized to the respective clocks of the first and second SoCs, thus synchronizing the first and second SoCs to each other.
US11775004B2
A two-chip die module with minimal chip-to-chip clock skew is provided. The two-chip die module includes a common substrate, first and second chips operably disposed on the common substrate to be communicative in parallel with one another and a single phase lock loop (PLL). The PLL is disposed within one of the first and second chips to provide a source for a common clock signal for the first and second chips. PLL signals of the PLL to the first and second chips are nearly equal and clock sample signals of the first and second chips are nearly equal.
US11774998B2
A reference current/voltage generator includes a current mirror unit and a current-mode temperature compensation unit. The current mirror unit generates a first current, a first sum current and a second sum current flowing through first to third terminals thereof, and the first current, the first sum current and the second sum current are in a multiple relationship. The current-mode temperature compensation unit is electrically connected to the second and third terminals of the current mirror unit, and when a voltage on the second terminal is equal to a voltage on the third terminal, the first sum current is a sum of a current proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT) and a current complementary to absolute temperature (CTAT). The first terminal of the current mirror unit is an output terminal of the reference current/voltage generator and configured to output the first current as a reference current.
US11774990B2
Embodiments include systems and methods of in-line mixing of hydrocarbon liquids and/or renewable liquids from a plurality of tanks into a single pipeline based on density or gravity. According to an embodiment, a method of admixing hydrocarbon liquids from a plurality of tanks into a single pipeline to provide in-line mixing thereof includes initiating a blending process. The blending process including continuously blending two or more liquids over a period of time, each of the two or more liquids stored in corresponding tanks, each of the corresponding tanks connected, via pipeline, to a blend pipe thereby blending the two or more liquids into a blended liquid. The method further includes determining a density of each of the two or more liquids to be blended during the blending process. The method includes, in response to a determination that the blend process has not finished and after the passage of a specified time interval, determining an actual blend density of the blended liquid, via a blend sensor connected to the blend pipe, the blended liquid flowing through the blend pipe and in contact with the blend sensor, and the specified time interval less than a total duration of the blending process. The method includes determining an actual blend density of the blended liquid, via a blend sensor connected to the blend pipe, the blended liquid flowing through the blend pipe and in contact with the blend sensor, and the specified time interval less than a total duration of the blending process; comparing the actual blend density with a target blend density; and in response to a difference, based on the comparison, of the actual blend density and target blend density determining a corrected ratio based on each density of the two or more liquids, the actual blend density, and the target blend density and adjusting, via one or more flow control devices, flow of one or more of the two or more liquids, based on the corrected ratio.
US11774988B2
A check valve, including a valve and a valve support surface, to permit a fluid to move through the check valve in a first direction and resist a fluid flow through the valve in a second direction, the valve having a valve diaphragm and an isolating bridge, with a portion of the valve engaging against valve support surface to resist deformation or stretching of the valve when a backflow of fluid into the check valve occurs. The valve support surface having a first surface portion and a second surface portion, and the valve positioned with the valve diaphragm spaced apart from the first surface portion, and the isolating bridge spaced apart from the second surface portion.
US11774986B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for stabilization of autonomous vehicles using electromagnetic force. In one embodiment, an example autonomous vehicle may include a base comprising a first side and a second side, and a first container handling assembly coupled to the base. The first container handling assembly may be configured to support a first stack of containers, and may be configured to extend from the autonomous vehicle in a first direction over the first side of the base. The autonomous vehicle may include a first electromagnet coupled to the base along the second side, and a controller configured to energize the first electromagnet when the first container handling assembly is in an extended position in the first direction, such that the autonomous vehicle is stabilized via an electromagnetic force generated by the first electromagnet.
US11774983B1
The described positional awareness techniques employing sensory data gathering and analysis hardware with reference to specific example implementations implement improvements in the use of sensors, techniques and hardware design that can enable specific embodiments to find new area to cover by a robot performing an area coverage task of an unexplored area. The sensory data are gathered from an operational camera and one or more auxiliary sensors.
US11774968B2
The present disclosure provides a method including determining an operational mode of a vehicle based on data accumulated from at least one vehicle information system associated with the vehicle; selecting one of a plurality of power consumption profiles for the vehicle based on the determined operational mode; and applying the selected one of the power consumption profiles to the vehicle.
US11774967B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for monitoring operations of an autonomous vehicle. For instance, a monitoring device receives sub-system data from one or more sub-systems of the autonomous vehicle. The device receives contextual data of the vehicle that comprises one or more situational circumstances of the vehicle during operation. The device receives control data from a control system of the vehicle and analyzes the sub-system data, the contextual data, and the control data to determine a control result. The device provides an assessment to a management system of the overall control status of the vehicle.
US11774959B2
A system includes one or more processors configured to generate recommended machine settings associated with machine operating parameters. The system receives sensor data associated with an environment of a machine. Based on the sensor data, the system determines one or more settings associated with operating parameters for the machine, to optimize the efficiency thereof. The system causes a recommendation to apply the setting to be presented on a display associated with the machine, such as for an operator to accept. In some examples, the operator manually applies the setting(s). In some examples, the system causes a computing device of the machine to apply the setting(s). The system may continuously and/or periodically provide recommendations as conditions in the environment change.
US11774949B2
A production system includes a first manufacturing machine and a second manufacturing machine. The production system also includes a production control unit configured to control productivities of the first and second manufacturing machines. In response to detecting a breakdown sign in the first manufacturing machine, a stop time of the first manufacturing machine is predicted. After the detection of the breakdown sign and before the first manufacturing machine stops, the productivity control unit updates the productivities of the first and/or second manufacturing machines, causing the first manufacturing machine and/or the second manufacturing machine to have an updated productivity equal to or greater than its original productivity, such that a total productivity of the first manufacturing machine and the second manufacturing machine increases.
US11774948B2
A controller for equipment that operate to provide heating or cooling to a building or campus includes a processing circuit configured to obtain utility rate data indicating a price of resources consumed by the equipment to serve energy loads of the building or campus, obtain an objective function that expresses a total monetary cost of operating the equipment over an optimization period as a function of the utility rate data and an amount of the resources consumed by the equipment, determine a relationship between resource consumption and load production of the equipment, optimize the objective function over the optimization subject to a constraint based on the relationship between the resource consumption and the load production of the equipment to determine a distribution of the load production across the equipment, and operate the equipment to achieve the distribution.
US11774935B2
In one aspect of the invention, a semiconductor packaging apparatus is provided and comprises: a bonding device for bonding a component to a substrate; a motor for driving the bonding device to operate according to a predetermined motion trajectory; a position sensor for detecting a position of the bonding device at a specific time point and generating a position signal; a motion control unit comprising a path planner for generating a position-time command for the bonding device according to a bonding process requirement, the motion control unit being configured to enable the path planner to update the position-time command based on a touch information between the component and the substrate. In a further aspect of the invention, a control algorithm for the semiconductor packaging apparatus to identify and generate the touch information is also provided, and the process control flow is optimized using the touch information.
US11774931B2
A building management system includes building equipment operable to affect a physical state of a building. The building management system includes a system manager coupled to the building equipment via a system bus, the system manager comprising a schedule manager configured to control an operation schedule of the building equipment. A client device is configured to communicate with the schedule manager to modify operation schedules of the building equipment or add new operation schedules for the building equipment. The schedule manager comprises a list of available schedules for the building equipment and is configured to, in response to modification of the operation schedules or addition of new operation schedules, update the list of available schedules to include the modification or the new operation schedule. The enterprise batch synchronization module is configured to create, copy, modify and apply schedule and setpoint configuration templates to multiple cloud connected building equipment simultaneously.
US11774930B2
A building management system includes one or more memory devices configured to store instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive a publication by an agent on an agent communication channel, the publication comprising timeseries data, identify, based on the publication, an object entity of an entity database associated with the agent, wherein the entity database includes one or more object entities and relationships between the one or more object entities and one or more data entities, identify a data entity related to the object entity based on a relationship of the relationships relating the object entity and the data entity, and ingest the timeseries data into the data entity.
US11774925B2
A building management system includes one or more processing circuits. The one or more processing circuits are configured to receive, from a physical building device of a building, environmental inputs and environmental outputs of the physical building device; generate a building device digital twin for the physical building device based on the received environmental inputs and the received environmental outputs; generate a predicted future performance of the physical building device based on the building device digital twin; and generate a recommendation based on the predicted future performance of the physical building device, the recommendation indicating one or more changes to implement on the physical building device. The building device digital twin is a model for predicting the behavior of the physical building device ore changes to implement on the physical building device.
US11774924B2
A computer-implemented method and system for process schedule reconciliation receives a scheduling model and an initial schedule for reconciliation, where the initial schedule includes projected plant data. Current plant data is imported into the system. The current plant data and projected plant data is processed using mathematical modeling techniques to identify event boundaries, stream flowrates associated with tanks and process units. The system builds an optimization model applying identified event boundaries, stream flowrates and pre-determined constraints along a period of time that includes priority slots to reconcile the projected plant data of the initial schedule with the current plant data, and then solves the optimization model to develop a reconciled schedule.
US11774918B2
The invention relates to an electric circuit arrangement (2) for standard insulation monitoring with emergency shut-down for an ungrounded power supply system (4) upon detection of a ground fault, having a standard insulation monitoring device (10) which is coupled to an active conductor (L1, L2, L3) of the power supply system (4) on the network side via a coupling branch (12) each or to a neutral point (S) of the power supply system (4) via a coupling branch (12) and is connected to ground (PE) on the ground side via a ground connection branch (14). The electric circuit arrangement (2) comprises an AC/DC sensitive measuring current transformer (20) which detects a fault current on the network side at the active conductors (L1, L2, L3) in the coupling branches (12) or at the neutral point (S) in the coupling branch (12) or on the ground side in the ground connection branch (14) of the insulation monitoring device (10); an evaluator (30) for evaluating the fault current with regard to a fault current threshold being exceeded; and a trip device (40) for shutting down the power supply system (4).
US11774914B2
A one-piece silicon device with flexible blades (2, 3), in particular for timepieces, for example a pivot with crossed blades, and to a method for manufacturing the device (1). The method includes: forming (21) a one-piece silicon device (1) blank from a wafer of the SOI type, the device (1) including two flexible blades (2, 3), each formed in a different layer of the SOI wafer, the blades (2, 3) being arranged in two different substantially parallel planes, the blades (2, 3) being separated by a clearance (7); growing a first silicon oxide layer on the surface of at least one of the blades (2, 3) bordering the clearance, the first silicon oxide layer being formed from a first sub-layer of silicon of the one or more blades (2, 3); and removing the first silicon oxide layer to increase the clearance (7) between the two blades (2, 3).
US11774910B2
A resonant member for a striking mechanism of a watch or of a music box includes at least one resonant part, such as one or more gongs, arranged to vibrate and resonate once activated, and an attachment part. The resonant part and/or the attachment part is made from an alloy of palladium or platinum with more than 51% of palladium or platinum in the alloy.
US11774905B2
A driving-force transmission member includes a coupling portion that includes a driving-force transmission surface and that transmits a driving force to a cartridge coupling, a first helical gear portion that engages with a driven gear of a cartridge to transmit the driving force, and a second helical gear portion that engages with a drive gear to receive the driving force. The portions rotate integrally with each other when the driving-force transmission member rotates about the axis of rotation. The driving-force transmission surface is shaped with a twist in the same direction as the driving-force transmission member. Helical teeth of the first helical gear portion are shaped with a twist in the same direction as the driving-force transmission surface. Helical teeth of the second helical gear portion are shaped with a twist in a direction opposite to the twist direction of the helical teeth of the first helical gear portion.
US11774903B2
A developing cartridge includes: a casing; a developing roller extending in a first direction; a boss movable with the casing; and a first lever movable relative to the casing. The first lever includes: one end portion functioning as a point of effort; another end portion functioning as a point of load; a shaft functions as a fulcrum and positioned between the one end portion and the another end portion; and a first hole into which the boss is fitted. By the one end portion receiving a driving force, the first lever is pivotally movable about the shaft. A dimension of the first hole in a second direction crossing the first direction is greater than a dimension in the second direction of the boss. In a case where the casing moves in the second direction relative to the first lever, the boss moves in the second direction within the first hole.
US11774902B2
A drum unit includes: a frame; a first photosensitive drum; a second photosensitive drum; a charger; and a storage medium. The frame includes: a first frame plate; a second frame plate spaced apart from the first frame plate in a first direction; a third frame plate connecting one end of the first frame plate to one end of the second frame plate; and a fourth frame plate connecting another end of the first frame plate to another end of the second frame plate. The first photosensitive drum and the second photosensitive drum are rotatably supported by the frame. The second photosensitive drum is spaced apart from the first photosensitive drum and positioned closer to the third frame plate than the first photosensitive drum to the third frame plate in a second direction. The storage medium has an electrical contact surface positioned at an outer surface of the fourth frame plate.
US11774901B1
A driving device includes a driving source, a fixing portion to which the driving source is fixed, a first transmission portion attached to the fixing portion to transmit a driving force from the driving source, a second transmission portion engaged with the first transmission portion while having an intermeshing width in a first direction to receive the driving force from the first transmission portion, a mount portion located in the first direction from the fixing portion and to which the second transmission portion is attached, a fastening portion including a mounted portion disposed on a side of the fixing portion opposite to a side facing the mount portion, the fastening portion fastening the fixing portion and the mount portion to each other, a first cushioning member disposed between the mounted portion and the fixing portion, and a second cushioning member disposed between the fixing portion and the mount portion, and having a greater spring constant than the first cushioning member.
US11774900B2
A sheet conveying apparatus includes a conveyance unit to convey a sheet, a support frame supporting the he conveyance unit and having a mounting member, and an exterior cover made of metal and fixed to the mounting member by a screw. The exterior cover covers the support frame on a back side of the sheet conveying apparatus and includes a hook portion provided above a position corresponding to the mounting member in a vertical direction, and a positioning pin provided below the position corresponding to the mounting member in the vertical direction. The support frame includes an engagement portion, engaged with the hook portion and provided at a position above the mounting member in the vertical direction, and a through-hole, formed at a position below the mounting member in the vertical direction, into which the positioning pin is inserted to position the exterior cover with respect to the support frame.
US11774898B2
An image forming apparatus including a print engine, a gloss treatment device, a medium conveying device, and a processor. The print engine is to form an image on a print medium. The gloss treatment device is to perform a gloss treatment on the print medium on which an image is formed. The medium conveying device to provide the print medium to the print engine and selectively provide the print medium on which an image is formed to the gloss treatment device. The processor is to control the print engine to form an image based on print data and control the medium conveying device to selectively provide the print medium to the gloss treatment device depending on whether a gloss treatment option is set in the print data.
US11774879B2
A toner conveying apparatus includes a frame body, a conveyance member, a light transmission portion, a light emission portion, a light reception portion, and a rubbing member. The frame body forms a conveyance passage surrounded by a wall portion and is provided with a reception inlet for receiving toner from outside. The conveyance member is provided in the conveyance passage and rotates around a first rotation axis to convey the toner. The light transmission portion that is provided in the wall portion and has translucency. The light emission portion emits light toward an inside of the conveyance passage through the light transmission portion. The light reception portion receives the light emitted from the light emission portion through the light transmission portion. The rubbing member rubs on the light transmission portion by being rotated around a second rotation axis extending in a direction crossing the first rotation axis.
US11774876B2
A seal member includes a seal surface that comes into contact with and slides with an end portion of an outer circumferential surface of a developing roller. The seal surface includes a first seal region configured of a plurality of first fiber bundles including a first fiber having a charge property that repels a developer, and a second seal region configured of a plurality of second fiber bundles including a second fiber having a charge property that attracts the developer, both extending in an inclined direction such that a portion thereof closer to an opening portion of a frame body of a developing unit is located further downstream in a rotating direction of the developing roller, and being alternately disposed in the rotating direction, and a proportion of a portion occupied by the second fiber bundles on the seal surface is at least 5% and not more than 60%.
US11774866B2
A reticle inspection system and a method of handling a reticle in a reticle inspection system are provided. The reticle inspection system includes an active reticle carrier and an inspection tool. The reticle is disposed on the active reticle carrier, and the inspection tool is configured to determine an orientation of the reticle when the active reticle carrier is disposed on a reticle stage. The active reticle carrier is movable between a loading station and the reticle stage and is configured to rotate the reticle to reorient the reticle based on the orientation of the reticle while the active carrier is disposed on the reticle stage.
US11774862B2
Measurements are obtained from locations across a substrate before or after performing a lithographic process step. Examples of such measurements include alignment measurements made prior to applying a pattern to the substrate, and measurements of a performance parameter such as overlay, after a pattern has been applied. A set of measurement locations is selected from among all possible measurement locations. At least a subset of the selected measurement locations are selected dynamically, in response to measurements obtained using a preliminary selection of measurement locations. Preliminary measurements of height can be used to select measurement locations for alignment. In another aspect, outlier measurements are detected based on supplementary data such as height measurements or historic data.
US11774851B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to imprint lithography, and more particularly to methods and apparatus for creating a large area imprint without a seam. Methods disclosed herein generally include separating the curing time of the features in a stamp or product from the curing time of the seam and the periphery. The seam and periphery can be cured first or the seam and periphery can be cured last. Additionally, the seam curing operations can be performed on the master, on the stamp, or on the final product.
US11774848B2
The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for repairing at least one defect of a photolithographic mask for the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) wavelength range, wherein the method includes the steps of: (a) determining the at least one defect; and (b) ascertaining a repair shape for the at least one defect; (c) wherein the repair shape is diffraction-based in order to take account of a phase disturbance by the at least one defect.
US11774842B2
An image capture system for tracking target objects includes a movable base that supports one or more image capture modules, each of the image capture modules including a camera module, a first light module and a second light module. The camera module is mounted on a first plane of a mount bracket, the first light module is mounted on a second plane of the mounting bracket, and a second light module is mounted on a third plane of the mounting bracket. The first and second planes define a first angle, the first and third planes define a second angle, and the second angle is larger than the first angle. An output of the first light module and a light output of the second light module is selected based on an operating condition of the camera module.
US11774828B2
A supercontinuum radiation source including a modulator being operable to modulate pump laser radiation including a train of radiation pulses to provide modulated pump laser radiation, the modulation being such to selectively provide a burst of the pulses; and a hollow-core photonic crystal fiber being operable to receive the modulated pump laser radiation and excite a working medium contained within the hollow-core photonic crystal fiber so as to generate supercontinuum radiation.
US11774815B2
Provided display panel includes color film substrate, array substrate disposed opposite to color film substrate, first color resist layer disposed on color film substrate and including first-type color resist blocks, second color resist layer disposed on array substrate, and first metal wires disposed on array substrate. Second color resist layer is disposed on side of first metal wires facing color film substrate. First metal wires extend along first direction. Second color resist layer includes second-type color resist blocks. Color of second-type color resist blocks different from color of first-type color resist blocks. Each first-type color resist block and each second-type color resist block are disposed alternatively along second direction. edge of first-type color resist block overlap edge of second-type color resist block adjacent to first-type color resist block, and overlapping regions between first-type color resist blocks and second-type color resist blocks adjacent to each other cover first metal wires.
US11774813B2
Provided are a liquid crystal display device that can increase light use efficiency and reduce external light reflection, and a method of producing the liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal display device sequentially includes, from a back surface side toward a viewing surface side: a first substrate; a liquid crystal layer; and a second substrate, the liquid crystal display device including sub-pixels each including an optical opening allowing light to pass through, the first substrate sequentially including, from the back surface side toward the viewing surface side: a supporting substrate; a metal layer surrounding the optical openings; and a resist layer being superimposed with the metal layer and being in contact with the metal layer, an end of the resist layer being superimposed with an end of the metal layer and having a taper angle θ of 40° or more.
US11774812B2
According to one embodiment, an optical control device includes a first liquid crystal cell and a second liquid crystal cell. The second liquid crystal cell is stacked on the first liquid crystal cell. The first liquid crystal cell has a function of modulating and converting a first polarization component of incident light into a second polarization component, and hardly modulating and converting a third polarization component of incident light into a fourth polarization component. The second liquid crystal cell has a function of hardly modulating the second polarization component transmitted through the first liquid crystal cell, and modulating the fourth polarization component transmitted through the first liquid crystal cell.
US11774810B2
The liquid crystal display device includes: a TFT substrate including scanning lines extending in a first direction and being arranged in a second direction, video signal lines extending in the second direction and being arranged in the first direction, pixel electrodes arranged in regions surrounded by the scanning lines and the video signal lines, and common electrodes formed with an insulating film arranged between the common electrodes and the pixel electrodes; a counter substrate opposed to the TFT substrate; and a liquid crystal. The first common electrode extends between the first and second scanning lines in the first direction, and the second common electrode extends between the second and third scanning lines in the first direction. The first and second common electrodes are electrically connected by a bridge. The bridge covers the first video signal line without covering the second video signal line, when seen in a plan view.
US11774805B2
A liquid crystal apparatus includes a first pixel electrode in a display region, and a second pixel electrode and a circuit such as a scan line driving circuit outside the display region. A TFT provided corresponding to the second pixel electrode is separated from the circuit, and the second pixel electrode extends to the region that overlaps the circuit.
US11774797B2
A backlight source includes light bars, adapter plate(s) and connection structures. Each light bar includes light-emitting group(s) and external connection unit(s). Each external connection unit is electrically connected to at least one light-emitting group and included at least one first electrode pair. Each adapter plate includes adapter circuits, each adapter circuit includes adapter units, each adapter unit includes at least one second electrode pair. Ends of each connection structure are electrically connected to one external connection unit and one adapter unit. All second electrode pairs of adapter units of a same adapter circuit are classified into at least one group, each group includes second electrode pairs electrically connected in series. In light-emitting groups electrically connected to adapter units of the same adapter circuit, light-emitting groups electrically connected second electrode pairs in a same group are connected in series to form a dimming region.
US11774794B2
A liquid crystal display panel is provided, which includes a color filter substrate, an array substrate disposed opposite to the color filter substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the color filter substrate and the array substrate. The array substrate includes: a substrate; an array driving layer disposed on the substrate; an insulating layer disposed on the array driving layer; a pixel electrode disposed on the insulating layer and electrically connected to a thin film transistor in the array driving layer by a via hole on the insulating layer; and a distributed Bragg reflective film disposed on the pixel electrode.
US11774785B2
This disclosure relates to an optical limiter for limiting the radiant flux of an optical source beam, including an optical control port for illumination by an optical control beam originating from the source beam; an optical input port for illumination by an optical transmission beam originating from the source beam; an optical output port for illumination by the transmission beam; and a thermally driven light mill; wherein the light mill is arranged with respect to the input port, the control port and the output port such that: illumination of the control port by the control beam drives the light mill to rotate only when the control beam has a radiant flux equal to or in excess of a predetermined radiant flux threshold; and rotation of the light mill causes an area of the output port illuminated by the transmission beam to change.
US11774784B2
An optical system having a spectral transmission profile having an average transmittance Ta between 380 nm and 780 nm and an average red light transmittance Tr between a first limit L1 and a second limit L2, with Tr<2*Ta/3 and L1=600 nm and L2=780 nm, and the optical system being configured to allow selectively retinal exposure of an eye to at least one selected range of wavelengths of light in the visible spectrum of 460 nm to 530 nm.
US11774782B2
An optical device includes an electro-optical layer and conductive electrodes disposed over opposing first and second side of the electro-optical layer. Control circuitry is configured to apply at least first control voltage waveforms and second control voltage waveforms between the conductive electrodes so as to generate respective first and second phase modulation profiles in the electro-optical layer, which cause rays of optical radiation that are incident on the device to converge or diverge with respective first and second focal powers, and to change from the first focal power to the second focal power by concurrently applying overshoot control voltages to each of a plurality of the conductive electrodes for different, respective transition periods, followed by application of the second control voltage waveforms.
US11774781B2
A meniscus shaped lens module comprises one or more structures that decrease an amount of pressure or force to move one or more surfaces of the lens module and increase a separation distance of anterior and posterior surfaces of the module in order to provide an increase in optical power. A lens structure of the module comprises one or more of a pattern of a surface of a central chamber, a meniscus, a reduced diameter or a soft material in order to provide increased amounts of curvature of an outer contact lens surface with decreased amounts of pressure. The pattern can be formed in one or more of many ways, and may comprise one or more of folds, patterning, bellows or concertinaed surface of an optically transmissive material having a substantially uniform thickness such as a sheet of a membrane material.
US11774780B2
A system of contact lenses includes at least two contact lenses, each lens having a visual correction for a non-rotationally symmetric eye aberration. Each lens has a different level or degree of a stabilization that is characterized by a thickness differential between a thickness of a stabilization zone and a thickness of a non-stabilization zone.
US11774776B2
The grating substrate includes a first base substrate and a plurality of grating units on the first base substrate. The grating unit includes two control layers, a barrier structure between the two control layers, and a plurality of movable particles in a closed cavity surrounded by the barrier structure and the two control layers. The two control layers include a first control layer and a second control layer. The first control layer is located on a side of the second control layer distal from the first base substrate, and the two control layers are configured to control movement of the plurality of particles. The particles satisfy at least one of the following conditions: the particles have a refractive index smaller than a refractive index of the first control layer, or the particles are non-transparent particles.
US11774770B2
An interface device is provided that is configured to allow viewing of three-dimensional (3-D) content when the interface device is worn. In certain embodiments, a wearable visualization device can be removably coupled to the interface device. The wearable visualization device, when in use, may provide additional viewing functionality, such as facilitating the viewing of augmented reality (AR) or virtual reality (VR).
US11774761B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate including a plurality of pixel areas spaced from each other, and a plurality of non-pixel areas respectively located between neighboring pixel areas, a plurality of pixel electrodes respectively located in at least a part of the plurality of pixel areas, and a scattering layer on the plurality of pixel electrodes, and including a plurality of non-scattering areas respectively at a central portion of each of the plurality of pixel areas, and a plurality of scattering areas respectively between neighboring non-scattering areas.
US11774754B2
A method for placement of a head-up display (HUD) is provided, including: rendering a view of a virtual environment for display to a user; tracking a gaze of the user as the user engages in interactivity with the rendered view of the virtual environment, wherein tracking the gaze of the user generates gaze data, the gaze data identifying locations within the rendered view that the gaze of the user is directed towards during the interactivity; using the gaze data to determine a preferred location for positioning of a HUD in the rendered view; positioning the HUD in the rendered view at the preferred location.
US11774752B2
A holographic display device includes a light source configured to emit light, the light including first light of a first wavelength, second light of a second wavelength, and third light of a third wavelength; a spatial light modulator configured to form a holographic pattern to modulate the light emitted from the light source and to produce a holographic image; and a focusing optical system configured to focus the holographic image. The focusing optical system includes a fixed-focus optical system having a fixed focal length, and a variable focus optical system having a focal length that is changed by electrical control. The fixed-focus optical system is configured to focus the first light of the first wavelength, the second light of the second wavelength, and the third light of the third wavelength on different positions, respectively, on an optical axis to cancel a chromatic aberration by the variable focus optical system.
US11774748B2
A scanline curvature correction mechanism includes a holding mechanism to extend in a main scanning direction and hold an optical element in the main scanning direction, a pressing member provided near a center of the optical element in the main scanning direction and press the optical element of the optical scanning device in the sub-scanning direction, and a curvature adjustment mechanism provided on an opposite side of the pressing member with the optical element interposed therebetween and to adjust a curvature of the optical element in the sub-scanning direction. The curvature adjustment mechanism includes an eccentric cam to rotate around a rotation axis parallel to an optical axis of the optical element and include a cam portion of which an outer peripheral surface is eccentric with respect to the rotation axis, and a fixing mechanism to stepwisely fix an angular position of rotation of the eccentric cam.
US11774747B2
The invention concerns an adaptive optical device (I) comprising a deformable plate (2) intended to deform an incident wavefront by refraction and/or reflection, characterised in that it comprises: —tabs (5) fixedly attached to the plate (2), —a frame (21) fixed relative to the plate (2), each tab (5) comprising a moving portion (22) connected to at least one respective peripheral actuator (7) in order that the latter can locally deform the tab (5) in order that the tab transmits a deformation force to the deformable plate (2), each tab (5) further comprising a respective fixed portion (23) fixedly attached to the frame (21) in order to be immobilised relative to the frame. The invention is particularly suitable for the introduction or controlled correction of an optical aberration in an incident wavefront.
US11774743B2
Disclosed herein are configurations for few-mode fiber optical endoscope systems employing distal optics and few-mode, double-clad or other optical fiber wherein the systems directing an optical beam to a sample via the optical fiber; collecting light backscattered from the sample; direct the backscattered light to a detector via the optical fiber; and detect the backscattered light; wherein the directed optical beam is single mode and the collected light is one or more higher order modes.
US11774741B2
A support facility for a binocular has a base, the base including a tripod connection facility, a flexible strap having a first strap end connected to the base, and an opposed second strap end, a tensioner connected to the base and to the second strap end, the flexible strap, the base, and the tensioner defining an opening configured to receive a first barrel of the binocular, and the flexible strap including a length adjustment facility adjustable over a range of length adjustment positions. The length adjustment facility may be configured to provide a selected strap length based on the diameter of the first barrel. The tensioner may be configured to operate between a released position in which the length adjustment facility is removable from or movable along the flexible strap and an engaged position in which the support facility is engaged to the first barrel.
US11774739B2
A method for regulating a light source of a microscope that illuminates an object, said method including specifying an intended value of an energy parameter of illumination radiation on the object; producing illumination radiation; providing an objective for focusing illumination radiation onto the object; ascertaining a transmission property of the objective for the illumination radiation; output coupling a component of the illumination radiation upstream of the objective as measurement radiation and measuring an actual value of the energy parameter of the measurement radiation; providing a relationship between energy parameters of the measurement radiation and energy parameters of the illumination radiation on the object, and setting the light source in such a way that the actual value of the energy parameter measured for the measurement radiation corresponds to the intended value of the energy parameter according to the relationship.
US11774730B2
An imaging lens for use with an operational waveband over any subset of 7.5-13.5 μm may include a first optical element of a first high-index material and a second optical element of a second high-index material, that may have a refractive index greater than 2.2 in the operational waveband, an absorption per mm of less than 75% in the operational waveband, and an absorption per mm of greater than 75% in a visible waveband of 400-650 nm. Optically powered surfaces of the imaging lens may include a sag across their respective clear apertures that are less than 10% of a largest clear aperture of the imaging lens. Respective maximum peak to peak thicknesses of the first and second optical elements may be similar in size, for example within 15 percent of each other. Ratios of maximum peak to peak thickness to clear aperture and, separately, to sag are also provided.
US11774725B2
Disclosed is a camera optical lens including six lenses from an object side to an image side being: a first lens with a positive refractive power, a second lens with a negative refractive power, a third lens with a negative refractive power, a fourth lens with a positive refractive power, a fifth lens with a negative refractive power, and a sixth lens. The camera optical lens satisfies: −5.00≤f2/f≤−2.00; 3.00≤R9/R10≤20.00; wherein, f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens, f2 denotes a focal length of the second lens, R9 denotes a central curvature radius of an object-side surface of the fifth lens, and R10 denotes a central curvature radius of an image-side surface of the fifth lens.
US11774723B2
A camera optical lens is provided. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, an eighth lens, and a ninth lens. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 0.60≤f1/f≤1.80; and 1.50≤d11/d12≤8.00, where f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens, f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens, d11 denotes an on-axis thickness of the sixth lens, and d12 denotes an on-axis distance from an image side surface of the sixth lens to an object side surface of the seventh lens. The camera optical lens according to the present disclosure satisfies design requirements for large-aperture, wide-angle, and ultra-thin lenses while achieving good optical performance.
US11774714B2
A photographing lens assembly includes eight lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, a seventh lens element and an eighth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The sixth lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The seventh lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The eighth lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, and the image-side surface of the eighth lens element has at least one critical point in an off-axis region thereof.
US11774704B2
A driving mechanism is provided, including a polygonal base unit, a holder, a first driving assembly, a sensing magnet, and a magnetic field sensor. The polygonal base unit includes a substrate and a circuit board disposed on the substrate. The holder is movably connected to the base unit, wherein the holder is configured to hold an optical element that defines an optical axis. The first driving assembly is configured to drive the holder to move relative to the base unit. The sensing magnet is disposed on the holder. The magnetic field sensor is configured to detect the sensing magnet, wherein the magnetic field sensor is accommodated in a recess of the substrate.
US11774699B2
An image capturing device is provided. The image capturing device includes an aperture unit, an image sensor, and a first lens unit. The first lens unit includes a first light-entering end and a first light-exiting end for focusing an external light on the image sensor. The aperture unit, the first lens unit, and the image sensor are sequentially arranged in a travel direction of the external light.
US11774680B2
A structure for coupling an optical signal between an integrated circuit photonic structure and an external optical fiber is disclosed as in a method of formation. The coupling structure is sloped relative to a horizontal surface of the photonic structure such that light entering or leaving the photonic structure is substantially normal to its upper surface.
US11774679B2
A ring resonator device includes a passive optical cavity having a circuitous configuration into which is built a photodetector device. The photodetector device includes a first implant region formed within the passive optical cavity that includes a first type of implanted doping material. The photodetector device includes a second implant region formed within the passive optical cavity that includes a second type of implanted doping material, where the second type of implanted doping material is different than the first type of implanted doping material. The photodetector device includes an intrinsic absorption region present within the passive optical cavity between the first implant region and the second implant region. A first electrical contact is electrically connected to the first implant region and to a detecting circuit. A second electrical contact is electrically connected to the second implant region and to the detecting circuit.
US11774672B2
An optical fiber includes a core, an inner cladding surrounding the core, and an outer cladding surrounding the inner cladding. A mean relative refractive index difference Δ1 of the core, a mean relative refractive index difference Δ2 of the inner cladding, and a mean relative refractive index difference Δ3 of the outer cladding satisfy a relationship of Δ1>Δ3≥Δ2. A ratio r2/r1 of an inner cladding radius r2 to a core radius r1 is 4.5 or higher and 5.5 or lower. A minimum value Δmin of a relative refractive index difference is −0.030% or higher and −0.010% or lower. A radius rmin at which the relative refractive index difference is the minimum value Δmin satisfies a relationship of r1
US11774663B2
A light guide plate includes a main body, stripe structures, and light-adjusting structures. The main body includes a light-incident surface and an optical surface. The stripe structures are disposed on the optical surface. The light-adjusting structures are disposed between two adjacent stripe structures. Each of the light-adjusting structures includes a first light active surface and a second light active surface. The first light active surface faces towards the light-incident surface. The second light active surface faces towards an opposite light-incident surface. The first light active surface and the second light active surface are inclined towards different directions and formed a non-symmetrical shape. A first included angle is formed between the first light active surface and the optical surface. A second included angle is formed between the second light active surface and the optical surface. The first included angle and the second included angle are acute angles.
US11774659B1
A display device includes an operation screen attached to an apparatus to accept instructions for the apparatus, display lamps each including a light emitter to provide notification of a state of the apparatus, a light source to emit light, a substrate on which the light source is mounted, a lens that makes up the light emitter of each one of the display lamps, a light guide to guide the light emitted from the light source to the lens, and a housing that covers the substrate. In the display device, the housing has an opening at which the lens is exposed, at an area including a corner formed by an edge of a top face on which the operation screen is disposed and a side face. In the display device, the lens and the light guide is coupled to each other at a coupling surface, and the coupling surface is orthogonal.
US11774655B2
A filter for an imaging device includes an array of phase-modulating nanostructures formed on a substrate. At least one phase-modulating nanostructure of the array of phase-modulating nanostructures changes a phase of incident light a predetermined amount based on a first width and a second width of the phase-modulating nanostructure in which the first width is perpendicular to the second width. In one embodiment, the filter focuses light incident on the filter towards a center a pixel of an image sensor at an image plane. In another embodiment, the phase-modulating nanostructure is formed from a material having a refractive index that is greater than 1.9. The filter can also be used to form a quarter-wave plate.
US11774635B2
An optical device includes a first zone including a first plurality of nanoscale elements. The first plurality of nanoscale elements has a first optical dispersion profile and a first orientation. The optical device has a second zone including a second plurality of nanoscale elements. The second plurality of nanoscale elements has a second optical dispersion profile and a second orientation. The first orientation and the second orientation are configured according to constructive interference for a plurality of wavelengths and a focal length.
US11774622B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving downhole logging data for a porous media. A pore size distribution index may be estimated based upon, at least in part, nuclear magnetic resonance data (NMR) from the downhole logging data of the porous media. A relative permeability and capillary pressure curve may be generated with a feasible region of solutions based upon, at least in part, the pore size distribution index.
US11774616B2
According certain aspects, embodiments of the invention consider the problem of microseismic event localization from a parameter estimation perspective, and include a method and system for computing and displaying characteristics of event localization errors. According to certain other aspects, embodiments of the invention include techniques for deriving aggregate statistics from a set of event location estimates, including methods for computing and displaying the probability that an event occurred in any given volume, and methods for describing and displaying the smallest volume that contains a specified percentage of the event probability or expected to contain the specified percentage of the events.
US11774614B2
This disclosure describes a system and method for generating images and location data of a subsurface object using existing infrastructure as a source. Many infrastructure objects (e.g., pipes, cables, conduits, wells, foundation structures) are constructed of rigid materials and have a known shape and location. Additionally these infrastructure objects can have exposed portions that are above or near the surface and readily accessible. A signal generator can be affixed to the exposed portion of the infrastructure object, which induces acoustic energy, or vibrations in the object. The object with affixed signal generator can then be used as a source in performing a subsurface imaging of subsurface objects, which are not exposed.
US11774607B2
A scintillator panel is provided. The scintillator panel comprises: a support; a scintillator configured to generate light in accordance with incident radiation; a light reflecting layer arranged between the support and the scintillator and configured to reflect the light; a semi-transmissive layer arranged between the light reflecting layer and the scintillator and configured to reflect part of the light and transmit other part of the light; and an optical adjustment layer arranged between the light reflecting layer and the semi-transmissive layer and configured to make an optical distance between the light reflecting layer and the semi-transmissive layer become a length with which the light resonates.
US11774605B2
A scintillator unit that can reduce crosstalk when the scintillator unit includes a plurality of scintillators and a radiation detector are provided. More specifically, a scintillator unit includes a reflective layer between a plurality of scintillators and the plurality of scintillators, wherein an adhesive layer and a low-refractive-index layer with a lower refractive index than the adhesive layer are located in this order on the scintillators between the scintillators and the reflective layer.
US11774602B1
A distributed navigation system includes navigation platforms, each having a universal navigation processor, relative navigation systems to provide source information to the navigation platforms, navigation filters provided on one or more of the universal navigation processors, and an anchor navigation node disposed on one or more of the navigation platforms to form one or more anchor navigation platforms. Each anchor navigation node includes an inertial navigation system, a clock, and absolute navigation systems, which are used, in combination with source information, to determine navigation information. The anchor navigation platforms provide the navigation information to other navigation platforms. The system further includes a navigation processor system in communication with the universal navigation processors to provide operating information updates to the universal navigation processors and a graphical user interface to display the navigation information to a user and permit the user to review and control the navigation information.
US11774592B2
A wireless multimode system includes: an array of N antenna elements that includes a first portion of M antenna elements and a second portion of L antenna elements; M transmission amplifiers configured to transmit, via the M antenna elements, frames of transmit data, where the frames of transmit data include transmit radar signals and transmit communication signals; M reception amplifiers configured to receive, via the M antenna elements, frames of receive data, where the frames of receive data includes receive communication signals; and L reception amplifiers configured to receive, via the L antenna elements, receive radar signals; and a resource scheduler configured to allocate bandwidth for transmit radar signals and transmit communication signals within the frames of transmit data based on one or more predetermined parameters.
US11774586B2
Described herein are methods and devices for improved location of any and all underwater structures or equipment installed underwater. In particular, systems are disclosed that combine optical and acoustic metrology for locating objects in underwater environments. The systems allow for relative positions of objects to be determined with great accuracy using optical techniques, and support enhanced location of devices that utilize acoustic location techniques. In addition, location information can be provided by the system even in conditions that make optical metrology techniques impossible or impractical.
US11774583B2
Example embodiments relate to self-reflection filtering techniques within radar data. A computing device may use radar data to determine a first radar representation that conveys information about surfaces in a vehicle's environment. The computing device may use a predefined model to generate a second radar representation that assigns predicted self-reflection values to respective locations of the environment based on the information about the surfaces conveyed by the first radar representation. The predefined model can enable a predefined self-reflection value to be assigned to a first location based on information about a surface positioned at a second location and a relationship between the first location and the second location. The computing device may then modify the first radar representation based on the predicted self-reflection values in the second radar representation and provide instructions to a control system of the vehicle based on modifying the first radar representation.
US11774582B2
This document describes methods and systems directed at imaging sensor and radar fusion for multiple-object tracking. Using tracking-by-detection, an object is first detected in a frame captured by an imaging sensor, and then the object is tracked over several consecutive frames by both the imaging sensor and a radar system. The object is tracked by assigning a probability that the object identified in one frame is a same object identified in the consecutive frame. A probability is calculated for each data set captured by a sensor by a supervised-learning neural-network model using the data collected from the sensors. Then, the probabilities associated with each sensor are fused into a refined probability. By fusing the data gathered by the imaging sensor and the radar system in the consecutive frames, a safety system can track multiple objects more accurately and reliably than using the sensor data separately to track objects.
US11774577B2
Systems and methods of measuring distance between two wireless devices by combining phase shift and time-of-flight measurements. A first wireless devices sends a first packet to the second wireless device. After receiving the first packet, the second wireless device sending to the first wireless device a second packet. After sending the second packet, the second wireless device sends a first continuous wave signal to the first wireless device. After receiving the first continuous wave signal, the first wireless device sends to the second wireless device a second continuous wave signal. The first wireless device then calculates a time-of-flight measurement based on a time between the first wireless device sending the first packet and receiving the second packet, and calculates a second measurement based on a phase shift of the first continuous wave signal and the second continuous wave signal, and combines the two measurements.
US11774575B2
Techniques are provided for extended object tracking using RADAR return points only. The techniques include receiving the return points from at least one RADAR sensor of the vehicle. One or more clusters based on or from the return points are generated. An estimated position and velocity of each of the one or more clusters is computed. A Recursive Least Squares (RLS) based algorithm is proposed to estimate the instantaneous velocity of a cluster in real-time that allows for accurate track-cluster association, removes the need to perform computationally expensive non-linear state updates, and allows for the estimation of the true velocity even in frames with a large amount of clutter. If it is determined that the one or more clusters are associated with an existing object track, the existing object track is updated using at least the respective positions of the one or more clusters associated with the existing object track.
US11774574B2
A computer implemented method for determining an angle of a detection comprises the following steps carried out by computer hardware components: acquiring a range rate of the detection; determining a pair of candidate angles of the detection based on the range rate; acquiring a beamvector of the detection; determining a correlation between the beamvector and a reference vector; and determining the angle of the detection based on the pair of candidate angles and based on the correlation.
US11774573B2
A system for determining a stationary state of a rail vehicle on a track includes a first radar mounted at an end of the rail vehicle and a second radar mounted at another end of the rail vehicle. A speed sensor is mounted on the rail vehicle. A series of fixed reflective track features are found along the track. A processing unit, communicably connected with the speed sensor, the first radar and the second radar receives data from the first radar and the second radar corresponding to the distance to the fixed reflective track features and determines the stationary state or low-speed condition of the rail vehicle and checks the state or condition by comparing it with an output of the speed sensor.
US11774572B2
A method for measuring, using a radar or sonar, the velocity with respect to the ground of a carrier moving parallel to the ground, includes the following steps: a) orienting the line of sight of the radar or sonar toward the ground; b) emitting a plurality of radar or sonar signals (P1-PN) that are directed toward the ground, and acquiring respective echo signals (E1-EN); c) processing the acquired echo signals so as to obtain, for one or more echo delay values, a corresponding Doppler spectrum; d) for the or at least one the echo delay value, determining a high cut-off frequency of the corresponding Doppler spectrum; and e) computing the velocity of the carrier with respect to the ground on the basis of the one or more high cut-off frequencies. A system allowing such a method to be implemented.
US11774565B2
In accordance with some embodiments, a light detection and ranging (LiDAR) scanning system includes a light source. The light source is configured to transmit a pulse of light. The LiDAR scanning system also includes a beam steering apparatus configured to steer the pulse of light in at least one of vertically and horizontally along an optical path. The beam steering apparatus is further configured to concurrently collect scattered light generated based on the light pulse illuminating an object in the optical path. The scattered light is coaxial or substantially coaxial with the optical path. The LiDAR scanning system further includes a light converging apparatus configured to direct the collected scattered light to a focal point. The LiDAR scanning system further includes a light detector, which is situated substantially at the focal point. In some embodiments, the light detector can include an array of detectors or detector elements.
US11774553B2
In an embodiment, a method includes: transmitting a plurality of radar signals using a millimeter-wave radar sensor towards a target; receiving a plurality of reflected radar signals that correspond to the plurality of transmitted radar signals using the millimeter-wave radar; mixing a replica of the plurality of transmitted radar signals with the plurality of received reflected radar signals to generate an intermediate frequency signal; generating raw digital data based on the intermediate frequency signal using an analog-to-digital converter; processing the raw digital data using a constrained L dimensional convolutional layer of a neural network to generate intermediate digital data, where L is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2, and where the neural network includes a plurality of additional layers; and processing the intermediate digital data using the plurality of additional layers to generate information about the target.
US11774549B2
In a mobile part having at least one module, and a method for operating a mobile part, the mobile part is able to be moved on a driving surface, and the module includes a controllable illumination device. The illumination device is provided and/or situated in elongated form along a planar curve, in particular, a line.
US11774547B2
The present disclosure describes a self-positioning system, a tracking beacon and a self-positioning method for a vehicle. The self-positioning system is configured to estimate an direction of arrival of a radio wave tracking beacon signal arriving at an antenna array of the vehicle from a non-stationary tracking beacon unit, estimate Euclidian distance between the self-positioning system and the tracking beacon unit by using wireless radio-frequency communication between the self-positioning system and the tracking beacon unit, and determine position data identifying a three-dimensional position of the self-positioning system with respect to tracking beacon unit on the basis of the estimates of the direction of arrival and the Euclidian distance.
US11774545B2
The disclosure relates to a method for creating an object map for a factory environment by using sensors present in the factory environment, wherein at least one part of an object in the factory environment has information relating to its position recorded by at least two of the sensors, wherein the information recorded by the sensors is transmitted to a server associated with the sensors, and wherein the server is used to take the information recorded and transmitted by the sensors as a basis for creating an object map for the factory environment having a position of the at least one part of the object.
US11774535B2
A method for MRI reconstruction is provided. The method may include obtaining a plurality of sub-sampled images of a subject. The plurality of sub-sampled images may include a first sub-sampled image of the subject and one or more second sub-sampled images of the subject. The first sub-sampled image may be generated using a first MRI sequence and a first sub-sampling rate. Each of the one or more second sub-sampled images may be generated using a second MRI sequence and a second sub-sampling rate. The second sub-sampling rate may be smaller than the first sub-sampling rate. The method may include obtaining an image reconstruction model having been trained according to a machine learning technique. The method may further include generating a first full image of the subject corresponding to the first MRI sequence based on the first sub-sampled image, the one or more second sub-sampled images, and the image reconstruction model.
US11774534B2
A method for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may include cause, based on a pulse sequence, a magnetic resonance (MR) scanner to perform a scan on an object. The pulse sequence may include a steady-state sequence and an acquisition sequence that is different from the steady-state sequence. The steady-state sequence may correspond to a steady-state phase of the scan in which no MR data is acquired. The acquisition sequence may correspond to an acquisition phase of the scan in which MR data of the object is acquired. The method may also include generating one or more images of the object based on the MR data.
US11774531B1
A magnetic resonance (MR) system is provided. The system includes a main magnet assembly configured to generate a polarizing magnetic field, a gradient coil assembly including a plurality of gradient coils configured to apply at least one gradient field to the polarizing magnetic field, and a shield assembly positioned between the main magnet assembly and the gradient coil assembly. The shield assembly includes a conductive layer fabricated with an electrically conductive material and defining grooves positioned through the conductive layer, wherein the grooves are configured to block motional eddy currents caused by actions of the polarizing magnetic field and the at least one gradient field when the at least one gradient field is applied.
US11774523B2
Transistor devices are provided. In some example implementations, a magnetic field sensor chip is fitted on a load electrode of a transistor chip. In other example implementations, two magnetic field sensors are arranged on a load electrode of a transistor chip in such a way that they measure different effective magnetic fields in the event of current flow through the transistor chip.
US11774519B2
In a described example, a structure includes a substrate having a surface with multiple sides. A sensor is positioned within the substrate and a seed layer is over at least four sides of the surface of the substrate. A magnetic shield layer is over the seed layer for the at least four sides of the surface of the substrate.
US11774515B2
A battery cell error determining apparatus including: a magnetic field measurement unit configured to measure a magnetic field generated by a current flowing in a battery cell, and a control unit configured to calculate a capacity of the battery cell by using a current calculated by the magnetic field measured by the magnetic field measurement unit. The control unit determines an error of the battery cell by using the capacity of the battery cell.
US11774511B2
Provided is a device or the like that can improve the accuracy of battery performance evaluation of a rechargeable battery. Parameter values of a rechargeable battery model are identified on the basis of a measurement result of a complex impedance Z of a first rechargeable battery 221. The rechargeable battery model expresses an impedance of an internal resistance of the first rechargeable battery 221 with transfer functions representing IIR and FIR systems, respectively. Performance of a second rechargeable battery 222 is evaluated on the basis of a result of contrast between a voltage response characteristic V(t) that is output from a rechargeable battery 220 as the second rechargeable battery 222 when an impulse current I(t) is input to the second rechargeable battery 222, and a model voltage response characteristic Vmodel(t) when the impulse current is input to the rechargeable battery model having the parameter values identified.
US11774507B2
A method for estimating a power limit of a battery pack is disclosed, including: obtaining an actual minimum cell voltage of an electrical core with a minimum voltage in the battery pack; obtaining a static discharge power limit of the battery pack; calculating, based on the actual minimum cell voltage, an estimated discharge voltage of the electrical core with the minimum voltage for use when the battery pack is discharged based on the static discharge power limit; determining whether the estimated discharge voltage falls between a discharge voltage control threshold of the electrical core with the minimum voltage and an undervoltage threshold of the electrical core with the minimum voltage; and determining a target discharge power limit of the battery pack through a discharge interpolation algorithm when the estimated discharge voltage falls between the discharge voltage control threshold and the undervoltage threshold.
US11774502B2
A battery device includes a first battery and a second battery connected in series. An electronic device for determining a state of charge of the battery device includes a sense resistor connected in series to the second battery, and a fuel gauge. The fuel gauge is configured to determine the state of charge of the battery device based on a first terminal voltage of the first battery, a first calculation current of the first battery, a second terminal voltage of the second battery, and a measurement current of the second battery measured through the sense resistor. The fuel gauge calculates a second calculation current of the second battery using a battery parameter of an equivalent circuit model, corrects the battery parameter when a difference between the measurement current and the second calculation current is not less than a threshold value, and calculates the first calculation current using the battery parameter or a corrected battery parameter.
US11774497B2
The present invention discloses an isolation circuit having test mechanism. An isolation circuit component performs signal transmission when a signal that a control terminal receives has an enabling state and performs signal isolation when the signal has a disabling state. The test circuit includes a multiplexer and a control circuit. Under a shifting operation state in a test mode, the control circuit controls the multiplexer to select an operation input terminal to receive and output an isolation control signal having the enabling state to the control input terminal. Under a capturing operation state in the test mode, the control circuit controls the multiplexer to select a test input terminal to receive and output the test signal to the control input terminal. The control circuit further determines whether the isolation circuit performs signal transmission or signal isolation according to the signals at the data input terminal and the data output terminal.
US11774491B1
The present application provides a testing system. The testing system includes a chip socket and a probe. The chip socket includes a pedestal and a fastener. The pedestal is configured to accommodate a chip to be tested. The fastener includes a top body and a base body. The top body includes a probing window surrounded by a plurality of side walls, wherein the probing window has a first end at an outer surface of the top body and a second end at an inner surface of the top body, a first angle between a first side wall of the plurality of side walls and the outer surface is less than 90 degrees, and a first opening area at the first end of the probing window is larger than a second opening area at the second end of the probing window.
US11774485B2
The present disclosure is applicable to the technical field of maintenance of submarine cables, and provides a fault diagnosis method and apparatus for a submarine cable, and a device. The method includes: obtaining deployment data and sensed data of a target submarine cable; and inputting the deployment data and the sensed data into a trained fault diagnosis model to obtain a diagnosis result of the target submarine cable, where the fault diagnosis model is a probabilistic neural network model, and the diagnosis result includes a fault type. The present disclosure uses the trained probabilistic neural network model as the fault diagnosis model to diagnose a fault of the target submarine cable, and can quickly and accurately obtain the fault type of the target submarine cable.
US11774478B2
Systems, devices, computer-implemented methods, and/or computer program products that facilitate low power, wideband multitone generation. In one example, a multitone generator device can comprise a controller operatively coupled to first and second digital-to-analog converters (DACs). The controller can apply different delays of a sampling signal to the first and second DACs to facilitate sideband suppression of signals output by the first and second DACs. One aspect of such a multitone generator device is that the multitone generator device can facilitate low power, wideband multitone generation.
US11774473B2
A meter collar includes a connection path to form an electrical connection between a distributed energy resource (DER) meter and line voltage wirings of an electric distribution system and a second connection path to form an electrical connection between the DER meter and neutral wires of the electric distribution system, a DER device, and a load. Further, the meter collar includes a third connection path within the meter collar to form an electrical connection between the DER meter and output voltage wirings of the DER device. Furthermore, the meter collar includes mating connectors electrically connected to a first end of a corresponding connection path to accept mating connectors of the DER meter. The meter collar also includes mating connectors electrically connected to a second end of the corresponding connection path to mate with the line voltage wirings, the neutral wires, and the output voltage wirings.
US11774463B2
In one example, dispenser stages described herein may include a dispenser platform comprising: a stage coupled to a rail system to move the stage in a first plane and a second plane, an alignment feature coupled to the stage to align a substrate nest coupled to the stage with a dispenser positioned above the stage, and a releasable fastener to couple the substrate nest to the stage.
US11774461B2
The present invention pertains to the field of coagulation diagnostics and relates to a prothrombin time reagent on the basis of recombinant or native tissue factor protein and phospholipids, which reagent can be stabilized by the addition of an iron chelator from the groups of siderophores and 3,5-diphenyl-1,2,4-triazoles.
US11774458B2
Disclosed herein are methods for diagnosing a subject with loss and/or distortion of taste or smell, e.g., hyposmia, dysosmia, anosmia, phantosmia, hypogeusia, dysgeusia, phantogeusia, and/or ageusia. Also disclosed herein are methods and compositions for treating a subject for loss and/or distortion of taste or smell, e.g., hyposmia, dysosmia, anosmia, phantosmia, hypogeusia, dysgeusia, phantogeusia, and/or ageusia.
US11774457B2
Protein biomarkers may be used to rapidly and accurately diagnose stroke. Biomarkers may be utilized in a rapid and inexpensive test that could be used at the bedside or ambulatory setting to definitively indicate the presence or absence of stroke and its severity. Such a test would quickly stratify patients in need of immediate stroke treatment from those who are not having a stroke. The test may aid emergency personnel in the decision for the most appropriate treatment plan and treatment location, thereby minimizing morbidity and mortality of stroke patients.
US11774449B2
Presented herein are methods of evaluating cellular activity by: placing a cell population on an area; assaying for a dynamic behavior of the cell population as a function of time; identifying cell(s) of interest based on the dynamic behavior; characterizing a molecular profile of the cell(s); and correlating the obtained information. The assayed dynamic behavior can include cellular activation, cellular inhibition, cellular interaction, protein expression, protein secretion, cellular proliferation, changes in cellular morphology, motility, cell death, cell cytotoxicity, cell lysis, and combinations thereof. Sensors associated with the area may be utilized to facilitate assaying. Molecular profiles of the cell(s) can then be characterized by various methods, such as DNA analysis, RNA analysis, and protein analysis. The dynamic behavior and molecular profile can then be correlated for various purposes, such as predicting clinical outcome of a treatment, screening cells, facilitating a treatment, diagnosing a disease, and monitoring cellular activity.
US11774446B2
Provided herein are methods, assays and devices for the detection and diagnosis of autoimmune diseases, including systemic lupus erythematosus. The methods, assays and devices provided herein analyzes binding patterns of peripheral-blood antibodies on peptide array that correlates well with current systemic lupus erythematosus clinical assessment standards.
US11774441B2
The present invention relates to a method for determining the fertility of spermatozoa, said method comprising determining the total content of Vimentin variant 3 (Vim3) per spermatozoon and/or the spatial localization of the Vim3 in the spermatozoa, wherein a decreased amount of total content and/or decreased amount of (or even missing) accumulation of Vim3 in the mid piece of the spermatozoa indicates decreased fertility. Further, the present invention refers to a dipstick usable for this method. Moreover, the present invention relates to further methods and uses in the context of the present invention.
US11774427B2
Methods of and apparatus for monitoring the health of a fuel oxygen conversion unit for a vehicle or a vehicle engine are provided. For example, a method comprises providing a distribution of sensed values obtained from a plurality of sensors distributed along an axial length of a gas oxygen reduction unit of the fuel oxygen conversion unit and determining the health of the fuel oxygen conversion unit from the distribution. As another example, a fuel oxygen conversion unit defines a circulation gas flowpath from a fuel gas separator to a contactor and comprises a gas oxygen reduction unit positioned in the circulation gas flowpath for reducing an oxygen content of a flow of stripping gas through the circulation gas flowpath. A plurality of sensors are distributed along an axial length of the gas oxygen reduction unit.
US11774426B1
In one illustrative configuration, a method of locating an emission source of a target substance at a site is disclosed. The method may include obtaining predicted substance concentrations of the target substance from a prediction model to generate a mapping of a weighted mean of the plurality of the predicted substance concentrations grouped in a predetermined number of feature groups. A simulated plume model is generated for each emission source present at the site to calculate representative circular normal distributions for each air quality monitor. By performing an analysis of the plurality of representative circular normal distributions in relation to the mapping, a target emission source is identified.
US11774422B2
The present disclosure is directed to a selective multi-gas sensor device that detects when a high concentration level of a particular gas, such as methane, carbon monoxide, and/or ethanol, is present. The selective multi-gas sensor device detects and identifies a particular gas based on a ratio between a sensitivity of a gas sensitive material at a first temperature and a sensitivity of the gas sensitive material at a second temperature.
US11774420B2
The present invention relates to method and an apparatus for quantitatively analyzing a gaseous process stream, in particular a stream from a process for producing ethylene carbonate and/or ethylene glycol, in particular where such stream comprises gaseous organic iodides.
US11774404B2
An electrode for use in instruments capable of measuring the electrophoretic mobility of particles in solution is disclosed. The electrode is comprised of an inexpensive support member, generally made of titanium, onto a flat surface of which has been connected, generally by microwelding, a flat electrically conductive but chemically inert foil member, preferably platinum. A uniform texture can be generated on the exposed surfaces of the electrode by various means including tumbling the electrode with an abrasive. An oxide layer can be generated on the support member by soaking the composite electrode in an appropriate medium, protecting the exposed surface of the support member from fluid contact with the sample solution, while the foil member, unaffected by the oxidation process, is able to contact the sample solution.
US11774403B2
A first cell includes a first electrode in a measurement gas chamber and a second electrode in a reference gas chamber. A second cell includes a third electrode in the measurement gas chamber and a fourth electrode in the reference gas chamber to cause a current therebetween that corresponds to a concentration of a specific gas component in detected gas in the measurement chamber. A controller selectively implements a normal control and a reduction control. The normal control is to apply a lower voltage to the first electrode and the second electrode to remove oxygen from the detected gas. The reduction control is to apply a higher voltage to the first electrode and the second electrode to reduce the third electrode that is oxidized. The controller prohibits implementation of the reduction control on determination that implementation of the reduction control.
US11774400B2
Example devices include a cis well associated with a cis electrode, a trans well associated with a trans electrode, and a field effect transistor (FET) positioned between the cis well and the trans well. Examples of the field effect transistor (FET) include a fluidic system defined therein. The fluidic system includes a first cavity facing the cis well, a second cavity fluidically connected to the trans well, and a through via extending through the field effect transistor from the first cavity. A first nanoscale opening fluidically connects the cis well and the first cavity, the first nanoscale opening having an inner diameter. A second nanoscale opening fluidically connects the through via and the second cavity, the second nanoscale opening having an inner diameter. The second nanoscale opening inner diameter is larger than the first nanoscale opening inner diameter.
US11774396B2
Disclosed herein are an apparatus for electrically assessing and/or manipulating cells. One aspect is directed to electrically mapping cells on the surface of the semiconductor substrate via cross-electrode impedance measurements. Further according to some aspects, the electrode array allows for spatially addressable electrical stimulation and/or recording of electrical signals in real-time using the CMOS circuitry. Some of these aspects are directed to using an electrode array to perform cell patterning through electrochemical gas generation, and extracellular electrochemical mapping.
US11774375B1
A neutron imaging system that includes a central neutron source configured to produce source neutrons, wherein the central neutron source comprises a beam target, a moderator chamber surrounding at least a portion of the beam target, the moderator chamber housing a moderator, and a re-entrant cone extending into the moderator chamber. The re-entrant cone includes an entrance surface facing the beam target. The entrance surface encloses a cone chamber, isolating the cone chamber from the moderator. Furthermore, the entrance surface is shaped such that source neutrons produced at the beam target impinge the entrance surface with a neutron flux that varies by 10% or less along the entrance surface.
US11774371B2
A system has detectors configured to receive a beam of light reflected from a wafer. For example, three detectors may be used. Each of the detectors is a different channel. Images from the detectors are combined into a pseudo-color RGB image. A convolutional neural network unit (CNN) can receive the pseudo-color RGB image and determine a size of a defect in the pseudo-color RGB image. The CNN also can classify the defect into a size category.
US11774368B2
A light table apparatus and inspection methods are provided for detecting fluid-transmitting defects in heat exchanger plates using light. The method includes positioning the heat exchanger plate on top of a support frame of the apparatus, and covering peripheral portions of the heat exchanger plate with at least one light-shielding element. In some examples, the light-shielding element may be edge mats that cover peripheral portions of the plate, or alternatively, may be a gasket-like template that engages a resilient light seal with profiles of the heat exchanger plate surrounding a central portion thereof. The ambient environment is darkened and illumination units in the support frame are activated, and light energy can only be transmitted through defects in the central portion. Thus, a quick manual inspection process is provided for such plates, and defects as small as 15 microns are accurately detected when using the light table apparatus and inspection methods.
US11774367B1
A Raman detection system has a Raman spectrometer and a fixing light shielding stand. One end of the fixing light shielding stand is fixedly connected to the Raman spectrometer, and the other end is disposed with an entrance groove for a needle-like SERS probe to enter. A slot for fixing the needle-like SERS probe is formed at an end of the entrance groove, and the slot and the needle-like SERS probe match in shape and size. The Raman detection system has a fixing light shielding device with a dark color groove and a focal length. The groove can be used for limiting the rolling of the curved surface structure of the needle-like SERS probe. A laser can be focused on the curved surface more accurately by adjusting the distance from the instrument detector to the SERS probe.
US11774364B2
Apparatus and methods for acquiring a Raman spectral map of a sample including a material species. The apparatus includes: a pulsed illumination source providing pulsed illumination radiation for exciting the sample and producing scattered radiation; a microscope objective focusing the pulsed illumination radiation onto a region of the sample corresponding to a data point of the map, and collecting emitted radiation from the region; a translation stage translating the sample relative to the microscope objective in at least two directions; a spectral filter spectrally filtering the emitted radiation collected by the objective to obtain a filtered portion of radiation corresponding to a characteristic Raman spectral feature of the material species; a detector receiving the filtered portion and providing output electrical pulses indicative thereof; and readout electronics applying a time gate to the output electrical pulses to distinguish detection events corresponding to the Raman scattered radiation from events associated with photoluminescence.
US11774363B2
The present invention generally relates to improved methods for the manufacture of inhalation powders. More particularly, aspects of the disclosure relate to methods for in-line monitoring of powder blending by Raman spectroscopy.
US11774349B2
An example system for measuring emissions from a building includes a housing, a plurality of sensors arranged in the housing to detect concentrations of gas constituents in gas exiting the building, a gas flow sensor to detect a gas flow rate of the gas exiting the building, and a computing device to perform functions of calculating a total emissions of the particular gas constituent being tracked from a concentration of the particular gas constituent detected by the plurality of sensors and the gas flow rate, calculating an emission rate of the particular gas constituent being tracking, determining whether the total emissions and the emission rate of the particular gas constituent are within acceptable ranges, and based on the total emissions and the emission rate of the particular gas constituent being outside the acceptable ranges, outputting a prompt to a building computer system or operator indicating an alert.
US11774348B2
The present disclosure relates to a sensor system having at least one measuring point having at least one first sensor and one measuring transducer. The first sensor is configured to output first sensor signals that are a function of a first measurand of a measuring medium present at the measuring point. The measuring transducer is connected to the first sensor in order to receive the first sensor signals and comprises an evaluation application which is configured to determine one additional piece of information that is different from the first measurand using an evaluation algorithm on the basis of at least the first sensor signals. The sensor system furthermore comprises a higher-level data processing structure, such as a server or a cloud. Both the higher-level data processing structure and the measuring transducer are configured to execute a training application configured to train the evaluation algorithm.
US11774346B2
In an analysis of a fluid component using a nanomechanical sensor covered with a receptor, the same receptor is caused to express different response characteristics. In a measuring system of analyzing a response when a sample gas and a purge gas are supplied to a nanomechanical sensor while switching the sample gas and the purge gas, a gas (external gas) different from both gases is mixed into a gas channel and supplied to the sensor for measurement. Since a response characteristic of a receptor is modulated by mixing of the external gas, the object described above is achieved.
US11774342B2
Various sensors, including particulate matter sensors, are described. One particulate matter sensor includes a self-mixing interferometry sensor and a set of one or more optical elements. The set of one or more optical elements is positioned to receive an optical emission of the self-mixing interferometry sensor, split the optical emission into multiple beams, and direct each beam of the multiple beams in a different direction. The self-mixing interferometry sensor is configured to generate particle speed information for particles passing through respective measurement regions of the multiple beams.
US11774334B1
Disclosed herein is a gas fitting pressure test device in one example having a test plate with a first side configured to seal to a gas fitting. The gas fitting having a surface defining a void therein. The test device also having a gas conduit through the first side of the test plate, the gas conduit configured to be in fluid communication with an inner void of the gas fitting. The test device also having an electromagnet adjacent the second side of the test plate, configured to provide magnetic force on the gas fitting greater than the force exerted on the gas fitting. The test device having or connected to a source of positive gas pressure in fluid communication with the gas conduit.
US11774330B2
A histologic tissue sample support device includes a tissue cassette a frame, and a lid. The tissue cassette has a recess including a body with at least one side wall and a bottom wall and is formed of material that can be successfully sectioned in a microtome and is resistant to degradation from solvents and chemicals used to fix, process and stain tissue. The tissue cassette is movably coupled to the frame. The lid is separably coupled to a peripheral portion of the frame. When the lid is separated from the peripheral portion, the lid and the tissue cassette are capable of moving from a first position to a second position with respect to the frame, and in the second position the bottom wall and at least a portion of the side wall extend beyond a bottom edge of the frame for sectioning in the microtome.
US11774329B2
An active/resilient grinding media inside a tube containing a sample is oscillated rapidly by a homogenizer so that the active media is driven in a first direction until it impacts a first end of the tube, which causes it to deform and store an energy charge as it decelerates and stops, and it then accelerates rapidly in the second opposite direction under the discharging force of the stored energy toward the opposite second end of the tube. This cycle of the active media decelerating/charging and then discharging/accelerating is repeated throughout the entire oscillatory processing of the sample. The result is much higher velocities of the active media and therefore much greater impact forces when the sample and active media collide, producing increased efficiency in disruption and size-reduction of the sample particles.
US11774319B2
A method of designing a test fixture configured to mount to a vibration slip table and fix a test article to the vibration slip table during a vibration test includes performing finite element analysis using one or more boundary conditions determined from parameters of the vibration slip table, the test article, or the vibration test to optimize a topology of the test fixture, and outputting a geometric model of the test fixture having the optimized topology. Another method of designing a test fixture includes inputting the one or more boundary conditions into a topology optimizing solver. A vibration test system includes a test fixture designed according to the method.
US11774316B2
An apparatus for carrying out load testing on an aircraft part is described. In one aspect, the apparatus includes means for constraining the aircraft part and a linear actuator for applying a test load. The linear actuator has a first part being tiltable and being pivotally constrained about a first and a second geometrical axes, orthogonal to one another, and a second part being slidably mounted on the first part to slide along a longitudinal direction. A load cell, mounted on the second part, measures force acting on the aircraft part along the longitudinal direction. In one aspect, a first clinometer and a second clinometer are mounted on the linear actuator, each clinometer measuring a respective angle representative of rotation of the linear actuator respectively about the first and second geometrical axes. A displacement transducer measures sliding of the second part relative to the first part of the linear actuator.
US11774311B2
A testbench system is disclosed. The system includes a network interface; a memory storage; a transducer; and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to operate in a first phase and: perform calibration of the transducer and generate calibration data; generate a unique identification (CTS-ID) for the transducer based on the calibration data; mark the transducer with the CTS-ID; and provide the CTS-ID and the calibration data to the network interface for transmission to a database.
US11774306B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to apparatus and methods for semiconductor processing, more particularly, to a system and method for monitoring a rotation-lift assembly of a process chamber. The rotation-lift assembly outputs a torque feedback signal which is processed by a controller to determine if the rotation-lift assembly has a fault or is near failure. The controller determines torque data from the torque feedback signal, compares the torque data to preexisting torque data, and, based on the comparison, issue a notice of a state of the rotation-lift assembly.
US11774305B2
A magnetostrictive torque sensor includes detection coils formed around a magnetostrictive material made of chrome steel or chrome molybdenum steel, a magnetic ring configured to cover around the detection coils, and a drive unit for providing alternating current excitation to the detection coils at an excitation frequency of 50 kHz or more and 333 kHz or less. A torque applied to the magnetostrictive material is detected based on a change in inductance of the detection coils. The magnetic ring is configured by wrapping around the detection coils with an amorphous tape made of amorphous soft magnetic material in a tape shape. The thickness of the magnetic ring is 1.455 times or more as thick as a skin effect thickness of the magnetostrictive material and less than 1.000 mm.
US11774291B1
Some embodiments provide imaging polarimeter systems comprising: a polarization modulator system configured to modulate a polarization state of an incident beam at a repetition frequency, and outputting a polarized modulated beam; a polarizer positioned to produce an intensity modulated beam; and a detector system comprising: an optical sensor array; a digital read-out integrated circuit (DROIC); and a polarization state system; wherein the optical sensor array is optically aligned with at least a portion of the beam path such that the intensity modulated beam impinges on the sensor array; wherein the DROIC, for each pixel of the optical sensor array, is configured to separate, over time and within an integration frame rate, sets of photo-generated counts; and wherein the polarization state system is configured to identify a series of polarization states for each pixel based on the sets of photo-generated counts and according to the integration frame rate.
US11774283B2
A photodetector device includes an avalanche photodiode array substrate. A circuit substrate includes time measurement circuits and a clock driver. Each of the time measurement circuit includes a delay line unit, and is arranged to acquire, from an operation result of a delay line, time information indicating timing at which a pulse signal is input from a corresponding avalanche photodiode. The delay line unit is arranged to initiate an operation of the delay line in response to input of the pulse signal to the time measurement circuit, and to stop the operation of the delay line in response to input of a clock signal from a clock driver to the time measurement circuit, and is arranged to detect a time interval shorter than a cycle of the clock signal by the operation of the delay line.
US11774264B2
In methods and systems for providing information to a user relating to a point-of-interest (POI), a query is received via a communication network. A processor receives information relating to at least one POI based on the received query. The retrieved information comprises a set of retrieved POI tips relating to the POI. Each of the set of retrieved POI tips is previously extracted from POI free-text reviews and respectively associated in the data storage with one or more semantic categories based on a predefined tip ontology. The processor generates a user interface interactively displaying the retrieved POI tips and the semantic categories associated with each of the POI tips. The displayed POI tips are sorted by their associated displayed semantic categories. The generated user interface is transmitted to a computing device for display.
US11774263B2
The described technology is generally directed towards creation of shared overlay maps to support automated, real-time, cross-platform sharing of map information among groups of digital navigational map users, including but not limited to unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). A central map authority (or other collaborative/federated organizational entity) can receive map overlay information from a mobile subscriber device, such as a UGV. The central map authority can promulgate the map overlay information to a group of multiple mobile subscriber devices according to the techniques described herein. Individual mobile subscriber devices can use received map overlay information, along with their individual digital navigational maps (DNMs) and navigation systems, to plan their individual routes.
US11774258B2
A device mounted on a vehicle includes a processor configured to receive information for traveling guidance, which is generated based on an image of a specific point. The image of the specific point is captured by another vehicle, and the specific point is a point at which a traveling route of a different vehicle deviates from a guidance route.
US11774252B2
Aspects of the present disclosure include a navigation system and computer-implemented methods for proactively re-routing vehicles to control traffic flow. Consistent with some embodiments, the navigation system seeks to reduce traffic flow along primary navigation routes (e.g., routes with relatively short travel times) by re-routing vehicles to alternative navigation routes (e.g., routes with relatively longer travel times) using incentives. As an example, upon detecting a vehicle traveling along an alternative route instead of a primary route, the navigation system updates a data structure that represents a user account of a vehicle occupant to reflect an increased account balance. Consistent with some embodiments, the amount of value provided to an occupant of a vehicle traveling along an alternative routes may be obtained from user accounts of occupants of other vehicles that are traveling along a primary route.
US11774247B2
A method for generating intermediate waypoints for a navigation system of a robot includes receiving a navigation route. The navigation route includes a series of high-level waypoints that begin at a starting location and end at a destination location and is based on high-level navigation data. The high-level navigation data is representative of locations of static obstacles in an area the robot is to navigate. The method also includes receiving image data of an environment about the robot from an image sensor and generating at least one intermediate waypoint based on the image data. The method also includes adding the at least one intermediate waypoint to the series of high-level waypoints of the navigation route and navigating the robot from the starting location along the series of high-level waypoints and the at least one intermediate waypoint toward the destination location.
US11774242B2
A work machine includes a work implement and a vehicle body including a first vehicle body portion, a mount attached to the first vehicle body portion, and a second vehicle body portion supported on the first vehicle body portion via the mount. A control system for the work machine includes a vehicle body positional sensor, a work implement positional sensor, and a controller. The vehicle body positional sensor is attached to the second vehicle body portion and outputs vehicle body position data indicative of a position of the second vehicle body portion. The work implement positional sensor is attached to the second vehicle body portion and outputs work implement position data indicative of a relative position of the work implement with respect to the second vehicle body portion. The controller calculates a position of the work implement based on the vehicle body position data and the work implement position data.
US11774229B2
An Eddy current sensor device includes a sender member emitting a magnetic field and two sensing members. A central position sensing member includes a pair of central sense coils each being formed by a plurality of turns, and an edge position sensing member includes a pair of edge sense coils each being formed by a plurality of turns.
US11774217B2
A target sight system includes a base portion with a gun-mounting interface allowing the sight to be firmly fastened to a shooting device. The base also includes a power supply, a target light generator, and a light-passing surface through which the target light passes between the target light generator and a target. The sight system also includes a cover that is detachably removable from the base portion.
US11774211B2
A projectile magazine for use with an airgun having a bolt is described herein. The magazine includes a housing with a loading end and openings along a longitudinal axis extending from the loading end to a loading area. The magazine further includes a carousel with a plurality of projectile holders movable through the loading area. Each projectile holder has a projectile holder gap facing the loading end when in the loading area. The projectile holder gap is smaller than a width of the bolt and the projectile holder is resiliently deformable to allow the bolt through the projectile holder gap when exposed to forces created during separation of the magazine and the bolt through the frame gap while the projectile holder does not deform to allow a projectile to be removed from the projectile gap when exposed to the forces generated by a projectile during use of the magazine.
US11774208B1
Shooting assemblies having a shooting rest, a sheath, and a firearm rest. The shooting assemblies alternate between a stowed and a deployed configuration for use as a walking staff in the stowed configuration, and as a shooting rest in the deployed configuration. The height and/or position of the shooting rest and firearm rest is adjustable to accommodate different users and different terrains on which the shooting assemblies are used.
US11774203B2
A link feed assembly. There is: a bolt carrier near a chamber of a modular weapon system; an infeed ramp, coupled to a first side of a weapon frame near the chamber; an outfeed ramp, coupled to a second side of the capon frame near the chamber and opposite the infeed ramp, positioned to form a space between the infeed ramp and the outfeed ramp; and a feed arm assembly coupled to the weapon frame and extending over the space between the infeed ramp and the outfeed ramp, the feed arm assembly functionally coupled to the bolt carrier such that cycling of the bolt carrier forward and backwards causes cycling of the feed arm assembly in a circuitous motion, the feed arm including a grabbing protrusion that is shaped to grab a top portion of a link during cycling of the feed arm assembly.
US11774190B2
Pierced thermal interface constructions including a thermal interface material (TIM) structure comprising: a TIM sheet comprising a plurality of piercings, where each of the plurality of piercings comprises a cavity and displaced material, and where the displaced material from each of the plurality of piercings protrudes away from the TIM sheet.
US11774188B2
A heat exchanger includes: a partition wall that separates two fluids of different temperature; and multiple plate-shaped fins formed on at least one surface of the partition wall and each having a pair of heat transfer surfaces. The partition wall and the multiple fins are made of a same metal material to constitute an integrally molded product. The multiple fins each have a curved part and are arranged to be spaced from one another in a direction intersecting with the pair of heat transfer surfaces. Each heat transfer surface of the pair of heat transfer surfaces is formed with multiple grooves having a depth of 100 μm to 400 μm in a thickness direction of each fin.
US11774177B2
A water-cooling heat dissipation device includes a water-cooling radiator. The water-cooling radiator includes a radiating pipe unit, a water outlet reservoir, and a water inlet reservoir. The water-cooling radiator is provided with a first water pump and a second water pump. Each water pump is configured to pump cold water in a corresponding water outlet chamber to a corresponding water-cooling block to exchange heat and become hot water, hot water flows back to a corresponding water inlet chamber and flows into the corresponding radiating pipe unit to be cooled by radiating fins, and then cold water flows into the corresponding water outlet chamber.
US11774172B2
A refrigerator appliance includes a cabinet and a storage compartment with a drawer assembly disposed therein. One or more storage compartment doors are pivotally coupled to the cabinet to restrict or gain access to the storage compartment. At least one of the doors defines an opening that is shaped and dimensioned to enable the drawer assembly to be extended and retracted through the opening.
US11774166B2
Embodiments provide a door body for opening and closing a front part of an article body, whereby the door body includes a front panel constituting a front of the door body, a frame supporting at least a part of an outside edge of the front panel, and a back panel constituting a back of the door body. According to at least one embodiment, the frame includes a support plate extending to an inside of the article body in a substantially vertical direction, the front panel is bonded to the support plate with a double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive film, the double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive film extends from a leading edge of the support plate to an inside of the door body, and a radius of curvature of a front side corner of the leading edge of the support plate is 0.1 to 10 mm.
US11774137B1
A coil assembly is provided, comprising: a direct expansion (DX) coil circulating refrigerant and cooling supply air passing over the DX coil by heat exchange to generate dehumidified air; a reheat coil circulating the refrigerant and heating the dehumidified air by heat exchange to generate output air; a first horizontal drain pan below the DX and reheat coils in a first horizontal position; a second horizontal drain pan below the DX and reheat coils in a second horizontal position; a first vertical drain pan below the DX and reheat coils in a vertical position, wherein the first and second horizontal drain pans are connected to the first vertical drain pan, the reheat coil is secured between the first and second horizontal drain pans, and the first horizontal drain pan is on an opposite side of the DX coil and the reheat coil from the second horizontal drain pan.
US11774136B2
An air conditioning appliance includes a housing, a drain pan positioned below the housing, and a plenum which is attached to the housing and to the drain pan. The drain pan includes an upper surface in contact with the housing and a socket configured to receive a leg. The housing of the air conditioning appliance rests on the upper surface of the drain pan, such that the drain pan defines a platform which structurally supports the housing of the air conditioning appliance.
US11774135B2
An air diffuser assembly for transferring airflow from an HVAC system to an environment. The air diffuser assembly comprises a body at least partially located in a duct of the HVAC system and a cover including at least one vent assembly for permitting airflow through the cover and into the environment. The body defines an aperture for transferring airflow from the duct and an air filter is located in the aperture for filtering air transferred therethrough. The cover includes a closed position, wherein the cover is placed against the body to form a cavity, and an open position, wherein the cover is moved from the body to permit access to the filter.
US11774125B2
A building management system includes a communications bus, field devices connected to the communications bus, a cloud service including a machine learning engine; and a controller for an HVAC device. The controller communicates with the communications bus and the cloud service and is configured to transmit messages through the communications bus to the field devices, compile a list of connected field devices, receive sample data from the connected field devices, and transmit the sample data from the connected field devices to the cloud service. The controller is further configured to receive identifying characteristics for each of the connected field devices from the cloud service and to select a control logic file for the HVAC device based on the identifying characteristics.
US11774122B2
A controller for equipment that operates to affect a variable state or condition of a building including one or more processors and non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the processors, cause the processors to perform operations. The operations include generating a new predictive model using training data associated with one or more durations selected from a time period and selected to satisfy a set of criteria. The predictive model models system dynamics of the building during the time period. The operations include storing the new predictive model in a database including predictive models that model the system dynamics of the building and include comparing performance of the new predictive model and the predictive models stored by the database to select a particular predictive model for controlling the equipment. The operations include using the particular predictive model to generate and provide control signals to the equipment.
US11774118B2
A concealed roof vent has a base member having a primary aperture, a top panel coupled to the rear side of the base member and extending to the front side of the base member at an increasing angle, the top panel sized so as to shield the primary aperture; the top panel being coupled to the front side of the base member using one or more support legs; and at least one secondary aperture on the front side between the panel and the base member. Air from the attic passes through the primary aperture to the secondary aperture, through channels on the underside of roofing tiles, and to the atmosphere.
US11774117B2
A system and related method are disclosed for controlling condensation in a space. The system includes a fan and one or more sensors for sensing environmental conditions such as temperature and relative humidity associated with the space and/or objects within the space. For instance, the sensors may sense a surface temperature of an object within the room. The system also includes a controller capable of receiving measurements from the sensor(s) and controlling the fan based on the sensed information. The system may additionally include a heater and/or a damper for transferring outside air into the space, either of which may be controlled by the controller based on the measurements.
US11774113B2
An air management device may include three independently operated primary impellers 131, 131′, 131″, and drawn-in air is discharged through discharge ports 15′-1, 15′-2, 15′-3 provided in the front plate 15 of the housing 10. Louvers 141, 142, 143 installed downstream of the air flow and discharge ports 15′-1, 15′-2, 15′-3 may be independently opened or closed to provide discharge of the air to the surrounding environment. Further, at least one retractable or pop-up fan may be provided. The air management allows customization of air flow. The housing 10 of the furniture-type air management device may be installed on the floor of the livable space and may have a hexahedron shape that extends from side to side. A bottom inlet 11′ may be formed on the bottom plate 11 of the housing 10 facing the floor of the living space above a predetermined distance. The replaceable filter 300 may be installed to filter the air sucked through the bottom inlet 11′, and may be drawn in and out of the housing 10. A plurality of passage openings 302 may be formed in a filter frame 301, and filters 320, 330, and 340 are stacked over the passage openings 302.
US11774108B2
The present disclosure relates to a cooking apparatus, a method of controlling the cooking apparatus, and a knob of the cooking apparatus. An aspect of the present disclosure is to provide a display on a knob for setting a function of a cooking apparatus and to display status information of the cooking apparatus through the display of the knob, so that a user can easily and conveniently check the status information of the cooking apparatus. The cooking apparatus includes a knob comprising a fixing member fixed to a main body of the cooking apparatus, a rotating member supported by the fixing member and rotatably installed on the main body, and a display provided on the fixing member to display status information of the cooking apparatus; and a controller configured to transmit the status information of the cooking apparatus displayed on the display through a wireless communication network.
US11774107B2
The present invention relates to a cooking hob (10) comprising at least one cooking area (12) and at least one user interface (14), wherein the cooking area (12) is subdivided into cooking zones, each cooking zone is activatable at a predefined power level and the user interface (14) comprises a position indicator device (18) for indicating a position of at least one cooking vessel on the cooktop.
US11774106B2
An electric range in one embodiment includes a case and a cover plate coupled to an upper end of the case to allow an object to be heated to be placed on an upper surface thereof The electric range further includes a plurality of heating parts disposed under the cover plate and configured to heat the object to be heated, an upper bracket disposed under the heating part and configured to support the heating part, a base bracket disposed under the upper bracket to allow a printed circuit board to be mounted thereon, and a cover bracket disposed outside the upper bracket and the case coupled to the case and configured to support the cover plate.
US11774104B2
A gas oven with stations under parallel or synchronous control includes a plurality of temperature sensors, a controller and a plurality of processing stations. An air intake device includes a throttle valve, a gas transmission pipeline and a main gas valve. The throttle valve includes a combined gas control unit and a gas valve controller. The air intake device further includes an external gas supply source, and the gas supply source is connected to the gas transmission pipeline and a bakeware. The main gas valve and the throttle valve are separately arranged on the main gas transmission pipeline. The plurality of processing stations are provided with a plurality of gas sub-transmission pipelines and throttle valve gas main transmission pipelines, respectively. The gas oven further includes a communication module connected to a remote control to control the oven by way of a remote terminal or a mobile phone app.
US11774103B2
A Brayton cycle engine including an inner wall assembly defining a detonation combustion region upstream thereof extended from a longitudinal wall into a gas flowpath. An actuator adjusts a depth of the detonation combustion region into the gas flowpath. A method for operating the engine includes flowing an oxidizer through the gas flowpath; capturing a portion of the flow of oxidizer via the inner wall; flowing a first flow of fuel to the captured flow of oxidizer; producing a rotating detonation gases via a mixture of the first flow of fuel and the captured flow of oxidizer; flowing at least a portion of the detonation gases downstream to mix with the flow of oxidizer; flowing a second flow of fuel to the mixture of detonation gases and oxidizer; and burning the mixture of the second flow of fuel and the detonation gases/oxidizer mixture.
US11774097B2
An air cap is configured to be affixed to a nozzle assembly as a downstream facing component of the nozzle assembly. The air cap includes a plurality of air wipe passages with outlets defined in a circumferential direction around a downstream facing surface of the air cap. A nozzle assembly can include an outer wall wherein the air cap is connected to the nozzle assembly outboard of the outer wall. An inner wall can be connected to the outer wall by a plurality of air swirl vanes. One or more fuel circuit components can be connected to the nozzle assembly inboard of the inner wall.
US11774087B1
A lamp for securing items has a pair of vertically separable enclosure portions joined by coiled flexible bands. The flexible bands are operated by an electro-mechanical drive to uncoil and to recoil, thereby first separating the enclosure portions and later rejoining them. A lower one of the enclosure portions has an interior storage space for receiving and securing items such as watches, cellphones, and wallets. The lamp is mounted on the bottom of the lower portion of the enclosure so as to direct its light beam downwardly. A control device enables remote operation of the drive and the lamp. The enclosure may be mounted to top trusses of a camping tent or canopy for instance. The camping tent or canopy may be left unoccupied with the assurance that a thief will not know that valuables are present in the lamp and also will not be able to gain access to the interior of the lamp.
US11774081B2
An illumination device includes two illumination sections. The first illumination section includes a plurality of illumination elements that are each configured to emit light in a light spectrum, wherein the light spectrum is variable. The second illumination section includes one or several illumination elements that are each configured to emit light in a fixed light spectrum, wherein the fixed light spectrum is white.
US11774079B1
A light board structure includes a board body, a wireless transceiver module and a light-emitting member. The wireless transceiver module and the light-emitting member are both installed on the board body. The wireless transceiver module has a feeder wire and a ground wire. The board body has a collision avoidance area, which runs through the board body and disposed to avoid collision with the wireless transceiver module and the light-emitting member. The feeder wire and the ground wire are positioned on a side of the collision avoidance area. The collision avoidance area is configured to emit a radio wave, and solve a problem that the communication distance of a light board structure is short. A light fixture having the light board structure includes an installation cavity. The collision avoidance area of the light board structure matches an inner wall of the installation cavity to form a collision avoidance channel.
US11774075B2
A luminaire includes a luminaire mechanism, a stepper motor, an absolute multi-turn rotational position sensing system, and a control system. The stepper motor moves the luminaire mechanism. The absolute multi-turn rotational position sensing system includes absolute rotational sensors that detect absolute positions of a cam indexer on the motor shaft and an indexer wheel coupled to the cam indexer. The indexer wheel rotates by a predetermined amount in response to one full rotation of the cam indexer. The control system determines an absolute position of the luminaire mechanism based on information from the absolute rotational sensors relating to the positions of the cam indexer and the indexer wheel. The control system receives a commanded position for the luminaire mechanism and causes the stepper motor to move the luminaire mechanism to the commanded position based on the absolute position of the luminaire mechanism.
US11774072B2
A fixing frame for a lamp is provided. The fixing frame is arranged on the lamp, and the lamp for being arranged on a display, and the display has a display surface. The fixing frame includes a first part and a second part. The first part matches the shape of lamp. The second part is connected with the first part to stand upright on the lamp, the second part has a first height in a longitudinal direction of the lamp, and a first surface of the second part is parallel to the display surface.
US11774071B1
A light-emitting module is adapted for a light-permeable button and includes a substrate, a switch, and a plurality of light-emitting units, the switch is disposed on the substrate and configured to contact the light-permeable button, the light-emitting units are disposed on the substrate and surround the switch, and the light-emitting units are disposed on the substrate, spaced apart by each other, and arranged to correspond to a light-receiving surface of the light-permeable button.
US11774067B2
A condenser lens includes an exit surface divided into a plurality of light controlling surfaces. The exit surface includes a first exit region and a second exit region. The first exit region includes a plurality of first light controlling surfaces arrayed in a predetermined direction. The second exit region is located side by side with the first exit region and includes a plurality of second light controlling surfaces arrayed in the predetermined direction. A border between adjacent first light controlling surfaces and a border between adjacent second light controlling surfaces are out of alignment in the predetermined direction.
US11774065B2
A quantum dot composition includes a matrix resin, a quantum dot phosphor, and a polysilane polymer. The matrix resin includes epoxy-fluorene copolymer acrylic resin represented by Formula 1: Formula 1. In Formula 1, R1 and R4 each is independently hydrogen or a C1-C12 long alkyl carbon chain. R2 and R3 each is independently a is an integer from 1 to 10, and b and c each is independently an integer from 0 to 10. X is 0.1 to 0.9. A color conversion film including the quantum dot composition and a backlight module using the color conversion film are also provided.
US11774060B2
An optical device includes an array of light-emitting elements, including a first subset of light-emitting elements and a second subset of light-emitting elements. The first subset of light-emitting elements is configured to emit light having wavelength L1. The device includes a high refractive index material selectively disposed on the second subset of light-emitting elements and an array of optical elements positioned so as to be illuminated by the first subset of light-emitting elements and by the second subset of light-emitting elements. The optical elements are regularly arranged in a common plane at a pitch P, the common plane is located a distance D from the array of light-emitting elements, and P2≈2L1D/N, N being an integer greater than or equal to 1.
US11774058B2
An illumination device (10) for a motor vehicle headlight, wherein the illumination device (10) comprises: a light source (50) for irradiating a light beam in a first direction of radiation (X1), a first deflection device (100) configured to deflect the light beam in a second direction of radiation (X2), and a second deflection device (200) for deflecting the light beam deflected by the first deflection device (100) in a third direction of radiation (X3) and for producing a light distribution in front of the illumination device (10), wherein the illumination device comprises at least one expanding optic (300) with a focus (F1), wherein said expanding optic (300) is associated with the at least one light source (50) and is configured to expand the light beam emitted by the light source (50) in the direction of the first direction of radiation (X1), wherein the at least one light source (50) is arranged in the direction of the first direction of radiation (X1) between the at least one expanding optic (300) and the focus (F1) of the expanding optic (300).
US11774052B2
A high-efficiency linear light source focused strip lamp has a strip lamp frame, a strip lamp plate provided on the strip lamp frame, a condensing lens arranged above the light emitting direction of the light-emitting chip, and a strip lamp cover connected to the strip lamp frame and located above the condensing lens; the strip lamp cover is provided with a convex lens array that visually stretches the light-emitting chip along a length direction. The high-efficiency linear light source focused strip lamp performs light distribution through the concentrating lens in the vertical length direction, and achieves high-efficiency sweeping function, and in the longitudinal direction, the light-emitting chip is performed visually stretching by the convex lens arrays on the strip lamp cover, thus achieving the effect of the line light source, solves the original glare problem without affecting the efficiency.
US11774051B2
A LED lamp string of easy welding, assembly and injection includes at least one rectifier, and multiple LED modules connected in series between positive and negative output ends of the at least one rectifier. Each LED module includes a first PCB, and the first PCB is provided with multiple first welding positions. The first welding positions are welded with a lamp bead and wires thereon. The lamp bead is connected to first ends of the wires, and a second end of the one wire of each LED module is directly connected to the at least one rectifier or is connected to the at least one rectifier after passing through at least one other LED module. It can realize the large-scale production of the welding equipment instead of manual welding, greatly improve the efficiency of the production, avoid false welding and improve the yield rate.
US11774050B2
A system and method for providing robust, configurable lighting includes electrical boxes interconnected by conduit through selected knockout openings. A cover plate includes multiple rectangular openings oriented if different fashions. The openings are configured to receive and secure a base of tubular lighting element to the cover plate. Wiring is passed through the conduit into the boxes, and a connection is made to the lighting element through a secured base and associated opening.
US11774045B2
A LED filament (100) comprising an elongated substrate (110), a first region (120), a second region (130) and a third region (140) arranged between the first and second region. The first region comprises a plurality of LEDs (121) of a first LED type configured to emit light with a first CCT, arranged along at least one row on the substrate. The second region comprises a plurality of LEDs (131) of a second LED type configured to emit light with a second CCT, different from said first CCT, arranged along at least one row on the substrate. The third region (140) comprises at least one first LED (141) of the first LED type and at least one second LED (142) of the second LED type. A first LED of the at least one first LED of the third region is located next to a second LED of the second region. A second LED of the at least one second LED of the third region is located next to a first LED of the first region.
US11774044B1
Methods, devices, and systems for monitoring hydrogen leakage using a composite pipeline for transporting hydrogen are provided. In one aspect, a system of real-time whole-pipeline monitoring hydrogen leakage includes: a composite pipeline including a plastic pipe, a polyurethane foam layer, and a plastic protection layer that are disposed in sequence from inside to outside; joints for connecting sections of the composite pipeline; evacuation pipes; and hydrogen sensors. Each of the evacuation pipes is installed at a corresponding joint of the joints, and each hydrogen sensor is disposed in a corresponding evacuation pipe of the evacuation pipes.
US11774043B1
Methods, products, and systems for monitoring and improving pipeline infrastructure are disclosed. At least one embodiment of the invention comprises a smart-sensing coating, which is applied to one or more interior surfaces of a pipe or pipeline. The coating may comprise a dual-purpose metamaterial, which itself may comprise a plurality of acoustically active and tunable particles that may be embedded in a low-friction, corrosion-resistant, omniphobic polymer matrix. The particles may comprise a multi-layered assembly with a high-density material core, elastic matrix filler, and a stiff outer shell. The particles may further be specifically engineered to form an acoustic band gap at a chosen ultrasound frequency. At this chosen frequency, the particles are very nearly acoustically opaque, preventing the transmission of any and all sound. As such, the position and distribution of the particles inside the pipelines can be clearly distinguished. Additionally, one or more embodiments of the present invention may be referred to as an Intelligent Pipeline System (IPS), which is a monitoring and reporting system for pipelines that uses a remote craft to monitor the interior condition of a pipeline. Preferentially, the IPS uses the smart-sensing coating that is applied to the interior wall of the pipeline to be tested or monitored. Installed acoustic sensors along the pipeline may query the coating and transmit pipeline conditions to the exterior environment where the information can be received by remote craft.
US11774040B2
A piston assembly is for a fluid delivery device, preferably a lubricant injector, the injector having a measuring chamber defined by an inner cylindrical surface and an axial end face, a flow port through the end face, and a central axis extending through the chamber. The piston assembly includes a piston body disposeable within the chamber so as to be linearly displaceable along the central axis. The piston body includes a cylindrical head, the head having first and second axial ends and an outer circumferential surface, and a rod extending axially from the second axial end of the piston head. A seal is coupled with the first axial end of the piston head and has an annular lip sealingly engageable with the chamber inner cylindrical surface and an axial end engageable with the chamber end face.
US11774029B2
There is provided a pipe thread protector having first and second ends, threading extending from the first end towards the second end thereof, and a bore extending from the first end to the second end thereof. A seal couples to the first end of the pipe thread protector and is tubular. The seal tapers in a direction extending from a proximal end thereof towards a distal end thereof, and tapers in a direction extending from an outer surface thereof to an inner surface thereof. There is additionally provided a pipe thread protector assembly including a pipe thread protector, a coupling via which the pipe thread protector and a male threaded end of a pipe threadably couple together, and a seal coupled to an inner end of the pipe thread protector. The seal is shaped to protect and extend along an outer end surface of the pipe.
US11774023B2
Connection equipment for a fluid transport circuit, the equipment comprising both a connection device (1) and also a disconnection tool (50) for disconnecting the device, the connection device comprising a tubular body (2) having at least one end segment (2.1) in which a tubular insert (100) is engaged in leaktight and removable manner, the insert being for connection to a duct (T) and including an external projection (104) extending into a housing of the body, the body including at least one a retaining tab (3) that is elastically deformable between a projecting position in which it projects into the housing, and a retracted position. The tool has two lifting ramps (55) and the body has two transverse passages (4) opening out both to the outside of the body and also into the housing on either side of the retaining tab in order to enable the lifting ramps to be inserted into the housing under the sides of the retaining tab (3) in order to bring the retaining tab into its retracted position and allow the tubular insert to be extracted.
US11774001B2
In one embodiment, a fluid dynamics system includes a solenoid valve including a valve body including ports including an inlet and outlet port, and a valve cavity having a direction of elongation and configured to provide fluid connectivity between ones of the ports, a solenoid coil disposed around valve cavity, and a plunger including a permanent magnet, and configured to move back-and-forth along the direction of elongation between a first and a second position in the valve cavity selectively controlling the fluid connectivity between respective ones of the ports, the valve body including shock absorber(s) to soften striking of the plunger against the valve body in the direction of elongation, and a controller configured to apply at least one current to the solenoid coil to selectively move the plunger between the first and second position, and to selectively maintain the plunger in the first position and the second position.
US11773993B2
The invention relates to a non-return valve, in particular for a refrigeration or heat circuit, which valve can be inserted into a connection opening (26, 27, 28, 29) of a connection device (21) or of a pipe (39) and comprises: —a one-part or multi-part housing (42) which comprises at least one main housing (44), a feed opening (48) being provided on the inlet side and a discharge opening (51) being provided on the outlet side of the main housing (44), the feed opening and the discharge opening being interconnected by a flow channel (49); —a guide element (53) which is provided on the main housing (44) and by means of which a valve closing element (61) is guided slidably relative to the main housing (44), the valve closing element (61) being arranged in a starting position (42) by means of an energy accumulator (71) and the valve closing element (61) being slidable toward the discharge opening (51) against an actuating force of the energy accumulator (71) in order to be transferred into a working position (63), and the energy accumulator (71) being provided between the valve closing element (75) and the main housing (44), the guide element (53) of the main housing (44) having at least one through-hole (57) and at least one guide rod (59) being guided in said at least one through-hole (57), which rod at least extends from the valve closing element (61) through the at least one through-hole (57) and is secured against release from the through-hole (57), or the guide element (53) being designed as a sleeve (54) having a bottom (55), which is associated with the discharge opening (51), and the valve closing element (61) having a guide portion (66) which acts on the sleeve (54).
US11773991B2
A fuel demand valve that opens with minimal engine suction pressure. The fuel demand valve has an inlet housing and an outlet housing with a valve door in the outlet housing that moves to allow flow through the valve when exposed to a pressure difference sufficient to overcome a spring internal to the outlet housing. The inlet housing includes a shelf, and two gaskets, one large and one small, are disposed between the shelf and the valve door such that they define different surface areas on the valve door. The different surface areas define the amount of force required to be exerted on the valve door for fuel to flow when exposed to fuel supply and engine suction pressures. The different surface areas provide a mechanical advantage whereby lower suction pressure from the engine exerts the same force as a higher fuel supply pressure on the valve door enabling lower fuel pressure operation.
US11773989B2
An illustrative valve block includes a plate, a fluid transfer block, and a diaphragm. The plate includes a channel configured to receive a first fluid and a recess connected to the channel. The fluid transfer block includes an inlet connection configured to receive a second fluid and an outlet connection. The fluid transfer block also includes a plurality of valve inlet bores connected to the inlet connection. The plurality of valve inlet bores are distributed along at least part of a first curved shape. The fluid transfer block further includes a plurality of valve outlet bores each fluidly connected to the outlet connection. The plurality of valve outlet bores are distributed along at least part of a second curved shape. The diaphragm is between the pressure plate and the fluid transfer block. The plurality of valve inlet bores and the plurality of valve outlet bores adjoin the recess.
US11773988B2
A flow resistor includes a housing, a pipe, and an adjuster. The housing includes a through hole including a first hole portion and a second hole portion. The pipe includes a first extending portion and a second extending portion that extends in a direction different from an extending direction of the first extending portion. The adjuster includes a through hole. The pipe is inserted into the through hole of the housing, the first extending portion is positioned in the first hole portion, and the second extending portion is positioned in the second hole portion. The adjuster is positioned in the second hole portion and is a member movable toward the second extending portion. The through hole of the adjuster couples a space between the adjuster and the pipe with an outside of the flow resistor, in the second hole portion.
US11773985B2
A valve device includes a valve main body having a valve chamber, and inflow and outflow passages communicating with the valve chamber; an annular valve seat surrounding an opening from the inflow passage to the valve chamber; and a valve element moved to contact with and separate from the valve seat. One of the valve seat and the valve element includes a contact surface, and the other of the valve seat and the valve element includes an annular raised rib. The rib has at a top thereof an annular sealing part contacting the contact surface to provide sealing between the valve element and the valve seat. The sealing part includes an annular flat surface extending parallel to the contact surface, and two annular inclined surfaces provided adjacent to the flat surface on both sides and inclined to the flat surface to extend in a direction away from the contact surface.
US11773981B2
A sealing device includes a mounted part to be mounted to the inner peripheral surface of the shaft hole, a cylindrical part disposed radially inside the mounted part, a seal lip portion extending from the cylindrical part and in contact with the outer peripheral surface of the rotational shaft, a bellows part connecting the mounted part and the cylindrical part, and an annular sliding member made of a resin and disposed radially inside the cylindrical part, the outer peripheral surface of the rotational shaft being slidable on the annular sliding member.
US11773978B2
A leak-proof sealing system is provided for sealing combustion chambers of an automotive engine. The system comprises a head gasket compressed between an engine block and a cylinder head, the head gasket comprising a gasket plate, a plurality of circular combustion apertures positioned on the gasket plate, the plurality of circular combustion apertures configured to register with a plurality of cylinder bore openings of the engine block, a plurality of bolt apertures distributed on the gasket plate, the plurality of bolt apertures alternating with the plurality of circular combustion apertures, and a plurality of wire rings, each wire ring extending circumferentially around a corresponding circular combustion aperture of the plurality of circular combustion apertures, where a surface of each wire ring includes a selective metal coating on sections of the wire ring spanning between two consecutive bolt apertures of the plurality of bolt apertures, and wherein sections of the wire ring located closer to the plurality of bolt apertures are devoid of metal coating. In one example, the system helps increase stress locally and reduces fatigue lift motion, thereby improving sealing and engine durability.
