US11871038B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video data processing. In some examples, an apparatus for video data processing includes processing circuitry. For example, the processing circuitry determines a first syntax element for coding control in a first scope of coded video data in a bitstream. The first syntax element is associated with a second coding tool that is alternative to a first coding tool for Rice parameter derivation in a residual coding. In response to the first syntax element being a first value indicative of disabling of the second coding tool in the first scope, the processing circuitry decodes the first scope of coded video data that includes one or more second scopes of coded video data without invoking the second coding tool.
US11871020B2
A prediction decoding method, a prediction decoding apparatus, and a non-transitory computer storage medium are provided. The method includes the following. First multiple neighbouring reference samples of a coding block are determined, where the first multiple neighbouring reference samples include reference samples in a reference row or a reference column neighbouring the coding block. Positions corresponding to K reference samples are determined from a starting position of the reference row or the reference column, where K is a positive integer. Second multiple neighbouring reference samples are determined according to the determined positions corresponding to the K reference samples, where the second multiple neighbouring reference samples include neighbouring reference samples among the first multiple neighbouring reference samples. Prediction decoding is performed on the coding block according to the second multiple neighbouring reference samples.
US11871012B2
Examples of video encoding methods and apparatus and video decoding methods and apparatus are described. An example method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a video and a bitstream of the video, wherein the bitstream comprises one or more output layer sets comprising one or more video layers according to a rule, wherein the rule specifies a particular decoding order between a subpicture level information (SLI) supplemental enhancement information (SEI) message and a buffering period (BP) SEI message that apply to a particular output layer set, responsive to a condition that the SLI SEI message and the BP SEI message are included in an access unit.
US11871010B2
A video decoder can be configured to determine a number of allowed non-zero coefficients for a block of video data based on a size of the block; obtain a set of dequantized coefficients for the block, wherein the set of dequantized coefficients comprises a first subset of dequantized coefficients that includes non-zero dequantized coefficients and a second subset of dequantized coefficients that includes all zero coefficients, wherein a number of coefficients in the first subset of dequantized coefficients is equal to the number of allowed non-zero coefficients for the block of video data; apply an inverse low-frequency non-separable transform (LFNST) to the first subset of dequantized coefficients to determine a first intermediate subset of coefficients; and apply an inverse separable transform to the first intermediate subset of coefficients and at least a portion of the second subset of coefficients to determine a block of reconstructed residual values.
US11871006B2
Devices, systems and methods for digital video coding, which includes inter prediction with refinement, are described. An exemplary method of video processing includes determining to use, for a conversion between a current block of a video and a bitstream representation of the video, a first linear optimization model for the conversion using a first coding mode, the first linear optimization model being derived from a second linear optimization model that is used for the conversion using a second coding mode, and performing, based on the determining, the conversion. Another exemplary method of video processing includes determining to use, for a conversion between a current block of a video and a bitstream representation of the video, a gradient value computation algorithm for a bi-directional optical flow tool, and performing, based on the determining, the conversion.
US11871004B2
A video image processing method includes binarizing a chrominance prediction mode of the image block of a to-be-encoded/decoded image to obtain a bit string, the bit string including two adjacent bits, the to-be-encoded/decoded image being permitted to use a CCLM and/or a regular intra-frame chrominance prediction mode, and the CCLM including a first mode, a second mode, and a third mode, and using mutually independent probability models to encode/decode a first bit and a second bit. The first bit of the adjacent bits indicates whether the CCLM is used, the second bit indicates whether to use the first mode of the CCLM when the first bit indicates to use the CCLM, the third bit indicates whether the second mode or the third mode of the CCLM is used when the second bit indicates that the first mode of the CCLM is not used.
US11870998B2
A normal merge mode derivation unit further includes a merging candidate selector structured to add a merge motion vector difference defined by a direction index indicating a direction and a distance index indicating a distance to a motion vector of a merging candidate list, and select one candidate from the merging candidate list as a selected merging candidate on the basis of a merge index, in which, when the motion vector of the selected merging candidate is smaller than a distance indicated by an arbitrary index of the distance index, the merging candidate selector sets a direction of a merge motion vector difference defined by the distance index indicating a larger distance than the motion vector of the selected merging candidate as a diagonal direction, or changes the distance indicated by the distance index.
US11870988B2
An image decoding method includes reconstructing a current image by performing deblocking filtering on a boundary of at least one reconstruction block from among reconstruction blocks, wherein the reconstructing of the current image by performing the deblocking filtering on the boundary of the at least one reconstruction block from among the reconstruction blocks includes, when a prediction mode of at least one reconstruction mode from among blocks located on both sides of the boundary of the at least one reconstruction block is a combined inter-intra prediction mode, determining that a value of a boundary filtering strength applied to the boundary of the at least one reconstruction block is a predetermined value and performing deblocking filtering on the boundary of the at least one reconstruction block based on the determined value of the boundary filtering strength.
US11870981B2
Provided are video encoding/decoding methods and apparatuses for determining an intra prediction mode of a current block, based on a width and height of the current block. When the current block has a square shape in which the width and height are equal, the intra prediction mode of the current block is determined from among first intra prediction mode candidates including a plurality of predetermined intra prediction directions, and when the current block has a non-square shape in which the width and height are not equal, the intra prediction mode of the current block is determined from among second intra prediction mode candidates configured based on the non-square shape.
US11870979B2
Methods, apparatus, systems for video processing, including video encoding or video decoding are described. One example method includes performing a conversion between a video comprising a video picture that includes a video slice and a bitstream of the video. The bitstream conforms to a format rule specifying that, in case a slice type of the video slice is type P and temporal motion vector prediction is enabled, usage of reference picture resampling (RPR) for a reference picture in a collocated reference picture list is disabled. The reference picture is indicated by a reference index of a collocated picture of the video slice used for the temporal motion vector prediction.
US11870973B2
A camera calibration tool for calibrating one or more cameras of a mobile machine comprising calibration targets and a net. Each of the calibration targets comprises identifiable indicia. The net is adapted to be coupled to the mobile machine. The net has one or more configurations that define predetermined target locations, with location markers, in a predetermined layout. The calibration targets are positioned respectively at the predetermined target locations in the predetermined layout to calibrate the one or more cameras by use of the calibration targets.
US11870972B2
In a system in which a virtual reality (VR) user interacts with a virtual environment via a VR device, where the VR user is provided a view of the virtual environment via the VR device. A method includes tracking the VR user relative to at least one other user in a real-world environment; extracting an image of the VR user from the real-world environment; at least one other user obtaining information about the virtual environment; and presenting at least one other view corresponding to the VR user's virtual environment. Another view is presented as if seen from the location and/or perspective and/or orientation of another device relative to the VR user in the real environment.
US11870957B2
According to an embodiment, provided is an information notification system in which a multifunction peripheral including an audio device is associated with external audio devices so that the user of the multifunction peripheral is notified of a message. The information notification system is featured by including a message determiner which determines the contents of the message, a user position detector which detects a position of the user, an output device specifying section which specifies, based on a result of determination by the message determiner and a result of detection by the user position detector, the audio device which outputs the message, and a controller which performs control so that the message is notified from the specified audio device. As the audio device for outputting the message is specified according to the contents of the message, the message is notified from the specified audio device.
US11870946B2
A prediction decoding method, a prediction decoding apparatus, and a non-transitory computer storage medium are provided. The method includes the following. First multiple neighbouring reference samples of a coding block are determined, where the first multiple neighbouring reference samples include reference samples in a reference row or a reference column neighbouring the coding block. Positions corresponding to K reference samples are determined from a starting position of the reference row or the reference column, where K is a positive integer. Second multiple neighbouring reference samples are determined according to the determined positions corresponding to the K reference samples, where the second multiple neighbouring reference samples include neighbouring reference samples among the first multiple neighbouring reference samples. Prediction decoding is performed on the coding block according to the second multiple neighbouring reference samples.
US11870942B2
Systems and methods are described to enable a device of a user to automatically join an ongoing conference, where the device is not currently joined to the conference. A first audio signature is generated based on voices of users already in the conference, and a second audio signature is generated based on an audio signal captured by a microphone of the device associated with the first user when the device associated with the first user was not joined to the conference. The first audio signature and the second audio signature are compared, and in response to determining that first audio signature matches the second audio signature, the device associated with the first user is joined to the conference.
US11870941B2
Embodiments of this application belong to the field of audio processing technologies and provide an audio processing method and an electronic device. The method is applicable to an electronic device including a camera. The electronic device records a plurality of channels of audio and video pictures corresponding to the audio in a video recording mode, and plays, during video playback, some video pictures and audio obtained after the plurality of channels of audio are combined. When a speaker in a video picture starts to speak, played audio is switched to audio corresponding to the video picture in which the speaker is located; thereby resolving a feeling of a sudden change of sound caused by switching required for obtaining audio content when the electronic device that does not support playback of a plurality of channels of audio plays a video.
US11870928B2
A mounting apparatus may include: a mounting part on which a part of an external electronic apparatus is mounted; a film part connected to the mounting part; a near field wireless communication module; and a processor, wherein the processor may be configured to: detect a mounting state of the external electronic apparatus; determine whether the mounted external electronic apparatus is an apparatus supporting a holographic mode; and on the basis of the determined result, control to transmit a transmission signal to the external electronic apparatus by using the near field wireless communication module so that the external electronic apparatus outputs a hologram content by using at least a part of a display of the external electronic apparatus, and the hologram content output by the external electronic apparatus can be projected on the film part. Various other embodiments may be possible.
US11870920B2
Introduced here is a computational architecture (also referred to as a “computational infrastructure”) that addresses the limitations of traditional data management solutions using a highly secure data management solution coupled with consent-based sharing. At a high level, the computational architecture applies blockchain methodologies to both transaction data and business data such that both types of data are stored “on chain” in the same computational architecture. This enables several significant advantages over traditional data management solutions with respect to data security, data ownership, data sharing, and intelligence.
US11870912B2
Methods and apparatus to collect distributed user information for media impressions and search terms
Disclosed examples include accessing a search term from a client device; accessing a first identifier, the first identifier corresponding to a first database proprietor, the first identifier to access first user information corresponding to a user of the client device; accessing a second identifier, the second identifier corresponding to a second database proprietor, the second identifier to access second user information corresponding to the user of the client device; providing the search term, the first identifier, and the second identifier in a message; and transmitting the message to a server.
US11870910B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for providing security in an intelligent electronic device (IED) are provided. In one aspect of the present disclosure, an IED is provided including at least one processor that receives a communication via a communication interface, the communication including an unencrypted file and a digital signature. The at least one processor decrypts the digital signature to obtain a first value, executes a hash function on the unencrypted file to obtain a second value, determines if the first value and second value match, and updates at least one firmware package stored in at least one memory of the IED with the unencrypted file if it is determined that the first value and the second value match.
US11870905B1
A method for providing a user identity based on zero-knowledge proof over a blockchain network by using a user certificate is provided. The method includes steps of: an address abstraction smart contract (a) instructing the user terminal which made a user identity generating request to generate the user identity corresponding to the user certificate issued from a certification authority and generate a user identity proof by using user identity verifying parameters, the user identity, the user certificate and a certification authority public key, to thereby prove that the user identity is generated from the user certificate issued by the certification authority; and (b) upon receiving a user identity registering request from the user terminal, (i) verifying the user identity proof by using the user identity verifying parameters, the user identity, the certification authority public key and the user identity proof and (ii) registering the user identity upon successful verification.
US11870897B1
Various arrangements relate to a method performed by a processor of a computing system. An example method includes tokenizing a first value using a tokenization algorithm to generate a first token. The first value and first key are inputs of the tokenization algorithm. A message is generated. The message includes a first value identifier associated with the first value and a first key generation identifier associated with the generation of the first key. The message is associated with the first token. A second key is generated. A second value is tokenized using a tokenization algorithm to generate a second token. The second value and second key are inputs of the tokenization algorithm.
US11870895B1
A data platform provides for encryption of secrets. During operation, an application of the data platform receives a secret and communicates the secret to an encryption client of the data platform. The encryption client generates an encrypted secret using a Data Encryption Key (DEK) and the secret. The encryption client communicates the DEK to an encryption server of the data platform while retaining the encrypted secret. The encryption server generates an encrypted DEK using a Transit Encryption Key TEK. The encryption server communicates the encrypted DEK to the encryption client and the encryption client generates a binary large object (blob) using the retained encrypted secret and the encrypted DEK. The application stores the blob on a data storage device.
US11870894B2
A computer-implemented method includes: storing an encryption public key that is associated with a group of nodes, each node in the group associated with a private key share, the private key shares associated with a threshold private key reconstruction scheme for the group to allow an encryption private key associated with the encryption public key to be determined from at least a threshold of the private key shares; iteratively obtaining a plurality of indicators provided by a plurality of nodes of the group, each of the indicators representing one of an encryption private key share or a dummy signal; and identifying the encryption private key by iteratively: i) selecting a subset of the indicators; ii) calculating a possible shared secret; and iii) evaluating each possible shared secret against the encryption public key to determine whether the possible shared secret is the encryption private key. The invention is suited for implementation on a blockchain.
US11870890B2
A system can control access to encrypted data shared by a group of users by the use of a vault key that is associated with a group of users. The encrypted data can include encrypted secret data generated from the secret data using a secret key, an encrypted secret key can be generated from the secret key by the use of a vault key, and an encrypted vault key generated from the vault key by the use of a public key associated with a user of the group of users. The system can allow users to store and access the encrypted data only if the user is a current member of the group. The system can verify the user's membership status from a group manager, such as a system managing a channel or chat session. Users added to the group are also granted permission to grant access to new users.
US11870884B2
Systems and methods for operating a cryptographic system. The methods comprise: obtaining ciphertext by the cryptographic system; performing operations by the cryptographic system to determine whether a given sequence of values exits within the ciphertext; and synchronizing the cryptographic system with another cryptographic system using the ciphertext as a bitrate portion of an initialization value for a cryptographic algorithm and zero as a capacity portion of the initialization value for the cryptographic algorithm, when a determination is made that the given sequence of values exist within the ciphertext.
US11870881B2
Fully homomorphic encryption integrated circuit (IC) chips, systems and associated methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of operation for a number theoretic transform (NTT) butterfly circuit is disclosed. The (NTT) butterfly circuit includes a high input word path cross-coupled with a low word path. The high input word path includes a first adder/subtractor, and a first multiplier. The low input word path includes a second adder/subtractor, and a second multiplier. The method includes selectively bypassing the second adder/subtractor and the second multiplier, and reconfiguring the low and high input word paths into different logic processing units in response to different mode control signals.
US11870879B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, to manage device communications during emergent conditions are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving, by a first computing device, data indicating that a second computing device is configured to communicate using a first protocol. The actions include receiving data indicating that a third computing device is configured to communicate using the first protocol and a second protocol. The actions include determining that the second computing device is unable to communicate with a fourth computing device. The actions include determining a context. The actions include generating an instruction for the third computing device to communicate with the second computing device using the first protocol. The actions include outputting, to the third computing device, the instruction for the third computing device to communicate with the second computing device using the first protocol.
US11870857B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for performing user account migration between platforms. In one embodiment, a client device is configured to obtain an update to a first application. The update causes the client device to obtain a second application. A first user account on a first platform associated with the first application is migrated to a second user account on a second platform associated with the second application. The client device launches the second application for access to the second user account after the first application is launched.
US11870853B2
A system and method for facilitating contextual communications that includes creating a contextual resource that is initially associated with at least at first communication session; receiving an incoming communication request and establishing a second communication session; associating the second communication session with the contextual resource; setting contextual information of the contextual resource; performing at least one contextual communication action.
US11870851B1
A system and method for programming a new key fob. Some embodiments include a programmable remote transmitter, designed, and programmed to perform single or multiple operations, optionally incorporated into a custom-made base that attaches to a smart phone case or other mobile devices. The remote transmitter is designed and activated via secured programming provided by an application on the user's mobile device, without the intervention of car dealers, locksmiths or using difficult manual processes. The remote transmitter can be attached to smart phones, mobile devices, or other suitable surfaces (e.g., a briefcase or a vehicle's dashboard) for safekeeping and accessibility.
US11870840B2
A system for a distributed partitioned map reduce includes a plurality of nodes, a plurality of partitions, and a service node. The one or more partitions of the plurality of partitions are stored on a first node of the plurality of nodes. The service node is configured to receive a task from a client application system. The client application system receives a request to perform the task from a requestor. The client application system selects a service node to manage execution of the task. The client application system provides the service node the task. The service node is configured to provide partition task logic to the plurality of partitions. The partition task logic includes a partition task map reduce. The service node is configured to receive partition results from the plurality of partitions, execute a service node reduce to determine a service node result, and provide the service node result.
US11870833B2
Methods and systems for encoder parameter setting optimization. A media item to be provided to one or more users of a platform is identified. The media item is associated with a media class. An indication of the identified media item is provided as input to a first machine learning model. The first machine learning model is trained to predict, for a given media item, a set of encoder parameter settings that satisfy a performance criterion in view of a respective media class associated with the given media item. One or more outputs of the first machine learning model are obtained. The one or more obtained outputs include encoder data identifying one or more sets of encoder parameter settings and, for each of the sets of encoder parameter settings, an indication of a level of confidence that a respective set of encoder parameter settings satisfies the performance criterion in view of the media class associated with the identified media item. The identified media item is encoded using the respective set of encoding parameter settings associated with the level of confidence that satisfies a confidence criterion.
US11870825B2
An electronic device, computer program product, and method are provided that prompt a person who is participating in a video communication session to gaze toward a local image capturing device. A controller of the electronic devices receives an image stream from an image capturing device configured to be spaced away from a display device and having a field of view that incorporates a person that is proximate to the display device. The controller communicates the image stream to a video communication session. The controller receives second image stream(s) from second communication device(s) and presents the second image stream(s) at a display device. In response to a trigger that indicates that the first image stream is being presented as a primary image stream by the at least one second electronic device, the controller presents a prompt indicating that the participant should gaze toward the image capturing device.
US11870819B1
A cloud service security enforcement system may include a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) proxy and a CASB Application Programming Interface (API) endpoint. Upon receipt of a request for a change operation by a user device, the CASB proxy may execute security enforcement and, upon determining the change operation is allowed, transmit a notification of the change operation to the CASB API endpoint and the cloud service. The CASB API endpoint may pre-process for security enforcement of the change operation based on the notification. When the CASB API endpoint receives the notification from the cloud service of the change operation, the CASB API endpoint may finalize the security enforcement using the pre-processing previously done to expedite the security enforcement and reduce the experienced change processing latency.
US11870816B1
Custom policies are definable for use in a system that enforces policies. A user, for example, may author a policy using a policy language and transmit the system through an application programming interface call. The custom policies may specify conditions for computing environment attestations that are provided with requests to the system. When a custom policy applies to a request, the system may determine whether information in the attestation is sufficient for the request to be fulfilled.
US11870813B2
A system and a method are disclosed for providing recommendations for sets of security operations for improving security of documents created or executed within an online document system. A supplier entity may select sets of security operations to be performed for a request provided to a signing entity. The online document system computes an aggregate measure of security for the selected sets of security operations and compares it to a threshold measure of security. If the aggregate measure is less than the threshold measure, the online document system uses a machine-learned model to identify additional sets of security operations that when added, results in an updated aggregate measure of security greater than the threshold. The additional sets of security operations are presented to the supplier entity for inclusion within a security operation workflow in combination with the selected sets of security operations.
US11870806B1
Systems and methods for user training. The systems and methods involve deploying at least one static file on a computing resource controlled by an operator, transmitting a URL to a target user, receiving a request for the URL from the target user, transmitting the at least one static file to the target user for execution in a web browser of the user, and receiving data regarding the execution of the at least one static file.
US11870796B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for temporal link prediction based on (generalized) random dot product graphs (RDPGs), as well as applications of such temporal link prediction to network anomaly detection. In various embodiments, starting from a time series of adjacency matrices characterizing the evolution of the network, spectral embeddings and time-series models are used to predict estimated link probabilities for a future point in time, and the predicted link probabilities are compared against observed links to identify anomalous behavior. In some embodiments, element-wise independent models are used in the prediction to take network dynamics into account at the granularity of individual nodes or edges.
US11870795B1
Techniques for identifying attack behavior based on scripting language activity are disclosed. A security monitoring system generates a behavior profile for a first client device based on scripting language commands included in a first set of raw machine data received from the first client device, where the first client device is coupled to a network, and the first set of raw machine data is associated with network traffic received by or transmitted from the first client device. The security monitoring system analyzes a second set of raw machine data received from the first client device, where the second set of raw machine data is associated with subsequent network traffic received by or transmitted from the first client device. The security monitoring system detects an anomaly in the second set of raw machine data based on the behavior profile, and initiates a mitigation action in response to detecting the anomaly.
US11870794B2
An identifying device (10) includes a preprocessing (11) that extracts a communication connection pattern including a set of a communication source identifier and a communication destination identifier from traffic data, a comparing unit (131) that adds an ID to a communication connection pattern group including a new communication connection pattern not included in a whitelist when the new communication connection pattern is present in the communication connection pattern group, a graph feature amount generating unit (14) that generates a graph feature amount of the communication connection pattern group to which the ID has been added and adds this ID to the graph feature amount, an abnormality determining unit (16) that determines whether the generated graph feature amount is normal using a model (161) having learned the graph feature amount, and an identifying unit (132) that retrieves a new communication. connection pattern corresponding to the ID of the graph feature amount determined to have an abnormality from the communication connection pattern group including the new communication connection pattern and identifies the retrieved new communication connection pattern as communication that causes the abnormality.
US11870791B2
A policy-controlled authorization system including a local application on a client device, a policy component including a plurality of policies, and a mid-link server, coupled to the client device is provided. A request for access to a service using a token is provided by the local application. A correlator correlates the token with the plurality of tokens for identifying a policy from the plurality of policies associated with the token. A token inspector authorizes the token for accessing the service based on the correlation. Based on the authorization, either the token is authorized for access to the service via the remote application, or the token is blocked when unauthorized to prevent access to the service. Confidence scores are assigned to each token based on their categories, compliance with the policies, and a threat level. The confidence scores indicate need to re-authorize the tokens and/or disable them temporarily.
US11870790B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for detecting and mitigating anomalous network traffic. With at least one processor in a network, information regarding network traffic flows is obtained and a classification model is generated based on the obtained information, the classification model comprising one or more classification rules for classifying network traffic as normal or anomalous. With the at least one processor in the network, the network traffic is classified as anomalous or normal based on the generated classification model and at least one mitigation action is initiated based on the network traffic being classified as anomalous.
US11870787B2
A method of communicating in a secure communication system, comprises the steps of assembling a message at a sender, then determining a security level, and including an indication of the security level in a header of the message. The message is then sent to a recipient.
US11870782B2
Management of hosted channel membership of a communication platform is described. A request can be received from a first client of a first user, associated with a first organization, of the group-based communication platform, wherein the request is to associate a second user, associated with a second organization, with a communication channel of the first organization. An invitation to join the communication channel can be sent to a second client of the second user. In response to receiving an indication of an acceptance of the invitation, the second user can be associated with the communication channel. A request can be received from the second client to associate other user(s) associated with the second organization with the communication channel and the other user(s) can be associated with the communication channel based at least in part on permission(s) associated with the communication channel.
US11870777B2
A relay device includes a plurality of input/output ports (111); an authentication information storage unit (114) to store authentication information used for performing authentication of a target relay device which is a relay device to be authenticated; an authentication processing unit (113) to acquire a target authentication packet which is an authentication packet used for authentication of the target relay device via a target input/output port (111) which is an input/output port connected to the target relay device in the plurality of input/output ports and to authenticate the target relay device by referring to the authentication information, and a relay processing unit (112) to cause a transfer input/output port which is an input/output port (111) to which a transfer destination of the transfer packet is connected, and to discard the transfer packet when the authentication of the target relay device is failed.
US11870765B2
A method performed by a network node of a serving public land mobile network, PLMN, associated with a user equipment, UE, comprising: obtaining a secret identifier that uniquely identifies the UE, wherein the secret identifier is a secret that is shared between the UE and at least a home PLMN of the UE and that is shared by the home PLMN with the network node; and performing an operation related to the UE using the secret identifier. Other methods, computer programs, computer program products, network nodes and a serving PLMN are also disclosed.
US11870764B1
A system includes at least one processor and at least one memory including instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations. The operations include providing a secure link to an auditable, machine-readable dataset to a client device of a user, the auditable, machine-readable dataset comprising data. At least one policy constraint is provided to at least a portion of the data in the dataset. In response to detecting activation of the secure link at the client device, one or both of the user and the client device is authenticated based on the policy constraint. Streaming access is provided to the auditable, machine-readable dataset in real-time.
US11870759B2
Technologies for accelerated QUIC packet processing include a computing device having a network controller. The computing device programs the network controller with an encryption key associated with a QUIC protocol connection. The computing device may pass a QUIC packet to the network controller, which encrypts a payload of the QUIC packet using the encryption key. The network controller may segment the QUIC packet into multiple segmented QUIC packets before encryption. The network controller transmits encrypted QUIC packets to a remote host. The network controller may receive encrypted QUIC packets from a remote host. The network controller decrypts the encrypted payload of received QUIC packets and may evaluate an assignment function with an entropy source in the received QUIC packets and forward the received QUIC packets to a receive queue based on the assignment function. Each receive queue may be associated with a processor core. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11870756B2
A unidirectional transfer protocol allows data to be transmitted from a non-secure network into a secure network. A non-secure gateway may receive data and/or information, intended for the secure network, from one or more devices. The gateway may fragment the data and/or information into smaller chunks and transmit the chunks to a secure gateway via a unidirectional communication channel. The secure gateway may verify the chunks using one or more rules and reassemble the chunks when the data is validated. The reassembled data may be sent across a secure network enclave. The unidirectional transfer protocol may provide a hardware-agnostic solution for transmitting data over a unidirectional communication channel.
US11870754B2
A network device detecting possible malicious traffic and enlists the help of a co-operative group of downstream routers to perform enhanced deep packet analysis and firewalling in parallel with the transport of the packet through the network. The routers may also use other remote computational resource to perform some of the analysis along or close to the route 80 of the packet through the network. The packets are cached at the exit edge router, which does not release the packet from the cooperative group until all analyzers report the traffic is safe, or deletes the traffic if identified as malicious. By buffering at the remote end the packet can be forwarded promptly if approved, but protects downstream components if the traffic is malicious. Routing policies through the network are chosen according to initial estimates of the likelihood that a packet will be permitted to be forwarded from the downstream router, and of the time likely to be taken to reach a decision, allowing cache capacity requirements to be minimized by using higher-latency routes for packets unlikely to be forwarded promptly.
US11870750B1
A gateway server and methods operating as a web service providing a self-serve methodology for establishing a domain name registry over a communications network, comprising: receiving a request from the computing device to establish the domain name registry of a specified type; determining the specified type requires ICANN approval and receiving access credentials of the RO; confirming completion of a Registry Agreement between ICANN and the RO; collecting registry technical information for the domain name registry from the computing device; using the access credentials to access via the communications network the RO account on the server during a registry testing phase of the self-serve methodology to complete registry services testing for the domain name registry with ICANN; and updating a workflow interface with a completion status of the registry testing phase for subsequent access by the computing device of the RO over the communications network.
US11870710B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a proxy application on a first computing device, a request from a first application on the first computing device to access a resource. The method further includes transmitting, from the proxy application on the first computing device, a modified version of the request to a proxy application on a second computing device and receiving, from the proxy application on the second computing device, a response comprising data from the requested resource, where the resource is on the second computing device. The method further includes transmitting, to the first application on the first computing device, a response satisfying the first application's request to access the resource.
US11870704B2
Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating resource balancing based on resource capacities and resource assignments are disclosed. Electronic communications, received via interfaces, from monitoring devices to identify resource descriptions of resources may be monitored. A resource descriptions data store may be updated to associate each entity of the entities and resource capacities of each resource type of resource types. A first electronic communication, from resource-controlling systems, may be detected. Model data from a model data store may be accessed based on the identified resource descriptions. A first model may be identified based on the model data. A resources assessment corresponding may be generated based on whether a threshold is satisfied based on the first model, a first resource capacity of a first resource type, and the first electronic communication. An electronic notification may be transmitted to the client devices to identify the resources assessment.
US11870700B2
Methods and systems for monitoring a communication network using machine-learning techniques are disclosed. In some implementations, a forecasted amount of traffic for a communication network is determined using one or more network traffic forecasting models being configured to generate the forecasted amount of traffic based on data indicating one or more previous amounts of traffic for the communication network. A measure of network health is generated based on a measured amount of traffic and the forecasted amount of traffic. Data indicating one or more characteristics of the communication network is processed using one or more machine learning models to generate a predicted measure of network health for a future time period. An indication of the predicted measure of network health for the future time period is provided.
US11870698B2
This application discloses a congestion control method and related apparatus. In the congestion control method, a network device first obtains statistical information of a target egress queue within a first time period, where the target egress queue is any target egress queue in the network device. The network device determines an explicit congestion notification (ECN) threshold for the target egress queue within a second time period based on the statistical information of the target egress queue within the first time period, where the second time period is chronologically subsequent to the first time period. When a queue depth of the target egress queue exceeds the ECN threshold within the second time period, the network device sets an ECN mark for a data packet in the target egress queue.
US11870691B2
In one embodiment, an electronic device maintains one or more tunnel-based overlays for a communication network. The communication network includes two or more physical provider networks. The device maintains a mapping between a particular application and the one or more overlays for the communication network. The device adjusts the mapping between the particular application and the one or more overlays for the communication network. The device causes one or more routers in the communication network to route traffic for the particular application according to the adjusted mapping between the application and the one or more overlays for the communication network.
US11870689B2
A cell site gateway located at a cell site of an access network receives one or more first packets, from a network gateway, via a first interface of the cell site gateway. The cell site gateway receives one or more second packets, from a cellular base station, via a second interface of the cell site gateway. The cell site gateway receives control information, from a control server, via a third interface of the cell site gateway, wherein the control information is for a forwarding layer of the cell site gateway, the control information comprising a first label for removal by the forwarding layer and a second label for attachment by the forwarding layer. The forwarding layer of the cell site gateway removes the first label from the one or more first packets. The forwarding layer of the cell site gateway attaches the second label to the one or more second packets. The forwarding layer of the cell site gateway transmits the one or more second packets to the network gateway.
US11870682B2
A method for communication includes partitioning local links in a subnetwork of a packet data network into at least first and second groups. For each local link that connects a first upper-tier switch to a first lower-tier switch in the subnetwork, a corresponding detour route is defined, passing through a first local link belonging to the first group from the first upper-tier switch to a second lower-tier switch, and from the second lower-tier switch over a second local link to a second upper-tier switch, and from the second upper-tier switch over a third local link belonging to the second group to the first lower-tier switch. Upon a failure of the local link connecting the first upper-tier switch to the first lower-tier switch, data packets arriving from the network at the first upper-tier switch are rerouted to pass via the corresponding detour route to the first lower-tier switch.
US11870678B2
A controller includes a transceiver to establish a first session with a route reflector and monitor advertisements received by the route reflector from nodes in a network via second sessions established between the nodes and the route reflector. The controller also includes a processor to generate forwarding instructions for the nodes based on the advertisements. The forwarding instructions indicate one or more routes from a root node to one or more leaf nodes of a service. The transceiver provides the forwarding instructions to the root node. In some cases, the first session is established according to the border gateway protocol (BGP) and the one or more second sessions are established according to the BGP. The controller determines that the one or more leaf nodes are registered for one or more virtual private network (VPN) services based on the advertisements.
US11870672B2
An embodiment includes a method of self-election of a node in a subnet. The method includes receiving a first ping message. The first ping message is unicast from a second node, includes direct information related to the second node, and includes indirect information related to a third node. The method includes updating a first status of the second node in a status list stored at the first node consistent with the direct information. The method includes determining whether statuses of a threshold number of nodes have been received. Responsive to the threshold number of nodes being received, the method includes performing a local election operation. The method includes propagating a second ping message to a randomly identified additional node. The second ping message includes direct information regarding the first node and indirect information regarding at least one other node.
US11870664B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for a service activation system in a telecommunications network that utilizes one or more generic container files for building the configuration file to instantiate the service on the network. A request for service from a network may be received from an order entry system that includes specific information about the requested service. A collection of generic configuration files may be selected based on the information included in the service order and arranged to build a configuration file to be executed on the network. The service activation system may also include a component or group of components to verify a received service order and alter the service order with default information or data where applicable. The configuration file may also be executed on the network through one or more drivers communicating with the affected devices to configure the one or more network devices.
US11870659B1
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for industrial equipment diagnostics are disclosed. Specifically, a bus controller operatively connected to a processor is physically connected to two or more controller area network (CAN) buses, wherein each CAN bus operates according to a different protocol. The bus controller is configured to control the rate at which messages are received on certain buses by adjusting parameters such as a baud rate and sample rate. The bus controller is further configured to filter or mask certain CAN bus messages based on identifiers within the messages. The bus controller is operatively connected to a remote processing system for processing the CAN bus messages from their raw data format into a useable format. The remote processing system performs diagnostic analysis on the processed CAN bus messages, and furthermore performs predictive analytics on the processed CAN bus messages to identify patterns or discrete events indicative of future system failures.
US11870656B2
A network data analytics method and apparatus are provided. The method includes receiving, by a network repository function network element, a first message from a first device, where the first message is used to discover a network data analytics function network element, and the first message carries a first analytics identifier and first analytics filtering information.
US11870654B2
Methods and systems for introducing self-contained intent functionality into decentralized computer networks is described. Specifically, the methods and systems for encoding user intent (e.g., what functions a value may be used for) into data structures for computer programs and/or transaction protocols intended to automatically execute, control, or record events and actions according to predetermined terms or criteria are described herein. For example, the methods and systems may include using a permission structure native to one or more cryptocurrencies to provide additional functionality that allows for an intent to be introduced into the computer program and/or transaction protocol. This intent may be introduced using a routing data structure indicating exchange eligibility of resource sources.
US11870653B2
The present disclosure provides for adaptive resource management in new radio operations that adapts a numerology including a subcarrier spacing and/or cyclic prefix for a user equipment (UE) traveling at a high speed. A base station may transmit via a plurality of remote radio heads (RRH) to a user equipment (UE) is moving along a high speed track. The base station may transmit, in a first time period, using a first numerology including a first subcarrier spacing and a first cyclic prefix ratio, a first transmission for the UE. The base station may transmit, in a subsequent time period, using a second numerology including a second subcarrier spacing and a second cyclic prefix ratio, a second transmission for the UE. At least one of the second subcarrier spacing is different than the first subcarrier spacing or the second cyclic prefix ratio is different than the first cyclic prefix ratio.
US11870651B2
Systems and methods include determination of a plurality of call map clusters, each call map cluster associated with a respective type of external call, two or more of a plurality of services, and a service call model modelling, for each of the two or more of the plurality of services, the issuance of outgoing service calls in response to received service calls. A bot is deployed proximate to each of the plurality of services, and each deployed bot is associated with a respective configuration to issue outgoing service calls in response to received service calls as modelled by the service call models for each of one or more services proximate to the deployed bot.
US11870650B2
A network function optimization method, system, and computer program product include optimizing network function chain components of a software by modifying a structure of the network function chain components by removing a function of the network function chain components.
US11870649B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing traffic visibility in a network. An embodiment operates by a third-party component in communication with a network component—each located at a network's edge—maintaining a rule table including a first rule comprising first identifiers and a first action for deriving a first packet characteristic. The third-party component receives a first packet copy including second identifiers from the network component. Upon the second identifiers matching the first identifiers, the third-party component determines the rule table's second rule includes a second action for deriving a second packet characteristic. Thereafter, the third-party component receives a second packet copy comprising third identifiers from the network component. Upon the third identifiers matching the first identifiers, the third-party component identifies the rule table's second rule and performs the second rule to derive the second packet characteristic based on the second packet's data.
US11870636B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for secure transmission of computer server event notifications, including receiving a topic subscription request from a partner, registering the partner topic subscription request, obtaining a new computer server event to report, determining a subscribed partner subscribed to computer server events of a same type as the new computer server event, transmitting an event notification to the subscribed partner, and registering the event notification.
US11870633B2
New radio (NR) shared spectrum (NR-SS) listen before talk (LBT) gap optimizations are disclosed in which an indication, such as the preemption indicator, may provide an indication of a communications gap, in which preemptive communications may occur, to a user equipment (UE) currently engaged in communications, whether the preemptive communications are to another UE or network node or through different signal channels. The gap and preemptive communication may be measured in full symbol lengths, sub-symbol lengths, or interlaces. The communication gap may provide sufficient resources for the preempting node to adequately obtain the shared channel via listen before talk (LBT) procedures, and for the original UE to resume communications after the gap. The communication gap may also be optimally configured in order to provide both the UE and preempting node as much communication resources as possible within the scheduled communication opportunities.
US11870628B2
An example according to the present specification relates to a technique relating to a configuration of a preamble in a wireless LAN (WLAN) system. A reception STA can receive a PPDU. The reception STA can perform a modulo operation with respect to whether or not an L-SIG field is repeated and a value of a length field. The reception STA can determine the received PPDU as an EHT PPDU on the basis of the modulo operation with respect to whether or not the L-SIG field is repeated and the value of the length field.
US11870627B2
Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a wireless device maps data, a unique word (UW) sequence, and a suppression signal to a set of reserved time-domain resources based on a time-domain resource mapping and reservation rule to produce DFT input data. DFT processing is performed on the DFT input data to produce IFFT input data. IFFT processing is performed on the IFFT input data to produce the GI-based waveform with a data part (e.g., non-zero part) and a tail part (e.g., zero tail part). The wireless device may further transmit the GI-based waveform.
US11870620B2
A receiver and method for compensating for linear impairments at a receiver including receiving an Rx signal including an asymmetric response of a satellite filter; pre-equalizing the Rx signal with a coefficient; and demodulating, after the pre-equalizing, the Rx signal.
US11870618B2
Systems and methods for classifying a modulation scheme of a wireless signal are described. In some embodiments, a system receives a wireless signal modulated based on a modulation scheme having a constant modulus. The system can generate a resampled signal from the wireless signal based on features extracted from the wireless signal and perform blind equalization on the resampled signal based on a constant modulus criterion to generate an equalized signal. Then, the system can cause a modulation classifier to classify the received wireless signal to a modulation scheme from a plurality of predetermined modulation schemes based on the equalized signal. By preconditioning the wireless signal to reduce feature variability imparted by a propagation channel onto the wireless signal, the system can increase the classification accuracy of the modulation classifier.
US11870607B2
Systems and methods for detecting physical loops in both native and non-native VLANs are provided. According to one embodiment, a processing resource of a network switch detects a physical loop in a non-native Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) by configuring a set of one or more network chips (e.g., an ASIC) associated with an interface associated with the non-native VLAN of multiple interfaces of the network switch to provide an indication (e.g., a Media Access Control (MAC) address or a packet) regarding a MAC move event detected on the interface. Responsive to receipt of the indication, it is determined whether a number of MAC move events for the interface meets an event count threshold within each unit of time (e.g., one or more seconds) of multiple consecutive units of time. When the determination is affirmative, the existence of the physical loop is identified.
US11870599B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A multicast architecture may support flexible change between unicast and multicast operations and may support additional traffic types (e.g., Internet Protocol and Ethernet traffic). For example, the multicast architecture may include transmitting data over a shared multicast radio bearer (MRB) and/or specific data radio bearers (DRBs), a multicast user plane function (UPF) for supplying the multicast data to a base station, multicast data from different radio access networks (RANs), protecting the multicast data through creating a group key, ciphering the multicast data sent on the MRB using the group key, and transitioning the multicast data from a source RAN to a target RAN.
US11870598B2
One example method includes hosting, by a video conference provider, a virtual expo; receiving, from a first client device associated with a first participant in the virtual expo, a request to enter a meeting with a second participant in the virtual expo; providing, to a second client device associated with the second participant, a notification of the request to enter the meeting; receiving, from the second client device, an approval of the request; and in response to receiving the approval, joining the first client device to a second virtual meeting.
US11870597B2
A method for determining a resource use of resources provided by one or more devices (50) in order to carry out a service, the method comprising at a miner (100): determining (S41) a latest block (35b) of a blockchain (35) related to the service and a total resource information present in the latest block, wherein the total resource information represents the total amount of resources used by the one or more devices (50) for providing the service since a defined starting point in time, determining (S42) that a new use case of resources of a first device of the one or more devices (50) has occurred which is not reflected by the total resource information and determining a new amount of the resources used by the first device during the new use case, determining (S43) a new total resource information in which the total resource information is combined with the new amount of the resources and which reflects a complete use of the resources of the one or more devices from the defined starting point until determining the new total resource information, generating (S44) a new block of the blockchain (35), adding the new total resource information to the new block (35c), and adding the new block to the blockchain (35).
US11870588B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A downlink message associated with a feedback process identifier may be received at a first time. An uplink feedback message for the downlink message may be scheduled for a third time. Another downlink message associated with the feedback process identifier may be received after the first time and before the third time. Additionally or alternatively, an uplink grant associated with a feedback process identifier may be received at a first time. An uplink message may be scheduled by the uplink grant for a third time. Another uplink grant associated with the feedback process identifier may be received after the first time and before the third time, and another uplink message may be scheduled by the other uplink grant for a fourth time after the third time.
US11870586B2
Provided are a method for performing, by a first device, group cast communication with one or more second devices in a group, and a device for supporting same. The method may comprise the steps of: determining the number of physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resources associated with a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) resource; on the basis of the number of PSFCH resources and the size of the group, determining a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback option; and transmitting, to the one or more second devices, information associated with the HARQ feedback option. Here, the HARQ feedback option can be any one of a first HARQ feedback option or a second HARQ feedback option.
US11870581B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, devices, systems and methods of communicating an Enhanced Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) (EDMG) Physical Layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU). For example, an EDMG wireless communication station (STA) may be configured to communicate an EDMG PPDU including a Channel Estimation Field (CEF) and/or a pilot sequence, which may be configured for an OFDM mode.
US11870576B2
An apparatus for wireless communication is provided. The apparatus may be a receiver device that includes an error correction decoder, such as a low-density parity check (LDPC) decoder. The apparatus may achieve power savings and/or operation cycle savings by disabling the error correction decoder in scenarios where bits of a codeword in a signal transmission are received without errors. The apparatus obtains a first set of bits of a codeword, wherein the codeword includes the first set of bits and a second set of bits, and wherein the second set of bits is punctured. The apparatus recovers the second set of bits based on at least the first set of bits and determines whether to operate an error correction decoder based on a result of an error detection operation performed on the codeword using the first set of bits and the second set of bits.
US11870575B2
Systems and methods for error detection in video data is described. An encoding computing system can receive a video frame. The encoding computing system can encode and decode the video frame based on an encoding scheme. The encoding computing system can generate a frame error detection code for the decoded video frame based on an error detection code generation scheme. The encoding computing system can send the encoded video frame and the error detection code to a decoding computing system. The decoding computing system can decode the encoded video frame and generate a second error detection code using the code generation scheme. The decoding computing system can detect that the decoded video frame is corrupted by comparing the error detection code and the second error detection code.
US11870568B2
Provided are a CQI feedback enhancement method, a CQI feedback enhancement device, a CQI feedback enhancement system, a UE and a base station. The CQI feedback enhancement method includes: a base station sends downlink traffic data to a UE; the UE decodes the downlink traffic data; first information is sent to the base station in a case where an error result is obtained by decoding the downlink traffic data, where the first information includes an NACK instruction and an aperiodic CQI, or the first information includes one NACK state of multiple NACK states and different NACK states correspond to different CQIs; and the base station receives the first information.
US11870564B2
An audio data transmission method includes encapsulating, based on a physical layer frame header, a protocol data unit (PDU) including audio data, to obtain an audio data packet, where the physical layer frame header is modulated using a first digital modulation scheme, the PDU is modulated using a second digital modulation scheme, a value of a modulation rate of the first digital modulation scheme is equal to a value of a data transmission rate, and a value of a modulation rate of the second digital modulation scheme is less than the value of the data transmission rate, and sending the audio data packet on a BLUETOOTH low energy (BLE) physical channel at the data transmission rate.
US11870563B2
A semi-supervised machine learning model can provide for classifying an input data point as associated with a particular target location or a particular action. Each data point comprises one or more sensor values from one or more signals emitted by one or more signal sources located within a physical area. A tagged sample set and an untagged sample set are combined to train the machine learning model. Each tagged sample includes a respective data point and a label representing a respective location/action. Each untagged sample includes a data point but is unlabeled. Once trained, given a current data point, the machine learning model can classify the current data point as associated with a particular location/action, after which a target object (e.g., other device or application to be used) can be predicted.
US11870559B1
A device may receive network data associated with a network, and may calculate, based on the network data, key performance indicators (KPIs) for the network. The device may generate a first user interface that depicts one or more of the KPIs, and may receive a selection of a particular KPI from the one or more KPIs displayed by the first user interface. The device may parse a set of rules, utilized to calculate the particular KPI, to generate a parsed set of rules, and may analyze the parsed set of rules to identify particular metrics utilized to calculate the particular KPI. The device may generate a second user interface that depicts one or more timeline views of the particular metrics correlated with the particular KPI, and may provide the second user interface for display.
US11870554B1
A network node device of an area network includes physical layer (PHY) circuitry configured to transmit and receive frames of data via a communication link of the communication network; medium access layer (MAC) circuitry; a receive interface between the PHY circuitry and the MAC circuitry, and timestamp circuitry. The receive interface includes a receive clock signal and a DLL. The timestamp circuitry is configured to produce multiple sample signals derived from the receive clock signal using the DLL and a local clock signal of the network node, and produce a timestamp offset using the multiple sample signals. The timestamp offset is representative of an instantaneous phase offset between a local clock of the network node and a local clock of a neighbor node of the network node.
US11870550B2
An ultra-low power data transmission method and apparatus are disclosed. An ultra-low power data transmission method to be performed by a user terminal of an ultra-low power data transmission system includes performing channel coding on a payload included in a transmission packet; interleaving a payload obtained through the channel coding, spreading the interleaved payload using a gold code and an orthogonal variable spreading factor (OVSF), combining a synchronization header spread using the gold code and the OVSF with the spread payload, and modulating a transmission packet in which the payload and the synchronization header are combined.
US11870547B2
A system and method provide an enhanced listening experience for a user of a radio receiver or other device that receives broadcast or streamed content having a plurality of program channels. The method and system buffer designated channels at the receiver and, when switching among channels, play back the buffered designated channels during reception from a selected point therein depending on the channel or other criteria. When switching to a different channel during reception, a user is able to hear content in a buffered program channel with music from the start of a song, for example, whereas content in a channel with news, talk radio, or live sports is played back from live reception, even though the content segments are transmitted at different start times relative to their selected times for playback following a channel change. User controls allow navigation among buffered designated channels during reception.
US11870542B2
An earth station transmitter device is arranged for generating a signal to be transmitted to an earth station receiver device of a satellite communication system. The earth station transmitter device includes: shaping encapsulation for shaping and encapsulating downlink data traffic based on a modulation and coding decodable by an earth station receiver device. The shaping encapsulation is arranged to output downlink baseband frames, and further encapsulation is arranged to receive the downlink baseband frames and to generate uplink baseband frames by segmenting the downlink baseband frames based on a modulation and coding decodable by a satellite receiver device, encoding and modulation means for converting the uplink baseband frames into an uplink transmission signal using the modulation and coding decodable by the satellite receiver device.
US11870526B2
The present application provides a wireless communication method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. One example method includes: performing, by a base station, user grouping management on all terminals in a target cell; periodically updating user groups for all terminals in the target cell; and initiating, based on the user groups, paging of different groups.
US11870522B2
A beam tracking method for mmWave communication method is disclosed. An angle estimation algorithm is performed on all user equipments (UEs) through a low-frequency band to estimate beam angles of the UEs relative to the electronic device. High-frequency band beams of the UEs relative to the electronic device are generated according to the estimated beam angles. The electronic device is enabled to communicate with the UEs according to the generated high-frequency band beams.
US11870519B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining compressed sounding reference signal (SRS) information associated with a user end device from a distributed unit device. The distributed unit device compresses SRS information utilizing a first compression algorithm resulting in the compressed SRS information. Further embodiments include decompressing the compressed SRS information utilizing a first decompression algorithm resulting in the SRS information and determining SRS channel estimation based on the SRS information. Additional embodiments include determining a group of beamforming weights based on the SRS channel estimation, and adjusting an antenna array according to the group of beamforming weights. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11870518B2
The present disclosure relates to design of a line panel codebook and a method and an apparatus for transmission and reception based on it in a wireless communication system. A method in which a transmitter transmits a precoded signal to a receiver in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include determining one or more codewords and a panel phase factor for each of a plurality of line panels equipped with the transmitter; precoding data which will be transmitted to the receiver based on the determined one or more codewords and a panel phase factor; and transmitting the precoded signal to the receiver.
US11870515B2
Methods, media, and systems are provided for a priority-based multi-user (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) pairing threshold for codebook beamforming. The methods, media, and systems identify a plurality of user device candidates for a user device pairing. A first user device of the plurality of user device candidates having a higher priority than another user device of the plurality of user device candidates is identified. Correlations between one or more beams associated with one or more of the plurality of user device candidates are determined. Based on determining the correlations, user devices can be paired for resource sharing. In some embodiments, the user devices are paired based on beam correlations being below a threshold. For example, the threshold can be determined based on a priority of one or more of the user devices.
US11870514B2
A method of a communication device configured with two or more multi-user coordination modes for communication with a plurality of users is disclosed. The method comprises determining an available spatial selectivity for the plurality of users, and selecting one of the two or more multi-user coordination modes based on the determined available spatial selectivity and a number of users of the plurality. Corresponding apparatus, communication receiver and computer program product are also disclosed.
US11870509B2
Wireless power transfer systems, disclosed, include one or more circuits to facilitate high power transfer at high frequencies. Such wireless power transfer systems include a damping circuit, configured to dampen a wireless power signal such that communications fidelity is upheld at high power. The damping circuit includes at least a damping transistor that is configured to receive, from the transmitter controller, a damping signal for switching the transistor to control damping during transmission of the wireless data signals. Utilizing such systems enables wireless power transfer at high frequency, such as 13.56 MHz, at voltages over 1 Watt, while maintaining fidelity of in-band communications associated with the higher power wireless power signal.
US11870502B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products for delivering information to an individual, group, or device. The information is carried by audio signals beyond the audible frequency range of human hearing, but within the frequency range of an audio system. The information is modulated onto an ultrasonic frequency and embedded into an audio signal transmitted by the audio system. Each individual, group member, or device may have or be coupled to a receiver configured to receive an acoustic signal transmitted by the audio system that includes the modulated ultrasonic frequency. The receiver extracts the information from the modulated ultrasonic frequency and provides the information to the individual, group member, or device.
US11870498B2
A server that performs optical transmission using an optical transmission line includes a transmitter that transmits an optical signal to another server, a receiver that receives the optical signal from the other server, a storage device that stores data and an error correction code (ECC) added to the data, and a control unit that controls conversion of the data and the ECC into the optical signal, conversion of the optical signal into the data and the ECC, and error correction of the data using the ECC, and a transmission distance of the optical transmission line is a transmission distance for which an error rate does not exceed an allowable value of the error rate before correction which makes the error rate after correction based on the error correction using the ECC be equal to or less than a reference error rate.
US11870493B2
In an embodiment, a communication method includes: performing a receiving method by a receiving device including a visible light camera module that is capable of capturing invisible light emitted by an invisible light signal emitter of a sending device. The receiving method includes: broadcasting a camera frame rate; capturing, by the visible light camera module, a plurality of frames at the camera frame rate, wherein each frame includes a corresponding area caused by a corresponding signal pulse of a portion of signal pulses, and the signal pulses are emitted by the invisible light signal emitter at a signal pulse rate substantially same as the camera frame rate; detecting the corresponding area in each frame; and labeling the corresponding area in each frame, to obtain a coding pattern corresponding to a signal pulse pattern, and decoding the coding pattern, to identify a data sequence.
US11870487B2
A method is presented for supporting SNCP over a packet network connecting to two SDH sub-networks and transporting one or more SDH paths that are SNCP-protected in both SDH sub-networks. The packet network connects to each of two sub-network interconnection points by a working path and a protection path. The packet sub-network may provide the same type of path protection as an SDH sub-network using SNCP, while avoiding bandwidth duplication.
US11870486B2
Systems and methods for data transmission within the ultra-wideband ranging protocol include a first UWB device which determines a transmission block comprising a plurality of rounds each representing a period of time. The first UWB device performs a first wireless communication to perform ranging between the first UWB device and a second UWB device, within a first round of the plurality of rounds. The first UWB device may perform a second wireless communication to communicate data between the first UWB device and the second UWB device, which may be within the first round or a second round.
US11870484B2
A wireless communication system having a dual-band coexistence architecture is provided, and the system includes a processing circuit, a first transceiver, a first front-end module, a first switch circuit, a first filter, a second filter, a second switch circuit, a first antenna, a second transceiver, a second front-end module, a third switch circuit, a third filter, a fourth filter, a fourth switch circuit and a second antenna. The first filter and the second filter use a combination of a wideband filter and a narrowband filter, and the fourth filter and the third filter also use a combination of a wideband filter and a narrowband filter, so as to achieve the dual-band coexistence architecture.
US11870483B2
A smart antenna switching method is disclosed. Multiple wireless signal parameters of a wireless network environment are collected. Under a current operating phase, when a holding period of a to-be-switched antenna is 0, the qualities of wireless signals between an initial antenna and the to-be-switched antenna are compared according to the wireless signal parameters. When a comparing period of the to-be-switched antenna is 0, it is determined whether an antenna switching operation is performed. If the antenna switching operation is not performed, the next operating phase is served as the current operating phase. If the antenna switching operation is performed, a signal receiving-and-sending operating is switched from the to-be-switched antenna to the outdoor antenna or from the outdoor antenna to the to-be-switched antenna, and the previous operating phase is served as the current operating phase.
US11870481B1
The present disclosure provides a full-body protection phone case for a fully protected foldable screen, comprising: a lower backboard, an upper cover plate and hinge protector assembly; the hinge protector assembly is installed on one side of the lower backboard and the upper cover plate; the hinge protector assembly comprises a hinge protection frame, fixed supports, movably threading needle pieces, connecting plates and threaded holes; the fixed supports are fixed on both sides of the hinge protection frame close to the lower backpboard and the upper cover plate; the movably threading needle pieces run through the interior of the fixed supports; the two ends of the movably threading needle pieces are rotatably connected with the connecting plates, and the side of the connecting plate is equipped with the threaded holes, the inner side of the upper cover plate is equipped with a front screen protection frame.
US11870471B2
A digital radio frequency (RF) transmitter including processing circuitry configured to generate first through third pattern signals based on a pattern of an inphase (I)-quadrature (Q) binary data pair and a pattern of an inverted I-Q binary data pair, the first through third pattern signals having a same pattern and different phases, and a switched-capacitor digital-to-analog converter (SC-DAC) configured to remove an n-th harmonic component of an RF analog signal by amplifying the first through third pattern signals to have a certain magnitude ratio and synthesizing the amplified first through third pattern signals into the RF analog signal, where “n” is an integer of at least 3, may be provided.
US11870468B2
A wireless communication method and apparatus in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system are disclosed. A wireless communication method according to one embodiment may include generating a high-efficiency Wi-Fi (HEW) frame including at least one of an HEW-SIG-A field and an HEW-SIG-B field which include channel information for communications according to an Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) mode, and transmitting the generated HEW frame to a reception apparatus.
US11870463B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus related to memory devices such as solid state drives. In one approach, data is received from a host system (e.g., data to be written to an SSD). The received data is encoded using a first error correction code to generate first parity data. A temperature at which memory cells of a storage device (e.g., the SSD) will store the received data is determined. In response to determining the temperature, a first portion of the received data is identified (e.g., data in memory storage that is error-prone at a predicted higher temperature that has been determined based on output from an artificial neural network using sensor(s) input). The identified first portion is encoded using a second error correction code to generate second parity data. The second error correction code has a higher error correction capability than the first error correction code. The encoded first portion, the first parity data, and the second parity data are stored in the memory cells of the storage device.
US11870455B2
An analog-to-digital conversion method, an analog-to-digital converter and an image sensor, are provided. The analog-to-digital conversion method includes a first conversion period and a second conversion period; in the first conversion period and the second conversion period, a first counter and the second counter have different effective clock edges and work in a time-sharing way using the first count clock signal and the second count clock signal respectively; in the second conversion period, count directions of the first counter and the second counter are reversed, and the count results in the first conversion period are used as an initial value of the second conversion period; and the conversion result is output based on the first count result and the second count result.
US11870453B2
Systems and methods are provided for analog-to-digital conversion (ADC). A first quantization stage may be configured to receive an analog input signal and sample the analog input signal to generate a first digital signal, the first quantization stage may be further configured to filter the first digital signal with a first noise-shaping transfer function to generate a first noise-shaped digital output and to generate a quantization error signal based on a comparison of the analog input signal and the first noise-shaped digital output. A voltage controlled oscillator (VCO)-based second quantization stage may be configured to receive the quantization error signal and sample the quantization error signal to generate a second digital signal, the VCO-based second quantization stage may be further configured to filter the second digital signal with a second noise-shaping transfer function to generate a second noise-shaped digital output. A first digital filter may be configured to filter the first noise-shaped digital output with an equivalent signal transfer function of the VCO-based second quantization stage to generate a first stage digital output. A second digital filter may be configured to filter the second noise-shaped digital output with the first noise-shaping transfer function to generate a second stage digital output with second order noise-shaping characteristics A combination circuit may combine the first stage digital output and the second stage digital output to generate a digital ADC output signal with second order noise shaping characteristics.
US11870446B2
In described examples, a feedback loop has phase detection (PD) circuitry that has a reference input to receive a reference frequency signal, a feedback input to receive a feedback signal, and phase difference outputs. A phase to digital converter (P2DC) includes a first phase to charge converter (PCC) that has a gain polarity and a first phase error output; a second PCC that has an opposite gain polarity and a second phase error output. A differential loop filter has an amplifier with an inverting input coupled to the first phase error output and a non-inverting input coupled to the second phase error output. An analog to digital converter (ADC) has an input coupled to an output of the differential loop filter. A feedback path is coupled to the output of the P2DC, with an output of the feedback path providing the feedback signal to the PD feedback input.
US11870443B2
A system comprises time-tracking circuitry and phase parameter generation circuitry. The time-tracking circuitry is operable to generate a time-tracking value corresponding to time elapsed since a reference time. The phase parameter generation circuitry operable to: receive the time-tracking value; receive a control signal that conveys a frequency parameter corresponding to a desired frequency of an oscillating signal; and generate a plurality of phase parameters used for generation of an oscillating signal, wherein the generation of the plurality of phase parameters is based on the time-tracking value and the frequency parameter such that the oscillating signal maintains phase continuity across changes in the frequency parameter.
US11870434B2
The present disclosure provides a driving circuit, a driving IC, and a driving system, relating to the technical field of electronic circuits. The driving circuit comprises a control module and a driving signal output module, the control module is electrically connected to the driving signal output module, and the driving signal output module is configured to be electrically connected to a to-be-driven device, wherein the driving signal output module comprises at least two transistors, and the at least two transistors are epitaxially grown on the same substrate; and the control module is configured to control a closed state of the at least two transistors, so as to control an operation state of the to-be-driven device.
US11870433B2
An electronic solid-state switch assembly includes a base plate and a heat exchanger; an electrically insulating layer and a direct bonded substrate affixed to the base plate; a first terminal and a second terminal; a plurality of power transistors; a plurality of gate drivers; a communication interface, a current sensor, and a snubber circuit; and a controller. The plurality of gate drivers are operatively coupled to the plurality of power transistors. The plurality of power transistors are arranged in parallel on the direct bonded substrate between the first terminal and the second terminal. The plurality of power transistors are electrically connected to the first terminal and to the second terminal. The controller is in communication with the plurality of gate drivers, the current sensor, and the communication interface. The controller is configured to control, via the plurality of gate drivers, the plurality of power transistors.
US11870431B2
A positive-logic FET switch stack that does not require a negative bias voltage, exhibits high isolation and low insertion/mismatch loss, and may withstand high RF voltages. Embodiments include a FET stack comprising series-coupled positive-logic FETs (i.e., FETs not requiring a negative voltage supply to turn OFF), series-coupled on at least one end by an “end-cap” FET of a type that turns OFF when its VGS is zero volts. The one or more end-cap FETs provide a selectable capacitive DC blocking function or a resistive signal path. Embodiments include a stack of FETs of only the zero VGS type, or a mix of positive-logic and zero VGS type FETs with end-cap FETs of the zero VGS type. Some embodiments withstand high RF voltages by including combinations of series or parallel coupled resistor ladders for the FET gate resistors, drain-source resistors, body charge control resistors, and one or more AC coupling modules.
US11870429B2
An electronic device includes a semiconductor substrate and a bidirectional transistor switch formed on the substrate, the bidirectional switch including a first source node, a second source node and a common drain node. A first transistor is formed on the substrate and includes a first source terminal, a first drain terminal and a first gate terminal, wherein the first source terminal is connected to the substrate, the first drain terminal is connected to the first source node and the first gate terminal is connected to the second source node. A second transistor is formed on the substrate and includes a second source terminal, a second drain terminal and a second gate terminal, wherein the second source terminal is connected to the substrate, the second drain terminal is connected to the second source node and the second gate terminal is connected to the first source node.
US11870427B2
A power supply control device controls power supply by switching on or off a first semiconductor switch and a second semiconductor switch that are arranged on a current path. A first diode and a second diode are connected between a drain and a source of the first semiconductor switch and the second semiconductor switch, respectively. Cathodes of the first diode and the second diode are arranged downstream and upstream of the respective anode on the current path. If current flows through the current path even though a microcomputer has given an instruction to switch the first semiconductor switch and the second semiconductor switch off, a first drive circuit switches the first semiconductor switch on.
US11870416B2
Techniques for improving Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) resonator structures are disclosed, including filters, oscillators and systems that may include such devices. First and second layers of piezoelectric material may be acoustically coupled with one another to have a piezoelectrically excitable resonance mode. The first layer of piezoelectric material may have a first piezoelectric axis orientation, and the second layer of piezoelectric material may have a second piezoelectric axis orientation that substantially opposes the first piezoelectric axis orientation of the first layer of piezoelectric material. An acoustic reflector electrode may include a first pair of top metal electrode layers electrically and acoustically coupled with the first and second layer of piezoelectric material to excite the piezoelectrically excitable resonance mode at a resonant frequency of the BAW resonator. The acoustic reflector may include a patterned layer.
US11870415B2
Techniques for improving acoustic wave device structures are disclosed, including filters, oscillators and systems that may include such devices. First and second layers of piezoelectric material may be acoustically coupled with one another to have a piezoelectrically excitable resonance mode. The first layer of piezoelectric material may have a first piezoelectric axis orientation, and the second layer of piezoelectric material may have a second piezoelectric axis orientation that substantially opposes the first piezoelectric axis orientation of the first layer of piezoelectric material. The first and second layers of piezoelectric material have respective thicknesses so that the acoustic wave device has a resonant frequency that is in a super high frequency band or an extremely high frequency band.
US11870405B2
An LNA having a plurality of paths, each of which can be controlled independently to achieve a gain mode. Each path includes at least an input FET and an output FET coupled in series. A gate of the output FET is controlled to set the gain of the LNA. Signals to be amplified are applied to the gate of the input FET. Additional stacked FETs are provided in series between the input FET and the output FET.
US11870398B2
Various methods and circuital arrangements for biasing one or more gates of stacked transistors of an amplifier are presented, where the amplifier can have a varying supply voltage. According to one aspect, the gate of the input transistor of the amplifier is biased with a fixed voltage whereas the gates of the other transistors of the amplifier are biased with variable voltages that are linear functions of the varying supply voltage. According to another aspect, the linear functions are such that the variable voltages coincide with the fixed voltage at a value of the varying supply voltage for which the input transistor is at the edge of triode. According to another aspect, biasing of the stacked transistors is such that, while the supply voltage varies, the drain-to-source voltage of the input transistor is maintained to a fixed value whereas the drain-to-source voltages of all other transistors are equal to one another.
US11870390B2
A free-space optical power beaming device may be configured to receive a light beam from an external source. The device may include a plurality of photovoltaic elements configured to convert light to electrical energy; a plurality of electrical charge storage elements, and a light reflector element configured to reflect a light beam toward one or more of the plurality of photovoltaic elements. Each electrical charge storage element may be coupled with at least of one of the plurality of photovoltaic elements and configured to store electrical energy output from the at least one of the plurality of photovoltaic elements. In some aspects a set of the plurality of photovoltaic elements may be configured in a tilted manner. In other aspects the light reflector element may be steerable to reflect a light beam toward one or more of the plurality of photovoltaic elements to provide a desired time-averaged light intensity distribution.
US11870379B2
The control device includes a target-value calculation unit calculating a target-value of a controlled variable that is torque of a rotating electrical machine, drive force, or acceleration of a vehicle, based on redundant signal and non-redundant signals, an inverter operation unit operating the inverter to control the controlled variable to the target-value, and a monitoring-value calculation unit calculating a target-monitoring-value of the controlled variable based on the redundant signal. A difference calculation unit that, when the vehicle travels forward, calculates a difference between the target-value and the target-monitoring-value when the target-value is a first determination value or more, and does not calculate the difference when the target-value is less than the first determination value, and that, when the vehicle travels rearward, calculates the difference when the target-value is a second determination value or less, and does not calculate the difference when the target-value is more than the second determination value.
US11870378B2
A rotary electric machine control apparatus is provided which controls energization of a rotary electric machine having a plurality of winding sets. The apparatus includes an energization control circuit that is provided for each of the winding sets and has a switching element related to switching of energization to the winding set, a driver circuit that outputs a drive signal to the switching element through a signal line connected to the switching element, and a protection element that is connected to the signal line and in parallel with the switching element. When combinations of the winding sets and electronic components including the energization control circuit provided for each of the winding sets are regarded as systems, in at least one of the systems, performance of the protection element is differentiated from that in the other system to make noise resistance different from noise resistance in the other system.
US11870374B2
A method for adapting the control parameters of an electric traction machine being a permanent magnetic synchronous motor, PMSM, the method comprising providing the flux linkage of the permanent magnets, PM flux, in the PMSM; performing a stand still characterisation of the PMSM to estimate linked magnetic flux as a function of current; adding the PM flux to the estimated linked magnetic flux to provide a flux characteristic of the PMSM; adapting the control parameters of the PMSM based on the flux characteristic.
US11870365B2
An AC generation circuit is attached to a secondary battery, and includes a circuit configured to generate an alternating current at both ends of the secondary battery, a current limiting element connected between a positive electrode side of the circuit and a positive element of the secondary battery and/or between a negative electrode side of the circuit and a negative electrode of the secondary battery, and a capacitor connected in parallel to the current limiting element.
US11870354B2
An asymmetric half-bridge flyback circuit-based converter is provided. The converter is configured to convert an alternating current (AC) input at an AC input end into a direct current (DC) within a preset voltage value range. The converter includes a full-bridge rectifier circuit, a half-bridge circuit, a resonant circuit, a transformer, a load output circuit, and a control circuit.
US11870336B1
An input system includes a first input device and a second input device. Each of the first input device and the second input device includes a main body, a first connecting port, at least two second connecting ports, a power switching circuit and a control unit. When the first connecting port of the first input device is connected with an external power source, the power switching circuit of the first input device receives a first voltage from the external power source. When one of the second connecting ports of the first input device is connected with one of the second connecting ports of the second input device, the first voltage is converted into a second voltage by the power switching circuit of the first input device and the second voltage is transmitted to the second input device.
US11870332B2
The present disclosure provides a power conversion circuit including input positive and negative terminals, output positive and negative terminals, an input inductor, two bridge arms, a transformer, an output capacitor and an auxiliary capacitor. The input and output negative terminals are connected. A first terminal of the input inductor is coupled to the input positive terminal. Each bridge arm includes three switches connected in series and two connection points between the switches. The winding of the transformer is coupled in series between the connection points of the two bridge arms, and two windings of the transformer are connected and form a connection point coupled to the output positive terminal. Two terminals of the output capacitor are electrically connected to the output positive and negative terminals respectively. Two terminals of the auxiliary capacitor are electrically connected to a second terminal of the input inductor and the output terminal respectively.
US11870330B2
The present disclosure relates to a voltage source device comprising: a voltage converter for generating a supply voltage at an output node of the voltage converter based on a feedback signal provided on a feedback line; at least one switch coupled between the output node of the voltage converter and an output terminal of the voltage source device; and at least one further switch configured to selectively couple the feedback line to: the output node of the voltage converter during a first regulation mode; and to the output terminal of the voltage source device during a second regulation mode.
US11870328B2
The present disclosure discloses a combined cooling system for a motor and a motor controller, which comprises a water cooling assembly, an oil cooling assembly, and an oil-water heat exchanger; one end of the water cooling assembly is connected to an cooling water outlet of the motor, the other end is connected to an cooling water inlet of the motor controller and/or a water inlet of the oil-water heat exchanger; one end of the oil cooling assembly is connected to a cooling oil outlet of the motor, the other end of the oil cooling assembly is connected to an oil inlet of the oil-water heat exchanger, and an oil outlet of the oil-water heat exchanger is connected to a cooling oil inlet of the motor. The above technical solution utilizes the temperature characteristics of the motor and the motor controller, and achieves the objects of saving energy in cooling, and improving high power output performance and environmental adaptability of the motor through the cooperation and intelligent control of the water pump, oil pump and fan in the combined cooling system.
US11870325B2
The present disclosure provides a motor router comprising: an annular body having a first coil guide; and a guide part formed to protrude from the body, and having a second coil guide to which the first coil guide is connected, and thus the present invention reduces the number of parts and has a simplified configuration, thereby providing an advantageous effect of reducing manufacturing processes and manufacturing costs.
US11870322B2
A modular motor system and methods wherein at least two dual radial gap motors with attachment points may be joined together in a modular manner for the purpose of providing the capability of incrementally increasing or decreasing the total power output of the modular.
US11870320B2
A rotary machine includes a rotating shaft, a housing that surrounds a portion of the rotating shaft and has an initial pressure therein and a gas seal that pumps gas out of the housing to reduce pressure in the housing to an operating pressure that is less than the initial pressure.
US11870308B2
A radially insertable thermistor assembly for installation into a stator having a plurality of stator windings. The radially insertable thermistor assembly includes a thermistor housing having one or more radially outwardly extending elements that extend through a void between two adjacent stator windings and being operable to connect to one of the stator and the plurality of stator windings, and a sensing element arranged at the thermistor housing.
US11870305B2
A rotor assembly includes a plurality of segmented magnets disposed about an outer surface of a rotor core and a plurality of segmented metallic bands configured to secure the plurality of segmented magnets to the outer surface of the rotor core. The number of segments of the segmented metallic bands in an axial direction is greater than the number of segments of the segmented magnets.
US11870303B2
A segmented stator has a plurality of individual teeth (12) connected to one another in the direction of rotation. Each individual tooth (12) has a connecting portion (17) to produce a nonpositive mechanical connection with at least one directly adjacent individual tooth (12). The respective connecting portion (17) has a groove-shaped fastening contour (18, 18a, 19, 19a), at least on one connecting side (17a, 17b), facing toward the directly adjacent individual tooth (12). The fastening contour (18, 18a, 19, 19a) of an adjacent individual tooth (12) can be connected to its connecting portion (17), such that a nonpositive connection is produced which ensures a magnetic flux.
US11870297B2
The disclosure discloses a scheduling method for collaborative work of multi-device in a parallel switching system, the method comprises: providing a load and N backup energy storage devices, n is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2; and connecting the AC output interfaces of the N backup energy storage devices to the load or assembling the AC charging interfaces of the N backup energy storage devices to form a parallel switching system and obtaining numbers 1 to N according to the sequence of the communication modules accessing Wi-Fi hotspots. When the backup energy storage device with any number is switched to the load in the power supply mode, the other backup energy storage devices are switched to the wire mode to transfer current. When the electric quantity of the backup energy storage device reaches the electric quantity threshold, the communication module of the backup energy storage device will notify another numbered backup energy storage device to start the AC output module, and then switch to provide power supply to the load in the power supply mode.
US11870296B2
An uninterruptible power system and an operation method thereof are provided. The uninterruptible power system comprises a DC-AC conversion circuit, a plurality of switches, a plurality of sensing units, a plurality of output ports and a control unit. Each output port is electrically coupled to an output terminal of the DC-AC conversion circuit sequentially through one of the sensing units and one of the switches. The control unit is configured to define members of at least one group from the output ports according to a system setting, and define which members of each group are non-critical output ports according to the system setting. The control unit is further configured to set, according to the system setting, at least one condition for all non-critical output ports in each group to simultaneously stop supplying power, and to accordingly control the operations of the corresponding switches.
US11870295B2
Techniques for wireless charging in a system, method, and apparatus are described herein. For example, the apparatus includes a wireless power transmitting coil configured to propagate current to generate a magnetic field. The wireless power transmitting coil is disposed in a hand-operated input device.
US11870287B2
A storage and charging station system for mobile electronic devices is described. The storage and charging station system includes a support tower structure including shelves for storing the mobile electronic devices during charging, a support device coupled to the support tower structure, a grid system on one side of the support tower structure, the grid system for mounting various accessories, a wire management system positioned adjacent to each of the shelves, a cable management system coupled to one side of the support tower structure, and a power distribution unit coupled to the support tower structure.
US11870285B2
Methods and systems that selectively controls whether a battery is electronically connected to or disconnected from operational circuitry of an electronic device are described. The switching circuitry electronically connects the battery with operational circuitry in response to external electric power being available to the operational circuitry, thereby allowing the battery to be available as a backup source of electrical power for the operational circuitry when external electric power is lost. Methods and systems also electronically disconnect the battery from the operational circuitry in response to a loss of external electric power to the operational circuitry. As a result, undesirable battery drainage is avoided if the device is left in storage or is not being used for an extended period of time.
US11870282B2
A charging system includes: a first battery, a second battery, a switch device, a charging component, and a control component. A capacity of the second battery is smaller than that of the first battery. The switch device is disposed outside the second battery and connected to the second battery. The charging component is connected to the first battery and connected to the second battery via the switch device, and configured to output a charging current to the first battery and the second battery. The control component is connected with the first battery and the second battery, and configured to detect remaining capacity of the first battery and the second battery during a charging process and control the switch device to turn on or turn off based on the remaining capacity.
US11870278B2
A device includes: a wireless power receiver configured to receive wireless power from an external device external to a body; a capacitor configured to store therein the wireless power received by the wireless power receiver; a wireless transceiver configured to transmit, to the external device, information associated with stored energy of the capacitor and scheduled energy to be used; and a processor configured to operate with the stored energy of the capacitor and process a biosignal of the body, wherein an operation of the external device and an operation of the device are synchronized, and a wireless power quantity of the wireless power to be received by the wireless power receiver from the external device is determined based on the information transmitted from the wireless transceiver to the external device.
US11870273B2
A wireless charging device includes a casing, a circuit board and at least one wireless charging module. The casing includes a bottom plate and a plurality of mounting pillars protruding from the bottom plate. The circuit board includes a substrate and at least one support assembly, and the substrate is stacked on the plurality of mounting pillars. The support assembly includes a plurality of support pillars protruding from the substrate. The wireless charging module includes a mounting frame and a charging coil. The mounting frame has a plurality of first assembling parts. The plurality of first assembling parts are respectively mounted on the plurality of support pillars. The charging coil is disposed on the mounting frame. Projections of the plurality of mounting pillars on the bottom plate at least partially overlap projections of the plurality of support pillars on the bottom plate.
US11870255B2
A method, system, and device for managing off-grid power supply are provided. The method includes acquiring data from one or more loads. The one or more loads are connected to the off-grid power supply. The method further includes modeling the one or more loads based on the acquired data, estimating a state of charge of an energy storage device (ESD) associated with the off-grid power supply, and determining an operational status of each of the one or more loads. The operational status is based on at least the state of charge of the ESD and a category of each of the one or more loads. Each load is controlled based on the operational status.
US11870254B2
The present invention proposes a multi-terminal differential protection setting method for a distributed generator T-connected distribution network. The present invention can accurately identify internal faults and external faults of the protected area in the high-proportion distributed generator T-connected distribution network, with sufficient reliability and sensitivity.
US11870248B2
A semiconductor device includes first and second protection circuits. The first protection circuit includes a timer circuit, a voltage detection circuit, and a discharge element. The second protection circuit includes a discharge circuit. The timer circuit is connected between a first pad on a power supply potential side and a second pad on a reference potential side. The voltage detection circuit is connected between the first and second pads on an output side of the timer circuit. The discharge element is connected between the first and second pads on an output side of the voltage detection circuit. The discharge circuit is connected between a third pad on the power supply potential side and a fourth pad on the reference potential side on the output side of the timer circuit.
US11870245B2
A surge suppression device includes a plurality of series circuits each of which is composed of a resistor and a capacitor, a case in which a plurality of the resistors and a plurality of the capacitors are placed, wherein respective ends of the plurality of series circuits on the capacitor side are electrically connected to each other via a connection electrode provided on the case. A motor wiring component includes a plurality of conductive wires connected to stator coils of the motor, wiring terminals that are provided at ends of the plurality of conductive wires on a side opposite to the side connected to the stator coils and are connected to electrodes of a terminal block, and the surge suppression device.
US11870238B2
A protection apparatus includes an interface, a protection switch, a direct current bus, and a controller. The apparatus is connected to at least two photovoltaic units via the interface, the at least two photovoltaic units are coupled to the direct current bus inside the apparatus to form at least two branches, and each branch is connected to at least one photovoltaic unit. The protection switch is configured to disconnect all or some of the photovoltaic units from the direct current bus, to enable a maximum of three photovoltaic units to be directly connected in parallel. According to the apparatus, a photovoltaic unit and a line are protected with a low power loss when a photovoltaic power generation system is faulty.
US11870235B2
Disclosed are a self-power relay and a method for preventing a malfunction thereof. The self-power relay comprises: a self-power generation unit for autonomously generating a driving power by performing conversion into a preconfigured driving power level by using, as a source power, a system power of a transmission/distribution line or power system; and a relay operation unit, for measuring the amount of a system power of a transmission/distribution line or power system, blocking a system power transmitted to a load when a failure occurs, and monitoring a change in a source power of the self-power generation unit in real time, so as to stop a relay operation of the self-power generation unit and a relay operation of the relay operation unit itself when abnormality occurs, wherein a malfunction can be prevented by checking an unstable state of a source current and voltage for generation of a self driving power.
US11870231B2
The present disclosure relates to electrical box assemblies and universal stabilizing brackets that can be used to stabilize electrical boxes attached to different size wall studs. The electrical box assemblies include an electrical box and a stabilizing bracket. Each stabilizing brackets includes a base, a front stop, a rear stop and one or more rear stop segments. The front and rear stops and the rear stop segments include a face member that extends substantially perpendicularly relative to the base. One or more notches are positioned at a junction between each rear stop to facilitate the breaking away of rear stop segments to modify the length of the stabilizing bracket.
US11870218B2
A light emission device of one embodiment reduces zero-order light included in output of an S-iPM laser. The light emission device includes a light emission unit and a phase modulation layer. The phase modulation layer has a base layer and modified refractive index regions each including modified refractive index elements. In each unit constituent region centered on a lattice point of an imaginary square lattice set on the phase modulation layer, the distance from the corresponding lattice point to each of the centers of gravity of the modified refractive index elements is greater than 0.30 times and is not greater than 0.50 times of the lattice spacing. In addition, the distance from the corresponding lattice point to the center of gravity of the modified refractive index elements as a whole is greater than 0 and is not greater than 0.30 times of the lattice spacing.
US11870212B2
A mesa (34) includes a resonator and a second conductivity type contact layer (24). Grooves (32) are provided on both sides of the mesa (34). The first conductivity type contact layer (12) and a side face of the mesa (34) including an end face of the resonator construct an L shape (50). The first conductivity type contact layer (12) constructs bottom surfaces of the L shape (50) and the grooves (32). A side face of the groove (32) includes a slope (38) near the bottom surface (46) and a side face (42) above. A side face of the L shape (50) includes a slope (40) near the bottom surface (48) and a side face (44) above. A first electrode (28) is connected to the first conductivity type contact layer (12) at the bottom surface (46) of the groove (32). A second electrode (30) is connected to the second conductivity type contact layer (24) above the mesa (34).
US11870205B2
A fiber-based optical amplifier for operation at an eye-safe input signal wavelength λS within the 2 μm region is formed to include a section of Holmium (Ho)-doped optical gain fiber. The pump source for the fiber amplifier is particularly configured to provide pump light at a wavelength where the absorption coefficient of the Ho-doped optical gain fiber exceeds its gain coefficient (referred to as an “absorption-dominant pump wavelength”), and is typically within the range of 1800-1900 nm. The selection of an absorption-dominant pump wavelength limits the spontaneous emission of the pump from affecting the amount of gain achieved at the higher wavelength end of the operating region. The amount of crosstalk between the signal wavelength and pump wavelength is also reduced (in comparison to using the conventional 1940 nm pump wavelength).
US11870201B2
A monitoring device may receive sensor information, associated with an optical device included in a high-power fiber laser, from a set of sensors associated with the optical device. The monitoring device may determine, based on the sensor information, a set of operational properties of the optical device. The set of operational properties may include: a health property that describes a health of one or more components of the optical device, a degradation property that describes degradation of one or more components of the optical device, an environmental property that describes an environment of the optical device, or a process property associated with a process in which the optical device is being used. The monitoring device may identify whether an operational property, of the set of operational properties, satisfies a condition, and may selectively perform a monitoring action based on whether the operational property satisfies the condition.
US11870190B2
To reduce sparks and arcing if an RJ plug is removed from an RJ jack while a PoE signal is present, the jack includes contact terminals for making electrical contact with blades of the plug. At least two primary contact terminals have first engagement portions positioned a first distance from the opening. At least one secondary and/or tertiary contact terminal has a second and/or third engagement portion, which is positioned less than the first distance from the opening. The engagement portions are the last portions of the contact terminals to make electrical contact with corresponding blades of the plug upon removal of the plug. At least one of the first engagement portions is formed of a first material different from a second material used to form at least one of the second or third engagement portions. One of the materials is formed to resist damage from sparks better than the other material. By this system, an RJ jack would not have all of the contact terminals formed to resist damage from sparks and arcing.
US11870189B2
An electrical ferrule for an electrical cable comprises a body defining a circumferential center portion connecting a first flank and a second flank, the first and second flanks arranged opposite one another in a radial direction of the ferrule. At least one latch or lock is defined on at least one of the flanks for selectively fixing the flanks together and closing the ferrule in a manner in which a diameter of the ferrule may be varied during its installation onto an electrical cable.
US11870188B2
A coaxial connector set including a first connector to which a coaxial cable having a center conductor and an outer conductor is connected, and a second connector mounted on a circuit board having a ground coupling portion. The first connector has a first outer terminal, and the second connector has a second outer terminal. The first outer terminal has an outer conductor clamp portion, a first outer contact portion, and a tip surrounding portion positioned between the outer conductor clamp portion and the first outer contact portion and surrounding a tip portion of the center conductor. Shortcut coupling paths are formed between the tip surrounding portion and the second outer terminal or the ground coupling portion.
US11870182B2
A connector assembly (1) comprising a main connector (2) with a contact support (6), and a mating connector (3) that can be mated with the main connector (2), having a contact support (7), wherein the mating connector (3), in the plug-in region, is formed with a chamfer (10) that corresponds to the shape of the main connector (2) such that, during the mating process, the main connector (2) is inserted into the mating connector (3) in a predefined position, wherein the main connector (2) comprises two axially extending springs (8), arranged in opposition in the plug-in direction, and the mating connector (3) comprises two opposing slots (9), or vice versa, wherein a spring (8) corresponds to its respective slot (9), characterized in that the two springs (8) have different lengths.
US11870181B2
There is provided a connector including: a protrusion portion provided on a second housing at a position close to and facing a distal end portion of a locking portion in a locked state in which the locking portion is locked to a locked portion, so that the protrusion portion restricts an action of an external force on the distal end portion of the locking portion in the locked state.
US11870173B2
A connector includes a male terminal (10) having a tubular terminal contact (20) open in a front-rear direction. A resin molded portion (50) is molded to the terminal contact (20). A wire (W) is pulled out rearward from the male terminal (10), and a sleeve (60) covers a core (W1) exposed in front of the wire (W). The resin molded portion (50) includes a shaft (51) inside the terminal contact (20), an insulating portion (52) projecting forward from a front of the shaft (51), a flange (53) protruding radially outward from a rear end of the shaft (51), and two locking portions (57) on a periphery of the flange (53). The flange (53) enters a concavity (64) of the sleeve (60) from one side, and two locked portions (65) provided on an inner wall of the concavity (64) lock the locking portions (57) from the other side.
US11870172B2
A connector assembly comprises a connector including an insulating housing formed with a slot extending in a longitudinal direction and having at least one open end. A first circuit board is inserted into the slot and includes an electrical contact pad for electrically contacting a conductive terminal arranged within the slot, the electrical contact pad of the first circuit board extends in the longitudinal direction outside of the insulating housing of the connector via the open end of the slot.
US11870169B2
The present invention relates to an edge connector (1) for a printed circuit board (50), comprising an at least two-part housing (10) with a first housing part (20) and a second housing part (30), wherein the first housing part (20) has a recess (25) in which at least one conductor (15) is arranged, said at least one conductor (15) having a first limb (16) with a first end (17) and a second limb (18) with a second end (19), wherein the housing (10) comprises a first region (12) in a first plane (11), in which each first end (17) protrudes out of the housing (10) in an assembly direction (5) in order to connect to a conductor track (54) of the printed circuit board (50), and the housing (10) has a second region (14) in a second plane (13) which is arranged parallel and at a distance to the first plane (11) in the assembly direction (5), wherein the second limb (18) is arranged at an angle of 90° to the first limb (16), and the second limb (18) protrudes into a mating plug recess (35) in the second housing part (30) in a plug-in direction (6). The present invention additionally relates to a printed circuit board assembly (2) with at least one such edge connector.
US11870162B2
An antenna system including an array of conductors connected to a feed line, wherein the array is configured to (1) emit electromagnetic radiation in response to an input signal being input to the array through the feed line or (2) output an output signal to the feed line in response to electromagnetic radiation being received on the array; and a director disposed in front of the array, wherein the director has a first reactive load having a complex impedance that is tailored to increase a directivity of the antenna system by reactively loading the conductors.
US11870157B2
This application relates to a phase shifter and a remote electrical tilt antenna including the foregoing phase shifter. The metal strip includes a cavity, a metal strip, a sliding dielectric, and a fastener, where the fastener fastens the metal strip in the cavity, so that a transmission portion of the metal strip is suspended in the cavity, requiring no metal strip to be disposed on a substrate, thereby reducing the signal energy loss of the substrate, decreasing the heat generated due to the signal energy loss, and lowering the requirements of the phase shifter on heat dissipation and temperature resistance of an internal mechanical part.
US11870150B2
An antenna package according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a first antenna device which includes a first antenna unit including a first radiator, a second antenna device which includes a second antenna unit including a second radiator whose polarization direction is perpendicular to the first radiator, a first circuit board electrically connected with the first antenna unit, a second circuit board electrically connected with the second antenna unit, and a third circuit board on which at least one antenna driving integrated circuit (IC) chip electrically and independently connected to the first circuit board and the second circuit board is mounted. By supplying power to two antenna devices having different polarization directions, respectively, signal interference and signal loss may be prevented, and dual polarization may be implemented.
US11870145B2
An antenna module (10) includes a ground electrode (30) in which a slit (33) is formed in such a manner as to form an opening along a perimeter of the ground electrode, a first antenna (110) and a second antenna (110A) arranged in or on the ground electrode (30), and a coupling reducing electrode (200) connected to the ground electrode (30) within the slit (33). The slit (33) is formed on a path leading from the first antenna (110) to the second antenna (110A) along the perimeter of the ground electrode. The coupling reducing electrode (200) includes a first conductor (220) having a length corresponding to a first frequency and a second conductor (230) having a length corresponding to a second frequency, which is higher than the first frequency.
US11870143B2
Techniques are disclosed for providing isolation between a pair of partially overlapping antennas. An example electronic device includes a first antenna coupled to a first transceiver through a first signal path comprising a first feed, and a second antenna coupled to a second transceiver through a second signal path comprising a second feed. The first antenna and second antenna partially overlap. The example electronic device also includes compensation circuitry coupled to the first signal path and the second signal path and configured to generate a compensation signal that provides analog cancellation of an interference signal received at the second antenna from the first antenna.
US11870140B2
Disclosed is a light bar having improved weather resistance, aerodynamics, antenna performance, and platform versatility by accommodating user-selectable antenna modules.
US11870134B2
A radiating element for a base station antenna includes a feed stalk and a cross-dipole radiator mounted thereon. The cross-dipole radiator includes a dielectric mounting substrate, a first metal dipole that extends along a first axis on the dielectric mounting substrate, a second metal dipole that extends along a second axis on the dielectric mounting substrate that is generally perpendicular to the first axis, and an adhesive layer between the dielectric mounting substrate and the first and second metal dipoles.
US11870133B2
A mobile terminal includes a housing having a front side, a rear side, and lateral sides, and including a metal rim formed of a metal material and at least one bending portion formed of a non-metal material. The mobile terminal includes a rear cover disposed on the rear side of the housing, a reflection sheet disposed on the cover and formed of a metal material, and an antenna module disposed between the rear cover and a front cover of the housing and configured to radiate a beamforming wireless signal, wherein a bending portion of the cover and a flat portion of the cover are configured to include a first region, a second region, and a third region, and a beamforming wireless signal of the first region may be reflected at the second region and the third region by the reflection sheet.
US11870131B2
An electronic device is provided, including: a plurality of antennas, a switch, a sensor, a wireless communication transceiver, and a processor, electrically connected to antennas, the switch, the sensor, and the wireless communication transceiver, and configured to execute an antenna selection procedure according to a scenario of the electronic device, to connect at least one of the antennas to the sensor or the wireless communication transceiver through the switch.
US11870130B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor die comprising a radio frequency (RF) circuit, a first dielectric layer disposed over a first surface of the semiconductor die, an antenna layer disposed over a surface of the first dielectric layer, and an antenna feeding structure coupling the antenna layer to the RF circuit of the semiconductor die, wherein the semiconductor die comprises a via, and the antenna feeding structure comprises a first portion arranged within the opening of the semiconductor die and extending to the first surface of the semiconductor die, and a second portion arranged through the first dielectric layer.
US11870129B2
An antenna element according to an exemplary embodiment includes a radiation body, a first transmission line extending from the radiation body in a first direction, a second transmission line extending from the radiation body in a second direction, a first signal pad extending from an end of the first transmission line in the first direction, and a second signal pad extending from an end of the second transmission line in the second direction.
US11870127B2
A wireless control device, such as a system controller for a load control system, may comprise a light-transmissive cover for an antenna that may be illuminated to provide feedback to a user of the load control system. The light-transmissive cover may receive light energy from a light-generating circuit to provide a visible display of the light energy. The wireless control device may be mounted to, for example, a ceiling, and the light-transmissive cover may extend from the wireless control device (e.g., down from the ceiling). The light-transmissive cover may be viewed by a user at large viewing angles and at a distance away from the wireless control device, which may simplify and improve reliability of commissioning of the load control system as well as speed up troubleshooting of the load control system after commissioning is completed.
US11870122B2
A liquid crystal phase shifter and an antenna are provided. The liquid crystal phase shifter includes: first and second substrates opposite to each other, a liquid crystal layer, a first electrode, and a second electrode that are between the first and second substrates, a first shielding electrode on a side of the first substrate distal to the liquid crystal layer, and a second shielding electrode on a side of the second substrate distal to the liquid crystal layer. The first and second electrodes generate an electric field when being provided with different voltages, respectively, to change a dielectric constant of the liquid crystal layer so as to adjust a phase shifting degree of a microwave signal. The first and second shielding electrodes shield radiation generated by the first and second electrodes when the different voltages are applied to the first and second electrodes, respectively.
US11870120B2
The present invention relates to a modular redox flow battery comprising a positive electrolyte tank, a negative electrolyte tank, a positive electrolyte, a negative electrolyte, a plurality of stacks, pipes, a positive electrolyte pump and a negative electrolyte pump, a battery management system (=BMS), and sensors, wherein the stacks and the BMS 500 are mounted on a stack frame 800, the positive electrolyte tank and the negative electrolyte tank are mounted on a tank frame 900, and the stack frame 800 and the tank frame 900 are combined.
US11870119B2
A heat treatment apparatus for a fuel cell membrane-electrode assembly is provided. The heat treatment apparatus includes a hot press installed on upper and lower sides of feeding path to move in the vertical direction on a frame and which presses the electrode catalyst layers on upper and lower surfaces of the membrane-electrode assembly sheet. A plurality of gripper modules are installed at set intervals in a base member along a feeding direction of the membrane-electrode assembly sheet, and selectively grip both side edges of the membrane-electrode assembly sheet. A driving unit reciprocally moves the base member in a direction perpendicular to the feeding direction of the membrane-electrode assembly sheet and in the feeding direction of the membrane-electrode assembly sheet.
US11870117B2
A system for operating a fuel cell includes a controller configured to derive an output limit value of the fuel cell through an interval average value corresponding to an average of output values of the fuel cell for a designated time and a cumulative average value corresponding to an average of the output values of the fuel cell until the current point in time after starting to operate the fuel cell, and to control operation of the fuel cell based on the derived output limit value.
US11870108B2
A fuel cell includes a membrane electrode assembly, gas diffusion layers stacked on each side of the membrane electrode assembly, respectively, separators stacked on the gas diffusion layers, respectively, the separators including channels through which reactant gases move and lands in contact with a respective one of the gas diffusion layers, and a flow path forming part provided on a land surface of one of the lands in contact with the respective one of the gas diffusion layers, the flow path forming part providing a condensate flow path for moving condensate between the land surface and the one of the gas diffusion layers.
US11870094B2
A battery module has a reduced risk of secondary fire or explosion. The battery module includes at least two cell assemblies including a plurality of secondary batteries, a module housing having a gas passage on at least one of left side or right side of the cell assembly for circulation of gas generated from the cell assembly, and a flame retardant plate including a body interposed between the at least two cell assemblies, and a flame barrier extending in a left-right direction from at least one of left end or right end of the body and disposed in part of the gas passage.
US11870093B2
A vehicle includes a high-voltage battery that has a housing and at least one battery cell arranged in the housing. The battery cell has a battery cell housing with an emergency degassing opening which opens at a specified cell inner pressure and through which hot or burning gas can pass out of the interior of the battery cell housing into the housing of the high-voltage battery in the event of a disruption or damage to the battery cell. The emergency degassing opening faces a housing wall against which hot or burning gas flows in the event of the disruption or damage to the battery cell. The housing wall of the high-voltage battery is designed to be more thermally resistant locally in the region in which the emergency degassing opening is arranged and in which the hot or burning gas flows out of the battery cell housing in the event of a disruption or damage to the battery cell than in the wall regions at a distance from the emergency degassing opening.
US11870083B2
Provided are an exterior body and an abnormality detector capable of suppressing bulking even when a heat generation detection function is provided. The exterior body of an electronic device generates heat during operation and is characterized by being provided with a magnetic body that is at least a portion of the exterior body, that has spontaneous magnetization, and that generates an electromotive force by exhibiting an abnormal Nernst effect through heat generation of the electronic device, wherein an electrode for extracting power is provided to the magnetic body.
US11870076B2
A water-based binder for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery. A binder for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery electrode, includes a crosslinked polymer having a carboxyl group or a salt thereof, and the crosslinked polymer includes a structural unit derived from an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer; and a structural unit derived from a macromonomer including at least one compositional monomer selected from compounds represented by following formula (1): [C1] H2C═CR1—X formula (1) wherein in formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen or a methyl group; X represents C(═O)OR2 or CN; and R2 represents a straight chain or branched C1-C8 alkyl group or a C3-C8 alkyl group having an alicyclic structure.
US11870073B2
The embodiments herein provide for an oxygen/air cathode that includes metal-organic frameworks and/or hybrids of metal-organic frameworks and carbon networks. The metal-organic-framework-based Li—O2 cells are operated in humid O2 where water plays a critical role in improving battery performance. Such embodiments not only improve battery performance but also reduces the cost by cycling the Li—O2 batteries in humid oxygen with MOF@CNT hybrid catalysts.
US11870071B2
A positive electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery containing a lithium-nickel-manganese composite oxide formed of secondary particles with a plurality of aggregated primary particles, in which the positive electrode active material is represented by a general formula (1): LidNi1−a−b−cMnaMbNbcO2+α, at least a part of niobium is solid-dissolved inside the primary particles, and an amount of lithium to be eluted into water when the positive electrode active material is immersed in water is 0.02% by mass or more and 0.10% by mass or less with respect to the entire positive electrode active material as determined by a neutralization titration method.
US11870066B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for manufacturing a lithium electrode, comprising a cutting stage, a laser irradiation portion and a lithium metal film supply portion, in which a plurality of adsorption holes and a plurality of unit electrode pattern grooves are formed on the upper surface of the cutting stage.
US11870052B2
A rechargeable lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery employs a low temperature approach to battery manufacturing that forms charge material from kinetic energy of high velocity particles impelled into an aggregation such that bombardment of the particles against other particles in the aggregation forms a charge conveying structure. High velocity bombardment from a carrier gas nozzle accumulates an active charge material in a layered arrangement for the finished battery. Preparation of the particles, such as by ball milling or spraydrying, arranges particle agglomerations. The particle agglomerations, when impelled against other agglomerations or a current collector, forms a layer of cathodic, anodic or electrolytic battery material. The metallic binder conveys charge for mitigating or eliminating a need for a planar current collector underlying the sprayed layer. The resulting layers are suitable for battery operation, and are manufactured in an absence of any solvent drying or disposal.
US11870051B2
Provided is a method of improving fast-chargeability of a lithium secondary battery containing an anode, a cathode, a porous separator disposed between the anode and the cathode, and an electrolyte, wherein the method comprises packing particles of an anode active material to form an anode active material layer having interstitial spaces and disposing a lithium ion reservoir in the interstitial spaces, configured to receive lithium ions from the cathode through the porous separator when the battery is charged and to enable the lithium ions to enter the particles of anode active material in a time-delayed manner.
US11870050B2
An electrochemical direct heat to electricity converter includes a primary thermal energy source; a working fluid; an electrochemical cell comprising at least one membrane electrode assembly including a first porous electrode, a second porous electrode and at least one membrane, wherein the at least one membrane is sandwiched between the first and second porous electrodes and is a conductor of ions of the working fluid; an energy storage reservoir; and an external load. The electrochemical cell operates on heat to produce electricity. When thermal energy available from the primary thermal energy source is greater than necessary to meet demands of the external load, excess energy is stored in the energy storage reservoir, and when the thermal energy available from the primary thermal energy source is insufficient to meet the demands of the external load, at least a portion of the excess energy stored in the energy storage reservoir is used to supply power to the external load.
US11870049B2
A thermal storage device for batteries is provided. In some examples, the thermal storage device is provided for a battery pack that includes one or more rechargeable battery cells. In some examples, the lithium ion battery cells are used. The thermal storage device is in thermal contact with the battery cell. The thermal storage device is made of a material that absorbs heat that is given off by battery cells during discharge. In some examples, the thermal storage device is made of a plastic material. The material has a relatively low thermal conductivity but a relatively high specific heat capacity, allowing heat energy to be stored in the thermal storage device. The thermal storage device prevents the battery pack from overheating during use. The thermal storage device defines one or more cell receiving volumes. In some examples, an axially extending relief volume is provided.
US11870042B2
A sensor element with excellent characteristics is provided. An electronic device including a power storage system with excellent characteristics is provided. A vehicle including a power storage system with excellent characteristics is provided. A novel semiconductor device is provided. The power storage system includes a storage battery, a neural network, and a sensor element; the neural network includes an input layer, an output layer, and one or a plurality of middle layers provided between the input layer and the output layer; a value corresponding to a first signal output from the sensor element is supplied to the input layer; the first signal is an analog signal; the sensor element includes a region in contact with a surface of the storage battery; and the sensor element has a function of measuring one or both of strain and temperature.
US11870035B2
A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell provided with a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode has a positive electrode active material that contains composite oxide particles which include Ni, Co, Li, and at least one of Mn and Al, and in which the proportion of Ni in relation to the total number of moles of metal elements excluding Li is at least 80 mol %. In the composite oxide particles, the ratio (B/A) of the post-particle-compression-test BET specific surface area (B) with respect to the pre-particle-compression-test BET specific surface area (A) is 1.0-3.0. The non-aqueous electrolyte contains a non-aqueous solvent and a cyclic carboxylic anhydride such as diglycolic anhydride.
US11870028B2
A battery module includes a plurality of battery cells connected in series, each battery cell having a cathode, an anode, and a separator separating the cathode and the anode, and a bipolar current collector; a plurality of polymer frames, each having a window to receive part of the one of the plurality of battery cells; two of the plurality of polymer frames defining a compartment; and electrolyte filling the compartment for one of the plurality of battery cells. A method is also provided.
US11870019B2
A wavelength-converting member includes a wavelength-converting layer, a heat-dissipating component, and a securing member. The wavelength-converting layer has an upper surface, a lower surface, and one or more lateral surfaces with each of the one or more lateral surfaces of the wavelength-converting layer defining an inclined surface inclined at an acute angle with respect to the lower surface of the wavelength-converting layer. The wavelength-converting layer includes a thermally conductive part, and a fluorescent material containing part in contact with the thermally conductive part. The wavelength-converting layer is mounted on the heat-dissipating component. The securing member is secured to the heat-dissipating component. The securing member presses the inclined surface of each of the one or more lateral surfaces such that the wavelength-converting layer is secured to the heat-dissipating component.
US11870013B2
An optoelectronic module is provided that has a carrier element, an optoelectronic element on the carrier element, a cover, and a cavity. The cover has a frame surrounding the optoelectronic element and connected to the carrier element. A glass element is on the frame lying substantially opposite the carrier element for the input and/or output of electromagnetic radiation. The cavity is inside a volume that is delimited by an inner surface of the cover and a surface of the carrier element. The optoelectronic element is arranged in the cavity and enclosed by the cover hermetically and/or in an autoclavable fashion. A filler material is in the cavity to compensate for an expansion of a volume occupied by the filler material and has a first deformable compensation volume, which is arranged adjacent to a subregion of the cover and/or of the carrier element.
US11870004B2
The metal oxide nanoparticle includes a Zn-containing metal Me1 oxide nanoparticle of Zn1-xMe1xO (0≤x≤0.5) composition, and a metal Me2 ion surface treatment layer formed on a surface of the nanoparticle. Here, the metal Me1 is any one selected from Li, Be, Na, Mg, Al, K, Ca, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Ga, Ge, Rb, Sr, Zr, Nb, Mo, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, In, Sn, Sb, Ba and a combination thereof, and the metal Me2 is any one selected from Li, Be, Na, Mg, Al, K, Ca, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ga, Ge, Rb, Sr, Zr, Nb, Mo, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, In, Sn, Sb, Ba and a combination thereof.
US11870000B2
A semiconductor package may include a line array of single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs). The line array of single-photon avalanche diodes may be split between multiple silicon dice. The silicon dice may have a staggered arrangement, with prisms on the package lid redirecting incident light to the silicon dice. The silicon dice may alternate between a first side of the package substrate and a second side of the package substrate. The prisms may alternate between a first structure that redirects incident light to the first side of the package substrate and a second structure that redirects incident light to the second side of the package substrate. The silicon dice may overlap to allow satisfactory alignment between the silicon dice and the prisms.
US11869999B2
According to various embodiments, an electronic device comprises: a polymer including a plurality of quantum dots; at least one first solar cell disposed on a lower portion of the polymer; and at least one second solar cell disposed on a side portion of the polymer; and a battery configured to be charged with electrical energy from at least one of the first solar battery or the second solar battery, wherein: the first solar battery, in a first wavelength band, has a conversion efficiency greater than or equal to a threshold value; the second solar battery, in a second wavelength band different from the first wavelength band, has a conversion efficiency greater than or equal to the threshold value; and the wavelength of light that passes through the polymer may be within the first wavelength band, and the wavelength of light that is absorbed by at least some of the plurality of quantum dots and then remitted may be within the second wavelength bandwidth. Other various embodiments are possible.
US11869993B2
A method of forming a photovoltaic product with a plurality of photovoltaic cells is disclosed. The method comprises depositing a stack with first and second electrode layers (12, 16) and a photovoltaic layer (14) arranged in between. The method comprises partitioning the stack. The partitioning includes forming a trench (20) extending through the second electrode layer and the photovoltaic layer to expose the first electrode layer. The stack is first irradiated with a laser beam with a first spotsize and with a first wavelength for which the photovoltaic layer has a relatively high absorption coefficient as compared to that of the second electrode layer. The stack is then irradiated with a second laser beam with a second spotsize, greater than the first spotsize, and with a second wavelength for which the photovoltaic layer has a relatively low absorption coefficient as compared to that of the second electrode layer.
US11869988B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated circuit (IC), including a first insulating layer which includes a first metal interconnect structure stacked above a bottom die. Including a substrate disposed above the first insulating layer, a second metal interconnect structure disposed above the substrate, a through-substrate via (TSV) directly connecting the first metal interconnect structure to the second metal interconnect structure, and a stacked deep trench capacitor (DTC) structure disposed in the substrate. The DTC structure includes a first plurality of trenches extending from a first side of the substrate and a second plurality of trenches extending from a second side of the substrate.
US11869986B2
A semiconductor device which includes two or more integrated deep trench features configured as a Zener diode. The Zener diode includes a plurality of deep trenches extending into semiconductor material of the substrate and a dielectric deep trench liner that includes a dielectric material. The deep trench further includes a doped sheath contacting the deep trench liner and an electrically conductive deep trench filler material within the deep trench. The doped sheath of adjacent deep trenches overlap and form a region of higher doping concentration which sets the breakdown voltage of the Zener diode. The Zener diode can be used as a triggering diode to limit the voltage on other components in a semiconductor device.
US11869985B2
A diode is proposed. The diode includes a semiconductor body having a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface. The diode further includes an anode region and a cathode region. The anode region is arranged between the first main surface and the cathode region. An anode pad area is electrically connected to the anode region. The diode further includes a plurality of trenches extending into the semiconductor body from the first main surface. A first group of the plurality of trenches includes a first trench electrode. A second group of the plurality of trenches includes a second trench electrode. The first trench electrode is electrically coupled to the anode pad area via an anode wiring line and the second trench electrode.
US11869982B2
Junction field effect transistors (JFETs) and related manufacturing methods are disclosed herein. A disclosed JFET includes a vertical channel region located in a mesa and a first channel control region located on a first side of the mesa. The first channel control region is at least one of a gate region and a first base region. The JFET also includes a second base region located on a second side of the mesa and extending through the mesa to contact the vertical channel region. The vertical channel can be an implanted vertical channel. The vertical channel can be asymmetrically located in the mesa towards the first side of the mesa.
US11869981B2
The field-effect mobility and reliability of a transistor including an oxide semiconductor film are improved. One embodiment of the present invention is a semiconductor device which includes a gate electrode, an insulating film over the gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor film over the insulating film, and a pair of electrodes over the oxide semiconductor film. The oxide semiconductor film includes a first oxide semiconductor film, a second oxide semiconductor film over the first oxide semiconductor film, and a third oxide semiconductor film over the second oxide semiconductor film. The first oxide semiconductor film, the second oxide semiconductor film, and the third oxide semiconductor film include the same element. The second oxide semiconductor film includes a region having lower crystallinity than one or both of the first oxide semiconductor film and the third oxide semiconductor film.
US11869980B2
A novel material is provided. A composite oxide semiconductor in which a first region and a plurality of second regions are mixed is provided. Note that the first region contains at least indium, an element M (the element M is one or more of Al, Ga, Y, and Sn), and zinc, and the plurality of second regions contain indium and zinc. Since the plurality of second regions have a higher concentration of indium than the first region, the plurality of second regions have a higher conductivity than the first region. An end portion of one of the plurality of second regions overlaps with an end portion of another one of the plurality of second regions. The plurality of second regions are three-dimensionally surrounded with the first region.
US11869975B2
A transistor includes a gate electrode, a gate dielectric located over the gate electrode, a channel layer that includes an oxide semiconductor material and that is located over the gate dielectric, a buffer located to cover at least a portion of the channel layer, and source/drain contacts disposed on the buffer. The buffer includes a material that receives hydrogen. A method for manufacturing the transistor is also provided.
US11869962B2
Examples of a semiconductor device includes a transistor region formed in a semiconductor substrate having a first conductivity type drift layer, and a diode region formed to be adjacent to the transistor region in the semiconductor substrate, wherein the diode region has a second conductivity type anode layer formed on the drift layer and a first conductivity type cathode layer formed on the lower side of the drift layer, and the cathode layer has an adjacent region contacting the transistor region, the adjacent region having a depth, from a lower surface of the semiconductor substrate, which becomes shallower toward the transistor region and having first conductivity type impurity concentration which decreases toward the transistor region.
US11869961B2
A plug electrode is subject to etch back to remain in a contact hole and expose a barrier metal on a top surface of an interlayer insulating film. The barrier metal is subject to etch back, exposing the top surface of the interlayer insulating film. Remaining element structures are formed. After lifetime is controlled by irradiation of helium or an electron beam, hydrogen annealing is performed. During the hydrogen annealing, the barrier metal is not present on the interlayer insulating film covering a gate electrode, enabling hydrogen atoms to reach a mesa part, whereby lattice defects generated in the mesa part by the irradiation of helium or an electron beam are recovered, recovering the gate threshold voltage. Thus, predetermined characteristics of a semiconductor device having a structure where a plug electrode is provided in a contact hole, via barrier metal are easily and stably obtained when lifetime control is performed.
US11869957B2
A compound semiconductor device comprises a heterojunction bipolar transistor including a plurality of unit transistors, a capacitor electrically connected between a RF input wire and a base wire for each unit transistor of the unit transistors, and a bump electrically connected to emitters of the unit transistors. The unit transistors are arranged in a first direction. The bump is disposed above the emitters of the unit transistors while extending in the first direction. The transistors include first and second unit transistors, the respective emitters of the first and second unit transistors being disposed on first and second sides, respectively, of a second direction, perpendicular to the first direction, with respect to a center line of the bump extending in the first direction. The capacitor is not covered by the bump, and respective lengths of the respective base wires connected respectively to the first and second unit transistors are different.
US11869951B2
Various embodiments of the present application are directed towards a control gate layout to improve an etch process window for word lines. In some embodiments, an integrated chip comprises a memory array, an erase gate, a word line, and a control gate. The memory array comprises a plurality of cells in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. The erase gate and the word line are elongated in parallel along a row of the memory array. The control gate is elongated along the row and is between and borders the erase gate and the word line. Further, the control gate has a pad region protruding towards the erase gate and the word line. Because the pad region protrudes towards the erase gate and the word line, a width of the pad region is spread between word-line and erase-gate sides of the control gate.
US11869950B2
A steep-slope field-effect transistor and a fabrication method thereof are disclosed. The steep-slope field-effect transistor according to an embodiment of the inventive concept includes a source, a channel region, and a drain formed on a substrate; a gate insulating film formed on an upper portion of the channel region; a floating gate formed on an upper portion of the gate insulating film; a transition layer formed on an upper portion of the floating gate; and a control gate formed on an upper portion of the transition layer. The steep-slope field-effect transistor applies a reference potential or more to the control gate to discharge or bring in at least one charge stored in the floating gate.
US11869941B2
Disclosed are a structure including a transistor and a method of forming the structure. The transistor includes an emitter region with first and second emitter portions. The first emitter portion extends through a dielectric layer. The second emitter portion is on the first emitter portion and the top of the dielectric layer. An additional dielectric layer covers the top of the second emitter portion. The second emitter portion and the dielectric and additional dielectric layers are wider than the first emitter portion. At least a section of the second emitter portion is narrower than the dielectric and additional dielectric layers, thereby creating cavities positioned vertically between edge portions of the dielectric and additional dielectric layers and positioned laterally adjacent to the second emitter portion. The cavities are filled with dielectric material or dielectric material blocks the side openings to the cavities creating pockets of air, of gas or under vacuum.
US11869933B2
Isolator structures for an integrated circuit with reduced effective parasitic capacitance. Disclosed embodiments include an isolator structure with parallel conductive elements forming a capacitor or inductive transformer, overlying a semiconductor structure including a well region of a first conductivity type formed within an tank region of a second conductivity type. The tank region is surrounded by doped regions and a buried doped layer of the first conductivity type, forming a plurality of diodes in series to the substrate. The junction capacitances of the series diodes have the effect of reducing the parasitic capacitance apparent at the isolator.
US11869915B2
An integrated device, the device including: a first level including a first mono-crystal layer, the first mono-crystal layer including a plurality of single crystal transistors; an overlying oxide disposed on top of the first level; a second level including a second mono-crystal layer, the second level overlaying the oxide, where the second mono-crystal layer includes a plurality of image sensors, where the second level is bonded to the first level, where the bonded includes an oxide to oxide bond; and a plurality of pixel control circuits, where each of the plurality of image sensors is directly connected to at least one of the plurality of pixel control circuits, and where the integrated device includes a plurality of memory circuits.
US11869914B2
There is provided an image sensor including: a light polarizing unit configured to transmit light in a specific light polarization direction out of incident light; a pixel configured to generate an image signal corresponding to the light transmitted through the light polarizing unit; and a signal transfer unit formed simultaneously with the light polarizing unit and configured to transfer either of the image signal and a control signal that controls generation of the image signal.
US11869909B2
An image sensor may include a substrate, and a plurality of wavelength separation filters on the substrate and arranged along an in-plane direction of the substrate. The wavelength separation filters include a first wavelength separation filter configured to selectively transmit incident light in the first wavelength spectrum, and photoelectrically convert the incident light in at least one of the second wavelength spectrum or the third wavelength spectrum, a second wavelength separation filter configured to selectively transmit the incident light in the second wavelength spectrum and photoelectrically convert the incident light in at least one of the first wavelength spectrum or the third wavelength spectrum, and a third wavelength separation filter configured to selectively transmit the incident light in the third wavelength spectrum and photoelectrically convert the incident light in at least one of the first wavelength spectrum or the second wavelength spectrum.
US11869908B2
A terminal includes a substrate and a photosensitive chip mounted on the substrate, where a side of the photosensitive chip away from the substrate has a photosensitive area and a non-photosensitive area surrounding the photosensitive area, and the photosensitive chip is electrically connected to the substrate by using a metal wire; and the photosensitive chip package structure further includes: a frame, disposed on the side of the photosensitive chip away from the substrate, where an avoidance groove used to avoid the metal wire is disposed on a side of the frame facing the substrate, the avoidance groove extends along a side edge of the frame, and an inner wall of the avoidance groove is an arc-shaped inner wall; and a filling glue, filled in the avoidance groove, and used to wrap the metal wire and bond the frame to the non-photosensitive area of the photosensitive chip and the substrate.
US11869892B2
A semiconductor device structure, along with methods of forming such, are described. The semiconductor device structure includes a first P-type metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (p-MOSFET) having a first fin extending along a first direction and comprising a first semiconductor layer, wherein the first fin comprises a first recess formed in a top of the first fin, the first recess having a bottom surface and a sidewall surface extending upwardly from the bottom surface. The semiconductor device structure also includes a first gate structure disposed in the first recess and in contact with the bottom surface and the sidewall surface, the first gate structure extending along a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction. The semiconductor device structure further includes a first spacer disposed on opposite sidewalls of the first gate structure and in contact with the first fin and the first gate structure.
US11869890B2
An apparatus is provided which comprises: a first transistor comprising a source region and a drain region with a channel region therebetween, a first dielectric layer over the first transistor, a second transistor comprising a source region and a drain region with a channel region therebetween, wherein the second transistor is over the first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer over the second transistor, and a contact coupled to the source region or the drain region of the first transistor, wherein the contact comprises a metal having a straight sidewall that extends from through both the first and second dielectric layers. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US11869889B2
Self-aligned gate endcap (SAGE) architectures without fin end gaps, and methods of fabricating self-aligned gate endcap (SAGE) architectures without fin end gaps, are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a semiconductor fin having a cut along a length of the semiconductor fin. A gate endcap isolation structure has a first portion parallel with the length of the semiconductor fin and is spaced apart from the semiconductor fin. The gate endcap isolation structure also has a second portion in a location of the cut of the semiconductor fin and in contact with the semiconductor fin.
US11869880B2
A method of transferring a micro light emitting diode (LED) to a pixel array panel includes transferring the micro LED by spraying using an inkjet method, wherein the micro LED includes an active layer including a first portion emitting light in a first direction and a second portion emitting the light in a second direction different from the first direction.
US11869869B2
A method includes putting a first package component into contact with a second package component. The first package component comprises a first dielectric layer including a first dielectric material, and the first dielectric material is a silicon-oxide-based dielectric material. The second package component includes a second dielectric layer including a second dielectric material different from the first dielectric material. The second dielectric material comprises silicon and an element selected from the group consisting of carbon, nitrogen, and combinations thereof. An annealing process is performed to bond the first dielectric layer to the second dielectric layer.
US11869851B2
A semiconductor storage device includes a substrate, a first stacked body provided above the substrate and having a side portion configured in a staircase pattern, a plurality of columnar portions passing through the first stacked body, a second stacked body provided in an outer edge portion of the substrate, and a plurality of first slits. The first stacked body include a plurality of first insulating layers and a plurality of conductive layers that are alternately stacked. The second stacked body includes the plurality of first insulating layers and the plurality of conductive layers that are alternately stacked. The plurality of first slits extends through the first and second stacked bodies in a direction intersecting a stacking direction of the first stacked body.
US11869843B1
A device includes, in a first region, a first conductive interconnect, an electrode structure on the first conductive interconnect, where the electrode structure includes a first conductive hydrogen barrier layer and a first conductive fill material. A memory device including a ferroelectric material or a paraelectric material is on the electrode structure. A second dielectric includes an amorphous, greater than 90% film density hydrogen barrier material laterally surrounds the memory device. A via electrode including a second conductive hydrogen barrier material is on at least a portion of the memory device. A second region includes a conductive interconnect structure embedded within a less than 90% film density material.
US11869841B2
A microelectronic device comprises pillar structures comprising semiconductive material, contact structures in physical contact with upper portions of the pillar structures, and conductive structures over and in physical contact with the contact structures. Each of the conductive structures comprises a lower portion having a first horizontal width, an upper portion vertically overlying the lower portion and having a second horizontal width greater than the first horizontal width, and an additional portion vertically interposed between the lower portion and the upper portion and having arcuate horizontal boundaries defining additional horizontal widths varying from the first horizontal width proximate the lower portion to a relatively larger horizontal width proximate the upper portion. Memory devices, electronic systems, and methods of forming microelectronic devices are also described.
US11869840B2
A power semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a wide bandgap semiconductor material and a first surface, an insulation layer above the first surface of the semiconductor substrate, the insulation layer including at least one opening extending through the insulation layer in a vertical direction, a front metallization above the insulation layer with the insulation layer being interposed between the front metallization and the first surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a metal connection arranged in the opening of the insulation layer and electrically conductively connecting the front metallization with the semiconductor substrate; wherein the front metallization includes at least one layer that is a metal or a metal alloy having a higher melting temperature than an intrinsic temperature of the wide bandgap semiconductor material of the semiconductor substrate.
US11869839B2
A packaged electronic device includes a semiconductor die with an electronic component and a contact structure connected to the electronic component, as well as an organic panel frame, a lamination structure that partially embeds the semiconductor die in an opening of the organic panel frame, and a ceramic substrate mounted to a first side of the semiconductor die.
US11869837B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes attaching a first end of a first bond wire to a first conductive lead and a second end of the first bond wire to a first bond pad of a first semiconductor die. A conductive lead extender is affixed to the first conductive lead by way of a conductive adhesive, the lead extender overlapping the first end of the first bond wire. A first end of a second bond wire is attached to the lead extender, the first end of the second bond wire conductively connected to the first end of the first bond wire.
US11869836B2
A semiconductor device including an interlayer insulating layer on a substrate; a conductive line on the interlayer insulating layer; and a contact plug penetrating the interlayer insulating layer, the contact plug being connected to the conductive line, wherein the contact plug includes an upper pattern penetrating an upper region of the interlayer insulating layer, the upper pattern protruding upwardly from a top surface of the interlayer insulating layer, the upper pattern includes a first portion penetrating the upper region of the interlayer insulating layer; and a second portion protruding upwardly from the top surface of the interlayer insulating layer, and a width of a lower region of the second portion in a direction parallel to a top surface of the substrate is greater than a width of an upper region of the second portion in the direction parallel to the top surface of the substrate.
US11869826B2
An improved memory module and methods for constructing the same are disclosed herein. The memory module includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, each having a central portion, a first array area and a second array area. The first array area is cooler than the second array area during operation. The memory module also includes a power management integrated circuit attached to the central portion of the first surface. The memory module also includes a first semiconductor die attached to the substrate in the first array area. The first semiconductor die has a first performance rating of an operating parameter at high temperatures. The memory module also includes a second semiconductor die attached to the substrate in the second array area. The second semiconductor die has a second performance rating of an operating parameter better than the first performance rating at high temperatures.
US11869822B2
A semiconductor package includes a redistribution structure, a plurality of semiconductor devices, and a plurality of heat dissipation films. The plurality of semiconductor devices mounted on the redistribution structure. The plurality of heat dissipation films are respectively disposed on and jointly covering upper surfaces of the plurality of semiconductor devices. A plurality of trenches are respectively extended between each two of the plurality of heat dissipations and extended between each two of the plurality of semiconductor devices.
US11869819B2
An integrated circuit component includes a semiconductor substrate, conductive pads, a passivation layer and conductive vias. The semiconductor substrate has an active surface. The conductive pads are located on the active surface of the semiconductor substrate and electrically connected to the semiconductor substrate, and the conductive pads each have a contact region and a testing region, where in each of the conductive pads, an edge of the contact region is in contact with an edge of the testing region. The passivation layer is located on the semiconductor substrate, where the conductive pads are located between the semiconductor substrate and the passivation layer, and the testing regions and the contact regions of the conductive pads are exposed by the passivation layer. The conductive vias are respectively located on the contact regions of the conductive pads.
US11869813B2
A method of real time leveling control between a superstrate and a substrate is provided. A contact force model indicating a relationship between a total contact force for planarization of a formable material between the superstrate and the substrate and a force component of the total contact force along each of a plurality peripheral axes is identified. A set point force required for performing the planarization is determined. Each force component is calculated based on the contact force model. The planarization is performed by applying each force component along a corresponding axis of the plurality of axes. The contact force model is identified based on a parallel condition between two contacting surfaces of a superstrate chuck for retaining the superstrate and a stack of the superstrate, the substrate, and formable material between the superstrate and the substrate.
US11869805B2
A method for preparing method semiconductor device includes: providing a wafer on which a semiconductor structure is formed; forming a stacked film layer structure on a side of the semiconductor structure away from the wafer, a film layer in the stacked film layer structure farthest from the semiconductor structure being a first film layer; reducing a thickness of the first film layer so that the thickness of the first film layer at where orthographic projection of the first film layer on the wafer locates at an edge of the wafer is less than the thickness of the first film layer at where orthographic projection of the first film layer on the wafer locates in middle of the wafer; and patterning the stacked film layer structure to form through holes which communicate to the semiconductor structure.
US11869802B2
A method of forming a semiconductor structure and the semiconductor structure are provided. The method includes the following operations. A semiconductor substrate is provided, in which a plurality of isolation grooves distributed at intervals are provided in the semiconductor substrate, and each of the isolation grooves includes a top region isolation groove and a bottom region isolation groove. A first protective layer covering the side wall of the top region isolation groove and the top of the semiconductor substrate is formed. Oxidation treatment is performed on the bottom region isolation groove to oxidize a part of the semiconductor substrate close to the bottom region isolation groove to form a second substrate isolation layer. A dielectric layer filling the isolation groove is formed. The first protective layer and the dielectric layer higher than the top of the semiconductor substrate are etched to form an isolation structure.
US11869798B2
A deposition apparatus according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a vacuum vessel, a rotary table rotatably disposed in the vacuum vessel, a heating device provided below the rotary table, and a radiation adjusting member. The rotary table is configured such that multiple substrates can be placed on the rotary table along a circumferential direction of the rotary table. The heating device is configured to heat the multiple substrates by thermal radiation, and the radiation adjusting member is configured to adjust an amount of radiant heat from the heating device to the plurality of substrates.
US11869795B2
Exemplary substrate support assemblies may include a chuck body defining a substrate support surface. The substrate support surface may define a plurality of protrusions that extend upward from the substrate support surface. The substrate support surface may define an annular groove and/or ridge. A subset of the plurality of protrusions may be disposed within the annular groove and/or ridge. The substrate support assemblies may include a support stem coupled with the chuck body.
US11869794B2
A substrate support for a plasma chamber includes a base plate arranged along a plane, a first layer of an electrically insulating material arranged on the base plate along the plane, a plurality of heating elements arranged in the first layer along the plane, and a plurality of diodes arranged in respective cavities in the first layer. The plurality of diodes are connected in series to the plurality of heating elements, respectively. Each of the plurality of diodes includes a die of a semiconductor material arranged in a respective one of the cavities. The semiconductor material has a first coefficient of thermal expansion. A first side of the die is arranged on the first layer along the plane. A first terminal of the die is connected to a first electrical contact on the first layer.
US11869791B2
The present invention provides a technology capable of inhibiting, in a vacuum processing apparatus that conveys a plurality of substrate holders along a conveying path formed to have a projected shape on a vertical surface, the projected shape being a continuous ring shape, dust from being generated during conveyance of a substrate holder. The present invention includes, in a vacuum chamber 2, an anti-sag member 35 assembled to a first drive unit 36 provided on an outer side with respect to a conveying direction of the conveying path, the vacuum chamber 2 including a conveying path formed to have a projected shape on the vertical surface, the projected shape being a continuous ring shape, a single vacuum atmosphere being formed in the vacuum chamber 2. A travel roller 54 of the anti-sag member 35 travels while being guided and supported by a guide unit 17 that is provided below a return-path-side conveying portion 33c positioned on a lower side of a substrate holder conveying mechanism 3 and extends in a second conveying direction P2, and the first drive part 36 is configured to come into contact with a first driven unit 12 of a substrate holder 11 and drive the substrate holder 11 along the conveying path in the second conveying direction P2.
US11869786B2
A wafer boat configured to be placed on a pedestal of a vertical batch furnace, the pedestal having a substantially flat support surface. The wafer boat comprises a support ring defining a substantially flat bottom end surface of the wafer boat, and an alignment ring substantially concentric with the support ring. Either the support surface of the pedestal, or a bottom side of the alignment ring is provided with a plurality of alignment elements respectively protruding upwards from the support surface or downwards from the alignment ring, while the other one is provided with a plurality of alignment openings configured to accommodate therein the plurality of alignment elements. The support ring downwardly protrudes beyond the alignment ring so that, when the wafer boat is placed on the pedestal, the support ring is supported on the support surface while the alignment ring is spaced from the support surface of the pedestal.
US11869778B2
An apparatus for processing a substrate includes a housing, a support unit that supports the substrate in the housing, a nozzle that dispenses a processing liquid onto the substrate, and a liquid supply unit that supplies the processing liquid to the nozzle. The liquid supply unit includes a container having a storage space in which the processing liquid is stored, a liquid supply tube through which the processing liquid flows from the container to the nozzle, and an ultrasonic-wave application member that applies ultrasonic waves to the processing liquid before the processing liquid is supplied to the nozzle. The ultrasonic-wave application member includes a liquid reservoir having an interior space in which a liquid is received and an ultrasonic generator that applies ultrasonic waves to the liquid received in the liquid reservoir. Part of the liquid supply tube is immersed in the liquid received in the liquid reservoir.
US11869773B2
An object of the present invention is to improve the flatness of a surface electrode without increasing the number of steps in a semiconductor device having gate structures. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device of the present invention includes the steps of discretely forming a plurality of gate structures on a first main surface of the semiconductor substrate, discretely forming a plurality of gate interlayer films covering the plurality of gate structures of the semiconductor substrate, forming a first surface electrode being thicker than the gate interlayer films on the first main surface of the semiconductor substrate between the plurality of the gate interlayer films and on the plurality of the gate interlayer films by sputtering, and removing convex portions of concave portions and the convex portions on the first surface electrode by dry etching using photolithography, to flatten an upper surface of the first surface electrode.
US11869762B2
A semiconductor device includes a device cell including a gate component configured to receive a gate control signal and a temperature sensing component adjacent to the device cell. Each of the temperature sensing component and the gate component includes polycrystalline silicon.
US11869760B1
Power electronics device assemblies, circuit board assemblies, and power electronics assemblies are disclosed. In one embodiment, a power electronics device assembly includes an S-cell including a first metal layer, a first graphite layer bonded to the first metal layer, an electrically insulating layer bonded to the first graphite layer, a second graphite layer bonded to the electrically insulating layer and a second metal layer bonded to the second graphite layer, the second metal layer comprising a surface and a recess provided within the surface. The power electronics device assembly further includes a power electronics device disposed within the recess of the surface.
US11869752B2
A transfer system configured to transfer a focus ring includes a processing system and a position detection system. The processing system includes a processing apparatus including a chamber main body and a placing table having a substrate placing region and a focus ring placing region; and a transfer device configured to transfer the focus ring. The position detection system includes a light source; multiple optical elements configured to output light and receive reflected light; a driving unit configured to move each optical element to allow each optical element to scan a scanning range; and a controller configured to calculate, based on the reflected light in the scanning range, a positional relationship between the placing table and the focus ring for each optical element. The transfer device is configured to adjust a transfer position of the focus ring onto the focus ring placing region based on the calculated positional relationship.
US11869745B2
An object of the invention is to provide a charged particle beam device capable of increasing the contrast of an observation image of a sample as much as possible in accordance with light absorption characteristics that change for each optical parameter. The charged particle beam device according to the invention changes an optical parameter such as a polarization plane of light emitted to the sample, and generates the observation image having a contrast corresponding to the changed optical parameter. An optical parameter that maximizes a light absorption coefficient of the sample is specified according to a feature amount of a shape pattern of the sample (refer to FIG. 5).
US11869744B2
A fluid metering system for gas independent pressure and flow control through an electron microscope sample holder includes: a pressure control system that supplies gas; an inlet line providing gas from the pressure control system to the sample holder; an outlet line receiving gas from the sample holder; and a variable leak valve that controls gas flow in the outlet line. The gas flows from an upstream tank of the pressure control system through the sample holder and variable leak valve to a downstream tank of the pressure control system due to the pressure difference of the two tanks as the variable leak valve meters flow in the outlet line. Flow rates are established by monitoring pressure changes at source and collection tanks of known volumes with gas independent pressure gauges. A method of directing the gas flow to a residual gas analyzer (RGA) is also presented.
US11869741B2
A switching device includes an arc extinguishing chamber, an orifice for outflow of the gases from the arc extinguishing chamber, and a multilayer wire cloth or fabric having at least a first wire layer and a second wire layer. The first wire layer and the second wire layer have a respective cloth or fabric structure including respective warp yarns and weft yams. The first and second wire layers are disposed in a stacked configuration in the orifice such that a weaving direction of the warp yams of the first wire layer is rotated by an angle in relation to a weaving direction of the warp yarns of the second wire layer, and a weaving direction of the weft yarns of the first wire layer is rotated by an angle in relation to a weaving direction of the weft yarns of the second wire layer.
US11869740B2
An electrical system includes an enclosure for housing an electrical device that is capable of being turned on and off. The enclosure includes a door with an operating handle that, when the door is closed, can be used to turn the electrical device on or off. The operating handle is further operable to displace an interlock mechanism for engagement or disengagement to a busway structure and indicate a status of the electrical device as on, off, or tripped.
US11869737B2
Systems and methods are described for a push-button switch assembly with the ability to diagnose faults. The push-button switch assembly comprises a first circuit comprising a first resistor arranged in series with a first switch, and a second resistor arranged in parallel with the first resistor and the first switch, and a second circuit comprising a third resistor arranged in series with a second switch, and a fourth resistor arranged in parallel with the third resistor and the second switch, wherein the first switch and the second switch are each closable by displacement of a push-button of the push-button switch assembly.
US11869736B2
A circuit interrupter includes a frame, a set of separable contacts that can be generally stated as including a stationary contact and a movable contact, the stationary contact being affixed to the frame, a shaft movably situated on the frame, the movable contact being situated on the shaft, a drive system situated on the frame and operable to move the shaft with respect to the frame between a first position and a second position, the set of separable contact being a CLOSED state in the first position of the shaft and being in an OPEN state in the second position of the shaft, and a brake that can be generally stated as including a mass movably situated on the frame, the shaft being structured to engage the mass and to cause the mass to be in motion when moving from the first position toward the second position.
US11869735B2
A contactor (1) comprising a first contact member (3) fixed and connected to a first conductor (5) of an electrical circuit; a second contact member (7) connected to a second conductor (9) of the electrical circuit by a connector (11); wherein the second contact member moves between a break position, in which the first and second contact members are out of contact, and a make position, in which the first and second contact members are in contact; an actuator assembly (15) coupled to the second contact member such that actuation of the actuator assembly translates into movement of the second contact member; an electromagnetic arrangement comprising an electromagnetic coil (17) and at least a part of the actuator assembly, wherein, when the coil is energised, the coil generates a magnetic field and thereby the actuation assembly is caused to move under the influence of the magnetic field, which in turn causes the second contact member to move; a hermetically sealable enclosure (2); wherein the first and second contact members, the connector, and the actuation assembly are inside the enclosure; and the coil is outside the enclosure.
US11869722B2
A capacitor component includes a body having a first surface and a second surface opposing each other and including a multilayer structure in which a plurality of dielectric layers are stacked and first and second internal electrodes are alternately disposed with respective dielectric layers interposed therebetween and exposed to the first surface and the second surface, respectively, first and second metal layers covering the first surface and the second surface and connected to the first and second internal electrodes, respectively, first and second ceramic layers covering the first and second metal layers, and first and second external electrodes covering the first and second ceramic layers and connected to the first and second metal layers to be electrically connected to the first and second internal electrodes, respectively.
US11869720B2
A dielectric composition includes one of BaTiO3, (Ba,Ca)(Ti,Ca)O3, (Ba,Ca)(Ti,Zr)O3, Ba(Ti,Zr)O3 and (Ba,Ca)(Ti,Sn)O3, as a main component, a first subcomponent including a rare earth element, and a second subcomponent including at least one of a variable valence acceptor element and a fixed valence acceptor element. When a sum of contents of the rare earth element is defined as DT and a sum of contents of the variable valence acceptor element and the fixed valence acceptor element is defined as AT, (DT/AT)/(Ba+Ca) satisfies more than 0.5 and less than 6.0. In addition, a multilayer electronic component including the dielectric composition is provided.
US11869719B2
A composite capacitor that includes a plurality of capacitors and an insulating section. The plurality of capacitors are stacked on each other. The insulating section covers peripheral surfaces of the plurality of capacitors about a central axis of the plurality of capacitors, the stacking direction of the plurality of capacitors being a direction of the central axis. Each of the plurality of capacitors includes a support electrode layer, plural columnar conductors, a dielectric layer, and a counter electrode layer. Each of the plural columnar conductors has a nano-size outer diameter. The plurality of capacitors include a first capacitor and a second capacitor connected in parallel with the first capacitor.
US11869718B2
A multilayer capacitor includes a capacitor body having first to sixth surfaces, including a plurality of first and second dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrodes stacked; and first and second external electrodes. The internal electrode includes first and second internal electrodes, a first floating electrode disposed between the first and second internal electrodes on the first dielectric layer, and second and third floating electrodes disposed on the second dielectric layer. The second floating electrode overlaps a portion of the first internal electrode and a portion of the first floating electrode, and the third floating electrode overlaps a portion of the second internal electrode and a portion of the first floating electrode. a/L is 0.113 or more, in which L is a length of the capacitor body, and a is a distance between the first floating electrode and the first or second internal electrodes.
US11869717B2
A capacitor includes a capacitor element, a case housing the capacitor element, a filling resin filled in the case, and a board holder including a fixing part to which a circuit board mounted with an electronic circuit is to be fixed. The board holder is configured to hold the circuit board to be exposed from the filling resin.
US11869707B2
An IPT track arrangement including a power supply and conductor electrically connected to the power supply, the conductor includes a plurality of loops located substantially adjacent one another, wherein the polarity in adjacent portions of the loops is the same, and wherein the power supply includes a one or more inverters which share the track load.
US11869702B2
A coil component includes a base body containing metal magnetic particles and a binder binding together the metal magnetic particles and having a first surface extending along a coil axis and a second surface opposing the first surface, a first external electrode, a second external electrode, and a coil conductor electrically connected to the first and second external electrodes. In one embodiment, the coil conductor has a winding portion, the winding portion has first conductor portions and one or more second conductor portions smaller in number than the first conductor portions. The first and second conductor portions alternate with and are connected to each other. A ratio of a first distance between the first conductor portions and the first surface to a second distance between the second conductor portions and the second surface is from 0.5 to less than 1.
US11869691B2
A powder magnetic core includes a compact including soft magnetic powder, and an insulating-resin coating that covers a portion of a surface of the compact. A ratio of an area of the insulating-resin coating to a surface area of the compact is lower than or equal to 85%, and a maximum depth of unevenness on a surface of the insulating-resin coating is smaller than or equal to 20 μm.
US11869689B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of an enhanced resonant frequency hexagonal ferrite material and methods of manufacturing. The hexagonal ferrite material can be Y-phase hexagonal ferrite material, such as those including strontium. In some embodiments, oxides consistent with the stoichiometry of Sr3Co2Fe24O41, SrFe12O19 or CoFe2O4 can be used form an enhanced hexagonal ferrite material.
US11869688B2
An inductor component includes a component body having a mounting surface and a top surface and provided therein with a spiral inductor wiring line advancing in the extending direction of a winding center axis. The inductor wiring line is connected to a first external electrode at a first end, and connected to a second external electrode at a second end. The component body includes: a first inclined surface connected to a first end of the mounting surface on a first side in a length direction and inclined toward the top surface as separating from the first end; and a second inclined surface connected to a second end of the mounting surface on a second side in the length direction and inclined toward the top surface as separating from the second end. The winding center axis extends in a direction parallel to the mounting surface and perpendicular to the length direction.
US11869687B2
A coil component includes a core including a winding core portion and a pair of flange portions provided at both ends of the winding core portion, electrode portions provided in the flange portions, a wire wound around the winding core portion, and a magnetic plate fixed to the flange portions. The magnetic plate includes an annular first planar portion, a second planar portion that is located inside the inner circumference of the first planar portion and has a step between the first and the second planar portions, and a connection surface portion connecting the inner circumference of the first planar portion to the outer circumference of the second planar portion. The connection surface portion is configured by annularly disposing at least three slopes inclined with respect to the direction orthogonal to the first planar portion and has chamfered portions each being disposed between adjacent slopes.
US11869686B2
The object of the present invention is to provide a fluidizing particle capable of improving a fluidity of a magnetic particle for a magnetic core and capable of improving a permeability of the magnetic core. The fluidizing particle includes a particle body having a magnetic property and a coating layer including a silicon compound covering the particle body, wherein a particle size of the fluidizing particle is 10 to 40 nm, and a circularity of the fluidizing particle is 0.55 or more.
US11869669B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for evaluating cardiovascular treatment options for a patient. One method includes creating a three-dimensional model representing a portion of the patient's heart based on patient-specific data regarding a geometry of the patient's heart or vasculature; and for a plurality of treatment options for the patient's heart or vasculature, modifying at least one of the three-dimensional model and a reduced order model based on the three-dimensional model. The method also includes determining, for each of the plurality of treatment options, a value of a blood flow characteristic, by solving at least one of the modified three-dimensional model and the modified reduced order model; and identifying one of the plurality of treatment options that solves a function of at least one of: the determined blood flow characteristics of the patient's heart or vasculature, and one or more costs of each of the plurality of treatment options.
US11869666B2
The disclosed technology provides a system and a computer implemented method for crisis state detection and intervention of a person or group of persons, the method comprising: providing a computer system designed to detect and intervene non-normal, elevated crisis operating states; using one or more biometric sensors that ascertains a crisis state via physical, behavioral, or mental indicators; deducing, with computational hardware, the operational state of a user or users from one or more biometric sensors; and administering an immediate, dual intervention of a sensory form to de-escalate the crisis operating state of a person or group of persons.
US11869658B2
A first calculator calculates a first index value quantitatively indicating an imaging failure state for each imaging menu using a first calculation formula having a variable based on the number of times of occurrence of imaging failure for each imaging menu and a variable based on the rate of occurrence of imaging failure for each imaging menu. A first extractor automatically extracts a target menu as an imaging menu to be considered to prevent occurrence of imaging failure based on the first index value. A second extractor extracts a consideration image as a failed image associated with the target menu. A screen output controller generates a conference screen for displaying the target menu and the consideration image. A client terminal displays the conference screen on a display panel.
US11869657B2
Computerized systems and methods are provided for managing future radiology orders for multiple facilities. The systems and methods can include detecting a location identifier for each future radiology order, and in response to detecting the location identifier, determining a specific radiology facility for that location identifier. The respective future radiology orders can then be provided to the intended radiology facility.
US11869651B2
A system configured to be coupled with a participant of an activity. The system comprises: a participant activity monitoring unit configured for monitoring a performance of the activity by the participant; an activity information module configured for storing performance information corresponding to the activity; and a participant performance correlator configured for delivering comparative performance data based on the monitored performance of the activity by the participant and the stored performance information.
US11869643B2
A schema is generated to establish a connection between user devices and one or more patient record servers. Generating a schema can include receiving configuration information associated with a patient record gateway, wherein the patient record gateway is associated with one or more patient record servers configured for storing electronic health records for a plurality of patients. Generating a schema can include defining, based at least in part on the configuration information, a schema configured to enable user devices to retrieve, via the patient record gateway, electronic health records from the one or more patient record servers. A schema can be requested by a user device. The schema can be sent to a user device to establish a connection with the one or more patient record servers.
US11869640B1
A proxy data augmentation system and method intelligently augments digital information sets with proxy data using analytical processing technology. The proxy data system and method identifies fields in a digital information set that are candidates for modification using proxy data. After identifying a candidate field, an analytical process is invoked to evaluate a context of the candidate field. In one embodiment, once the context and at least one other parameter associated with the digital information set are evaluated, the proxy data augmentation system and method can determine appropriate proxy data to populate the candidate field and modify the digital information set with the determined proxy data. The modified document can then be sent to a recipient data processing system. Additionally, the digital information set submitting and/or recipient data processing system can be notified of the existence and identification of the proxy data.
US11869636B2
An analysis instrument comprises a sample receiving section for receiving samples provided by a plurality of users, an analysis section operable to receive an aliquot of each received sample, perform an analysis of each received aliquot, and generate an output based on the analysis, and a presentation section adapted to present the output in a human discernable format. The analysis instrument further includes an identification section adapted to autonomously generate an identifier unique to each user and each sample provided thereby and to supply each identifier for presentation by the presentation section in a human discernable format together with a portion of the output that corresponds with one or more samples provided by a user to which the identifier is unique. Each identifier consists of one or more graphic symbols, one or more colours, and/or one or more numbers.
US11869635B2
A system for activating a cued health assessment, which includes an audio receiver for receiving voice samples to measure one of a plurality of voice biomarkers, an audio processing module for extracting one of a plurality of biomarkers from the received voice samples, the audio processing module further classifies the received voice samples to one of plurality of predetermined health states according to the extracted biomarkers, and a voice sample scheduler for activating a cued health assessment module when the classified health state is a clinically actionable health state.
US11869631B2
There is a need for more effective and efficient predictive data analysis solutions for processing genetic sequencing data. This need can be addressed by, for example, techniques for performing predictive data analysis based on genetic sequences that utilize at least one of cross-variant polygenic risk modeling using genetic risk profiles, cross-variant polygenic risk modeling using functional genetic risk profiles, per-condition polygenic clustering operations, cross-condition polygenic predictive inferences, and cross-condition polygenic diagnoses.
US11869617B2
In some embodiments, a system comprises a static random access memory (SRAM) device and a controller. The SRAM device comprises a bit cell array comprising a plurality of bit cells arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, each column operatively coupled to a pair of bit lines, wherein the plurality of columns is arranged as a plurality of column groups each comprising a plurality of local columns. The SRAM device further comprises a plurality of column decoders, each associated with a column group of the plurality of column groups. In some embodiments, the controller may be configured to read the local columns included in the column group by, for a given local column, sensing a voltage difference on a corresponding pair of bit lines, in a rearranged sequential order that is different from a physical sequential order of the plurality of local columns.
US11869615B2
The embodiments provide a method for reading and writing and a memory device. The method for reading and writing includes: applying a read command to the memory device, the read command pointing to address information; reading data to be read out from a memory cell corresponding to the address information pointed to by the read command; and associating the address information pointed to by the read command with a spare memory cell if an error occurs in the data to be read out. The method for reading and writing provided by the present disclosure greatly improves reliability of the memory device and prolongs lifespan of the memory device.
US11869606B2
Disclosed in some examples are improvements to data placement architectures in NAND that provide additional data protection through an improved NAND data placement schema that allows for recovery from certain failure scenarios. The present disclosure stripes data diagonally across page lines and planes to enhance the data protection. Parity bits are stored in SLC blocks for extra protection until the block is finished writing and then the parity bits may be deleted.
US11869604B2
The present disclosure relates to a non-volatile memory device including at least an array of memory cells and with associated decoding and sensing circuitry and a memory controller, and a method for checking the erasing phase of the non-volatile device; the method comprises: performing a dynamic erase operation of at least a memory block; storing in a dummy row at least internal block variables of said dynamic erase operation and/or a known pattern.
US11869593B2
According to an embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell, a first word line coupled between a control end of the memory cell and a first node, a resistance element coupled between the first node and a second node, a control circuit configured to output a voltage to the second node, a first switch coupled between the first node and a third node, a second switch coupled between the second node and the third node, and a comparator including an input end that receives a signal corresponding to a voltage of the third node.
US11869591B2
A semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including a plurality of first memory arrays, where the first level includes a plurality of first transistors and a plurality of first metal layers; a second level disposed on top of the first level, where the second level includes a plurality of second memory arrays; a third level disposed on top of the second level, where the third level includes a plurality of third transistors and a plurality of third metal layers, where the third level is bonded to the second level, where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bonding regions and a plurality of metal to metal bonding regions, where the first level includes first filled holes, where the second level includes second filled holes, and where the third level includes a plurality of decoder circuits.
US11869590B2
A memory device includes a string of series-connected memory cells, a data line, a first select transistor, a common source, a second select transistor, and a gate leakage transistor. The string of series-connected memory cells includes a vertical channel region. Each memory cell of the string of series-connected memory cells includes a first gate stack structure. The data line is connected to the vertical channel region. The first select transistor is connected between the data line and the string of series-connected memory cells. The second select transistor is connected between the common source and the string of series-connected memory cells. The gate leakage transistor is connected between the first select transistor and the second select transistor. The gate leakage transistor includes a second gate stack structure different from the first gate stack structure.
US11869589B2
An apparatus (e.g., a content addressable memory system) can have a controller; a first content addressable memory coupled to the controller and a second content addressable memory coupled to the controller. The controller can be configured to cause the first content addressable memory to compare input data to first data stored in the first content addressable memory and cause the second content addressable memory to compare the input data to second data stored in the second content addressable memory such the input data is compared to the first and second data concurrently and replace a result of the comparison of the input data to the first data with a result of the comparison of the input data to the second data in response to determining that the first data is invalid and that the second data corresponds to the first data.
US11869582B2
A method of operating a memory device that performs a plurality of program loops for a plurality of memory cells includes applying a first program pulse and a first verify pulse of a first program loop from among the plurality of program loops, counting a first off cell count by using an output based on the first verify pulse, determining a first verify skip period using the first off cell count, applying an N-th program pulse and a plurality of verify pulses in response to an end of the first verify skip period, counting a second off cell count by using an output based on the plurality of verify pulses, and determining a second verify skip period using the second off cell count.
US11869577B2
Methods, systems, and devices for a decoding architecture for memory devices are described. Word line plates of a memory array may each include a sheet of conductive material that includes a first portion extending in a first direction within a plane along with multiple fingers extending in a second direction within the plane. Two word line plates in a same plane may be activated via a shared electrode. Memory cells coupled with the two word line plates sharing the electrode, or a subset thereof, may represent a logical page for accessing memory cells. A memory cell may be accessed via a first voltage applied to a word line plate coupled with the memory cell and a second voltage applied to a pillar electrode coupled with the memory cell. Parallel or simultaneous access operations may be performed for two or more memory cells within a same page of memory cells.
US11869576B2
A word line driving circuit includes a driving circuit and a control circuit. The control circuit includes a control sub-circuit, a first switching sub-circuit and a second switching sub-circuit. The first switching sub-circuit is provided with: a control terminal electrically connected with the control sub-circuit, a first terminal electrically connected with a first power supply voltage, and a second terminal electrically connected with a third input terminal of the driving circuit. The second switching sub-circuit is provided with: a control terminal electrically connected with the control sub-circuit, a first terminal electrically connected with a second power supply voltage, and a second terminal electrically connected with the third input terminal of the driving circuit. The second power supply voltage is greater than a ground voltage.
US11869574B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a mode register set and a clock correction circuit. The mode register set stores a first control code set. During a duty training interval based on a duty training command, the clock correction circuit may divide the duty training interval into a first interval, a second interval and a third interval which are consecutive, may correct a phase skew of a first clock signal and a third clock signal during the first interval, may correct a phase skew of a second clock signal and a fourth clock signal during the second interval, and may correct a phase skew of the first clock signal and the fourth clock signal during the third interval. The semiconductor memory device may enhance signal integrity of clock signals by correcting duty errors and phase skews of the clock signals having multi-phases during the duty training interval.
US11869570B2
A refresh counter circuit, a refresh counting method and a semiconductor memory are provided. The refresh counter circuit includes: a first signal generator that is configured to generate a first carry signal according to each of refresh pulse signals generated by a received refresh command; a second signal generator that is configured to generate a second carry signal according to a last refresh pulse signal generated by the received refresh command; a first counter that is configured to perform signal inversion according to the first carry signal and generate a first output signal; and a second counter that is configured to count the refresh command according to the second carry signal and generate a second output signal; where the refresh command generates at least two refresh pulse signals.
US11869565B2
Methods, systems, and devices for a read algorithm for a memory device are described. When performing a read operation, the memory device may access a memory cell to retrieve a value stored by the memory cell. The memory device may compare a set of reference voltages with a signal output by the memory cell based on accessing the memory cell. Thus, the memory device may determine a set of candidate values stored by the memory cell, where each candidate value is associated with one of the reference voltages. The memory device may determine and output the value stored by the memory cell based on determining the set of candidate values. In some cases, the memory device may determine the value stored by the memory cell based on performing an error control operation on each of the set of candidate values to detect a quantity of errors within each candidate value.
US11869561B2
A cross-point SOT-MRAM cell includes: a first SHE write line; a second SHE write line non-colinear to the first SHE write line; a cross-point free layer comprising a first free layer, a second free layer, and a dielectric layer disposed between the first and the second free layers, the cross-point free layer configured to store a magnetic bit and located between and in contact with both the first SHE write line and the second SHE write line; and a remote sensing MTJ located in a vicinity of the cross-point free layer, wherein a free layer sensor of the remote sensing MTJ is in contact with one of the first SHE write line and the second SHE write line.
US11869556B2
A heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) disk has a magnetic recording layer (typically a FePt chemically-ordered alloy), a seed-thermal barrier layer (typically MgO) below the recording layer, a heat-sink layer, and an optical-coupling multilayer of alternating plasmonic and non-plasmonic materials between the heat-sink layer and the seed-thermal barrier layer. Unlike a heat sink layer, the multilayer has very low in-plane and out-of-plane thermal conductivity and thus does not function as a heat sink layer. The multilayer's low thermal conductivity allows the multilayer to also function as a thermal barrier. Due to the plasmonic materials in the multilayer it provides excellent optical coupling with the near-field transducer (NFT) of the HAMR disk drive.
US11869555B2
A magnetic tape in which a vertical switching field distribution SFD of the magnetic tape is 1.5 or less, and in an environment with a temperature of 23° C. and a relative humidity of 50%, an AlFeSil abrasion value45° of a surface of the magnetic layer measured at a tilt angle of 45° of an AlFeSil prism is 20 μm to 50 μm, a standard deviation of an AlFeSil abrasion value of the surface of the magnetic layer measured at each of tilt angles of 0°, 15°, 30°, and 45° of the AlFeSil prism is 30 μm or less, and the tilt angle of the AlFeSil prism is an angle formed by a longitudinal direction of the AlFeSil prism and a width direction of the magnetic tape.
US11869546B1
Various illustrative aspects are directed to a data storage device comprising a disk; a read/write head having read and write portions configured to read data from and write data to the disk; read and write heaters configured to thermally adjust read and write spacings of the read and write portions from the disk surface; and a controller configured to control power applied to the read and write heaters based on a dual heater power ratio (DHR) of the respective power applied to each heater. The DHR is set based on a point during touchdown at which a reader shield and a writer shield have maximum contact with the surface of the disk (DHRmax).
US11869544B2
An electronic device with parallel backplanes and a storage device with parallel backplanes. The electronic device includes a front inserting assembly, a rear inserting assembly, and a backplane assembly. The backplane assembly is connected to the front inserting assembly and the rear inserting assembly. The backplane assembly includes a plurality of backplanes arranged in parallel at intervals, the front inserting assembly includes a plurality of first units whose arrangement direction is the same as an arrangement direction of the backplanes, and the rear inserting assembly includes a plurality of second units whose arrangement direction intersects the arrangement direction of the backplanes. The backplane assembly is provided with the structure including the plurality of backplanes arranged in parallel at intervals and the channel between adjacent backplanes. In addition, the first units and the second units are connected to two opposite sides of the backplanes, respectively.
US11869532B2
According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a system for controlling an emergency bell based on sound comprises an emergency bell device installed in a crime area, gathering sound information generated in the crime area, detecting an emergency event from the gathered sound information, and generating an emergency bell operation signal, an analysis server receiving, in real-time, the sound information from the emergency bell device if the emergency bell operation signal is received, classifying per-time key sound sources in the sound information, and providing a situation analysis result on whether a crime occurs using the classified per-time key sound sources, and a control server receiving the situation analysis result and providing on-site dispatch information or situation response information to a security terminal in charge of the crime area based on the received situation analysis result.
US11869529B2
It is intended to accurately convert a speech rhythm. A model storage unit (10) stores a speech rhythm conversion model which is a neural network that receives, as an input thereto, a first feature value vector including information related to a speech rhythm of at least a phoneme extracted from a first speech signal resulting from a speech uttered by a speaker in a first group, converts the speech rhythm of the first speech signal to a speech rhythm of a speaker in a second group, and outputs the speech rhythm of the speaker in the second group. A feature value extraction unit (11) extracts, from the input speech signal resulting from the speech uttered by the speaker in the first group, information related to a vocal tract spectrum and information related to the speech rhythm. A conversion unit (12) inputs the first feature value vector including the information related to the speech rhythm extracted from the input speech signal to the speech rhythm conversion model and obtains the post-conversion speech rhythm. A speech synthesis unit (13) uses the post-conversion speech rhythm and the information related to the vocal tract spectrum extracted from the input speech signal to generate an output speech signal.
US11869528B2
Provided is a voice signal processing method. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring a status coefficient, a target voice signal to be processed, and a derivative signal of the target voice signal (S101); using the derivative signal to respectively calculate an initial echo loss corresponding to each signal frame in the target voice signal, then using the status coefficient to adjust the initial echo loss to acquire a target echo loss (S102); using the derivative signal to calculate a proximal-distal coherence value of the target voice signal (S103); judging whether the target echo loss matches with a single-talk echo state (S104); if so, recording the proximal-distal coherence value in the status statistical data, and updating statistical information (S105); and using the statistical information to update the status coefficient, and performing volume control on the target voice signal after the status coefficient is updated (S106). The method ensures better sound quality, and further improves user experience. Also provided are a voice signal processing device, an apparatus, and a readable storage medium, having corresponding technical effects.
US11869520B2
An encoding method includes dividing a to-be-encoded time-domain signal into a low band signal and a high band signal, performing encoding on the low band signal to obtain a low frequency encoding parameter, performing encoding on the high band signal to obtain a high frequency encoding parameter, obtaining a synthesized high band signal, performing short-time post-filtering processing on the synthesized high band signal to obtain a short-time filtering signal, and calculating a high frequency gain based on the high band signal and the short-time filtering signal.
US11869515B2
The invention relates to apparatuses and methods for enhancing call quality in wireless earbuds. A first wireless earbud includes a first speaker and a first downlink speech process path, and a second wireless earbud includes a second speaker and a second downlink speech process path. The first and the second downlink speech process paths receive the same mono speech data from a mobile phone, and process the mono speech data to generate first and second analog signals, respectively, so that the first and the second speakers play the first and second analog signals, respectively. An inverter is disposed on the first downlink speech process path to generate the inverted digital data or analog signal from received digital data or analog signal corresponding to the mono speech data, but no inverter is disposed on the second downlink speech process path.
US11869514B2
An apparatus for decoding an audio signal includes a receiving interface, wherein the receiving interface is configured to receive a first frame and a second frame. Moreover, the apparatus includes a noise level tracing unit for determining noise level information being represented in a tracing domain. Furthermore, the apparatus includes a first reconstruction unit for reconstructing a third audio signal portion of the audio signal depending on the noise level information and a second reconstruction unit for reconstructing a fourth audio signal portion depending on noise level information being represented in the second reconstruction domain.
US11869506B2
Generating expanded responses that guide continuance of a human-to computer dialog that is facilitated by a client device and that is between at least one user and an automated assistant. The expanded responses are generated by the automated assistant in response to user interface input provided by the user via the client device, and are caused to be rendered to the user via the client device, as a response, by the automated assistant, to the user interface input of the user. An expanded response is generated based on at least one entity of interest determined based on the user interface input, and is generated to incorporate content related to one or more additional entities that are related to the entity of interest, but that are not explicitly referenced by the user interface input.
US11869495B2
Techniques for providing a standardized voice user interface (VUI) that enables voice to voice natural language understanding (NLU) processing are described. The standardized VUI may be added to speechlets to enable a customer to interact with a business via server(s) using NLU processing. For example, a first user may initiate a first voice interaction using NLU processing with the server(s) and the system may initiate a second voice interaction using NLU processing between the server(s) and a second user. This enables a customer to initiate a transaction (e.g., request information, place an order, make a reservation, etc.) with the business using the speechlet. Thus, the business may use the speechlet to offer services without requiring additional infrastructure or complicated programming to implement.
US11869487B1
Speech processing tasks may be allocated at least partly to a local device (e.g., user computing device that receives spoken words) and at least partly to a remote device to determine one or more user commands or tasks to be performed by the local device. The remote device may be used to process speech that the local device could not process or understand, or for other reasons, such as for error checking. The local device may then execute or begin to execute locally determined tasks to reduce user-perceived latency. Meanwhile, the entire media input, or a portion thereof, may be sent to the remote device to process speech, verify the tasks and/or identify other user commands in the media input (or portion thereof).
US11869475B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include applying, via a sound reproduction system, sound cancellation that reduces an amplitude of various sound signals. The method further includes identifying, among the sound signals, an external sound whose amplitude is to be reduced by the sound cancellation. The method then includes analyzing the identified external sound to determine whether the identified external sound is to be made audible to a user and, upon determining that the external sound is to be made audible to the user, the method includes modifying the sound cancellation so that the identified external sound is made audible to the user. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11869473B2
A hollow structure has a hollow body with an annular first space and at least one resonator. In the resonator there is formed an elongated second space with a pair of openings at two ends thereof. Each of the pair of openings opens inwardly toward the interior of the first space. The ratio of the length of a centerline of the second space to the length of a centerline of the first space is within a range of from 0.45 to 0.55. The second space is disposed in a curve along a circumferential surface of the first space and is shaped such that one of the two ends of the second space is folded back toward the other end.
US11869466B2
Systems, devices, and methods for segmenting musical compositions are described. Discrete, musically-coherent segments (such as intro, verse, chorus, bridge, solo, and the like) of a musical composition are identified. Distance measures are used to evaluate whether each bar of a musical composition is more like the bars that directly precede it or more like the bars that directly succeed it, and each respective series of musically similar bars is assigned to the same respective segment. Large changes in the distance measure(s) between adjacent bars may be used to identify boundaries between abutting musical segments. Computer systems and computer program products for implementing segmentation are also described. The results of segmentation may advantageously be applied in computer-based composition of music and musical variations, as well as in other applications involving labelling, characterizing, or otherwise processing music.
US11869461B2
A tuner for a guitar having a neck and string nut including a plurality of nut slots configured to receive respective guitar strings. A tuner mount is fixedly secured to the neck and a tuner body is mounted on the tuner mount. A string break angle fastener is engageable with a guitar string passing through the respective nut slot and sets a break angle of the guitar string. A string lock carriage is movably mounted on the tuner body and includes a string fastener engageable with the guitar string passing through the respective nut slot to secure the guitar string to the carriage. A tuner knob is manually movable to drive the string carriage and thereby adjust the tension of and tune the respective guitar string.
US11869454B2
An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to, when displaying an on-screen display image on a screen of a display device, invalidate a contrast value set by a user to a contrast setting value specifying a contrast of the screen, and draw the on-screen display image so as to be superimposed on a background image.
US11869453B2
To provide a semiconductor device including a narrowed bezel obtained by designing a gate driver circuit. A gate driver of a display device includes a shift register unit, a demultiplexer circuit, and n signal lines. By connecting the n signal lines for transmitting clock signals to one stage of the shift register unit, (n−3) output signals can be output. The larger n becomes, the smaller the rate of signal lines for transmitting clock signals which do not contribute to output becomes; accordingly, the area of the shift register unit part is small compared to a conventional structure in which one stage of a shift register unit outputs one output signal. Therefore, the gate driver circuit can have a narrow bezel.
US11869452B2
In an image processing device, for each of one or two or more picture elements among a plurality of picture elements, the one or two or more picture elements having an input grayscale value included in the input image data being equal to or less than a first predetermined value, the second panel data correction unit corrects the second aperture ratio of each of at least one pixel among the plurality of pixels, the at least one pixel facing the one or two or more picture elements, so that an actual transmittance gets closer to a theoretical transmittance, and the first panel data generation unit generates the first aperture ratio for each of the plurality of picture elements by dividing a normalized input grayscale value included in the input image data by a normalized luminance included in the panel luminance distribution data.
US11869451B2
Methods for driving color electrophoretic displays including a plurality of display pixels capable of producing a set of primary colors. The method comprises defining a separation cumulate threshold array and using the separation cumulate threshold array to identify areas of the electrophoretic display that are better suited for dithering and not dithering the areas of the electrophoretic display that exceed the separation cumulate threshold.
US11869444B2
A display device includes a timing controller for supplying a clock training signal through a data clock signal line in a first period of one frame period, and supplying image data through the data clock signal line in a second period of the one frame period, a data driver for generating a clock signal, based on the clock training signal in a clock training period in the first period, and generating a data signal, based on the clock signal and the image data in the second period, and a pixel unit for displaying an image, based on the data signal. The clock training signal includes a plurality of signal levels, and the data driver determines the clock training period, based on the signal levels of the clock training signal.
US11869442B2
A display panel and a display device having an emission control driver are discussed. The display device can include a display panel to display an image through sub pixels, a scan driver to supply a second scan signal to each of second gate lines, and an emission control driver to supply an emission control signal to each of third gate lines and supply a first scan signal to each of first gate lines. Each emission control stage of the emission control driver can include an output buffer. The output buffer can output an emission control signal to an output line and output a first scan signal to a scan output line under control of a first control node, and output a high potential power supply voltage to the output line and output a low potential power supply voltage to the scan output line under control of a second control node.
US11869441B2
A driving controller divides a display panel into first and second display areas according to an operation mode, outputs a start signal indicating a start of one frame and a masking signal for indicating a start of the second display area, sets a basic driving frequency to a normal frequency when the operation mode is a normal frequency mode, sets the basic driving frequency to a frequency lower than the normal frequency when the operation mode is a multi-frequency mode, and outputs the start signal and the masking signal. The first display area operates at a first driving frequency and the second display area operates at a second driving frequency, and the scan driving circuit sequentially drives scan lines in synchronization with the start signal, and stops, in response to the masking signal, driving of some of the scan lines corresponding to the second display area.
US11869440B2
An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display system includes a first region located in a substrate. The first region is configured to accommodate a control element. A plurality of other regions located on both sides of the first region in the substrate are sequentially disposed based on distances from the first region. The plurality of other regions include a second region configured to accommodate a first circuit element, a third region configured to accommodate a first circuit clock signal line, a fourth region configured to accommodate a second circuit clock signal line, a fifth region configured to accommodate a second circuit element, a sixth region configured to accommodate a first low-potential port and a seventh region located on an upper surface of the substrate.
US11869439B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel, a gate driver, a data driver, a driving controller and a power voltage generator. The display panel displays an image based on input image data. The gate driver outputs a gate signal to a gate line. The data driver outputs a data voltage to a data line. The driving controller drives display areas of the display panel in different driving frequencies. The power voltage generator outputs a data power voltage to the data driver. The driving controller outputs an output data enable signal including a writing period having an active signal and a holding period having an inactive signal for the respective display areas. The power voltage generator generates the data power voltage having a high power voltage level during the writing period and a low power voltage level in at least a portion of the holding period.
US11869433B2
A pixel of a display apparatus includes a light emitting device and a pixel circuit connected to first to third gate control lines and the light emitting device, the pixel circuit including first to fourth nodes. The pixel circuit includes a driving transistor connected to the first to third nodes, a first transistor connected to the first gate control line and the first and second nodes, a second transistor connected to the second gate control line, the second node, and a first driving voltage line, a third transistor connected to the first gate control line, the third node, and the fourth node, a fourth transistor connected to the first gate control line, the fourth node, and an initialization voltage line, a fifth transistor connected to the third gate control line, the third node, and a data line, and a storage capacitor between the first node and the fourth node.
US11869430B2
A pixel is divided into a first subpixel and a second subpixel. A first data signal is input to a first drive unit that drives a first light-emitting element constituting the first subpixel, and a second data signal is input to a second drive unit that drives a second light-emitting element constituting the second subpixel. A gray scale value of the first data signal is smaller than a gray scale value of the second data signal.
US11869426B2
A pixel driving circuit includes: a data writing sub-circuit configured to write a data signal received at a data signal terminal into a first node under control of a first scanning signal received at a first scanning signal terminal; a driving sub-circuit configured to drive a light-emitting device coupled to a second node to work under control of a voltage of the first node and a first power supply voltage signal received at a first power supply voltage signal terminal; and a time control sub-circuit configured to transmit a control signal received at a control signal terminal to the first node under control of a second scanning signal received at a second scanning signal terminal after the light-emitting to device works for a preset time, so that the driving sub-circuit is turned off to control the light-emitting device to stop working.
US11869424B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology, and proposes a pixel driving circuit, a pixel structure, and a display panel. The pixel driving circuit includes a plurality of driving transistors. For each driving transistor the first terminal is connected to a first power terminal, the second terminal is connected to a first node, and the control terminal is connected to a second node, so as to input current to the first node under the effect of the voltage at the second node. The low pixel density area of the display panel can be provided with the above-mentioned pixel driving circuit, so that the brightness difference between the low pixel density area and the high pixel density area can be avoided.
US11869423B2
A pixel circuit, a display panel, a display apparatus and a driving method. The pixel circuit includes a data signal writing module, a driving module, a threshold compensation transistor, a first power voltage writing module and a light-emitting module, wherein the driving module includes a driving transistor.
US11869407B2
Disclosed are methods for compensating colors based on luminance adjustment parameters and the related display devices. The present disclosure provides an electronic device. The electronic device comprises: a display comprising an array of pixels and a control circuit electrically connected to the display. Pixels in the array comprise a plurality of first sub-pixels defining a first color area in a chromaticity plane, a plurality of second sub-pixels defining a second color area in the chromaticity plane and a plurality of third sub-pixels defining a third color area in the chromaticity plane. The plurality of first sub-pixels is associated with a first primary color, the plurality of second sub-pixels is associated with a second primary color, and the plurality of third sub-pixels is associated with a third primary color. The control circuit is configured to receive an input image signal and generate a control signal to the display for driving each pixel of the display to output light in a virtual color gamut. The virtual color gamut of the display includes a first virtual color gamut including a first chromaticity coordinate point of the first primary color, a second virtual color gamut including a second chromaticity coordinate point of the second primary color, a third virtual color gamut including a third chromaticity coordinate point of the third primary color, and a fourth virtual color gamut. The fourth virtual color gamut is among the first, second and third color areas on the chromaticity plane and does not overlap any of the first, second or third color areas.
US11869406B1
A scan driver of the disclosure includes a plurality of stage groups configured to supply scan signals to scan lines based on clock signals, carry clock signals, and first and second powers. A first stage group of the stage groups includes a first stage configured to supply a first scan signal to a first scan line based on an input signal, a first clock signal of the clock signals, a first carry clock signal of the carry clock signals, and the first and second powers, and a second stage configured to supply a second scan signal to a second scan line based on the input signal, a second clock signal of the clock signals, a second carry clock signal of the carry clock signals, and the first and second powers. The first stage and the second stage are commonly connected to a first node and a second node.
US11869404B2
Provided are a display panel, a driving method thereof, and a display device. A pixel circuit in the display panel includes a drive transistor, an initialization transistor, and an initialization signal line. An initialization signal terminal is electrically connected to a first terminal of the initialization transistor and the initialization signal line, a first terminal of the drive transistor is electrically connected to a power signal terminal, a second terminal of the drive transistor is electrically connected to a first terminal of a light-emitting element. The first drive mode corresponds to a first drive frequency F1 and a first initialization signal Vref1, the second drive mode corresponds to a second drive frequency F2 and a second initialization signal Vref2, and the third drive mode corresponds to a third drive frequency F3 and a third initialization signal Vref3, where F1>F2>F3, Vref1≠Vref2≠Vref3, and F 2 - F 3 F 1 - F 3 ≠ ❘ "\[LeftBracketingBar]" V ref 2 - V ref 3 ❘ "\[RightBracketingBar]" ❘ "\[LeftBracketingBar]" V ref 1 - V ref 3 ❘ "\[RightBracketingBar]" .
US11869403B2
A display device comprises a display substrate, first interconnections, second interconnections, a driving circuit and a polarizing plate. The display substrate includes a bend portion which is curved with respect to an axis parallel to a first direction. The first interconnections extend in the first direction and are on the display substrate. The second interconnections are on the display substrate, connected to the first interconnections and extend in a second direction different from the first direction. The driving circuit is electrically connected to the first interconnections and the second interconnections and provides driving signals to the first interconnections and the second interconnections. The polarizing plate is on the display substrate and overlaps the first interconnections and the second interconnections.
US11869398B2
A screen display method includes: detecting a touch operation acting on a screen; determining display adjustment information for a bent area of the screen according to the touch operation; and adjusting display content in the bent area according to the display adjustment information.
US11869391B2
A display device includes a display panel, a back cover which is disposed on a bottom surface of the display panel and has a plurality of protrusions on both sides, and a plurality of protective blocks which is inserted into grooves of the plurality of protrusions on some sides of the back cover. The plurality of protective blocks includes a first part which has a protrusion at one side and a groove at another side, a second part which is opposite to the first part, a third part which connects the first part and the second part, and a fourth part which protrudes from the first part to the second part and is inserted into the grooves of the plurality of protrusions.
US11869387B2
One example non-limiting example provides a full representative part 25 commercial aircraft flight deck with a visual system integrated with a robotic manipulator to provide an immersive simulation environment for training and research purposes. Such technology provides an architecture that provides visual blending-warp adjustment along with visual system integration, including for example Spherical screen design, Structural design and Projectors allocation.
US11869386B2
Techniques for generating and administering an oculo-cognitive addition test. Some aspects include identifying, by a system, a set of numbers that are to be displayed to a user during a trial of a cognitive test. The set of numbers includes at least two numbers. The system can administer the trial of the cognitive test, including, for each number in the set of numbers: displaying the number at a particular position of a display environment; tracking, by the system and using one or more optical sensors, eye movement of the user seeking the number in the display environment; and receiving, by the system and after having displayed the number for a time, a command that is to advance or end the cognitive test.
US11869380B2
Disclosed herein are prosthesis simulator devices comprising a first restraint configured to restrain one or more fingers of a wearer of the simulator, a second restraint configured to restrain a thumb of the wearer, and a plurality of artificial digits configured to move in a manner to simulate one or more prosthetic fingers and a prosthetic thumb of a prosthesis. The first restraint can be attached to a roof plate connected to a base plate and defining a dorsal side of the prosthesis simulator. The second restraint can be attached to a holster connected to the base plate on a palmar side of the prosthesis simulator. Also disclosed herein are methods of using the same.
US11869364B2
The enhanced flight vision system of an aircraft comprises an image acquisition system provided to acquire images of an outside environment of the aircraft, and a display system configured to allow information to be displayed on a display unit overlayed with the outside environment of the aircraft. The display system is configured to receive images produced by the image acquisition system and to display these images on the display unit. The image acquisition system is configured to associate ancillary information with at least a part of the images produced and the display system is configured to check the integrity of an image received from the image acquisition system, based on the ancillary information associated with that image; and in the absence of integrity, deactivate the display on the display unit of at least the image received from the image acquisition system.
US11869363B1
System and method for autonomous vehicle and method for swapping autonomous vehicle during operation
A functionality utilizing a centrally controlled strategy for continuous communication to specific autonomous vehicles, or drones, that are designed for extreme conditions and assigned specific missions with the ability to be replaced during the mission. This functionality is an improvement on existing swarm and leader-follower tactics as it retains control of the drones at a central command center, allowing the drones to both receive individual commands from the hub but also operate independently of it with direct pilot control. This direct communication allows for real time process of ordered substitution to replace any drone during the mission.
US11869355B2
A management system of a work site in which an unmanned vehicle and a manned vehicle operate in a mixed manner includes: a determination unit that determines whether or not the manned vehicle exists in a predetermined area of the work site; and a command unit that outputs a work command to cause the unmanned vehicle or the manned vehicle to travel to a work point set in a work place based on the determination result.
US11869351B2
Examples described herein provide a computer-implemented method that includes receiving first data from a sensor of a vehicle. The method further includes determining, by a processing device, whether an incident external to the vehicle has occurred by processing the first data using a machine learning model. The method further includes, responsive to determining that an incident external to the vehicle has occurred, initiating recording of second data by the sensor. The method further includes, responsive to determining that an incident external to the vehicle has occurred, taking an action to control the vehicle.
US11869348B2
A processing apparatus for generating route navigation data is provided, to, generate training data based on road network data corresponding to a network of roads in a defined geographical area, and journey data sets, each journey data set comprising data indicative of a journey by a road user through the network of roads and being derived using geolocation transmissions from a communications device of the road user, train a classifier model based on the training data, apply the trained classifier model on road data corresponding to a road in the defined geographical area, for the trained classifier model to predict a direction of traffic flow on the road, and generate the route navigation data indicative of the predicted direction of the traffic flow on the road. A method for generating route navigation data is also provided.
US11869334B2
A mobile device can wirelessly connect, using transceivers, to a medical item and a wristband worn by a user. The mobile device includes a software application enabling a user to input distance thresholds. The wristband can also include a software application enabling a user to input distance thresholds. Both the mobile device application and the wristband application can monitor signals between the medical item and wristband. In another system, a medical item distance alert system can include a plurality of medical items. In another system, a mobile device is not in communication with the wristband or medical items. The wristband software application can monitor signals between medical items and provide alerts in the absence of another mobile device. Preferably, ultra-wideband (UWB) and Bluetooth transceivers can be implemented to provide accurate distance estimates with low power usage.
US11869332B2
A remote temperature monitoring system includes a first unit operatively connected to one or more temperature sensors for sensing the temperature of one or more materials or food items being cooked or heated. The first unit transmits the sensed temperature to a second unit that is located remotely from the first unit during heating. The second unit is programmable with the desired temperature and/or heating parameters of the item. By monitoring the temperature status of the item over time, the system determines when the food has reached the desired temperature or degree of cooking, and notifies the user.
US11869331B2
An example wear detection system receives first image data related to at least one ground engaging tool (GET) of a work machine from one or more sensors at a first time instance in a dig-dump cycle of the work machine. The wear detection system processes the first image data to determine a first wear measurement and first wear level for the at least one GET. The wear detection system determines whether the first wear level is indicative of a GET replacement condition. The wear detection system generates an alert when the first wear level is indicative of the GET replacement condition. The wear detection system receives second image data related to the at least one GET a second time instance different from the first time instance when the first wear level is not indicative of the GET replacement condition and determines a second wear measurement and second wear level for the at least one GET. The wear detection system generates an alert indicative of the first wear level and the second wear level based on determining that the first wear level and the second wear level are indicative of the GET replacement condition.
US11869324B2
A method for securing a security tag into an article of clothing includes positioning an end of the security tag into a first opening to an interface space between two layers of the article of clothing. The two layers are fixedly connected by one or more opposing connectors that are spaced apart in a manner to form the interface space sized to receive the security tag. The security tag is fully moved into the interface space. Also described herein is a security tag specially configured for placement into the interface space between two layers of the article of clothing.
US11869319B2
A fixed retail scanner and related methods comprises imagers configured to capture image data, and a processor operably coupled to the imagers. The processor configured to provide image data from at least some of the imagers in real-time during a transaction to a decoder within the data reader for decoding an optical code on an object within the image data, generate annotations for the image data based on an analysis of image content of the image data to generate annotated image data, and provide the annotated image data from at least some of the imagers to an external system in real-time during the transaction.
US11869318B2
The present disclosure provides a medium processing apparatus, including: a housing provided with a surface facing a customer operating the medium processing apparatus; and a rolled coin device housed in the housing and configured to process rolled coins formed by bundling a plurality of loose coins. The surface of the housing includes a designated area located in a height range conforming to Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standard with respect to a height direction of the medium processing apparatus, and a rolled coin dispensing port of the rolled coin device for dispensing the rolled coins is arranged in the designated area.
US11869313B2
A game server is configured to implement a multiplayer online computer-implemented game that provides an inflationary economy system which allows for growth in a player's in-game virtual currency with an increase in game level or experience, while attenuating the in-game purchasing power by concomitantly inflating virtual currency value of predefined inflationary features. The inflationary features include rewards or winnings available by the player pursuant to gameplay success. Players at different inflationary levels can compete in-game for a common reward or jackpot, but a virtual currency value of the reward is denominated differently at different inflation levels.
US11869306B2
A transaction is facilitated at a business's touchpoint by transmitting from a wireless device (e.g., a patron's cell phone) to a transaction server operated by a transaction-funding business: patron-identifying information for the patron and a touchpoint ID associated with the touchpoint read using the wireless device. The transaction server authorizes the transaction, transmits that authorization to the cell phone and/or the touchpoint business, and the touchpoint business provides goods/services to the patron. In some implementations, the transaction-funding business transfers outgoing funds for the transaction to the touchpoint business and receives incoming funds for the transaction from the patron. In a casino, a patron can use his/her cell phone to purchase gaming credit at a gaming table. The transaction-funding business funds the purchase for the patron without any funds ever residing on or passing through the patron's cell phone.
US11869296B2
Provided is an equipment controlling apparatus that includes a storage section that stores a time frame within which a setting of operation of a device disposed in a predetermined region is to be changed, and a control section that controls the device to change operation between a time frame set in advance in the storage section and a time frame different from the time frame.
US11869295B2
Establishment of secure Bluetooth connection to Internet of Things devices, such as electronic locks
Systems and methods are disclosed for managing secure connection between a mobile device and an Internet of things device, such as an electronic lock. In some instances, a mutual authentication process is performed, and public keys are exchanged. Once keys are exchanged, subsequent communication between the devices may be encrypted using a shared key generated using the exchanged keys.
US11869291B2
A smart locker system with assistance for a visually impaired user is disclosed. Each locker in the smart locker system includes a beacon that emits a signal either before the locker door is released or at the same time as the locker door is released. The beacon is used by a visually impaired user to locate the specified locker before it opens or at the same time as it opens. The beacon may be a haptic device that causes the specified locker to vibrate, which allows the user to find the locker by feel. The beacon may also be an auditory device that causes the specified locker to emit a sound, which allows the user to find the locker by sound.
US11869284B2
A fault diagnostic device 80 includes an input unit 81 and a generation unit 82. The input unit 81 receives input of observation data of a vehicle operating at a predetermined speed. The generation unit 82 extracts time series features of the observation data as features indicating a normal condition, and generates a feature master indicating the normal condition of the vehicle based on the extracted features.
US11869280B2
An information providing method is performed in an information providing system. The information providing method includes: acquiring pieces of speed information of a vehicle in association with identification information of an in-vehicle device from the in-vehicle device via roadside antennas, each of the pieces of speed information having been stored in the in-vehicle device each time the vehicle moves a prescribed distance before the vehicle passes by the roadside antennas; and causing an information display device to display evaluation information in association with the identification information, the evaluation information indicating a frequency of occurrence of sudden acceleration or deceleration events of the vehicle obtained from a proportion of differences between calculation values outside a threshold range, the calculation values being calculated on the basis of the pieces of speed information in a prescribed period corresponding to the pieces of speed information stored in the in-vehicle device.
US11869275B1
A first image showing a non-frontal view is received. CNN outputs generated based on the first image are concatenated to generate a concatenated CNN output. The concatenated CNN output is input to a first encoder to generate a first value for a first statistical property and a first value for a second statistical property. Configural information is generated based on the first image. The configural information is input to a second encoder to generate a second value for the first statistical property and a second value for the second statistical property. Vectors are generated based on the first and second values for the first statistical property, and the first and second values for the second statistical property. A latent vector is generated based on the vectors. The latent vector is input to a decoder to generate a second image showing a frontal view.
US11869272B2
A processor-implemented method includes: generating a preprocessed infrared (IR) image by performing first preprocessing based on an IR image including an object; generating a preprocessed depth image by performing second preprocessing based on a depth image including the object; and determining whether the object is a genuine object based on the preprocessed IR image and the preprocessed depth image.
US11869271B2
A method of processing a fingerprint image in an electronic apparatus includes: obtaining an original fingerprint image by sensing a fingerprint of a user; estimating a spatial change trend of original contrast values in the original fingerprint image; generating a reference contrast map based on the estimated spatial change trend; normalizing a contrast distribution of the original fingerprint image based on the reference contrast map, and generating a normalization fingerprint image having a normalized contrast distribution.
US11869269B2
A method of detecting a biometric feature with an electronic device and the method includes the following steps. Firstly, a detection region of the electronic device is provided, and the electronic device includes a plurality of first color pixels, a plurality of second color pixels, and a sensor module. Then, a first color light and a second color light are respectively generated by turning on at least a portion of the first color pixels and at least a portion of the plurality of second color pixels in the detection region. Next, a first area and a second area are simultaneously generated by the first color and the second color light, wherein the first area and the second area are overlapped with the detection region, and the sensor module is overlapped with the detection region. Finally, a biometric feature is determined.
US11869266B2
A display module and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The display module includes a display panel and a fingerprint identification module disposed in the display panel, wherein the display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate located above the first substrate, and a functional layer prepared and disposed above the second substrate, and the fingerprint identification module is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The present application realizes a technical effect of a simplified manufacturing process of the display module and an overall simple structure through integrating the fingerprint identification module into the display panel.
US11869265B2
Provided are an object tracking system and an object tracking method. The object tracking system includes: a terminal identifier and reference time providing module configured to receive an identifier of a terminal and a reference time for tracking an object corresponding to the identifier; a cross-CCTV detection module configured to detect a cross-CCTV for the terminal by using a CCTV installation information and a location of the terminal before the reference time; a basic image detection module configured to detect an object repeatedly appearing in the cross-CCTV as a basic image; a current-CCTV detection module configured to detect a current-CCTV currently recording the terminal by detecting a location and a moving direction of the terminal after the reference time; an object detection module configured to detect an object appearing in the current-CCTV based on the location and the moving direction of the terminal after the reference time; and an object tracking module configured to track an object corresponding to the identifier by determining whether the detected object from the current-CCTV and the basic image.
US11869257B2
A method for detecting and labeling a target object in a 2D image includes receiving a plurality of 2D images from a visual sensor, manually marking points of the target object on each of the 2D images, generating from the 2D images a 3D world coordinate system of the environment surrounding the target object, mapping each of the marked points on the 2D images to the 3D world coordinate system using a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) engine, automatically generating a 3D bounding box covering all the marked points mapped to the 3D world coordinate system, mapping the 3D bounding box to each of the 2D images, generating a label for the target object on each of the 2D images using a machine learning object detection model, and training the machine learning object detection model based on the generated label for the target object.
US11869255B2
An anti-counterfeiting face detection method, device and multi-lens camera are disclosed. The anti-counterfeiting face detection method comprises: acquiring a depth image, an infrared image and an RGB image by using a TOF camera and an RGB camera; analyzing the RGB image through a preset face detection algorithm to determine an RGB face region of a face in the RGB image and position information of the RGB face region; determining a depth face region of the face in the depth image and an infrared face region of the face in the infrared image based on the position information of the RGB face region; determining that the face passes the detection when the depth face region, the infrared face region and the RGB face region meet corresponding preset rules respectively.
US11869254B2
A method and apparatus to recognize transported passengers and goods are disclosed herein. One example includes an apparatus comprising a processor unit on a vehicular entity, a communication component coupled to the processor unit, and a memory portion associated to the processor unit and structured to store information and data received through the communication component about at least one of passengers, luggage and/or goods on the vehicular entity, with the communication component being activated by a presence of the at least one of the passengers, luggage and/or goods on the vehicular entity.
US11869253B2
System and techniques for vehicle environment modeling with a camera are described herein. A device for modeling an environment comprises: a hardware sensor interface to obtain a sequence of unrectified images representative of a road environment, the sequence of unrectified images including a first unrectified image, a previous unrectified image, and a previous-previous unrectified image; and processing circuitry to: provide the first unrectified image, the previous unrectified image, and the previous-previous unrectified image to an artificial neural network (ANN) to produce a three-dimensional structure of a scene; determine a selected homography; and apply the selected homography to the three-dimensional structure of the scene to create a model of the road environment.
US11869248B2
An object recognition device of the present disclosure divides a reflection intensity image and a background light image acquired from a light sensor into the same number of subregions. The object recognition device calculates a feature amount for partial image data of each of the subregions of the reflection intensity image and partial image data of each of the subregions of the background light image that have been divided. The object recognition device compares the feature amounts calculated for the partial image data of the reflection intensity image and the partial image data of the background light image in the same one of the subregions and selects the feature amount with which an object is more easily recognized as the selected partial image data. The object recognition device recognizes the object based on overall image data configured by the selected partial image data pieces that have been selected.
US11869244B2
The present invention provides a processing apparatus (10) including: a detection unit (11) that detects that a notification apparatus is operated; an acquisition unit (12) that acquires, when it is detected that the notification apparatus is operated, at least one of an image generated by a camera and a sound collected by a microphone; a decision unit (13) that decides whether at least one of the image and the sound satisfies a notification condition; and an output unit (14) that outputs, when it is decided that the notification condition is satisfied, notification information indicating that the notification apparatus is operated.
US11869234B2
A method is provided for controlling a movable imaging assembly having a movable platform and an imaging device coupled to and movable relative to the movable platform. The method includes receiving user inputs that define an MIA position relative to a target and a frame position of the target within image frames captured by the imaging device. The user inputs include a horizontal distance, a circumferential position, and a horizontal distance that define the MIA position, and include a horizontal frame position and a vertical frame position that define the frame position. The method further includes predicting a future position of the target for a future time, and moving the MIA to be in the MIA position at the future time and moving the imaging device for the target to be in the frame position for an image frame captured at the future time.
US11869232B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that processes an inference workload in a first subset of layers of a neural network that prevents or inhibits data dependent branch operations, conducts an exit determination as to whether an output of the first subset of layers satisfies one or more exit criteria, and selectively bypasses processing of the output in a second subset of layers of the neural network based on the exit determination. The technology may also speculatively initiate the processing of the output in the second subset of layers while the exit determination is pending. Additionally, when the inference workloads include a plurality of batches, the technology may mask one or more of the plurality of batches from processing in the second subset of layers.
US11869230B2
A computer-implemented method of forecasting the semantic output of at least one frame, the method comprising the steps of receiving the input frames from a camera up to a predetermined time, processing via a down-sampling module of a neural network the plurality of input frames to receive a plurality of feature tensors, determining spatio-temporal correlations between the plurality of feature tensors, processing the plurality of feature tensors and the spatio-temporal correlations to receive at least one forecasted feature tensor, and processing via an up-sampling module of the neural network the at least one forecasted feature to receive at least one forecasted semantic output for a time larger than the predetermined time.
US11869228B2
A method of generating an image recognition model for recognising an input image and a system thereof are provided. The method includes appending at least one feature extraction layer to the image recognition model, extracting a plurality of feature vectors from a set of predetermined images, grouping the plurality of feature vectors into a plurality of categories, clustering the plurality of feature vectors of each of the plurality of categories into at least one cluster, determining at least one centroid for each of the at least one cluster, such that each of the at least one cluster comprises at least one centroid, such that each of the at least one centroid is represented by a feature vector, generating a classification layer based on the feature vector of the at least one centroid of the plurality of categories, and appending the classification layer to the image recognition model. In addition, a method of classifying an input image and a system thereof are provided.
US11869227B2
Image recognition may include obtaining a first image, segmenting the first image into a plurality of first regions by using a target model, and searching for a target region among bounding boxes in the first image that use points in the first regions as centers. The target region is a bounding box in the first image in which a target object is located. The target model is a pre-trained neural network model configured to recognize from an image, a region in which the target object is located. The target model is obtained through training by using positive samples with a region in which the target object is located marked and negative samples with a region in which a noise is located marked. The target region is marked in the first image to improve accuracy of target object detection in an image.
US11869224B2
A method and a system for establishing a light source information prediction model are provided. A plurality of training images are captured for a target object. A white object is attached on the target object. True light source information of the training images is obtained according to a color of the white object in each of the training images. A neural network model is trained according to the training images and the true light source information, and a plurality of pieces of predicted light source information is generated according to the neural network model during the training. A learning rate for training the neural network model is adaptively adjusted based on the predicted light source information.
US11869221B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for reliably performing data compression and data decompression across a wide variety of hardware and software platforms by using integer neural networks. In one aspect, there is provided a method for entropy encoding data which defines a sequence comprising a plurality of components, the method comprising: for each component of the plurality of components: processing an input comprising: (i) a respective integer representation of each of one or more components of the data which precede the component in the sequence, (ii) an integer representation of one or more respective latent variables characterizing the data, or (iii) both, using an integer neural network to generate data defining a probability distribution over the predetermined set of possible code symbols for the component of the data.
US11869203B2
Provided is a dental image registration device comprising: an outermost boundary detection unit for detecting, from first teeth image data, a first outermost boundary region which is the outermost boundary region of dentition, and detecting, from second teeth image data, a second outermost boundary region which is the outermost boundary region of the dentition; and an image registration unit which registers the first and second teeth image data on the basis of a first inscribed circle inscribed within the first outermost boundary region and a second inscribed circle inscribed within the outermost boundary region, or registers the first and second teeth image data on the basis of a first central point of the first outermost boundary region and a second central point of the second outermost boundary region.
US11869202B2
The present disclosure provides a method and system for processing multi-modality images. The method may include obtaining multi-modality images; registering the multi-modality images; fusing the multi-modality images; generating a reconstructed image based on a fusion result of the multi-modality images; and determining a removal range with respect to a focus based on the reconstructed image. The multi-modality images may include at least three modalities. The multi-modality images may include a focus.
US11869201B2
Disclosed systems and methods can include capturing the sequence of images of a monitored region that includes a sub-region of interest, processing the sequence of images using heuristics and rules of an artificial intelligence model to identify the plurality of discrete parts that are associated with a type of a unified entity, and processing the sequence of images using the heuristics and the rules of the artificial intelligence model to virtually link together a group of the plurality of discrete parts that correspond to a specific embodiment of the unified entity that is present in the sub-region of interest, wherein the heuristics and the rules of the artificial intelligence model can be developed from a training process that includes the artificial intelligence model receiving sample images delineating exemplary discrete parts on exemplary embodiments of the unified entity.
US11869193B2
A method includes: inputting an image of a target to each of a first model for estimating a region of an annular face of the target, a second model for estimating a region in an outer circumference of the annular face and a third model for estimating a region in an inner circumference of the annular face, and outputting a region image, as an estimated region of the annular face, the region image being obtained by synthesizing first, second, and third elements. The first element is a region outputted as a result of the first model for calculating a sum set in the synthesizing, the second element is a region outputted as a result of the second model for calculating a sum set in the synthesizing, and the third element is a region outputted as a result of the third model for calculating a difference set in the synthesizing.
US11869190B2
A method, a program, and a method determining hypermutated type cancer with higher accuracy than before is provided. Provided is a system for determining hypermutated cancer comprising, an input unit configured to be capable of inputting a plurality of first image data, a plurality of second image data and a plurality of third image data, wherein the first image data represents an image of a pathological section of stained hypermutated cancer, the second image data represents an image of a pathological section of cancer which is not hypermutated, and is stained same as the pathological section of the first image data, and the third image data represents an image of a pathological section of cancer which is newly determined whether hypermutated or not, and is stained same as the pathological section of the first image data, a holding unit configured to be capable of holding a first image data and a second image data, a machine learning execution unit configured to be capable of generating a determination model determining whether a cancer is hypermutated or not, using the first image data and the second image data held by the holding unit as training data, and a determining unit configured to be capable of determining whether the third image data represents an image of hypermutated cancer or not, by inputting the third image data into the determination model.
US11869184B2
The present invention relates to a method of assisting in diagnosis of a target heart disease using a retinal image, the method including: obtaining a target retinal image which is obtained by imaging a retina of a testee; on the basis of the target retinal image, obtaining heart disease diagnosis assistance information of the testee according to the target retinal image, via a heart disease diagnosis assistance neural network model which obtains diagnosis assistance information that is used for diagnosis of the target heart disease according to the retinal image; and outputting the heart disease diagnosis assistance information of the testee.
US11869182B2
A method is proposed for identifying (“segmenting”) at least one portion of the skin of an animal which is a region of interest (e.g. a portion which is subject to an abnormality such as a tumor). The method uses at least a temperature dataset obtained by measuring the temperature of each of a plurality of points of a region of the skin. An initial segmentation may be performed using the temperature data based on a statistical model, in which each point is segmented based on its temperature and optionally that of its neighbors. The initial segmentation based on the temperature data may be improved using a three-dimensional model of the profile of the skin, and the enhanced segmentation may be used to improve the three-dimensional model.
US11869181B2
A determination method of non-destructively and easily determining a state of an aggregate of a plurality of cells formed by three-dimensional culture is provided. A determination method according to the disclosed technology includes generating a phase difference image of an aggregate of a plurality of cells from a hologram obtained by imaging the aggregate, deriving a first index value that indicates a randomness of an array of a phase difference amount in a plurality of pixels constituting the phase difference image, and determining a state of the cells constituting the aggregate on the basis of the first index value.
US11869174B2
An image processing apparatus according to the present invention, includes at least one memory and at least one processor function as: a first determining unit configured to determine a first brightness range, which is included in a dynamic range of a first image and is higher than a predetermined brightness; and a first converting unit configured to convert the first image into a second image, of which a dynamic range is narrower than the dynamic range of the first image, based on the determination result by the first determining unit, wherein based on the first brightness range determined by the first determining unit, the first converting unit determines a second brightness range, which is included in the dynamic range of the second image and corresponds to the first brightness range.
US11869172B2
Embodiments are disclosed for generating lens blur effects. The disclosed systems and methods comprise receiving a request to apply a lens blur effect to an image, the request identifying an input image and a first disparity map, generating a plurality of disparity maps and a plurality of distance maps based on the first disparity map, splatting influences of pixels of the input image using a plurality of reshaped kernel gradients, gathering aggregations of the splatted influences, and determining a lens blur for a first pixel of the input image in an output image based on the gathered aggregations of the splatted influences.
US11869162B2
A processor-implemented method includes: adjusting a virtual content object based on a shape of the virtual content object projected onto a projection plane; and visualizing the adjusted virtual content object on the projection plane.
US11869157B2
Example systems and methods for virtual visualization of a three-dimensional (3D) model of an object in a two-dimensional (2D) environment. The method may include projecting a ray from a user device to a ground plane and determining an angle at which the projected ray touches the ground plane. The method further helps determine a level for the ground plane for positioning the 3D model of the object in the 2D environment.
US11869148B2
The present disclosure provides a three-dimensional object modeling method, an image processing method, and an image processing device. The three-dimensional object modeling method includes: a plane contour extraction step, in which for at least one panoramic image shot for each three-dimensional object, a plane contour of the at least one panoramic image in a three-dimensional space is extracted; a scale normalization step, in which a scale of the plane contour of the at least one panoramic image is normalized based on a camera position, to obtain normalized plane contours of respective panoramic images in the three-dimensional space; and a multi-object splicing step, in which based on the camera position, rotation and translation operations are performed on three-dimensional point coordinates of the normalized plane contours, so as to unify the three-dimensional point coordinates in the same coordinate system, to splice plane contours of respective three-dimensional objects into a multi-object plane contour.
US11869146B2
A three-dimensional model generation method includes: obtaining map information generated by camera calibration executed by controlling one or more cameras to shoot a subject from a plurality of viewpoints, the map information including three-dimensional points each indicating a position on the subject in a three-dimensional space; obtaining a first image from a first view point and a second image from a second viewpoint; determining a search range in the three-dimensional space, based on the map information, the search range including a first three-dimensional point on the subject, the first three-dimensional point corresponding to a first point in the first image; searching for a similar point that is similar to the first point, in a range in the second image which corresponds to the search range; and generating a three-dimensional model using a search result in the searching.
US11869144B1
In some implementations, a device includes one or more sensors, one or more processors and a non-transitory memory. In some implementations, a method includes determining that a first portion of a physical environment is associated with a first saliency value and a second portion of the physical environment is associated with a second saliency value that is different from the first saliency value. In some implementations, the method includes obtaining, via the one or more sensors, environmental data corresponding to the physical environment. In some implementations, the method includes generating, based on the environmental data, a model of the physical environment by modeling the first portion with a first set of modeling features that is a function of the first saliency value and modeling the second portion with a second set of modeling features that is a function of the second saliency value.
US11869123B2
Techniques for rendering two-dimensional vector graphics are described. The techniques include using a central processing unit to generate tessellate triangles along a vector path in which each of the tessellate triangles is represented by a set of vertices. From the tessellate triangles, an index buffer and a compressed vertex buffer are generated. The index buffer includes a vertex index for each vertex of each of the tessellate triangles. The compressed vertex buffer includes a vertex buffer entry for each unique vertex that maps to one or more vertex indices of the index buffer. The index buffer and the compressed vertex buffer are provided to a graphics processing unit to render the vector path with anti-aliasing.
US11869118B2
An apparatus includes at least one memory configured to store an AI network and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to generate a dead leaves model. The at least one processor is also configured to capture a ground truth frame from the dead leaves. The at least one processor is further configured to apply a mathematical noise model to the ground truth frame to produce a noisy frame. In addition, the at least one processor is configured to train the AI network using the ground truth frame and the noisy frame.
US11869115B1
Aspects presented herein relate to methods and devices for graphics processing including an apparatus, e.g., a GPU or a CPU. The apparatus may obtain visibility information for a set of primitives in at least one frame associated with the graphics processing, where the at least one frame includes a plurality of bins, such that at least one bin of the plurality of bins includes at least one primitive of the set of primitives. The apparatus may also configure a density map based on the visibility information for the set of primitives, where the density map includes density data associated with an amount of the set of primitives in each of the plurality of bins. Further, the apparatus may map the density data for each of the plurality of bins to a shading rate for each of the plurality of bins.
US11869114B2
A method for graphics processing. The method including rendering graphics for an application using a plurality of graphics processing units (GPUs). The method including dividing responsibility for the rendering of geometry of the graphics between the plurality of GPUs based on a plurality of screen regions that are interleaved, each GPU having a corresponding division of the responsibility which is known to the plurality of GPUs. The method including assigning a GPU a piece of geometry of an image frame generated by an application for geometry pretesting. The method including performing geometry pretesting at the GPU to generate information regarding the piece of geometry and its relation to each of the plurality of screen regions. The method including using the information at each of the plurality of GPUs when rendering the image frame.
US11869113B2
Apparatuses including general-purpose graphics processing units and graphics multiprocessors that exploit queues or transitional buffers for improved low-latency high-bandwidth on-die data retrieval are disclosed. In one embodiment, a graphics multiprocessor includes at least one compute engine to provide a request, a queue or transitional buffer, and logic coupled to the queue or transitional buffer. The logic is configured to cause a request to be transferred to a queue or transitional buffer for temporary storage without processing the request and to determine whether the queue or transitional buffer has a predetermined amount of storage capacity.
US11869111B2
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to delivering merchandise using autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs) in cooperation with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In some embodiments, the system includes: an AGV having a motorized locomotion system, a storage area to hold merchandise, a sensor to detect obstacles, a transceiver, and a control circuit to operate the AGV; a UAV having a motorized flight system, a gripper mechanism to grab merchandise, a transceiver, an optical sensor to capture images; and a control circuit to operate the UAV. In some forms, the system may include a control circuit that instructs movement of the AGV along a delivery route; determines if the AGV has stopped due to an obstacle; and in certain circumstances, instructs the UAV to retrieve merchandise from the AGV, calculates a delivery route for the UAV to the delivery location, and instructs the UAV to deliver the merchandise.
US11869107B2
A multi-tier blockchain-based method for document transformation and accountability is provided. A set of transaction documents for a transfer of real property is received and the transfer is recorded via a multi-tier blockchain. The set of transaction documents is stored on a ledger associated with two or more supernodes in a tier of supernodes. A cryptographic hash of the set of transaction documents is provided to a different tier of nodes and stored on a ledger associated with each of the nodes in the different tier. A number of supernodes in the tier is larger than a number of the nodes in the different tier.
US11869106B1
Two sets of data, each containing property listings, are obtained from two discrete merchant platforms. Each property listing in a set of data of a first merchant is sequentially paired with each of the property listings in a set of data of a second merchant. For each pair, each image of the property listing of the first merchant is compared to each image of the property listing of the second merchant, and images of statistically sufficient similarity are identified. The similarity of images, and in particular, of similar images likely to be rooms of the property, are considered in a determination of whether the product listings of the first and second merchant are for the same cross-listed product.
US11869099B2
In general, the present disclosure includes a system, method and architecture for use in analyzing content of a social network data to identify a financial market trend, e.g., a trend associated with a financial market instrument.
US11869095B1
A tax data collection system includes a navigation module configured to obtain user data. The system also includes a data graph including information relating to the user data. The system further includes a knowledge engine configured to map the user data onto a data model using the information from the data graph. Moreover, the system includes an inference engine configured to suggest a system action by analyzing at least the data model after the user data has been mapped thereon.
US11869092B2
Methods and systems for monitoring use and determining risks associated with operation of a vehicle having one or more autonomous operation features are provided. According to certain aspects, operating data may be recorded during operation of the vehicle. This may include information regarding the vehicle, the vehicle environment, use of the autonomous operation features, and/or control decisions made by the features. The control decisions may include actions the feature would have taken to control the vehicle, but which were not taken because a vehicle operator was controlling the relevant aspect of vehicle operation at the time. The operating data may be recorded in a log, which may then be used to determine risk levels associated with vehicle operation based upon risk levels associated with the autonomous operation features. The risk levels may further be used to adjust an insurance policy associated with the vehicle.
US11869091B2
A system and method for monitoring a vehicle uses a wireless mobile device. The wireless mobile device, such as a cell phone, smart phone, PDA, etc., includes some of the hardware that could be utilized to monitor and analyze data and transmit the data (or summaries, statistics or analyses of the data) to a central server. This can greatly reduce the overall cost of the system. The data can be used to determine an insurance rate or as a speed probe for creating traffic maps, for example.
US11869081B2
Systems and methods for implementing a confirmation period are disclosed. An example method includes identifying a market condition associated with a quantity of a tradeable object of a trading strategy, wherein the market condition triggers an adjustment to the trading strategy; initiating a confirmation period in response to the market condition; when a reevaluation of the market condition during the confirmation period indicates that the market condition has ceased, preventing the adjustment to the trading strategy; and when the market condition persists throughout the confirmation period, proceeding with the adjustment to the trading strategy.
US11869080B2
Certain embodiments provide systems, methods, and apparatus for trading in a distributed server architecture. An example method includes receiving, by a computing device, a definition for a trading strategy, wherein the trading strategy includes a first tradeable object and a second tradeable object. The example method includes selecting, by the computing device, a first server to process one or more trade orders for the first tradeable object and a second server to process one or more trade orders for the second tradeable object. The example method includes sending, by the computing device, the definition for the trading strategy to the first server and the second server.
US11869070B2
In an aspect, a method performed at a server includes: receiving an electronic message indicating an expected transfer, the message indicating at least a quantity of resources associated with the expected transfer and a value date associated with the expected transfer; detecting a trigger condition associated with the expected transfer; in response to detecting the trigger condition associated with the expected transfer, determining whether a transfer associated with the expected transfer has been made; and in response to determining that the expected transfer has not been made, providing a notification to a client device associated with a recipient of the expected transfer.
US11869069B2
Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for externally held account discovery and aggregation. A method includes aggregating transactions of a first service provider from one or more servers to a trusted hardware device. A method includes identifying, on a trusted hardware device, one or more transactions of a first service provider between an account of a user with the first service provider and an account of the user with a second service provider. A method includes prompting a user for electronic credentials for an account of the user with a second service provider. A method includes accessing data of a user from a second service provider on behalf of the user using electronic credentials.
US11869059B2
Embodiments of systems and methods for the aggregation, analysis, display and monetization of pricing data for commodities in general, and which may be particularly useful applied to vehicles are disclosed. Specifically, in certain embodiments, historical transaction data associated with a particular vehicle configuration may be obtained and processed to determine pricing data associated with the vehicle configuration. The historical transaction data or determined pricing data may then be presented in an intuitive manner.
US11869055B2
An online concierge system generates a graph connecting items with attributes of the items and other items. Hence, the graph includes nodes corresponding to attributes and nodes corresponding to items, with an item connected to attributes of the item in the graph. Example attributes include a brand, a category, a department, or any other suitable information about the item. When the online concierge system receives a search query to identify one or more items from a customer, the online concierge system parses the search query into combinations of terms and compares different combinations of terms to the graph to determine connections between different combinations of terms in the graph. Based on measures of connectedness between combinations of terms and connections in the graph, items are identified from one or more combinations of terms. Information about the identified items is presented to the customer.
US11869053B2
Systems and methods are provided for receiving image data from a mobile device; identifying, based on the image data, an item and a product characteristic of the item; generating listing data of the item based on the product characteristic; determining that the item is associated with a product category; identifying a set of listings associated with the product category; applying a decay formula to the set of listings to generate a discounted number of sales and a discounted number of impressions at least one listing of the set of listings; determining a ratio of the discounted number of sales to the discounted number of impressions; determining a ranking of the set of listings based on the ratio; generating a price estimate of the item based on the ranking of the set of listings based on the ratio of the discounted number of sales to the discounted number of impressions; and causing display of a user interface including a request to list the item, the user interface including the listing data and the price estimate of the item.
US11869052B2
A non-transitory computer readable medium may include executable instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to provide for a non-destructive testing (NDT) ecosystem. The NDT ecosystem includes a repository of digital content, and a store configured to sell the digital content to a customer, wherein the digital content is executable by a NDT device and wherein the digital content is created by a plurality of entities.
US11869050B2
A monitoring platform may obtain information that identifies a product or service and may collect one or more reviews associated with the product or service from a plurality of sources, wherein each review includes respective review information. The monitoring platform may process the one or more reviews to determine respective additional review information associated with each review of the one or more reviews. The monitoring platform may select, using a machine learning model, a particular review, of the one or more reviews, based on the review information and the additional review information associated with the one or more reviews. The monitoring platform may cause display, on a display of a client device, of a prompt for a response to the particular review and may obtain the response from the client device. The monitoring platform may cause the response to be posted to a source associated with the particular review.
US11869049B2
A system and method for connecting hair and beauty consumers directly with individual service providers, and more particularly to an automated system and method for allowing consumers and individual service providers to directly interact via a plurality of online mobile platforms. The system comprises a mobile computing device configured to receive user input data from a user at the mobile computing device, receive third-party data from individual service providers at the mobile computing device, and create a list of available individual services providers that meet a set of selected requirements of a user at the mobile computing device, wherein the list of available services is based at least in part on the user input data and the third-party data.
US11869042B2
A bidding assistance device includes a ratio calculation unit configured to calculate a ratio of an actual advertising cost index to a goal advertising cost index, the actual advertising cost index being based on an advertising delivery performance at a bidding time in an advertising period, the goal advertising cost index being requested by an advertiser in the advertising period, an adjustment factor calculation unit configured to calculate an adjustment factor from the ratio and from a relationship between the advertising period and the bidding time, the adjustment factor being used to adjust a bid price of an advertisement, and a determination unit configured to determine the bid price at the bidding time using the adjustment factor calculated by the adjustment factor calculation unit, the goal advertising cost index, and a forecast effectiveness index forecast from advertising effectiveness, the advertising effectiveness being obtained from the advertising delivery performance.
US11869041B2
A system and method in accordance with exemplary embodiments may include advertiser auctions based on segmentation informed by purchase data, including a financial institution, one or more advertisers, and a bidding server to facilitate advertiser bidding. Additionally, a system and method in accordance with exemplary embodiments may pool customer and/or transaction information in one or more databases. The system and method in accordance with exemplary embodiments may also utilize a bidding server to permit advertisers to bid on access to information or the ability to present an advertisement and/or offer to a customer.
US11869034B2
A change in a weighting coefficient for an explanatory variable in an objective function used to optimize a target is received, and the target is optimized based on the objective function to which the changed weighting coefficient has been applied.
US11869033B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for selecting content items for transmission to client devices are provided. A first content item may be transmitted to a first set of client devices. A first request for content associated with a first client device of a second set of client devices may be received. A first bid value associated with a second content item may be selected. The first bid value may be modified based upon a second bid value associated with the first content item to generate a third bid value associated with the second content item. The second content item may be selected from a first plurality of content items for presentation via the first client device based upon a plurality of bid values having the third bid value. The second content item may be transmitted to the first client device.
US11869032B2
A computer system and method for offering coupons to a user is provided herein. The computer system includes a coupon offering server. The coupon offering server includes a shopping container image processor configured to detect a pre-purchase item in shopping container image data. The shopping container image processor includes an object detector module and a barcode detector module. The object detector module is configured to generate first detected item data, wherein the first detected item data includes an item detected in the shopping container image data using an object detection technique. The barcode detector module is configured to generate second detected item data, wherein the second detected item data includes an item detected in the shopping container image using a barcode detection technique. The computer system also includes a coupon matcher engine. The coupon matcher engine is configured to receive the first and second detected item data from the shopping container image processor and generate matched coupon data using the first and second detected item data.
US11869030B1
A system for using loyalty rewards accounts in a digital wallet may generate a mapping comprising an account mapped to a wallet token number and an indicator with the mapping stored in a database on a network of servers. The indicator may indicate an account type, and the wallet token number may be transmitted to a user device. The system may also receive a transaction request including a received wallet token number and a received indicator The indicator may be matched to the received indicator to determine the received wallet token number is associated with the account type (e.g., a loyalty rewards account). The system may route the transaction request to a loyalty settlement process in response to the account type being a loyalty rewards account.
US11869017B1
Described herein are systems and methods of facilitating remote notarization of electronic instruments and storing records memorializing these notarization events. A notarization system provider may capture video feeds from different angles, and combine the feeds into a single archive multimedia file, which may be stored as a secured record of a notarization. The notarization system may be utilized as an alternative to a conventional notarization settings involving a notary, in-person. The notarization system provider may supply a signing party with an electronic instrument, which could be any instrument requiring notarization to be effective. Parties signing the document may go to a system provider's location or representatives could bring the requisite devices to the signing parties. Cameras generate video feeds of the notary, the notary, and any witnesses, and then forward the feeds to other devices in the system, allowing each party to observe the signing party sign the instrument.
US11869012B2
The various embodiments described herein relate to systems, methods, and devices associated with distributed ledger systems (e.g., distributed ledger technology implemented on a decentralized network) that can be used to handle and manage the distribution and access of data in a manner that preserves the benefits of distributed ledger technology while enabling the private sharing of data. More specifically, the distributed ledger systems contemplated herein involve distributed ledger technology (DLT)-based data management platforms that can be implemented on nodes of a data management network.
US11869011B2
A system for stable and streamlined transaction approval includes a rule management server and an authorizer server that operates independently of the rule management server. The rule management server is configured to receive a transaction rule associated with an account specified by a client entered through a portal generated by a graphical user interface. The server is further configured to identify data relevant to the transaction rule and transmit the transaction rule and the data identified to an authorizer server. The authorizer server is configured to receive transaction data related to a pending transaction of the credit card and apply the transaction rule to the transaction data and the data identified by the rule management server to determine whether to approve the pending transaction. The authorizer server operates independent of the rule management server and can be optimized to approve transactions quickly and operate in a stable condition.
US11869007B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to geocoding geocode datasets in KYC blockchain data blocks for spatial analytical risk modeling. In some embodiments, a computing platform may receive a client request to initiate a transaction with an enterprise organization. Using financial documentation and identification documentation associated with the client request, the computing platform may generate geocode coordinates and may identify a series of geographic risk factors. The computing platform may translate the geocode coordinates and the geographic risk factors into analytical overlays. The computing platform may stack the analytical overlays to generate an interactive spatial risk analysis model. The enterprise organization may use the interactive spatial analytical risk model to analyze the client request, and to determine whether to approve or deny the client request.
US11868993B1
A computer-based network system and method for using a payment vehicle having an on and off function. The system comprises a payment vehicle comprising an on and off function to enable or to disable the payment vehicle in the computer-based network for processing an electronic payment transaction, a holder of the payment vehicle, and a computer payment network wherein the computer payment network comprises a transaction engine for enabling or for disabling the payment vehicle at a request of the holder of the payment vehicle.
US11868992B2
A method for transmitting data, implemented within a secured execution environment of an electronic device, called a trusted component, which is coupled to a cash register. The method includes transmitting, by using a payment terminal, a piece of data intended for cash register. The method includes, prior to transmitting the data: receiving, from the cash register, a first request for setting up a first secured communications channel with the trusted component; setting up the first secured communications channel by using at least one piece of data contained in the first request; receiving, from the payment terminal, a second request for setting up a second secured communications channel with the trusted component; and setting up the second secured communications channel with the payment terminal by using at least one piece of data of the second request.
US11868987B2
An exemplary system, method, and computer-accessible medium can include, for example, storing on a first device an applet configured to generate a digital tag; receiving a request at the first device for information; configuring the digital tag to be associated with at least one of (i) an application or (ii) an input on a second device, such that receipt of the digital tag by a second device causes the application to launch on the second device; and emitting from the first device a digital tag.
US11868986B2
A method for securely presenting transaction card data of a transaction card includes receiving, by a server, a pairing request to pair the transaction card with a user device. Based on the pairing request, the transaction card is paired with the user device by way of a pairing identifier. The server receives, from the user device, a data presentation request to present the transaction card data on the user device. In response to the data presentation request, the server validates the pairing between the user device and the transaction card based on the pairing identifier. The server communicates, to the user device, the transaction card data based on the validation of the pairing between the user device and the transaction card. The communicated transaction card data is presented on a user interface rendered on the user device.
US11868979B2
A platform and process for electronic payment processing using electronic communications from different communication channels or bands. The system and process can generate alerts using fraud detection and verify payment requests using historical data and pattern recognition. The system and process can categorize images and extract payment data.
US11868974B2
In electronic financial transactions a receiver, or targeted recipient of funds, provides account information to a transmitter, or sender of funds. The transmitter initiates a push of funds from a transmitter funding source to the receiver's funding source processor. In some embodiments the receiver provides a payment card, similar to a credit card, which is read by an electronic device of the transmitter, such as a smart phone. In some embodiments, the receiver provides the account information by way of a bar code, such as a QR code, which is scanned and read by the transmitter's electronic device.
US11868973B2
Methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media for detecting multi-party events and transactions are provided. User data may be monitored to detect data associated with an event involving multiple individuals, such as by identifying transaction data associated with certain types of merchants and/or scheduling, calendar, or correspondence data indicative of an event. The data may be further analyzed to identify a date, location, and/or parties associated with the event. A multi-party event may be generated. The user data may continue to be monitored to identify transactions associated with multiple parties and occurring during a time and/or at a location of the event. At a conclusion of the event, the transactions may be aggregated and an optimal payment scheme may be determined for settlement of the transactions between the parties. In accordance with the determined payment scheme, delegation of portions of the aggregated transactions may be initiated for settlement amongst the parties.
US11868963B1
One or more embodiments of techniques or systems for intelligent data presentation are provided herein. Data can be presented on similar devices having different characteristics in different manners. For example, data may be rendered in a first manner on a first device having one monitor, the same data may be rendered in a second manner on a second device having two displays or a different display size. Financial information, sales data, banking information, etc. may be presented in a variety of ways based on capabilities or properties of a device accessing the information or data. Similarly, renderings may be selected based on interaction capabilities or interaction options a user may have with different renderings or presentations. In other embodiments, user interaction with an automated teller machine (ATM), call center, vehicle, or other interface can be based on device properties or device capabilities.
US11868961B2
A warehouse from which shoppers fulfill orders for an online concierge system maintains an online concierge system-specific portion for which the online concierge system specifies placement of items in regions. To place items in the online concierge system-specific portion, the online concierge system accounts for co-occurrences of different items in orders and measures of similarity between different items. From the co-occurrences of items, the online concierge system generates an affinity graph. The online concierge system also generates a colocation graph based on distances between different regions in the online concierge system-specific portion. Using an optimization function with the affinity graph and the colocation graph, the online concierge system selects regions within the online concierge system-specific portion for different items to minimize an amount of time for shoppers to obtain items in the online concierge-system specific portion.
US11868958B2
Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform: receiving a respective number of totes for each respective order of one or more orders; determining, using a first set of rules, when the respective number of totes for a respective order of the one or more orders can be reduced; when the respective number of totes is determined to be able to be reduced, reducing, using a second set of rules, the respective number of totes for the respective order to a respective reduced number of totes for the respective order of the one or more orders; comparing the respective number of totes for the respective order to the respective reduced number of totes for the respective order; and when the respective number of totes for the respective order is compared to be equal to the respective reduced number of totes for the respective order, facilitating displaying, on an electronic device to a picker, the respective number of totes for the respective order. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
US11868955B2
In some examples, a computing device can include a processing resource and a memory resource storing instructions to cause the processing resource to determine, via an input, whether to sustainably process a print component associated with a printing device, determine, in response to a determination to sustainably process the print component a processing mechanism for the print component and a shipping location to ship the print component, and generate a shipping label for the print component associated with the shipping location.
US11868954B1
Techniques for facilitating returns of ordered items include receiving, by a control device, a first code associated with an order, determining that the code corresponds to a valid order, and granting access to a controlled access area where a user may examine the ordered items. If a second code associated with a particular item is received by the control device, a determination is made that the code corresponds to an item associated with the order, and access to a container within the controlled access area is granted. Once an item is placed in the container, sensors in the container determine characteristics of the item. If the determined characteristics correspond to item data that indicates the expected characteristics of the item, data indicative of a return of the item is generated.
US11868953B2
A device may receive a request for a product from a first user device and may generate first verification information based on the request. The device may provide the first verification information to a second user device and may provide first information associated with the product to the second user device, where the first information includes location information corresponding to a pick-up location and a drop-off location. The device may provide second information associated with the product to a product delivery device to permit the product delivery device to authenticate the second user device. The device may receive a verification request from the first user device based on an interaction and may generate second verification information. The device may provide the second verification information to the first user device to permit the second user device to verify the first user device for delivery of the product.
US11868942B2
Disclosed herein is a method of ranking agents making sales of real estate. Accordingly, the method may include receiving, using a communication device, a sale pitch delivered by an agent for making a sale of a real estate to a client on a platform in a sale session from a first device, receiving, using the communication device, a response provided by the client corresponding to the sale pitch delivered on the platform in the sale session from a second device, analyzing, using a processing device, at least one of the sale pitch and the response in the sale session using a machine learning model, generating, using the processing device, an agent score for the agent based on the analyzing, and storing, using a storage device, the agent score and at least one of the sale pitch and the response of the sale session.
US11868934B1
Devices and methods are provided for using virtual fulfillment center locations to facilitate delivery of items. A device may receive a virtual location associated with transportation of an item to a first location. The device may determine a geographic zone associated with the virtual location. The device may determine a first delivery time associated with delivering the item from the first location, and determine a second delivery time associated with delivering the item from the virtual location. The device may receive a purchase request for the item, from a second device, wherein the purchase request is associated with delivery to a second location. The device may determine an estimated delivery date to the delivery location based on the first delivery time or the second delivery time. The device may send, to the second device, an indication of the estimated delivery date.
US11868929B2
The present application discloses an improved transportation matching system, and corresponding methods and computer-readable media. According to the disclosed embodiments, the transportation matching system identifies low engagement transportation providers by analyzing information associated with the transportation providers to generate engagement levels. Furthermore, the system identifies an optimal match between a low engagement transportation provider (regardless of whether the transportation provider is online or offline) and a scheduled transportation request by utilizing attributes associated with a scheduled transportation request and attributes associated with transportation providers to generate rankings for the transportation providers. Additionally, the system provides the scheduled transportation request exclusively to a selected transportation provider based on the generated rankings.
US11868919B1
The technology disclosed herein enables configuration and sharing of a coverage map which displays asset data. In various implementations, an asset owner provides access to select portions of asset data, such as vehicle performance data, to an end-user. The asset owner configures a coverage map to display the selected data according to the type of asset data to be displayed, the scope of the data to be displayed, and other map attributes. Once configured, a URL is generated which the fleet operator provides to the end-user.
US11868912B2
Disclosed is a multi-device based inference method and apparatus, where the multi-device based inference method includes receiving information related to operation devices performing an operation included in a neural network and a graph corresponding to the neural network, obtaining a size of an output of the operation in a forward direction of the graph based on the information and the graph, dividing an input of the operation in a backward direction of the graph based on the information, the graph, and the size of the output, and performing an inference based on the divided input.
US11868903B2
This invention relates generally to classification systems. More particularly this invention relates to a system, method, and computer program to dynamically generate a domain of information synthesized by a classification system or semantic network. The invention discloses a method, system, and computer program providing a means by which an information store comprised of knowledge representations, such as a web site comprised of a plurality of web pages or a database comprised of a plurality of data instances, may be optimally organized and accessed based on relational links between ideas defined by one or more thoughts identified by an agent and one or more ideas embodied by the data instances. Such means is hereinafter referred to as a “thought network”.
US11868901B1
Some embodiments provide a compiler for optimizing the implementation of a machine-trained network (e.g., a neural network) on an integrated circuit (IC). The compiler of some embodiments receives a specification of a machine-trained network including multiple layers of computation nodes and generates a graph representing options for implementing the machine-trained network in the IC. In some embodiments, the graph includes nodes representing options for implementing each layer of the machine-trained network and edges between nodes for different layers representing different implementations that are compatible. The graph is used, in some embodiments, to select an optimum set of cores for implementing the received machine-trained network. The compiler, in some embodiments, optimizes memory storage such that input and output layers of a single layer are not stored in a same memory unit. Such an optimization, in some embodiments, avoids attempting to read and write from a same memory unit within a core in a single clock cycle.
US11868894B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training an action selection neural network used to select actions to be performed by an agent interacting with an environment. In one aspect, a system comprises a plurality of actor computing units and a plurality of learner computing units. The actor computing units generate experience tuple trajectories that are used by the learner computing units to update learner action selection neural network parameters using a reinforcement learning technique. The reinforcement learning technique may be an off-policy actor critic reinforcement learning technique.
US11868886B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for generating time-preserving embeddings are provided. User trails of user activities performed by users are generated. Frequencies at which the activities were performed are identified. Indices are assigned to a set of activities identified from the activities as having frequencies above a threshold. Activity descriptions of the set of activities are mapped to the indices to generate a vocabulary. A model is trained using the user trails, timestamps of the activities, and the vocabulary to learn a set of time-preserving embeddings.
US11868881B2
An artificial intelligence laundry drying machine is provided. The artificial intelligence laundry drying machine includes a communication unit configured to receive washing information of a washing machine from the washing machine, a drying unit configured to dry a drying object, and a processor configured to acquire information about a dryness degree of the drying object by using the washing information and perform drying by using the information about the dryness degree.
US11868875B1
Provided are systems and methods for operating a neural network processor, wherein the processor includes an input selector circuit that can be configured to select the data that will be input into the processor's computational array. In various implementations, the selector circuit can determine, for a row of the array, whether the row input will be the output from a buffer memory or data that the input selector circuit has selected for a different row. The row can receive an input feature map from a set of input data or an input feature map that was selected for inputting into a different row, such that the input feature map is input into more than one row at a time. The selector circuit can also include a delay circuit, so that the duplicated input feature map can be input into the computational array later than the original input feature map.
US11868871B1
Some embodiments provide a neural network inference circuit for executing a neural network that includes multiple nodes that use state data from previous executions of the neural network. The neural network inference circuit includes (i) a set of computation circuits configured to execute the nodes of the neural network and (ii) a set of memories configured to implement a set of one or more registers to store, while executing the neural network for a particular input, state data generated during at least two executions of the network for previous inputs. The state data is for use by the set of computation circuits when executing a set of the nodes of the neural network for the particular input.
US11868861B2
A method includes receiving, by a server computer, data of a communication device; training, by the server computer, a neural network model based on the data of the communication device and communication device metadata from one or more additional communication devices, to generate a machine learning model configured to determine, based on a metadata associated with an application, a security value related to an indication of a security threat; and transmitting the machine learning model to the communication device. The communication device can use the machine learning model to determine the security value, by inputting the metadata associated with the application, as a vectorized data into the machine learning model. The communication device can determine whether to run or install the application based upon the security value.
US11868860B1
Systems and methods may use one or more artificial intelligence models that predict an effect of a predicted event on a current state of the system. The systems and methods may use one or more artificial intelligence models that predict an effect and/or occurrence of a predicted event based on the current state of the system. In order to generate responses that are both timely and pertinent (e.g., in a dynamic fashion), the system must determine, both quickly (i.e., in real-time or near real-time) and accurately, the predicted event.
US11868853B2
An input unit receives an input of data, as learning purpose data and determination target data, in which requests made to a server by a user are represented in a time series. Then, a shaping unit shapes the received data. A classifying unit classifies the shaped data for each user who made the requests. Then, a learning unit extracts, from the classified learning purpose data, consecutive n requests as feature values of the learning purpose data, performs learning by using the feature values of the learning purpose data, and creates a profile for each user. A determination unit extracts, from the classified determination target data, consecutive n requests as feature values of the determination target data and performs determination of the determination target data based on the feature values of the determination target data and based on the profiles created by the learning unit.
US11868849B2
A quantum controller comprises a quantum control pulse generation circuit and digital signal management circuit. The quantum control pulse generation circuit is operable to generate a quantum control pulse which can be processed by any of a plurality of controlled circuits, and generate a first digital signal which can be routed to any of the plurality of controlled circuits. The digital signal management circuit is operable to detect, during runtime, to which one or more of the plurality of controlled circuits the first digital signal is to be routed, to manipulate the first digital signal based on the one or more of the plurality of controlled circuits to which the first digital signal is to be routed, where the manipulation results in one or more manipulated digital signals, and to route the one or more manipulated digital signals to one or more of the plurality of controlled circuits.
US11868834B2
A digital signage system displays a plurality of sets of electronic content on a touch panel display so as to be selectable. The system sets a session for accepting the selection of content, accepts the selection of content by the user, and temporarily holds the information about the content selected by the user during the session. After the selection of content, the system creates access information for collectively accessing the held content, issues a two-dimensional code that is based on the access information and can be read using the user's mobile terminal, and displays the two-dimensional code on the touch panel display.
US11868830B2
An information processing device includes a controller. The controller acquires an appearance image configured of a plurality of colors, identifies the plurality of colors configuring the acquired appearance image, and specifying a plurality of printing medium types based on the plurality of identified colors. The plurality of printing medium types includes a first printing medium type and a second printing medium type. The controller generates a first print dataset and a second print dataset by using the appearance image. The first print dataset corresponds to the specified first printing medium type. The second print dataset corresponds to the specified second printing medium type.
US11868829B2
Techniques are provided for remote orchestration of workflows performed by processing circuitry of a cloud infrastructure. A method includes: (a) executing a workflow administration module (WAM) on the processing circuitry of the cloud infrastructure; (b) accessing, by the WAM, a workflow database stored within the cloud infrastructure to determine that a workflow is scheduled for execution; (c) issuing a command from the WAM to remote customer infrastructure (RCI) external to the cloud infrastructure, the command instructing the RCI to execute the workflow on the RCI, the command including information about the location of the workflow; (d) receiving metadata by the WAM from the RCI regarding execution of the workflow on the RCI; and (e) storing the received metadata in the workflow database in connection with the workflow. A corresponding method is provided for use at the RCI. Corresponding computer program products, apparatuses, and systems are also provided.
US11868823B2
An interconnected computer system includes a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) fabric, a first computer system communicatively coupled to the PCIe fabric, a second computer system communicatively coupled to the PCIe fabric, and a shared single-access hardware resource coupled to the PCIe fabric. The first computer system includes a first processor and first memory coupled to the first processor configured to store a first flag indicating a desire of the first computer system to access the shared single-access hardware resource and a turn variable indicating which of the first computer system and the second computer system has access to the shared single-access hardware resource. The second computer system includes a second processor and second memory coupled to the second processor configured to store a second flag indicating a desire of the second computer system to access the shared single-access hardware resource.
US11868822B2
A method for managing access to a shared resource in an electronic system including a control unit and the shared resource. The control unit is intended to execute applications that are candidates for access to the shared resource. The method uses a calendar of periods of equal duration, each assigned to just one of the applications, to define a temporal distribution of access to the shared resource, and penalty indices associated with each of the applications. The method includes steps for conditionally processing the access requests transmitted by the applications according to their penalty indices. Thus, each application is prevented from accessing the shared resource when the quota assigned thereto is reached, which makes it possible to limit the encroachment of an application that is executed on the access quotas for accessing the resource that are assigned to the other applications.
US11868819B2
A system and method is provided for constructing filter graph-based media processing pipelines to render media content. The system includes a web browser running on a client device and for rendering media content, and a main application thread executed by a processor of the client device, The main application thread determines a processing function of media data received by the web browser; constructs a filter graph directly in the web browser that includes filters instantiated as web workers and for executing respective functions for the processing function of the media data; assesses a compatibility between the filters; and connects the filters via message channels upon compatibility. Moreover, one filter transmits media to a second filter after performing the respective function in which the second filter the enters the transmitted media in a queue and renders media content in the browser based on the queued media.
US11868817B2
A load balancing method, apparatus and device for a parallel model training task, and a computer-readable storage medium, includes: acquiring data traffic and a theoretical computational amount of each network layer in a target model; determining a theoretical computing capability of each computing device, and obtaining an initial computational amount corresponding to each computing device according to the theoretical computing capability and the theoretical computational amount; performing a load balancing operation according to the initial computational amount by using multiple device critical layer position division rule, so as to obtain a plurality of initial balancing schemes; compiling statistics on time performance parameters corresponding to the initial balancing schemes, and determining an intermediate balancing scheme from the initial balancing schemes according to the time performance parameters; and adjusting the intermediate balancing scheme according to the data traffic, so as to obtain a final balancing scheme.
US11868816B2
Methods and systems are provided for a transportation vehicle. One method includes detecting, by a first system on chip (“SOC”) of a seat box on a transportation vehicle that a first seat device is operational and usage of a second SOC of the seat box by a second seat device is below a first threshold level, the first SOC operationally coupled to the second SOC by a peripheral link, the seat box providing a network connection to the first seat device and the second device; allocating resources of the first SOC and the second SOC to the first seat device; and modifying usage of the second SOC by the first seat device, in response to a change in resource usage of the second SOC.
US11868815B2
Embodiments of systems and methods for managing compute resources and runtime object load status in a platform framework are described. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the IHS to: receive, at a platform framework via an Application Programming Interface (API), an arbitration policy; notify an application, by the platform framework via the API, of a state change with respect to the arbitration policy based upon a change in context; receive, at the platform framework from the application via the API, an identification of at least one compute resource to execute a workload associated with the arbitration policy; and offload the workload to the compute resource.
US11868814B2
An information processing apparatus that is one embodiment of the present invention: detects execution of software in any of a host environment, and one or more virtual environments; and acquires discrimination information indicating that a detected environment is a first environment, and first name information indicating a name of the software in a name space of the first environment. The information processing apparatus acquires, based on the discrimination information, second name information indicating a name of the first environment in a name space of a second environment. The information processing apparatus converts, based on the second name information, the first name information into third name information indicating a name of the software in the name space of the second environment. The information processing apparatus acquires, based on the third name information, information on the software from an accessible resource.
US11868802B2
Application lifecycle management based on real-time resource usage. A first plurality of resource values that quantify real-time computing resources used by a first instance of an application is determined at a first point in time. Based on the first plurality of resource values, one or more utilization values are stored in a profile that corresponds to the application. Subsequent to storing the one or more utilization values in the profile, it is determined that a second instance of the application is to be initiated. The profile is accessed, and the second instance of the application is caused to be initiated on a first computing device utilizing the one or more utilization values identified in the profile.
US11868796B2
Page request interface overhead reduction for virtual machine migration and write protection in memory may be provided by generating a page table associated with the memory; in response to receiving a write-protection command to prevent write-access to data from a portion of the memory, write-protecting a first range of memory addresses comprising the data write protected from the portion of the memory, wherein a second range of memory addresses comprises data not write protected in the memory; and modifying the page table to include a page table entry associated with the first range of memory addresses being write-protected, wherein write access to a memory address in the first range of memory addresses by a device during write-protection is tracked.
US11868795B1
Selective virtualization of resources is provided, where the resources may be intercepted and services or the resources may be intercepted and redirected. Virtualization logic monitors for one or more activities that are performed in connection with one or more resources and conducted during processing of an object within the virtual machine. The first virtualization logic further selectively virtualizes resources associated with the one or more activities that are initiated during the processing of the object within the virtual machine by at least redirecting a first request of a plurality of requests to a different resource than requesting by a monitored activity of the one or more activities.
US11868793B2
Systems and methods are taught for providing customers of a cloud computing service to control when updates affect the services provided to the customers. Because multiple customers share the cloud's infrastructure, each customer may have conflicting preferences for when an update and associated downtime occurs. Preventing and resolving conflicts between the preferences of multiple customers while providing them with input for scheduling a planned update may reduce the inconvenience posed by updates. Additionally, the schedule for the update may be transmitted to customers so that they can prepare for the downtime of services associated with the update.
US11868789B2
A data management server computer (“server”) is disclosed. The server receives action data associated with one or more users identifying a plurality of actions performed through one or more computer devices in a multi-modal networked environment, identifies useful sequences of actions as compound actions, and generates deep links representing the compound actions as UI elements which when invoked cause execution of the represented compound actions.
US11868783B2
Disclosed are a method of underlying drive forwarding and a multi-core system implemented based on a UEFI, which can increase a running speed of the multi-core system implemented based on a UEFI. The underlying drive forwarding method is configured for underlying drive forwarding of a multi-core system. The multi-core system is implemented based on a UEFI and includes an application processor and a bootstrap processor. The bootstrap processor is provided with an execution interface configured to call underlying hardware. The application processor is configured with an instruction interface corresponding to the execution interface. The underlying drive forwarding method includes the following steps: receiving, by the instruction interface, an operation instruction, generating a request according to the operation instruction, and sending the request to the bootstrap processor; and driving, by the bootstrap processor according to the request, the execution interface corresponding to the instruction interface to execute a corresponding operation.
US11868778B2
Compacted addressing for transaction layer packets, including: determining, for a first epoch, one or more low entropy address bits in a plurality of first transaction layer packets; removing, from one or more memory addresses of one or more second transaction layer packets, the one or more low entropy address bits; and sending the one or more second transaction layer packets.
US11868774B2
A processor with fault generating circuitry responsive to detecting a processor write is to a stack location that is write protected, such as for storing a return address at the stack location.
US11868773B2
A system, processor, programming product and/or method including: an instruction dispatch unit configured to dispatch instructions of a compare immediate-conditional branch instruction sequence; and a compare register having at least one entry to hold information in a plurality of fields. Operations include: writing information from a first instruction of the compare immediate-conditional branch instruction sequence into one or more of the plurality of fields in an entry in the compare register; writing an immediate field and the ITAG of a compare immediate instruction into the entry in the compare register; writing, in response to dispatching a conditional branch instruction, an inferred compare result value into the entry in the compare register; comparing a computed compare result value to the inferred compare result value stored in the entry in the compare register; and not execute the compare immediate instruction or the conditional branch instruction.
US11868760B2
A vehicle controller includes: an execution unit configured to execute a control program for controlling a vehicle; a storage unit having a first program storage area to store the control program and a second program storage area to store an update program that is an updated version of the control program and created based on update data acquired from a device located outside the vehicle through a network; and an update unit that stores the update program in the second program storage area based on the update data, regardless of whether the execution unit is executing the control program.
US11868758B2
A method to improve the updating of firmware in a firmware updating system, uses serially-sent data packets containing the update and data. The firmware updating system includes storage, including an expander/switch, a baseboard manager controller (BMC), and a storage interface. A universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART) for serial communication in the expander/switch is initialized and firmware updating instruction is sent to the expander/switch by the BMC. The firmware data packets are sent to the expander/switch by the BMC. A serial instruction to reset is sent to the expander/switch by the BMC and the BMC ends a communication with the UART serial. A firmware updating system applying the method is also provided.
US11868736B1
Introduced here is a computer program that is representative of a software-implemented collaboration platform that is designed to facilitate conversations in virtual environments, document those conversations, and analyze those conversations, all in real time. The collaboration platform can include or integrate tools for turning ideas—expressed through voice—into templatized, metadata-rich data structures called “knowledge objects.” Discourse throughout a conversation can be converted into a transcription (or simply “transcript”), parsed to identify topical shifts, and then segmented based on the topical shifts. Separately documenting each topic in the form of its own “knowledge object” allows the collaboration platform to not only better catalogue what was discussed in a single ideation session, but also monitor discussion of the same topic over multiple ideation sessions.
US11868731B2
According to an aspect of an embodiment, operations include receiving a set of NL descriptors and a corresponding set of PL codes. The operations further include determining a first vector associated with each NL descriptor and a second vector associated with each PL code, using language models. The operations further include determining a number of a set of semantic code classes to cluster the set of PL codes into the set of semantic code classes, based on the number, the first vector, and the second vector. The operations further include training a multi-class classifier model to predict a semantic code class, from the set of semantic code classes, corresponding to an input NL descriptor. The operations further include selecting an intra-class predictor model based on the predicted semantic code class. The operations further include training the intra-class predictor model to predict a PL code corresponding to the input NL descriptor.
US11868726B2
In general, according to one embodiment, a named-entity extraction apparatus according to an embodiment includes: an unit extracting, using an extraction dictionary, named entities and relations from extraction document data; a unit designating character strings corresponding to the named entities extracted among character strings in learning document data; a generator generating, by applying a relation extraction rule, a learning document in which relations between named entities belonging to the categories of the relation extraction rule among the named entities designated; and a unit learning the extraction dictionary based on the learning document.
US11868704B2
Systems, methods, and devices for encoding and decoding a packet buffer for data exchange over a communications network, including parsing a data container definition file to determine a packet format; generating a code file based on the data container definition file; inserting the code file into a source tree of an application; compiling the source tree to generate an executable file; and executing the executable on a computing device in communication with the communications network, wherein the executable file encodes and decodes the packet buffer for data exchange over the communications network.
US11868700B2
Embodiments described herein relate to a system, software, and a method of using the system to edit a design to be printed by a lithography system. The system and methods utilize a server of a maskless lithography device. The server includes a memory. The memory includes a virtual mask file. The virtual mask file includes cells and the cells include sub-cells that form one or more polygons. The server further includes a controller coupled to the memory. The controller is configured to receive a replacement table. The replacement table includes instructions to replace the cells of the virtual mask file. The controller is further configured to replace the cells with replacement cells according to the replacement table to create an edited virtual mask file.
US11868693B2
This application discloses a computing system implementing a design verification tool to perform functional verification on a circuit design describing an electronic device and collect samples of performance data during the functional verification. The computing system can also include a performance visualization tool to generate a profile presentation based on the samples of performance data. The profile presentation, when displayed, can annunciate portions of the circuit design corresponding to at least one performance hotspot. The performance visualization tool can receive a data reduction request based on the performance hotspot annunciated by the profile presentation. The data reduction request can identify a subset of the performance data in the profile presentation. The performance visualization tool can generate a refined profile presentation based, at least in part, on the samples of performance data and the subset of the performance data identified in the data reduction request.
US11868689B2
Systems and methods for setting up a physics-based model are provided. One system includes one or more components that are executed by one or more computer subsystems and that include a physics-based model describing a semiconductor fabrication-related process and a set up component configured for setting up the physics-based model in multiple phases in each of which only a subset of all of the parameters of the physics-based model are set up. A configuration of the set up component is changed between at least two of the multiple phases based on the subset of all of the parameters of the physics-based model set up in the at least two of the multiple phases. The set up component may perform a Bayesian optimization technique for cascaded model set up or calibration using multiple information sources and objective functions.
US11868687B2
The technology disclosed relates to simplifying updating of a predictive model using clustering observed points. In particular, it relates to observing a set of points in 3D sensory space, determining surface normal directions from the points, clustering the points by their surface normal directions and adjacency, accessing a predictive model of a hand, refining positions of segments of the predictive model, matching the clusters of the points to the segments, and using the matched clusters to refine the positions of the matched segments. It also relates to distinguishing between alternative motions between two observed locations of a control object in a 3D sensory space by accessing first and second positions of a segment of a predictive model of a control object such that motion between the first position and the second position was at least partially occluded from observation in a 3D sensory space.
US11868684B2
A digital device is provided with circuitry configured to select object elements stored in a storage of the digital device, and assemble the selected object elements, a plurality of sensors configured to measure at least one parameter of structural parameter, operational parameter, and environmental status parameter, the at least one parameter being associated with a physical object represented by the assembled object elements, wherein the assembled object elements include data structure representing states of subsystems of the physical object, and the data structure holds a value of the at least one parameter.
US11868675B2
Systems and methods are described for capturing, using a forward-facing camera associated with a head-mounted augmented reality (AR) head-mounted display (HMD), images of portions of first and second display devices in an environment, the first and second display devices displaying first and second portions of content related to an AR presentation, and displaying a third portion of content related to the AR presentation on the AR HMD, the third portion determined based upon the images of portions of the first and second display devices captured using the forward-facing camera. Moreover, the first and second display devices may be active stereo display, and the AR HMD may simultaneously function as shutter glasses.
US11868674B2
A method performed by user equipment for video synchronous display includes playing a first video, receiving an indication of starting synchronous display with a target device, in response to the synchronous display indication, obtaining status information of the first video, where the video status information is used by the target device and the user equipment to synchronously play an image of the first video, and sending the video status information to the target device. The video status information may include video identification information and video playing progress information, or the video status information may include user posture data.
US11868673B2
A wireless device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may receive a mirroring request for a screen sharing service from an external device, may determine whether a transmission condition of a content image is satisfied according to the received mirroring request, and, when the transmission condition is satisfied, to transmit content image data corresponding to the content image and OSD image data corresponding to an OSD image to the external device through a wireless communication interface.
US11868669B2
An image processing apparatus includes: a setting history storage that stores a setting history being a history of a setting value when a job is executed; a list displayer that displays a list of the setting history; a setting screen displayer that displays, in a case where the setting history is selected, a setting screen on which the setting value included in the selected setting history is input; and a job executer that executes a job, based on the setting value input on the setting screen. The list displayer displays a list including the setting history for which authentication information is required, in a case where a job based on the setting value is executed.
US11868668B2
A device endpoint is accessed through an off-premise communications network relative to the device endpoint. The device endpoint is registered to a virtual device object in data storage of a device service, the device service and the device endpoint communicating across the off-premise communications network, the virtual device object storing a secure device endpoint identifier of the device endpoint. A virtual device identifier associated with the secure device endpoint identifier of the device endpoint is stored in the virtual device object. A request to access the device endpoint using the virtual device identifier is received. The secure device endpoint identifier associated with the virtual device identifier in the virtual device object is read. The device endpoint is notified of a pending job associated with the secure device endpoint identifier. The pending job is communicated to the device endpoint identified by the secure device endpoint identifier.
US11868655B2
Systems and methods are disclosed including a processing device operatively coupled to memory device. The processing device perform operations comprising receiving a memory access command; determining a physical address associated with the memory access command; determining a plane of a die on the memory device that is referenced by the physical address; inserting the memory access command into a queue associated with the plane; and processing the memory access command from the queue.
US11868648B2
A memory system outputs read enable signals RE and /RE during a period of a standby time tWHR2 necessary for a process of output to a controller, and causes an output, circuit to output dummy data preset in signals DQS and /DQS.
US11868646B2
A data storage device includes a memory device and a controller coupled to the memory device. The controller is configured to determine a read threshold on a wordline, adjust a read threshold voltage level associated with the read threshold, determine an adjusted read threshold at the adjusted read threshold voltage level, where the adjusted read threshold is different from the read threshold, compare the adjusted read threshold to the read threshold, and calibrate the read threshold based on the comparing. The controller is further configured to analyze a bit error rate (BER) difference based on the calibrating and/or a previous read threshold voltage level movement, choose a next target read threshold for next calibration, and read a second page at the next target read threshold.
US11868645B2
A method of operating a controller for controlling a memory device that comprises a plurality of memory cell blocks including outputting block address information based on reliability information for each of the memory cell blocks, providing a patrol read command to the memory device, and controlling the memory device to perform the patrol read operation in response to the patrol read command wherein the block address information comprises an order of the patrol read operation for the memory cell blocks based on the reliability information may be provided.
US11868636B2
Prioritizing garbage collection based on the extent to which data is deduplicated, including: determining, for one or more data elements, a number of deduplicated references to each data element; storing, for each of the data elements, the data element in an area of the storage device that contains other data elements with a similar number of deduplicated references; and adjusting a garbage collection schedule for the storage device, wherein garbage collection operations are performed more frequently on areas of the storage device that contain data elements with a relatively low number of deduplicated references.
US11868635B2
A storage system with privacy-centric multi-partitions and method for use therewith are provided. In one embodiment, a storage system comprises a memory configured to be partitioned into a plurality of partitions, wherein each partition is associated with its own boot block, and wherein each boot block is configured to boot any of the plurality of partitions. The storage system also comprises a controller configured to communicate with the memory and to: in response to a failure to boot one of the plurality of partitions with that partition's boot block, use a boot block of another one of the plurality of partitions to boot the one of the plurality of partitions; and restrict access to each of the plurality of partitions only to authenticated entities. Other embodiments are provided.
US11868633B2
A processing device in a memory system identifies a first set of bits associated with a translation unit of a memory device, wherein the first set of bits correspond to a page field. The processing device identifies a second set of bits associated with the translation unit of the memory device, wherein the second set of bits corresponds to a block field. The processing device determines that a value representing a page number stored in the page field satisfies a threshold criterion. Responsive to determining that the value representing the page number satisfies the threshold criterion, the processing device determines a difference between the value representing the page number and a threshold value associated with the threshold criterion plurality of block stripes on a memory device. The processing device stores a value representing the difference as a plurality of bits of the second set of bits. The processing device stores a value representing a block number stored in the block field as a plurality of bits of the first set of bits.
US11868630B2
A storage system includes a first node mounting two controllers. The two controllers of the first node are subjected to setting of redundancy such that the two controllers belong to differing redundancy groups, respectively. When a configuration change is requested due to addition of a second node mounting one controller to the storage system, the second node sets the controller of the second node belongs to a redundancy group to which either of the two controllers of the first node belongs, and the first node changes the setting of redundancy such that setting information on the redundancy group of either of the two controllers of the first node does not change; and deactivates a controller of the first node for which the setting information on the redundancy group changes as a result of a change in the setting of redundancy.
US11868629B1
A storage system sizing service that includes: translating one or more specifications characterizing user requirements into workload parameters; generating a plurality of performance model results by providing the workload parameters as respective inputs to respective performance models, wherein the respective performance models correspond to respective distinct configurations of a plurality of storage systems; and selecting, in dependence upon the performance model results, one or more distinctly configured storage system configurations from among the plurality of storage systems.
US11868627B2
A method for operating a processing unit. The processing unit addresses virtual memory areas in order to access a RAM memory unit and these individual virtual memory areas respectively being mapped onto a physical memory area of the RAM memory unit. A check of the RAM memory unit for errors is performed. If, in the course of this check, a physical memory area of the RAM memory unit is determined to be faulty, this faulty physical memory area is designated as faulty. A check is performed to determine whether a free physical memory area exists in RAM memory unit onto which no virtual memory area is mapped and which is not designated as faulty. If such a free physical memory area exists, the virtual memory area that is currently mapped onto the physical memory area recognized as faulty is henceforth mapped onto this free physical memory area.
US11868620B2
Provided are a read-write method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a readable memory medium. The method includes: receiving a write instruction; determining a write policy corresponding to the write instruction according to read information in a registry, wherein the read information is information that, after a read instruction is received, corresponds to the read instruction and is stored in the registry; and executing the write instruction based on the write policy. It can be seen that, according to the present application, a registry is set, read information is registered in the registry when a read instruction is executed, a write policy corresponding to a write instruction is determined according to the read information in the registry before the write instruction is executed, and the write instruction is then executed based on the write policy. Therefore, the read-write processing efficiency is improved.
US11868619B2
A memory controller combines information about which memory component segments are not being refreshed with the information about which rows are going to be refreshed next, to determine, for the current refresh command, the total number of rows that are going to be refreshed. Based on this total number of rows, the memory controller selects how long to wait after the refresh command before issuing a next subsequent command. When the combination of masked segments and the refresh scheme results in less than the ‘nominal’ number of rows typically refreshed in response to a single refresh command, the waiting period before the next command (e.g., non-refresh command) is issued may be reduced from the ‘nominal’ minimum time period, thereby allowing the next command to be issued earlier.
US11868616B2
A system and method for low-distortion compaction of floating-point numbers comprising a pre-encoder, a data deconstruction engine, a library manager, a codeword storage, and a data reconstruction engine. A pre-encoder may receive a plurality of data sourcepackets with may contain one or more floating-point numbers and the received data sourcepackets are scanned to identify floating-point numbers and the identified floating-point numbers. Identified floating-point numbers may be pre-encoded into binary string representations which are low-distortion embeddings of real numbers into a Hamming space. The binary string representation may be indexed to indicate it represents a floating-point number before being compacted by a data deconstruction engine and library manager. The pre-encoding of floating-point numbers located within a sourcepacket enables the system to maximize the benefit of the compaction capabilities of the data deconstruction engine.
US11868614B2
A management device that may communicate with at least one devices is disclosed. The management device may include a communication logic to communicate with the devices over a communication channels about data associated with the devices. The management device may also include reception logic that may receive a query from a host. The query may request information from the management device about the devices. The management device may also include a transmission logic to send the data about the devices to the host. The host may be configured to send a message to the devices.
US11868610B1
An interface device supports information transmission between an evaluation system that evaluates an operation by a user to an operation object and the user. The interface device includes: a display configured to display information to the user; an instruction input unit configured to receive an instruction by the user; and a processor configured to execute processing of displaying, on the display, a level display unit which displays a level of an evaluation standard for the operation by the user in the evaluation system, processing of switching display of the level display unit according to an up or down instruction of the level inputted to the instruction input unit, and processing of outputting evaluation standard level information indicating the level corresponding to the display of the level display unit to the evaluation system.
US11868608B1
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are described herein related to a secured stylus. A secure connection is established between a digitizer processor in a computing device and a remote server providing virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). A digitizer interposer implemented in the computing device, the server, and/or between them receives raw or encrypted digitizer input that bypasses the operating system (OS) and processor of the computing device. Digitizer signal processing, normally performed by the OS, is performed on one or more servers. An edge server provides haptic feedback to a stylus and/or generates display of temporary digital ink as created while a cloud server completes digital ink processing and generates video for display by the computing device. A secure connection between a graphics processing unit (GPU) and the server protects secure connection video by encryption bypassing the OS and processor of the user computing device.
US11868607B2
A display apparatus includes circuitry to receive input of a hand drafted input, convert the hand drafted input into a shape, and determine whether the shape is an object selecting shape that is preset to be available for selecting an object displayed in the object selecting shape on a display. In a case that the shape is determined to be the object selecting shape, the circuitry displays, on the display, a display component to be operated for receiving selection of the object. In a case that the display component is operated, the circuitry causes the object to be a selected state.
US11868606B2
An electronic device with a touch-sensitive surface and display can execute a messaging application. In the messaging application, swipe options can be displayed for messages and threads. Swipe options correspond to actions that can be taken on the messages or threads. Messages and threads can be associated with notification rules as well as be ignored. Composition interfaces and messages can be displayed simultaneously in the messaging application. The messaging application can display a conversation view of a message thread with a common header that can include subject information and names of participants in the threads. The messaging application allows for adding and removing participants to the conversation view. The messaging application allows for grouping search results from a search of messages using a search term. The grouping can be based on the location of the search term within the messages.
US11868603B1
A management system of a computing device provides enhanced functionality via selectable icons (e.g., tiles), presented on a home screen, that may be overlaid to perform overlay operations such as data transfer, payment, and/or granting of certain authorizations or permissions. Users are able to more readily perform cross-application and/or cross-entity operations via, for example, the operating system of a computing device without needing to engage with as many entities (or applications thereof). Tile overlay operations may be managed and reviewed via an application.
