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| US11133922B1 |
Computation-efficient secret shuffle protocol for encrypted data based on homomorphic encryption
The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for a communication-efficient secret shuffle protocol for encrypted data based on homomorphic encryption. A service provider and multiple clients participate in a secret shuffle protocol of randomly shuffling encrypted client-specific secret input values. The protocol includes generation and exchange of random numbers, random permutations and different blinding values. A last protocol step includes using homomorphism, for each client, to perform computations on intermediate encrypted data to homomorphically remove a first blinding value and a second blinding value, to generate a client-specific rerandomized encrypted secret input value. As a result, the client-specific rerandomized encrypted secret input values are generated in an order that is unmapped to an order of receipt, at the service provider, of the encrypted secret input values. |
| US11133921B1 |
High-speed synchronizer with lower metastability failure rate
A data synchronizer including an input stage, a driver stage, and a keeper stage. The input stage latches input data to a data node in response to a first clock signal transition. The driver stage has an input coupled to the data node and has an output coupled to a gain node. The keeper stage latches data asserted on the gain node back to the input stage to maintain data on the data node in response to a second transition of the clock signal. The driver stage has an increased drive strength and a reduced loading capacitance to increase the gain-bandwidth product of the latch loop to reduce metastability. A flip-flop may be configured with input and output latches each including driver stages having increased drive strength and reduced loading capacitance to increase the gain-bandwidth product of each of the latch loops to reduce metastability. |
| US11133917B2 |
Apparatus and method for sampling signal in wireless communication system that employs time division duplex scheme
An apparatus and a method for sampling a signal in a wireless communication system that employs a time division duplex (TDD) scheme are provided. According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, a method for a base station being operated in a wireless communication system that employs TDD comprises the steps of: determining a switching section for controlling a conversion mode of a sampling rate conversion circuit based on a timing advance (TA) value with respect to a signal transmitted by a terminal; generating a switching signal within the switching section; changing the conversion mode from a first mode to second mode in response to the switching signal; and changing a sampling rate of a transmission signal or reception signal based on the second mode. As a result, the transmission signal and the reception signal can be prevented from overlapping in the sampling rate conversion circuit that can perform both of up conversion and down conversion, and hardware resources for changing a sampling rate of a signal can be reduced. |
| US11133916B2 |
Wireless communication system
A wireless communication system includes a base station, a customer premise equipment (CPE) and a repeater. The repeater includes a down-link circuit and an up-link circuit. The down-link circuit includes a first receiving antenna array and a first transmitting antenna array, and the up-link circuit includes a second receiving antenna array and a second transmitting antenna array. The down-link circuit is separated from the up-link circuit with a first predetermined distance. |
| US11133915B2 |
Cable modem and digital compensation for switchable analog filter to assist echo cancellation in full duplex cable modem
A cable modem supporting full duplex (FDX) operations. The cable modem includes a transmit circuitry configured to process a transmit signal and a receive circuitry configured to process a receive signal. The receive circuitry includes a switchable analog filter configured to filter the receive signal. The switchable analog filter is configurable for different passband frequencies. The receive circuitry also includes a digital compensation filter configured to compensate a difference in frequency response in a specific frequency band due to switching of the switchable analog filter for a different passband frequency. The cable modem also includes an adjacent channel interference (ACI) cancellation filter and an adjacent leakage interference (ALI) cancellation filter. A digital compensation filter is also used in processing the ACI cancellation signal and the ALI cancellation signal to impose or compensate the difference in frequency response due to the switchable analog filter switching. |
| US11133906B2 |
Method for transmitting synchronization signal and synchronization channel in wireless communication system supporting device-to-device communication and apparatus for the same
A method for transmitting synchronization information and synchronization related information in a wireless communication system, includes mapping the synchronization information to a physical resource; mapping the synchronization related information to the physical resource; and transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), the synchronization information and the synchronization related information, wherein the synchronization information is mapped to fewer subcarriers than the synchronization related information. |
| US11133901B2 |
Downlink control channel in wireless systems
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities may be disclosed for implementing a flexible radio access communication system. A flexible radio access communication system may be supported using spectrum of varying size, including aggregation of non-adjacent carriers in the same and/or in different frequency bands. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive a first transmission via a common downlink control channel. The first transmission may include first control information. The first control information may include information regarding the configuration of a first dedicated downlink control channel of one or more dedicated control channels. The WTRU may receive a second transmission via the first dedicated downlink control channel of the dedicated control channels. The second transmission may include second control information. The second control information may be associated with a transmission of a first transmission type. The dedicated downlink control channels may be used for providing control information associated with different types of transmissions. |
| US11133896B2 |
Configuration of ultra reliable low latency communication
Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media are described for configuring Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) simultaneous transmissions, which can be used to enhance network performance and/or to enhance procedures within the UE to achieve more efficient operations. For example, techniques are described for determining which modulation coding scheme (MCS) table to apply based on various factors. Different techniques are also described for configuring user equipment (UE) with an RNTI based on different considerations. |
| US11133894B2 |
Information transmission method, and decoding method and apparatus
The present disclosure relates to information transmission method, decoding method, and apparatus. One example method includes encoding, by a sending device, a to-be-encoded sequence based on preset parameters to obtain an encoded sequence, where the preset parameters include a quantity of check bits, positions of the check bits, and a check equation, and sending the encoded sequence to a receiving device. |
| US11133891B2 |
Systems and methods for self-synchronized communications
A method for transmitting a data block begins with segmenting the data block into a number of data sub-blocks. Each data sub-block where a number of high bits is greater than a number of low bits is then inverted. The data sub-blocks are then grouped into sets of data sub-blocks. For each set of data sub blocks, a number of pulses indicative of a number of high bits in each one of the data sub-blocks in the set is transmitted, there is a delay, and a number of pulses indicative of each high bit in each data sub-block of the set of data sub-blocks is transmitted followed by a delay. Finally, a number of pulses indicative of which ones of the data sub-blocks were inverted is transmitted. |
| US11133890B2 |
Adaptive multi-standard signal classification and synchronization
Adaptive multi-standard signal classification and synchronization is disclosed. Devices, systems and methods include an auto-correlation bank and a signal classifier to efficiently and reliably distinguish signals of wireless protocols, such as Bluetooth, 1 megabit-per-second (Mbps) Bluetooth low energy (BLE), 2 Mbps BLE, long range (LR) BLE, ZigBee (ZB), high-rate ZB, and so on. The auto-correlation bank includes a set of auto-correlators with different delays, which facilitate distinguishing between the different wireless protocols. Exemplary aspects can further distinguish and/or compensate for interference sources, such as WiFi, constant wave (CW) clock sources, and so on. In some examples, a frequency offset of an incoming signal can be output for further signal processing. In a parallel path, a cross-correlation circuit facilitates synchronization to the incoming signal based on a signal type identified by the signal classifier. |
| US11133880B2 |
Computer system, method for estimating radio wave propagation characteristic in space, and computer
A computer system, which estimates a radio wave propagation characteristic in a space where a wireless communication system using structure data and system data is constructed, includes a computer having a processor and a storage apparatus and holds feature parameter information, which stores an entry that associates a parameter included in structure data, that is, a feature parameter which greatly contributes to an estimation result of the radio wave propagation characteristic in the space with a type of the space. When receiving a request for estimation of a radio wave propagation characteristic in a target space, the processor retrieves an entry associated with a type of the target space from the feature parameter information, and presents an interface to input a value of the feature parameter included in the retrieved entry as estimation structure data and an interface to input estimation system data. |
| US11133879B2 |
LTE-V based internet of vehicles communication test system and test method thereof
Disclosed is an LTE-V based Internet of Vehicles communication test system and test method. The test system includes an ENodeB base station, a roadside test unit, user test terminal, LTE-V core network and local server group. Mobile communication technology is applied to the field of Internet of Vehicles communication, and two technical schemes are used, i.e., wide-area centralized cellular communication and short-range distributed direct communication corresponding to the network architectures based on access network-user terminal and ProSe direct communication interface, respectively. Not only the communication transmission support with large broadband in wide coverage can be supported, but also to achieve low latency and highly reliable communication services between vehicle and vehicle, vehicle and base station, base station and base station, to meet the needs of road safety and traffic efficiency applications. |
| US11133872B2 |
Linearized optical digital-to-analog modulator
In a system for converting digital data into a modulated optical signal, an electrically controllable device having M actuating electrodes provides an optical signal that is modulated in response to binary voltages applied to the actuating electrodes. A digital-to-digital converter provides a mapping of input data words to binary actuation vectors of M bits and supplies the binary actuation vectors as M bits of binary actuation voltages to the M actuating electrodes, where M is larger than the number of bits in each input data word. The digital-to-digital converter maps each digital input data word to a binary actuation vector by selecting a binary actuation vector from a subset of binary actuation vectors available to represent each of the input data words. |
| US11133868B2 |
Repair terminal and information processing device
According to one embodiment, a repair terminal includes reception means for receiving a setting value of a predetermined setting item set in an information processing device by visible light communication using light emitted by a light source device connected to the information processing device; matching means for matching a setting value of the setting item received by the reception means with a matching setting value corresponding to the setting item and determining appropriateness of the setting value; and output means for outputting a matching result of the matching means. |
| US11133867B2 |
Image display device and operation method thereof
An image display device configured to obtain device identification information corresponding to a peripheral device connected to the image display device and control a wireless communicator to transmit search data corresponding to the peripheral device to a control device of the image display device based on the device identification information, and to determine pairing data and control code information corresponding to the peripheral device, based on the device identification information, upon receiving response data from the control device, and transmit the pairing data and the control code information to the control device through the wireless communicator. |
| US11133861B2 |
Adaptable space radio
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for adaptively coordinating among satellite communication channels. A method, according to an example implementation of the disclosed technology, can include: receiving, at a radio frequency receiver disposed on a target satellite, a plurality of signals associated with a corresponding plurality of candidate satellite communication channels; detecting, among the plurality of signals, a command structure; selecting, for communications with a first ground station, a first channel of the candidate satellite communication channels, based at least in part, on information in the detected command structure; establishing a communication link with the first ground station using the first channel; receiving, via the first channel, and from the first ground station, one or more downlink instructions; selecting a downlink communication channel based on the received one or more downlink instructions; and transmitting information to the first ground station via the selected downlink communication channel. |
| US11133858B2 |
Feeder link communication system of HAPS
Provide a system capable of improving a frequency utilization efficiency of a feeder link of an aerial-floating type communication relay apparatus. A system, which has an aerial-staying type communication relay apparatus that wirelessly communicates with a terminal apparatus, is provided with plural gateway stations that perform space-division multiplexing communication for transmitting and receiving different relay signals from each other on a same frequency in a feeder link with the aerial-stay type communication relay apparatus. Each of the plural gateway stations may be provided with an antenna control section that controls an antenna for feeder link so as to track the aerial-stay type communication relay apparatus. |
| US11133857B2 |
Relay selection for communication in multi-rat environment
A method configured to selectively retransmit a message includes analyzing a message received by a device to determine a set of radio access technologies (RATs) in which the message has been transmitted. If the device supports a device RAT that is different from set of RATS the message is updated to include the device RAT and the updated message is transmitted using the device RAT. |
| US11133856B2 |
Beamforming training method and apparatus
In an ISS process, the initiator sends a first SSW frame in different sector directions by sequentially using an antenna in m antennas, where m is not less than 1 and is less than or equal to N; and in an RSS process, the initiator receives a second SSW frame in a parallel (e.g., simultaneous) omnidirectional manner by using M antennas, where the second SSW frame is sent by a responder in different sector directions, each second SSW frame carries information used to indicate a first SSW frame with best quality in the ISS process, and the M antennas include at least the m antennas, and determines an optimal transmit beam in the ISS process based on the received second SSW frame. |
| US11133855B2 |
Uplink beam management
A method for assisting uplink (UL) beam management in a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes evaluating a measure of a reduction in maximum allowed power for a first set of candidate beams for UL beam management; determining a second set of candidate beams for UL beam management based at least in part on the evaluating the measure of a reduction in maximum allowed power for the first set of candidate beams; and performing a UL beam management procedure using the second set of candidate beams. |
| US11133846B2 |
Enhanced client grouping by a network device
Examples described herein provide enhanced client grouping by a network device. Examples include determining that a plurality of client devices each comprising a plurality of receiver antennas are associated with a network device, and grouping the client devices into one or more groups, wherein each group comprises a number of client devices less than or equal to the number of transmitter antennas of the network device. Examples include, for each group, assigning one spatial stream to one receiver antenna for each client device of the group, and based on a determination that the number of client devices of the group is greater than one and less than the number of transmitter antennas, assigning one spatial stream to each of a portion of the remaining receiver antennas of the group, wherein at least one receiver antenna of the group is not assigned a spatial stream. |
| US11133843B1 |
Transmitter/receiver with small-swing level-shifted output
An integrated-circuit output driver generates, in response to an input signal constrained to a first voltage range, a control signal at one of two voltage levels according to a data bit conveyed in the input signal, the two voltages levels defining upper and lower levels of a second voltage range substantially larger than the first voltage range. The output driver generates an output-drive signal constrained to a third voltage range according to the one of the two voltage levels of the control signal, the third voltage range being substantially smaller than the second voltage range. |
| US11133835B2 |
Method for improving signal to noise ratio in an uplink transmission
A method for improving signal to noise ratio in an uplink transmission. The method includes determining a plurality of combinations of “N” possible users to be selected among “X” users that are transmitting signals to a base station comprising “n” number of antennas, where n>=N, wherein selected “N” users transmit on a same sub-carrier; computing signal to noise ratio (SNR) of the signals received from each of the users among the determined combination of “N” possible users; and selecting at least one combination among the plurality of combinations of “N” possible users, such that, a combined signal to noise ratio of the selected combination is maximum among all combinations. |
| US11133830B2 |
Transmitting apparatus and interleaving method thereof
A transmitting apparatus is provided. The transmitting apparatus includes: an encoder configured to perform a low-density parity check (LDPC) encoding on input bits using a parity check matrix to generate an LDPC codeword comprising information word bits and parity bits; an interleaver configured to interleave the LDPC codeword; and a modulator configured to map the interleaved LDPC codeword onto a modulation symbol, wherein the modulator is further configured to map a bit included in a predetermined bit group from among a plurality of bit groups constituting the LDPC codeword onto a predetermined bit of the modulation symbol. |
| US11133823B2 |
Quantum compression service using superdense encoding
Quantum compression using quantum communication driver (QCD) computing devices employing superdense encoding of conventionally compressed files is disclosed. In one example, a first QCD computing device receives a compressed file that was compressed using conventional compression formats by a computing device. The first QCD computing device performs superdense encoding of the compressed file using one or more first qubits that are each in an entangled state with a corresponding one or more second qubits of a second QCD computing device. The first qubit(s) are then sent to the second QCD computing device. In some examples, the second QCD computing device generates a sequential qubit mapping that represents a sequence in which the one or more first qubits encode the compressed file, and stores the first qubit(s) in association with the sequential qubit mapping. |
| US11133821B2 |
Delta-sigma modulator and analog-to-digital converter including the same
A delta-sigma modulator generates a bit stream signal from an analog signal by operating according to a modulation period including a sampling period and a filtering period and includes a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) configured to generate a charge signal according to one of a first reference voltage and a second reference voltage according to the bit stream signal during the sampling period and to output a signal generated according to the charge signal and the other of the first reference voltage and the second reference voltage; a loop filter configured to charge a sampling signal corresponding to the analog signal during the sampling period and to filter an output from the DAC and a signal generated according to the sampling signal during the filtering period; and a quantizer configured to generate the bit stream signal according to an output from the loop filter in the modulation period. |
| US11133819B2 |
Lookup-table-based sigma-delta ADC filter
An analog-to-digital converter comprises a sigma-delta modulator; and an ADC filter configured to store a plurality of partial sums as respective entries in a plurality of lookup tables, retrieve at least one of the plurality of partial sums based on an output of the sigma-delta modulator, and calculate a filter output by adding retrieved ones of the plurality of partial sums together. |
| US11133818B2 |
Interpolation digital-to-analog converter (DAC)
A integrated circuit device includes digital-to-analog converter (DAC) circuitry including a resistor DAC that includes a resistor-two-resistor DAC configured to receive a first sub-word that includes a most significant bit (MSB) of a digital input signal and to output an analog output signal representative of the first sub-word, a resistor ladder configured to receive the analog output signal and a second sub-word that includes an intermediate significant bit (ISB) of the digital input signal and to generate an analog interpolated signal. The resistor ladder includes a plurality of resistor elements connected in series with one another to define a plurality of tap nodes, wherein a respective tap node is arranged between every two adjacent ones of the resistor elements, and a switching circuit having plurality of switches, wherein each switch is configured to selectively connect a respective one of the tap nodes to an output of the resistor ladder to generate the analog interpolated signal. |
| US11133810B2 |
Determination of the synchronization of the output signal from an injection locked oscillator with an injection signal
An apparatus for determining whether an output signal from an injection locked oscillator is synchronized with an injection signal coming from an input oscillator has a distorter and a level detector. The distorter uses the output signal from the injection locked oscillator to generate a distorter output signal which has a difference tone in a predetermined frequency band if the output signal from the injection locked oscillator is not synchronized with the injection signal. The level detector is designed to detect a level of the difference tone. The apparatus determines, on the basis of the level of the difference tone, whether the output signal from the injection locked oscillator is synchronized with the injection signal. |
| US11133809B2 |
Method and circuit for determining phase continuity of a local oscillator signal, and local oscillator signal generation circuit
A method for determining phase continuity of a local oscillator signal generated using a frequency divider is provided. The method includes determining at least one sample of the local oscillator signal. Further, the method includes determining information on the phase continuity using the at least one sample. |
| US11133806B1 |
Phase lock loop (PLL) synchronization
In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a first integrated circuit (IC) chip configured to receive a timing signal and a reference clock signal; a second IC chip configured to receive the timing signal from the first IC chip and the reference clock signal; and a third IC chip configured to receive the timing signal from the second IC chip and the reference clock signal. The second IC chip is electrically coupled between the first and third IC chips. The first, second, and third IC chips include respectively first, second, and third phase lock loop (PLL). The first, second, and third IC chips are configured to generate respective first, second, and third reference time signals based on the timing signal and the reference clock signal. The first, second, and third PLLs are synchronized to each other based on the respective first, second, and third reference time signals. |
| US11133801B2 |
Operation device
An operation device includes an operation unit to which a plurality of functions of an operated object are assigned corresponding to a position to be touched by an operation finger, a detection unit that is arranged on at least one plane extended including a plane facing the operation unit to detect the operation finger performing an operation on the operation unit, and a determination unit to determine an instructed function based on a combination of the operation performed on the operation unit and the touch position of the detected operation finger. |
| US11133800B2 |
Vehicle floor assembly having capacitive proximity sensor
A vehicle floor assembly includes a floor structure and a capacitive proximity sensor assembly configured to detect a user touch command and a user pressure command. The floor assembly further includes a controller for receiving the user touch command and pressure command and controlling a vehicle related operation based on the detected user input commands. |
| US11133798B2 |
Switchable diode devices having transistors in series
A device includes a first connection pin, a second connection pin, a third connection pin, and a fourth connection pin. The second connection pin is configured to be connected to a supply voltage. The fourth connection pin is configured to be coupled to a reference voltage. The device further includes a first transistor including: a first gate and a first source/drain coupled to the first connection pin; a second transistor including a second gate and a second source/drain connected to the first transistor; and a third transistor including a third gate, a third source/drain connected to the second transistor, and a fourth source/drain connected to the fourth connection pin. The third transistor is configured to be controlled by a digital signal using the third connection pin. Both the first gate and the second gate are directly connected to the second connection pin. |
| US11133797B1 |
Bootstrap circuit for gate driver
A bootstrap diode circuit includes an anode for coupling to a power supply voltage terminal and a cathode for coupling to a bootstrap voltage terminal. The bootstrap diode circuit also includes a high-voltage p-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (PMOS) transistor, having a source forming the cathode of the bootstrap diode circuit and a drain forming the anode of the bootstrap diode circuit. The high-voltage PMOS transistor has a breakdown voltage higher in magnitude than a voltage drop between a maximum bootstrap voltage and the power supply voltage. |
| US11133795B2 |
Overcurrent determining apparatus and drive unit using the same
In an overcurrent determining apparatus, a temperature obtainer obtains a temperature parameter indicative of a temperature of a switching element as a temperature measurement value. A determination voltage has a first voltage value when the temperature measurement value is a first temperature. A setter sets the determination voltage to a second voltage value upon determining that the temperature measurement value is a second temperature higher than the first temperature. The second voltage value is lower than the first voltage value and higher than a value of a Miller voltage of the switching element at the second temperature. |
| US11133794B1 |
Signal calibration circuit
This disclosure relates to a circuit comprising a first, second, and third data latch, and an input for a data signal. The first data latch may be configured to sample a delayed version of the data signal in response to a first control signal. The second data latch may be configured to sample the delayed version of the data signal in response to a run clock signal. The run clock signal may be configured to run for a predefined number of clock cycles subsequent to the first control signal. The third data latch may be configured to sample either an output signal of the first data latch or an output signal of the second data latch in response to a second control signal received after the predefined number of clock cycles of the run clock signal. |
| US11133793B1 |
Phase interpolator with phase adjuster for step resolution
Various embodiments provide for phase interpolators with phase adjusters to provide step resolution, which can be used with a circuit such as a data serializer/deserializer circuit. In particular, for some embodiments, a phase interpolator is coupled to a phase adjuster, where the combination of the phase interpolator and the phase adjuster is configured to interpolate between phases in phase adjustment steps at a phase adjustment step resolution. For such embodiments, the phase adjustment step resolution of the steps is achieved by controlling the phase interpolator and the phase adjuster. |
| US11133791B2 |
Spurious mode suppression in bulk acoustic wave resonator
Embodiments provide a solidly-mounted bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonator and method of making same. In embodiments, the BAW resonator may include a planarization portion in an inactive region of the BAW resonator that is coplanar with a piezoelectric layer of the BAW resonator in an active region of the BAW resonator. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. |
| US11133790B2 |
Acoustic wave device
An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate with a reverse-velocity surface having an ellipse shape, an IDT electrode on the piezoelectric substrate, and a dielectric film on the piezoelectric substrate and covering the IDT electrode. The acoustic wave device utilizes a Love wave. The IDT electrode includes an intersecting region in which first electrode fingers and second electrode fingers are interdigitated. The intersecting region includes a central region, a first edge region and a second edge region located at both ends of the central region. When x (%) denotes a wavelength-normalized film thickness of the IDT electrode and y (g/cm3) denotes an electrode density of the IDT electrode, the wavelength-normalized film x is set at a value not less than x that satisfies Equation 1. The film thicknesses of the dielectric films in the first and second edge regions are smaller than the dielectric film in the central region. |
| US11133788B2 |
Bonded body and elastic wave element
A bonded body includes: a piezoelectric single crystal substrate; a supporting substrate composed of a single crystal silicon; a bonding layer—provided between the supporting substrate and piezoelectric single crystal substrate and having a composition of Si(1-x)Ox (0.008≤x≤0.408); and an amorphous layer provided between the supporting substrate and bonding layer and containing silicon atoms, oxygen atoms, and argon atoms. The concentration of the oxygen atoms in an end part of the amorphous layer on a side of the bonding layer is higher than the average concentration of the oxygen atoms in the bonding layer. |
| US11133786B2 |
Radio frequency power amplifier module having high linearity and power-added efficiency and implementation method
Disclosed are a radiofrequency power amplifier module having high linearity and power-added efficiency and an implementation method. The radiofrequency power amplifier module comprises a bias circuit, a linearization circuit, and a power amplifier circuit. The power amplifier circuit is connected to the linearization circuit. The linearization circuit is connected to the bias circuit. The bias circuit is connected to the power amplifier circuit. In the present invention, the linearization circuit is utilized to capture a radiofrequency signal inputted from a radiofrequency signal input end of the power amplifier circuit, the captured radiofrequency signal is fed back to the bias circuit, a corresponding bias current is generated by the bias circuit on the basis of the radiofrequency signal fed back, and the bias current is inputted to the power amplifier circuit, thus increasing the linearity and power-added efficiency of an output signal of the radiofrequency power amplifier. |
| US11133785B2 |
Digital-to-analog converter and amplifier for headphones
An amplifier for headphones including a current digital-to-analog converter (DAC) configured to output a current based on a digital audio input signal, an output electrically connected to a speaker and configured to output an output signal to the speaker, and a pulse width modulation (PWM) loop configured to receive an error signal, the error signal based on a difference between the current from the current DAC and a current of the output signal, and generate the output signal based on the error signal. The PWM loop includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) configured to receive an analog signal based on the current from the current DAC and output a digital signal representing the analog signal, and an encoder configured to receive the digital signal and output a pulse having a width based on the analog signal. |
| US11133779B2 |
Crystal oscillator
An ultra-low noise crystal oscillator uses two crystal unit; an oscillation element of an oscillation circuit section and a crystal filter of a subsequent filter section. A Butler circuit in which the capacitors (C1, C2) and the inductor (L) connected in series is connected in parallel to the oscillator circuit section. This is the crystal oscillator that simplifies the manufacturing process, improves the manufacturing quality, and has good floor noise characteristics. |
| US11133772B2 |
Convertible battery pack
A multi-voltage battery pack including a converting system for converting the battery pack between a low voltage configuration and a high voltage configuration. The converting system includes a converter element moves between a first position and a second position to configure the battery pack between the low voltage configuration and the high voltage configuration. The converter element includes a set of contacts that mates with a set of contact pads to establish the voltage configuration. |
| US11133771B2 |
Integrated fault isolation and prognosis system for electric drive system
An electric drive system of a vehicle comprises a motor, a position sensor, an inverter, sensors to sense current and voltage supplied to the motor, and a controller to control the motor by controlling the inverter based on data from the position sensor and the sensors and a torque command. The controller estimates a motor torque using a motor model, calculates the motor torque, and generates a first state of health for the electric drive system based on a difference between the estimated and calculated motor torques. The controller generates, in response to the first state of health being less than or equal to a first threshold, a second state of health for at least one of the position sensor, the sensors, and the motor, and determines whether one of the position sensor, the sensors, and the motor is faulty based on the first and second states of health. |
| US11133770B2 |
Motor drive system and control method therefor
A motor drive system and a control method are provided. The motor drive system is electrically connected to a motor. The motor drive system includes two safe torque off (STO) modules to achieve a two-channel STO redundancy infrastructure, so as to improve the safety of the motor drive system. In addition, the motor drive system includes a diagnosis module to diagnose malfunction of the STO modules. It ensures the STO modules to meet the related safety requirements. |
| US11133769B2 |
Motor control device
Provided is a motor control device that can detect an abnormality of a motor at an early stage. A motor control device includes: a control unit that calculates a voltage command value based on an input current command value and controls drive of the motor by using the calculated voltage command value; a virtual motor unit that simulates the value of a current flowing through the motor, based on the voltage command value calculated by the control unit and a plurality of parameters related to specifications of the motor; and a determination unit that determines whether or not the motor is in an abnormal state by comparing the current command value input to the control unit and the current value simulated by the virtual motor unit. |
| US11133768B1 |
System, for motor control center, having a dual structure of integrated modules and communication
A motor control center system according to the present invention includes a first integrated module and a second integrated module which are provided in correspondence with a motor control center and in a dual structure; a plurality of protection control modules provided in correspondence with respective motor units; and a multipoint bus to which the protection control modules are connected such that a serial communication network is formed between the first integrated module and second integrated module and the plurality of protection control modules, wherein one end of the multipoint bus is commonly connected to a first serial communication port of the first integrated module and a first serial communication port of the second integrated module, and the other end of the multipoint bus is commonly connected to a second serial communication port of the first integrated module and a second serial communication port of the second integrated module. |
| US11133763B1 |
Magnetically de-coupled, separately controlled, multiple electric machine assembly for driving a common shaft
A magnetically de-coupled, separately controlled, electric machine assembly including a radial and one or more axial electric machines, each with rotors mechanically coupled to and arranged to directly drive a single shaft. Each of the electric machines are independently, but cooperatively, controlled by two (or more) inverters respectively. The axial and radial electric machines are contained in a single housing. |
| US11133760B2 |
Method for controlling compressor braking, frequency converter and variable speed compressor
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for controlling compressor braking, a frequency converter and a variable speed compressor. The method includes steps of: determining to brake a compressor, wherein a brake circuit includes three switching units and the three switching units are respectively electrically connected to three phases of windings of a motor of the compressor; actuating two of the three switching units to short-circuit two phases of windings of the motor. The two phases of windings of the motor are short-circuited by controlling the three switching units to generate braking torque, such that the compressor is braked without introducing a DC voltage, and thus the braking energy consumption is reduced. Besides, by turning on only two switches at a time, the switching abrasion is reduced, and the overall service life of the three switching units is effectively improved. |
| US11133759B2 |
Electrostatic chuck, substrate processing apparatus, and substrate holding method
An electrostatic chuck includes a plurality of electrodes configured to generate an electrostatic force for attracting and holding a substrate and a surface on which the substrate is to be mounted. The electrodes are arranged respectively in multiple regions radially and circumferentially defined in the electrostatic chuck. Further, a substrate processing apparatus includes an electrostatic chuck including a plurality of electrodes configured to generate an electrostatic force for attracting and holding a substrate and a surface on which the substrate is to be mounted; and a controller configured to control a timing of applying a DC voltage to each of the electrodes. Each of the electrodes generates an electrostatic force for attracting and holding the substrate by the DC voltage applied thereto, and the electrodes are arranged respectively in multiple regions radially and circumferentially defined in the electrostatic chuck. |
| US11133757B2 |
System and method for combined heat and electric power generation
A system for combined heat and electric power generation, preferably including a heat reservoir and one or more electric generators, each preferably including a heat source and an energy converter. A method for combined heat and electric power generation, preferably including activating an electric generator, deactivating the electric generator, and/or providing heat from a heat reservoir. |
| US11133753B2 |
Power control circuit
A power control circuit according to one embodiment includes an H-bridge circuit formed using a plurality of power transistors. The power transistors are respectively connected to current measurement circuits that measure currents flowing through the power transistors. Each of the power transistors includes a main emitter and a sense emitter through which a current corresponding to a current flowing through the main emitter flows. Each of the current measurement circuits measures a current flowing through each of the power transistors by using a current flowing through the sense emitter included in the power transistor. A control circuit controls the power transistors based on current values respectively measured by the current measurement circuits. |
| US11133750B2 |
Power module
The present disclosure provides a power module including a transformer, a first switching unit and a second switching unit; the transformer includes a magnetic core and a flatwise-wound winding wound around a winding pillar of the magnetic core; the flatwise-wound winding includes a first winding, a first end of the first winding and the first switching unit are electrically connected and are located on the first side face of the winding pillar, projections of the first switching unit, the first end of the first winding, and the winding pillar on the first side face overlap each other; a second end of the first winding and the second switching unit are electrically connected and are located on the second side face of the winding pillar, projections of the second switching unit, the second end of the first winding, and the winding pillar on the second side face overlap each other. |
| US11133744B2 |
Driving device
A driving device comprises a first transistor (B13), a second transistor (B14), and a resistance element. The first transistor (B13) has one terminal receiving a pulsed current and a control terminal connected to the one terminal. The second transistor (B14) has one terminal connected to at least one load, the other terminal connected to a reference potential together with the other terminal of the first transistor (B13), and a control terminal connected to the control terminal of the first transistor (B13). The resistance element is connected between the control terminal of the first transistor (B13) and the other terminal of the first transistor (B13). |
| US11133743B2 |
Individual step-up circuit, step-up circuit, and electronic apparatus
To provide an individual boost circuit capable of boosting a minute power voltage to a target voltage more reliably.An individual boost circuit includes a first PMOS transistor that has a gate to which a first clock voltage is applied and performs on- and off-operations; a second PMOS transistor that has a gate to which a second clock voltage that has a reciprocal relation with the first clock voltage is applied and performs the on- and off-operations; an auxiliary capacitor; a boost capacitor; an auxiliary charging circuit 211 that charges an auxiliary capacitor via the second PMOS transistor with a power voltage from an external power when the first PMOS translator enters an off-state and the second PMOS transistor enters an on-state; and a boost charging circuit 212 that charges the boost capacitor via the first PMOS transistor with the second clock voltage through the auxiliary capacitor when the first PMOS transistor enters the on-state and the second switching transistor enters the off-state. |
| US11133737B2 |
Electronic circuit for compensating voltage based on auto zeroing operation
In one embodiment, the electronic circuit includes a first amplifying circuit configured to generate a first compensation voltage based on a first reference voltage and an output voltage. The output voltage is from a functional circuit bloc. A second amplifying circuit is configured to generate a control voltage based on an input voltage, a second reference voltage and the first compensation voltage. The second reference voltage is different than the first reference voltage. |
| US11133730B2 |
Communication device
A communication device includes a device for mechanically generating a rotational movement that includes a drive rod and a pushbutton for generating a linear movement of the drive rod and at least one gear wheel which, in the event of a linear movement of the drive rod, is set in rotational motion. The device further includes a converter module connected to the movement module that converts the rotational movement into electrical energy, an energy management module connected to the converter module that the electrical energy in line with prespecified boundary conditions, and a transmission module for transmitting information. |
| US11133728B2 |
Machine and method for generating electrical power from the motion of a moving towed transport platform
Interested parties would like to track the location of one or more towed transport platforms continuously when they are in motion. Existing monitoring systems are powered by a combination of solar power, batteries, and intermittent tractor platform power for electrical power. All of these power sources have limitations in providing power when a towed transport platform is in motion. Solar power is not available at night. Batteries run out of energy and must be recharged. Tractor platform power is not always available to a towed transport platform. The embodiments of the invention convert the kinetic energy of a moving towed transport platform into electrical power, providing continuous power for a monitoring system to operate. |
| US11133726B2 |
Gearbox and actuator
One embodiment relates to a gearbox and an actuator comprising same, the gearbox comprising: a housing having an opening; a cover arranged at the opening; a first gear part arranged so that one side thereof is supported by the housing, and the other side thereof is supported by the cover; and a second gear part and a third gear part arranged so that the first gear part is interposed therebetween. The first gear part comprises: a first shaft arranged so that one side thereof is supported by the housing, and the other side thereof is supported by the cover; a bearing arranged on the outer side of the first shaft; and a first gear arranged on the outer side of the bearing. |
| US11133724B2 |
Rotor with compressive structural elements
A rotor for an electric machine includes a rotor core having at least one internal cavity. A pair of features are defined by the rotor core and extend into the cavity. A structural element is compressed between the features so that a preload may be established between the features and the structural element. |
| US11133723B2 |
Electric motor and radiator fan
An electric motor including a rotor configured to rotate about a rotational axis and a stator extending along the rotational axis. The stator may include a stator yoke, a first tooth, and a second tooth, each provided with a shaft extending away from the stator yolk towards the rotational axis to a base. Adjacent sides of the of the first tooth and the base of the second tooth may form a groove slot. A reinforcement element may be inserted into the groove slot. |
| US11133717B2 |
Wireless power systems including determination of channel transfer function from backscatter signals
Examples described herein utilize a backscatter signal provided by a wirelessly powered device to estimate channel information, (e.g., a channel transfer function) between the wirelessly powered device and a transmitter system. The channel information may be used to optimize MIMO power transfer for linear as well as nonlinear backscatter devices. Examples of die method ‘may shift some or all of the power cost and complexity of coherent channel measurements from the WFD to the transmitters), and allow WPT optimization to milliwatt- or microwatt-class wirelessly powered devices. |
| US11133715B2 |
Wireless power transfer to multiple receiver devices across a variable-sized area
A wireless power receiver is described that receives power wirelessly from a transmitter coil that generates an oscillating magnetic field. The wireless power receiver includes a receiving coil circuit having a diode string formed by an outer wire, an inner wire, and diodes. Each of the diodes include a first end coupled to the outer wire and a second end coupled to the inner wire such that each of the diodes are connected in parallel with one another. A rectifier circuit is coupled to ends of the diode string. The rectifier circuit includes capacitors and rectifying diodes, where at least one of the capacitors is configured to bring the diode string into resonance with the oscillating magnetic field. The rectifying diodes rectify the induced oscillating voltage to produce a DC voltage difference between the outer wire and the inner wire, thereby powering the diodes. |
| US11133709B2 |
Method of making and using an apparatus for a locomotive micro-implant using active electromagnetic propulsion
Described is a locomotive implant for usage within a predetermined magnetic field. In one embodiment magnetohydrodynamics is used to generate thrust with a plurality of electrodes. In another embodiment, asymmetric drag forces are used to generate thrust. |
| US11133706B2 |
Wireless power transmitter
A wireless power transmitter is disclosed. The wireless power transmitter may include a first coil for generating a first magnetic field of a first direction in order to charge a first wireless power receiver which is disposed in a first posture on the wireless power transmitter, and a second coil for generating a second magnetic field of a second direction in order to charge a second wireless power receiver which is disposed in a second posture on the wireless power transmitter. |
| US11133702B2 |
Vehicle power supply system
In a vehicle power supply system, when a main power supply device is normal, a backup controller turns on a switch circuit and turns off a switch circuit to supply power from the main power supply device to a load unit LD1 and a load unit, and can travel a vehicle in a normal mode which is in a normal driving state. On the other hand, when the main power supply device is abnormal, the backup controller supplies power from the backup battery to the load unit and does not supply power from the backup battery to the load unit by turning on the switch circuit and turning off the switch circuit, and can travel the vehicle in the limit mode in which the functions are more limited than in the normal mode. |
| US11133701B2 |
Method and apparatus for charging and mutual charging a combination of intelligent devices
An apparatus for charging and mutual charging a combination of intelligent devices. The apparatus comprises a main device and an accessory device. The main device comprises a first control module and a first switch for switching on and off a first charging port. The accessory device comprises a second control module and a second switch for switching on and off a second charging port. The first control module is electrically connected to the second control module to realize mutual charging between intelligent devices. During outdoor use, one device when running out of power is automatically charged by another device until the combination of devices is completely out of power. |
| US11133698B2 |
Wireless charging systems and methods for controlling the same
Embodiments of magnetic field transfer circuits and methods for wirelessly charging electrical load herein. In one example, a magnetic field transfer circuit (MFCT) includes a first coil and a second coil. The first coil is configured to receive a first magnetic flux transmitted from a transmitter and convert the received magnetic flux to a current. The second coil is configured to transmit a second magnetic flux to a receiver based on the current. |
| US11133696B2 |
Wireless power system
A battery case has first and second coils on opposing sides of a battery and has switching circuitry that is coupled between the first and second coils. The battery case has a battery that provides supplemental battery power wirelessly to a wireless power receiving device via the second coil when the switching circuitry is in an open state. The case can also receive power wirelessly with the first coil from a wireless charging mat when the switching circuitry is in the open state. In a closed state, the switching circuitry shorts the first and second coils together so that current flowing through the first coil flows through the second coil in series and so that wireless power from the wireless charging mat that is received with the first coil is transmitted wirelessly to the wireless power receiving device using the second coil. |
| US11133694B2 |
Methods and system for add-on battery
Systems and methods for operating an add-on battery that may be electrically coupled to a second system that includes an electrical energy storage device are presented. In one example, the systems and methods provide for extending operation of the second system via selectively powering the second system via the add-on battery in response to operating conditions of the second system. |
| US11133692B2 |
Power supply unit for aerosol inhaler and control method and program of power supply unit for aerosol inhaler
A power supply unit for an aerosol inhaler includes: a power supply able to discharge power to a load for generating an aerosol from an aerosol generation source; a temperature measuring unit configured to measure temperature of the power supply; and a control device configured to control first power or a first amount of power to be supplied to the power supply in a case where a measurement value of the temperature measuring unit is equal to or higher than a first threshold, to a value smaller than second power or a second amount of power to be supplied to the power supply in a case where the measurement value is lower than the first threshold. |
| US11133683B2 |
Battery pack, method for managing battery pack, and vehicle comprising battery pack
Disclosed is a battery pack including: at least one battery module including a plurality of battery cell; and a battery management system (BMS) configured to determine an operation mode of a battery pack according to an enabled switch signal between at least two switch signals, which wake up the battery pack, and control the battery pack according to the determined operation mode. |
| US11133681B2 |
System and method for tracking and archiving battery performance data
An intelligent rechargeable battery pack having a battery management system for monitoring and controlling the charging and discharging of the battery pack is described. The battery management system includes a memory for storing data related to the operation of the battery, and the battery management system is also configured to communicate the data related to the operation of the battery to other processors for analysis. |
| US11133680B2 |
Balancing system for rechargeable energy storage assembly with multiple parallel units
System and method of dynamically balancing a rechargeable energy storage assembly having two or more respective units, a respective switch for each of the respective units and at least one sensor. The system includes a controller configured to control operation of the respective switch. The respective switch is configured to enable a respective circuit connection to the respective units when in an ON state and disable the respective circuit connection when in an OFF state. The respective units are characterized by a respective state of charge obtained based in part on the at least one sensor. A controller is configured to selectively employ at least one of a plurality of charging modes to charge one or more of the respective units, through operation of the respective switch. The plurality of charging modes includes a rest charging mode, a rapid initial charging mode and a rapid final charging mode. |
| US11133678B2 |
Power conversion device
This uninterruptible power supply includes: a cooler (6) that dissipates heat of a converter (1) and an inverter (5); and a controller (8) that causes, when output power (Po) from the inverter (5) exceeds an upper limit value (PoH), reduces input power (Pi) to the converter (1) by power (ΔPo=Po−PoH) corresponding to a difference between them, and increases input power (Pb) to a bidirectional chopper (4) by power (2×PoH) that is twice as high as the power (ΔPo) corresponding to the difference. |
| US11133677B2 |
Power controller, power control method, and program for controlling power
A recognition interface recognizes a reverse flow state in which power flows from a customer's site to a power system or a forward flow state in which power flows from the power system to the customer's site. When the recognition interface recognizes a reverse flow state, a controller causes at least one of a first power storage system through a third power storage system to be charged, based on a priority level related to charge defined for the first power storage system through the third power storage system. When the recognition interface recognizes a forward flow state, the controller causes at least one of the first power storage system through the third power storage system 40c to be discharged, based on a priority level related to discharge defined for the first power storage system 40a through the third power storage system. |
| US11133674B2 |
System operation support device and method in power system, and wide-area monitoring protection control system
A system operation support device in a power system stabilizes the power system and has a predicted accident time system state calculation unit that receives measured data, a system topology, and a target accident type as inputs, and calculates a system state and a predicted accident time system state. A control menu calculation unit receives the results of the predicted accident time system state as inputs and calculates a control menu. A restoration control means calculation unit receives the result of the control menu calculation as an input and calculates a restoration control procedure. A restoration prevention control procedure calculation unit receives the result of the restoration control and a target restoration time parameter as inputs and performs a power generator output adjustment time simulation, a necessary prevention control amount calculation, and a prevention control procedure calculation. A display unit displays the restoration control procedure and the prevention control procedure. |
| US11133673B2 |
Direct current bus control system
A direct current bus control system including a direct current bus connecting between an input power supply and a load, including a main stabilizing device including a first charge-&-discharge element and a first power converter, and at least one sub-stabilizing device including a second charge-&-discharge element, a charge element, or a discharge element, and including a second power converter, wherein the first power converter is configured to derive a bus voltage target value according to a power storage amount index of the first charge-&-discharge element, and to bidirectionally pass direct current power, so that the voltage of the direct current bus matches the bus voltage target value, and the second power converter is configured to derive a current target value, and to pass direct current power, so that a current equal to the current target value flows. |
| US11133672B1 |
System and method for adding a high voltage DC source to a power bus
A system for connecting first and second high voltage direct current (HVDC) sources in parallel to a bus includes one or more contactors connecting the first HVDC source to the bus. The system also includes a bus coupling circuit located between the second HVDC source and the bus that utilizes inductors to couple, in operation, couples the second HVDC source to the bus such that first and second HVDC sources are in parallel with the second positive output is connected to the positive rail and the second negative output connected to the negative rail. The inductors are first connected to the bus though auxiliary contactors and, after a predetermined time, main contactors are closed that provide a path around the inductors. |
| US11133671B2 |
Control device and power conversion device
According to an embodiment of the invention, a control device is provided and controls a power converter that can be connected to a terminal of a direct current power transmission system transmitting power according to a current command value that is set. The control device includes a first characteristic setter having a first characteristic preset. When the power converter is set at a power transmission end of the direct current power transmission system, the first characteristic outputs an output terminal voltage for the power converter. The output terminal voltage corresponds to a current of a current control based on a current command value set at a power receiving end of the direct current power transmission system. The output terminal voltage of the first characteristic monotonously decreasing with respect to the current of the current control. |
| US11133668B2 |
Redundant over-voltage protection/power distribution system for telecommunication systems
A redundant over-voltage protection/power distribution system for a macro/distributed antenna telecommunications system. The overvoltage protection system includes first and second surge protection devices each having one end electrically connected to the power cable upstream of an RRU and a second end electrically connected to ground. The first and second surge protection devices issuing an alert signal when one of the devices is in a failed condition and changing state to provide the RRUs with uninterrupted power for continuous operation of the telecommunications system when one of the surge protection devices has failed. |
| US11133665B2 |
Direct current over voltage monitoring and protection
A direct current (DC) overvoltage monitoring and protection device includes an overvoltage sensor operably connected to an electrical power input line. The overvoltage sensor is configured to change state upon detection of a voltage over a preselected threshold. An overvoltage relay is operably connected to the overvoltage sensor. The overvoltage relay includes one or more relay switches configured to move between a first position and a second position when the voltage over the preselected threshold is detected. An independent relay power source is operably connected to the overvoltage relay to provide electrical power to the overvoltage relay, separate from the electrical power being monitored via the electrical power input line. |
| US11133663B2 |
Reverse current protection circuit
A circuit and method for protecting from reverse current is disclosed. A reverse current protection circuit is coupled to a pass transistor of power circuitry (e.g., a power switch or voltage regulator), the pass transistor being coupled between first and second voltage nodes, the first voltage node being coupled to a power supply circuit. The reverse current protection circuit includes a sensing circuit that is configured to sense an amount of reverse current flowing through the pass transistor (from the second voltage node to the first voltage node). Responsive to the amount of reverse current exceeding a threshold value, the reverse current sensing circuit activates a shunt circuit, which redirects at least some of the reverse current to a reference node (e.g., ground). |
| US11133662B2 |
Battery pack adaptor with overstress detection circuit
An adaptor for connecting a power source to a power tool includes a housing having a first end that is configured to connect to a power source and a second end that is configured to connect to a power tool. The adaptor includes a control circuit disposed within the housing. The control circuit is configured to detect a type of the power tool, to detect an overstress condition in the power tool and to control the power tool responsive to detecting the overstress condition based on the detected type of power tool. |
| US11133659B2 |
Recessed floor fitting and covers therefore
A recessed floor box system is provided herein. The recessed floor box system includes a housing having a set of walls defining an interior chamber; a riser; a non-use cover; and an in-use cover. The riser is connected to the housing and includes an interior opening connected to the interior chamber. The non-use cover is positioned on the riser and across the interior opening. The in-use cover is positioned on the riser and at least partially defines an egress opening that provides access to the interior opening. The in-use cover includes an upper portion having a substantially planar surface and a lower portion having a latch mechanism to secure the cover over the riser. |
| US11133658B2 |
Cable mounting device and cable clamp thereof
A cable clamp, for mounting at least one cable, includes a clamping base, which has a through hole, at least two supporting arms, wherein each of said supporting arms is extended from said clamping base and at least two holding arms disposed intervally to form a holding cavity therebetween, wherein said holding cavity is between said supporting arms for securing said cable, wherein said holding arms of said cable clamp is adapted to engage with said through hole of said adjacent cable clamp so as to arrange two of said cable clamps overlappedly. |
| US11133655B2 |
Protective sheath in particular intended for housing electrical cables
The invention relates to a protective sheath designed, in particular but not exclusively, for an aircraft. The conduit is flexible and can have a small radius of curvature able to be obtained without torsion and allowing access, over the majority or entirety of its length, to the electrical wire or cable inside. The protective sheath (1) comprises a flexible body generally having a cylindrical shape, the flexible body being slit along at least a certain length and along a longitudinal axis, characterised in that the body has an open-work wall and in that the sheath is capable of being deformed along its length in order to be compressed/compacted on itself. |
| US11133654B2 |
Stripping tool
A stripping tool for a cable includes a cutting unit with at least one blade, a cable seat, and a kinematic structure. The kinematic structure is operatively coupled with the cutting unit to move the at least one blade radially with respect to, and rotationally around, a tool axis and the cable seat. A method for stripping a cable includes moving a plurality of blades of a cutting unit with respect to each other radially to and rotationally around a tool axis. The method includes controlling and coordinating the movement of the blades via a kinematic structure. |
| US11133650B2 |
Back side emitting light source array device and electronic apparatus having the same
Provided is a back side emitting light source array device and an electronic apparatus, the back side emitting light source array device includes a substrate, a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) provided on a first surface of the substrate, a plurality of gain layers which are provided on the DBR, the plurality of gain layers being spaced apart from one another, and each of the plurality of gain layers being configured to individually generate light, and a nanostructure reflector provided on the plurality of gain layers opposite to the DBR, and including a plurality of nanostructures having a sub-wavelength shape dimension, wherein a reflectivity of the DBR is less than a reflectivity of the nanostructure reflector such that the light generated is emitted through the substrate. |
| US11133649B2 |
Index and gain coupled distributed feedback laser
A laser includes an active region surrounded by first and second waveguide layers. Two or more mask openings are formed within a dielectric layer on a surface parallel to the active region. A refractive grating is formed on the dielectric mask openings and includes three-dimensional grating features spaced apart in the light-propagation direction of the laser. The refractive grating provides modulation of a real part of the effective refractive index of the laser and modulation of the imaginary part is provided by modulation of the current flow through the mask openings. |
| US11133648B2 |
Laser module
A laser module, comprising: a loading board; an edge emitting laser component arranged on the loading board, and the edge emitting laser component emits a first laser beam; a reflecting component arranged in front of the edge emitting laser component on the loading board for the first laser beam to be reflected vertically, and the edge emitting laser component and reflecting component become a laser emitting module; and a laser receiving module arranged closed to the edge emitting laser component on the loading board to receive the first laser beam reflected from above. |
| US11133643B2 |
Laser apparatus including dew condensation prevention function
A laser apparatus includes: a cooling capacity control means which controls the cooling capacity of a heat receiving/cooling unit; a surrounding member which surrounds a dew condensation prevention target unit including a heat generating unit and which reaches a surrounding member equilibrium temperature higher than the maximum dew point temperature within a housing as the temperature of the heat generating unit is increased; and a temperature detection means which detects the temperature of the surrounding member, a control unit compares, while a current output command is being output to a laser power supply unit, a surrounding member temperature with a switching temperature previously set lower than the surrounding member equilibrium temperature and when the surrounding member temperature is lower than the switching temperature, the control unit controls the cooling capacity control means such that the cooling capacity of the heat receiving/cooling unit is a low level whereas when the surrounding member temperature is equal to or more than the switching temperature, the control unit controls the cooling capacity control means such that the cooling capacity of the heat receiving/cooling unit is equal to or higher than a standard level. |
| US11133641B1 |
Terahertz laser device based on zinc oxide phonon vibration optically excited at room temperature
Disclosed is a terahertz laser device based on phonon vibration excitation, including a resonant cavity composed of a hollow waveguide made of a composite film and optical lenses at both ends of the waveguide, where M represents nano-metal particles. A zinc oxide mesomorphic microsphere is used herein as a source, symmetric stretching vibration of nanosheets on the zinc oxide microsphere is excited and induced by a laser and is transmitted through elastic and electric coupling among the nanosheets, and a terahertz wave with a frequency of 0.36 THz is radiated by means of phonon vibration; moreover, the zinc oxide mesomorphic microspheres and the nano-metal particles are mixed evenly to produce a strong local electric field a few nanometers nearby a surface of the metal particle by taking advantage of a surface-enhanced Raman effect of the nano-metal particles, a nanocantilever of the ZnO mesomorphic microsphere is greatly changed in polarizability with ample contact of the nano-metal particles and the ZnO mesomorphic microspheres, and thus the terahertz radiation power thereof is enhanced. |
| US11133639B2 |
Fast axis thermal lens compensation for a planar amplifier structure
Systems and methods described herein provide a thermally compensated waveguide structure having a thermal index profile configured to correct thermal aberrations caused by temperature gradients in a fast axis direction and/or correct other forms of distortions in an output beam generated by the waveguide structure. The waveguide structure includes a core region, one or more cladding, and one or more heat sinks. A geometry of these portions with respect to each other can provide a cold refractive index profile such that a cold refractive index value of a portion of the core region is less than a cold refractive index value of at least one of the one or more cladding regions. Responsive to thermal compensation, the cold refractive index profile is modified, through addition of a thermal index profile, to form a hot index profile having attributes including good overlap of the fundamental mode with the gain profile and mode clean-up through gain discrimination against higher order modes. |
| US11133632B2 |
Quick connect device for recessed electrical fixtures
A plug and socket combination together with a light source for achieving the look and effect of a recessed lighting fixture with only a standard electrical junction box and without any type of recessed lighting housing. For renovations, a plug and socket combination can be used with an existing conventional recessed lighting housing. |
| US11133631B2 |
Reversible jumper system for non-isolated high power or isolated low power selection
Systems for adjusting power outputs of isolated electronic devices are described. A first connector including an external power pin and a field power pin connects an electronic device to a power supply. The first connector receives a first current level from the power supply at the external power pin, and a second current level from the power supply at the field power pin. A jumper block is configurable in a first position which electrically isolates the external power pin from the field power pin, and a second position which electrically couples the external power pin to the field power pin. The first position directs the first current level from the external power pin to a second connector, and the second position directs a combination of the first current level and the second current level from the external power pin and the field power pin to the second connector. |
| US11133628B2 |
Power strip with device information input and display capabilities
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a power strip, including at least one socket, and a display unit configured to display information of a device plugged into the at least one socket. Through the display unit, the information of the device corresponding to the socket can be conveniently provided, preventing operating incorrectly. |
| US11133626B2 |
High outlet density power distribution unit
Systems and apparatuses are provided in which outlets are coupled to a power distribution unit (PDU) or PDU module in various configurations. The outlets may be coupled to a recessed surface within a PDU housing. The outlets may be coupled to a printed circuit board that is at least partially disposed within the PDU housing. The outlets may extend away from the recessed surface or printed circuit board towards or beyond a front face of the PDU housing. |
| US11133625B2 |
Switched power over ethernet connector
An arc prevention system including a jack having a receptacle, a modular plug sized to be positioned in the receptacle of the jack, the modular connector including, a plurality of contacts, with at least two of the contacts creating an energized electrical path with an external power source in electrical communication with the external power source, a latch extending from a top surface of the modular plug, a switching unit positioned on the latch, a control circuit in electrical communication with the switch and the at least two energized contacts, where the electrical path between the control circuit and the switching unit is not energized, and the control circuit adjusts the energized electrical path to a predetermined electrical level. |
| US11133618B2 |
Electrical connector with hybrid contact set
An electrical connector includes a plurality of contact units each having a first part and a second part mechanically and electrically connected to each other wherein the first part provides the spring contacting section for performing the superior mechanical resiliency while the second part provides the mounting section soldered upon the printed circuit board and configured to lower the impedance compared with the first part and provide strong retention thereof. |
| US11133614B2 |
Low insertion force contact and method of manufacture
A low insertion force contact includes a conductive base layer extending to a mating end including a mating interface configured for mating electrical connection to a mating contact. A silver coating layer is provided on the conductive base layer. The silver coating layer is provided at the mating end. A silver sulfide surface layer forms a solid lubricant directly on the silver coating layer. The silver sulfide surface layer forms a film defining a surface of the low insertion force contact having a controlled thickness at the mating interface. |
| US11133613B2 |
Card edge connector with improved performance at low impedance and superior high frequency
A card edge connector includes an insulative housing with a pair of side walls along a longitudinal direction with a receiving slot therebetween in a transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. The housing has a bottom wall connecting the pair of side walls and under the receiving slot. A plurality of passageways are formed in the housing to receive the corresponding contacts, respectively. Each contact has a retention section, a resilient contacting section and a horizontal soldering section. A vertical distance between the upper face of the bottom wall and the respective soldering sections is within a range between 2.50 mm and 1.00 mm. |
| US11133612B2 |
Fan connector
A fan connector comprises a connector body, a plurality of chip terminals, a plurality of wiring terminals, and a chip circuit board. The connector body comprises an electrical connection slot, a chip slot, and a wiring slot. The plurality of chip terminals and the plurality of wiring terminals are disposed on a sidewall of the electrical connection slot. The plurality of chip terminals corresponds to the plurality of wiring terminals, respectively. The chip circuit board comprises a chip, a circuit board, and a plurality of conductive pads. The chip circuit board is inserted into the chip slot. The plurality of conductive pads is in contact with the corresponding chip terminals. One end of the connector body is connected to a fan, in which a wire passes through the wiring slot and connects to the plurality of wiring terminals. An external plug is possible to insert into the electrical connection slot. |
| US11133609B2 |
Semiconductor device having terminal pin connected by connecting member and method of manufacturing semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes: an insulation circuit substrate including a metal layer and an insulation substrate, the metal layer being formed on one surface of the insulation substrate, a connecting member having a cylindrical shape joined to the metal layer via a bonding material, a terminal pin inserted in the connecting member, and a reinforcement member having a cylindrical shape disposed on an outer periphery of the connecting member. The reinforcement member is made of a material having a hardness greater than that of the connecting member. |
| US11133606B2 |
Wire crimping structure and shielded conductive path
A crimping portion (25) of a connection structure of a shielded wire (11) includes a base plate (30) along an outer periphery of the shielded wire (11). A first crimping piece (31) is cantilevered from a first side of the base plate (30) and is crimped to surround the shielded wire (11). A second crimping piece (36) is cantilevered in a direction opposite the first crimping piece (31) from a second side of the base plate (30) and is crimped to surround the shielded wire (11). A restricting portion (46) is disposed along the outer periphery of the shielded wire (11). First locking portions (34) of the first crimping piece (31) and second locking portions (39) of the second crimping piece (36) lock the restricting portion (46) in directions opposite to each other along the circumferential direction. |
| US11133605B2 |
Antenna structure
An antenna structure includes a ground plane, a feeding connection element, a first radiation element, a second radiation element, a third radiation element, and a shorting radiation element. The feeding connection element is coupled to a signal source. The first radiation element and the second radiation element are coupled to the feeding connection element. The second radiation element and the first radiation element substantially extend in opposite directions. The third radiation element is coupled to the ground plane. The third radiation element partially surrounds the second radiation element. The shorting radiation element is coupled between the feeding connection element and the third radiation element. |
| US11133604B1 |
Circularly symmetric tightly coupled dipole array
An antenna array includes a printed circuit board including printed circuit board elements circumferentially disposed at locations on a surface of the printed circuit board. The printed circuit board elements are disposed in opposing pairs at diametrically opposite locations and include a first member and a second member. The first member intersects the second member which is curved. The antenna array can be an ultra-ultra wide band (UUWB) wavelength scaled array (WSA) tightly coupled dipole array (TCDA) active electronically scanned array (AESA) aperture. |
| US11133601B2 |
Fractal-rectangular reactive impedance surface for antenna miniaturization
Various examples are provided that are related to fractal-based reactive impedance surfaces. These surfaces allow for miniaturization of antennas. In one example, a fractal rectangular reactive impedance surface (FR-RIS) includes a plurality of fractal rectangular (FR) patches having an outer edge defined by a fractal rectangular pattern that is repeated along each side of inner FR patches of the plurality of FR patches. The fractal rectangular pattern of a FR patch matches with the fractal rectangular pattern of an adjacent FR patch. An antenna can include a planar antenna disposed over the FR-RIS. |
| US11133595B2 |
Antenna module using metal bezel and electronic device including thereof
Disclosed is an electronic device including a metal bezel including a bezel patch separated through a bezel slit, a printed circuit board including a first conductive pattern and a second conductive pattern, which are separated through a substrate slit and a communication module transmitting or receiving an antenna signal, using an antenna element including the bezel patch, the first conductive pattern, and the second conductive pattern. The first conductive pattern is connected to a part of the metal bezel. The bezel patch and the second conductive pattern is arranged to be aligned vertically. A bezel cavity is formed between the bezel patch and the second conductive pattern. |
| US11133592B2 |
Chip radio frequency package and radio frequency module
A radio frequency module is provided. The module includes a core member, a front-end integrated circuit (FEIC), a first connection member, a second connection member disposed on an upper surface of the core member, a radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) disposed on an upper surface of the second connection member, and configured to input or output a base signal and a first radio frequency (RF) signal having a frequency higher than a frequency of the base signal, through a wiring layer, a substrate disposed on a lower surface of the first connection member; and an electrical connection structure configured to electrically connect the first connection member and the substrate. The FEIC is configured to input or output the first RF signal and a second RF signal which has a power different from a power of the first RF signal. |
| US11133586B2 |
Antenna array with ABFN circuitry
An antenna array with control circuitry placed at a front of the antenna array and between the antenna elements. By locating the azimuth beamforming network control circuitry on the front of the array and between antenna elements, the antenna elements and the other components can be coupled to the control circuitry without using cables. This leads to a reduction in the number of cable connections and to a reduction in size and weight of the resulting antenna array. The ABFN control circuitry is also used to control the beams formed from each row and not from each column as is usually done. |
| US11133578B2 |
Semiconductor device package comprising an encapsulated and conductively shielded semiconductor device die that provides an antenna feed to a waveguide
A mechanism is provided to reduce a distance of a waveguide antenna from transmit and receive circuitry in an integrated circuit device die. This distance reduction is performed by providing vertical access to radio frequency connections on a top surface of the IC device die. A cavity in the encapsulant of the package can be formed to provide access to the connections and plated to perform a shielding function. A continuous connection from the RF pads is used as a vertical interconnect. The region around the vertical interconnect can be filled with encapsulant potting material and back grinded to form a surface of the semiconductor device package. A waveguide antenna feed can be plated or printed on the vertical interconnect on the surface of the package. |
| US11133567B2 |
Capacitive coupling tuner
Apparatuses, methods of assembling a resonator, and methods of tuning a resonator are provided. An example apparatus may include at least one resonator, at least one input tap coupled to the at least one resonator via capacitive coupling, and at least one tuning element that comprises at least one plate of material. At least a portion of the at least one tuning element may be configured to be positioned between the at least one resonator and the at least one input tap. The at least one tuning element may be configured to be positioned between the at least one resonator and the at least one input tap by at least one spring retention element. |
| US11133565B2 |
Metal-air battery and method of using the same
A metal-air battery is comprised by a metal-air battery unit having a plurality of juxtaposed metal-air battery cells with a small number of components and a simple structure for injection of the electrolytic solution into each cell. Each metal-air battery cell has an air electrode, a metal electrode arranged to face the air electrode, and a casing configured to support the air electrode and the metal electrode. Each casing includes an air chamber and a liquid chamber. Each air chamber has an upper part opened to the outside. The casing has a liquid feeding port communicating with the liquid chamber for admitting an electrolytic solution when the metal-air battery unit is lowered into a container of electrolytic solution. |
| US11133563B2 |
Method of detecting swelling of battery using pressure sensor and electronic device using the method
An electronic device includes a battery; a display; a touch sensor configured to detect a touch on the display; a pressure sensor disposed between the display and the battery configured to detect a pressure on the display; and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to obtain a pressure signal using the pressure sensor, to identify, in response to the obtaining of the pressure signal, touch information including at least one of an occurrence of a touch signal and a position of the touch signal corresponding to the touch obtained through the touch sensor, and to adjust at least one characteristic related to charging of the battery based on at least a portion of the pressure signal and the touch information. |
| US11133560B2 |
Insulating tape and li-ion battery adopting the same
The present application relates to the field of energy storage devices and, particularly, relates to an insulating tape and a Li-ion battery adopting the same. The tape includes a substrate, a hard particle layer and an adhesive layer; the substrate is of a microporous structure, the hard particle layer is stacked on the surface of the substrate, and the particle diameter of the particles of the hard particle layer is greater than the pore diameter of the microporous structure of the substrate, the adhesive layer and the hard particle layer are compositely arranged or separately arranged, the adhesive layer is stacked on a side of the hard particle layer far away from the substrate. The Li-ion battery includes the insulating tape. The Li-ion battery provided by the present application reduces the influence on energy loss of the cell caused by the arrangement of the insulating tape. |
| US11133559B2 |
Polymer composite membrane, fabrication method therefor, and lithium-ion battery
A polymer composite membrane, a method for fabricating same, and a lithium-ion battery including same are provided. The polymer composite membrane includes a porous base membrane and a heat-resistant layer covering at least one side surface of the porous base membrane, the heat-resistant layer includes a plurality of heat-resistant sub-layers sequentially stacked, and pore-blocking temperatures of the heat-resistant sub-layers are sequentially increased from inside to outside; each of the heat-resistant sub-layers includes at least one of a first heat-resistant polymer material and a second heat-resistant polymer material, and each of the heat-resistant sub-layers is separately configured as a fiber network structure; the melting point of the first heat-resistant polymer material is not less than 200° C.; and the melting point of the second heat-resistant polymer material is not less than 100° C. |
| US11133557B2 |
On-vehicle battery pack
An on-vehicle battery pack in which a battery module is housed with a gas release plane facing an inner surface of a sidewall portion of a pack case with a space therebetween, and a restriction plate includes a first plate portion protruding toward the sidewall portion at a height position higher than at least an upper edge of the gas release plane, and a second plate portion extending downwards in the space continuously from a front edge of the first plate portion in a direction in which the first plate portion protrudes. |
| US11133555B2 |
Battery device
A battery device includes: a battery stack including a plurality of battery cells arranged along a predetermined straight direction; a pair of end members that are spaced apart from each other in the straight direction and sandwich the battery stack to prevent battery cells from moving; a temperature adjusting part which includes a heat exchange part for exchanging heat with the battery stack and a flowing passage in which a fluid for exchanging heat with the heat exchange part is flowing; and an end member fixing part to which the end members are fixed. The temperature adjusting part and the end member fixing part are integrally united into a single piece structure made of metal. |
| US11133553B2 |
Battery pack
Provided is a battery pack with an improved sealing force, the battery pack including: a lower case having a space therein and having a groove portion formed to extend along a certain width of an outer top surface; an upper case arranged on the lower case; a battery unit accommodated in an internal space of the lower case and including a plurality of battery cells; and a sealing member inserted into the groove portion to be located between the upper case and the lower case, wherein a cross-sectional shape thereof has an upper surface, a lower surface, and a side surface connecting the upper surface to the lower surface, the upper surface is formed as a curved surface convexed toward the upper case, and a protrusion portion forming a step with the upper surface is located at the side surface. |
| US11133543B2 |
Thermal management device and battery pack
A thermal management device and a battery pack are provided. The thermal management device applied in a battery pack. The battery pack includes a case and a plurality of cells received in the case. The thermal management device includes: a thermal management loop attached to each cell and at least partially covering a part of a vent of each cell; a heat exchange member communicating with the thermal management loop; and a power component connected between the thermal management loop and the heat exchange member. A heat exchange medium with a fire-extinguishing function is provided within the thermal management loop. The thermal management loop is broken in a condition where at least one cell is subjected to thermal runaway such that the heat exchange medium flows into an explosion-proof port of the at least one cell. |
| US11133537B2 |
Performing temperature control on a lithium battery of a vehicle
A technique is performed on a vehicle having a lithium battery and a temperature control apparatus. The technique involves receiving a temperature reading from temperature sensing circuitry. The technique further involves performing a comparison operation that compares the temperature reading from the temperature sensing circuitry to a target temperature range. The technique further involves, in response to a result of the comparison operation indicating that the temperature reading is outside the target temperature range, automatically providing electric power from an external battery charger to the temperature control apparatus of the vehicle. The external battery charger is distinct and separate from the vehicle. Additionally, the temperature control apparatus adjusts the temperature of the lithium battery of the vehicle in response to the electric power automatically provided from the external battery charger (e.g., heating or cooling the lithium battery to improve battery capacity and preserve battery life). |
| US11133536B2 |
Apparatus and method for managing battery
Provided are battery management apparatuses and methods. The battery management apparatus includes a converter configured to acquire and convert information of a battery cell, an antenna configured to transmit the converted information to an adjacent battery cell and to receive converted information of the adjacent battery cell, in response to a command of a controller, and a coil configured to wirelessly charge or discharge the adjacent battery cell, in response to another command of the controller, wherein the controller is configured to control the wireless charging or the wireless discharging based on information of the adjacent battery cell. |
| US11133533B2 |
Differential voltage measurement device
Provided is a differential voltage measurement device with enhanced measurement accuracy. A differential amplifying unit outputs a voltage corresponding to a difference voltage between a voltage held by the first capacitor and a voltage held by the second capacitor. The μCOM connects a battery cell to both ends of the first capacitor, and connects the cell battery to both ends of the second after the first capacitor holds the voltage across the cell battery. SW disconnects the electrical connection between the first capacitor and the negative electrode of and the negative electrode of the cell battery. μCOM, after the first capacitor holds the voltage across the cell battery, turns off the SW. |
| US11133523B2 |
Aqueous electrolytes with protonic ionic liquid and batteries using the electrolyte
An aqueous electrolyte composition suitable for a lithium ion battery is provided. The aqueous electrolyte composition contains water, an ionic liquid which is a salt of a protonic cation and an anion comprising a fluoroalkylsulfonyl group and a lithium fluoroalkylsulfonyl salt. A lithium ion battery containing the aqueous electrolyte and a vehicle at least partially powered by the battery are also provided. |
| US11133520B2 |
Systems and methods for fuel cells energy storage and recovery
Systems and methods to overcome limited efficiency of energy storage and recovery processes in fuel cells are provided. The system include a particle regeneration subsystem for applying electrical energy to regenerate metallic particulate fuel; a fuel storage subsystem for storing metallic particulate fuel, the fuel storage subsystem in fluid communication with the particle regeneration subsystem; and a power generation subsystem for producing electrical energy from the metallic particulate fuel, the power generation subsystem in fluid communication with the fuel storage subsystem; a bearer electrolyte for transporting the metallic particulate fuel through the particle regeneration subsystem, the fuel storage subsystem and the power generation subsystem; and a control unit configured to independently control flow of the bearer electrolyte between the particle regeneration subsystem and the fuel storage subsystem, and the fuel storage subsystem and the power generation subsystem. |
| US11133519B2 |
Fuel cell assembly including varied flow resistance
An illustrative example fuel cell assembly includes at least one cooler and a plurality of fuel cells each having an anode and a cathode. Each of the anodes includes an anode flow plate configured to allow fuel to flow through the anode. The anode flow plates have a respective flow resistance that varies among at least some of the anodes based on a distance between the corresponding anode and the cooler. |
| US11133510B2 |
Anode for an electrochemical cell and method for producing an electrochemical cell comprising such an anode
The invention relates to an electrode for an electrochemical cell, wherein an electrode is flatly applied onto a surface of a solid oxide electrolyte, and a cathode is flatly applied onto the solid oxide electrolyte surface opposite the electrode. The base material of the electrode is a composite whose catalytically active metal component contains a nickel phase which is made of NiO as part of the electrode starting material by reducing the NiO in a hydrogen-containing atmosphere. The ceramic component is made with a doped cerium oxide and a spinel made of at least one transition metal selected from Ni, Mn, Fe, and Cr. |
| US11133509B2 |
Grid current collector and associated devices and methods
The present invention relates to a current collector comprising: a substrate, the substrate being made of a first material, the first material comprising a polymer, and a grid in contact with the substrate, the grid being made of a second material, the second material comprising metal particles. |
| US11133503B2 |
Process for making cathode materials, and reactor suitable for carrying out said process
Process for making an at least partially coated particulate material, said process comprising the following steps: (a) providing a particulate material selected from lithiated nickel-cobalt aluminum oxides and layered lithium transition metal oxides, (a) treating said cathode active material with a metal alkoxide or metal amide or alkyl metal compound in a fluidized bed, (b) treating the material obtained in step (b) with moisture in a fluidized bed, and, optionally, repeating the sequence of steps (b) and (c), wherein the superficial gas velocity in the fluidized beds in steps (b) and (c) decreases with increasing reactor height. |
| US11133498B2 |
Binding agents for electrochemically active materials and methods of forming the same
In some embodiments, an electrode can include a current collector, a composite material in electrical communication with the current collector, and at least one phase configured to adhere the composite material to the current collector. The current collector can include one or more layers of metal, and the composite material can include electrochemically active material. The at least one phase can include a compound of the metal and the electrochemically active material. In some embodiments, a composite material can include electrochemically active material. The composite material can also include at least one phase configured to bind electrochemically active particles of the electrochemically active material together. The at least one phase can include a compound of metal and the electrochemically active material. |
| US11133494B2 |
Negative electrode plate and secondary battery comprising the same
The disclosure relates to a secondary battery comprising a negative electrode plate the same. Specifically, the present disclosure provides secondary battery, comprising a negative electrode plate, the negative electrode plate comprises a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode layer coated on at least one surface of the negative electrode current collector, the negative electrode layer comprising a negative electrode active material, wherein the negative electrode active material comprises a graphite material, and the negative electrode layer fulfills the condition: 0.75≤7.8/D50+1.9*D50/(VOI)2≤2.0, wherein D50 represents a volume distribution average particle diameter of particles of the negative electrode active material in micron; VOI represents the OI value of the negative electrode layer. The secondary battery has the combination of high energy density, fast charge, and long cycle life. |
| US11133493B2 |
Anode for a lithium-ion battery cell, production method thereof and battery including same
Polymer composition for an electrode, method, and a lithium-ion battery including same are provided. This composition includes an active material having a graphite usable in the anode, an electrically conductive filler and a cross-linked elastomer binder that includes a hydrogenated acrylonitrile butadiene copolymer (HNBR). The binder includes a non-hydrogenated acrylonitrile butadiene copolymer (NBR) and/or a HNBR with an acrylonitrile content that is at least 40% by weight and cross-linked by thermal oxidation. This method includes: a) mixing the active material, the binder in a non-cross-linked state and the electrically conductive filler, to obtain a precursor mixture of the composition, b) depositing the mixture on a metal current collector so that the mixture forms a non-cross-linked film, then c) thermal oxidation of the non-cross-linked film under an atmosphere containing oxygen at a temperature of between 200 and 300° C., to obtain the electrode in which the binder is cross-linked. |
| US11133486B2 |
Electroluminescent lighting device
The present disclosure relates to an electroluminescent lighting device. The present disclosure provides an electroluminescence light device comprising: a substrate including an emission area and a non-emission area surrounding the emission area; a routing line surrounding the emission area at the non-emission area; an auxiliary line being disposed in the emission area, connecting the routing line and defining a pixel area; a reflective electrode disposed within the pixel area; a high resistance layer covering the routing line, the auxiliary line and the reflective electrode; an emission layer on the high resistance layer over the emission area; and a cathode layer on the emission layer. |
| US11133485B2 |
Light-emitting device and electrode thereof
A light-emitting device and an electrode thereof are provided. The electrode includes a first electrode and an auxiliary electrode. The auxiliary electrode is disposed on the first electrode and covers a portion of the first electrode. A material of the first electrode is a metal oxide or alkali metal salt doped with a metal. A material of the auxiliary electrode includes a metal or an alloy thereof. |
| US11133482B2 |
Light-emitting element, display device, electronic device, and lighting device
Provided is a light-emitting element including a fluorescence-emitting material with high emission efficiency. The light-emitting element includes a pair of electrodes and an EL layer between the pair of electrodes. The EL layer includes a first organic compound, a second organic compound, and a guest material. The first organic compound has a function of emitting a thermally activated delayed fluorescence at room temperature. The guest material has a function of emitting fluorescence. A HOMO level of the first organic compound higher than or equal to a HOMO level of the second organic compound. A LUMO level of the first organic compound is lower than or equal to a LUMO level of the second organic compound. |
| US11133472B1 |
Organic light-emitting diode having long lifespan, low voltage, and high efficiency property
The present disclosure relates to an organic light-emitting diode and, more particularly, to an organic-light-emitting diode comprising: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and a light-emitting layer intercalated between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the light-emitting layer comprises at least one of the amine compounds represented by the following Chemical Formula A and at least one of the anthracene compounds represented by the following Chemical Formula B or C. The structures of Chemical Formulas A to C are the same as in the specification. |
| US11133467B2 |
Access devices to correlated electron switch
Subject matter disclosed herein may relate to programmable fabrics including correlated electron switch devices. |
| US11133460B2 |
Methods for forming structures with desired crystallinity for MRAM applications
Embodiments of the disclosure provide methods and apparatus for fabricating magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structures on a substrate in for spin-transfer-torque magnetoresistive random access memory (STT-MRAM) applications. In one example, a film stack utilized to form a magnetic tunnel junction structure on a substrate includes a pinned layer disposed on a substrate, wherein the pinned layer comprises multiple layers including at least one or more of a Co containing layer, Pt containing layer, Ta containing layer, an Ru containing layer, an optional structure decoupling layer disposed on the pinned magnetic layer, a magnetic reference layer disposed on the optional structure decoupling layer, a tunneling barrier layer disposed on the magnetic reference layer, a magnetic storage layer disposed on the tunneling barrier layer, and a capping layer disposed on the magnetic storage layer. |
| US11133456B2 |
Magnetic storage device
According to one embodiment, a magnetic storage device includes: a magnetoresistive effect element including a non-magnet, and a stacked structure on the non-magnet, the stacked structure including: a first ferromagnet on the non-magnet; an anti-ferromagnet being exchange-coupled with the first ferromagnet; and a second ferromagnet between the first ferromagnet and the anti-ferromagnet. The stacked structure is configured to: have a first resistance value in response to a first current flowing through the stacked structure in a first direction, and have a second resistance value different from the first resistance value in response to a second current flowing through the stacked structure in a second direction opposite to the first direction. |
| US11133455B2 |
Reduced hysteresis and reduced creep in nanovoided polymer devices
An example device includes a nanovoided polymer element, which may be located at least in part between the electrodes. In some examples, the nanovoided polymer element may include anisotropic voids, including a gas, and separated from each other by polymer walls. The device may be an electroactive device, such as an actuator having a response time for a transition between actuation states. The gas may have a characteristic diffusion time (e.g., to diffuse half the mean wall thickness through the polymer walls) that is less than the response time. The nanovoids may be sufficiently small (e.g., below 1 micron in diameter or an analogous dimension), and/or the polymer walls may be sufficiently thin, such that the gas interchange between gas in the voids and gas absorbed by the polymer walls may occur faster than the response time, and in some examples, effectively instantaneously. |
| US11133453B2 |
Piezoelectric driving device, piezoelectric motor, robot, electronic-component conveying apparatus, printer, and projector
A piezoelectric driving device includes a substrate, a first insulating film disposed on the substrate, a piezoelectric element for driving disposed on the first insulating film and configured to vibrate the substrate, a piezoelectric element for detection configured to detect the vibration of the substrate, a wire for driving electrically connected to the piezoelectric element for driving, a wire for detection electrically connected to the piezoelectric element for detection, and a lower layer wire disposed between the first insulating film and the substrate and set to fixed potential. At least one of the wire for driving and the wire for detection overlaps at least a part of the lower layer wire. |
| US11133448B2 |
Light emitting device
A light emitting device according to one aspect includes a resin package and a light emitting element. The resin package includes a molded resin part defining a part of a recessed portion, and a pair of leads. The leads are exposed from the molded resin part at a bottom surface of the recessed portion. Each of the leads includes a plating layer and exposed from the molded resin part at a lower surface of the resin package. A height of a first part of the plating layer exposed from the lower surface of the resin package and adjacent to an edge of a corresponding one of the leads is different from a height of a second part of the plating layer exposed from the lower surface of the resin package. The light emitting element is mounted on the bottom surface of the recessed portion. |
| US11133446B2 |
Optoelectronic component
An optoelectronic component may include an optoelectronic semiconductor chip having an upper side and a lower side. An emitting region may be formed on the upper side. The emitting region may be configured to emit electromagnetic radiation. A subsurface, forming the emitting region, of the upper side may be smaller than a total surface of the upper side. A collimating optical element may be arranged over the emitting region. |
| US11133445B2 |
Resin composition for circuit board, and metal-base circuit board in which same is used
Provided are a metal-base circuit board having excellent solder crack resistance, thermal conductivity, adhesive property, and insulation property and a resin composition for a circuit board used for the metal-base circuit board. A resin composition for a circuit board comprises a vinylsilyl group-containing polysiloxane (having a vinylsilyl group equivalent of 0.005 to 0.045 mol/kg) comprising (A) a dual-end type vinylsilyl group-containing polysiloxane having a weight average molecular weight of 30,000 to 80,000 and (B) a side-chain dual-end type vinylsilyl group-containing polysiloxane having a weight average molecular weight of 100,000 or more, a hydrosilyl group-containing polysiloxane (having a hydrosilyl group equivalent of 6 mol/kg or more), and an inorganic filler at 60 to 80% by volume. The mass ratio of (A) to (B), (A)/(B), is 80/20 to 30/70, and the molar ratio of (C) a hydrosilyl group to (D) a vinylsilyl group, (C)/(D), is 2.5 to 5.0. |
| US11133444B2 |
Light emitting apparatus, projector, and method for manufacturing light emitting apparatus
The light emitting apparatus includes a light emitting device including a first base at which a laminate is provided and a second base at which the light emitting device is provided. The laminate includes a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer of a conductivity type different from the conductivity type of the first semiconductor layer, and a light emitting layer provided between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer and capable of emitting light when current is injected into the light emitting layer. The laminate includes a plurality of columnar sections. Connecting member is so provided between the adjacent columnar sections as to be connected to the adjacent columnar sections. The laminate is connected to the second base on the side opposite the first base. |
| US11133443B2 |
Light emitting device package and method of manufacturing light emitting device package
A light emitting device package includes a mounting substrate including first and second lower electrode portions separated by a first groove, first and second upper electrode portions separated by a second groove connected to the first groove and disposed on the first and second lower electrode portions respectively, and an insulation support member filling the first groove, a light emitting device mounted on the first and second upper electrode portions of the mounting substrate, a double phosphor film covering an upper surface of the light emitting device, including a phosphor layer and a barrier layer sequentially stacked on each other, and having a thickness of 200 μm or less, and a sealing member on the mounting substrate covering the light emitting device and the double phosphor film. |
| US11133441B2 |
Light emitting device and lighting fixture provided with the same
Provided is a light emitting device, comprising: a light emitting element including a light emission peak wavelength in a range of 440 nm or more and 470 nm or less; a first fluorescent material having a light emission peak wavelength in a range of 480 nm or more and 518 nm or less; a second fluorescent material having a light emission peak wavelength in a range of 510 nm or more and less than 590 nm and having an x value of the chromaticity coordinate in CIE1931 in a range of 0.27 or more and 0.40 or less; and a third fluorescent material having a light emission peak wavelength in a range of 590 nm or more and 670 nm or less. The light emitting device is capable of reducing the human eye fatigue and having a light emission spectrum with excellent visual work. |
| US11133440B2 |
LEDs with efficient electrode structures
Aspects include Light Emitting Diodes that have a GaN-based light emitting region and a metallic electrode. The metallic electrode can be physically separated from the GaN-based light emitted region by a layer of porous dielectric, which provides a reflecting region between at least a portion of the metallic electrode and the GaN-based light emitting region. |
| US11133437B2 |
Optoelectronic device with light-emitting diode with extraction enhancement
An optoelectronic device including an active area capable of supplying an electromagnetic radiation and sandwiched between first and second semiconductor layers, the first semiconductor layer delimiting a surface and including a first portion in contact with the active area and delimiting a first part of the surface and extending in a second portion delimiting a second part of the surface, the second portion forming a single-mode waveguide, the optoelectronic device including an opaque portion reflective for the electromagnetic radiation covering the first part and including a diffraction grating on the second part capable of extracting the electromagnetic radiation from the second portion. |
| US11133435B2 |
Nitride semiconductor substrate, manufacturing method therefor, and semiconductor device
Provided is a technique for manufacturing a nitride semiconductor substrate with which it is possible to manufacture a nitride semiconductor substrate having sufficiently reduced dislocation density with a large area even if manufactured on an inexpensive substrate made of sapphire, etc. A nitride semiconductor substrate in which a nitride semiconductor layer formed on a substrate is formed by laminating an undoped nitride layer and a rare earth element-added nitride layer to which a rare earth element is added as a doping material, and the dislocation density is of the order of 106 cm−2 or less. A method for manufacturing a nitride semiconductor substrate in which a step for growing GaN, InN, AlN, or a mixed crystal of two or more thereof on a substrate to form an undoped nitride layer, and a step for forming a rare earth element-added nitride layer to which a rare earth element is added so as to be substituted for Ga, In, or Al are performed via a series of formation steps using an organic metal vapor epitaxial technique at a temperature of 900 to 1200° C. without extraction from a reaction vessel. |
| US11133431B2 |
Light emitting diode with ion implanted resistive area, manufacturing method of light emitting diode with ion implanted resistive area and display device including light emitting diode with ion implanted resistive area
An LED, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device including an LED are provided. Specifically, the disclosure relates to a flip-chip LED with high efficiency including a current confinement structure and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device including such an LED. In particular, a flip-chip LED according to the disclosure includes a resistive area that surrounds a light-emitting layer and restricts current flow from the light emitting layer to the sidewalls. |
| US11133429B2 |
Group-IV solar cell structure using group-IV or III-V heterostructures
Device structures, apparatuses, and methods are disclosed for photovoltaic cells that may be a single-junction or multijunction solar cells, with at least a first layer comprising a group-IV semiconductor in which part of the cell comprises a second layer comprising a III-V semiconductor or group-IV semiconductor having a different composition than the group-IV semiconductor of the first layer, such that a heterostructure is formed between the first and second layers. |
| US11133427B2 |
Light receiving device
A light receiving device includes a substrate, a first contact layer disposed on a surface of the substrate, a light receiving layer disposed on the first contact layer, an intermediate layer disposed on the light receiving layer, a wide-gap layer having a pn junction disposed on the intermediate layer, a second contact layer disposed on the wide-gap layer, and a groove formed for pixel isolation by removing the second contact layer and part of the wide-gap layer, wherein the intermediate layer has a wider band gap than the light receiving layer, and wherein the wide-gap layer has a wider band gap than the intermediate layer. |
| US11133425B2 |
Solar cell
Provided is a solar cell, comprising a first electrode having a light-transmissive property, a second electrode, a light-absorbing layer located between the first electrode and the second electrode, and an intermediate layer located between the first electrode and the light-absorbing layer. The light-absorbing layer contains a fluorine compound and a perovskite compound which is represented by a chemical formula ASnX3 (where A is a monovalent cation and X is a halogen anion). The intermediate layer contains at least one selected from the group consisting of a metal oxide, a metal sulfide, a metal chalcogenide, and a metal nitride. An upper surface of the intermediate layer is in contact with a lower surface of the light-absorbing layer. A molar ratio of fluorine atoms to the perovskite compound is not less than 49% at an interface between the light-absorbing layer and the intermediate layer. |
| US11133421B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a fin-type pattern on a substrate, the fin-type pattern extending in a first direction and protruding from the substrate in a third direction, a first wire pattern on the fin-type pattern, the first wire pattern being spaced apart from the fin-type pattern in the third direction, and a gate electrode extending in a second direction, which is perpendicular to the first and third directions, and surrounding the first wire pattern, the gate electrode including a first portion that overlaps with the fin-type pattern in the second direction and a second portion corresponding to a remainder of the gate electrode except for the first portion. |
| US11133416B2 |
Methods of forming semiconductor devices having plural epitaxial layers
In an embodiment, a device includes: a fin extending from a substrate; a gate stack over a channel region of the fin; and a source/drain region in the fin adjacent the channel region, the source/drain region including: a first epitaxial layer contacting sidewalls of the fin, the first epitaxial layer including silicon and germanium doped with a dopant, the first epitaxial layer having a first concentration of the dopant; and a second epitaxial layer on the first epitaxial layer, the second epitaxial layer including silicon and germanium doped with the dopant, the second epitaxial layer having a second concentration of the dopant, the second concentration being greater than the first concentration, the first epitaxial layer and the second epitaxial layer having a same germanium concentration. |
| US11133414B2 |
Semiconductor device having low Rdson and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first P-type well region and a second P-type well region disposed in the substrate, wherein the first P-type well region and the second P-type well region are spaced apart from each other, an N-type source region disposed in the substrate, wherein the N-type source region is disposed spaced apart from the second P-type well region, an N-type drain region disposed in the second P-type well region, an N-type LDD region disposed near the N-type drain region, and a gate insulating layer and a gate electrode on the substrate, wherein the gate electrode partially overlaps the second P-type well region. |
| US11133411B2 |
Semiconductor device with reduced on-resistance
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first electrode, a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type, a third semiconductor region of the first conductivity type, a first insulating portion, a second electrode, a gate electrode, a second insulating portion, and a third electrode. The second electrode is provided inside the first insulating portion, and includes a portion opposing the first semiconductor region in the second direction. The gate electrode is provided inside the first insulating portion and opposes the second semiconductor region with a gate insulating layer interposed in the second direction. The second insulating portion is linked to the first insulating portion. The third electrode is electrically connected to the second semiconductor region, and the third semiconductor region. |
| US11133407B2 |
Super-junction IGBT device and method for manufacturing same
A super-junction IGBT device comprises a plurality of N-type pillars and a plurality of P-type pillars which are alternately arrayed in a horizontal direction. Device cell structures are formed at tops of super-junction cells and each comprise a trench gate having a gate trench striding across an interface of the corresponding P-type pillar and the corresponding N-type pillar. A body region is formed at a top of the corresponding N-type pillar, and a source region is formed on a surface of the body region. The top of each N-type pillar is provided with one body region and two trench gates located on two sides of the body region, and each body region is isolated from the P-type pillars on the two sides of the body region through the corresponding trench gates. The invention further discloses a method for manufacturing a super-junction IGBT device. Self-isolation of the P-type pillars is realized, the on-state current capacity of the device is improved, and the on-state voltage drop of the device is reduced. |
| US11133403B2 |
Tunnel field effect transistor
A device includes a substrate, a first doping portion, a second doping portion, a channel, a semiconductor film, a high-k layer, and a gate. The first doping portion and the second doping portion are over the substrate. The channel is over the substrate and between the first doping portion and the second doping portion. The semiconductor film is around the channel. The high-k layer is around the semiconductor film. The gate is over the high-k layer. |
| US11133400B2 |
Structure and formation method of semiconductor device structure
Structures and formation methods of a semiconductor device structure are provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a gate stack over a semiconductor substrate and a cap element over the gate stack. The cap element has an upper portion and a lower portion, and the upper portion is wider than the lower portion. The semiconductor device structure also includes a spacer element over a sidewall of the cap element and a sidewall of the gate stack. |
| US11133397B2 |
Method for forming lateral heterojunction bipolar devices and the resulting devices
One illustrative method of forming heterojunction bipolar devices includes, among other things, forming a first gate structure above an active semiconductor layer, forming a second gate structure adjacent a first side of the first gate structure, forming a third gate structure adjacent a second side of the first gate structure, forming an emitter of a bipolar transistor in the active semiconductor layer between the first gate structure and the second gate structure, forming a collector of the bipolar transistor in the active semiconductor layer between the first gate structure and the third gate structure, and forming a first base contact contacting the active region adjacent an end of the first gate structure, wherein a portion of the active semiconductor layer positioned under the first gate structure defines a base of the bipolar transistor. |
| US11133389B2 |
Pnictide nanocomposite structure for lattice stabilization
A layered structure for semiconductor application is described herein. The layered structure includes III-V semiconductor and uses pnictide nanocomposites to control lattice distortion in a series of layers. The distortion is tuned to bridge lattice mismatch between binary III-V semiconductors. In some embodiments, the layered structure further includes dislocation filters. |
| US11133387B2 |
FinFETs having dielectric punch-through stoppers
A semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate; a planar transistor on a first portion of the semiconductor substrate, wherein the first portion of the semiconductor substrate has a first top surface; and a multiple-gate transistor on a second portion of the semiconductor substrate. The second portion of the semiconductor substrate is recessed from the first top surface to form a fin of the multiple-gate transistor. The fin is electrically isolated from the semiconductor substrate by an insulator. |
| US11133383B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same
A semiconductor device including a buried insulating layer on a substrate; a lower semiconductor layer on the buried insulating layer, the lower semiconductor layer including a first material; a channel pattern on the lower semiconductor layer, the channel pattern being spaced apart from the lower semiconductor layer and including a second material different from the first material; and a gate electrode surrounding at least a portion of the channel pattern. |
| US11133382B2 |
Semiconductor nanoparticle, semiconductor nanoparticle-containing dispersion liquid, and film
An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor nanoparticle exhibiting excellent air durability, a semiconductor nanoparticle-containing dispersion liquid containing the semiconductor nanoparticle, and a film containing the semiconductor nanoparticle. In the semiconductor nanoparticle of the present invention, zinc, sulfur, and indium are detected by energy dispersive X-ray analysis, and a molar ratio Zn/In of zinc to indium which is acquired by the energy dispersive X-ray analysis satisfies Expression (1a). 7≤Zn/In≤15 (1a) |
| US11133377B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer made of a wide bandgap semiconductor and including a gate trench; a gate insulating film formed on the gate trench; and a gate electrode embedded in the gate trench to be opposed to the semiconductor layer through the gate insulating film. The semiconductor layer includes a first conductivity type source region; a second conductivity type body region; a first conductivity type drift region; a second conductivity type first breakdown voltage holding region; a source trench passing through the first conductivity type source region and the second conductivity type body region from the front surface and reaching a drain region; and a second conductivity type second breakdown voltage region selectively formed on an edge portion of the source trench where the sidewall and the bottom wall thereof intersect with each other in a parallel region of the source trench. |
| US11133373B2 |
Display device
Disclosed is a display device, including: a substrate including a pixel area and a peripheral area; pixels provided in the pixel area as a plurality of pixel rows and a plurality of pixel columns; data lines configured to provide a data signal; scan lines configured to provide a scan signal; first power lines configured to provide a power source to the pixel columns; and a second power line connected to the first power lines and disposed in the peripheral area. A scan line connected to an ith pixel row may apply a scan signal to the ith pixel row, and a branched line branched from the scan line may apply an initialization signal to a kth pixel row (k≠i). A branched point of the scan line is disposed between a pixel most adjacent to the second power line of the ith pixel row and the second power line. |
| US11133370B2 |
Organic light emitting diode display device and manufacturing method thereof
An organic light emitting diode display includes a substrate including a display area and a pad area, a first thin film transistor disposed on the display area, an organic light emitting diode connected to the first thin film transistor, a pad electrode disposed on the pad area and a pad contact electrode disposed on an upper portion of the pad electrode and electrically connected to the pad electrode. The organic light emitting diode includes an anode, an organic emission layer, and a cathode. The anode includes a lower layer, an intermediate layer, and an upper layer. The pad contact electrode is formed of a material of the lower layer of the anode. |
| US11133369B2 |
Flexible display panel and manufacturing method thereof
A flexible display panel and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The flexible display panel includes: a base substrate, a circuit structure layer, and a via hole; the circuit structure layer is located on an upper surface of the base substrate, a protrusion in an annular shape is provided at a side of the circuit structure layer away from the base substrate, the via hole penetrates the circuit structure layer, and the protrusion surrounds the via hole. |
| US11133368B2 |
Display module
Organic EL display module including a pixel disposed in respective intersections between a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines, which lines are aligned in a matrix, and a current supply line that supplies electric current to the pixel, wherein the pixel includes an active device selected by the scanning line, a data storage device that stores a data signal that is supplied from the data line by control of the active device, and an organic light emitting device that emits light by the electric current supplied by the current supply line according to the data signal stored in the data storage device, wherein the data storage device provides a lower electrode, an insulating layer and an upper electrode, and wherein the lower electrode has a same layer with a channel layer of the active device and the upper electrode is made of a metal material. |
| US11133362B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a substrate including a display area, a peripheral area, and a pad area, first and second voltage lines, and an island dam. The first voltage line is disposed between a first side of the display area and the pad area, the second voltage line is disposed at other sides of the display area, and the island dam is disposed between the display area and the pad area. The first voltage line includes a first main voltage line, and a first connection unit that protrudes from the first main voltage line and extends toward the pad area. The second voltage line includes a second main voltage line, and a second connection unit that protrudes from an end of the second main voltage line and extends toward the pad area. The island dam extends substantially parallel to the first main voltage line. |
| US11133359B2 |
Integrated layered electronic display sheets for placement on product packaging and in printed media
A thin, sheetlike, electronic, self-powered component including at least a display device and/or a sensor, as well as an energy source or a combination of the preceding is provided. Furthermore, the integration of this electrical component in existing products, especially printing and paper products, without the objects having to be damaged or destroyed is provided. |
| US11133357B2 |
Drive circuit arrangement for display panel and display device
Display panel and display device are provided. The display panel includes fingerprint recognition units, a substrate, drive circuits, and organic light-emitting units. A distance between two adjacent drive circuits in each drive circuit group is less than a distance between two adjacent drive circuits in two adjacent drive circuit groups along a first direction. The drive circuits from a first row to an i-th row is a first drive circuit, and the drive circuits from a j-th row to an M-th row is a second drive circuit. A first direction component, along the first direction, of each of vias that correspond to at least a portion of the first drive circuit pointing to a first corresponding electrically-connected anode, and a second direction component, along the first direction, of each of vias that correspond to at least a portion of the second drive circuit pointing to a second corresponding electrically-connected anode, are opposite components. |
| US11133356B2 |
Touch panel, method for manufacturing the same, and touch device
A touch panel including a flexible substrate, a thin film transistor layer, an anode layer, a light emitting layer, and a cathode layer which are stacked in sequence. The thin film transistor layer includes a drain. The anode layer is electrically connected with the drain. The cathode layer includes multiple touch electrodes arranged in matrix. The touch electrodes are insulated from one another at intervals, and each touch electrode is electrically connected with a signal transmission line. Time for displaying each frame in the touch panel includes display time and touch detection time. A method for manufacturing the touch panel is also provided. |
| US11133355B2 |
Input sensor and display device having the same
An input sensor includes a first pattern and a second pattern overlapping with the first pattern with an intermediate insulating layer interposed therebetween. The second pattern is disposed on the intermediate insulating layer and connected to the first pattern via a contact hole defined through the intermediate insulating layer. The first pattern includes a first mesh line extending along a reference direction, and the second pattern includes a second mesh line extending along the reference direction and overlapping with the first mesh line. An edge of the first mesh line and an edge of the second mesh line are not aligned with each other along a direction perpendicular to a line width direction and the reference direction. |
| US11133353B2 |
Display device having a reflective portion covered bank sidewall
A display device includes a substrate provided with a first subpixel area, and a second subpixel area adjacent to one side of the first subpixel area, a first electrode provided on the substrate, including a first sub electrode provided on the first subpixel area and a second sub electrode provided on the second subpixel area, an organic light emitting layer arranged on the first electrode, a second electrode arranged on the organic light emitting layer, a bank provided between the first sub electrode and the second sub electrode, partitioning the first subpixel area from the second subpixel area, and a reflective portion provided on the bank, adjoining the organic light emitting layer. |
| US11133349B2 |
Short-wave infrared detector array and fabrication methods thereof
Disclosed are methods of fabricating short-wave infrared detector arrays including readout and absorption wafers connected by a recrystallized a-Si layer. The absorber wafer includes a SWIR conversion layer with a Ge1-xSnx alloy composition. Process steps realize the readout wafer and a portion of the absorption wafer, including bonding the readout wafer and a first portion of the absorption wafer. The a-Si intermediate layer linking the readout wafer and the first portion of the absorption wafer the a-Si intermediate layer is recrystallized by applying heat by a light source. The method assures a temperature profile between the light entrance surface and the CMOS electronic layer of the readout wafer maintaining readout layer temperature <350° C. during recrystallization. After the recrystallization process step the absorption wafer is completed by depositing the SWIR conversion layer. Also disclosed is a SWIR detector array realized by the method and SWIR detector array applications. |
| US11133348B2 |
Sensor package structure and sensing module thereof
A sensor package structure and a sensing module thereof are provided. The sensor package structure includes a substrate, a sensor chip disposed on the substrate, a light-curing layer disposed on the sensor chip, a light-permeable layer arranged above the sensor chip through the light-curing layer, and a shielding layer disposed on a surface of the light-permeable layer. The light-curing layer has an inner lateral side and an outer lateral side opposite to the inner lateral side, and the inner lateral side is separated from the outer lateral side by a first distance. In a transverse direction parallel to a top surface of the sensor chip, the outer lateral side is separated from an outer lateral edge by a second distance which is within a range of ½ to ⅓ of the first distance. |
| US11133345B2 |
Active matrix substrate, X-ray imaging panel with the same, and method of manufacturing the same
An active matrix substrate includes a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion element, and a second electrode on a substrate. The first electrode, the photoelectric conversion element, and the second electrode are covered with a first inorganic insulating film including a first opening on the second electrode. The first organic insulating film including a second opening is provided on the first inorganic insulating film, and a surface of the first organic insulating film inside the second opening is covered with a second inorganic insulating film including a third opening overlapping the first opening in a plan view. A conductive film in contact with the second electrode in the first opening is provided on the second inorganic insulating film. |
| US11133340B2 |
Device comprising photodiode and method of making the same
A photosensor device and the method of making the same are provided. In one embodiment, the device includes at least one pixel cell. The at least one pixel cell includes a substrate formed from a semiconductor material, and includes first and second photosensor regions. The first photosensor region is disposed in the substrate and includes a first dopant of a first conductivity type. The second photosensor region is disposed above the first photosensor region and includes a second dopant of a second conductivity type. The second photosensor region can have an increase in dopant concentration from an outer edge to a center portion therein. |
| US11133336B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of semiconductor device
A semiconductor device having a large storage capacity per unit area is provided.The semiconductor device including a memory string, where the memory string includes a memory cell and a transistor; the memory cell includes a first conductor having a first opening, a first insulator provided inside the first opening, a second insulator provided inside the first insulator, a third insulator provided inside the second insulator, and a first oxide provided inside the third insulator; the transistor includes a second conductor having a second opening, the first insulator provided inside the second opening, the first oxide provided inside the first insulator, a fifth insulator provided inside the first oxide, and a third conductor provided inside the fifth insulator; the second conductor includes a region overlapping with the first oxide with the first insulator therebetween; and the third conductor includes a region overlapping with the first oxide with the fifth insulator therebetween. |
| US11133334B2 |
Array substrate with stacked gate lines, manufacturing method thereof, and display device with stacked gate lines
An array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device including the array substrate. The array substrate includes a plurality of gate line groups and a plurality of data lines disposed on a substrate, the plurality of gate line groups intersecting with the plurality of data lines to define a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array, wherein each of the plurality of gate line groups includes a first gate line and a second gate line insulated from each other, and orthographic projections of the first gate line and the second gate line of each of the plurality of gate line groups on the substrate at least partially overlap. |
| US11133331B2 |
Integrated tensile strained silicon NFET and compressive strained silicon-germanium PFET implemented in FinFET technology
A tensile strained silicon layer is patterned to form a first group of fins in a first substrate area and a second group of fins in a second substrate area. The second group of fins is covered with a tensile strained material, and an anneal is performed to relax the tensile strained silicon semiconductor material in the second group of fins and produce relaxed silicon semiconductor fins in the second area. The first group of fins is covered with a mask, and silicon-germanium material is provided on the relaxed silicon semiconductor fins. Germanium from the silicon germanium material is then driven into the relaxed silicon semiconductor fins to produce compressive strained silicon-germanium semiconductor fins in the second substrate area (from which p-channel finFET devices are formed). The mask is removed to reveal tensile strained silicon semiconductor fins in the first substrate area (from which n-channel finFET devices are formed). |
| US11133330B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device is described, which includes a first transistor, a second transistor, and a capacitor. The second transistor and the capacitor are provided over the first transistor so as to overlap with a gate of the first transistor. A semiconductor layer of the second transistor and a dielectric layer of the capacitor are directly connected to the gate of the first transistor. The second transistor is a vertical transistor, where its channel direction is perpendicular to an upper surface of a semiconductor layer of the first transistor. |
| US11133328B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor device includes: a stack structure including horizontal conductive patterns and interlayer insulating layers, which are alternately stacked; gate patterns overlapping with both ends of the stack structure under the stack structure, the gate patterns being spaced apart from each other; and a channel pattern including vertical parts penetrating the stack structure, and a connection part disposed under the stack structure, the connection part connecting the vertical parts. |
| US11133327B2 |
Three-dimensional semiconductor device
A three-dimensional semiconductor device includes: a common source line passing between a first channel structure and a second channel structure and between a first dummy channel structure and a second dummy channel structure, in which a distance in a first direction between the common source line and the first channel structure is equal to a distance in the first direction between the common source line and the second channel structure, and a distance in the first direction between the common source line and the first dummy channel structure is different from a distance in the first direction between the common source line and the second dummy channel structure. |
| US11133326B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing thereof
In a semiconductor device including a plurality of memory regions formed of split-gate type MONOS memories, threshold voltages of memory cells are set to different values for each memory region. Memory cells having different threshold voltages are formed by forming a metal film, which is a work function film constituting a memory gate electrode of a memory cell in a data region, and a metal film, which is a work function film constituting a memory gate electrode of a memory cell in a code region, of different materials or different thicknesses. |
| US11133323B2 |
High-voltage transistor having shielding gate
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of high-voltage insulated-gate field-effect transistors arranged in a matrix form on the main surface of a semiconductor substrate and each having a gate electrode, a gate electrode contact formed on the gate electrode, and a wiring layer which is formed on the gate electrode contacts adjacent in a gate-width direction to electrically connect the gate electrodes arranged in the gate-width direction. And the device includes shielding gates provided on portions of an element isolation region which lie between the transistors adjacent in the gate-width direction and gate-length direction and used to apply reference potential or potential of a polarity different from that of potential applied to the gate of the transistor to turn on the current path of the transistor to the element isolation region. |
| US11133319B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same
The present application discloses a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate; a plurality of landing pads disposed over the substrate, at least one of the plurality of landing pads comprising a protruding portion of a capacitor plug and a first spacer over the protruding portion, wherein a width of the first spacer is larger than a width of the capacitor plug; a plurality of bit line contacts disposed over the substrate and a plurality of bit lines respectively disposed over the plurality of bit line contacts. The bit line is an undulating stripe extending between two adjacent capacitor contacts; and a plurality of capacitor structures respectively disposed over the plurality of landing pads. |
| US11133306B2 |
Semiconductor device including fin structures and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor device includes device areas where a Fin FET is disposed and a non-device area disposed between the device areas, which includes a dummy structure. The Fin FET includes a fin structure having a well region including a first semiconductor layer, a stressor region including a second semiconductor layer and a channel region including a third semiconductor layer; an isolation region in which the well region is embedded, and from which at least an upper port of the channel region is exposed; a gate structure disposed over a part of the fin structure. The dummy structure in the non-device area includes a first dummy layer formed over the first semiconductor layer and made of a different material from the stressor region, and a second dummy layer formed over the first dummy layer and made of a different material from the channel region. |
| US11133303B2 |
Semiconductor device and semiconductor arrangement comprising semiconductor devices
An embodiment of a semiconductor device includes a plurality of transistor sections separated from each other and a plurality of diode sections separated from each other. Each transistor section includes an emitter electrode and a collector electrode. Each diode section includes an anode electrode and a cathode electrode. Each transistor section is electrically coupled to a common gate pad. A ratio between an active transistor part and an active diode part of the semiconductor device is adjustable by activating a first number of the transistor sections by selectively contacting the emitter electrodes and the collector electrodes of the first number of transistor sections, and by activating a second number of the diode sections by selectively contacting the anode electrodes and the cathode electrodes of the second number of diode sections. |
| US11133302B2 |
Semiconductor carrier with vertical power FET module
A microelectronic module that includes a semiconductor carrier including a FET that comprises a serpentine gate electrode having an elongated gate width and gate width-to-gate length ratio in access of 100 wherein resistive, capacitive, and inductive elements are embedded within the structure of the serpentine gate electrode. |
| US11133300B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device has first second-conductivity-type high-concentration regions, second second-conductivity-type high-concentration regions, third second-conductivity-type high-concentration regions, and fourth second-conductivity-type high-concentration regions. The first connecting regions each connect a portion of each of the first second-conductivity-type high-concentration regions and a portion of each of the second second-conductivity-type high-concentration regions. The second connecting regions each connect a portion of each of the third second-conductivity-type high-concentration regions and a portion of each of the fourth second-conductivity-type high-concentration regions. A ratio of a mathematical area of the first connecting regions to a mathematical area of the second second-conductivity-type high-concentration regions is greater than a ratio of a mathematical area of the second connecting regions to a mathematical area of the fourth second-conductivity-type high-concentration regions. |
| US11133299B2 |
Gate-lifted NMOS ESD protection device
An ESD protection device including a PNP transistor connected to an input pad, a diode connected to the PNP transistor and connected to an output pad, and an NMOS transistor connected to the PNP transistor and the output pad, wherein the diode, PNP transistor, and NMOS transistor are configured to route different levels of an electrostatic discharge (ESD) current pulse from the input pad to the output pad. |
| US11133297B2 |
Three-dimensional memory device having support-die-assisted source power distribution and method of making thereof
A memory-containing die includes a three-dimensional memory array, a memory dielectric material layer located on a first side of the three-dimensional memory array, and memory-side bonding pads. A logic die includes a peripheral circuitry configured to control operation of the three-dimensional memory array, logic dielectric material layers located on a first side of the peripheral circuitry, and logic-side bonding pads included in the logic dielectric material layers. The logic-side bonding pads includes a pad-level mesh structure electrically connected to a source power supply circuit within the peripheral circuitry and containing an array of discrete openings therethrough, and discrete logic-side bonding pads. The logic-side bonding pads are bonded to a respective one, or a respective subset, of the memory-side bonding pads. The pad-level mesh structure can be used as a component of a source power distribution network. |
| US11133296B2 |
Semiconductor package
A semiconductor package includes a semiconductor chip disposed on a first substrate, a mold layer covering a sidewall of the semiconductor chip and including a through-hole, a second substrate disposed on the semiconductor chip, a connection terminal disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and provided in the through-hole, and an underfill resin layer extending from between the semiconductor chip and the second substrate into the through-hole. |
| US11133293B2 |
Three-dimensional memory device with three-dimensional phase-change memory
Three-dimensional (3D) memory devices with 3D phase-change memory (PCM) and methods for forming and operating the 3D memory devices are disclosed. In an example, a 3D memory device includes a first semiconductor structure including a substrate, an array of NAND memory cells above the substrate, and a first bonding layer above the array of NAND memory cells. The first bonding layer includes first bonding contacts. The 3D memory device also further includes a second semiconductor structure including a second bonding layer above the first bonding layer and including second bonding contacts, a peripheral circuit and an array of PCM cells above the second bonding layer, and a semiconductor layer above and in contact with the peripheral circuit. The 3D memory device further includes a bonding interface between the first and second bonding layers. The first bonding contacts are in contact with the second bonding contacts at the bonding interface. |
| US11133290B2 |
Chip package structure with stacked chips and manufacturing method thereof
A chip package structure including a first chip stack and a redistribution layer is provided. The first chip stack includes a plurality of first chips, a first molding layer and at least one first vertical conductive element. The plurality of first chips are sequentially stacked, wherein each of the plurality of first chips includes at least one first bonding pad, and the first bonding pads are not covered by the plurality of first chips. The first molding layer encapsulates the plurality of first chips. The at least one first vertical conductive element penetrates through the first molding layer, wherein the at least one first vertical conductive element is disposed on and electrically connected to at least one of the first bonding pads. The redistribution layer is disposed on the first chip stack and electrically connected to the at least one first vertical conductive element. |
| US11133289B2 |
Semiconductor package and manufacturing method of semiconductor package having plurality of encapsulating materials
A semiconductor package includes a first integrated circuit structure, a second integrated circuit structure, a plurality of conductive bumps, an encapsulating material, and a redistribution structure. The first integrated circuit structure includes an active surface having a plurality of contact pads, a back surface opposite to the active surface, and a plurality of through vias extending through the first integrated circuit structure and connecting the active surface and the back surface. The second integrated circuit structure is disposed on the back surface of the first integrated circuit structure. The conductive bumps are disposed between the first integrated circuit structure and the second integrated circuit structure, and electrically connecting the plurality of through vias and the second integrated circuit structure. The encapsulating material at least encapsulates the second integrated circuit structure. The redistribution structure is disposed over and electrically connected to the active surface of the first integrated circuit structure. |
| US11133285B2 |
Package-on-package structure having polymer-based material for warpage control
The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to a method of forming a package. The method includes coupling a first package component to a second package component using a first set of conductive elements. A first polymer-comprising material is formed over the second package component and surrounding the first set of conductive elements. The first polymer-comprising material is cured to solidify the first polymer-comprising material. A part of the first polymer-comprising material is removed to expose an upper surface of the second package component. The second package component is coupled to a third package component using a second set of conductive elements that are formed onto the upper surface of the second package component. |
| US11133284B2 |
Semiconductor package device
A semiconductor package device includes a circuit layer, a first set of stacked components, a first conductive wire, a space and an electronic component. The first set of stacked components is disposed on the circuit layer. The first conductive wire electrically connects the first set of stacked components. The space is defined between the first set of stacked components and the circuit layer. The space accommodates the first conductive wire. The electronic component is disposed in the space. |
| US11133279B2 |
Connection structure
A method for manufacturing connection structure, the method includes arranging conductive particles and a first composite on a first electrode located on a first surface of a first member, arranging a second composite on the first electrode and a region other than the first electrode of the first surface, arranging the first surface and a second surface of a second member where a second electrode is located, so that the first electrode and the second electrode are opposed to each other, pressing the first member and the second member, and curing the first composite and the second composite. |
| US11133275B2 |
Method for improving wire bonding strength of an image sensor
A method for manufacturing a bond pad structure includes providing a substrate structure including a substrate, a first metal layer on the substrate, and a passivation layer on the first metal layer, the passivation layer having an opening extending to the first metal layer; and filling the opening of the passivation layer with a second metal layer. The bond pad structure has a significantly increased thickness compared with the thickness of the exposed portion of the first metal layer in the opening, thereby ensuring wire bonding reliability and yield. |
| US11133269B2 |
Semiconductor package and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor package and a manufacturing method for the semiconductor package are provided. The package comprises a die, through interlayer vias (TIVs), a dielectric film, a backside film and solder paste portions. The TIVs are disposed beside the semiconductor die and a molding compound laterally surrounds the die and the TIVs. The dielectric film is disposed on a backside of the semiconductor die, and the backside film is disposed on the dielectric film. The backside film has at least one of a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) and a Young's modulus larger than that of the dielectric film. The solder paste portions are disposed on the TIVs and located within openings penetrating through the dielectric film and the backside film. There is a recess located at an interface between the dielectric film and the backside film within the opening. |
| US11133265B2 |
Integrated fan-out package and method of fabricating the same
An integrated fan-out package including an integrated circuit, an insulating encapsulation, and a redistribution circuit structure is provided. The integrated circuit includes an active surface, a plurality of sidewalls connected to the active surface, and a plurality of pads distributed on the active surface. The insulating encapsulation encapsulates the active surface and the sidewalls of the integrated circuit. The insulating encapsulation includes a plurality of first contact openings and a plurality of through holes, and the pads are exposed by the first contact openings. The redistribution circuit structure includes a redistribution conductive layer, wherein the redistribution conductive layer is disposed on the insulating encapsulation and is distributed in the first contact openings and the through holes. The redistribution conductive layer is electrically connected to the pads through the first contact openings. A method of fabricating the integrated fan-out package is also provided. |
| US11133259B2 |
Multi-chip package structure having high density chip interconnect bridge with embedded power distribution network
A multi-chip package structure includes a package substrate, an interconnect bridge device, first and second integrated circuit chips, and a connection structure. The first integrated circuit chip is flip-chip attached to at least the interconnect bridge device. The second integrated circuit chip is flip-chip attached to the interconnect bridge device and to the package substrate. The interconnect bridge device includes (i) wiring that is configured to provide chip-to-chip connections between the first and second integrated circuit chips and (ii) an embedded power distribution network that is configured to distribute at least one of a positive power supply voltage and a negative power supply voltage to at least one of the first and second integrated circuit chips attached to the interconnect bridge device. The connection structure (e.g., wire bond, injection molded solder, etc.) connects the embedded power distribution network to a power supply voltage contact of the package substrate. |
| US11133258B2 |
Package with bridge die for interconnection and method forming same
A structure includes a bridge die. The bridge die includes a semiconductor substrate; and an interconnect structure over the semiconductor substrate. The interconnect structure includes dielectric layers and conductive lines in the dielectric layers, an encapsulant encapsulating the bridge die therein, and a redistribution structure over the bridge die. The redistribution structure includes redistribution lines therein. A first package component and a second package component are bonded to the redistribution lines. The first package component and the second package component are electrically interconnected through the redistribution lines and the bridge die. |
| US11133256B2 |
Embedded bridge substrate having an integral device
Microelectronic assemblies, related devices, and methods are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a microelectronic assembly may include a package substrate; a bridge, embedded in the package substrate, wherein the bridge includes an integral passive component, and wherein a surface of the bridge include first contacts in a first interconnect area and second contacts in a second interconnect area; a first die coupled to the passive component via the first contacts in the first interconnect area; and a second die coupled to the second contacts in the second interconnect area. |
| US11133240B2 |
Semiconductor device and semiconductor package
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate including at least one semiconductor structure, an interlayer insulating layer disposed on the semiconductor substrate, at least one first via structure penetrating the semiconductor substrate and the interlayer insulating layer, including a first region having a first width at an upper surface of the interlayer insulating layer and a second region extending from the first region and having a second width at a lower surface of the semiconductor substrate, wherein a side surface of the first region and a side surface of the second region have different profiles at a boundary between the first region and the second region, and at least one second via structure penetrating the semiconductor substrate and the interlayer insulating layer and having a third width greater than the first width at an upper surface of the interlayer insulating layer. |
| US11133238B2 |
Heat sink fastening seat and securing device with gasket for use with electrical connector
An electrical connector assembly for connecting the CPU and the printed circuit board, includes an electrical connector and a back plate respectively mounted upon two opposite surfaces of the printed circuit board. A fastening seat partially surrounds the connector for securing a heat sink which is downwardly seated upon the CPU for heat dissipation. The back plate forms a plurality of securing studs extending through the fastening seat. The heat sink further includes a plurality of tubular securing nuts respectively surrounded by the corresponding coil springs and secured to the corresponding securing studs in an adjustable manner so as to impose the downward force upon the heat sink to urge the heat sink to abut downwardly against the CPU for heat dissipation of the CPU. |
| US11133237B2 |
Package with embedded heat dissipation features
An integrated circuit package and a method of fabrication of the same are provided. An opening is formed in a substrate. An embedded heat dissipation feature (eHDF) is placed in the opening in the substrate and is attached to the substrate using a high thermal conductivity adhesive. One or more bonded chips are attached to the substrate using a flip-chip method. The eHDF is thermally attached to one or more hot spots of the bonded chips. In some embodiments, the eHDF may comprise multiple physically disconnected portions. In other embodiments, the eHDF may have a perforated structure. |
| US11133231B2 |
CMP apparatus and method for estimating film thickness
A method for estimating film thickness in CMP includes the following operations. A substrate with a film formed thereon is disposed over a polishing pad with a slurry dispensed between the film and the polishing pad. A CMP operation is performed to reduce a thickness of the film. An in-situ electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) measurement is performed during the CMP operation by an EIS device to estimate the thickness of the film real-time. The CMP operation is ended when the estimated thickness of the film obtained from the fit parameters of the first equivalent electrical circuit model reaches a target thickness. |
| US11133229B2 |
Forming transistor by selectively growing gate spacer
A method includes forming a gate dielectric layer on a semiconductor fin, and forming a gate electrode over the gate dielectric layer. The gate electrode extends on sidewalls and a top surface of the semiconductor fin. A gate spacer is selectively deposited on a sidewall of the gate electrode. An exposed portion of the gate dielectric layer is free from a same material for forming the gate spacer deposited thereon. The method further includes etching the gate dielectric layer using the gate spacer as an etching mask to expose a portion of the semiconductor fin, and forming an epitaxy semiconductor region based on the semiconductor fin. |
| US11133228B2 |
Semiconductor integrated circuit
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes: a semiconductor monocrystalline region; an insulating film provided on a main surface of the semiconductor monocrystalline region; a conductive layer having a rectangular shape provided on the insulating film and including at least a polycrystalline layer of p-type; electric-field relaxing layers having a lower specific resistivity than the conductive layer and each including a polycrystalline layer of n-type so as to be arranged on both sides of the conductive layer in a direction perpendicular to a current-flowing direction; a high-potential-side electrode in ohmic contact with the conductive layer at one end of the conductive layer in the current-flowing direction; and a low-potential-side electrode in ohmic contact with the conductive layer and the respective electric-field relaxing layers at another end of the conductive layer opposed to the one end in the current-flowing direction, and having a lower potential than the high-potential-side electrode. |
| US11133223B2 |
Selective epitaxy
A semiconductor device and a method of making the same are provided. A method according to the present disclosure includes providing a workpiece comprising a first source/drain region in a first device region and a second source/drain region in a second device region, depositing a dielectric layer over the first source/drain region and the second source drain region, forming a first via opening in the dielectric layer to expose the first source/drain region and a second via opening in the dielectric layer to expose the second source/drain region, annealing the workpiece to form a first semiconductor oxide feature over the exposed first source/drain region and a second semiconductor oxide feature over the exposed second source/drain region, removing the first semiconductor oxide feature to expose the first source/drain region in the first via opening in dielectric layer, and selectively forming a first epitaxial feature over the exposed first source/drain region. |
| US11133220B2 |
Manufacturing method of packages
A method of manufacturing packages includes forming grooves with a depth that reaches a finished thickness of a device chip along planned dividing lines from a front surface of a device wafer, sealing the front surface of the device wafer by a sealant and filling the grooves with the sealant, and grinding a back surface of the device wafer corresponding to a device region to form a recessed part with a depth that reaches the grooves and forms an annular projection part that surrounds the recessed part and corresponds to a peripheral surplus region. The recessed part is filled with the sealant to execute sealing and dividing grooves are formed with a smaller width than the grooves along the grooves from the front surface of the device wafer. The device wafer is divided to form plural packages in each of which the device chip is sealed by the sealant. |
| US11133218B1 |
Semiconductor apparatus having through silicon via structure and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor apparatus having through silicon via structure and a manufacturing method thereof to enable the significant process and cost reduction and the improvement of performance of through silicon via by forming barrier and seed metal layers with electroless plating, the barrier layer applied in forming through silicon via with wet electroless plating thereby enabling structural uniformity and improvement in electrical properties with less process cost and higher yield to meet the both performance and economic objectives. The instant invention enables the formation of TSV with smaller diameter of the opening and, if necessary, omitting the formation of copper seed layer. Direct copper plating on the barrier layer is possible and this reduces the number of processes, charges the inside of via at once through copper plating to bring more improvements in electrical properties as effect. |
| US11133214B2 |
Substrate transportation method
In a substrate transportation method, a first movement process is provided for moving a camera to a position above a predetermined region where a peripheral edge of a substrate is supposed to be located in a state where the substrate is lifted by pins protruding beyond a mounting table while a transfer mechanism that has received an instruction for starting an unloading of the substrate mounted on the mounting table is moving to the mounting table. Further, a first image capturing process is provided for controlling the camera moved in the first movement process to capture an image of the predetermined region, and a first detection process is provided for detecting a positional displacement and/or a tilting of the substrate lifted by the pins based on the image captured by the camera in the first image capturing process. |
| US11133206B2 |
Method for die-level unique authentication and serialization of semiconductor devices using electrical and optical marking
A method for marking a semiconductor substrate at the die level for providing unique authentication and serialization includes projecting a first pattern of actinic radiation onto a layer of photoresist on the substrate using mask-based photolithography, the first pattern defining semiconductor device structures and projecting a second pattern of actinic radiation onto the layer of photoresist using direct-write projection, the second pattern defining a unique wiring structure having a unique electrical signature. |
| US11133202B2 |
Substrate heating apparatus with enhanced temperature uniformity characteristic
The present invention relates to a substrate heating apparatus. More specifically, the present invention relates to a substrate heating apparatus including a first heating element located in an inner region of the substrate heating apparatus, a second heating element located in an outer region, and a third heating element supplying current to the second heating element passing through the inner region, wherein the diameter of a wire constituting the third heating element is thicker than the diameter of a wire constituting the second heating element, thereby inhibiting the generation of an overheating region by the heating of the third heating element. |
| US11133199B2 |
Mold heel crack problem reduction
A semiconductor package is provided which addresses problems of mold cap heel cracking. The package may made by using a cavity die and a gate insertion tool. The gate insertion tool, which fits into the cavity die, has an elongated body and includes a nozzle head with an edge which is contoured in relation to a mold cap formed on a substrate. The edge defines a curved border, for the mold cap, from a plane above the substrate to a plane lying on the substrate. The nozzle head includes a slot, for admitting a cull runner tip, centered on an axis of the elongated body. |
| US11133198B2 |
Method of manufacturing packaged device chip
A method of manufacturing a packaged device chip includes the steps of forming a rewiring layer having rewiring patterns respectively in a plurality of areas demarcated on the rewiring layer by a projected dicing line on a first surface of a support member that has a second surface opposite the first surface, forming a dividing groove for dividing the rewiring layer in the rewiring layer along the projected dicing line, placing device chips in the respective areas on the rewiring layer and connecting the rewiring patterns and the device chips to each other, covering the device chips and the rewiring layer with molded resin while filling the dividing groove with the molded resin, and cutting the molded resin across an area disposed within the dividing groove and narrower than the dividing groove and forming packaged device chips. |
| US11133196B2 |
Gate electrode and method for manufacturing the same, and method for manufacturing array substrate
A gate electrode and a method for manufacturing the same, and a method for manufacturing an array substrate are provided. The method for manufacturing a gate electrode may include: providing a substrate, wherein the substrate includes a gate electrode region and a non-gate electrode region; and forming a gate electrode layer on the substrate, wherein the gate electrode layer includes a conductive portion corresponding to the gate electrode region and a transparent portion corresponding to the non-gate electrode region. According to the gate electrode and the method for manufacturing the same, and the method for manufacturing an array substrate, step difference can be eliminated, thereby avoiding an influence of the step difference on the crystallization property of a polysilicon material when an Excimer Laser Annealing (ELA) process is performed on the amorphous silicon layer, and obtaining a better crystallization effect. |
| US11133192B2 |
Workpiece processing method
An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method of processing a workpiece in which a plurality of holes are formed on a surface of the workpiece. The method includes a first sequence including a first process of forming a film with respect to an inner surface of each of the holes and a second process of isotropically etching the film. The first process includes a film forming process using a plasma CVD method, and the film contains silicon. |
| US11133188B2 |
Non-volatile memory semiconductor device with electrostatic discharge protection, planarization layers, and manufacturing method thereof
A method of manufacturing a non-volatile memory semiconductor device includes forming a plurality of memory cells on a non-volatile memory cell area of a semiconductor substrate, and forming a conductive layer over the plurality of memory cells. A first planarization layer of a planarization material having a viscosity of less than about 1.2 centipoise is formed over the plurality of memory cells. A planarization operation is performed on the first planarization layer and the conductive layer, thereby removing an upper region of the first planarization layer and an upper region of the conductive layer. Portions of a lower region of the conductive layer are completely removed between the memory cells. |
| US11133179B2 |
Thin-film structure and method of manufacturing the same
A thin-film structure includes a support layer and a dielectric layer on the support layer. The support layer includes a material having a lattice constant. The dielectric layer includes a compound having a Ruddlesden-Popper phase (An+1BnX3n+1). where A and B each independently include a cation, X is an anion, and n is a natural number. The lattice constant of the material of the support layer may be less than a lattice constant of the compound. |
| US11133178B2 |
Seamless gapfill with dielectric ALD films
Methods for filling a substrate feature with a seamless dielectric gap fill are described. Methods comprise sequentially depositing a film with a seam, etching the the film to form a recess, and depositing a second film in the recess to form a seamless gap fill. |
| US11133175B2 |
Substrate treating method and substrate treating apparatus
A substrate treating method and a substrate treating apparatus which can reduce the collapse of a pattern on a substrate. The substrate treating method includes a supply step of supplying a process liquid including a sublimable substance in a molten state to a pattern-formed surface of a substrate; a solidification step of solidifying the process liquid on the pattern-formed surface so as to form a solidified body; a sublimation step of subliming the solidified body so as to remove the solidified body from the pattern-formed surface; and an organic substance removal step of removing, when the solidified body is sublimed, an organic substance precipitated on a sublimation interface, and the organic substance removal step is performed so as to overlap at least part of the sublimation step. |
| US11133161B2 |
Methods and systems for quantifying two or more analytes using mass spectrometry
Certain embodiments described herein are directed to methods and systems of detecting two or more analytes present in a single system such as a nanoparticle or nanostructure. In some examples, the methods and systems can estimate data gaps and fit intensity curves to obtained detection values so the amount of the two or more analytes present in the single system can be quantified. |
| US11133158B2 |
Glass pallet for sputtering systems
Pallets for transporting one or more glass substrates in a substantially vertical orientation through a sputtering system. In some cases, a pallet comprising a frame with an aperture and an adjustable grid array within the aperture. The adjustable grid array is configurable to hold a plurality of glass substrates of different shapes and/or sizes. In one case, the adjustable grid array comprises a system of vertical and horizontal support bars, wherein the vertical support bars configured to both support the plurality of glass substrates at their vertical edges, wherein the horizontal support bars are configured to support the plurality of glass substrates at their horizontal edges, wherein the ends of the horizontal support bars are slideably engaged with the vertical support bars. |
| US11133157B2 |
Plasma processing apparatus
Provided is a plasma processing apparatus that performs a processing on a processing target substrate by applying plasma of a processing gas on the processing target substrate. The plasma processing apparatus includes: a processing container configured to accommodate the processing target substrate; a lower electrode disposed in the processing container to mount the processing target substrate thereon; an upper electrode disposed in the processing container to face the lower electrode with a processing space being interposed therebetween; a high frequency power source configured to apply a high frequency power between the upper electrode and the lower electrode; a main magnet unit including one or more annular main electromagnetic coils arranged around a central axis; and an auxiliary magnet unit configured to form a magnetic field that perpendicularly or obliquely crosses the central axis in the processing space. |
| US11133155B2 |
Apparatus for depositing metal films with plasma treatment
Embodiments of a gas delivery apparatus for use in a radio frequency (RF) processing apparatus are provided herein. In some embodiments, a gas delivery apparatus for use in a radio frequency (RF) processing apparatus includes: a conductive gas line having a first end and a second end; a first flange coupled to the first end; a second flange coupled to the second end, wherein the conductive gas line extends through and between the first and second flanges; and a block of ferrite material surrounding the conductive gas line between the first and second flanges. |
| US11133149B2 |
Focused ion beam apparatus
A focused ion beam apparatus (100) includes: a focused ion beam lens column (20); a sample table (51); a sample stage (50); a memory (6M) configured to store in advance three-dimensional data on the sample table and an irradiation axis of the focused ion beam, the three-dimensional data being associated with stage coordinates of the sample stage; a display (7); and a display controller (6A) configured to cause the display to display a virtual positional relationship between the sample table (51v) and the irradiation axis (20Av) of the focused ion beam, which is exhibited when the sample stage is operated to move the sample table to a predetermined position, based on the three-dimensional data on the sample table and the irradiation axis of the focused ion beam. |
| US11133147B2 |
Charged particle ray device and cross-sectional shape estimation program
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a charged particle ray device which is capable of simply estimating the cross-sectional shape of a pattern. The charged particle ray device according to the present invention acquires a detection signal for each different discrimination condition of an energy discriminator, and estimates the cross-sectional shape of a sample by comparing the detection signal for each discrimination condition with a reference pattern (see FIG. 5). |
| US11133144B2 |
Fuse, fuse body, system and method
A fuse includes a protective housing and a measurement device. Two electrical connection elements of the fuse are routed out of the protective housing and at least one fuse element is arranged in the protective housing, the at least one fuse element electrically conductively connecting the two electrical connection elements in the protective housing to one another. The measurement device includes a sensor element to record a physical state measured value of the fuse and a transmission apparatus to transmit the measured value to a reception device arranged outside the fuse. The measurement device further includes a dedicated housing in which the sensor element is received and held, the dedicated housing being mechanically connected to the protective housing. An overall installation space required for the protective housing and the dedicated housing corresponds to an installation space of a standardized NH fuse. The fuse is usable for retrofit applications. |
| US11133142B2 |
Power switch
A circuit breaker is for interrupting an electric current circuit when current and/or current time period thresholds are exceeded. The circuit breaker includes at least one control unit, to which energy is supplied by an energy converter. A primary winding of the energy converter is formed by a conductor of the electric current circuit. The core of the energy conductor surrounding the electric current circuit conductor is used as the primary winding. A secondary winding surrounds a section of the core. The secondary winding additionally surrounds an inductor core, arranged relative to the core using an insulating spacer element. The secondary winding and the inductor core are at least party magnetically shielded from the primary winding by a shielding plate guided through the core. |
| US11133136B2 |
Switch
A switch includes: a first electrode sheet including a first electrode; a second electrode sheet including a second electrode that faces the first electrode sheet; and an adhesive that includes a first opening through which the first electrode faces the second electrode sheet and that attaches the first electrode sheet to the second electrode sheet. The first electrode sheet includes: a first substrate on which the first electrode is disposed; a first spacer between the first substrate and the second electrode sheet that includes a second opening at a position corresponding to the first electrode; and a first base between the first substrate and the first spacer that overlaps at least a portion of an edge of the first opening of the adhesive. The first spacer is attached to the second electrode sheet by the adhesive. |
| US11133133B2 |
Supercapacitor module having matched supercapacitors
A supercapacitor module is provided. In some implementations, the supercapacitor module may include a first supercapacitor having a first parameter value for a capacitor parameter in a first test condition. The supercapacitor module may include a second supercapacitor having a second parameter value for the capacitor parameter in about the first test condition. A ratio of the second parameter value to the first parameter value may be from about 0.8 to about 1.2. The supercapacitor module may prevent overvoltages across the first and second supercapacitors, such that the supercapacitor module may satisfactorily operate without a balancing circuit. |
| US11133129B2 |
Coil component
A coil electronic component includes a body including an internal coil including first and second end portions, and an encapsulant surrounding the internal coil and formed of a magnetic material, and first and second external electrodes disposed on external surfaces of the body. The body includes a first surface and a second surface to which the first and second end portions are led, respectively, and which oppose each other, a third surface connecting the first and second surfaces to each other and perpendicular to a center of a core of the internal coil, and a fourth surface opposing the third surface, and a first corner connecting the first surface and the third surface to each other and a second corner connecting the second surface and the third surface to each other include first and second recess portions, respectively. |
| US11133128B2 |
System in package module assembly, system in package module, and electronic device
A system in package module assembly is provided, and includes: a substrate, and a chip, an inductor, and an electrical element that are electrically connected to the substrate. The substrate includes a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and an accommodation groove. The accommodation groove passes through the second surface and the first surface. The inductor includes a magnetic core and an inductive coil. The magnetic core includes a base and a protrusion disposed on an outer surface of the base. The outer surface on which the protrusion is disposed and that is of the base abuts on the second surface. The protrusion is accommodated in the accommodation groove. The inductive coil is disposed in the protrusion. A system in package module and an electronic device are further provided. |
| US11133126B2 |
Coil component
A coil component includes a body including an internal coil and first and second external electrodes respectively disposed on outer surfaces of the body. The first and second external electrodes extend from a lower surface of the body to first and second end surfaces connected thereto, respectively. The first external electrode on the first end surface and the second external electrode on the second end surface each include a base portion and an extending portion extending from the base portion in a height direction, having a predetermined height, and having a width narrower than a width of the base portion. |
| US11133125B2 |
Coil component and method of manufacturing the same
A coil component includes a body, and a coil portion embedded in the body and including a coil pattern having a plurality of coil turns and a support member supporting the coil pattern. A height of an internal coil turn of the plurality of coil turns is lower than a height of an external coil turn of the plurality of coil turns connected to the internal coil pattern and wound outwardly of the internal coil turn. A method of manufacturing the coil component includes forming a spiral-shaped plating seed pattern on a support member, forming a cutting portion cutting the spiral-shaped plating pattern, and forming a coil pattern extending across the cutting portion by performing plating on the spiral-shaped plating seed pattern. |
| US11133118B2 |
Patterned nanoparticle structures
Aspects relate to patterned nanostructures having a feature size not including film thickness of below 5 microns. The patterned nanostructures are made up of nanoparticles having an average particle size of less than 100 nm. A nanoparticle composition, which, in some cases, includes a binder material, is applied to a substrate. A patterned mold used in concert with electromagnetic radiation function to manipulate the nanoparticle composition in forming the patterned nanostructure. In some embodiments, the patterned mold nanoimprints a suitable pattern on to the nanoparticle composition and the composition is cured through UV or thermal energy. Three-dimensional patterned nanostructures may be formed. A number of patterned nanostructure layers may be prepared and suitably joined together. In some cases, a patterned nanostructure may be formed as a layer that is releasable from the substrate upon which it is initially formed. Such releasable layers may, in turn, be arranged to form a three-dimensional patterned nanostructure in accordance with suitable applications. |
| US11133116B2 |
Radioactive source removing and introducing tooling, smart cart and source removing and introducing system
A radioactive source removing and introducing tooling includes a first support frame, a shield door disposed on the first support frame, a shield cover located on the shield door, and a first pull rod device. The shield door includes a movable first shield block. The shield cover is able to be separated from the shield door, and the shield cover includes one opening and one accommodation space. The first pull rod device includes a pull rod and a first connection portion disposed on the pull rod, and the pull rod is able to extend into the shield cover and drive the first connection portion to move inside the accommodation space of the shield cover. |
| US11133110B2 |
Systems and methods for assessing whether medical procedures should be approved
A rules engine that allows constructing and processing rules within a software application using protocol driven processing. A machine learning algorithm may be used to assess requested procedures that are initially rejected. The machine learning algorithm may also be saved periodically or at the time of each assessment and accessed at a later time. |
| US11133109B2 |
Method and system to assess disease using phase space volumetric objects
The exemplified methods and systems provide a phase space volumetric object in which the dynamics of a complex, quasi-periodic system, such as the electrical conduction patterns of the heart, or other biophysical-acquired signals of other organs, are represented as an image of a three dimensional volume having both a volumetric structure (e.g., a three dimensional structure) and a color map to which features can be extracted that are indicative the presence and/or absence of pathologies, e.g., ischemia relating to significant coronary arterial disease (CAD). In some embodiments, the phase space volumetric object can be assessed to extract topographic and geometric parameters that are used in models that determine indications of presence or non-presence of significant coronary artery disease. |
| US11133102B2 |
Service architecture support method and system for medical/nursing support system
Provided is a service architecture support method with which the content of a new service provided by an application incorporated into a medical/nursing support system can be finely adjusted according to the needs of a patient or a person requiring care, or a medical professional or a nurse. To that end, when an application (220) developed using an application framework (200) is incorporated into a medical/nursing support system (30), an application ID is allocated to the application (220) and the application ID is associated with a group ID and stored, thereby enabling selective use of a new service provided by the application (220) by only a group member of a group with which the application ID has been associated. Furthermore, the specific function installed in the application (220) can be set in administrator settings according to the needs of a patient or a medical professional from said group. |
| US11133099B2 |
Memory recall assistance for memory loss
Provided are systems, methods, and media for assisting recall of a lost memory. An example method includes receiving activity data and associated metadata regarding a plurality of activities participated in by a user over a plurality of time periods. The method includes generating a memory chain graph that spans the plurality of time periods, in which the graph includes a plurality of memory events and a plurality of memory pointers. The method includes identifying a memory event of the memory chain graph that the user is unable to presently recall, selecting a memory pointer that is linked to the memory event, and then presenting the user with information corresponding to the selected memory pointer to assist the user in recalling the memory event. |
| US11133097B2 |
Medical treatment system
The invention concerns a medical treatment system (1), comprising: a medical treatment device (10), wherein the medical treatment device comprises input means (11) for selecting a treatment, wherein the medical treatment device comprises a device (12) for generating a patient-related and a treatment-related request code, wherein the request code is presented (13) on the medical treatment device (10), a therapy-enabling device (20), wherein the therapy-enabling device (20) comprises a device (21) for receiving request code data, wherein the therapy-enabling device (20) furthermore comprises an enabling code generating device (22) which, as a function of a received request code and stored data (DB), decides whether an enabling code will be generated and sends the generated request code (23), wherein the medical treatment device (10) furthermore comprises means for entering an enabling code (11, 14), wherein the medical treatment device (10) decides, at least as a function of the enabling code and optionally the previously generated request code, whether and if necessary how the requested treatment will be enabled. |
| US11133095B2 |
Wearable device
A wearable device comprising a memory storing a database of product codes and associated product recommendations derived from personalised biological information, a product code reader for reading a product code or data from a product, and a processor for using a read product code or read data to perform a look-up in the database to obtain a product recommendation for the associated product. The wearable device further comprises an indicator for providing an indication of the obtained product recommendation to a wearer of the device. |
| US11133094B2 |
Systems and methods for visualizing data
Systems and methods are disclosed for visualizing medical data. In one implementation, the systems each comprise a database, a memory that stores a set of instructions and at least one processor in communication with the memory configured to execute the set of instructions so the system may receive the medical data in one or more formats from a plurality of sources, the medical data comprising a plurality of events associated with one or more patients, convert the medical data from the one or more formats to a standardized data format, store the standardized data in the database, receive a query comprising at least one patient characteristic, query the database to identify a patient associated with the at least one patient characteristic, generate a graphical user interface to include the standardized data represented as a timeline of events associated with the identified patient and display the generated graphical user interface. |
| US11133093B2 |
System and method for creation of persistent patient identification
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for creating source-specific, persistent patient identifiers for healthcare service providers. One method includes accessing a record of healthcare data, wherein the record includes patient identifying information (PII) associated with one or more persons to whom the healthcare data pertains. The portions of PII included in the accessed record of healthcare data are extracted from the accessed record and encrypted. Based on one or more business rules, one or more hashed tokens are created by applying one or more hashing functions to the extracted portions of PII. A source-specific identifier is received, the source-specific identifier having been encoded in a manner specific to an organization associated with the computer system and having been encoded with reference to the one or more hashed tokens. An association is stored between the source-specific identifier and the accessed record of healthcare data. |
| US11133087B2 |
Adaptive lane detection systems and methods
Systems and methods for automatically identifying and characterizing one or more lanes in image data for one or more electrophoresed samples. The method includes receiving data representing an image of one or more electrophoresed samples, segmenting the data into one or multiple data segments or portions within a region of interest (ROI), wherein the one or multiple data segments represent (e.g., when visually displayed) one or multiple lane segments along a first axis in the ROI, each of the one or multiple lane segments traversing one or multiple lanes in the image data, generating an intensity profile for at least a first data segment of the one or multiple data segments along a second axis orthogonal to the first axis, and processing the intensity profile to determine a location and parameters for each of one or multiple lanes in the first data segment. |
| US11133082B2 |
Non-volatile semiconductor memory device and method for driving the same
The non-volatile semiconductor memory device comprises a non-volatile semiconductor memory, a controller for controlling the non-volatile semiconductor memory, the controller includes a reset terminal capable of receiving a reset signal from a host, an interface circuit capable of receiving a sleep command, and a data storing circuit, when the reset signal is received in a state which the interface circuit is being supplied with power, the data storing circuit is reset, when a sleep command is received in a state which the interface circuit is being supplied with power, the data necessary for communication with the host or the non-volatile semiconductor memory device is stored into the data storing circuit and power to the interface circuit is interrupted and when the reset signal is received in a state which power to the interface circuit is interrupted, the data is read from the data storing circuit. |
| US11133080B2 |
Memory device and test operation method thereof
The present technology includes a memory device and a method of operating the same. The memory device in which an interface circuit and a semiconductor memory are packaged together includes a centrally located region in a ball mapping region of a memory device in which data input/output pins for an operation of the interface circuit and the semiconductor memory are disposed, and a test pin region in which test pins for a test operation of the interface circuit are disposed. |
| US11133077B2 |
Method of programming multi-plane memory device for accelerating program speed and reducing program disturbance
A memory device includes a plurality of planes, a row driver and a controller. A method of programming the memory device includes in a program operation, the row driver applying a program pulse to a plurality of memory cells of a first plane of the plurality of planes; after the row driver applies the program pulse to the plurality of memory cells, the controller verifying if the plurality of memory cells have reached a predetermined program state; and if a preset number of the plurality of memory cells have failed to reach the predetermined program state after the plurality of memory cells have been verified for a predetermined number of times, the controller disabling the first plane. |
| US11133074B1 |
Instant and permanent self-destruction method in 3D NAND for data security purpose
Apparatuses and techniques are described for performing an operation which irreversibly prevents access to a set of memory cells. The operation provides a strong erase bias for select gate transistors of NAND strings. The erase bias induces a phenomenon in the select gate transistors which permanently increases their threshold voltages. This prevents access to the memory cells such as for program or read operations. The operation can involve one or more erase-verify iterations. In each erase-verify iteration, an erase bias is applied to the select gate transistors such as by charging up the channels of the NAND strings and holding a control gate voltage of the select gate transistors at a relatively low level, thereby causing a relatively high channel-to-control gate voltage. |
| US11133071B2 |
Charge loss failure mitigation
Memories including a controller configured to cause the memory to read a plurality of memory cells using a read voltage having a particular voltage level, determine a number of memory cells of a first subset of memory cells of the plurality of memory cells having a particular data state in response to the read voltage having the particular voltage level, and in response to determining that the number of memory cells of the first subset of memory cells having the particular data state is less than a particular threshold, adjust the voltage level of the read voltage based on the number of memory cells of the first subset of memory cells having the particular data state, and re-read the plurality of memory cells using the read voltage having the adjusted voltage level. |
| US11133067B2 |
Multi-phased programming with balanced gray coding
Disclosed are systems and methods for providing multi-phased programming with balanced Gray coding. A method includes programming, in a first phase, a first portion of data into memory cells of a flash memory in a first-level cell mode. The method also includes retaining, in a cache, at least a subset of the data. The method also includes regenerating the data from at least the cache, wherein the regenerated data includes a second portion of the data. The method also includes programming, in a second phase, the regenerated data in a second-level cell mode based on a mapping from the first-level cell mode to the second-level cell mode. The mapping maps each state distribution in the first-level cell mode to at least two non-adjacent state distributions in the second-level cell mode, and a width of each state distribution in the first-level cell mode may be narrowed. |
| US11133066B2 |
Semiconductor memory device
A semiconductor memory device includes a substrate, first and second P-type well regions on the substrate, an N-type well region on the substrate and sandwiched between the first and second P-type well regions, a first peripheral circuit on a region of the first P-type well region adjacent to the N-type well region and supplied with a reference voltage via a first wiring, and a second peripheral circuit on a region of the second P-type well region adjacent to the N-type well region and supplied with a reference voltage via a second wiring. |
| US11133065B1 |
Architecture for ternary content-addressable memory search
A search pattern is generated based on an input search word comprising a first sequence of bits. The search pattern comprises a representation of the input search word and a representation of an inverse of the input search word. The search pattern is provided as input to search lines of a ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM) block. A subset of the search lines is set to a logical high state based on a first portion of the input search word being designated as don't-care bits. The search pattern causes at least one string in the CAM block to be conductive and provide a signal in response to a data entry stored on the string comprising a second portion of the input search word that excludes the don't-care bits. A location of the data entry is determined and output. |
| US11133063B1 |
Suppressing undesired programming at half-selected devices in a crosspoint array of 3-terminal resistive memory
Aspects of the invention include performing a stochastic update for a crossbar array by generating a set of stochastic pulses for a crossbar array, the crossbar array including a plurality of row wires and a plurality of column wires, the plurality of row wires including a first row wire and the plurality of column wires including a first column wire, wherein a three terminal device is coupled to the first row wire and the first column wire at a crosspoint of the first row wire and the first column wire, and wherein a resistivity of the three terminal device is modified responsive to a coincidence of pulses from the set of stochastic pulses at the crosspoint of the first row and the first column, and wherein at least one terminal in the three terminal device is floating. |
| US11133061B2 |
Disturb management based on write times
An example method includes determining a time between writes in place to a particular memory cell, incrementing a disturb count corresponding to a neighboring memory cell by a particular count increment that is based on the time between the writes to the particular memory cell, and determining whether to check a write disturb status of the neighboring memory cell based on the incremented disturb count. |
| US11133060B2 |
Data storage device and operating method thereof
A data storage device includes a memory cell array comprising a plurality of pages each including K memory cells of which each stores N bits therein, where N and K are positive numbers greater than or equal to 2, wherein each of the pages stores one page data constituted by N subpage data each having K bits; a cache buffer receiving and caching N subpage data of first page data from a controller; and a page buffer sequentially buffering the respective cached N subpage data of the first page data and store the respective buffered N subpage data of the first page data in the memory cell array, wherein when a write operation for Mth subpage data of the first page data is completed, the cache buffer receives and caches Mth subpage data of second page data from the controller, where M is a positive number less than N. |
| US11133059B2 |
Non-volatile memory die with deep learning neural network
Exemplary methods and apparatus are provided for implementing a deep learning accelerator (DLA) or other neural network components within the die of a non-volatile memory (NVM) apparatus using, for example, under-the-array circuit components within the die. Some aspects disclosed herein relate to configuring the under-the-array components to implement feedforward DLA operations. Other aspects relate to backpropagation operations. Still other aspects relate to using an NAND-based on-chip copy with update function to facilitate updating synaptic weights of a neural network stored on a die. Other aspects disclosed herein relate to configuring a solid state device (SSD) controller for use with the NVM. In some aspects, the SSD controller includes flash translation layer (FTL) tables configured specifically for use with neural network data stored in the NVM. |
| US11133051B2 |
Memory devices and methods of controlling an auto-refresh operation of the memory devices
A memory device may include a memory medium and a memory controller. The memory medium may be configured to perform a self-refresh operation and an auto-refresh operation in response to a self-refresh signal and an auto-refresh control signal, respectively. The memory controller may be configured to control the auto-refresh operation by transmitting the auto-refresh control signal to the memory medium. The memory medium includes a self-refresh controller. The self-refresh controller may be configured to control the self-refresh operation based on a self-refresh cycle varying according to an internal temperature of the memory medium and transmit the self-refresh signal to the memory controller. The memory controller may be configured to generate the auto-refresh control signal based on an auto-refresh cycle. The auto-refresh control signal may be determined by the self-refresh signal transmitted from the memory medium. |
| US11133040B2 |
Semiconductor memory device and a memory system having the same
A semiconductor memory device includes: a temperature sensor configured to sense an internal temperature of the semiconductor memory device and generate a temperature signal; and a temperature code storage unit configured to receive the temperature signal in response to a temperature code write control signal that is generated when an operation corresponding to a specific command is performed, generate an operating temperature code corresponding to the temperature signal, compare the operating temperature code with a previously stored temperature code, store a larger temperature code of the operating temperature code and the previously stored temperature code as a maximum temperature code, and output the maximum temperature code to an external source in response to a temperature code read control signal. |
| US11133038B1 |
Multi-die peak power management for three-dimensional memory
Embodiments of a peak power management (PPM) circuit on a memory die are disclosed. The PPM circuit includes a first transistor and a second transistor arranged in parallel, wherein the first and second transistors each has a drain terminal electrically connected to a first power source and a second power source, respectively. The PPM circuit also includes a resistor having a first terminal electrically connected to respective source terminals of the first and second transistors. The PPM circuit further includes a first contact pad on the memory die, electrically connected to a second contact pad on a different memory die through a die-to-die connection. The PPM circuit also includes a third transistor with a drain terminal electrically connected to a second terminal of the resistor, and a source terminal electrically connected to the first contact pad. |
| US11133037B1 |
System and method for generating dynamic media
A method for generating customized dynamic video including partitioning customized dynamic video's timeline, using a predefined partition scheme, into a series of chunk descriptors, each defined by an interval of the timeline and corresponding to a video chunk of the customized dynamic video; for each chunk descriptor, constructing an identifier based on a set of parameters that represent visual characteristics of the video chunk, and associating the identifier to the chunk descriptor, and querying a cache of previously rendered and encoded video chunks for a video chunk indexed by the identifier matching that of the chunk descriptor; and in the case that a video chunk whose identifier matches the queried identifier is found, retrieving the video chunk from the cache; otherwise, rendering and encoding the video chunk, for the chunk descriptor's timeline interval, and saving the video chunk in the cache, indexed by the identifier. |
| US11133036B2 |
System and method for associating audio feeds to corresponding video feeds
A system and method for associating audio feeds to corresponding video feeds, including determining a subject of interest within a video feed based on the video feed and metadata associated with the video feed; analyzing the metadata to determine an optimal audio source for the subject of interest; configuring the optimal audio source to capture an audio feed; and associating the captured audio feed with the video feed. |
| US11133031B2 |
Multilayer exchange spring recording media
A multilayer exchange spring recording media consists of a magnetically hard magnetic storage layer strongly exchange coupled to a softer nucleation host. The strong exchange coupling can be through a coupling layer or direct. The hard magnetic storage layer has a strong perpendicular anisotropy. The nucleation host consists of one or more ferromagnetic coupled layers. For a multilayer nucleation host the anisotropy increases from layer to layer. The anisotropy in the softest layer of the nucleation host can be two times smaller than that of the hard magnetic storage layer. The lateral exchange between the grains is small. The nucleation host decreases the coercive field significantly while keeping the energy barrier of the hard layer almost unchanged. The coercive field of the total structure depends on one over number of layers in the nucleation host. The invention proposes a recording media that overcomes the writeability problem of perpendicular recording media. |
| US11133030B1 |
Hard drive assembly with onboard tuned data memory
A hard disk assembly (HDAs) that include a tuning data memory at least including tuning data regarding the HDA. The HDAs may lack an internal disk controller, but rather may communicate the tuning data and/or other HDA-specific data (e.g., firmware, certification data, etc.) to a reader device comprising a disk controller. In this regard, the reader device may coordinate with the HDA once the tuning data is received to operate the HDA to perform TO commands in response to commands received at the reader device from a host. In turn, upon failure of an HDA, a new HDA may be swapped into place to communicate with the reader device. Because the HDAs may lack onboard disk controllers, the cost and complexity of each HDA may be reduced. |
| US11133028B2 |
Magnetoresistance effect element
A magnetoresistance effect element has a first ferromagnetic metal layer, a second ferromagnetic metal layer, and a tunnel barrier layer that is sandwiched between the first and second ferromagnetic metal layers, the tunnel barrier layer is expressed by a chemical formula of AB2Ox, and has a spinel structure in which cations are arranged in a disordered manner, A represents a divalent cation that is either Mg or Zn, and B represents a trivalent cation that includes a plurality of elements selected from the group consisting of Al, Ga, and In. |
| US11133027B1 |
Context driven device arbitration
This disclosure describes, in part, context-driven device arbitration techniques to select a speech interface device from multiple speech interface devices to provide a response to a command included in a speech utterance of a user. In some examples, the context-driven arbitration techniques may include executing multiple pipeline instances to analyze audio signals and device metadata received from each of the multiple speech interface devices which detected the speech utterance. A remote speech processing service may execute the multiple pipeline instances and analyze the audio signals and/or metadata, at various stages of the pipeline instances, to determine which speech interface device is to respond to the speech utterance. |
| US11133020B2 |
Assistive technology
A device or system is provided which is configured to detect one or more sound events and/or scenes associated with a predetermined context, and to provide an assistive output on fulfilment of that context. |
| US11133019B2 |
Signal processor and method for providing a processed audio signal reducing noise and reverberation
A signal processor for providing one or more processed audio signals on the basis of one or more input audio signals is configured to estimate coefficients of an autoregressive reverberation model using the input audio signals and the delayed noise-reduced reverberant signals obtained using a noise reduction. The signal processor is configured to provide noise-reduced reverberant signals using the input audio signals and the estimated coefficients of the autoregressive reverberation model. The signal processor is configured to derive noise-reduced and reverberation-reduced output signals using the noise-reduced reverberant signals and the estimated coefficients of the autoregressive reverberation model. A method and a computer program include a similar functionality. |
| US11133016B2 |
Audio coding method and apparatus
A method comprises determining a first modification weight according to linear spectral frequency (LSF) differences of the current frame and LSF differences of a previous frame of the current frame, when a signal characteristic of the current frame meets a preset modification condition, modifying the linear predictive parameter of the current frame according to the determined first modification weight, and coding the current frame according to the modified linear predictive parameter. |
| US11133015B2 |
Method and device for predicting channel parameter of audio signal
A method of predicting a channel parameter of an original signal from a downmix signal is disclosed. The method may include generating an input feature map to be used to predict a channel parameter of the original signal based on a downmix signal of an original signal, determining an output feature map including a predicted parameter to be used to predict the channel parameter by applying the input feature map to a neural network, generating a label map including information associated with the channel parameter of the original signal, and predicting the channel parameter of the original signal by comparing the output feature map and the label map. |
| US11133014B2 |
Multi-channel signal encoding method and encoder
A multi-channel signal encoding method and an encoder, where the encoding method includes obtaining a multi-channel signal of a current frame, determining an initial multi-channel parameter of the current frame, determining a difference parameter based on the initial multi-channel parameter of the current frame and multi-channel parameters of previous K frames of the current frame, where the difference parameter represents a difference between the initial multi-channel parameter of the current frame and the multi-channel parameters of the previous K frames, and K is an integer greater than or equal to one, determining a multi-channel parameter of the current frame based on the difference parameter and a characteristic parameter of the current frame, and encoding the multi-channel signal based on the multi-channel parameter of the current frame. Hence, the method and the encoder ensure better accuracy of inter-channel information of a multi-channel signal. |
| US11133013B2 |
Audio encoder with selectable L/R or M/S coding
Methods and systems encoding a stereo audio signal having a left channel and a right channel are disclosed. The system includes a downmixer for generating a downmix signal and a residual signal from the stereo audio signal in selected frequency bands representing only part of a used audio frequency range of the stereo audio signal, and a decision module for selecting, in a time variant manner, either left/right perceptual encoding or mid/side perceptual encoding. The system also includes a parameter estimator for estimating stereo parameters for reconstructing a stereo image of a portion of the stereo audio signal, and a perceptual encoder for performing either left/right perceptual encoding or mid/side perceptual encoding based on the selecting to generate an encoded output signal. Finally, the system includes a bitstream generator for creating a bitstream signal comprising the encoded output signal. |
| US11133008B2 |
Reducing the need for manual start/end-pointing and trigger phrases
Systems and processes for selectively processing and responding to a spoken user input are provided. In one example, audio input containing a spoken user input can be received at a user device. The spoken user input can be identified from the audio input by identifying start and end-points of the spoken user input. It can be determined whether or not the spoken user input was intended for a virtual assistant based on contextual information. The determination can be made using a rule-based system or a probabilistic system. If it is determined that the spoken user input was intended for the virtual assistant, the spoken user input can be processed and an appropriate response can be generated. If it is instead determined that the spoken user input was not intended for the virtual assistant, the spoken user input can be ignored and/or no response can be generated. |
| US11133006B2 |
Enhancing test coverage of dialogue models
In one or more embodiments described herein, device, computer-implemented methods, and/or computer program products that facilitate enhancing test coverage of dialogue models. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor that executes computer executable components stored in memory. The computer executable components can comprise a conversation processing component that receives and processes a first conversation. The computer executable components can further comprise a node marking component that tags a first node of a node map as an accessed node if the first node was accessed during processing of the first conversation. The computer executable components can further comprise a reporting component that generates a report comprising a list of nodes, wherein the list of nodes comprises one or more second nodes that were not accessed during processing of the first conversation. |
| US11133005B2 |
Systems and methods for disambiguating a voice search query
Systems and methods are described herein for disambiguating a voice search query that contains a command keyword by determining whether the user spoke a quotation from a content item and whether the user mimicked or approximated the way the quotation is spoken in the content item. The voice search query is transcribed into a string, and an audio signature of the voice search query is identified. Metadata of a quotation matching the string is retrieved from a database that includes audio signature information for the string as spoken within the content item. The audio signature of the voice search query is compared with the audio signature information in the metadata to determine whether the audio signature matches the audio signature information in the quotation metadata. If a match is detected, then a search result comprising an identifier of the content item from which the quotation comes is generated. |
| US11132997B1 |
Robust audio identification with interference cancellation
Audio distortion compensation methods to improve accuracy and efficiency of audio content identification are described. The method is also applicable to speech recognition. Methods to detect the interference from speakers and sources, and distortion to audio from environment and devices are discussed. Additional methods to detect distortion to the content after performing search and correlation are illustrated. The causes of actual distortion at each client are measured and registered and learnt to generate rules for determining likely distortion and interference sources. The learnt rules are applied at the client, and likely distortions that are detected are compensated or heavily distorted sections are ignored at audio level or signature and feature level based on compute resources available. Further methods to subtract the likely distortions in the query at both audio level and after processing at signature and feature level are described. |
| US11132994B1 |
Multi-domain dialog state tracking
A system for processing user utterances and/or text based queries that tracks context data of a current dialog between the system and the user, can determine values for slots by determining if the value was mentioned in a previous turn of the dialog. The system may employ a question-answer model and construct a question including the domain name, slot name, and potential slot values. The system may process the previous turns of the dialog and the constructed question to determine the slot value. The system may track a dialog that relates to multiple domains and may determine the slot value based on a slot value that is mentioned in relation to another domain. |
| US11132993B1 |
Detecting non-verbal, audible communication conveying meaning
Various embodiments of the invention provide methods, systems, and computer-program products for analyzing an audio to capture semantic and non-semantic characteristics of the audio and corresponding relationships between the semantic and non-semantic characteristics. In particular embodiments, the audio is segmented into a set of utterance segments containing a party speaking on the audio and a set of noise segments containing the party not speaking on the audio. The semantic and non-semantic characteristics are then captured for each of the utterance segments. Specifically, speech analytics is performed on each segment to identify the words spoken by the party in the segment as semantic characteristics. Further, laughter, emotion, and sentence boundary detection is performed on each segment to identify occurrences of such in the segment as non-semantic characteristics. Once identified for each segment, various embodiments of the invention involve constructing a transcript based on the identified semantic and non-semantic characteristics. |
| US11132986B2 |
Tailored panel assembly and method of manufacturing the same
A panel assembly is formed by a plurality of bonds between two sheet materials in a face to face relationship to form a preform. The plurality of bonds define a closed perimeter region between the two sheet materials and an open perimeter region between the two sheet materials. The preform may be formed into a predefined shape. Pressurized fluid is applied through an inlet into the open perimeter region to expand the preform. The pressurized fluid expands the open perimeter region such that the two sheet materials expand in an opposing direction, thereby defining an expanded open perimeter region. The closed perimeter region between the two sheet materials remains vacant of the pressurized fluid such that the closed perimeter region is not expanded. The expanded open perimeter region is filled with a filler material for improving a performance characteristic of the panel assembly, e.g., strength, sound absorption, or stiffness. |
| US11132985B2 |
Vibraphone pickup
A vibraphone pickup has a bobbin having two coils, one for outputting an analog signal and one for outputting a digital signal. A plurality of filters and buffers are used to isolate the signals. A rare earth (or neodymium) magnet is used in the center of the bobbin. In one method of use, a vibraphone pickup is used to pick up each note of the vibraphone. The output of each vibraphone pickup is combined and fed into an amplifier. |
| US11132984B2 |
Automatic multi-channel music mix from multiple audio stems
There are disclosed automatic mixers and methods for creating a surround audio mix. A set of rules may be stored in a rule base. A rule engine may select a subset of the set of rules based, at least in part, on metadata associated with a plurality of stems. A mixing matrix may mix the plurality of stems in accordance with the selected subset of rules to provide three or more output channels. |
| US11132981B2 |
Method and device for processing display information
The present disclosure disclosed a display information processing device and method suitable for a host system, the method comprises: determining whether specification of interfaces of a plurality of extended display devices connected to extension interfaces conforms to the default specification of interfaces of the host system; calling drivers corresponding to a plurality of extended display devices from the host system to drive the plurality of extended display devices with the specification of interfaces conforming to the default specification of interfaces of the host system; obtaining resolution information from the plurality of extended display devices, respectively; determining a common resolution from the resolution information of the plurality of extended display devices; and outputting display information of a main display device to the plurality of extended display devices based on the common resolution. The present disclosure solves the issue of installing drivers and fix the problem of unsupportive resolution of present techniques. |
| US11132980B2 |
Driving chip, display device, and method of driving display device
A display device includes a display unit comprising a plurality of pixels disposed in a display area, the display area comprising a first area and a second area; a gamma voltage supply including gamma voltage generators that are configured to generate respective ones of gamma voltage sets; and a data driver configured to convert image data into data signals using the gamma voltage sets, supply the data signals to the pixels, generate the data signals corresponding to the first area and the second area using a first group comprising some of the gamma voltage generators in a first mode, and generate the data signals corresponding to the second area using a second group comprising different gamma voltage generators from the first group in a second mode. |
| US11132979B2 |
Device for correcting image of transparent display device, transparent display device using the same, and method for driving the display device
A correction device for correcting luminance of a display image based on background illuminance and transmittance of a transparent display panel, a transparent display device using the same, and a method for driving the display device are discussed. The correction device can correct luminance of a display image in real time based on a background-affected illuminance of a transparent display panel. Further, an optimal peak luminance of the display image is adjusted based on the background-affected illuminance of the transparent display panel, while adding a weight to a dark environment such that the peak luminance is further lowered, thereby reducing an amount of power consumption while maintaining display quality of the transparent display image. |
| US11132971B2 |
Voltage supply circuit, liquid crystal device, electronic apparatus, and mobile body
A voltage supply circuit that supplies a voltage to a liquid-crystal panel (10) including a common electrode (30) common to a plurality of pixels is provided with a common voltage generation circuit (310) that generates a common voltage (VCOM) to be supplied to the common electrode 30, an output terminal (320) from which the common voltage (VCOM) is output to the liquid-crystal panel (10), an input terminal (360) to which a voltage of the common electrode (30) detected in the liquid-crystal panel (10) is input as a detection voltage (VCOM_IN), and a first determination circuit (353) that determines whether or not the detection voltage (VCOM_IN) input to the input terminal (360) is normal. |
| US11132960B1 |
Backlight driving method for a display
A backlight driving method is provided to include generating switching signals based on an internal synchronization control (ISC) signal related to refreshing of images on the display, a clock signal, and delay commands contained in a serial input signal that further contains an image stream. A time delay of each switching signal with respect to the ISC signal is determined by the clock signal and a respective delay command, and the time delays of the switching signals are different from one another. The method further includes generating driving signals based on the ISC signal, the clock signal and the serial input signal; and outputting the signals thus generated, to drive the backlight module to emit light in a line scan manner. |
| US11132959B2 |
Electronic device and control method thereof
An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device comprises an input unit, and a processor for acquiring a current duty of each first dimming block for driving a backlight unit, on the basis of pixel information of an image input through the input unit, identifying at least one second dimming block including at least one first dimming block in the input image on the basis of the pixel information of the input image, acquiring a current value of the second dimming value on the basis of a current duty of the first dimming block included in the identified second dimming block, and acquiring a driving signal for driving the backlight unit, on the basis of the current duty of each first dimming block and the current value of the second dimming block. |
| US11132956B2 |
Display device
A display device includes: a display substrate in which a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area are defined, where the display area includes a plurality of pixels; and a display driving chip disposed on the display substrate. The display substrate includes: a base substrate; a first conductive layer disposed on the base substrate; a first insulating layer disposed on the first conductive layer; and a second conductive layer disposed on the first insulating layer. The first conductive layer includes a first capacitor electrode disposed in the non-display area. The second conductive layer includes a second capacitor electrode disposed in the non-display area. The first and second capacitor electrodes overlap each other with the first insulating layer therebetween and collectively defined a first capacitor. The first and second capacitor electrodes are connected to the display driving chip. |
| US11132942B2 |
LED display device having decreased display image crosstalk
A light-emitting diode (LED) display device includes a display part having LED elements arranged in a matrix structure including scan lines and data lines. The LED display device also includes a scan driver driving the scan lines and each of the scan lines is controlled using a discharge voltage at a discharge timing. The LED display device also includes a data compensation part which compensates driving data of each of the data lines to generate the compensation data of each of the data lines using a compensation value to compensate for a difference in luminous intensity slope of the LED element due to a difference in the number of luminescence data lines at the unit scan timing. Thus, a crosstalk phenomenon of the display image due to a difference in the number of data lines simultaneously sourced is decreased. |
| US11132939B2 |
Display system and shared driving circuit thereof
A display system includes a number (M) of scan line units, a number (N) of channel line units, a number (R) of light emitting arrays connected to the scan line units and the channel line units, and a number (L) of shared driving circuits, where M≥1, N≥1, R≥1, and L is equal to a maximum of M and N when M≠N, and is equal to M otherwise. Each shared driving circuit is operable to generate or not to generate a scan driving output, and is operable to generate or not to generate a channel driving output. Each of a number (M) of the shared driving circuits is for providing the scan driving output to a respective scan line unit. Each of a number (N) of the shared driving circuits is for providing the scan driving output to a respective scan line unit. |
| US11132931B2 |
Image processing system, image processing method, and non-transitory storage medium storing image processing program
An image processing system according to the present disclosure includes: a measurement image generator that generates a measurement image in which a plurality of rectangular unit images is arranged, each of the unit images being configured by arranging a plurality of gradation images in a first direction; a correction data generator that generates correction data used to correct display unevenness on the basis of a measured value that is acquired by measuring the measurement image generated by the measurement image generator by using a measuring instrument; and a display unevenness corrector that corrects an input gradation on the basis of the correction data generated by the correction data generator. |
| US11132928B2 |
Horizontal line driver and display device including the same
A horizontal line driver providing a scan signal to scan lines, and including: first scan signal output blocks providing the scan signal to scan lines in a first side display area, wherein each of the first scan signal output blocks include a first output buffer; second scan signal output blocks providing the scan signal to scan lines in a first front display area including curved edges, wherein each of the second scan signal output blocks include a second output buffer; and third scan signal output blocks providing the scan signal to scan lines in a second front display area. Each of the third scan signal output blocks include a third output buffer. The width of the first front display area is larger than a width of the first side display area but is smaller than a width of the second front display area, and the width gradually increases. |
| US11132921B2 |
Human anatomic models for use in surgical simulation having synthetic tissue planes
A surgical eye model assembly for simulating eye surgery using surgical tools includes a spherical surgical body formed of material which can be readily cut using the surgical tools so as to be representative of an ocular globe. A plurality of suspension arms extend radially outward from the surgical body in proximity to the rear side at circumferentially spaced apart locations about the central axis to suspend the surgical body relative to the a rigid base frame. Elongate strands of resilient material are tensioned about the surgical body to represent muscular strands. A sheet of resilient material surrounds the body and strands to be representative of a conjunctiva layer. Lubricant is provided as a layer about the strands and between the sheet and the body. Resilient material can also form in loosely bonded layers to define additional structures surrounding the body to represent a lens, vascular structures, eyelids, etc. |
| US11132920B2 |
Personalized intervention based on machine learning of behavior change states
A system provides an intervention for a user and comprises at least one processor. The system monitors behavior and context of a user to generate a behavior history. One or more models are utilized to determine an intervention for the user to induce a behavior modification, wherein the one or more models map interventions to user context and behavior and utilize the behavior history to determine an effective intervention for the user. The intervention is provided to the user and feedback is received in response to the intervention. The one or more models are updated based on the feedback. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for providing an intervention to a user in substantially the same manner described above. |
| US11132915B1 |
Augmented reality system for field training
An augmented reality (AR) system for field training. The AR system may comprise: user platform sensors for obtaining user platform data associated with geolocation/orientation/movement of a user platform; a weapon simulator configured for haptic feedback and comprising weapon sensors for obtaining weapon data associated with muzzle orientation and trigger actuation of the weapon simulator, a head-worn display device for depicting AR graphic elements associated with training simulation data; target platform sensors for obtaining target platform data associated with geolocation/orientation/movement of a target platform; a microcontroller for packetizing the target platform data for wireless transmission; a computer system for generating the training simulation data based on the user platform data, weapon data, and target platform data; and transceivers for providing wireless communication between the computer system and microcontroller. The AR graphic elements may provide visual indications of the training simulation data, including severity and location of a projectile impact. |
| US11132914B2 |
Systems and methods for health education, certification, and recordation
A method for health education, certification, and recordation is disclosed. The method may include obtaining, at a server, a user input from a user interface. The user input may define an interval for a desired CPR certification schedule. The method may include generating, at the server, a CPR certification program. Generating the CPR certification program may include generating at least two task groups. Each task group of the at least two task groups may include a healthcare certification task. The method may include administering, at the server, the CPR certification program. Administering the CPR certification program may include assigning, at the interval defined by the user input, one task group of the at least two task groups to a user enrolled in the CPR certification program, and receiving an indication that the enrolled user has completed the healthcare certification task of the assigned one task group. |
| US11132909B2 |
Drone encroachment avoidance monitor
Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for locating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). A region of airspace may be scanned with two scanning apparatuses. Each scanning apparatus may include one or more directional Radio Frequency (RF) antennae. The two scanning apparatuses may have different locations. Radio frequency signals emitted by a UAV can be received at each of the two scanning apparatuses. The received radio frequency signals can be processed to determine a first location of the UAV. |
| US11132907B2 |
Method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for gathering information
Presented are a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for gathering information. An exemplary apparatus includes at least one processor and a memory storing computer instructions executable by the at least one processor, wherein the memory with the computer instructions and the at least one processor are configured to cause the apparatus to at least receive a flight path from a predetermined location to a location of an emergency. The apparatus is further caused to travel the flight path from the predetermined location to the location of the emergency, capture information at the location of the emergency, and transmit the captured information. |
| US11132902B2 |
Parking space light
Techniques for parking space light are provided. A parking space light can identify, via one or more instruments of the parking space light, a set of parking spaces in a defined region of a parking structure in which the parking space light is installed, monitor, via the one or more instruments, the set of parking spaces, and determine respective occupied statuses of parking spaces of the set of parking spaces, wherein the respective occupied statuses indicate whether the parking spaces are occupied or unoccupied. |
| US11132893B2 |
Multi-sensor edge computing system
A multi-sensor edge computing system can have at least a sensor assembly connected to an edge computing device and a downstream host. The sensor assembly may have a first sensor and a second sensor with the respective sensors being different. The edge computing device can be configured to identify a false reading of the first sensor in response to data captured by the second sensor. |
| US11132888B2 |
Method and system for providing alternate network access
Methods and systems for configuring communication at a premises are described. A network device at a premises may be in communication with a first network and a second network. The network device may receive data from a communication device located at the premises. The network device may transmit the data via the first network or the second network based on configuration data, which may be received from a computing device. |
| US11132885B2 |
Remote cooking systems and methods
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. |
| US11132884B2 |
Smoke and steam detector
A device for detecting a hazardous condition in an area includes a housing defining a chamber. There is at least one smoke sensing device for detecting the presence of smoke in the chamber. An extremely-high frequency detector includes at least one extremely-high frequency transmitter positioned relative to at least one extremely-high frequency receiver. |
| US11132882B1 |
Proximity-based system for object tracking and automatic application initialization
A system and method provides for one or more of tracking of an object and providing automatic access to applications or data. Depending upon the embodiment, the system includes a personal digital key (PDK), a reader, a computing device and one or more of an auto login server and a tracking server. The PDK stores one or more profiles in memory. A reader is configured to wirelessly communicate with the PDK. The computing device is coupled to the reader and one or more of the auto login server and tracking server. The auto login server is configured to communicate with the reader and launches one or more applications associated with a user name identified by a profile received from the PDK. The tracking server is configured to communicate with the reader and to track and log information received from the PDK associated with the object. |
| US11132875B1 |
Method and apparatus for passively detecting card skimmers based on EMI fingerprints
A system is provided that detects a card skimmer in a target system, wherein the card skimmer surreptitiously gathers credit/debit card information during operation of the target system. This system first gathers target electromagnetic interference (EMI) signals by monitoring EMI signals generated by the target system through an external scanner with a directional antenna. Next, the system generates a target EMI fingerprint from the target EMI signals. The system then compares the target EMI fingerprint against a reference EMI fingerprint for the target system to determine whether the target system contains a card skimmer. |
| US11132872B2 |
Lottery ticket
The present invention is directed to a lottery ticket. The lottery ticket includes a matching identifier for matching with identifiers of one or more other lottery tickets to form a winning combination of lottery tickets. |
| US11132870B2 |
Game of chance systems and methods
In various embodiments, players may compete in a gaming context. |
| US11132869B2 |
Table game system
In a table game system provided by the present invention, a card shoe used in a table game can be used to calculate periods associated with the progress of the game handled by a dealer, particularly periods from the time when a card is drawn from a card accommodating section to the time when a result of the game is displayed, such as a game play period, and other periods excluding the play period which includes a bet period and a bet settlement period. |
| US11132868B2 |
Selectively replacing a value persisted across feature instances in an electronic gaming device
An electronic gaming device, including a display, a game controller with a processor, and memory, implements a feature having multiple instances. During the feature, for each instance, multiple symbols are selected from a set of symbols, which includes special symbols having associated values, and the selected symbols are displayed in a symbol array. A current value that is persisted across instances of the feature is also displayed. For an instance, a determination is made as to whether at least one selected special symbol has an associated value that is greater than the current value. If at least one selected special symbol has an associated value that is greater than the current value, the current value is replaced with the largest value associated with the at least one selected special symbol. A player is awarded an amount for the current value when all instances of the feature have been completed. |
| US11132867B2 |
Software-based simulation of trigger symbol movement
An embodiment may involve a software application executed on behalf of a client machine with a graphical display unit, the software application graphically displaying animations that simulate spinning a plurality of reels. A set of symbols may be selected, including first and second trigger symbols in a third position a fourth position, respectively, adjacent to one another. The embodiment may involve determining a third set of symbols identical to the second set of symbols except that: when the third and fourth positions are vertically adjacent on a particular reel, all symbols on the particular reel are wild, when the third and fourth positions are horizontally adjacent on a pair of adjacent reels, all symbols on the pair of adjacent reels are wild, (iii) when the third and fourth positions are diagonally adjacent to one another, a 2×2 grid of symbols are wild. |
| US11132858B1 |
Closing structure of banknote machine
An improved closing structure of a banknote machine includes: a banknote machine; a banknote machine gate, and characterized in that: a lower portion of the banknote machine gate is disposed with a bottom plate, one side of the bottom plate is extended with a protruding extension part and a fastening column, the lateral plate is disposed with a fastening column, at least one tension spring connected to the fastening column of the lateral plate and the fastening column of the protruding extension part; and a front portion of the banknote machine is formed with an accommodation space, so that the banknote machine gate is prevented from folding back after being opened via a pulling force provided by the tension spring. |
| US11132857B2 |
Internet of things smart entry
Various systems and methods for providing a smart entry system are described herein. A smart entry system includes a detector to detect a person near a portal to a room; a transceiver to attempt to establish a wireless connection between the smart entry system and a user device associated with the person; and a user interface to present a notification to the person based on a state of the wireless connection. |
| US11132856B2 |
Selection of access control apparatuses on an access authorization proving apparatus on the basis of information of a shipment
Provided is a method, performed by an access authorisation verification apparatus, involving the steps of: obtaining a piece of information from a transmission; identifying a transmission data record using the piece of information obtained from the transmission, wherein the transmission data record comprises address information associated with the transmission; determining an access control apparatus on the basis of a comparison of the address information of the transmission data record with respective address information that is associated with the access control apparatuses and stored on the access authorisation verification apparatus; allowing selection and/or confirmation of an access control apparatus for the determined access control apparatus by a user of the access authorisation verification apparatus; and communicating access authorization information to the access control apparatus in order to gain access to a room associated with the access control apparatus, so that the transmission can be placed into or removed from the room. |
| US11132854B2 |
Inconspicuous access control device
An access control device including a keypad member and an communication module. The keypad member may include a substrate layer having a mounting surface and an internal surface, and a capacitive sensing layer mounted on the internal surface of the substrate layer and including a keypad circuit having a plurality of capacitive sensors defining a plurality of keys. They keypad circuit may include a clear conductive ink. The keypad member may further include a user interface layer mounted on the capacitive sensing layer. The access control device may be configured to be in communication with the capacitive sensing layer and have a mounting structure positioned at a spacing distance from the mounting surface of the substrate layer and a communication link electrically connecting the communication module and the capacitive sensing layer. |
| US11132853B1 |
Vehicle gateway device and interactive cohort graphical user interfaces associated therewith
A system receives vehicle metric data from a gateway device connected to a vehicle. The vehicle gateway device gathers data related to operation of the vehicle and/or location data. The system receives data from multiple vehicles and multiple fleets. The system uses machine learning to identify cohorts for fleets. The system calculates metrics for fleets and benchmarks for the cohorts. The system presents the metrics and benchmarks in a graphical user interface. |
| US11132850B1 |
Augmented reality diagnostic interface
A method, system, and computer program product for augmented reality-based vehicle diagnostics are provided. The method receives vehicle metadata describing a vehicle. The vehicle metadata includes a problem context. The method retrieves vehicle reference data based on the vehicle metadata. A candidate problem is generated for the problem context based on the vehicle metadata and the vehicle reference data. The method generates a set of candidate solutions for the candidate problem. The set of candidate solutions address the problem context. The method generates a set of visualizations for the set of solutions based on the vehicle metadata and the candidate problem. The method presents a visualization of the set of visualizations as an augmented reality user interface. |
| US11132847B2 |
Time to empty prediction system for vehicle power source
A vehicle includes an onboard power source, a vehicle interface, and a controller. The controller, responsive to an external power application drawing power from the onboard power source, outputs a power source time to empty for display by the vehicle interface. The power source time to empty is derived from a location of the vehicle and a power drawn from the onboard power source by the external power application. |
| US11132844B2 |
Driving method and driving apparatus for AR/VR display device, and display device
A driving method for an AR/VR display device includes inserting a pre-configuration time period every time a backlight insertion stage is initiated. The driving method includes during the pre-configuration time period, configuring a pre-configuration screen for partial or full-screen pixel lines. The pre-configuration screen includes a black screen, a white screen, or a grayscale screen. |
| US11132842B2 |
Method and system for synchronizing a plurality of augmented reality devices to a virtual reality device
A method of synchronizing digital content between a first mobile device and a second mobile device is disclosed. Device position and orientation data is received at a first application executing in an operating system of the first mobile device. Sensor data is used to determine at least two 3D points associated with a physical location of the second mobile device. At least two 3D points are used to determine an offset for the position, orientation and scale of the first mobile device relative to the second mobile device. The offset and digital content data captured by the first mobile device are shared over a network with a second application executing in an operating system of the second mobile device. The second mobile device uses the offset to display the digital content captured by the first mobile device together with digital content data captured by the second mobile device. |
| US11132841B2 |
Systems and methods for presenting digital assets within artificial environments via a loosely coupled relocalization service and asset management service
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include acquiring, from a client device within a real-world environment, information representative of the real-world environment, and transmitting the information representative of the real-world environment to a relocalization service. The method may further include receiving, from the relocalization service, (1) an anchor point that may include a mapped position within the real-world environment, and (2) a determined position within the real-world environment of a client device relative to the mapped position of the anchor point. The method may further include sending an identifier of the anchor point to an asset management service, and obtaining, from the asset management service, a digital asset. The method may further include presenting the digital asset at a position within an artificial environment relative to the mapped position of the anchor point. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. |
| US11132840B2 |
Method and device for obtaining real time status and controlling of transmitting devices
A method and a device for controlling at least one device in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes rendering a digital representation of a real world environment on a display unit, wherein the digital representation includes a graphical representation of the at least one device based on a status information of the at least one device; receiving a user-input indicating control information of the at least one device; and controlling one or more operations of the at least one device in the real world environment based on the control information. |
| US11132838B2 |
Immersive content production system
An immersive content presentation system and techniques that can detect and correct lighting artifacts caused by movements of one or more taking camera in a performance area consisting of multiple displays (e.g., LED or LCD displays). The techniques include capturing, with a camera, a plurality of images of a performer performing in a performance area at least partially surrounded by one or more displays presenting images of a virtual environment. Where the images of the virtual environment within a frustum of the camera are updated on the one or more displays based on movement of the camera, and images of the virtual environment outside of the frustum of the camera are not updated based on movement of the camera. The techniques further include generating content based on the plurality of captured images. |
| US11132837B2 |
Immersive content production system with multiple targets
An immersive content presentation system and techniques that can detect and correct lighting artifacts caused by movements of one or more taking camera in a performance area consisting of multiple displays (e.g., LED or LCD displays). The techniques include capturing, with a camera, a plurality of images of a performer performing in a performance area at least partially surrounded by one or more displays presenting images of a virtual environment. Where the images of the virtual environment within a frustum of the camera are updated on the one or more displays based on movement of the camera, and images of the virtual environment outside of the frustum of the camera are not updated based on movement of the camera. The techniques further include generating content based on the plurality of captured images. |
| US11132836B2 |
Method for determining real world measurements from an apparel 3D model
A system and method is provided for creating editable configurations of 3D models and for using a specific type of 2D vector, namely a straight line, to compute and display real world measurements on the 3D model. A 3D model with UV map is created corresponding to a manufacturing pattern and to scale by a Scale Factor. A 2D vector created and overlaid on the UV map of a 3D model, is used to create several virtual mesh groups outlined by the 2D vector, on the underlying 3D model. Two points on a 3D model is selected to create a 2D Vector comprising the points on the UV map corresponding to the selected points on the 3D model. The Path Length of created 2D Vector and the Real Length as Path Length*Scale Factor, are calculated. |
| US11132829B2 |
Method for voxel ray-casting of scenes on a whole screen
A method for screen-space voxel ray-casting of scenes on a whole screen. The method comprises providing a graphics card; rendering seamlessly any one of the following list of primitives containing at least polygons, voxels; using a GPU pipeline of the graphics card for rasterization; rendering of the primitives sorted from front to back; thereby optimizing a 2D pixel fill rate by in case the primitives are voxels, rendering the voxels as discrete points and storing size and shading information into a per-pixel data structure; storing information about closest primitives into the per-pixel data structure as neighboring 2D pixel data structures; in case the primitives are polygons, rendering the polygons as continuous surfaces and storing shading information into the per-pixel data structure. The method further comprises performing the screen-space voxel ray-casting of scenes on the whole screen by means of the GPU pipeline, thereby selecting intersection candidates from the neighboring 2D pixel data structures; thereby optimizing the screen space ray-casting of voxels by selecting the intersection candidates using a two-pass convolution screen space kernel of fixed size; and identifying the kernel size per frame, based on the distance to the closest voxel from the camera. |
| US11132827B2 |
Artificial reality system architecture for concurrent application execution and collaborative 3D scene rendering
The disclosure describes a distributed, pluggable architecture for an artificial reality (AR) system that enables concurrent execution and collaborative scene rendering for multiple artificial reality applications. For example, an AR system includes an image capture device configured to capture image data representative of a physical environment. The AR system also includes a head-mounted display (HMD) configured to output artificial reality content. The AR system further includes a plurality of concurrently executing artificial reality client applications. The AR system also includes a concurrent application engine configured to control rendering the artificial reality content as a common scene that include one or more objects from each of the plurality of artificial reality applications. |
| US11132825B1 |
Multistate animation of existing digital and analog art
Introduced here are computer programs and associated computer-implemented techniques for adding animations to existing digital and analog art that was not originally created with animation in mind. The technologies described herein enable the content located beneath animated elements to be generated such that the artistic style of the underlying art remains intact. |
| US11132819B2 |
Method and apparatus for decoding multi-view video information
A decoding method of multi-view video information is provided. The decoding method of multi-view video information includes: receiving a bit stream about video data of a plurality of videos photographed by a plurality of cameras; generating first information by extracting depth information of a block in a video frame of a plurality of videos from video data included in the bit stream; generating second information by determining whether the same motion estimation is generated between video frames of the plurality of videos; generating third information by extracting pixel information of a block in the video frame of the plurality of videos; and performing block matching and disparity compensation between video frames of the plurality of videos by inputting the first information to third information to a disparity compensation model of multi-view video information which is generated by being trained in advance. |
| US11132814B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium
An information processing apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect a feature point in an image captured by a first image capturing apparatus and to detect the feature point in an image captured by a second image capturing apparatus, a spatial information processing unit configured to specify a positional relationship of the first image capturing apparatus and the second image capturing apparatus based on the feature point detected in the image captured by the first image capturing apparatus and the feature point detected in the image captured by the second image capturing apparatus, and a determination unit configured to determine an imaging direction of the second image capturing apparatus based on the positional relationship of the first image capturing apparatus and the second image capturing apparatus specified by the spatial information processing unit and a position designated in the image captured by the first image capturing apparatus. |
| US11132812B2 |
Output control device, information output system, output control method, and program
An output control device includes a determination unit configured to determine whether or not a person is a specific person, a processing unit configured to acquire position information of the person, and an output control unit configured to cause a first output device located in the vicinity of the person to output information according to the person on the basis of personal information about the person determined to be the specific person by the determination unit and the position information acquired by the processing unit, wherein the output control unit is configured to cause a second output device to output the information output by the first output device in continuation with the output of the first output device if the person has moved from the vicinity of the first output device to the vicinity of the second output device. |
| US11132811B2 |
Method and system for improving size selection of garments
A method and system that facilitates the size selection for garments such as hosiery or pantyhose with the aim to improve comfort and fit for the wearer is provided. |
| US11132808B2 |
OLED display structure and display device, spatial point positioning system and method for positioning spatial point
An OLED display structure, an OLED display device, and a spatial point positioning system and a method thereof are provided. The OLED display structure includes a light emitting layer which has a plurality of pixels, and infrared sub-pixels arranged between adjacent pixels. |
| US11132805B2 |
Depth measurement assembly with a structured light source and a time of flight camera
A depth measurement assembly (DMA) includes an illumination source that projects pulses of light (e.g., structured light) at a temporal pulsing frequency into a local area. The DMA includes a sensor that capture images of the pulses of light reflected from the local area and determines, using one or more of the captured images, one or more TOF phase shifts for the pulses of light. The DMA includes a controller coupled to the sensor and configured to determine a first set of estimated radial distances to an object in the local area based on the one or more TOF phase shifts. The controller determines a second estimated radial distance to the object based on an encoding of structured light and at least one of the captured images. The controller selects an estimated radial distance from the first set of radial distances. |
| US11132803B2 |
Imaging apparatus, imaging system, and method for controlling the same
An imaging system includes a plurality of cameras capable of capturing actual images. Of the plurality of cameras, a first camera detects first motion information about a main object. The second camera detects second motion information about the main object. The first camera determines motion information to be used based on the first motion information and the second motion information. |
| US11132802B2 |
Method of detecting moving objects from a temporal sequence of images
Moving objects are detected from a temporal sequence of images captured from successive viewpoints. Image flow vectors are computed from the temporal sequence of images, for example of flow between difference images derived from the sequence. An average direction of the image flow vectors associated with displacement of image areas between a first image and a second image derived from temporal sequence of images is computed. Preferably, a method of averaging is used that is designed to suppress the effect of outliers. Regions are determined in the first image. For each of the identified regions along range of positions along the computed average direction from a position of the identified region, it is determined whether or not there is a match between first image content in the identified region in the first image and second image content in a patch located within said range of positions in the second image. The set of identified regions is reduced by removing identified regions for which it was determined in said determining step that there was a match. |
| US11132794B2 |
System and method for detection of suspicious tissue regions in an endoscopic procedure
An image processing system connected to an endoscope and processing in real-time endoscopic images to identify suspicious tissues such as polyps or cancer. The system applies preprocessing tools to clean the received images and then applies in parallel a plurality of detectors both conventional detectors and models of supervised machine learning-based detectors. A post processing is also applied in order select the regions which are most probable to be suspicious among the detected regions. Frames identified as showing suspicious tissues can be marked on an output video display. Optionally, the size, type and boundaries of the suspected tissue can also be identified and marked. |
| US11132792B2 |
Cross domain medical image segmentation
Systems and method are described for medical image segmentation. A medical image of a patient in a first domain is received. The medical image comprises one or more anatomical structures. A synthesized image in a second domain is generated from the medical image of the patient in the first domain using a generator of a task driven generative adversarial network. The one or more anatomical structures are segmented from the synthesized image in the second domain using a dense image-to-image network of the task driven generative adversarial network. Results of the segmenting of the one or more anatomical structures from the synthesized image in the second domain represent a segmentation of the one or more anatomical structures in the medical image of the patient in the first domain. |
| US11132789B2 |
Calculation system, calculation method, program, and target
A target including a reference object of a known size is prepared. The reference object from target image data, which is generated by photographing the target using a survey instrument, is detected through image processing to calculate first size data on dimensions of the reference object. A defect from external appearance image data, which is generated by photographing an external appearance of a structure using the survey instrument, is detected through image processing to calculate defect data on dimensions of the defect. The first size data is compared with second size data on actual dimensions of the reference object to calculate correction data, which is used to correct the defect data. |
| US11132787B2 |
Method for monitoring manufacture of assembly units
One variation of a method for monitoring manufacture of assembly units includes: receiving selection of a target location hypothesized by a user to contain an origin of a defect in assembly units of an assembly type; accessing a feature map linking non-visual manufacturing features to physical locations within the assembly type; for each assembly unit, accessing an inspection image of the assembly unit recorded by an optical inspection station during production of the assembly unit, projecting the target location onto the inspection image, detecting visual features proximal the target location within the inspection image, and aggregating non-visual manufacturing features associated with locations proximal the target location and representing manufacturing inputs into the assembly unit based on the feature map; and calculating correlations between visual and non-visual manufacturing features associated with locations proximal the target location and the defect for the set of assembly units. |
| US11132783B2 |
Visual verification system and method
A verification system for verification of a print output from a printing device includes at least one image recording device arranged spaced apart from the printing device. The printing device is configured to compute when a printed area passes the image recording device after a printing operation by a print head of the printing device, and generate a signal to the image recording device. The signal activates the image recording device to capture an image of a printed area and process the image for detecting, if the print out meets certain parameters. |
| US11132780B2 |
Target detection method, training method, electronic device, and computer-readable medium
A target detection method comprises performing corner point feature extraction processing on an input image to obtain a pair of target corner points, generating a target frame based on the pair of target corner points, and outputting a target detection result of a target object when determining that a calibration area in the target frame comprises a target feature point. |
| US11132771B2 |
Bright spot removal using a neural network
A method for image capture includes identifying a bright spot in an image. A neural network is used to recover details in bright spot area through a trained de-noising process. Post-processing of the image is conducted to match image parameters of recovered details in the bright spot area to another area of the image. |
| US11132768B2 |
Method for controlling display device, display device, and display system
A method for controlling a display device displaying a horizontally oriented image or a vertically oriented image includes: determining whether the display device is in a state of displaying the horizontally oriented image or in a state of displaying the vertically oriented image; transmitting first resolution information representing a first resolution to a terminal device when it is determined that the display device is in the state of displaying the horizontally oriented image, and transmitting second resolution information representing a second resolution higher than the first resolution to the terminal device when it is determined that the display device is in the state of displaying the vertically oriented image; receiving image information with a resolution based on the first resolution information or the second resolution information from the terminal device; and displaying the image based on the image information. |
| US11132767B2 |
Vehicular navigation apparatus, method of displaying image thereof, and vehicle including vehicular navigation apparatus
A vehicular navigation apparatus may include: an input unit configured to receive an image; a display unit configured to display at least one of a navigation image and an input image; and a controller configured to receive the image from the input unit and to control operation of the display unit. Upon receiving the image from the input unit, the controller may be configured to extract a resolution of the input image and to determine whether the resolution of the input image is less than or equal to a reference resolution, and when the resolution of the input image is less than or equal to the reference resolution, the controller may be configured to control the operation of the display unit so as to simultaneously display the navigation image and the input image. |
| US11132752B2 |
Integrity management system to manage and control data between entities in an oil and gas asset supply chain
The disclosure generally relates to a system and method for managing and controlling data between entities in an oil and gas asset supply chain, and in particular to an excise tax management system and method to identify and reconcile tax filings, production volumes and operational reports. A data management system collects first data captured from a sensor or a data collector and second data provided by one of a subsidiary, franchise and third party contractor. The data management system secures and clusters the first data to generate one of a secure tax report, a tax estimation and tax information related to a key performance indicator (KPI), and secures and clusters the second data to generate one of secure data, a secure financial report related to one of the subsidiary, franchise and third party contractor of the oil and gas supply chain. |
| US11132751B2 |
System and method for sensor-enhanced insurance coverage and monitoring service
A network of sensors is utilized to capture and relay data that is relevant to specific types of insurance coverage. Sensors included in the network can be deployed as specialized devices, or can be found in existing consumer products. Behavioral and environmental data collected from the sensor network is used to establish a feedback relationship between an insurance policy holder's behavior and insurance policy pricing. Various types of insurance products can benefit from behavioral and environmental data, including health insurance, dental insurance, disability insurance and automobile insurance. Collected data can be used for other purposes, such as initial risk assessment, risk monitoring, and prevention services. |
| US11132750B2 |
Systems and methods for utilizing an objective impairment injury score risk model
Various embodiments are directed to utilizing an objective impairment injury score risk model. A computing device may receive injury data from a user. The computing device may then perform a security action that protects against unauthorized sharing of the injury data by storing the injury data as a group of linked blocks in a distributed computing system. The computing device may then utilize a machine-learning model to generate a set of questions for the user. The questions may be utilized to determine weighting factors associated with the injury data. The computing device may then utilize the machine-learning model to determine an impairment injury score based on the weighting factors. The may include an objectively determined value associated with a degree of impairment resulting from an injury described in the injury data. Finally, the computing device may display an injury risk management report, based on the score, to the user. |
| US11132749B1 |
User interface with moveable, arrangeable, multi-sided color-coded tiles
A system for automated processing of electronic loan applications including user interfaces, visual presentation of data, automated loan documentation processing, financial analysis, loan scoring, real time risk adjustment, and underwriter approval processes is described. The system provides computer control for receiving electronic loan requests, automatically retrieving third party data for loan applications, filtering third party data, performing cashflow analysis and data verification, scoring loans, assessing risk, optimizing loan offers, generating dashboards with status information and tile displays of loan application data, real time adjusting of risk, displaying of optimized loan offers and underwriting of loan applications. More specifically, the dashboard includes a progress indicator of the progress of an electronic loan request to a complete loan application and finally to an approval or rejection. The dashboard also includes visual indications, including color and signals, directing the underwriter's attention to important or necessary action steps to reject or advance the loan application request. The dashboard interface can be customized or personalized for an underwriter, a loan or for other reasons. The dashboard interface includes a moveable, arrangeable, multi-sided color-coded tile system. The system analyzes loan application data to perform scoring of loans, risk assessment, and optimization of loan offer amounts which are conveyed to the underwriter through a user interface. Risk may be modified by the underwriter through the user interface, numerically or through sliding scale sliders, causing loan scoring and optimizing to occur in real time and presenting new loan offers to the underwriter for approval. The underwriter may approve loans through the user interface, or the system can automatically approve loans without human input. |
| US11132748B2 |
Method and apparatus for risk mining
A computer implemented method for mining risks includes providing a set of risk-indicating patterns on a computing device; querying a corpus using the computing device to identify a set of potential risks by using a risk-identification-algorithm based, at least in part, on the set of risk-indicating patterns associated with the corpus; comparing the set of potential risks with the risk-indicating patterns to obtain a set of prerequisite risks; generating a signal representative of the set of prerequisite risks; and storing the signal representative of the set of prerequisite risks in an electronic memory. A computing device or system for mining risks includes an electronic memory; and a risk-identification-algorithm based, at least in part, on the set of risk-indicating patterns associated with a corpus stored in the electronic memory. |
| US11132743B2 |
Web-based dashboard system for multi-scale, multi-regional visual and spatial economic analysis with integrated business outreach
An interactive data visualization dashboard visualizes a super-region economy and allows a user to identify companies of interest. The dashboard includes a main region chart portraying main regions in a super-region; a sub-region chart representing sub-regions within the main regions depicted in the main region chart; an industry sector chart of industry sectors that can be drilled down from more generic to more specific levels of industry sector codes; a financial stress chart depicting a financial stress index for the selected region; and a material change chart depicting a material change score for the selected region. The charts are interactive and linked so that a selection of an element in one chart automatically triggers all other charts to redraw based upon the selected element. The selection and redrawing occurs iteratively, and the user interacts with the dashboard to focus and refine until satisfied with the information displayed. |
| US11132740B2 |
Voice-based order processing
A vehicle is detected at a drive thru terminal and an automated voice-based dialogue is established with a user in the vehicle and the terminal. An order is placed for a transaction using natural-language speech. The automated voice-based dialogue identifies commands, nouns associated with menu items, adjectives associated with modifying the menu items, prepositions associated with modifying the menu items, and exclamations associated with confirming the order and associated menu items. The automated speech is identified and processed based on a specific lexicon associated with a specific type of restaurant. The speech is translated into actions processed through an ordering system/interface as text-based instructions. Feedback for the order and guidance during the order are provided to the user through: speech played over a speaker associated with the terminal, text displayed on a display, and/or images associated with the ordered items. |
| US11132737B2 |
Dynamic customer checkout experience within an automated shopping environment
A system and method for a dynamic customer checkout experience within an automated shopping environment that includes generating a virtual cart for the customer through an automatic checkout system; tracking location of the customer; generating an assessment of the virtual cart; and selecting a processing mode for the customer based in part on the assessment and executing the processing mode within at least one computing device in coordination with the location of the entity. |
| US11132736B2 |
Object driven newsfeed
Object driven newsfeeds supporting interest-based social networks aid in the formation of relationships based on similar domains of user interest. A space efficient graphical user interface (GUI) enables access to an object driven newsfeed of contextual and relevant information to aid a consumer/user in making buying decisions in an e-commerce environment. |
| US11132731B2 |
Method and system for recommending, monitoring, selecting, purchasing and delivering gifts
The method and system for recommending, monitoring, selecting and delivering gifts includes maintaining a transaction profile and target profile in a data network for a giver, maintaining target sub-profiles corresponding to each recipient listed in the transaction profile, transmitting an alert, presenting a gift selection menu formed by a plurality of recommended gift options, choosing a selected gift option from the gift selection menu, transmitting a notice of the selected gift option to the recipient, and storing a response. Each gift option has been identified with a target rating from a filtered array of primary factors of the target profile. The array is filtered by a target template for the primary factors. The filtered array can be revised for increased accuracy. The response of the recipient includes accepting or rejecting, including re-gifting and consolidating, handling complex gift items, and revising the target templates for subsequent gifts. |
| US11132729B2 |
Systems and methods for blueprint-based cloud management
Systems, methods, and media for translating requests to acquire or change goods and services by receiving a request in a service catalog. The received request is received in a format that is not suitable for a target vendor. The received request is then translated into a format suitable for the target vendor. The translated received request is then transmitted to the vendor using the translated format. |
| US11132727B2 |
Methods and systems for grouping and prioritization of leads, potential customers and customers
A networked communication system allows a vendor that maintains a web site to prioritize, select, and establish human-assisted interaction with visitors to the website. The vendor's human help agents are provided with intuitive interfaces that depict visitor priority based on agent-specific ranking rules. Agents can manage these rules to optimize their performance in responding to visitors, and thus improve the quality of visitors' experiences. |
| US11132726B2 |
Methods and systems for accessing information related to an order of a commodity
Methods of allowing a customer to access information related to an order of a commodity include gathering inspection information from a commodity lot, collecting grower, field, and packing information associated with the commodity lot, recording purchase orders associated with the commodity lot, assigning a trace code to each of the purchase orders, entering the inspection information; the grower, field, and packing information; the purchase orders; and the trace codes into a database maintained through online accounts. Many members of a supply chain are entitled to accounts that are linked, each account being given limited access to other accounts, thereby allowing the customer to access the inspection information, and the grower, field, and packing information, by entering one of the trace codes into the web-based application. According to one exemplary embodiment, each of the purchase orders associated with the commodity lot is linked within the web-based application. |
| US11132724B2 |
System, method and computer program product for tracking and correlating online user activities with sales of physical goods
A vehicle sales matching system may include a vehicle sales lead data database, a vehicle sales information database, and a sales matching system embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable medium and communicatively connected to the vehicle sales lead data database and the vehicle sales information database. The vehicle sales lead data may include validated customer data and third-party customer data. The vehicle sales information may include sales data from vehicle dealers, data extract services, and sales data sources. The sales matching system may be configured for applying one or more matching rules for matching a vehicle sales lead from the vehicle sales lead database to a vehicle sale from the vehicle sales information database. |
| US11132719B2 |
Real-time feedback of advertisement review
As components of an advertisement are received by an online system, the online system determines whether the received components satisfy one or more policies of the online system. If a component does not satisfy a policy of the online system, the user providing the components is notified when the component is provided, allowing the user to modify the component. Additionally, stored data describing previously analyzed components are compared to received components, and the stored data is used if the received component matches a previously analyzed component This process expedites approval of advertisements by the online system. |
| US11132718B1 |
Content selection using distribution parameter data
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for selecting content items for presentation along with publisher resources. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request for a content item for presentation at a user device with a publisher resource; receiving, from a content item provider a first selection value for each of a plurality of content items provided by the content item provider; determining, for each of the content items and using accessed distribution parameters, a second selection value distinct from the first selection value; and determining, for each of the content items and independent of a bid corresponding to the content item, a combined selection value based on the first selection value for the content item and the second selection value for the content item. |
| US11132717B2 |
Synthetic user profiles and monitoring online advertisements
Disclosed are systems and methods for monitoring and policing online advertisements. Content of a website is evaluated and assigned a score. The content evaluated may be either first-party content or third-party content or both. If the score fails predetermined criteria, a report is generated. Synthetic user profiles can be generated using a browser (or other software) to visit a number of predetermined or pseudo-random sites and accumulate user-specific data as it visits each of the sites. The browser stores off the accumulated user-specific data in conjunction with a synthetic user profile. |
| US11132712B2 |
Method for using 3D positional spatial olfaction for virtual marketing
Three-dimensional positional spatial olfaction for virtual marketing associates a product with a product location within a virtual reality environment and identifies a product aroma associated with the product. A distance and a direction from the product location to a positional presence of a participant within the virtual reality environment is determined, and the product aroma is delivered to the participant in accordance with the distance and the direction. Delivery of the product aroma to the participant in accordance with the distance and the direction is used to lead the participant through the virtual reality environment to the product location where an interface for obtaining a physical copy of the product is displayed to the participant. |
| US11132705B1 |
Managing advertising inventory
The amount of dynamic content consumed by an audience at one or more locations in one or more content sites may be determined. This information may then be used by an inventory management system to forecast or estimate the future available advertising inventory at the locations. When the entity receives an insertion order, the entity may use the forecasted advertising inventory to help determine the locations to which the campaign should be allocated and when the advertising campaign should be scheduled so that the requirements of the advertising campaign can be met. |
| US11132703B2 |
Platform for providing augmented reality based advertisements
Systems and methods for providing augmented reality (AR) advertisements are described herein. An example method may commence with providing, to a user, at least one virtual object via an AR interface. The AR interface may be associated with an application running on an AR-enabled device. The method may further include streaming a gamified interactive content to the AR interface based on user data. The gamified interactive content may be associated with the at least one virtual object and designed to inform and educate the user by providing information about available options and features with regard to a product. The method may continue with analyzing user interactions with the gamified interactive content in response to the information and education provided to the user. The method may further include providing, based on the analysis, rewards to the user according to predetermined rules. |
| US11132702B2 |
System, method and computer program for varying affiliate position displayed by intermediary
Endogenous and exogenous variables associated with an item for sale by an affiliate may be displayed to a user of an affiliate decision-making tool. In response to the user selecting one of the endogenous variables, the affiliate decision-making tool may compute a number of introductions, a number of leads, and a number of sales for each of a plurality of possible values of the endogenous variable. The computation may be done utilizing a display position algorithm. A visualization of effects of setting the endogenous variable at different levels may be presented. The user may interact with the display position algorithm to vary one or more of the plurality of possible values of the endogenous variable such that the affiliate is eligible or disqualified to be displayed by an intermediary in response to a search for the item by a visitor of a network site owned and operated by the intermediary. |
| US11132700B1 |
Identifying direct and indirect effects in A/B tests
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for performing an A/B test on a target element of an online platform. In one aspect, a method comprises: conducting an A/B test on a target element of an online platform, comprising: for each user in a population of users, measuring: (i) an outcome of the user interacting with the online platform, and (ii) an interaction of the user with a mediator element of the online platform; and determining, based on the A/B test, a direct effect value that estimates an expected change in user outcomes when the test version of the target element is presented instead of the control version of the target element that is caused independently of induced changes in user interaction with the mediator element. |
| US11132692B2 |
Shared voting for accounting
A method includes receiving, by a backend application, a request for a transaction from a frontend application, and determining, by the backend application, that the request is approved according to an approval policy. The method also includes creating, by the backend application, a single-use account, and requesting, by the backend application, a single-use code for the single-use account from a financial institution. The method also includes receiving, by the backend application, the single-use code, and sending, by the backend application, the single-use code to the frontend application. |
| US11132690B2 |
Pairing transactions and notifications
A computer-implemented method performed by a processor of a financial institution computing system relates to providing a notification relating to a transaction event between an account holder and a merchant. Transaction data relating to the transaction event between the account holder and the merchant is received from the merchant. The transaction event is associated with a financial account of the account holder. A notification is defined based on the transaction data. The notification includes a trigger event and notification content, and relates to a follow-up event to be performed by the account holder with the merchant. Upon occurrence of the trigger event, the notification is transmitted to the account holder. |
| US11132680B2 |
System and method for providing merchant in context checkout
Methods and systems for providing merchant in-context checkout are described. A user is authenticated based on credentials received from a first application running on a computing device. An authentication code is provided to the first application. A signed verifier and the authentication code is then received from a second application running on the computing device. The authentication code and the signed verifier received from the second application are then validated, and a device token is provided to the second application upon validation. The device token is exchangeable by the second application for an access token that is usable for making payment calls from the second application. |
| US11132679B2 |
Resource transfer system
Systems and techniques are provided for a resource transfer system. An instruction to transfer a first quantity of a resource from a first resource pool to a second resource pool may be received. A hold may be placed on a second quantity of the resource in the first resource pool. The held second quantity of the first resource may not be transferred from the first resource pool until the hold is released. Responsive to receiving a message that fulfills a condition on the hold and an instruction to execute the transfer, the hold may be released. A register that is in the first resource pool and is associated with the resource may decremented by the first quantity, and a register that is in the second resource pool and is associated with the resource may be incremented by the first quantity. |
| US11132678B1 |
Advanced systems and methods for geographical card
A system, method, and computer-usable medium are disclosed for managing financial transactions by controlling the purchase of allowed and disallowed purchase items. A transaction control card is used to purchase a purchase item. Account information related to the transaction control card and purchase item data related to the purchase item is then processed to determine whether the purchase item is disallowed for purchase by any single, or combination of, disallowed purchase item data parameters. |
| US11132676B2 |
Parallel execution of transactions in a blockchain network
Implementations of this specification include identify a plurality of transactions to be executed in the blockchain, wherein the transactions are arranged in an execution order, and wherein the execution order includes a contract call arranged after the plurality of transactions; identify groups of transactions within the plurality of transactions, wherein each transaction in each group is associated with a same account in the blockchain network as the other transactions in the group; instruct nodes of the blockchain network to execute each of the groups of transactions in parallel, wherein executing each group of transactions includes executing the transactions within the group serially and according to the execution order; determine that the nodes of the blockchain network have completed executing all of the groups of transactions; and in response, instruct the nodes of the blockchain network to execute the contract call. |
| US11132674B2 |
Micro trusted network
An embedded picture can be embedded with secret embedded payloads. A method is disclosed for performing trusted binding between a first participant and a second participant based on RSA cryptosystem using the embedded picture having a first area assigned to the first participant for a first secret embedded payload, and a second area assigned to the second participant for a second secret embedded payload. Multiple payloads may be embedded in the embedded picture by multiple participants. Each payload can only be encrypted and decrypted by its corresponding participant. Multiple participants may form a trusted network, in the network each participant can be recognized and validated digitally. Accordingly, various activities such as transaction of digital credit card, verification of digital identification (ID) card, transaction of digital currency note may be performed using the trusted network. |
| US11132672B2 |
Layered security for age verification and transaction authorization
A user may be willing to purchase items or participate in a pay-for service offered by a service provider. A service provider may wish to verify characteristics of the user prior to allowing transactions to take place, and may want to secure the transactions once the transactions are allowed. A credential issued to a user and a transaction application uploaded to a user device may be used to secure transactions between the user and a service provider interface, such as a webserver or a point-of-sale. The transaction application may capture real-time user data and comparing the real-time user data to prior user data stored on the credential, authenticate the service provider interface to the user and the user to the service provider interface; and establish an encrypted session between the service provider interface and the transaction application adapted to authenticate the transactions between the user and the service provider interface. |
| US11132671B2 |
Gesture-controlled payment instrument
The present disclosure relates to user authentication using a contactless payment instrument. The contactless payment instrument includes a contactless chip and a gesture control module. The user makes one or more gestures at an access device during a card-present transaction scenario and the gestures are validated and the authentication status is determined by matching the gesture made by the user at the time of the transaction with one or more predefined gestures. If the authentication is successful, the payment instrument transmits the payment information required for conducting the transaction. |
| US11132668B2 |
Mobile devices, methods, and computer program products for prioritizing data sets
Mobile devices, methods, and computer-program products are provided for prioritizing data sets. A transmission is received from a proximity broadcasting device. The transmission is a data packet that includes a unique identifier corresponding to the proximity broadcasting device. A proximity broadcasting system corresponding to the proximity broadcasting device is identified based on the unique identifier. At least one transaction data set corresponding to the proximity broadcasting system is selected from among a plurality of transaction data sets. The at least one transaction data set is prioritized above the remaining transaction data sets in a hierarchical order. |
| US11132665B2 |
Method and device for conducting a secured financial transaction on a device
A device, an add-on and a secure element for conducting a secured financial transaction are disclosed. The device comprises a central processing unit; a communication interface for establishing a communication between the device and a financial institution related to a financial account; an interface for acquiring data relating to the financial account; the secure element for processing at least a portion of the data relating to the financial account acquired by the interface; and control logic for acquiring a purchase amount to be debited from the financial account and for obtaining a transaction authorization from the financial institution related to the financial account, the transaction authorization being based, at least partially, on data processed solely by the secure element independently of data processed by the central processing unit. A method of conducting the secured financial transaction, and a computer program product for execution by the secure element are also disclosed. |
| US11132664B2 |
Securing contactless payment performed by a mobile device
The method, the mobile device, and the payment terminal of the invention relate to security of contactless payment performed during a purchase of products or services by using a short-range wireless communication between the mobile device and the payment terminal. Various external parameters associated to the payment transaction may be exchanged between the mobile device and the payment terminal. Preferred embodiments comprise external parameters such as respective positions of the mobile device and the payment terminal, time stamps related to transaction processing time or identifiers of each the mobile device and the payment terminal. Difference values related to these external parameters are verified by both the mobile device and the payment terminal by carrying out comparison with reference values before validation of the payment transaction by the payment terminal. |
| US11132663B2 |
Publicly accessible urban beach entertainment complex including a surf feature with a centerpiece man-made tropical-style lagoon and method for providing efficient utilization of limited use land
A publicly accessible urban beach entertainment complex is disclosed, with a man-made tropical, pristine-clear lagoon as the centerpiece of the complex. The lagoon includes a surf feature and surrounding the lagoon are entertainment, educational, sports, and commercial facilities. The complex has a controlled public access and provides the look and feel of a tropical beach with clear waters and sandy beaches. In addition a method for efficiently utilizing facilities and land that are vacant, underutilized, have limited uses, or that are contiguous to or nearby recreational, educational, sports, or commercial venues is disclosed. The method providing a publicly accessible urban beach entertainment complex with a centerpiece man-made tropical-style pristine-clear lagoon having a surf feature. The method allows for generating revenue and increasing efficiency by pairing vacant sites, underutilized sites, limited use land, or sites that are contiguous to entertainment, educational, sports, and/or commercial venues with urban beach entertainment complexes. The complex preferably has a controlled public access, thereby allowing entrance upon payment of a fee. |
| US11132661B1 |
System and method for implementing distributed transactions for a group pay
The invention relates to a method and system that processes a plurality of transactions shared by a group of members. A mobile device comprises: a memory; and a computer processor, coupled to the memory, programmed to: identify a plurality of members of a group sharing an event; identify a plurality of transactions made by each member of the group; determine whether each transaction is relevant to the event; automatically add each relevant transaction to the group; automatically categorize each transaction into a category associated with the event; and access, via an interactive display on the mobile device, a running total of expenses associated with the event and an individual share for a member of the group at a point in time. |
| US11132660B2 |
Systems and methods for distributed peer to peer analytics
A method of operating a distributed peer to peer analytics system of a permissioned distributed ledger is provided. The system includes a plurality of node computing devices in operable communication with each other over an electronic network. The method includes capturing, by a merchant computing device, sales data from a payment transaction, storing the captured sales data in a database of a first node, compiling within the first node the stored sales data into a transaction envelope, encrypting the transaction envelope with a private key of the first node, submitting, by the first node, the encrypted envelope to the permissioned distributed ledger, verifying, by a second node, the submitted encrypted envelope and adding the compiled sales data to a data block, committing, by the second node, the data block to the distributed ledger, and validating, by a consensus of the plurality of node computing devices, the committed data block. |
| US11132645B2 |
Job applicant probability of confirmed hire
Techniques for predicting relevance of social networking service member accounts to a job posting. In an embodiment, a candidate predictor engine of a system encodes data representing an applicant quality (AQ) score for each job/applicant pair for a plurality of applicants to a job posting. Additionally, the system stores the encoded data and assigns member-level weights to each of the applicants. Moreover, the system calculates weighted AQ scores for each of the job/applicant pairs, the weighted AQ scores being products of respective AQ scores and member-level weights. Furthermore, the system sums the weighted AQ scores to derive a total weighted score for the job posting. Then, the candidate predictor engine generates a job-level probability of confirmed hire (pCH) based on the total weighted score, the job-level pCH indicating a likelihood of the posting being filled by an applicant. Also, the system transmits the job-level pCH to a client for display. |
| US11132635B2 |
Systems and methods for receiving packages delivered by unmanned vehicles
An apparatus for receiving a package delivered by an unmanned aerial vehicle comprises a collapsible package receiver adapted to be movably coupled to a building. The collapsible package receiver is configured to be placed from a collapsed position to a pop-out position to receive the package from the unmanned aerial vehicle. The apparatus has a memory associated with the package receiver which stores computer-readable instructions. A processor is configured to execute the instructions to: (a) determine a characteristic of the package delivered by the unmanned aerial vehicle to the package receiver; and (b) notify a user of the delivery of the package. |
| US11132634B2 |
Expert system
A method, system and computer program product for operating an expert system. Technical prescriptive domains and business prescriptive domains containing one or more templates are accessed, where each template defines an intention, goal or constraint. Furthermore, each technical prescriptive domain defines a generic optimization problem and each business prescriptive domain extends a technical prescriptive domain and defines a more specific business problem. A structure of data is received and analyzed with the technical prescriptive domains and business prescriptive domains to identify technical and/or business prescriptive domains that match the received structure set of data in data structure and/or semantic terms. A prescriptive model from the technical or business prescriptive domain containing a selected prescriptive intention from the intention templates in the identified technical and/or business prescriptive domains that match the received structure set of data in data structure and/or semantic terms is then generated. |
| US11132628B1 |
Analytical methods to provide high quality agent leads to general agents
A system and a method for identifying, ranking, and matching agents are disclosed herein. The system may include an analytical engine which may collect information from external and internal databases. The analytical engine may use the information collected from these databases, in addition to a success criteria, for determining one or more success factors or key attributes of successful agents. An algorithm within the analytical engine may compute probabilities, trends and variability analysis for determining the impact of the defined key attributes in the successful career developments for prospective or active agents. The analytical engine may identify prospective agents and match them to suitable general agents. A list of agents' leads, ranking reports, and ongoing assessments may be communicated or supplied to general agents through the use of agent computing devices operatively coupled with the analytical engine. |
| US11132627B2 |
Travel search machine with shareable trip objects
A travel search machine generates a trip object defined by a corresponding trip identifier. The trip object may have a corresponding trip data structure to which one or more search results may be assigned by a user. For example, the travel search machine may be configured to receive a trip identifier as a submission from a user device, generate a trip data structure corresponding to the trip identifier, and responsive to a received command from a user device, assign one or more search results to the trip data structure, such that reference to the trip data structure via the received trip identifier causes a presentation of at least some of the one or more search results assigned to the trip data structure. |
| US11132624B2 |
Model integration method and device
A model integration method and device are provided. The method includes: obtaining an integrated model, the integrated model having one integrated output value and a plurality of input values, the plurality of input values corresponding to a plurality of output values of a plurality of independent models; performing one or more iterations of optimizing process until a preset iteration stop condition is satisfied: acquiring a prediction output by the integrated model based on a preset test event set; determining an index value of the integrated model based on the prediction output, the index value indicates a performance evaluation of the integrated model; if the index value fails to meet a preset performance requirement; after the preset iteration stop condition is satisfied, determining the integrated model as acceptable. |
| US11132620B2 |
Root cause discovery engine
The disclosed technology relates identifying causes of an observed outcome. A system is configured to receive an indication of a user experience problem, wherein the user experience problem is associated with observed operations data including an observed outcome. The system generates, based on the observed operations data, a predicted outcome according to a model, determines that the observed outcome is within range of the predicted outcome, and identifies a set of candidate causes of the user experience problem when the observed outcome is within range of the predicted outcome. |
| US11132616B2 |
Characteristic value estimation device and characteristic value estimation method
A characteristic value estimation device has a sensor data input unit to input sensor data detected by one or more sensors, a model input unit to input a first calculation model, a model learning unit to perform learning on a second calculation model, a model switch to select any one of the first calculation model and the second calculation model, a predictive value calculation unit to calculate an error of the calculation model, a probability distribution correction unit to correct the probability distribution of the uncertain parameter, a virtual sensor value estimation unit to estimate sensor data of a virtual sensor arranged virtually, a characteristic value distribution estimation unit to estimate a detailed distribution of the characteristic value, the sensor data of the virtual sensor, and the sensor data of the sensor, and a reliability calculation unit to calculate a reliability of the precise characteristic value distribution. |
| US11132612B2 |
Event recommendation system
An event recommendation system recommends events for a candidate attendee. The system recommends an event based on characteristics of the candidate attendee and characteristics of prior attendees that attended a prior occurrence of the event. A prior attendee may have a positive or negative experience with the prior occurrence of the event. A positive experience may be defined, for example, as enjoying the event, completing the event, or performing well in the event. A negative experience may be defined, for example, as not enjoying the event, not completing the event, or not performing well in the event. An event is recommended to a candidate attendee if the candidate attendee has similar characteristics to a prior attendee that had a positive experience. An event is not recommended to a candidate attendee if the candidate attendee has similar characteristics as a prior attendee that had a negative experience. |
| US11132605B2 |
Cardinal sine as an activation function for universal classifier training data
Cardinal sine function used as an activation function for a hierarchical classifier. Application of a sine function, or a cardinal sine function, for hierarchical classification of a subject within subject matter domains and sub-domains. Hierarchical classification or multi-level classification is improved through use of the cardinal sine function or even standard sine function. Some embodiments of the present invention focus on the usage of cardinal sine function as activation function and how to apply this cardinal sine function for hierarchical classification of a subject. Some embodiments include a technique by which hierarchical classification or multi-level classification can benefit from application of a cardinal sine function. |
| US11132604B2 |
Nested machine learning architecture
In one embodiment, a method includes a preprocessing stage of a neural network model, where the preprocessing stage includes first and second preprocessing modules. Each of the two modules has first input that may receive a dense input and a second input that may receive a sparse input. Each module generates latent vector representations of their respective first and second inputs, and combine the latent vectors with the original first input to define an intermediate output. The intermediate output of the first module is fed into the first input of the second module. |
| US11132602B1 |
Efficient online training for machine learning
An example system includes prediction workers, training workers, and a parameter server. The prediction workers store a local copy of a machine-learned model and run the mode exclusively in serving mode. The training workers store a local copy of a machine-learned model and a local snapshot and run the local copy exclusively in training mode and compare the local model or state to the snapshot after training to send delta updates to the parameter server after training. The parameter server aggregates received delta updates into a master copy of the model, sends the aggregated updates back to training workers and provides two types of updates; a real-time update based on a comparison of the master model with a local snapshot, and a full update. The real-time update occurs at least an order of magnitude more frequently than the full update and includes a subset of the weights in the model. |
| US11132599B2 |
Multi-function unit for programmable hardware nodes for neural network processing
Processors and methods for neural network processing are provided. A method in a processor including a pipeline having a matrix vector unit (MVU), a first multifunction unit connected to receive an input from the MVU, a second multifunction unit connected to receive an output from the first multifunction unit, and a third multifunction unit connected to receive an output from the second multifunction unit is provided. The method includes decoding instructions including a first type of instruction for processing by only the MVU and a second type of instruction for processing by only one of the multifunction units. The method includes mapping a first instruction for processing by the matrix vector unit or to any one of the first multifunction unit, the second multifunction unit, or the third multifunction unit depending on whether the first instruction is the first type of instruction or the second type of instruction. |
| US11132598B1 |
System and method for humanoid robot control and cognitive self-improvement without programming
A method for automatically generating a neural network architecture includes: loading a first computer-readable representation of a first neural network architecture including first genes representing parameters of the first neural network architecture; generating a first neural network including neurons in accordance with the first genes; deploying the first neural network in a robotic controller; training the first neural network by supplying inputs to an input processing unit connected to the first neural network and receiving outputs from an output processing unit connected to the first neural network, the training including updating synaptic weights of connections between the neurons based on responses to the inputs supplied to the input processing unit; evaluating a performance of the first neural network architecture; and generating, by the computer system, an updated computer-readable representation of an updated neural network architecture based on the evaluation of the performance the first neural network. |
| US11132597B2 |
RFID tag reading antenna
An RFID tag reading antenna includes a loop antenna including a first loop-shaped conductor having a peripheral length shorter than a ¼ wavelength in a communication frequency; and a split ring resonator including a second loop-shaped conductor having an opening smaller than an opening of the first loop-shaped conductor of the loop antenna and being arranged at a position away from a plane formed by the first loop-shaped conductor by a predetermined distance. In addition, the RFID tag reading antenna is coupled to an RFID tag as a communication partner, in a state where a distance from the RFID tag to the split ring resonator is shorter than a distance from the loop antenna to the split ring resonator. |
| US11132596B2 |
Product tagging and RFID localization
A product tagging system is provided that includes at least one RF backscatter transmitter configured to emit a Radio Frequency (RF) signal on a frequency. The system includes a plurality of passive RF backscatter tags, each associated with a respective product and configured to backscatter a reply in response to a transmission from the transmitter. The system includes at least one RF backscatter receiver configured to read data for the respective product by detecting a distributed ambient backscatter signal generated by backscattering the RF signal by a corresponding one of the tags. The at least one RF backscatter receiver includes at least two antennas for performing Simultaneous Multi-Port reception (SMP) by receiving respective distributed ambient backscatter signals from a same one of the tags responsive to a same one of the RF signal being transmitted thereto. Each of the transmitter and receiver include a respective synchronized clock for the SMP. |
| US11132593B2 |
RFID tag and RFID tag-equipped article
An RFID tag is provided that includes a first plane conductor; a second plane conductor that partially or entirely faces the first plane conductor; and an RFIC, a capacitor, an inductor, and terminals that form a part of a closed current loop. The closed current loop has two places with a large potential difference, including one place electrically connected to the first plane conductor, and the other place electrically connected to the second plane conductor. Moreover, the terminals are electrically connected to the second plane conductor and project outward from a region where the first plane conductor and the second plane conductor face each other. |
| US11132591B2 |
System and method for transmitting financial information via color matrix code
An apparatus may include a memory to store instructions; and processing circuitry, coupled with the memory, operable to execute the instructions. When executed, the instructions may cause the processing circuitry to identify a matrix code; read a first layer of the matrix code, the first layer comprising a first account identifier associated with an account, wherein the first layer corresponds to a first color channel; and read a second layer of the matrix code, the second layer comprising a set of account data, associated with the account, wherein the second layer corresponds to a second color channel, different than the first color channel. |
| US11132587B2 |
Training data generating device, method, and program, and crowd state recognition device, method, and program
At least one storage stores a dictionary having information corresponding to crowd state images, and rectangular regions indicating portions of a given image to be recognized for crowd states, wherein a size of each of the rectangular regions is predetermined. At least one processor extracts regions, which correspond to the rectangular regions, from the given image, and recognizes crowd states in the extracted regions based on the dictionary. |
| US11132581B2 |
Method and apparatus for face image deduplication and storage medium
Methods and apparatuses for face image deduplication as well as non-transitory computer-readable storage medium include: filtering a plurality of obtained first face images to obtain at least one second face image with image quality reaching a first preset condition; matching the second face image with at least one third face image in an image queue to obtain a matching result; and determining, according to the matching result, whether to perform deduplication operation on the second face image. |
| US11132578B2 |
System and method for creating navigable views
A method for creating navigable views includes receiving digital images, computing a set of feature points for each of the digital images, selecting one of the digital images as a reference image, identifying a salient region of interest in the reference image, identifying other digital images containing a region of interest similar to the salient region of interest in the reference image using the set of feature points computed for each of other digital images, designating a reference location for the salient region of interest in the reference image, aligning the other digital images to the image that contains the designated reference location, ordering the image that contains the designated reference location and the other digital images, and generating a navigable view. |
| US11132577B2 |
System and a method for efficient image recognition
A system and method for for grouping of similar image classes for image recognition is provided. The invention comprises extracting one or more features from multiple classes of images for determining a correlation value between each of the multiple classes of images based on assessment of the extracted features of each one of the classes of images with respect to other classes of images in the multiple classes of images. Further, the one class of image is grouped with the other class of image in the multiple classes of images to form one or more groups of super-classes of similar class of images based on analysis of the determined correlation values with respect to a pre-determined threshold value. An input image is recognized based on the formed groups of super-classes followed by sub-class classification of the images. |
| US11132573B2 |
Determining compass orientation of imagery
The orientation of imagery relative to a compass bearing may be determined based on the position of the sun or other information relating to celestial bodies captured in the image. |
| US11132571B2 |
System, method and computer program for guided image capturing of a meal
A system including circuitry configured to process multispectral image data of a meal to obtain information on the contents of the meal; and generate, based on the obtained information, a query with guidance to change image capture settings. |
| US11132569B2 |
Hardware accelerator for integral image computation
A hardware accelerator for computing integral image values of an image is provided that includes a plurality of row computation components configurable to operate in parallel to compute row sum values of respective rows of a row block of the image. The hardware accelerator is further configured to compute integral image values for the row block using the row sum values and block pivots. |
| US11132566B1 |
Blood vessel image authentication
The innovation discloses systems and methods of authenticating users using vein or blood vessel characteristics. The innovation retrieves, based on an authentication request, an authentication image associated with a user. The authentication image comprises a first predetermined point and a second predetermined point. The innovation projects the authentication image onto a body part of the user and reads a blood vessel from the body part. The user orients the blood vessel such that it corresponds to the predetermined points in the projected authentication image. The user is authenticated when the blood vessel appears to connect the predetermined points in the direction of the blood flow. |
| US11132565B2 |
Systems and methods for artificial intelligence (AI) driving analysis and incentives
Systems, apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture for Artificial Intelligence (AI) driving analysis and incentives, by utilizing on-board image object analysis to classify driving events and provide driving-based awards. |
| US11132564B2 |
Display control device, display control system, display control method, and display control program
A display control device includes a video data acquisition unit acquiring video data from a camera that captures a video in a moving direction of a vehicle, a parking line recognition unit recognizing a parking line being a line of a parking space from the video data, a center line generation unit generating a center line of the parking space from the recognized parking line, a vehicle moving line generation unit generating a vehicle moving line extending in the moving direction of the vehicle from a position corresponding to a center part along a width of the vehicle, a superimposed video generation unit generating superimposed data being video data where the center line and the vehicle moving line are superimposed on the video data, and a display control unit transmitting the superimposed data to a display unit to display a video related to the superimposed data on the display unit. |
| US11132563B2 |
Method for identifying objects in an image of a camera
A method for identifying objects begins with capturing an image of an external environment of a vehicle using a capturing unit arranged on the vehicle. An object region within the image is located by a region proposal process, and an object within the object region is classified in a classification process. The region proposal process and/or the classification process is/are implemented in a convolutional neural network. External prior information highlighting a possible object region is supplied to the region proposal process. |
| US11132560B2 |
Method for evaluating an optical appearance in the surroundings of a vehicle, and vehicle
The discloser relates to a method for evaluating an optical appearance in the surroundings of a vehicle and to a vehicle. The method has the steps of providing a captured image of the surroundings of a vehicle and extracting features from the captured image. Furthermore, the method comprises carrying out a first analysis of the captured image, wherein one or more objects are detected as surfaces and the result of the analysis is provided as a first analysis result. A second analysis of the captured image is also carried out, wherein edges of one or more objects are detected and the result of the analysis is provided as a second analysis result, the first analysis and the second analysis being carried out independently of each other. The method further comprises combining the first analysis result and the second analysis result to form an output image. |
| US11132557B2 |
Logo extraction device, and brightness adjusting method and device for logo
The present application discloses a logo extraction device, and a brightness adjusting method and device for a logo. The logo extraction device includes an acquiring module, a gray-scale converting module, a weight processing module, and an extraction module. In the present application, by increasing a number of key frames in a process of logo extraction and using video frame weighting, the logo is extracted and thereby accuracy of logo extraction is improved. |
| US11132553B2 |
Information processing apparatus and information processing method
An information processing apparatus including a setting processor that sets metadata for objects included in captured images captured in a time series by an imaging device based on the captured image, in which the setting processor processes the captured images in a reverse time series reverse to the time series from a predetermined event detected from the captured images and sets the metadata for objects involved in the predetermined event among the objects included in the captured images. |
| US11132552B1 |
System and method for bandwidth reduction and communication of visual events
This invention provides a system and method that employs reduction in bandwidth and the amount of data stored, along with queuing of data, so that the significant and/or relevant shipboard visual information is detected and communicated continuously from the ship (or other remote vehicle/location) to shore without loss of useful/high-priority information and within the available bandwidth of that typical, available satellite link. The system and method supports remote configuration and management from shore to the ship over the same communications channel but in the reverse direction. The system and method further facilitates the logical summarization of continuous visibility into shipboard activities, shipboard behavior, and shipboard status so that a land/shore-based manager/reviewer/auditor can review, comprehend and synthesize such information, at a glance, using a land-based user interface/dashboard, related to events that have recently transpired on the sailing commercial merchant vessel without the need to review hours/days/weeks of multiple channels of video. |
| US11132551B2 |
Systems and methods for skyline prediction for cyber-physical photovoltaic array control
Various embodiments of a cyber-physical system for providing cloud prediction for photovoltaic array control are disclosed herein. |
| US11132549B2 |
Measurement result display apparatus and program
The measurement result display apparatus of the present invention includes: a storage unit for storing shape information and a predetermined measurement result with respect to an object to be measured; a three-dimensional sensor for detecting shape information of an object existing in a three-dimensional space; a display unit configured so that the object detected by the three-dimensional sensor can be visually recognized and configured to be capable of displaying predetermined information; and a display control unit for displaying the predetermined measurement result of a target object on the display unit so as to be visually recognized together with the object, using the object to be measured whose shape information is detected by the three-dimensional sensor as the target object. |
| US11132548B2 |
Determining object information that does not explicitly appear in a media unit signature
There may be provided a method for determining object information related to an object that appears in a media element, the method may include (a) receiving or generating a signature of the media element, wherein the signature may include identifiers, wherein the identifiers may include an object identifier related to the object, wherein the object identifier points to locations of output elements, within an output of a convolutional neural network, of elements of significance in relation to the object; (b) finding a group of contributing portions of the media element that had a significant contribution to the generation, by the convolutional neural network, of the output elements of significance in relation to the object; and (c) determining object information related to the object based on a distribution of the group of the contributing portions of the media element. |
| US11132544B2 |
Visual fatigue recognition method, visual fatigue recognition device, virtual reality apparatus and storage medium
A visual fatigue recognition method, a visual fatigue recognition device, a virtual reality apparatus and a storage medium. The visual fatigue recognition method includes acquiring an eye image of a user; acquiring a visual feature from the eye image, and calculating a visual fatigue value according to the visual features according to the visual feature a visual fatigue value; comparing the visual fatigue value with a fatigue grade threshold values and determining a the visual fatigue grade based on the comparison result; and allowing the visual fatigue grade to be used to generate a corresponding alert signal. The visual fatigue recognition method helps to protect the user's eyesight. |
| US11132543B2 |
Unconstrained appearance-based gaze estimation
A method, computer readable medium, and system are disclosed for performing unconstrained appearance-based gaze estimation. The method includes the steps of identifying an image of an eye and a head orientation associated with the image of the eye, determining an orientation for the eye by analyzing, within a convolutional neural network (CNN), the image of the eye and the head orientation associated with the image of the eye, and returning the orientation of the eye. |
| US11132540B2 |
Ink file searching method, apparatus, and program
An ink file output method is provided, which includes: generating M (M is an integer of 1 or more) pieces of stroke data SD on the basis of event data generated as M input devices move, respectively; generating N (N is an integer of 1 or more and M or less) kinds of logical names LN (metadata) identifying the M number of input devices; generating a metadata block associating the M pieces of stroke data SD with the N kinds of logical names LN; and writing the M pieces of stroke data SD and the metadata block to an ink file. |
| US11132537B2 |
Electronic device for determining position of user based on image pixels, and method of controlling said device
This electronic device comprises: a sensor including a plurality of pixels disposed in a first direction; a processor electrically connected to the sensor; and a memory electrically connected to the processor. When implemented, the processor uses sensing data sensed by the sensor and determine user position information, and the memory may store instructions for carrying out a movement corresponding to the user position information. |
| US11132536B2 |
Living body detection device, living body detection method, and recording medium
A living body detection device (1) includes: an image acquisition unit (171), a determination unit (173) and a detection unit (174). The image acquisition unit (171) acquires a first image in which a subject irradiated by light in a first wavelength range is imaged, and a second image in which the subject irradiated by light in a second wavelength range is imaged, the second wavelength range being different from the first wavelength range. The determination unit (173) determines whether a relation expressed by luminance of the subject imaged in the first image and luminance of the subject imaged in the second image is a relation exhibited by a living body. The detection unit (174) detects that the subject is a living body in a case where the determination unit (173) has determined that it is the relation exhibited by the living body. |
| US11132532B1 |
System and method for facial recognition accuracy
The invention provides, in some respects, a digital data processing method of identifying a person of interest in a video stream. The method, which executes on a digital data processing system including one or more digital data processing devices in communications coupling with one another, includes detecting using a detector and without using a facial recognizer one or more faces in a video stream. It further includes using a tracker to associate, without using a facial recognizer, one or more of the detected faces with a same apparent individual, and scoring, again, without using a facial recognizer, each of the detected faces that are associated with the same apparent individual. The method further includes applying selected ones of the scored detected faces of the same apparent individual to a facial recognizer to identify a person of interest, where selection is based on scores of the detected faces. |
| US11132530B2 |
Method for three-dimensional graphic reconstruction of a vehicle
A method for the three-dimensional graphic or pictorial reconstruction of a vehicle begins with capturing an image of at least one vehicle with a camera. A first rectangular border of the entire vehicle is captured in the image, to obtain a first rectangle. A second rectangular border of one side of a vehicle is captured in the image, to obtain a second rectangle, and it is determined whether the first and second rectangles are borders which relate to the same vehicle. If so, then it is determined whether a side orientation of the vehicle can be assigned from the two rectangles and, if so, the side orientation is determined. Finally, a three-dimensional reconstruction of the vehicle is performed from the first rectangle, the second rectangle and the side orientation. |
| US11132528B2 |
Information processing method and electronic device
An information processing method includes: obtaining a touch input occurred in a touch sensing area by a touch sensing circuit of a display screen of an electronic device; based on a sensing parameter of the touch input, determining an effective target area within a fingerprint collection area of an in-display fingerprint collection apparatus; and performing a fingerprint recognition process based on the touch input within the effective target area. The fingerprint collection area is smaller than or equal to the touch sensing area. |
| US11132527B2 |
Photo-sensing detection apparatus, display apparatus, method of fingerprint detection, and method of operating display apparatus
A photo-sensing detection apparatus is provided. The photo-sensing detection apparatus includes a counter substrate; an array substrate facing the counter substrate; and a fingerprint sensing driver. The array substrate includes a plurality of light sources configured to emit light toward the counter substrate, at least a portion of the light being totally reflected by a surface of the counter substrate away from the array substrate; and a photosensor configured to detect the at least the portion of the light being totally reflected by the surface of the counter substrate away from the array substrate. The photo-sensing detection apparatus is configured to be operated in a time-division mode including a plurality of time-sequential photo-sensing modes. The fingerprint sensing driver is configured to detect a fingerprint information by integrating signals detected in the plurality of time-sequential photo-sensing modes. |
| US11132526B2 |
Fingerprint recognition panel, fingerprint recognition method and display device
The present disclosure relates to the field of display, and provides a fingerprint recognition panel, a fingerprint recognition method, and a display device. The fingerprint recognition panel includes: a touch screen including at least one fingerprint pressing area; and a sensor located below the touch screen, configured to send a driving signal to the touch screen when a press is detected in the fingerprint pressing area, to increase brightness of a pixel corresponding to the fingerprint pressing area in the touch screen. |
| US11132523B2 |
Method and apparatus for fingerprint identification and electronic device
Provided are a method and apparatus for fingerprint identification and an electronic device, which could increase a speed of fingerprint identification. The method is applied to an electronic device including M fingerprint sensors, and the method includes: acquiring pressing information of a finger in a fingerprint detecting region; determining a target sub-region among N sub-regions according to the pressing information, where the N sub-regions cover the fingerprint detecting region, M and N are positive integers greater than 1, and N>M; and determining a data acquiring region according to the target sub-region, where fingerprint data in the data acquiring region is used for fingerprint identification. |
| US11132522B2 |
Sensors configured to operate at multiple resolutions
In one aspect, a sensor includes an image acquisition controller and a pixel array. The pixel array includes a first set of pixels electrically coupled to the controller and a second set of pixels electrically coupled to the controller. The sensor is configured to operate in a first mode and a second mode. When operating in the first mode, the controller is configured to acquire signals from only the first set of pixels for generating a low-resolution image. When operating in the second mode, the controller is configured to acquire signals from both the first set of pixels and the second set of pixels for generating a high-resolution image. |
| US11132521B2 |
Display device and mobile terminal
The present disclosure provides a display device and a mobile terminal. The display device includes a display panel, a fingerprint identification module, and a spacer. The display panel includes a display surface and a rear surface opposite to the display surface; the display surface defines a display region for displaying images. The fingerprint identification module is spaced apart from the rear surface, and configured to identify fingerprint information received by the display region. The spacer is attached to the rear surface and sandwiched between the display panel and the fingerprint identification module. The spacer is a transmission medium for allowing a detecting signal that is emitted by the fingerprint identification module to pass through, and allowing the detecting signal after being reflected by an object outside to pass through. |
| US11132516B2 |
Sequence translation probability adjustment
A sequence conversion method includes receiving a source sequence, converting the source sequence into a source vector representation sequence, obtaining at least two candidate target sequences and a translation probability value of each of the at least two candidate target sequences according to the source vector representation sequence, adjusting the translation probability value of each candidate target sequence, selecting an output target sequence from the at least two candidate target sequences according to an adjusted translation probability value of each candidate target sequence, and outputting the output target sequence. Hence, loyalty of a target sequence to a source sequence can be improved during sequence conversion. |
| US11132514B1 |
Apparatus and method for applying image encoding recognition in natural language processing
A method for applying image encoding recognition in the execution of natural language processing (NLP) tasks, comprising the processing steps as follows. A sentence from a textual source is extracted by an NLP-based feature extractor. A word vector is generated in response to the sentence by the NLP-based feature extractor. The word vector is converted into a feature vector {right arrow over (b)} by the NLP-based feature extractor, in which the feature vector {right arrow over (b)} satisfies {right arrow over (b)}∈m and the parameter m is a positive integer. The feature vector is transformed into an image set having a plurality of two-dimensional images by a transformer. The image set is fed to a neural network to execute image recognition by a processor, so as to analyze the sentence. |
| US11132509B1 |
Utilization of natural language understanding (NLU) models
A speech interface device is configured to perform natural language understanding (NLU) processing in a manner that optimizes the use of resources on the speech interface device. In an example process, a domain classifier(s) is used to generate domain classifier scores associated with multiple candidate domains, and the candidate domains can then be evaluated, one candidate domain at a time, in accordance with the domain classifier scores (e.g., starting with a highest scoring candidate domain). For each candidate domain undergoing the evaluation, input data is by that domain's NLU model(s), and, as soon as a domain-specific NLU model(s) produces a NLU result with a confidence score that satisfies a threshold confidence score, the evaluation can be stopped for any remaining candidate domains. |
| US11132508B2 |
Monitoring conversations to identify topics of interest
A system and method for monitoring conversations of a community of users to identify topics of interest is provided. A user community which is based partly on social networking connections relative to a first user is identified. Conversations involving at least one member of the identified user community are monitored. Based in part on an aggregated analysis of the monitored conversations, keywords are selected to present to the first user. The first user is then provided with a display in which the selected keywords associated with the user community are presented to the first user such that the first user can select a keyword to access content associated therewith. |
| US11132504B1 |
Framework for understanding complex natural language queries in a dialog context
A domain-independent framework parses and interprets compound natural language queries in the context of a conversation between a human and an agent. Generic grammar rules and corresponding semantics support the understanding of compound queries in the conversation context. The sub-queries themselves are from one or more domains, and they are parsed and interpreted by a pre-existing grammar, covering one or more pre-existing domains. The pre-existing grammar, extended by the generic rules, recognizes all compound queries based on any queries recognized by the pre-existing grammar. Use of the disclosed framework requires little or no change in the domain-specific NLU handling code. The framework defines a generic approach to propagating context data between sub-queries of a compound query. The framework can be further extended to propagate intra-query context data in, out and across query components. Complex query results, and other data such as accounting data, can also be propagated simultaneously with dialog context data in a consolidated intra-query context data structure. |
| US11132503B2 |
Query a system via natural language NLP2X
The present technology relates generally to interactive virtual conversation interfaces, and more specifically, a method for querying an interactive virtual conversation interface in natural language, comprising receiving a digital document in a system, connecting to the system having the digital document, creating named entity files within the digital document, initializing operators and intent files, processing an end user query, creating a table query statement, sending the table query statement to the system, and receiving and displaying results. |
| US11132500B2 |
Annotation task instruction generation
One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, from a client, (i) a task of annotating information, (ii) a set of instructions for performing the task, and (iii) client annotations for a subset of the information within the task; assigning the subset to a plurality of annotators; obtaining (i) annotator annotations for the subset and (ii) a response time for providing the annotator annotation for each piece of information within the subset; identifying improvements to the set of instructions by (i) comparing the annotator annotations to the client annotations and (ii) identifying discrepancies made by the annotators in view of the response time; and generating a new set of instructions, wherein the generating comprises (i) identifying at least one feature of the information that distinguishes correctly annotated information from incorrectly annotated information and (ii) generating an instruction from the at least one feature. |
| US11132494B2 |
System and method for employing kinetic typography in CMC
A computer system for allowing user to communicate with text enhanced with emotional preset having attributes and kinetics including computer readable instructions that, when executed by a processor, perform the steps of: receiving a set of text characters, receiving an emotional preset selection information, creating a unlined animated text message or unlined social message, transmitting the unlined messages to a recipient using CMC or social media to receive the message to convey to the recipient the emotional communications selected by the sender. |
| US11132491B2 |
DRC processing tool for early stage IC layout designs
A DRC tool optimized for analyzing early-stage (“dirty”) IC layout designs by performing one or more of (a) automatically selectively focusing DRC processing to selected regions (i.e., layers and/or cells) of a dirty IC layout design that are most likely to provide useful error information to a user, (b) automatically selectively ordering and/or limiting rule checks performed during DRC processing to provide the user with a manageable amount of error data in a predetermined reasonable amount of time, and (c) automatically providing error data in a graphical manner using a contrasting dot to indicate the location of each rule violation, whereby relevant problem areas of the dirty IC layout design are easily identified for correction by a human user, and non-relevant areas (e.g., missing block regions) can be efficiently identified and ignored, thereby facilitating efficient modification of the IC layout design. |
| US11132484B1 |
Controlling clocks and resets in a logic built in self-test
A method for testing a design is provided. The method includes generating a sequence of bits, mapping the sequence of bits to a combination, and generating an enable signal based on the combination. The enable signal enables an asynchronous signal in the design. The method also includes driving an element of the design based on the enabled asynchronous signal. |
| US11132482B2 |
Tracking references to information storage resources in a quantum circuit
Technologies are described herein to track information storage resources in a quantum circuit during compile time or runtime of a program by which quantum algorithms are built. |
| US11132477B1 |
Interactive simulation and solver for mechanical, fluid, and electro-mechanical systems
The model builder may generate a model object, and initiate the solver to determine whether the model object has constraints that effect the model object. The solver can generate solution data these constraints. The solver may pass any solution data it obtains to the solution display generator, so that the user can view the solution data while the user is building the model with the model builder. |
| US11132475B2 |
Method of non-destructive checking of a component for aeronautics
A method of non-destructive checking of a component for aeronautics, the method including the following steps of acquiring a volume by tomographic imaging, of generating by computer simulation a surface corresponding to the component to be analyzed, of registering the volume and the surface by optimizing a similarity criterion defined by a function taking into account the correlation between normal vectors of a field of normal vectors of the surface displaced by transformation and a gradient of a gradient field of the volume, the optimization being performed as a function of transformations for determining the optimal transformation which maximizes the similarity criterion, of storing the optimal transformation, of establishing the correspondence between the surface and the volume obtained with the aid of the optimal transformation. |
| US11132458B2 |
Tape processing offload to object storage
A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: receiving a data volume having data from multiple tenants therein. Data in the data volume is separated into objects using tenant identifiers from metadata corresponding to portions of the data, where each object corresponds to a respective tenant. The objects are stored in object storage, and the metadata is updated with information pertaining to the object which the data in the data volume was separated into. Moreover, updating the metadata with the information is performed after the data in the data volume has been separated. Other systems, methods, and computer program products are described in additional embodiments. |
| US11132457B2 |
Editing using secure temporary session-based permission model in a file storage system
A system is provided for controlling access to data stored in a cloud-based storage service. Data associated with a user account is stored at the cloud-based storage service. A portion of the data is associated with a heightened authentication protocol, a first request receiving, at the cloud-based storage service, for an application to access data that is associated with the heightened authentication protocol. The first request is authenticated based on the heightened authentication protocol. In response to authenticating the first request, permission is granted to the application to access the data that is associated with the heightened authentication protocol. The permission is time-limited. It is determined that the application is editing the data that is associated with the heightened authentication protocol. Permission for the application to access the data while the application is editing the data is temporarily extended. |
| US11132451B2 |
Secret data access control systems and methods
The decentralized and distributed architecture of blockchain makes it challenging to store secret data. A Secure Document Access Control System (SEDACS) can store secret data using distributed components without compromising on the distributed security features of the blockchain. SEDACS can include a Secret Store, a blockchain, and a decentralized file system. The blockchain can store rules and permissions for documents that contain the secret data. The Secret Store can generate secret keys that can be used to access the documents. The decentralized file system can store the documents that are encrypted using the secret keys. A user can retrieve the encrypted document provided that the user has the permission to do so. The user can decrypt the encrypted document by decrypting the secret key and using the decrypted secret key to decrypt the document. |
| US11132444B2 |
Using gradients to detect backdoors in neural networks
Mechanisms are provided for evaluating a trained machine learning model to determine whether the machine learning model has a backdoor trigger. The mechanisms process a test dataset to generate output classifications for the test dataset, and generate, for the test dataset, gradient data indicating a degree of change of elements within the test dataset based on the output generated by processing the test dataset. The mechanisms analyze the gradient data to identify a pattern of elements within the test dataset indicative of a backdoor trigger. The mechanisms generate, in response to the analysis identifying the pattern of elements indicative of a backdoor trigger, an output indicating the existence of the backdoor trigger in the trained machine learning model. |
| US11132443B1 |
Exception handlers in a sandbox environment for malware detection
An anti-malware application can emulate a suspicious program in a sandbox environment and retrieve any exception handlers the suspicious program attempts to register with the operation system. When the suspicious program triggers an exception, the anti-malware application can save a current context of the suspicious program being emulated. To emulate the handling of the exception, the anti-malware application can validate an exception handler chain including one or more exception handlers added by the suspicious program. The anti-malware application can then select and emulate an exception handler based on the saved context of the suspicious program at the time the exception was triggered. If the first exception handler is successful at resolving the exception, the anti-malware application can then save an updated post-exception context and continue emulation of the suspicious program based on the result of the first exception handler. |
| US11132442B1 |
Systems and methods for enforcing secure shared access on computing devices by context pinning
The disclosed computer-implemented method for enforcing secure shared access on computing devices by context pinning may include recording, on the computing device, one or more actions performed on one or more applications, determining, based on the recorded actions and applications, a context that defines permitted actions and applications for a guest user of the computing device, monitoring, based on the context, user activity on the computing device, detecting an activity that violates the context, and performing, in response to the detection, a security action. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. |
| US11132440B2 |
Hybrid trust execution environment based android security framework, android device equipped with the same and method of executing trust service in android device
Provided is a hybrid trusted execution environment based android security framework, an android device equipped with the same and a method of executing a trusted service in the android device. The hybrid trusted execution environment based android security framework includes a hardware resource that comprises a rich execution environment (REE) where an android operating system (OS) runs, and a secure container which implements a virtualized trusted execution environment (VTEE) that processes a security task in the rich execution environment (REE) when an application running on the rich execution environment requests the security task. |
| US11132434B2 |
Signal processing device, signal processing method and computer readable medium
A signal modulation unit modulates an actuator control signal for controlling an actuator by using a modulation signal. A correlation calculation unit calculates, when a measurement signal indicating a physical state measured by a passive sensor is received from the passive sensor after a modulated actuator control signal being the actuator control signal having been modulated by the signal modulation unit is transmitted to the actuator, a correlation between the measurement signal received and a modulation signal used for modulation of the actuator control signal by the signal modulation unit. The signal determination unit determines whether or not the measurement signal is a legitimate signal by using a correlation value obtained by the correlation calculation unit. |
| US11132433B1 |
Device and method for increasing security of a gesture based login
A device, comprising at least one hardware processor adapted for allowing access to the device by: receiving, from a gesture sensor connected to the at least one hardware processor, a continuous input gesture, made by a user; identifying at least one part of the continuous input gesture not a member of a configured sequence of pattern gesture segments; identifying a match between the configured sequence of pattern gesture segments and a stripped input gesture produced by removing the at least one part of the continuous input gesture therefrom; and executing at least one software object by the at least one hardware processor subject to identifying the match, otherwise declining executing the at least one software object. |
| US11132431B2 |
Password input and identification system, and password input and identification method
A password input and identification system includes a one-button password input component and a controller. The one-button password input component generates a series of trigger signals in response to a series of triggers that correspond to a series of user-input digits. The controller determines a value of each of the user-input digits by counting a number of the trigger signal(s) that correspond(s) to the user-input digit to serve as the value of the user-input digit. The controller compares the user-input digits with the predetermined password after the input of the user-input digits is finished, and performs a predetermined action when the user-input digits match the predetermined password. |
| US11132426B2 |
Acknowledgment authentication system and method
The present invention is a system for and method of enabling an initiating party to capture, store, and retrieve an image of at least one acknowledging party performing an acknowledgement requested by the initiating party where the acknowledging party(s) may be remotely located from the initiating party. |
| US11132425B1 |
Systems and methods for location-binding authentication
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for authenticating a user based at least in part on a location of the user or a location of a user device are described. The user may be authenticated as part of a financial transaction or as part of a login process for a computing device. The user device was previously bound or associated with the user. During the authentication, a system (e.g., a financial institution computing system or a backend authentication system) requests location information from the user device. The location information may be packaged as a digital fingerprint of the user device, which can only be created from the user device. Based on the location information, the user can be authenticated thereby approving the transaction or login request. |
| US11132422B2 |
Automating solving NP problems in annealer systems
According to an aspect of an embodiment, operations may include displaying a electronic user interface that includes a plurality of user-selectable options corresponding to taxonomy information for a plurality of optimization problems. The operations may further include receiving a first user input selecting a first template for a specific optimization problem of the plurality of optimization problems. The first user input may include a selection of at least one user-selectable option of the plurality of user-selectable options. The operations may further include receiving a second user input via the selected first template for the specific optimization problem and providing a call to the optimization solver machine to generate a solution for the specific optimization problem based on the received second user input. The second user input may include input data for a plurality of parameters of the specific optimization problem, specified in the selected first template. |
| US11132419B1 |
Configuring output controls on a per-online identity and/or a per-online resource basis
A process includes receiving, from a user identity, instructions for output characteristics including one or more of audio characteristics for rendering or capturing audio data or visual characteristics for rendering or capturing visual data. The process also includes determining, in response to the received instructions, output controls which effect the one or more of audio characteristics or visual characteristics, and associating the output controls with an online identity or resource. The process further includes storing the associated output controls and detecting an interaction with the online identity or resource. Moreover, the process includes accessing, in response to the detection of the interaction, the stored output controls, and enabling an effect, based on the output controls, of one or more of the audio characteristics or the visual characteristics with respect to interaction with the online identity or resource. |
| US11132417B2 |
Web content publishing acquisition
Briefly, embodiments disclosed herein relate to acquisition of web content publishing. |
| US11132416B1 |
Business change detection from street level imagery
Aspects of the disclosure provide for a method for updating business information. A business at a business location and a reference image for the business at the business location may be selected for an update. From a number of more recent images, a comparison image may be selected based on a likelihood that the comparison image captures the business location. Text and visual features reference image may be compared with text and visual features of the comparison image to determine a text similarity score and a features similarity score. A confidence level indicating whether the business in the reference image is in the comparison image may then be determined using the text similarity score and the feature similarity score. According to the confidence level, the business information of the business may be updated. |
| US11132413B2 |
Providing travel or promotion based recommendation associated with social graph
A travel or a promotion based recommendation is provided in association with a social graph of a recipient of a communication. A communication service initiates operations to provide the travel or promotion based recommendation by processing a content of a communication to identify a travel plan of a recipient or a promotion directed to a recipient. A detected shared attribute between the travel plan of the recipient and the travel plan of the acquaintance is assigned a relevancy score. The promotion is processed to determine a trend of the promotion with an acquaintance at a social networking site and an accuracy of the promotion. The shared attribute or the promotion is provided to the recipient. |
| US11132408B2 |
Knowledge-graph based question correction
A method includes receiving, by a computer system configured to generate search result, a query, identifying a plurality of entities in the query, determining, using a knowledge graph, a measure of a relationship between the entities in the query, identifying a replacement entity for a first entity of the entities in the query, wherein the replacement entity is determined to improve the measure of the relationship between the entities when the first entity is replaced by the replacement entity, and generating a search result using the query modified by the replacement entity, which replaces the first entity in the query. |
| US11132405B2 |
Method of identifying temporal demand of queries and metadata to give better autocomplete queries and improved search results
Embodiments describe systems and methods for identifying temporal demand for queries and using metadata to modify autocomplete results. In one embodiment, a record of historical queries is stored by a system and analyzed to identify periodic or repeated events where demand for autocomplete results associated with one or more categories deviates from normal demand. A temporal model based on this record is used to adjust autocomplete search results during subsequent time periods associated with the repeated events. |
| US11132403B2 |
Graph-manipulation based domain-specific execution environment
A method includes finding a smart contract that includes an associative array of entities, an associative array of conditions, and a serialized array of vertices. The method also includes deserializing the serialized array of vertices to generate a directed graph and determining a set of triggered vertices based on the directed graph and the event. Each of the set of triggered vertices is indicated as triggerable and is associated with a norm condition that is triggered by the event. The method includes updating the directed graph by updating a norm status associated with the triggered vertices and updating child vertices of the triggered vertices. The method includes updating the serialized array of vertices by serializing the updated directed graph and persisting the serialized array of vertices to a storage of the computer system. |
| US11132402B2 |
Stream computing method, apparatus, and system
A stream computing method applicable to a system including a manager node and a worker node, where the manager node, obtains input channel description information, a structured query language (SQL) statement, and output channel description information, dynamically generates a data stream graph according to the input channel description information, the SQL statement, and the output channel description information, and controlling, according to the data stream graph, a worker node to execute a stream computing task. |
| US11132397B2 |
Search apparatus
A search device includes: a storage unit configured to store a video obtained from a camera; a screen unit to display the video; and a control unit to control operation of the storage unit and the screen unit, wherein the screen unit may display a time control interface for receiving a time condition, wherein the search device may search for videos and events stored in the storage unit in response to the time condition, and wherein the time control interface may include an AM control interface for receiving a morning time as the time condition and a PM control interface for receiving an afternoon time as the time condition. |
| US11132396B2 |
Methods, systems, and media for determining and presenting information related to embedded sound recordings
Methods, systems, and media for determining and presenting information related to embedded sound recordings are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: identifying, at a video sharing service, a first video content item that includes an embedded sound recording; identifying a composition associated with the embedded sound recording, wherein the embedded sound recording is a particular version of the composition; identifying one or more artists associated with the composition based on a group of metadata associated with the composition, wherein each item of metadata is provided by a content owner that has provided a sound recording associated with the composition to the video sharing service; identifying a second video content item associated with the embedder sound recording based at least in part on the identified one or more artists; receiving, from a user device, a request to present the first video content item on the user device; and, in response to receiving the request, causing the user device to present a user interface for presenting the first video content item in a first portion of the user interface and information related to the embedded sound recording in a second portion of the user interface, wherein the information related to the embedded sound recording includes indications of the one or more artists and a link to the second video content item. |
| US11132392B2 |
Image retrieval method, image retrieval apparatus, image retrieval device and medium
Disclosed are an image retrieval method, an image retrieval apparatus, an image retrieval device and a computer-readable storage medium, wherein the image retrieval method including: extracting global features of an input image and obtaining a global feature code based on the global features; extracting content features of the input image and obtaining a content feature code based on the content features; splicing the global feature code with the content feature code to obtain a composite feature code of the input image; comparing the composite feature code with alternative feature codes in a feature code library to obtain an image retrieval result. By comprehensively considering the global features and the content features of the input image in the image retrieval process, the accuracy and retrieval efficiency of the retrieval results can be improved. |
| US11132391B2 |
Finding products that are similar to a product selected from a plurality of products
A system and method, which may be an offline method, extracts relevant image features about listing items in a network-based publication system for enabling image similarity searching of such listing items. When a seller lists an item, an image of the item is uploaded and may be sent to a picture processing service, which generates several digests. The digests are compressed data structures each representing a particular image feature such as edge, color, texture, or words. These digests are then stored in a search database, where the digests can be used to retrieve listings by image similarity at scale. A similar process can be performed for a query listing for searching the search database for items similar to the query listing. |
| US11132390B2 |
Efficient resolution of type-coercion queries in a question answer system using disjunctive sub-lexical answer types
An approach is provided in which an information handling system identifies candidate answers from a knowledge base that correspond to a question comprising a lexical answer type (LAT). The information handling system determines sub-LATs corresponding to the LAT in a database that are child LATs of the LAT. The information handling system then identifies a set of the candidate answers that correspond to at least one of the sub-LATs and ranks the set of candidate answers based on one or more ranking criterion. In turn, the information handling system provides the ranked set of candidate answers to a user. |
| US11132389B2 |
Method and apparatus with latent keyword generation
Provided are a method and an apparatus for generating a keyword. The method for generating a keyword in a target document includes: extracting primitive single words from the target document; generating a candidate keyword by a combination of the primitive single words; calculating cohesion score between a first word and a second word included in the candidate keyword; calculating a context score of the first word and the second word based on similarity between two contexts by determining a periphery of a word where the first word and the second word simultaneously occur in a neighboring document as one context and determining the target document as a remaining one context; and selecting a final keyword based on the cohesion score between the first word and the second word and the context score of the first word and the second word. |
| US11132386B2 |
Fast linking of anonymized datasets
Various embodiments are provided for linking of anonymized datasets in a computing environment are provided. A number of linking records may be identified between an anonymized dataset and one or more non-anonymized datasets of a knowledge base according to one or more equivalence classes and a generalization level. |
| US11132385B2 |
Information processing device and information processing method
An information processing device includes a memory that stores cluster information indicating multiple programs belonging to a cluster; and a processor that acquires a graph including multiple nodes corresponding to the multiple programs indicated by the cluster information and multiple edges indicating dependencies between the multiple programs, selects, from among the multiple nodes, a cut node that is arranged so that when the cut node is removed from the graph, the graph is divided into multiple disconnected partial graphs, extracts a word used in a program corresponding to the cut node among the multiple programs, and uses the extracted word to generate additional information to be associated with the cluster. |
| US11132380B2 |
Resource management systems and methods
Example resource management systems and methods are described. In one implementation, a resource manager is configured to manage data processing tasks associated with multiple data elements. An execution platform is coupled to the resource manager and includes multiple execution nodes configured to store data retrieved from multiple remote storage devices. Each execution node includes a cache and a processor, where the cache and processor are independent of the remote storage devices. A metadata manager is configured to access metadata associated with at least a portion of the multiple data elements. |
| US11132376B2 |
System and method for management of a database system
A system can comprise one or more processors; and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform: receiving a request for a write operation of an input record in a data store associated with a sharded database and an alternate-key-global-index (AKGI) database; generating a new optimistic lock value, the new optimistic lock value being unique in the sharded database; when the data store does not include a data record associated with the input record, creating the dummy data record in the data store; locking the data record for the write operation by setting the DROpLock of the data record to the new optimistic lock value; and performing the write operation of the input record in the AKGI database and the sharded database. In this embodiment, performing the writing operation further comprising inserting or updating an index record derived from the data record before updating the data record and locking the index record before inserting or updating the index record. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US11132374B2 |
Property painter
Techniques for assigning one or more values to properties or form fields. One technique includes receiving a query for a property associated with an attribute of an element of software, executing a search within a storage device for the property that satisfies the query, displaying the property and attributes that support the property, and receiving a first type of input regarding the property. The first type of input includes a value for the property. The technique further includes receiving a second type of input that includes selection of at least one attribute from the attributes identified to support the property, and assigning the value for the property to the at least one attribute. |
| US11132373B1 |
Decoupled update cycle and disparate search frequency dispatch for dynamic elements of an asset monitoring and reporting system
An asset monitoring and reporting system (AMRS) implements decoupled update cycle and disparate search frequency dispatch for dynamic elements of an asset monitoring and reporting system. The AMRS identifies occurrence of an update to a visualization of a client dashboarding component of an AMRS, the visualization comprising dynamic elements and corresponding dynamic element searches that are each associated with a search query to be submitted for execution to obtain a value of a metric of an asset node associated with a respective dynamic element. The AMRS further sends a request indicative of the dynamic elements to a server component of the AMRS, receives dynamic element objects for the dynamic elements, the dynamic element objects specifying search queries corresponding to the dynamic elements, modifies dynamic element searches of the dashboarding component in accordance with the search queries, and stores a definition of the visualization as control information. |
| US11132367B1 |
Automatic creation of indexes for database tables
Systems and methods are disclosed to implement the automatic creation of an auto-partitioning second index (APSI) for a storage object in a storage service. According to embodiments, when a query to the storage object is received specifying a sort condition based on an attribute of the storage object, the storage service may determine that an APSI should be created to optimize for queries with that type of sort condition. The storage service then automatically creates a new APSI that is partitioned according to an auto-generated partition key and stores the data in sorted order in each partition based on the attribute as a sort key. Later queries to the storage object specifying the same type of sort condition are forwarded to the new APSI. A query directed to the APSI is divided into subqueries sent to APSI's partitions in parallel, and results are aggregated to produce the final query result. |
| US11132363B2 |
Distributed computing framework and distributed computing method
A distributed computing framework and a distributed computing method are provided. A specific embodiment of the distributed computing framework includes: a parsing unit, configured to parse an expression of a distributed computing task, and determine an operator and a field corresponding to the operator; and an operator unit, configured to provide the operator, input parameters of the operator including: the field and a field-type distributed dataset. The type of parameters received and returned by any operator may be the field-type distributed dataset, and any operator may operate on the data corresponding to the field in the field-type distributed dataset. Therefore, any operator needs to be implemented once to realize the reuse of the operator. The distributed computing task is expressed in a simple expression, which simplifies the complexity of writing a distributed computing program with the distributed computing framework used by the user. |
| US11132362B2 |
Method and system of optimizing database system, electronic device and storage medium
The disclosure relates to a method of optimizing a database system, including: snapshotting performance data of each Structured Query Language sentence of the database system every preset first time, and arranging and storing snapshots according to a time sequence, wherein the performance data include the number of times of executions and a buffer gets data volume; correspondingly carrying out variance calculation on the performance data of the current snapshot and the performance data of the former snapshot respectively to calculate a total buffer gets data volume and a single-execution buffer gets data average volume which correspond to each SQL sentence within the preset first time; obtaining a value sum of the total buffer gets data volume and the single-execution buffer gets data average volume of each SQL sentence, and selecting an SQL sentence to be optimized on the basis of the value sum. |
| US11132358B2 |
Candidate name generation
A method includes searching an initial set of documents for an initial set of query names. Each query name of the initial set of query names is associated with at least one document of the initial set of documents. The method also includes prioritizing the initial set of query names based on at least one topic label. The method also includes searching an additional set of documents to generate candidate query names. The method also includes prioritizing the candidate query names based on the at least one topic label. The method further includes applying a temporal search filter to each candidate query name to determine whether the candidate query name was processed within a time frame. The method further includes performing disambiguation processing on each candidate query name not processed within the time frame. |
| US11132354B2 |
Maintaining data consistency between transactional and non-transactional data stores
Embodiments regard maintaining data consistency between transactional and non-transactional data stores. Embodiments may include receiving a request to archive a set of data stored in a first data store, recording a high water mark in the first data store for the set of data, and archiving the set of data. Archiving the set of data may include copying the set of data into a second data store and inserting a high water mark for the set of data in the first data store and the second data store. Embodiments may further include updating a reference high water mark upon successful completion of operations for the archiving of the data, the reference high water mark representing completion of a last successful archive operation, and, upon receiving a query for requested data contained in the first or second data store, determining whether to allow viewing of the requested data based at least in part on a current value of the reference high water mark. |
| US11132351B2 |
Executing transactions based on success or failure of the transactions
Example implementations relate to executing transactions based on success or failure of the transactions. For example, a management module of a computing system can execute a transaction that requests access to system resources and determine if the transaction fails or succeeds. The management module can execute a first set of actions, in response to determining that the transaction succeeds, and execute a second set of actions, in response to determining that the transactions fails. |
| US11132347B2 |
Selecting backing stores based on data request
Techniques for improving database searches are described herein. In an embodiment, a server computer system stores one or more first datasets in a first data repository and one or more second datasets in a second data repository. The server computer receives a request to perform an analysis on a particular dataset. The server computer determines that the particular dataset is stored in the first data repository and the second data repository. Based, at least in part, on an attribute of the request, the server computer selects the second data repository and responds to the request with data from the particular dataset stored in the second data repository. |
| US11132346B2 |
Information processing method and apparatus
An information processing method and apparatus, where the method includes: obtaining a user information table; creating, based on the user information table, a bitmap index including a plurality of bitmap vectors; creating a user identifier array based on the user information table; receiving a query request sent by a client; querying the user information table based on the bitmap index, the user identifier array, and at least one attribute value, to obtain a query result; and sending the query result to the client. In the foregoing manner, second-level indexing for an ad hoc query can be implemented. |
| US11132345B2 |
Real time indexing
Methods and systems for generating a database index and searching the database index are described herein. In one aspect this may include receiving an item of database data, wherein the item of database data comprises a sequence of data elements. Groups of data elements may be identified within the received item of database data. If any one or more of the identified groups of data elements have not been previously identified within the item of database data and/or previous items database data then the one or more identified group may be stored as index entries in a database index. Information describing the sequence of the groups of neighbouring data elements may be recorded within the database index as they are located within the item of database data. The database index may be searched based on a received search term comprising a sequence of data elements. |
| US11132344B2 |
Correlating and referencing blockchains
Systems and methods for correlating and referencing blockchains are described herein. An example method may include providing a database configured to store at least one grid. The grid comprises positions referenced by coordinates. The method may include acquiring, by a processor communicatively coupled to the database, a plurality of blockchains. The method may further include mapping, by the processor, the blockchains to the positions within the grid. The method may include acquiring, by the processor, a subset of coordinates ({P}) corresponding to a subset of the positions within the grid and a set of specifications ({S}). The specifications include an instruction for selection of blocks of one or blockchains mapped to on or more position of the subset of the positions. The method may include associating a function F({P}, {S}) with a further position within the grid, wherein the function F ({P}, {S}) operates on contents of the selected blocks. |
| US11132343B1 |
Automatic entity resolution data cleaning
In general, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer readable media for automatic cleaning of entity resolution (ER) data persistently stored in a data repository. |