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| US11611858B2 |
Communication control device, communication control method, and storage medium
A communication control device includes a reception unit configured to receive information transmitted in an ad hoc mode from a first vehicle, from a second vehicle through a cellular line, a specifying unit configured to specify a transmission area in which communication with the first vehicle in the ad hoc mode is possible on the basis of position information of the first vehicle included in the information, and a transmission unit configured to transmit a response to the information including an instruction to perform ad hoc communication with the first vehicle, to a third vehicle located in the vicinity of the transmission area through the cellular line. |
| US11611852B2 |
Physically attachable wireless apparatus
Disclosed is a modular teleconference system that provides the convenience of a wireless headset for teleconference participants and the determinism associated with a physical connection between the headset and teleconferencing system. Some embodiments include a teleconference adaptor or mini-hub-device that is able to maintain a wireless connection even when disconnected from a teleconference hub device. The hub-device provides one or more cradles, each of which provides a physical connection to a mini hub. When a mini hub is placed in a cradle of a hub-device, the audio channels of the wireless headset are connected to audio channels of the hub-device. The hub-device in turn is connected to a teleconferencing application running on a computing device, such as a personal computer. For each mini hub placed in a cradle of the hub-device, audio from the corresponding wireless headset is integrated with the teleconference audio channel. |
| US11611851B2 |
Location tracking of assets
This document discloses a solution for event-triggered positioning of an asset tag. According to an aspect, the asset tag comprises: a first wireless communication circuitry configured to support a first wireless communication protocol of a decentralized wireless network; a second wireless communication circuitry configured to support a second wireless communication protocol different from the first wireless communication protocol; and at least one processor configured to perform event-triggered beacon signal transmissions by: pairing the asset tag with a wireless device and acquiring an identifier of the wireless device during the pairing; as a result of the pairing, triggering transmission of a beacon signal use the second wireless communication circuitry to transmit a beacon signal to position the asset tag; and generating payload data comprising information on said pairing and using the first wireless communication circuitry to transmit the payload data via at least one other asset tag of the decentralized wireless network to a server computer. |
| US11611848B2 |
Verifying a path of a mobile wireless device based on wireless mapping
Provided herein are methods and systems for verifying a path in a monitored space, comprising transmitting a device identification (ID) of the mobile wireless device while the mobile wireless device moves through a monitored space, receiving one or more location certificates transmitted, in response to reception of the device ID, by one or more wireless transceivers deployed at a predefined location in the monitored space and having a limited transmission range, each location certificate comprising at least the device ID and a transceiver ID of the respective wireless transceiver, storing the one or more location certificates, and transmitting the one or more location certificates to one or more verification units configured to verify a path of the mobile wireless device in the monitored space estimated according to the predefined location of the one or more wireless transceivers identified by the transceiver ID extracted from the one or more location certificates. |
| US11611846B2 |
Generation, curation, and presentation of media collections
Systems and methods are provided for receiving input increasing a default predetermined window of time that a new media collection is accessible, sending a request to a server computer for activation of the new media collection including the input, and receiving confirmation that the new media collection was activated for the increased predetermined window of time and a geographic boundary size for where media content originates. The systems and methods further provide for causing a plurality of content messages comprising media content originating in the geographical boundary size to be included in the new media collection and displayed in response to a request from a computing device to view the new media collection based on determining the request occurs within the increased predetermined window of time that the new media collection is accessible. |
| US11611845B2 |
Communication device and storage medium
A communication device controls a process for determining a position of another device in accordance with a radio propagation environment. The communication device includes a wireless communication section configured to receive wireless signals from another communication device and a control section configured to calculate a reliability parameter. The reliability parameter serves as an indicator that indicates whether a first incoming wave serving as a signal detected as a signal that meets a predetermined detection standard is an appropriate process target, among the wireless signals received by the wireless communication section. The reliability parameter also controls a positional parameter determination process of determining a positional parameter indicating a position of the other communication device on a basis of the first incoming wave, and on a basis of the reliability parameter. |
| US11611844B2 |
Systems and methods for users to receive and/or reply to information affiliated with communication attempts while remaining substantially disconnected from mobile electronic device(s) and/or networks
The invention generally relates to systems and methods that enable processor readable instruction(s) (e.g., an un-wired algorithm, an un-wired application, an un-wired services, etc.), stored in processor readable media(s), to be accessed and/or processed on mobile electronic devices (e.g., “mobile phones”) and/or networks such that, for example, when activated by user(s) and/or authorized parties, the mobile electronic device's alert (e.g., audiovisual alert, vibrator, etc.) can be deactivated. Further, when the un-wired application is activated customizable replies can automatically and/or substantially automatically be communicated in response to missed communication attempts (e.g., voice calls, video calls, texts, e-mail, etc.). |
| US11611841B2 |
Audio processing method and apparatus
An audio processing method includes: M first audio signals are obtained by processing a to-be-processed audio signal by M first virtual speakers; N second audio signals are obtained by processing the to-be-processed audio signal by N second virtual speakers; M first head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) centered at a left ear position and N second HRTFs centered at a right ear position are obtained; a first target audio signal is obtained based on the M first audio signals and the M first HRTFs; and a second target audio signal is obtained based on the N second audio signals and the N second HRTFs. |
| US11611840B2 |
Three-dimensional audio systems
A sound generation system and related method include a user interface device and a processing device to obtain a specification of a three-dimensional space, obtain one or more sound tracks each comprising a corresponding sound signal associated with a corresponding sound source, present, in a user interface, representations representing one or more listeners and the one or more sound sources corresponding to the one or more sound signals in the three-dimensional space, responsive to a configuration of the locations of the one or more listeners or the locations of the one or more sound sources in the three-dimensional space in the user interface, determine filters based on the configuration and pre-determined locations of one or more loudspeakers, and apply the filters to the one or more sound signals to generate filtered sound signals for driving the one or more loudspeakers. |
| US11611834B2 |
Bone conduction speaker and compound vibration device thereof
The present disclosure relates to a bone conduction speaker and its compound vibration device. The compound vibration device comprises a vibration conductive plate and a vibration board, the vibration conductive plate is set to be the first torus, where at least two first rods inside it converge to its center; the vibration board is set as the second torus, where at least two second rods inside it converge to its center. The vibration conductive plate is fixed with the vibration board; the first torus is fixed on a magnetic system, and the second torus comprises a fixed voice coil, which is driven by the magnetic system. The bone conduction speaker in the present disclosure and its compound vibration device adopt the fixed vibration conductive plate and vibration board, making the technique simpler with a lower cost; because the two adjustable parts in the compound vibration device can adjust both low frequency and high frequency area, the frequency response obtained is flatter and the sound is broader. |
| US11611829B2 |
Device and method for supplying power
Power supply units e.g. in network operated loudspeakers are tailored to peak values that are reached only relatively rarely and then in pulses. With an intermediate storage of electrical energy in an intermediate circuit energy storage element it is possible to provide a significantly higher amount of power at least for a short period of time. The intermediate circuit energy storage element may be a capacitor or accumulator, for example, which is connected to an intermediate circuit voltage that is higher than the input voltage, and that is generated by an upconverter. A downconverter generates the output voltage of the power supply unit from the energy stored in the intermediate circuit storage element. The output voltage of the power supply unit is used as power supply for an audio amplifier. The power supply unit may provide for a short period of time a higher current or more energy respectively than the actual energy source, for example the network node. Correspondingly, the device operated with the output voltage of the power supply unit, for example the audio amplifier, can have a significantly higher effective power than previously possible for the short period of time. |
| US11611826B1 |
Customized sound field for increased privacy
An audio system for customizing sound fields for increased user privacy. A microphone array of a headset detects sounds from one or more sound sources in a local area of the headset. The audio system estimates array transfer functions (ATFs) associated with the sounds, and determines determining sound field reproduction filters for a loudspeaker array of the headset using the ATFs. The audio system presents audio content, via the loudspeaker array, based in part on the sound field reproduction filters. The presented audio content has a sound field that has a reduced amplitude in a first damped region of the local area that includes a first sound source of the one or more sound sources. |
| US11611825B2 |
Audio signal processing method and apparatus
The present invention relates to the technical field of mobile terminals. Disclosed are an audio signal processing method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The method comprises: when detecting that 3.5 mm earphones are connected by means of a type-C plug of a transfer cable, a mobile terminal determines whether states of audio channels of an audio ground GND and a microphone MIC of the type-C plug are correct. When determining that the states of the audio channels of the GND and the MIC of the type-C plug are correct, the mobile terminal decides whether to enter an audio mode. If the mobile terminal decides to enter the audio mode, a low-resistance network for reducing channel impedance is controlled to connect in parallel to the GND. |
| US11611816B2 |
Service data processing method and device
This application discloses a service data processing method and device. A transmit-end device may generate an optical transport network (OTN) encapsulated signal carrying service data, and generate at least n FlexO (flexible optical transport network) frames based on the OTN encapsulated signal and send the at least n FlexO frames, where r FlexO frames in the at least n FlexO frames carry service check data, and the service check data may be used to restore the service data when bit error rates of k FlexO frames are greater than a reference bit error rate. In this way, if no more than r physical ports included in a FlexO group interface fail, or a bit error rate of no more than r FlexO frames is greater than the reference bit error rate due to another reason, a receive-end device may restore the service data through a received FlexO frame. |
| US11611811B2 |
Video processing method and device, unmanned aerial vehicle and system
The present disclosure provides a video processing method, applied to an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with a camera device for capturing videos. The video processing method includes in response to the UAV moving in accordance with a flight trajectory, controlling the camera device of the UAV to obtain a first video segment when reaching a first photography point; in response to reaching a second photography point as the UAV continues moving, controlling the camera device of the UAV to capture environmental images to obtain a panoramic image, and generating a second video segment based on the panoramic image; and generating a target video based on the first video segment and the second video segment. |
| US11611808B2 |
Systems and methods of preparing multiple video streams for assembly with digital watermarking
Systems and methods for encoding multiple video streams with digital watermarking for adaptive bitrate streaming in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for preprocessing multimedia content into streams with watermark information includes receiving a source content media stream, generating at least two variant preprocessed streams for each received source content media stream, where each variant preprocessed stream includes different watermark information in the same locations as the other variant preprocessed streams and where marked locations are spaced apart at least a distance equal to a predetermined maximum segment size, generating a set of embed location information describing marked locations in the variant preprocessed streams, generating at least one variant output stream from each variant preprocessed stream using video compression, partitioning each variant output stream into a set of segments, where each segment is no longer than the predetermined maximum segment size and contains at most one copy of the watermark information, generating a set of segment boundary information describing the boundaries of segments within the variant output streams and the boundaries are the same between variant output streams, and generating a segment selection list using the set of embed location information and the set of segment boundary information, where the segment selection list includes only one variant segment for each segment according to a watermark sequence and the digits of the watermark sequence correspond to the watermark information applied to each variant preprocessed stream. |
| US11611803B2 |
Automated content identification for binge watching of digital media
“Binge watching” of multiple episodes of a program is improved by the player device automatically skipping repeated portions of the program. Opening and closing credit scenes, for example, can be automatically skipped to thereby allow the viewer to progress through the entire season of programming at an even faster rate than was previously thought possible. Programming to be skipped may be identified by detecting audio or other digital fingerprints in the content itself, for example. Content to be skipped may be identified to the playback device according to presentation time stamp (PTS) or other time markers. |
| US11611800B2 |
Methods and apparatus for audio equalization
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for audio equalization. Example instructions disclosed herein cause one or more processors to at least: detect an irregularity in a frequency representation of an audio signal in response to a change in volume between a set of frequency values exceeding a threshold; and adjust a volume at a first frequency value of the set of frequency values to reduce the irregularity. |
| US11611798B2 |
IDR fracking for glass to glass latency reduction
To reduce latency in streaming media a playlist requested from a content delivery network may be modified to have modified segmentation. After receiving the playlist from the content delivery network, the location of one or more I-frames in each segment in the playlist may be determined and these locations may be used to generate the modified playlist. The modified playlist may then be sent to a client device. Media segments may be modified in accordance with the modified segmentation of the modified playlist to generate modified media segments that can be sent to the client device. |
| US11611795B2 |
Online live video sales management system
A sales administration system that manages online sales via overlays on a video stream. Customers can comment on or respond to the video stream, and may order products using simple phrases such as “Sold”. The system can stream video with overlays to multiple clients simultaneously, including websites and mobile apps. Comments from all clients are received, aggregated, processed for orders, and displayed to the sales administrator. The system is coupled to a merchant's operational data, providing immediate visibility to changes in inventory and orders. Video overlays may be updated automatically by the system as this operational data changes, for example highlighting products with low stock. The system may analyze customer comments and orders both during the video stream and after the sales session is complete, and may generate recommendations to improve sales effectiveness. For backorders, customers may preauthorize charges to be at the front of the queue for shipment. |
| US11611793B2 |
Expiring synchronized supplemental content in time-shifted media
Systems and methods are described for providing interactive content contextually related to an occurrence. An illustrative method generates for display, at a media consumption device, a display of the live event, wherein the display of the live event comprises the occurrence, determines a beginning of the occurrence in the display of the live event, in response to determining the beginning of the occurrence in the display of the live event, generates for simultaneous display, with the display of the live event, interactive content related to the occurrence, determines whether the occurrence in the live event has ended in real time, and in response to determining that the occurrence in the live event has ended in real time, ceases the generating for display of the interactive content related to the occurrence. |
| US11611792B2 |
ATSC 3 reception across boundary conditions using location data
Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. A receiver, to automatically switch from presenting a service on a first frequency to a second frequency such as when a mobile receiver is moving through a boundary region between two broadcasters, can consider not just signal strength and error rates of two frequencies carrying the same service to select which frequency to tune to, but also relative location and direction of motion of the receiver with respect to each broadcaster. |
| US11611791B2 |
Method and device to transfer a video stream between a host device and an electronic descrambling device
A method to transfer a video stream from a host device comprising a controller configured for bulk transfers to a descrambling device, comprises: forming a chain out transfer comprising a chain out header linked with multiple chain out descriptors, the first chain out descriptor pointing to an out description packet containing at least one producer ID, the second and subsequent chain out descriptor pointing to chunks from the video stream, the last chain out descriptor being configured to generate an interrupt; forming a chain in transfer comprising a chain in header linked with a plurality of chain in descriptors, each chain in descriptor pointing to a descrambled chunk; requesting the controller to process the chain; receiving the description packet by the descrambling device and using key data associated with the chunks to descramble them; receiving by the controller the descrambled chunks and triggering an interrupt on the last chunk. |
| US11611783B2 |
Method and system for remotely controlling consumer electronic device
A media system replaces content in a first sequence of media content. The media system presents the first sequence of media content to an end-user and generates a fingerprint of the sequence of media content. The fingerprint is for comparison with a plurality of reference fingerprints so as to identify the first sequence of media content and determine a reference position within the first sequence of media content. The media system sends a request for a replacement sequence of content to a content replacement system, and receives replacement media content selected based on the identified first sequence of media content. The media system presents the replacement media content to the end-user instead of the first sequence of media content. Presenting the replacement media content begins at a position in the first sequence of media content that is determined based on the reference position. |
| US11611771B2 |
Method and apparatus for video coding using inter-prediction mode signaling to determine motion vectors
A method for video decoding includes decoding prediction information of a current block, the prediction information being indicative of a symmetric motion vector difference mode for bi-prediction from a pair of forward and backward reference pictures. The method also includes assigning, to a reference picture marked as a long term reference picture (LTRP), a calculated picture order count with a default POC distance to the current picture, and excluding a reference picture from being in the pair of forward and backward reference pictures without a check based on a picture order count (POC) of the reference picture. The method further includes determining a first reference block for the current block in the forward reference picture and a second reference block for the current block in the backward reference picture, and reconstructing at least a sample of the current block according to the first reference block and the second reference block. |
| US11611766B2 |
Method and apparatus for performing superposition coded modulation scheme in a broadcasting or communication system
A method and an apparatus for performing a Superposition Coded Modulation (SCM) scheme in a broadcasting or communication system including a controller are provided. The method includes controlling an SCM coefficient by the controller. The SCM coefficient is controlled according to a channel capacity of each layer of one or more layers in which information included in a signal is encoded. |
| US11611765B2 |
Refinement mode processing in video encoding and decoding
Encoding or decoding a picture part of video information can include using a refinement mode per block where the refinement mode can be based on a refinement parameter. The refinement mode can include a cross-component refinement that can be a cross-component chroma refinement. The refinement mode can include enabling selection per block of a refinement parameter where the refinement parameter can include one or more chroma refinement parameters included in a chroma refinement table. |
| US11611762B2 |
Encoding method and device thereof, and decoding method and device thereof
A video decoding method includes determining whether an ultimate motion vector expression (UMVE) mode is allowed for an upper data unit including a current block, when the UMVE mode is allowed for the upper data unit, determining whether the UMVE mode is applied to the current block, when the UMVE mode is applied to the current block, determining a base motion vector of the current block, determining a correction distance and a correction direction for correction of the base motion vector, determining a motion vector of the current block by correcting the base motion vector according to the correction distance and the correction direction, and reconstructing the current block based on the motion vector of the current block. |
| US11611760B2 |
Preserving image quality in temporally compressed video streams
When a temporally compressed video stream is decoded and subsequently re-encoded, quality is typically lost. The quality loss may be mitigated using information about how the source video stream was encoded during the re-encoding process. According to some aspects of the disclosure, this mitigation of quality loss can be facilitated by decoders that output such information and encoders that receive such information. These decoders and encoders may be separate devices. The functionality of these decoders and encoders may also be combined in a single device, such as a transcoding device. An example of the information that may be used during re-encoding is whether each portion of the original stream was intra-coded or non-intra-coded. |
| US11611754B2 |
Guaranteed data compression
A method of converting 10-bit pixel data (e.g. 10:10:10:2 data) into 8-bit pixel data involves converting the 10-bit values to 7-bits or 8-bits and generating error values for each of the converted values. Two of the 8-bit output channels comprise a combination of a converted 7-bit value and one of the bits from the fourth input channel. A third 8-bit output channel comprises the converted 8-bit value and the fourth 8-bit output channel comprises the error values. In various examples, the bits of the error values may be interleaved when they are packed into the fourth output channel. |
| US11611752B2 |
Adaptation parameter set storage in video coding
Systems, methods and apparatus for encoding or decoding a file format that stores one or more images are described. One example method includes performing a conversion between a visual media file and a bitstream of a visual media data according to a format rule, where the format rule specifies that first adaptation parameter set network abstraction layer units are disallowed from being simultaneously stored in in the visual media file in (1) any one or both of samples of video coding layer tracks or sample entries of the video coding layer tracks, and (2) samples of non-video coding layer tracks, where the video coding layer tracks are tracks containing video coding layer network abstraction layer units, and where the first adaptation parameter set network abstraction layer units includes luma mapping with chroma scaling parameters for a video stream and scaling list parameters for the video stream. |
| US11611748B2 |
Transform coefficient block coding
An encoder encodes transform coefficients of a transform coefficient block representing a block of a picture using a scan pattern which sequentially traverses the transform coefficients of the transform block by encoding absolute values of quantization levels of the transform coefficients. The absolute values are binarized with a binarization comprising a first part of the binarization below a cutoff value and a second part of the binarization, prefixed by a codeword of the first part of the binarization for the cutoff value, above the cutoff value. The encoder adaptively, based on previously encoded transform coefficients, decreases the cutoff value to zero monotonically during encoding of the transform coefficients so that the binarization comprises the second part of the binarization and not the first part of the binarization. |
| US11611744B2 |
Image coding method based on affine motion prediction, and device for same
A picture decoding method implemented by a decoding device, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: acquiring motion prediction information from a bitstream; generating an affine MVP candidate list comprising affine MVP candidates for the current block; deriving CPMVPs for the respective CPs of the current block on the basis of one affine MVP candidate among the affine MVP candidates included in the affine MVP candidate list; deriving CPMVDs for the CPs of the current block on the basis of information on the CPMVDs for the respective CPs included in the acquired motion prediction information; and deriving CPMVs for the CPs of the current block on the basis of the CPMVPs and the CPMVDs. |
| US11611736B2 |
Multi-aperture imaging device with a wavelength-specific beam deflector and device having such a multi-aperture imaging device
A multi-aperture imaging device is provided that includes an image sensor and an array of adjacently arranged optical channels. Each optical channel includes an optic for imaging at least one partial field of view of a total field of view onto an image sensor area of the image sensor. The device has a beam-deflector for deflecting an optical path of the optical channels and the beam-deflector includes a first beam-deflecting area operative for a first wavelength range of electromagnetic radiation passing through the optical channel; and a includes second beam-deflecting area operative for a second wavelength range of the electromagnetic radiation passing through the optical channels. The second wavelength range is different from the first wavelength range. |
| US11611735B2 |
Open view, multi-modal, calibrated digital loupe with depth sensing
A digital loupe system is provided which can include a number of features. In one embodiment, the digital loupe system can include a stereo camera pair and a distance sensor. The system can further include a processor configured to perform a transformation to image signals from the stereo camera pair based on a distance measurement from the distance sensor and from camera calibration information. In some examples, the system can use the depth information and the calibration information to correct for parallax between the cameras to provide a multi-channel image. Ergonomic head mounting systems are also provided. In some implementations, the head mounting systems can be configurable to support the weight of a digital loupe system, including placing one or two oculars in a line of sight with an eye of a user, while improving overall ergonomics, including peripheral vision, comfort, stability, and adjustability. Methods of use are also provided. |
| US11611734B2 |
Devices and methods for an imaging system with a dual camera architecture
An electronic device can include a first image sensor configured to capture a first image of a field of view and a second image sensor configured to capture a second image of the field of view. The electronic device can include a color filter adjacent to the second image sensor such that the field of view is viewable by the second image sensor through the color filter. The first image can have a first pixel resolution. The second image can have a second pixel resolution. The electronic device can include a controller configured to determine a third image based on luminance content of the first image and color content of the second image. The third image can have a third pixel resolution indicative of a spatial resolution of the first image and a spectral resolution of the second image. |
| US11611731B2 |
Evaluation method for image projection system, image projection system, and image projection control apparatus
An evaluation method for an image projection system in which a first projector, a second projector, and a third projector perform stack projection on a screen, the method including acquiring a first image generated by capturing the screen at a first timing, acquiring a second image generated by capturing the screen at a second timing, causing the projection state of the first projector to differ from the projection states of the second projector and the third projector at the first timing, and evaluating whether or not the first projector needs to be adjusted based on the first image and the second image. |
| US11611730B2 |
Modular LED imaging projector and optical systems
The disclosure relates to modular LED imaging projector and optical systems and apparatuses. A light-emitting diode (LED) engine module emits a light beam that is homogenized and focused through a predetermined focal point. The LED engine module is detachably attached to a posterior connection point of a base body assembly. A collimating lens within the base body assembly refocuses the light beam to reduce divergence. |
| US11611728B2 |
High brightness projection systems and methods
A hybrid projector architecture combines steered light with unsteered light. In some embodiments the steered light is narrowband light and the unsteered light is broadband light. Splitting between the steered and unsteered light may be determined based on luminance level. For example, the unsteered light may contribute a large proportion of the light for luminance levels up to a threshold. The steered light may contribute an increasing proportion of the light as luminance values rise above the threshold. |
| US11611725B2 |
Endoscope image-capturing device and endoscope device
An endoscope image-capturing device includes: a first case inside of which is sealed; an image sensor arranged inside the first case; an electro-optic conversion element arranged outside the first case and configured to convert an image signal output from the image sensor into an optical signal; and a sealing member sealing the electro-optic conversion element. |
| US11611724B2 |
Linked transaction camera with cached video log
A management terminal manages a plurality of Self-Service Terminals (SSTs) for customer-assistance, transaction overrides, theft determinations, and transaction security audits. One or more overhead cameras stream real-time video of the transactions being processed at the SSTs to a server. Transaction data produced in real time at the SSTs are also provided to the server. The video is correlated with the transaction data and evaluated for security events. The video is also cached on the server. An operator of the management terminal can access a video review interface based on events and/or information visually gleaned by the operator during the transactions. The interface permits the operator to view a configured cached portion of the video captured for any given transaction to provide context to the operator for determining whether to perform or whether not to perform a transaction audit. |
| US11611719B2 |
Management of video playback speed based on objects of interest in the video data
Systems, methods, and software described herein manage the playback speed of video data based on processing objects in the video data. In one example, a video processing service obtains video data from a video source and identifies objects of interest in the video data. The video processing service further determines complexity in frames of the video data related to the objects of interest and updates playback speeds for segments of the video data based on the complexity of the frames. |
| US11611718B2 |
Video transmitter apparatus and video receiver apparatus
A video receiver apparatus, for receiving video from a video transmitter apparatus, comprises: a memory portion for memorizing receiver apparatus information of the video receiver apparatus; and a transmitter/receiver portion for receiving a request for obtaining the receiver apparatus information transmitted from the video transmitter apparatus, and also for transmitting the receiver apparatus information memorized in the memory portion responding to the obtaining request, and wherein, further within the memory portion is memorized history information, changing depending on alternation of the receiver apparatus information, and wherein the receiver portion is able to receive the history information, which the video transmitter apparatus holds therein, as well as, the obtaining request from the video transmitter, and when the received history information from the video transmitter apparatus and the history information, which the video transmitter apparatus holds therein, are inconsistent with each other, then the receiver apparatus information memorized in the memory portion is transmitted to the video transmitter apparatus. |
| US11611711B2 |
Viewfinder ring flash
The technical problem of enhancing the quality of an image captured by a front facing camera in low light conditions is addressed by displaying the viewfinder of a front facing camera with an illuminating border, termed a viewfinder ring flash. A viewfinder ring flash acts as a ring flash in low light conditions. A viewfinder ring flash may be automatically generated and presented in the camera view user interface (UI) when the digital sensor of a front facing camera detects a low light indication based on intensity of incident light detected by the digital image sensor of the camera. |
| US11611709B2 |
Flash control apparatus, method, image capture apparatus, flash, and storage medium
A control apparatus configured to control a flash such that the flash emits light in synchronization with exposure of an image capture apparatus, includes a wireless communication device configured to perform wireless communication with the flash; and a controller configured to control the wireless communication device, wherein in a period from when the image capture apparatus starts exposure to when the flash emits light, the wireless communication device repeatedly transmits a signal to the flash at a predetermined time interval in order to prevent the flash from transitioning to a power-saving state. |
| US11611704B2 |
Motor controller
A motor controller used for driving a motor is provided. The motor includes a motor coil and a maximum rated current. The motor controller comprises a driving circuit, a control unit, a digital-to-analog converter, an operational amplifier, a switch circuit, and a resistor. When it is needed to decrease a settling time for the motor to reach a target position, or a vibration is detected within a camera module so as to enable an image stabilization mechanism, it is capable of temporarily supplying a driving current greater than the maximum rated current to the motor coil. |
| US11611703B2 |
Camera module, method of correcting movement of the module, image stabilization device therefor
The present invention provides a camera module includes a lens assembly including a plurality of lenses; an image sensor for converting an optical signal transferred through the lens assembly into an electric signal; a gyro sensor for outputting a variation signal in response to movement of the lens assembly and the image sensor; a stabilization controller for determining, in response to the variation signal, a first compensation value used to perform optical image stabilization (OIS) by driving at least one of the lenses and determining a second compensation value used to perform electronic image stabilization (EIS) by adjusting an effective area of the image sensor; and a movement correction device outputting a first control signal and a second control signal to perform image stabilization in response to the first compensation value and the second compensation value. |
| US11611696B2 |
Systems and methods for operating an imaging device
The various embodiments illustrated herein disclose a method for operating an imaging device. the method includes activating a first image sensor at a first duty cycle within a first time period. The method further includes activating a second image sensor at a second duty cycle within the first time period. Additionally, the method includes modifying at least one of the first duty cycle or the second duty cycle based on at least a workflow associated an operator of the imaging device. |
| US11611695B2 |
Imaging device and electronic device including the same
An imaging device includes a light source operating in response to an optical control signal having a predetermined frequency, a sensor including a plurality of pixels, configured to generate an electrical signal in response to a light reception signal output by the light source and reflected from a subject, and a logic circuit configured to generate first raw data of a spatial domain based on the electrical signal, and an image signal processor configured to convert the first raw data into second raw data of a frequency domain, to select low-frequency data of the second raw data within a frequency band lower than a predetermined reference frequency, to apply a predetermined weighting to the low-frequency data to generate weighted data, and to generate a resultant image based on the first raw data and the weighted data. |
| US11611693B1 |
Updating lens focus calibration values
A camera system lens or image sensor is moved to change the distance between the image sensor the lens in order for the image sensor to capture an-focus of an object. The camera system includes one or more calibration values indicating distances between the lens and the image sensor for different distances to objects, such as a macro calibration value and an infinity calibration value. These one or more calibration values are used by the camera system when manually focusing the camera system (e.g., a user manually sets the camera system to a macro setting or an infinity setting) or when automatically focusing the camera system on an object. These one or more calibration values are dynamically updated during use of the camera system, allowing the camera system to adapt to various factors such as changes in environment, pressure applied to the camera system, and so forth. |
| US11611692B2 |
Fixed pattern noise reduction and high spatial frequency filtering using vari-focus lenses in low contrast scenes
A method for identifying and correcting fixed pattern noise includes capturing a focused image and an unfocused image via a variable focus lens. Fixed pattern noise represented in the unfocused image is filtered from the focused image. The unfocused image represents a low-pass filtered component of the focused image; subtracting the unfocused image from the focused image results in a high-pass and fixed pattern noise filtered focused image. Image capture and focus of the variable focus lens are synchronized to remove transitional frames from the image stream. |
| US11611688B2 |
Camera module
The present embodiment relates to a camera module comprising a front body, a lens, a rear body, a first substrate, an image sensor, a second substrate, a connector and a cover, wherein the cover includes a bottom plate having a hole in which the connector is to be disposed, side plates extending from the bottom plate, and pressing unit disposed at the bottom plate and elastically supporting the connector, the connector includes a first surface facing the inner surface of the bottom plate of the cover, and a second surface extending from the first surface and disposed in the hole, and the pressing unit includes a first pressing part for pressing the first surface of the connector, and a second pressing part for pressing the second surface of the connector. |
| US11611687B2 |
Blade open-close device and electronic device
A thin blade open-close device is incorporated in a limited space. A blade open-close device includes a base located on a module board including a lens unit, a partition located opposite to the module board from the base, and a cover plate located opposite to the base from the partition. The partition and the cover plate each have an opening aligned with an optical axis of the lens unit. The blade open-close device includes a blade movable in X-direction in a blade chamber defined between the cover plate and the partition, an actuator that moves the blade between a closing position to cover the openings and an opening position to uncover the openings, and a terminal plate extending in Z-direction. The terminal plate electrically connected to the actuator includes connectors at its end adjacent to the module board to be electrically connected to contacts on the module board. |
| US11611684B2 |
Image forming apparatus with user authentication by near field wireless communication and registering identification information of mobile terminal in association with prestored user information
An image forming apparatus includes an information storing unit, an information acquiring unit and a control unit. On the basis of association between pieces of identification information stored in the storing unit and pieces of user information, the control unit authenticates the use of the image forming apparatus by a user corresponding to an associated piece of identification information. Upon acquisition by the acquiring unit, of a piece of identification information which is not stored in the storing unit, the controller unit causes a display portion to display display regions corresponding to pieces of user information so as to be selectable to cause the storing unit to store piece of identification information and a corresponding piece of user information in association with each other. |
| US11611683B2 |
Server and computer program for server
A server includes memory, a request receiver, a first transmitter, a second transmitter, and a first memory controller. The memory includes a first table to store first identification information identifying a communication device and first user information in association with each other. In response to a reset instruction to reset first identification information being input at a communication device storing the first identification information, the request receiver receive the first identification information, and an identification information request from the communication device. The first transmitter transmits second identification information different from the first identification information to the communication device. The second transmitter transmits the first identification information to the communication device, the first identification information being to be stored in the communication device instead of the second identification information. The first memory allows the first table to store the second identification information and second user information in association with each other. |
| US11611681B2 |
Multi-mode scanning device
A multi-mode scanning device for scanning an original includes a non-transparent element, a first light source, a second light source and an optical module. The first light source outputs visible light to irradiate the non-transparent element and the original to generate first light and second light, respectively. The second light source outputs invisible light to irradiate a combination of the non-transparent element and the original to generate third light and fourth light. The optical module receives the first light, the second light, the third light and the fourth light and generates sensing signals representative of visible light information and invisible light information of the original. The original is disposed between the non-transparent element and the optical module. The first light source and the optical module are disposed on a same side of the non-transparent element. |
| US11611677B2 |
Information processing apparatus that identifies related document images based on metadata and associates them based on user input, information processing system, information processing method, and storage medium
An apparatus compares pieces of document image data with each other based on the result of a multi-cropping process and the result of an analysis of the document images and, if the pieces of document image data have the same date information and money amount information, determines that related pieces of data are present. In this way, the apparatus can easily prevent pieces of information related to the same transaction from redundantly registered in a system. |
| US11611675B2 |
Image forming apparatus and method of controlling image forming apparatus
According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus which stores settings for use in performing job processing includes: a display; and a storage which stores a setting history related to settings of past job processing, and a collective setting in which settings related to job processing are registered collectively. The image forming apparatus further includes: a setting controller which displays a setting history screen including the setting history on the display, displays on the display, in response to selection of the setting history, a setting screen reflecting setting contents based on the selected setting history, and displays a registration button to perform processing to register the collective setting on the setting screen; and a registration controller which performs the processing to register the collective setting in response to an operation on the registration button. |
| US11611671B2 |
Image reading device having openable auto document feeder and image forming apparatus provided therewith
An image reading device installed in an image forming apparatus includes a document placing table having an image reader, and an auto document feeder (ADF) rotatably supported by the document placing table. The ADF is rotatable between a closed position where an upper surface of the document placing table is uncovered and an opened position where the upper surface is covered. The ADF includes a document tray, a document discharge tray arranged at a position below the document tray with a space, and a front wall fixed to a front side of the document tray. A cutout part is formed on the front wall with a front side of the space being opened through the cutout part. The ADF further includes a hand grip provided to an upper edge of the cutout part, and used to lift the ADF from the closed position toward the opened position. |
| US11611666B2 |
Method and network node for implementing user defined policies based on device subscription identifiers in a telecommunication network
A method for implementing user defined policies in a communication network. In one aspect, a policy function (e.g., an online charging system (OCS)) receives a policy information request having a subscription identifier, SID, identifying a subscription where a set of two or more policies are linked to the SID, and one of the policies included in the set of policies is set as an active policy for the subscription, and where each policy is associated with a different user identifier, UID. The policy function determines the policy that is set as the active policy for the subscription identified by the SID included in the policy information request. Using the determined UID, the policy function obtains and transmits the active policy. |
| US11611665B1 |
Support services for virtual data centers
Various example implementations are directed to circuits, apparatuses, and methods for providing virtual computing services. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus includes a data storage device and a set of computing servers communicatively coupled to the data storage device. The set of computer servers are configured to provide a respective virtual data center for each of a plurality of accounts. The respective virtual data center for each account is configured to provide virtual services specified in a respective settings file for the account stored in the data storage device. The virtual data center for at least one of the accounts includes a set of virtual desktops and a set virtual data-communications servers providing data communications services which may include Voice-over-IP (VoIP) services, and support services for each account as specified in the settings file for the account. |
| US11611663B2 |
System and method for processing telephony sessions
In one embodiment, the method of processing telephony sessions includes: communicating with an application server using an application layer protocol; processing telephony instructions with a call router; and creating call router resources accessible through a call router Application Programming Interface (API). In another embodiment, the system for processing telephony sessions includes: a call router, a URI for an application server, a telephony instruction executed by the call router, and a call router API resource. |
| US11611661B2 |
Shared call state for related calls
Techniques for determining a global state for multiple related calls are disclosed. A first call between a first device and a second device is established, where the first call is assigned a user call identifier. A second call between the first device and a third device is established. A shared call operation is established by assigning the user call identifier to the second call. The user call identifier is assigned to the second call in addition to already being assigned to the first call. A first status of the first call and a second status of the second call are determined. The first status and the second status are used to determine a global state of the shared call operation. The global state of the shared call operation is updated in response to one or both of the first status or the second status changing. |
| US11611660B1 |
System and method for automatically assigning a customer call to an agent
Systems and methods described herein can automatically route an inbound call from an identified customer to one of a plurality of agents, the agent being selected on the basis of likelihood of a favorable outcome. The method determines a predictive model appropriate for the identified customer, with model variables including call center data, and targeted marketing data based upon risk data for the customer. An analytical engine calculates outcome predictions by applying the predictive model to values of model variables over a recent time interval. In a time-series analysis, this calculation is repeated while dynamically adjusting the recent time interval, until identifying a call routing option that satisfies a favorable outcome criterion. This method may be used to select the agent to handle the incoming call, and optionally to select a product for that agent to discuss with the identified customer. |
| US11611659B2 |
Techniques for behavioral pairing in a task assignment system
Techniques for behavioral pairing in a task assignment system are described. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for behavioral pairing in a task assignment system comprising: determining, by at least one computer processor communicatively coupled to and configured to operate in the task assignment system, at least one behavioral pairing constraint; and applying, by the at least one computer processor, the at least one behavioral pairing constraint to the task assignment system to controllably reduce performance of the task assignment system. |
| US11611652B2 |
Telecommunications validation system and method
According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a toll-free telecommunications validation system determines a confidence value that an incoming phone call to an enterprises' toll-free number is originating from the station it purports to be, i.e., is not a spoofed call by incorporating one or more layers of signals and data in determining said confidence value, the data and signals including, but not limited to, toll-free call routing logs, service control point (SCP) signals and data, service data point (SDP) signals and data, dialed number information service (DNIS) signals and data, automatic number identification (ANI) signals and data, session initiation protocol (SIP) signals and data, carrier identification code (CIC) signals and data, location routing number (LRN) signals and data, jurisdiction information parameter (JIP) signals and data, charge number (CN) signals and data, billing number (BN) signals and data, and originating carrier information (such as information derived from the ANI, including, but not limited to, alternative service provider ID (ALTSPID), service provider ID (SPID), or operating company number (OCN)). In certain configurations said enterprise provides an ANI and DNIS associated with said incoming toll-free call, which is used to query a commercial toll-free telecommunications routing platform for any corresponding log entries. The existence of any such log entries, along with the originating carrier information in the event log entries do exist, is used to determine a confidence value that said incoming toll-free call is originating from the station it purports to be. As a result, said entities or enterprises operating a toll-free number may be provided a confidence value regarding an incoming telephone call, and using that confidence value, further determine whether or not to accept the authenticity of the incoming telephone call and/or based on said confidence value, service the incoming call differently. |
| US11611650B2 |
Situational blocking of SIM updates and/or requests
While a SIM-enabled cellular device is in a disable-SIM-card-updates mode of operation during which SIM-card updates should be disabled, the SIM-enabled cellular device blocks updates of a cellular Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card of the SIM-enabled cellular device. Upon determining that the SIM-enabled cellular device is no longer in the disable-SIM-card-updates mode, the SIM-card updates are no longer blocked. SIM-card updates may be blocked by blocking the following types of messages received by the SIM-enabled cellular device from a cellular network: Short Message Service (SMS) SIM, Short Message Service (SMS) SIM update, Bearer Independent Protocol (BIP) packet update, and Access Point Name (APN) packet update. The SIM-enabled cellular device may be an automotive Telematics Control Unit (TCU). The automotive TCU may enter the disable-SIM-card-updates mode due to an automotive telematics emergency call. The automotive-telematic-emergency call may include a call-back period during which the TCU remains available to receive an emergency call back from a telematics service center. |
| US11611647B2 |
Hot-water supply system and program
A hot-water supply system (1) remotely controls, via a server (50) and using a portable terminal device (30), a hot-water supply device (10) connectable to an external communication network (40). The hot-water supply system (1) is provided with a control unit which performs a notification process for notifying at least another, already-associated portable terminal device (30) that the portable terminal device (30) for performing remote control has been newly associated with the hot-water supply device (10). For example, a control unit of the server (50) performs the notification process as the control unit. |
| US11611645B2 |
Rotary phone recording device
A recording device comprising a base having an upper surface and a lower surface, a top cover, a plurality of feet coupled to the lower surface of the base, a terminal network coupled to the upper surface of the base, a hook switch coupled to the upper surface of the base and electrically coupled to the terminal network, an XLR connector coupled to the internal surface of the top cover and electrically coupled to the terminal network, a ground lug coupled to the upper surface of the base and electrically coupled to the XLR connector, a rotary dial coupled to the base, and a handset removably supported by the top cover and electrically coupled to the terminal network by a telephone wire. A method of using the same to record a message. |
| US11611643B2 |
Electronic device for performing operation on basis of types of identified covers, and operating method therefor
Various embodiments of the present invention relate to an electronic device having covers which may be coupled and an operating method thereof, the electronic device may include a housing; a first cover coupled with at least part of the housing, and comprising at least one first identification terminal; a second cover coupled with at least part of the first cover, and comprising at least one second identification terminal which is electrically connectable with the first identification terminal; and a processor. The processor may be configured to obtain at least one of first information related to the first cover or second information related to the second cover, identify at least one of a type of the first cover or a type of the second cover based on at least one of the first information or the second information, and perform a designated operation based on at least one of the type of the first cover or the type of the second cover. Other various embodiments are possible. |
| US11611640B2 |
Methods and systems for detection and classification of multimedia content in secured transactions using pattern matching
An apparatus is provided for classifying content in one or more transactions. The apparatus includes a transaction boundary detector to detect boundaries of the one or more transactions associated with a first server or a first destination, wherein the one or more transactions include one or more requests from a client or a source and one or more corresponding responses from the first server or the first destination. A multimedia session generator generates a multimedia session object based on the detected boundaries of the one or more transactions. A multimedia classifier classifies the content associated with a first multimedia session. A traffic processing and policy enforcement unit applies traffic management to the first multimedia session based upon the classification. |
| US11611637B2 |
Scheduling services on a platform including configurable resources
Technology related to scheduling services on a platform including configurable computing resources is disclosed. In one example, a method includes scheduling a service to execute on a first computing node based on an availability of general-purpose computing resources at the first computing node. The first computing node can be selected from a plurality of computing nodes. Network traffic transiting the first computing node can be analyzed during the execution of the service to determine a hardware accelerator of a second computing node is capable of assisting the execution of the service. The service can be scheduled to execute on the second computing node and the hardware accelerator of the second computing node can be used to assist with the execution of the service. |
| US11611634B2 |
Method and device for timeout monitoring
Disclosed are a method and device for timeout monitoring, comprising: determining key information of a request message, the key information including a sending time of the request message; storing the key information to a first level cache; scanning the first level cache according to a set frequency, if the first level cache includes a first request message, storing the key information of the first request message into a second level cache, the first request message being a request message for which a reply message is not received; scanning the second level cache, and determining by a message log whether a reply message is received for a second request message in the second level cache, if not, the second request message times out, the second request message is a request message in which the difference value between a sending time and a current time is greater than a time-out threshold. |
| US11611633B2 |
Systems and methods for platform-independent application publishing to a front-end interface
Provided are computer-implemented methods and systems for publishing an application to a web container. An example method for publishing an application to a web container may include establishing a channel of communication with a user device associated with an end user. The method may further include embedding a web container into a web portal associated with a plurality of applications. The method may include executing an application in a user session associated with the end user. The method may further include capturing images of a virtual screen associated with the application executed on the application server. After the capture, the method may continue with sending the images to the web container of the web portal running in a web browser of the user device. The web container may publish the images to the web browser to display the application as part of the web portal in the web browser. |
| US11611631B2 |
Secure remotely controlled system, device, and method
A system, device, and method for implementing secure control over audio-visual (AV) equipment connected to an AV gateway is disclosed. The solution includes utilizing a user device to remotely control the AV gateway by connecting both the user device and the AV gateway to an Internet of Things (IoT) network, and facilitating communication between the user device and the AV gateway via messages using an MQTT broker or IoT cloud services. |
| US11611629B2 |
Inline frame monitoring
An example inline frame monitor is disclosed. The inline frame monitor injects monitoring logic into a document object model to monitor an activity within a dynamically loaded inline frame of a web page. Data regarding the activity within the dynamically loaded inline frame is received. A policy is applied to validate or invalidate the activity within the dynamically loaded inline frame. |
| US11611628B2 |
Persistent edge state of end user devices at network nodes
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and software for caching tracking elements of network content are provided herein. In one example, a method of operating a cache node of a content delivery network that caches content for delivery to end user devices is provided. The method includes receiving content requests from an end user device for content cached by the cache node and responsively providing the content for delivery to the end user device, processing the content requests to determine a edge state that corresponds to the end user device, transferring information related to the edge state for delivery to at least one other cache node of the content delivery network for handling of content requests received at the at least one other cache node. |
| US11611626B1 |
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for distributing network function (NF) high availability (HA) topology information in a core network
A method for distributing network function (NF) high availability (HA) topology information in a core network includes, at an NF repository function (NRF) including at least one processor, receiving, from a plurality of producer NFs in an NF set, NFRegister requests including NF HA topology information for the producer NFs. The method further includes registering the producer NFs and storing the NF HA topology information for the producer NFs. The method further includes receiving, from a consumer NF or service communication proxy (SCP), an NFDiscover request containing at least one service discovery parameter that corresponds to a service provided by the producer NFs. The method further includes responding to the NFDiscover request by generating an NFDiscover response, including, in the NFDiscover response, the NF HA topology information for the producer NFs, and transmitting the NFDiscover response to the consumer NF or SCP. |
| US11611621B2 |
Event detection system
Example embodiments described herein therefore relate to an event detection system that comprises a plurality of sensor devices, to perform operations that include: generating sensor data at the plurality of sensor devices; accessing the sensor data generated by the plurality of sensor devices; detecting an event, or precursor to an event, based on the sensor data, wherein the detected event corresponds to an event category; accessing an object model associated with the event type in response to detecting the event, wherein the object model defines a procedure to be applied by the event detection system to the sensor data; and streaming at least a portion of a plurality of data streams generated by the plurality of sensor devices to a server system based on the procedure, wherein the server system may perform further analysis or visualization based on the portion of the plurality of data streams. |
| US11611618B2 |
Orchestrating allocation of shared resources in a datacenter
A cluster configuration request to form a hyperconverged computing infrastructure (HCI) cluster in a cloud computing environment is processed. Based on the cluster configuration request and any other cluster specifications, a plurality of bare metal computing nodes of the cloud computing environment are configured to operate as an HCI cluster. First, a tenant-specific secure network overlay is formed on a first set of tenant-specific networking hardware resources. Then, the tenant-specific secure network overlay is used by an orchestrator to provision a second set of tenant-specific networking hardware resources. The second set of tenant-specific networking hardware resources are configured to interconnect node-local storage devices into a shared storage pool having a contiguous address space. Top-of-rack switches are configured to form a network overlay on the first set of tenant-specific networking hardware resources. Then, top-of-rack switches are configured to form a layer-2 subnet on the second set of tenant-specific networking hardware resources. |
| US11611613B2 |
Policy-based forwarding to a load balancer of a load balancing cluster
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for forwarding data messages between a client and a server (e.g., between client and server machines and/or applications). In some embodiments, the method receives a data message that a load balancer has directed from a particular client to a particular server after selecting the particular server from a set of several candidate servers for the received data message's flow. The method stores an association between an identifier associated with the load balancer and a flow identifier associated with the message flow, and then forwards the received data message to the particular server. The method subsequently uses the load balancer identifier in the stored association to forward to the particular load balancer a data message that is sent by the particular server. The method of some embodiments is implemented by an intervening forwarding element (e.g., a router) between the load balancer set and the server set. |
| US11611612B2 |
Link quality measurements and link status detection
A network device may include a processor. The processor is configured to: receive a network address of a load balancer device from a management device; send a test request to the load balancer device based on the received network address; obtain a network address of a data collector device from the load balancer device; and perform a test with the data collector device. The data collector device is configured to: obtain a result of the test; and send the result to a data lake. |
| US11611611B2 |
System and method for event driven publish-subscribe communications
A system and method for delivering an event from an event publisher to an event subscriber via an event broker are disclosed. The event broker performs several functions such as receiving an event published by an event publisher of a first domain, assigning a priority based on a second domain to a plurality of subscribers of the second domain, processing the event based on a rule and the priority, and further delivering the event published by the event publisher of the first domain to the plurality of event subscribers of the second domain in accordance with the priority. |
| US11611607B2 |
System providing faster and more efficient data communication
A system designed for increasing network communication speed for users, while lowering network congestion for content owners and ISPs. The system employs network elements including an acceleration server, clients, agents, and peers, where communication requests generated by applications are intercepted by the client on the same machine. The IP address of the server in the communication request is transmitted to the acceleration server, which provides a list of agents to use for this IP address. The communication request is sent to the agents. One or more of the agents respond with a list of peers that have previously seen some or all of the content which is the response to this request (after checking whether this data is still valid). The client then downloads the data from these peers in parts and in parallel, thereby speeding up the Web transfer, releasing congestion from the Web by fetching the information from multiple sources, and relieving traffic from Web servers by offloading the data transfers from them to nearby peers. |
| US11611604B2 |
Method and apparatus for receiving streaming via transport protocol in wireless communication system
The present specification may provide a method for a sink device receiving a streaming from a source device in a wireless communication system. In this regard, the method for receiving streaming may comprise the steps of: receiving from the source device streaming over a first transport protocol; transmitting to the source device a first message including information regarding a transport protocol of the sink device when the first transport protocol connection is disconnected; receiving from the source device a second message including information regarding a transport protocol of the source device; and receiving from the source device the streaming over one of the first transport protocol and a second transport protocol. |
| US11611602B2 |
Method and system for group call using unicast and multicast
A method and a system for performing a group call using unicast and multicast are provided. A group call method performed by a first client device, may include: establishing a media session with a server providing a group call service based on a group call request from the first client device; transmitting, to the server through the media session, at least one first packet including a first source identifier of the first client device; providing a user interface at the first client device, that enables selecting at least one second client device from a plurality of second client devices that participate in a group call initiated by the first client device; and transmitting, from the first client device to the server, at least one second packet including a second source identifier of the selected at least one second client device as a destination of data included in the at least one second packet. |
| US11611600B1 |
Streaming data processing for hybrid online meetings
Techniques of streaming data processing for hybrid online meetings are disclosed herein. In one example, a method includes receiving, at the remote server, a video stream captured by a camera in the conference room. The video stream captures images of multiple local participants of an online meeting. The method also includes determining identities of the captured images of the multiple local participants in the received video stream using meeting information of the online meeting and generating a set of individual video streams each corresponding to one of the multiple local participants. The set of individual video streams can then be transmitted to the second computing device corresponding to a remote participant of the online meeting as if the multiple local participants are virtually joining the online meeting. |
| US11611599B2 |
System and method for grouping participant devices in a communication environment
Systems and methods for computing a distribution pattern of information whereby, as the rating of thought objects in a roundtable exchange proceeds, thought objects that are more highly rated and are therefore more likely to be chosen as subjects for discussion in groups, are more widely distributed to participant devices for rating, and for computing a pattern of assignment whereby each participant device is assigned to a group discussing a subject which that participant device rated highly, within constraints specified by the facilitator. |
| US11611598B2 |
Outbound call routing in an integrated voice and video platform
Voice and video features of a software platform are integrated to enable customization of software services of the software platform on a customer-basis. Routing rules are defined to route calls to certain phone numbers from certain software services. Thereafter, when an outbound call is initiated by a software service, the call is received via a telephony system associated with the software platform, a routing rule customized for the software platform is identified based on information signaled with the call, such as an identifier associated with the software service. A phone number is determined based on the routing rule, and the outbound call reporting the determined phone number is delivered to a destination phone number. |
| US11611586B2 |
Systems and methods for detecting a suspicious process in an operating system environment using a file honeypots
A system and method is provided for detecting a suspicious process in an operating system environment. In an exemplary aspect, a method comprises generating, by a hardware processor, a file honeypot in a directory in a file system and receiving a directory enumeration request from a process executing in the operating system environment. The method comprises determining whether the process is identified in a list of trusted processes and in response to determining that the process is not in the list of trusted processes, providing, to the process by the file system, a file list including the file honeypot responsive to the directory enumeration request. The method further comprises intercepting, by a file system filter driver, a file modification request for the file honeypot from the process, and identifying the process as a suspicious object responsive to intercepting the file modification request from the process. |
| US11611578B2 |
System and method for assessing cybersecurity risk of computer network
Systems and methods for assessing cybersecurity risk of a computer network include the use of a risk model application that is configured to determine an initial cyber risk score value based upon an underwriting process. A cyber risk data stream is sent from the client's computer network to the system processor to periodically calculate an updated cyber risk score based upon actual data. The system processor is adapted to use the data stream to generate client information that is accessible by the client via a web-based client portal. In embodiments, the cyber risk data stream can be actively monitored to identify a threat of a cybersecurity breach. |
| US11611565B2 |
Systems and methods for providing an interactive media presentation
A system for providing an interactive presentation to an audience device is provided. The system interfaces with a database storing presentation content and a workspace. The workspace stores the presentation content and additional content and storing one or more access policies and being associated with a first user. The system comprises a processor for executing one or more modules comprising a content creation and updating module configured to enable an updating of the presentation content and the additional content according to the one or more access policies; and a content access interface module configured to determine one or more portions of the presentation content and the additional content for accessing at the audience device according to the one or more access policies. A method for providing an interactive media presentation is also provided. |
| US11611564B2 |
Methods and systems of dual-layer computer-system security
In one aspect, a computerized method for implementing dual-layer computer-system security in a private enterprise computer network includes the step of generating a user profile, wherein the user has access to the private enterprise computer network, wherein the user profile comprises an information comprises a specified user usage of the private enterprise computer network. The computerized method includes the step of setting a specified trigger value with respect to the specified user usage of the private enterprise computer network. The computerized method includes the step of detecting that the user usage exceeds the trigger value. The computerized method includes the step of modifying an access privilege of the user to the private enterprise computer network. |
| US11611563B2 |
System and method for secure shell API connector
Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for implementing an SSH connector are disclosed. A processor deploys a first API to get an active directory groups with a first user list data from a repository. The processor deploys a second API that calls an active directory to get a second user list data that lists users who are in given active directory groups that are authenticated and authorized. The processor also compares the first user list data to the second user list data; deploys a third API that returns active directory groups with users who are listed in the first user list data in the repository but not in the second user list data in the active directory groups; and deploys a fourth API that calls the repository to remove the users from groups in the repository who are not in the second user list data in the active directory groups. |
| US11611562B2 |
Network asset vulnerability detection
There is a need for more effective and efficient network security coordination. This need can be addressed by, for example, techniques for network asset vulnerability detection. In one example, a method includes detecting network assets within a monitored computer network; and for each network asset: determining a vulnerability profile, determining a connectivity profile, determining a vulnerability designation based on the vulnerability profile for the network asset and a network vulnerability documentation repository, determining whether the vulnerability designation for the network asset indicates a positive vulnerability designation, and in response to determining that the vulnerability designation indicates the positive vulnerability designation, decoupling the network asset from the monitored computer network using the connectivity profile for the network asset. |
| US11611561B2 |
Supervised online identity
Technologies to facilitate supervision of an online identify include a gateway server to facilitate and monitor access to an online service by a user of a “child” client computer device. The gateway server may include an identity manager to receive a request for access to the online service from the client computing device, retrieve access information to the online service, and facilitate access to the online service for the client computing device using the access information. The access information is kept confidential from the user. The gateway server may also include an activity monitor module to control activity between the client computing device and the online service based on the set of policy rules of a policy database. The gateway server may transmit notifications of such activity to a “parental” client computing device for review and/or approval, which also may be used to update the policy database. |
| US11611559B2 |
Identification of permutations of permission groups having lowest scores
According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor that may identify activities of an entity on resources over a predetermined period of time, in which the entity is to use permissions assigned to the entity over the resources to perform the identified activities. The processor may also identify which of a plurality of groups of permissions includes the permissions the entity used to perform the identified activities and may determine permutations of the identified plurality of groups of permissions. The processor may further calculate respective scores for each of the determined permutations to identify permutations of the groups of permissions having the lowest scores and may output information pertaining to the determined permutations having the lowest scores. |
| US11611555B1 |
Systems and methods for electronic enrollment and authentication
Current embodiments relate to proofing and authenticating digital access and/or control requests. By communicating with various service providers, automatic proofing and/or enrollment for authentication of digital access and/or control services may be provided. A confidence level may be calculated and data validation performed to ensure accuracy of the data received via the various service providers (e.g., to ensure that two data sets received from two respective service providers of the various service providers pertain to a user). |
| US11611548B2 |
Bulk multifactor authentication enrollment
Embodiments perform bulk multifactor authentication (MFA) enrollment in an identity cloud management system. An entity can be created in the identity cloud management system, where the entity is issued a credential that includes a permissions scope for communicating with the identity cloud management system. A bulk set of user identities and MFA enrollment information including MFA security factors for the user identities and a status for the user identities can be received in association with the credential, where the MFA security factors include a mix of communication addresses and shared secrets. A subset of the user identities that include a status that indicates MFA enrollment can be enrolled, where the enrolling includes creating an MFA footprint for the subset of user identities within an MFA database, and each created MFA footprint includes a received MFA security factor. Access to cloud-based services or applications can be secured using the created MFA footprints, where the secured access includes secure API calls to the identity cloud management system. |
| US11611547B2 |
User to user content authentication
Devices, systems and methods for authenticating a user to access electronic content include use of a processor configured to identify a technical condition for the content, access distributor logic providing a first release of the technical condition, receive a request from a subscriber to transfer the first release to an identified user, determine whether to approve or deny the request, and when approved, provide a device associated with the identified user with an authentication that permits the identified user to activate the first release and access the electronic content, and a database that stores the technical condition. |
| US11611546B2 |
Method for controlling connection with client or server
When a client certificate is required to connect to a client according to a predetermined communication protocol, a server receives a connection request that is a message associated with specific information from the client in a handshake for connection with the client. The server makes a client judgement as to whether or not a cache hit occurs, which is to find a summary client certificate in a cache area using the specific information associated with the connection request. When the result of the client judgement is true, the server returns to the client a connection response including hit information indicating that a cache hit occurs. |
| US11611545B2 |
RDP proxy support in presence of RDP server farm with session directory or broker
Described embodiments provide systems and methods for connecting to a server of a plurality of servers. The system may include a device intermediary between a client and a plurality of servers. The device may receive a remote desktop protocol (RDP) request from the client to connect to one of the plurality of servers. The RDP request may include a token. The device may cause a load-balancer of the plurality of servers to modify or remove the token of the RDP request, responsive to presence of a session directory/broker. The device may receive a server redirect packet that indicates a target server identified from the plurality of servers by the session directory, to which the client is to connect. The device may cause the server redirect packet to be modified to cause the client to send a redirected connection request packet for connecting with the target server. |
| US11611544B2 |
Delayed user authentication
Techniques are disclosed relating to a delayed presentation of authentication challenge for users, such as in the context of a chat session. In various embodiments, a server system receives an indication of a request for service initiated by a user in a chat session within an application executed by a client device. The request for service involves an authentication of the user that is dependent on the authentication being successfully completed within a particular time period after the authentication is initiated. The server system delays the initiation of authentication for the request for service until a readiness condition is satisfied. The readiness condition includes the server system being available to process the request for service, as well as subsequently detecting engagement with the user relating to the request for service. In response to the readiness condition being satisfied, the server system initiates the authentication of the user. |
| US11611543B1 |
Wireless peer to peer mobile wallet connections
Disclosed in some examples are devices, systems, and machine readable mediums for establishing peer to peer mobile wallet communications (P2PMW) over short range wireless communication networks. These P2PMW communications allow exchange of information between two wallet clients. Example communications include payments, providing identification, providing loans, and the like. The use of P2PMW communications opens up the prospect of anyone accepting payment from anybody else at any time. All that is needed is a computing device with a mobile wallet. Example short range wireless communications include Wireless LANs (WLAN) such as WIFI (e.g., communicating according to an Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 family of standards), BLUETOOTH® or the like. |
| US11611542B2 |
Secure media streaming communication via user datagram protocol
Automated processes, computing systems, computing devices and other aspects of a data processing system provide improved reliability in delivering digital media content over the Internet or a similar wide area network without sacrificing data security. Content is initially placed into a secure format (e.g., secure hypertext transport protocol (HTTPS) via transport control protocol (TCP) or the like). Prior to transmission on the network, the secure data packets are encapsulated within connectionless frames, such as user datagram protocol (UDP) frames. The client device that receives the encapsulated packets extracts the underlying secure content from the connectionless frames for further processing. The encapsulation into connectionless data frames permits client and server devices to establish effective streaming sessions while preserving the security of the underlying data. |
| US11611539B2 |
Method, computer program product and apparatus for encrypting and decrypting data using multiple authority keys
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for encrypting and decrypting data using multiple authority keys including receiving, from a first computing device, a data decrypt request to decrypt encrypted data, the data decrypt request comprising a user key, determining that the user key is associated with a key hierarchy that comprises a server key, decrypting the server key using the user key, decrypting the encrypted data using the decrypted server key and permitting access to the decrypted data by the first computing device. |
| US11611537B1 |
Autonomous agent messaging
Apparatus and methods are disclosed for generating, sending, and receiving messages in a networked environment using autonomous (or semi-autonomous) agents. In one example of the disclosed technology, a method of collecting data from an agent executing on a host computer connected to one or more agent data consumers via a network connection includes collecting host data, the collecting occurring whether or not the agent can currently send data via the network connection. When the agent cannot send data via the network connection, the agent spools at least a portion of the collected host data in a spooler. When the agent can send data via the computer network, the agent sends at least a portion of the spooled host data to at least one of the agent data consumers. |
| US11611536B2 |
Enhanced privacy-preserving access to a VPN service
Systems and methods for effectively managing security and privacy measures during a user's connectivity session with a VPN service are provided. The systems and methods use a computer program that introduces a double-NAT feature at the network layer and a temporary hash table containing the minimally necessary temporary data to link two NAT sessions together in a secure manner. The systems and methods avoid including the dynamic management of IP addresses or requiring each client to have an IP address assigned beforehand to avoid compromising the user's identity by hard linking the session traces with the client. |
| US11611533B1 |
Customized filtering of transmissions from a device
A method including receiving, from a user device, a transmission packet for communication to a destination device; determining, based on an IP address of the destination device, whether the user device is permitted to transmit to the IP address; determining, based on determining that the user device is permitted to transmit to the IP address, whether the user device is permitted to transmit to a port associated with the IP address; determining, based on determining that the user device is permitted to transmit to the port, whether the user device is permitted to utilize a protocol utilized by the user device to transmit the transmission packet; and determining, based on determining that the user device is permitted to utilize the protocol, whether the user device is permitted to utilize a web application utilized by the user device to transmit the transmission packet is disclosed. Various other aspects are contemplated. |
| US11611532B1 |
Systems and methods for network security model
A security apparatus for a local network is in communication with an external electronic communication system and a first electronic device. The apparatus includes a memory device configured to store computer-executable instructions, and a processor in operable communication with the memory device. The processor is configured to implement the stored computer-executable instructions to cause the apparatus to determine a complexity score for the first electronic device, establish a behavioral pattern for the first electronic device operating within the local network, calculate a confidence metric for the first electronic device based on the determined complexity score and the established behavioral pattern, and control access of the first electronic device to the external electronic network according to the calculated confidence metric. |
| US11611528B2 |
Device estimation device, device estimation method, and device estimation program
A device estimating apparatus acquires one or more DNS queries transmitted from each device connected to a network and generates comparison source data in which each content of the acquired DNS queries is associated with one or more pieces of attribute information of each of the one or more devices that have transmitted the DNS queries having the content. Thereafter, when one or more DNS queries are acquired from an estimation target device, the device estimating apparatus reads, for each DNS query, attribute information of one or more devices associated with a content of the DNS query from the comparison source data and estimates an attribute of the estimation target device using the read attribute information. |
| US11611526B2 |
Managing data on computer and telecommunications networks
Protecting personal information by generating entity-specific aliases for use in communication with third parties is disclosed. |
| US11611525B2 |
Ranking content for display
Disclosed are methods and systems for ranking content. In one aspect, a method of ranking content for display includes identifying, via hardware processing circuitry, interactions by a single account with content pairs, each of the content in the content pairs included in a plurality of content, aggregating, via the hardware processing circuitry, the identified interactions across a plurality of accounts, associating, via the hardware processing circuitry, probabilities with each content in the plurality of content based on the aggregated interactions, ranking, via the hardware processing circuitry, the plurality of content based on the associated probabilities; and selecting, via the hardware processing circuitry, content ranked above a threshold for display. |
| US11611524B2 |
Intelligent sorting of time series data for improved contextual messaging
Systems for intelligent sorting of time series data for improved contextual messaging are included herein. An intelligent sorting server may receive time series data comprising a plurality of chat messages. The intelligent sorting server may determine a first order of the plurality of chat messages based on a chronologic order. The intelligent sorting server may use one or more machine learning classifiers to identify candidates for reordering the chat messages. The intelligent sorting server may generate a second order of the chat messages based on the identified candidates for reordering. Accordingly, the intelligent sorting server may present, to a client device, a transcript of the chat messages associated with the second order and an indication that at least one chat message has been repositioned. |
| US11611522B2 |
Prohibited content propagation using a social network data structure
A method for prohibiting email content propagation that receives, at a server, an email message. At the server, at least one email address associated with the email message which is designated not to receive a content of the email message is identified. At the server, the email message is modified by selectively removing a content of the email message to be conveyed to the at least one email address. The server conveys the modified email message to the at least one email address. The server conveys the email message to one or more recipient email addresses except the at least one email address. Consequently, the server has sent a submitted message to multiple email addresses, while modifying the content sent to a subset of the addresses that received the email message. |
| US11611521B2 |
Contextual interstitials
An interstitial message server system selects a like interstitial message that corresponds to a like user event generated by a user, a skip interstitial message corresponding to a skip user event generated by the user and a playthrough interstitial message corresponding to a play through user event. The like, skip and playthrough interstitial messages can be selected based upon an identifier of a media object that can be presented to the user. At least one each of the like, skip and playthrough interstitial messages can be sent to a user computer before or during the presentation of a media object. While or after the media object is presented to the user at the user computer, the user computer can be caused to detect a like, skip or playthrough user event with respect to the media object. The user computer can be caused to present the like, skip or playthrough interstitial message that was received by the computer and that corresponds to the detected like, skip or playthrough user event with minimal delay from the time the user event is detected. |
| US11611520B1 |
Methods, systems, and computer program products for processing a data object identification request in a communication
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are provided that are configured to: display, at a first node, at least one first interface with a first user interface element and a second user interface element; display, at the first node, at least one second interface; generate a first message; display, at the second node, at least one third interface; generate a second message that does not include a file attachment with the second message; display, at the first node, at least one fourth interface with a reference to at least one file; and allow access, at the first node, to the at least one file. |
| US11611517B2 |
Tenant-driven dynamic resource allocation for virtual network functions
Techniques for tenant-driven dynamic resource allocation in network functions virtualization infrastructure (NFVI). In one example, an orchestration system is operated by a data center provider for a data center and that orchestration system comprises processing circuitry coupled to a memory; logic stored in the memory and configured for execution by the processing circuitry, wherein the logic is operative to: compute an aggregate bandwidth for a plurality of flows associated with a tenant of the data center provider and processed by a virtual network function, assigned to the tenant, executing on a server of the data center; and modify, based on the aggregate bandwidth, an allocation of compute resources of the server executing the virtual network function. |
| US11611505B2 |
Communicating packets across multi-domain networks using compact forwarding instructions
Techniques and mechanisms for compressing the size of SIDs to be smaller than a complete IPv6 address (or “micro SIDs”), and scaling micro SIDs across a multi-domain environment using micro SID-domain-blocks. Segment routing over IPv6 (SRv6) uses 128-bit IPv6 addresses as SIDs for segment routing. According to this disclosure, multiple SRv6 SIDs may be expressed in a compact format such that a 128-bit IPv6 address, such as the destination address field of the IPv6 header, may store multiple micro SIDs. Further, SID-domain-blocks may be assigned to each domain in a multi-domain network such that micro SIDs may be expressed in the context of a given domain, rather than being shared in the global multi-domain network. In this way, lists of domain-specific SIDs may be fully expressed in the IPv6 destination address of the packet to scale micro SID into large, multi-domain networks. |
| US11611501B2 |
Apparatus, method, and computer program
An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code; the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: receive (1400) a request to create context for a migrating node and optionally at least one child node of the migrating node; allocate (1402) addresses to the migrating node and optionally the at least one child node of the migrating node; and send (1404) the addresses allocated to the migrating node and optionally the at least one child node of the migrating node, prior to the migrating node migrating from a source to a target. |
| US11611495B2 |
Enabling a performance measurement in a packet-switched communication network
A method for enabling a performance measurement on packet flow transmitted through a communication network. A marking value is periodically switched in the packets with a marking period Tm. The packet flow is then divided into blocks of duration Ts (synchronization period). Each synchronization period comprises an integer number of marking periods. Two or more measurement points on the path of the packet flow may provide a performance parameter for each marking period and associate thereto a synchronization information generated based on their local clocks and relating to the synchronization period containing the marking period to which the performance parameter relates; and a sequence information indicating the marking period's position within the synchronization period. A management server may identify performance parameters provided by different measurement points and relating to a same marking period based on the synchronization information and the sequence information. |
| US11611494B2 |
Systems and methods for tracking and exporting flows in software with augmented processing in hardware
Systems and methods are provided herein for using a network device's software (e.g., programs executed on a CPU) to maintain and export flow data while offloading network resource intensive tasks to the network device's hardware. This may be accomplished by a network device determining whether a new flow should be tracked using only the software table (e.g., table stored only on the CPU) of the network device or whether certain flow tracking tasks (e.g., counting/parsing) can be offloaded to a hardware table (e.g., counter table in a hardware flow cache) of the network device. The network device may use one or more conditions to determine whether the new flow should be tracked using the software table or by both the software and the hardware table. The conditions can relate to the characteristics of the new flow, resource information, prioritization of the new flow, etc. |
| US11611493B2 |
Displaying interactive topology maps of cloud computing resources
Techniques and mechanisms are disclosed that enable collection of various types of data from cloud computing services and the generation of various dashboards and visualizations to view information about collections of cloud computing resources. A user can configure collection of data from one or more cloud computing services and view visualizations using an application platform referred to herein as a cloud computing management application. A cloud computing management application further may be configured to generate and cause display of interactive topology map representations of cloud computing resources based on the collected data, where an interactive topology map enables users to view an intuitive visualization of a collection of computing resources, efficiently cause performance of actions with respect to various resources displayed in the topology map, and analyze the collection of resources in ways that are not possible using conventional cloud computing service management consoles. |
| US11611488B2 |
AI machine learning technology based fault management system for network equpment that supports SDN open flow protocol
A machine learning technology-based fault management system for network equipment that supports SDN OpenFlow protocol that includes an L2 switch or a router, which is network equipment connected to a client; and an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based Software Defined Network (SDN) controller requested for management commands for each scenario when the L2 switch or the router, which is network equipment connected to the client, encounters a network fault so that a Simple Network Management System (SNMP) agent installed in the L2 switch and the router determines the type of fault occurred on a network and AI is employed to recover from a current fault through learning results from past data. An effect is achieved that not only service quality is improved through real-time fault management using an AI-based automatic response against a network fault but also a fault is precisely overcome by using the AI-based automatic response. |
| US11611486B2 |
Method and system for deployment and management of composite applications
A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a deployment and management of composite application service is provided. The service may allow a third party to develop and on-board logic that manages an application service hosted in an application layer network of a network provider. The logic may include optimization of the application service and remedial procedures that address events associated with degradation and/or performance of the application service. The service may configure resources of a host device to host the logic and expose services provided by the network provider in support of the management of the application service. |
| US11611484B2 |
System and method for use of virtual or augmented reality with data center operations or cloud infrastructure
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for use of virtual reality and/or augmented reality with data center operations and cloud infrastructure services. The approach leverages virtual reality and/or augmented reality, and insights from various sources of data describing the operation of the data center, including data center analytics, for facilitating in-situ diagnostics, operations, monitoring, maintenance, repair, health prognostics, and remote collaboration, toward enhancing the efficiency of managing and running data centers. In accordance with an embodiment, the system can operate with VR/AR devices that can be provided as VR/AR headsets or other devices, that include sensors that measure a data center operator's position, orientation, and movement within a cloud infrastructure or data center environment, and can display a visualization associated with the physical devices of the data center environment, including where appropriate information from other sources useful in performing data center operations. |
| US11611480B2 |
Systems and methods for automated governance, risk, and compliance
Systems and methods for configuration vulnerability checking and remediation are provided. The systems provided herein identify risk based upon service indications of a particular configuration, such that automated risk analysis may be facilitated. |
| US11611479B2 |
Migration of existing computing systems to cloud computing sites or virtual machines
Software, firmware, and systems are described herein that migrate functionality of a source physical computing device to a destination virtual machine. A non-production copy of data associated with a source physical computing device is created. A configuration of the source physical computing device is determined. A configuration for a destination virtual machine is determined based at least in part on the configuration of the source physical computing device. The destination virtual machine is provided access to data and metadata associated with the source physical computing device using the non-production copy of data associated with the source physical computing device. |
| US11611478B2 |
Distributed configuration management in application control networks
The invention relates to a device, system and method for controlling application components in an application control network (300) comprising at least a first network component (110, 180, 301) connected to a first data port of a first data forwarding device (102, 110, 180) of the application control network. A configuration profile for the at least one network component (110, 180, 301) is determined in accordance with an application plan comprising timing and interaction information of the application components within the application control network. The configuration profile is transmitted to a network component (102, 110, 180) communicatively close to the at least first network component, in particular the data forwarding device the first network component is attached to, for storage and for subsequent transmission to the first network component (110, 180, 301) after the first network component (110, 180, 301, L1-L3) has been rebooted. |
| US11611476B2 |
Assignment of network configuration for a wired network using a wireless network
A technique is configured to utilize messages (e.g., frames) generated by a first layer of a protocol stack for a wireless network to configure network parameters associated with a second layer of the protocol stack for a wired network. The messages are illustratively beacon frames generated by a data link layer of a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) stack for a wireless network, and the network parameters are illustratively IP addresses associated with a network layer of the TCP/IP stack for a wired network. Notably, the beacon frames of the wireless network may be utilized for two-way communication exchange on a per node basis for each node in the wired network. |
| US11611475B2 |
Association of 3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Project) UPF (User Plane Function) and edge computing application server
Techniques discussed herein can facilitate EC (Edge Computing) in connection with 5GC (Fifth Generation Core Network) system architecture. Various embodiments can facilitate one or more of: (1) providing the location of one or more UPFs (User Plane Functions) associated with at least one AS (Application Server) to a non-3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Project) EC management system; (2) providing the location of at least one AS associated with one or more UPFs to a 3GPP management system; and/or (3) establishing a relation between one or more UPFs and at least one AS. |
| US11611474B2 |
Edge controller with network performance parameter support
A method includes receiving a plurality of configurations comprising a first configuration for provisioning a first set of network services at a first resource of an edge device and a second configuration for provisioning a second set of network services at the first resource, a first configuration group identifier identifying a configuration group for the first configuration, and a first network performance parameter for the configuration group. The method further includes determining a performance factor for the first resource providing the first set of network services to one or more client devices. The method further includes, in response to determining that the performance factor does not satisfy the first network performance parameter for the configuration group and that the first configuration group identifier identifies the configuration group for the first configuration, moving the first configuration from the first resource to a second resource of the edge device. |
| US11611469B2 |
Data driven systems and methods to isolate network faults
Methods, systems and computer readable media for isolating network faults are provided. A data driven automation services module is provided including a data connector, a data driven policy designer and a data driven self-service engine. The data connector collects data from the plurality of network data sources and integrates the data into shared communities for insight development. The data driven policy designer creates and stores templates and develops policies to implement service tasks to identify and isolate network problems. The data driven self-service engine integrates the network and its orchestration capabilities with big data technology to develop a plurality of microservices to perform service tasks. |
| US11611468B2 |
Beam management with DRX configuration
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A base station may transmit, to a wireless device, one or more radio resource control messages comprising parameters for a discontinuous reception operation and one or more beam procedures. The wireless device may monitor, based on one or more of the parameters, a downlink control channel for downlink control information (DCI). After detecting the DCI, the wireless device may receive one or more downlink packets. |
| US11611467B2 |
Enhanced management of network outages
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to network outage management. A method may include receiving a first indication of a first cable system outage. The method may include identifying a start time associated with the first cable system outage, and determining, based on the start time, a time period during which to refrain from generating a service ticket indicative of the first cable system outage. The method may include determining that the first cable system outage has not ended at an end time of the time period, and receiving a second indication of a second cable system outage. The method may include determining that the second cable system outage begins during the time period and has not ended at the end time. The method may include generating and sending a service ticket indicative of the first cable system outage and the second cable system outage. |
| US11611465B2 |
Service interruption reporting
There is provided mechanisms for service interruption reporting of a multicast bearer for group communications. A method is performed by a client node. The method comprises obtaining instruction from a control node of the multicast bearer, where the instruction instructs whether or not the client node is to report service interruption of the multicast bearer. The method comprises detecting service interruption of the multicast bearer. The method comprises selectively reporting the service interruption to the control node in accordance with the instruction. |
| US11611464B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving downlink channel
The present disclosure discloses a method for receiving a downlink signal by a UE in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method may include receiving a synchronization signal block (SSB) including a primary synchronization signal (PSS), a secondary synchronization signal (SSS), and a physical broadcasting channel (PBCH), and obtaining an indicator indicating a subcarrier spacing for the downlink channel from the PBCH, and receiving the downlink signal on the basis of the subcarrier spacing. The indicator may indicate a different subcarrier spacing according to a frequency band in which the UE operates. |
| US11611457B2 |
Device and method for reliable classification of wireless signals
A machine learning (ML) agent operates at a transmitter to optimize signals transmitted across a communications channel. A physical signal modifier modifies a physical layer signal prior to transmission as a function of a set of signal modification parameters to produce a modified physical layer signal. The ML agent parses a feedback signal from a receiver across the communications channel, and determines a present tuning status as a function of the signal modification parameters and the feedback signal. The ML agent generates subsequent signal modification parameters based on the present tuning status and a set of stored tuning statuses, thereby updating the physical signal modifier to generate a subsequent modified physical layer signal to be transmitted across the communications channel. |
| US11611456B2 |
Method and system for orthogonal pilot signaling
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a coherence block for each user equipment (UE) of a plurality of UEs being served by the first cell, resulting in a plurality of coherence blocks, responsive to the determining, identifying a smallest coherence block from the plurality of coherence blocks, identifying a pilot sequence length based on the smallest coherence block, determining a plurality of orthogonal pilot sequences based on the identifying the pilot sequence length, designating, from the plurality of orthogonal pilot sequences, a first group of orthogonal pilot sequences for use in the first cell, and distributing, to each neighboring cell of a plurality of neighboring cells adjacent to the first cell, a respective group of orthogonal pilot sequences from a remainder of the plurality of orthogonal pilot sequences, to prevent pilot contamination between the first cell and the plurality of neighboring cells. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US11611453B2 |
Network interface provisioning of containerized instances based on tenant policies
Network interface provisioning of containerized instances based on tenant policies. A network interface assignment process (NIAP) receives a first request to assign a network interface to a first containerized instance comprising at least one container. The NIAP determines that a first tenant of a plurality of different tenants is associated with the first containerized instance. The NIAP accesses a first network assignment tenant policy (NATP) that corresponds to the first tenant. Based on the first NATP, the NIAP assigns, to the first containerized instance, a first network interface via which the first containerized instance can communicate with other containerized instances associated with the first tenant. |
| US11611452B2 |
Gateway for data communication in a vehicle
A gateway for data communication in a vehicle includes: a first communication interface, configured to use a first communication protocol; and a second communication interface configured to use a second communication protocol. The gateway is configured to transmit data from the first to the second communication interface and to transmit data from the second communication interface to the first communication interface. The gateway further includes a media converter configured to convert quality of service information from the first to the second communication protocol and from the second to the first communication protocol. |
| US11611451B1 |
Movement path detection for anomalies and patterns from sensors in a home or other environment
A method for detecting a movement path in a monitored environment generates a first movement path record by collecting first node information for each of a first series of nodes including at least one of a sensor ID or a device ID, and a trigger time. The method further determines a first movement path total duration time from a difference between a time of the ending node and a time of the starting node of the first series of nodes. The method further stores the first movement path record and subsequently compares a second movement path record with the first movement path record by comparing the first node information with second node information for each of a second series of nodes of the second movement path record, and the first movement path total duration time with a second movement path total duration time. The method determines a similarity value between the second movement path record and the first movement path record based on the comparison and detects a movement path based on the determined similarity value. |
| US11611450B2 |
User scene and schedule creation based on time of the year
A controller and method for a premises system are provided. The controller includes processing circuitry configured to: receive a plurality of system setting groups for controlling a plurality of premises devices where each system setting group including at least one respective device setting for each of the plurality of premises devices, determine at least one setting characteristic, the at least one setting characteristic including a calendar date, and select one of the plurality of system settings groups for controlling the plurality of premises devices based on the determined at least one setting characteristic. The controller includes a transceiver configured to transmit a control signal to each of the plurality of premises devices to control the plurality of premises devices according to the selected one of the plurality of system setting groups. |
| US11611445B2 |
Changing smart contracts recorded in block chains
A technique, comprising: identifying, at a node forming part of a group of nodes operating a distributed ledger comprising a block chain, a decision to retrospectively change a first smart contract prescribing one or more changes in the ledger already recorded in one or more existing blocks of the blockchain; and, without changing any existing blocks of the blockchain, updating the ledger by adding to the current end of the blockchain a new block indicating a new state of the ledger determined by a re-execution of all operations, according to the first smart contract and one or more other smart contracts, recorded in one or more blocks of the blockchain after a block recording an operation of the first smart contract, while taking into account the change to the first smart contract. |
| US11611438B2 |
Computer network systems for cryptographically-secured, token-based operations and methods of use thereof
Systems and methods of the present disclosure enable reversible blockchain operations. An operation-reverse operation pair specifies an operation for exchange of a first token for a second token, and a reverse operation for return of the second token for the first token upon at least one condition being satisfied. A self-executing software container (SESC) executes the operation-reverse operation pair according to the condition by detecting a transfer of the first token into a first segregated data structure, and a transfer of the second token from a second token storage to a first token storage. The SESC initiates a transfer of the first token from the first segregated data structure to a second segregated data structure in response to the transfer of the second token. Upon detecting a reverse operation matching the condition, the SESC initiates a transfer of the first token back to the first segregated data structure. |
| US11611436B2 |
Management services API gateway
A technique provides cohesive and secure access to management services of a distributed storage architecture deployed on compute and storage nodes of a cluster. The management services are organized as a platform that encompasses a plurality of underlying individual services each having an applications programming interface (API) that are together securely accessible via an API gateway. The gateway is configured to support a “browsable” directory of the APIs that enables a client to identify various underlying services available within the cluster. In an embodiment, the underlying services “self-register” at the gateway to provide a single, unified location for the client to access the services. The API gateway includes a reverse-proxy server that is configured to provide a single point of entry for clients interacting with the individual services underlying the management services platform. User authorization and authentication security are implemented at the API gateway rather than on the underlying services. |
| US11611431B2 |
Network bound encryption for recovery of trusted execution environments
The technology disclosed herein provides network bound encryption that enables a trusted execution environment to persistently store and access recovery data without persistently storing the decryption key. An example method may include: establishing a trusted execution environment in a first computing device, the trusted execution environment comprising an encrypted memory area; loading cryptographic key data of a second computing device and executable code into the trusted execution environment; transmitting combined key data that is based on the cryptographic key data to a third computing device; deriving a cryptographic key from combined key data received from the third computing device, the received combined key data being based on the cryptographic key data of the second computing device and cryptographic key data of the third computing device; and causing the trusted execution environment to execute the executable code and use the cryptographic key to access sensitive data on a persistent storage device. |
| US11611418B2 |
Phase tracking reference signal processing method and apparatus
A PTRS processing method includes: receiving, by a terminal, first indication information and second indication information from a network device, where the first indication information is used to indicate a time-domain location at which a PTRS is to be sent by the terminal, and the second indication information is used to indicate an offset of an initial time-domain location to which the PTRS is mapped by the terminal; mapping, by the terminal, the PTRS to one or more DFT-s-OFDM symbols based on the first indication information and the second indication information; and sending, by the terminal, the one or more DFT-s-OFDM symbols. In this way, the PTRS mapped to the DFT-s-OFDM symbol is offset at a DFT-s-OFDM symbol level. |
| US11611416B2 |
Rate splitting using first layers and second layers
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a transmitter device may allocate data associated with a user equipment (UE), of two or more UEs, into at least one of a first part, a second part, or a combination thereof; multiplex the first part of the data associated with the UE with a first part of data associated with one or more other UEs, of the two or more UEs, to form multiplexed data; map the multiplexed data to a first set of layers; and map the second part of the data associated with the UE and a second part of the data associated with the one or more other UEs to a second set of layers. Numerous other aspects are provided. |
| US11611415B2 |
Transmission device and transmission method
A transmission device that improves data reception quality includes: a weighting synthesizer that generates a first precoded signal and a second precoded signal from a first baseband signal and a second baseband signal, respectively; a phase changer that applies a phase change of i×Δλ to the second precoded signal; an inserter that inserts a pilot signal into the second precoded signal applied with the phase change; and a phase changer that applies a phase change to the second precoded signal applied with the phase change and inserted with the pilot signal. Δλ satisfies π/2 radians<Δλ<π radians or π radians<Δλ<3π/2 radians. Each of the first baseband signal and the second baseband signal is modulated via a modulation scheme of quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) using non-uniform mapping. |
| US11611412B2 |
Base station and radio communication method
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a base station includes a transmitting section that transmits an uplink control channel (PUCCH: Physical Uplink Control Channel) repetition and configuration information for configuring a dynamic hybrid automatic repeat reQuest acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook to a user terminal, and a control section that controls scheduling of at least one of downlink control information and a downlink shared channel for the user terminal so that the user terminal uses one PUCCH format or a codebook that does not exceed a given codebook size in a given period to perform the PUCCH repetition. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, it is possible to appropriately transmit the UCI even when the PUCCH repetition is used. |
| US11611401B2 |
Information processing device and control method thereof
The present invention identifies the cause of an anomaly, if any, in a signal input via a cable. A master device (13) comprises an acquisition unit (1321) which acquires the signal quality of a signal input via a cable, and a cause determination unit (1323) which performs cause determination for determining, from variations in the signal quality, whether the cause of noise included in the signal is due to a mechanical factor or is due to electrical noise. |
| US11611398B2 |
Optical amplifier burst mode communication with variable duty cycle
An optical communication system includes an optical transmitter and one or more processors. The optical transmitter is configured to output an optical signal, and includes an average-power-limited optical amplifier, such as an erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA). The one or more processors are configured to receive optical signal data related to a received power for a communication link from a remote communication system and determine that the optical signal data is likely to fall below a minimum received power within a time interval. In response to the determination, the one or more processors are configured to determine a duty cycle of the optical transmitter based on a minimum on-cycle length and a predicted EDFA output power and operate the optical transmitter using the determined duty cycle to transmit an on-cycle power that is no less than the minimum required receiver power for error-free operation of the communication link. |
| US11611397B1 |
Optical modulating device and apparatus including the same
Provided is an optical modulating device including a substrate including first and second trenches, a phase modulator in a region of the substrate, the phase modulator including an undoped region provided between the first and the second trenches, and first and a second doped regions which are apart from each other with the undoped region therebetween, wherein the phase modulator is configured to modulate a phase of light traveling through the undoped region based on a first electrical signal applied to the phase modulator, an amplifier including a first doped layer, a quantum well layer, a clad layer, and a second doped layer sequentially on the substrate, the amplifier overlapping at least a portion of the phase modulator and being configured to amplify the light based on a second electrical signal applied to the amplifier, and an insulating layer between the phase modulator and the amplifier. |
| US11611396B2 |
Security shutter
An optical wireless communication device comprises: at least one of a transmitter and a receiver configured to transmit and/or receive light comprising an optical wireless communication signal representing data; at least one adjustable shutter element associated with the at least one of a transmitter and a receiver, wherein the at least one adjustable shutter element and the associated at least one of the transmitter and the receiver are adjustable between a first configuration and a second configuration such that in the first configuration the at least one adjustable shutter element is configured to at least partially block or partially redirect light having a first selected property and at least partially allow light having a second selected property to pass through unaffected such that transmission and/or reception of the optical wireless communication signal by the at least one of the transmitter and the receiver is substantially altered. |
| US11611395B2 |
Adaptive equalization device, adaptive equalization method, and communication device
First compensation circuitry includes a first digital filter compensating a phase difference between a phase of a symbol of a received signal and a sampling timing, and first filter coefficient calculation circuitry calculating a filter coefficient of the first digital filter as a first filter coefficient. Second filter coefficient calculation circuitry calculates, as a second filter coefficient, a filter coefficient for adaptive equalization that compensates distortion due to temporally changing polarization dispersion, based on an output of the first digital filter. Coefficient combination circuitry combines the first filter coefficient and the second filter coefficient. Second compensation circuitry includes a second digital filter which uses a filter coefficient combined by the coefficient combination circuitry and performs a compensation of the phase difference between the phase of the symbol of the received signal and the sampling timing, and a process of the adaptive equalization at the same time. |
| US11611394B1 |
Systems and methods for mapping optical connections in a fiber distribution hub of a passive optical network
Systems and methods for mapping optical connections in an FDH are disclosed. An example system includes an FDH and a computing device. The FDH includes a bulkhead having: a plurality of passive optical couplers each having a respective first port to receive a respective first optical fiber, a respective second port to receive a respective second optical fiber, and a respective passive optical activity indicator configured to expose first light propagating in the respective first optical fiber, and second light propagating in the respective second optical fiber; and an image sensor configured to capture one or more images of the plurality of passive optical activity indicators. The computing device configured to, based on the one or more images, determine which of the plurality of passive optical couplers are receiving a first optical signal at their respective first port and/or receiving a second optical signal at their respective second port. |
| US11611388B2 |
Energy harvesting relay communication method and system
The application discloses a method applied in a system. The method includes the following operations: determining a first statistics of a first signal and a second statistics of a second signal according to a power split ratio and a noise level of a relay node; relaying, by the relay node, the first signal according to the power split ratio, the first statistics and the second statistics to generate the second signal; and receiving, by a destination node, the second signal. |
| US11611386B2 |
Front end module for 6.1 GHz wi-fi acoustic wave resonator RF filter circuit
A front-end module (FEM) for a 6.1 GHz Wi-Fi acoustic wave resonator RF filter circuit. The device can include a power amplifier (PA), a 6.1 GHz resonator, and a diversity switch. The device can further include a low noise amplifier (LNA). The PA is electrically coupled to an input node and can be configured to a DC power detector or an RF power detector. The resonator can be configured between the PA and the diversity switch, or between the diversity switch and an antenna. The LNA may be configured to the diversity switch or be electrically isolated from the switch. Another 6.1 GHZ resonator may be configured between the diversity switch and the LNA. In a specific example, this device integrates a 6.1 GHz PA, a 6.1 GHZ bulk acoustic wave (BAW) RF filter, a single pole two throw (SP2T) switch, and a bypassable LNA into a single device. |
| US11611380B2 |
Method and apparatus for reporting channel state information in wireless communication system
The present disclosure relates to a method, performed by a user equipment (UE), for reporting channel state information (CSI) in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor. According to the present disclosure, the UE receives a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) from a base station through a multiple antenna port; and reports the CSI to the base station, wherein the CSI includes a precoding matrix indicator for a codebook generated by linear combination, wherein the codebook is generated based on a specific parameter set, and wherein the specific parameter set is differently set/applied based on at least one of a rank value or at least one layer index of a specific rank. |
| US11611379B2 |
Precoding techniques for wireless communications
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a base station may identify a null space matrix that lies within a null space of an effective channel matrix for communications between the base station and a user equipment (UE). An indication of the null space matrix may be provided to the UE, and the null space matrix used to determine modifications to a precoding matrix. The base station and UE may determine a redistribution matrix that provides a reduced variance of transmission powers for a number of transmission channels, where a product of the null space matrix and the redistribution matrix may be computed and added to the precoding matrix to generate a modified precoding matrix. The modified precoding matrix may be used to generate the communications from the base station and UE with reduced power variance across channels. |
| US11611378B2 |
Enhanced CSI feedback for FD-MIMO
Enhanced channel state information (CSI) feedback is disclosed for full dimensional multiple input, multiple output (FD-MIMO) operations. In one aspect, a single CSI process is defined that is configured with an azimuth and elevation CSI-reference signal (RS) ports. A user equipment (UE) will send a precoding matrix indictor (PMI) report including a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) for the azimuth ports and a PMI for the elevation ports. One of the PMIs is assigned a low rank. The base station will use the two PMIs to create a whole channel precoding matrix. In another aspect, a single CSI process is configured having a plurality of CSI-RS resources. The UE generates channel measurement information for each of the CSI-RS resources, but only sets a CSI report to the base station of a subset of the total number of resources. |
| US11611376B2 |
Measurement period for beam reporting
In NR, a gNB utilizes multiple antennas and beam forming techniques for downlink transmissions to UEs. Described herein are methods and apparatus by which a UE measures the quality of multiple directional beams received from a gNB. |
| US11611373B2 |
Electronic device and data-transmission system
The invention concerns an electronic device, which includes a memory for storing data, a processor for processing data, and an output device for showing machine-readable code containing the data for reading using a reader device. The electronic device includes a data-transmission interface for arranging a data-transmission link with one or more external devices, to which the electronic device is to be arranged to act as a user interface. The invention also relates to a data-transmission system including the electronic device and a server. |
| US11611369B2 |
Packet correlator for a radio transmission system
A data receiver is configured to receive a signal including a plurality of partial data packets, wherein the plurality of partial data packets each include part of a data packet, wherein the data receiver includes a multi-stage correlator that is configured to perform multi-stage correlation to detect the partial data packets in the received signal, wherein a second correlation stage of the multi-stage correlator operates based on correlation results of a first correlation stage of the multi-stage correlator. |
| US11611365B2 |
Millimeter wave exposure control during voice calls
Aspects include systems, methods, devices, and non-transitory processor readable storage mediums for reducing excessive millimeter wave (mmW) radio frequency (RF) exposure to a user of a wireless device. Various aspects may enable an RF exposure condition for the wireless device to be detected while the wireless device is operating in a mmW mode during a voice. In some aspects, a mmW carrier quality report may be adjusted to deprioritize mmW in response to determining the RF exposure condition for the wireless device is occurring during the voice call. |
| US11611353B2 |
Quantizer for sigma-delta modulator, sigma-delta modulator, and noise-shaped method
A quantizer for a sigma-delta modulator, a sigma-delta modulator, and a method of shaping noise are provided. The quantizer includes: an integrator configured to generate, in a Kth sampling period, a quantization error signal for a Kth period according to an internal signal, a quantization error signal for a (K−1)th period, a filtered quantization error signal for the (K−1)th period and a filtered quantization error signal for a (K−2)th period; an integrating capacitor configured to store the quantization error signal for the Kth period, to weight the internal signal in a (K+1)th sampling period; a passive low-pass filter configured to acquire the quantization error signal for the Kth period in a Kth discharge period, and feed back the filtered quantization error signal to the integrator in a (K+1)th sampling period and a (K+2)th sampling period; and a comparator configured to quantize the quantization error signal for the Kth period. |
| US11611352B2 |
Reconfigurable DAC implemented by memristor based neural network
A digital to analog converter is constructed using a neural network layer. The converter has inputs for receiving parallel bits of a digital input signal and an output for outputting an analog signal which is based on the digital input. Connecting the input and the output is a neural network layer which is configured to convert the parallel bits into an output analog signal that is representative of the digital input signal. The neural network may be hardwired and the synapses may rely on memristors as programmable elements. |
| US11611351B2 |
Differential converter with offset cancelation
In described examples, a sample and hold circuit is configured to periodically connect one input of an op-amp to a reference voltage through a switch while a second input of the op-amp is connected to an output of the op-amp. Offset cancellation is performed by storing a sampled offset on a sampling capacitor coupled to the second input of the op-amp. |
| US11611349B2 |
Analog-to-digital converter, sensor system , and test system
Provided are an analog-to-digital (AD) converter, a sensor system, and a test system capable of reducing the time for test processing. AD converter includes input part, AD conversion part, first output part, and second output part. The analog signal output from sensor is input to input part. AD conversion part digitally converts an analog signal to generate first digital data and second digital data. First output part outputs the first digital data to control circuit. Second output part outputs the second digital data to test controller before first output part outputs the first digital data. In the test mode, test controller determines whether or not sensor system including sensor is in an abnormal state on the basis of the second digital data. |
| US11611346B2 |
Device, system, and method to regulate temperature of a resonator structure
Techniques and mechanisms for regulating a temperature of a resonator structure. In an embodiment, a thermoelectric cooler (TEC) is thermally coupled to a resonator which is proximate thereto. The resonator supports operation with an oscillator circuit, wherein a resonance characteristic of the resonator contributes to oscillations of a master clock signal, or other oscillatory signal, which is provided with the oscillator circuit. The TEC provides Peltier functionality to selectively perform either one of heating or cooling the resonator. In another embodiment, the TEC is configured to conduct heat which is transferred via a path between the TEC and the resonator, wherein the path omits any circuitry which is to perform operations which are synchronized based on the oscillatory signal. |
| US11611341B2 |
Sampling circuit and sampling method
Sampling circuits and methods for sampling are provided. In a first operating phase, sampling capacitors are coupled to inputs, and in a second operating phase, to a common-mode signal. |
| US11611340B2 |
Drive circuit and semiconductor device
A drive circuit includes a second drive circuit that drives a semiconductor switching element in a case where a pulse width of a corresponding signal is determined to be larger than a second threshold, and a timing adjustment circuit that adjusts a timing at which the second drive circuit cooperates with a first drive circuit to drive the semiconductor switching element during a turn-off period of the semiconductor switching element due to drive of the first drive circuit. |
| US11611339B2 |
Power switch drive circuit and device
The invention relates to the field of power semiconductor devices. This invention discloses a drive circuit and device of a power switch. The input terminal of the drive circuit receives a pulse signal; the output terminal of the drive circuit is connected to a capacitor circuit. The capacitor circuit is used to provide a negative voltage for a first electrode of the power switch to turn off the power switch when the pulse signal is a turn-off signal; the drive circuit includes a capacitance adjustment unit. The capacitance adjustment unit includes a negative voltage adjustment element that can charge a capacitor whose voltage is lower than a predetermined voltage when the pulse signal is the turn-off signal. |
| US11611338B2 |
Transistor aging reversal using hot carrier injection
Embodiments relate to circuit for reversing a threshold voltage shift of a transistor. The circuit includes a current mirror for sensing a transistor current and generating a mirrored current corresponding to the sensed transistor current, a gate biasing module for providing a gate bias to the transistor, and a calibration engine configured to receive the mirrored current from the current mirror and to control the gate biasing module in response to determining whether the mirrored current is outside of a predetermined range indicative of a shift in the threshold voltage of the transistor. The gate biasing module includes a gate biasing circuit configured to operate the transistor in a region where hot carrier injection (HCI) is present, and a gate switch for coupling the gate biasing circuit to a gate terminal of the transistor. |
| US11611336B2 |
Comparator for low-banding noise and CMOS image sensor including the same
A comparator may include: a comparison block suitable for comparing a ramp signal and a pixel signal, and outputting a comparison signal; a voltage adjusting block suitable for adjusting a clamping voltage; and an output voltage swing control block suitable for controlling an output voltage swing of the comparison block according to the clamping voltage from the voltage adjusting block. |
| US11611335B2 |
Duty-cycle corrector phase shift circuit
One embodiment of a duty-cycle corrector phase shift (DCCPS) circuit includes a voltage-controlled delay line circuit, a duty-cycle correct circuit, an error amplifier circuit, and DC sampler circuits. Another embodiment of a duty-cycle corrector phase shift circuit includes a digital-controlled delay line circuit, a duty-cycle correct circuit, DC sampler circuits, a comparator circuit, a counter circuit, a control circuit, and a lock detector circuit. In some instances, the DCCPS circuit provides a clock signal with a duty-cycle of approximately fifty percent (50%) and a given phase shift between an input clock signal and the output clock signal. |
| US11611334B2 |
Method and circuit for monitoring and controlling duty margin of a signal
A duty margin monitoring circuit, coupled to a functional circuit which generates a first output signal in response to a target signal, includes a modulation circuit, a replica circuit and an error detection circuit. The modulation circuit is arranged to receive the target signal and modulate the target signal to generate a modulated target signal. The replica circuit is arranged to receive the modulated target signal and generate a second output signal in response to the modulated target signal. The error detection circuit is coupled to the functional circuit and the replica circuit to receive the first output signal and the second output signal and arranged to generate an error detection result according to the first output signal and the second output signal. |
| US11611332B1 |
Gate driver having input and output sides galvanically isolated from one another
A gate driver includes: an input pin for receiving switching control information from a controller; an output pin for driving a control terminal of a power transistor; a power supply pin for receiving power from an external supply; an input side electrically connected to the input pin; an output side electrically connected to the output pin and the power supply pin; and an isolation structure galvanically isolating the input side and the output side from one another. The output side is configured to transfer a fraction of the power received at the power supply pin to the input side over the isolation structure for powering the input side. The input side is configured to convey the switching control information received at the input pin to the output side over the isolation structure. A power electronic system that includes the gate driver is also described. |
| US11611328B2 |
Fin bulk acoustic resonator technology for UHF and SHF signal processing
A Fin Bulk Acoustic Resonator (FinBAR) includes a fin integrally fabricated on a substrate of a glass or a semiconductor, an inner electrode deposited on the fin, a piezoelectric layer disposed on the inner electrode, an outer electrode deposited on the piezoelectric layer, a first electrode and a second electrode formed on the top surface of the substrate and connected to the inner and outer electrodes respectfully. The fin is characterized with a larger height than its width. A FinBAR array including a number of the FinBARs with different fin widths sequentially located on one chip is capable of continuously filtering frequencies in UHF and SHF bands. |
| US11611324B2 |
Acoustic wave device, high frequency front end circuit, and communication apparatus
An acoustic wave device includes a material layer which has Euler angles and an elastic constant at the Euler angles, a piezoelectric body which includes first and second principal surfaces opposing each other, is laminated directly or indirectly on the material layer so that the second principal surface is on the material layer side and has Euler angles, and whose elastic constant at the Euler angles, and an IDT electrode which is disposed on at least one of the first principal surface and the second principal surface of the piezoelectric body. At least one elastic constant among elastic constants C11 to C66 of the material layer not equal to 0 and at least one elastic constant among elastic constants C11 to C66 of the piezoelectric body not equal to 0 have opposite signs to each other. |
| US11611321B2 |
Operational amplifier
The present disclosure relates to an electronic device comprising a pair of first transistors, each first transistor being coupled to a first node by a conduction terminal, a pair of second transistors, each second transistor being coupled to a second node by a conduction terminal, and a third transistor coupling the first and second nodes, the control terminal of the third transistor being coupled to the output of an operational amplifier, the operational amplifier being coupled, at its input, to the first node and to a node of application of a reference voltage. |
| US11611319B2 |
Programmable optimized band switching LNA
A front end module (FEM) integrated circuit (IC) architecture that uses the same LNA in each of several frequency bands extending over a wide frequency range. In some embodiments, switched impedance circuits distributed throughout the front end circuit allow selection of the frequency response and impedances that are optimized for particular performance parameters targeted for a desired device characteristic. Such switched impedance circuits tune the output and input impedance match and adjust the gain of the LNA for specific operating frequencies and gain targets. In addition, adjustments to the bias of the LNA can be used to optimize performance trade-offs between the total direct current (DC) power dissipated versus radio frequency (RF) performance. By selecting appropriate impedances throughout the circuit using switched impedance circuits, the LNA can be selectively tuned to operate optimally at a selected bias for operation within selected frequency bands. |
| US11611315B2 |
Noise filtering circuit and an electronic circuit including the same
A noise filtering circuit including: an amplifier which receives a reference bias through a first input terminal, generates an amplified output voltage and outputs the amplified output voltage through an output terminal, and receives an output voltage generated on the basis of the amplified output voltage through a second input terminal; a resistance component connected between the output terminal of the amplifier and the second input terminal; and a capacitor connected to the resistance component. |
| US11611305B2 |
Bandwidth-partitioning harmonic regulation for improved acoustic behavior of an electric drive system
A method for controlling operation of a rotary electric machine includes receiving, via a bandwidth-partitioning harmonic compensation regulator (HCR) of a controller, a commanded torque and rotational speed of the electric machine, and calculating, via the HCR in response to enabling conditions, a dq harmonic compensation current and a dq harmonic compensation voltage for one or more predetermined harmonic orders using the commanded torque and the rotational speed. The harmonic compensation current and voltage cancel torque ripple and current ripple in the one or more predetermined harmonic orders. The method may include injecting an acoustic tone at a predetermined harmonic order. The method additionally includes adding the dq harmonic compensation current and voltage to a dq current and voltage command, respectively, to generate adjusted dq current and voltage commands. The electric machine is then controlled using the adjusted dq current and voltage commands. |
| US11611301B2 |
Power tool, measuring device and method for operating a power tool
The invention relates to a method for operating a power tool, according to which a measuring device determines a winding resistance (RS) of a winding of an electric motor of the power tool. A test signal source applies a test signal (ip) to the winding during operation of the electric motor, a measuring unit records at least one measured value (Ud, id) as a reaction of the winding to the test signal (ip), and a control device determines the winding resistance (RS) while taking into consideration the measured value (Ud, id). |
| US11611300B2 |
Current sensing correction method and driving system using same
A current sensing correction method for a driving system is provided. Firstly, the detection values of a three-phase current are acquired through the measuring unit. When the three-phase current is maintained at the DC state, the DC values of the three-phase current are acquired and recorded as three-phase demagnetization values. When the detection values are zero, a d-axis current and a q-axis current are calculated according to the three-phase demagnetization values, a d-axis correction current command and a q-axis correction current command are calculated according to a proportional constant, the d-axis current and the q-axis current, and a three-phase demagnetization current is generated to the measuring unit according to the d-axis correction current command and the q-axis correction current command. When the demagnetization time reaches the first predetermined time, the three-phase demagnetization current is not generated. |
| US11611297B2 |
Anti-pinch motor control
A motor control system configured to detect a pinch condition of a structure actuated by a motor includes a pinch detection module configured to receive a current signal indicative of a motor current, determine a rate of change of current based on the current signal, and generate a pinch signal indicative of the pinch condition in response to either one of the motor current being greater than a current threshold and the rate of change of current being greater than a rate of change threshold. The motor control system further includes a position control module configured to control the motor to actuate the structure in response to an input and at least one of stop and reverse the motor in response to the pinch signal. |
| US11611296B1 |
Vertical magnetic power generator
A vertical magnetic power generator has a base, a driving shaft vertically mounted in the base, at least one electricity generation module mounted in the base and connected with the driving shaft, and multiple magnetic levitation modules mounted in the base and connected with the driving shaft. Each magnetic levitation module includes a magnetic ring and a conical magnetic block disposed in the magnetic ring. The conical magnetic block and a conical hole of the magnetic ring both taper off from top to bottom. The magnetic levitation modules provide upward axial magnetic levitation forces and radial damping forces exerting toward the driving shaft to allow the driving shaft to balance a total weight applied on the driving shaft. Thus, the driving shaft is able to be vertically levitated in the base magnetically and stably rotates at high speed almost without friction loss and without shifting or vibrating. |
| US11611293B2 |
Artificial muscles having a reciprocating electrode stack
An artificial muscle that includes a first end plate opposite a second end plate, a flexible enclosure extending from the first end plate to the second end plate and housing a dielectric fluid, and a reciprocating electrode stack housed within the flexible enclosure and coupled to and extending between the first end plate and the second end plate. The reciprocating electrode stack includes one or more electrode pairs, each electrode pair having a positive electrode and a negative electrode physically coupled to one another along a first edge portion of the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The artificial muscle also includes a plurality of electrode leads electrically coupled to the reciprocating electrode stack. Each individual electrode lead of the plurality of electrode leads extends from an individual electrode of the reciprocating electrode stack to the first end plate or the second end plate. |
| US11611285B2 |
Power converter and air conditioner
In a power converter, an inductance L of a reactor and a capacitance C of a capacitor satisfy a condition of the expression (1) below. In the power converter, a current-limiting circuit between an AC power source and the capacitor is unnecessary. Herein, αm ([A·s]) is a value of a ratio of a maximum rated current squared time product to a maximum rated output current of diodes of a rectifier circuit, Pmax is a maximum power consumption of the motor, Vac is a voltage value of a three-phase AC voltage, and a value of a constant a is 4.3 a · C · C L · Vac 3 P max ≤ α m . ( 1 ) |
| US11611284B2 |
Isolated switching power converter with multiple outputs
An isolated switching power converter is presented. The isolated switching converter includes a transformer, a secondary-side switch and a secondary-side controller. The transformer has a primary winding coupled to an input, a first secondary winding coupled to a first output for providing a first output voltage, and a second secondary winding coupled to a second output for providing a second output voltage. The secondary-side switch is coupled to the second secondary winding. The secondary-side controller compares the second output voltage with a first reference voltage and generates a control signal based on the comparison to operate the secondary-side switch. |
| US11611282B2 |
Switching power circuit for charging a battery
A switching power circuit for charging a battery can include: four switches extending between two ports of a low-frequency AC input voltage and an energy storage circuit, where the energy storage circuit and a primary winding of a transformer are coupled between first and second nodes, the first node is a common node of the first and second switches, and the second node is a common node of the third and fourth switches; a rectification circuit having an input terminal coupled to a secondary winding of the transformer; a DC-DC converter having an input terminal coupled to an output terminal of the rectification circuit, and generates a charging current; and a control circuit that adjusts the charging current by controlling an operation of the DC-DC converter according to a charging requirement, in order to make an average value of the charging current meet the charging requirement. |
| US11611280B2 |
Galvanically isolated DC-DC circuit converter with data communication, corresponding system and corresponding method
A DC-DC converter includes: an transformer having a primary winding and a secondary winding magnetically coupled to the primary winding; a power oscillator applying an oscillating signal to the primary to transmit a power signal to the secondary winding; a rectifier connected to the secondary winding of the transformer to obtain an output DC voltage by rectification of the power signal; comparison circuitry to generate an error signal representing a difference between the output DC voltage and a reference voltage; a transmitter connected to the secondary winding of the transformer to apply an amplitude modulation to the power signal at the secondary winding of the transformer in response to the error signal to thereby produce an amplitude modulated signal at the primary winding; and a receiver and control circuit connected to the primary winding to control an amplitude of the oscillating signal as a function of the amplitude modulated signal. |
| US11611279B2 |
Input line voltage operation for a power converter
A controller configured for use in a power converter. The controller includes a control circuit coupled to receive an input line voltage sense signal representative of an input voltage of the power converter. The control circuit is configured to generate a control signal in response to a request signal representative of an output of the power converter. The control signal represents a delay time to turn on a power switch after a turn on of a clamp switch in response to the input line voltage sense signal. The control circuit can further generate a clamp drive signal to control a clamp driver and a drive circuit configured to generate a drive signal to control the power switch to transfer energy from an input of the power converter to the output of the power converter. |
| US11611278B2 |
Power conversion circuit module
Power line patterns are, together with a ground pattern, provided separately from control line patterns. The power line pattern is formed at first and second major surfaces of a circuit board. When the circuit board is viewed in plan view, the power line pattern and the power line pattern form a line structure in which the power line pattern and the power line pattern are in parallel with and opposite to each other and the power line pattern is positioned under the power line pattern. The circuit board includes a dielectric between the power line pattern and the power line pattern. These together form an equivalent capacitor and the magnetic flux induced by the current flowing through the power line pattern and the magnetic flux induced by the current flowing through the power line pattern cancel each other out. |
| US11611272B2 |
Rotation operation device
A rotation operation device includes a stepping motor and an operation element. The stepping motor has a rotating shaft. The operation element is provided on the rotating shaft. The operation element also rotates the rotating shaft. |
| US11611271B2 |
Electric machine with an adjustable air gap
An electric machine includes a rotor, a stator, and an air gap formed between a magnetic device of the rotor and the stator. For the selective setting of the air gap, movement devices implemented by piezoelectric stacks are provided on the rotor and/or on the stator. The movement devices may influence radial positions of the respective magnetic device and thus set the radial air gap width. It is thereby possible to exert open-loop and/or closed-loop control over a power or torque of the electric machine without adjusting stator currents. Vibration or unbalance of the rotor may also be counteracted quickly and effectively during operation of the machine. |
| US11611270B2 |
Method for trickle impregnation of the stator or armature of an electric machine
A method for trickle impregnation of a stator or armature of an electric machine with a synthetic resin curing under temperature increase comprises heating the stator or the armature from an initial temperature to a trickle temperature range of the synthetic resin; keeping constant the temperature in the trickle temperature range and introducing the synthetic resin into the stator or the armature; heating the stator or the armature to a curing temperature range; keeping constant the temperature of the stator or the armature in the curing temperature range and setting and curing the synthetic resin to a duroplast; and cooling down the stator or the armature. The trickle temperature range has lower temperatures than the curing temperature range. The method includes inductively heating the stator or the armature. The stator or the armature may be disposed in an impregnation device. |
| US11611267B2 |
Apparatus for impregnating varnish into hairpin winding type stator
An exemplary apparatus for impregnating varnish into stator coils of a hairpin winding type stator includes a supporting frame vertically installed on a base frame, a tilting bracket installed upper end portion of the supporting frame to be capable of tilting, a rotary bracket installed on the tilting bracket to be rotatable along a circumferential direction, core chucking members installed on the rotary bracket, inserted into a plurality of bolt engagement hole provided in the stator core, and fixing the stator core to the rotary bracket, a first varnish application unit movably installed on the base frame, and configured to apply the varnish to interior and exterior sides of a crown portion of the stator coils, and a second varnish application unit movably installed on the base frame, and configured to apply the varnish to interior and exterior sides of the welding portion of the stator coils. |
| US11611266B2 |
Automated recovery of rare earth permanent magnets from electric machines
A method for the automated recovery of rare earth permanent magnets from electric machines are provided. The method includes identifying electric machines in a mixed product stream for performing a unique robotic disassembly routine. Electric machines that are not identified are diverted to a robot training station, during which time the system and the method include implementing a suitable disassembly routine. A conveyor delivers the remaining electric machines to a rotary platform having multiple stations for the simultaneous disassembly of multiple electric machines. Permanent magnets are removed from the electric machines and are then sorted for recycling operations. |
| US11611263B1 |
Electrical power generation
An electric power generation system receives a gas flow at a heater, heats the gas flow at the heater with a heated fluid from a waste heat process, and directs the heated gas flow to a turbine wheel of an electric generator. The heated gas flow drives rotation of the turbine wheel, and in response to rotating the turbine wheel, electrical current is generated by the electric generator. Generated electrical current is then directed to power electronics. |
| US11611260B2 |
Motor and electric power steering device
A motor includes a rotor, a stator including coils defined by windings of coil wires, a coil support into which the coil wires are inserted, a bearing supporting the shaft, a holder with a through-hole that holds both the bearing and the coil support. The coil support includes a base on the top surface of the stator, and a coil support portion extending axially upward from the base, at least a portion of which is located in the through-hole. The base is fitted to the stator through a gap. |
| US11611254B1 |
Power generation device and a method of use thereof
A device for generating power from an input power supply, wherein a net power is generated. The device includes multiple electromagnets arranged in a series to form a row. The row of electromagnets is encased in a tubular coil. Each of the electromagnets is electrically coupled to the controller such that the controller can power the electromagnets one by one in a predefined order at a predetermined switching frequency. A common magnetic field is generated from consecutive powering of the electromagnets based on the switching frequency, wherein changing common magnetic field causes inductance currents in the coil. |
| US11611250B2 |
Rotating electrical machine
A plurality of auxiliary magnets is embedded in a rotor core so as to surround the rotation axis of the rotating electrical machine in the cross-section orthogonal to the rotation axis. A plurality of main magnets is embedded in the rotor core so as to extend from the auxiliary magnet in the outer circumferential direction of the rotor. A plurality of magnetic poles of the rotor is formed around the rotation axis, the magnetic poles each having the auxiliary magnet and the plurality of main magnets arranged at a distance from each other in the circumferential direction of the rotor, and the plurality of main magnets of each magnetic pole is arranged asymmetrically about a virtual line passing the rotation axis and axisymmetrically dividing the auxiliary magnet of each magnetic pole. |
| US11611248B2 |
Stator for an electric machine with improved cooling, electric machine and motor vehicle
A stator (1) for an electric machine (100) has stator laminations (3) stacked in an axial direction (A) to form a stator lamination stack (2). The stator laminations (3) have strip-shaped inserts (4) extending in a radial direction (R). The inserts (4) have a higher thermal conductivity than the rest of the stator lamination (3). The stator laminations (3) are rotated in relation to one another in an azimuthal direction (U) about an angle of rotation (D) in such a manner that the inserts (4) of directly adjacent stator laminations (3) are not arranged one above another in the axial direction (A). An electric machine (100), a motor vehicle (200) and a method for producing a stator (1) also are provided. |
| US11611243B2 |
Low power object detection in multi-coil wireless charging systems and related systems, methods, and devices
Object detection for wireless power transmitters and related systems, methods, and devices are disclosed. A controller for a wireless power transmitter is configured to receive a measurement voltage potential responsive to a tank circuit signal at a tank circuit, provide an alternating current (AC) signal to each of the plurality of transmit coils one at a time, and determine at least one of a resonant frequency and a quality factor (Q-factor) of the tank circuit responsive to each selected transmit coil of the plurality of transmit coils. The controller is also configured to select a transmit coil to use to transmit wireless power to a receive coil of a wireless power receiver responsive to the determined at least one of the resonant frequency and the Q-factor for each transmit coil of the plurality of transmit coils. |
| US11611242B2 |
System and method for wireless power networking
A system for wireless power networking, preferably including one or more nodes, such as transmit nodes, receive nodes, relay nodes, and/or hybrid nodes. The system may function to form a power network (e.g., mesh network) configured to transfer power wirelessly between nodes of the system. A method for wireless power networking, preferably including transmitting power, controlling relay nodes, and/or receiving power, and optionally including optimizing power network operation. The method is preferably performed at (e.g., by one or more nodes of) the system, but can additionally or alternatively be performed by any other suitable system(s). |
| US11611232B2 |
Systems and methods for providing direct current and alternating current from a power supply to a load
A power system including an input configured to receive input AC power, a DC output configured to provide output DC power to a load, an AC output configured to provide output AC power to the load, an AC/DC converter coupled to the input and configured to convert the input AC power into DC power, a DC bus, and a controller configured to monitor a current demand at the DC output relative to a demand threshold, operate, in response to a determination that the current demand at the DC output is below the demand threshold, the power system in a first mode of operation by enabling the AC/DC converter to provide DC power to the DC bus, and operate, in response to a determination that the current demand at the DC output is above the demand threshold, the power system in a second mode of operation by disabling the AC/DC converter. |
| US11611227B2 |
Power supply unit for aerosol inhaler, and control method and control program of the same
A power supply unit for an aerosol inhaler includes: a power supply that is able to discharge power to a load for generating an aerosol from an aerosol source; and a control unit that is configured to control the power supply. The control unit acquires a deteriorated state or a failure state of the power supply based on an internal resistance of the power supply. |
| US11611225B2 |
Transmission device, data recording device, system comprising temperature control device and data recording device, battery system and method for transmitting status data
A detecting device detects at least one battery characteristic of at least one battery cell of a battery plane of a battery stack. A carrier has at least one electrical lead element and at least one contact element having a contact section for contacting a mating contact section of the at least one battery cell. The contact element has a sensor section for detecting the at least one battery characteristic of the battery cell. The sensor section is connected by data-communicating to the at least one line element for forwarding the at least one detected battery characteristic. Furthermore, the invention relates to a battery stack having at least one battery plane with at least one battery cell and a detection device. |
| US11611218B2 |
Methods and systems for power control in a non-exporting mode of operation
Aspects of the present invention relate to controlling a renewable energy power plant comprising a plurality of wind turbine generators (WTG)s and an energy storage system (ESS). A method includes: controlling the plurality of WTGs to stop generating power, and thereby to enter a non-exporting mode of operation of the renewable energy power plant, during which one or more auxiliary systems of the renewable energy power plant are powered to maintain at least one of the plurality of WTGs in a standby state, operable to start generating power upon demand; wherein the one or more auxiliary systems are powered during the non-exporting mode of operation. |
| US11611216B2 |
Distributed power supply system, control apparatus and distributed power supply control method
The distributed power supply system includes: a communicator configured to receive a first message from a power management server configured to control the distributed power supply and receive a second message from an equipment management server configured to monitor the distributed power supply; and a controller configured to control the distributed power supply based on the first message and the second message. If the first message and the second message conflict with each other, the controller controls the distributed power supply based on the second message preferentially over the first message. |
| US11611213B1 |
Power grid assets prediction using generative adversarial networks
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for using a neural network to predict locations of feeders in an electrical power grid. One of the methods includes training a generative adversarial network comprising a generator and a discriminator; and generating, by the generator, from input images, output images with feeder metadata that represents predicted locations of feeder assets, including receiving by the generator a first input image and generating by the generator a corresponding first output image with first feeder data that identifies one or more feeder assets and their respective locations, wherein the one or more feeder assets had not been identified in any input to the generator. |
| US11611204B2 |
Fault protection device with ground trip delay and method
A reclosing fault protection device detects a partial bypass state. Upon detecting the partial bypass state, the fault protection device implements a ground trip delay operating state. The ground trip delay operating state provides a delayed ground trip response characteristic. |
| US11611203B2 |
Cable racks for reduced stress and increased load capacity
Methods and devices for reducing stress and for increasing the load-bearing capacity of cable racks supporting electrical power and communication conduits and cables having increased versatility for conduit and cable sizes and quantities. Underground devices including rack arms for these applications are desirably made from plastic or composite materials. Rack arms desirably include openings for tying down the conduits and cables atop the arms. While non-metallic materials are designed to withstand environmental stresses, they typically have strength and rigidity properties less than the metallic structures previously used in such applications. Non-metallic rack arms with such openings may be reinforced locally with a stress attenuator or with ribs to increase their load-bearing and buckling capacity and to reduce their stress, strain and deflection under load. A stress attenuator may be made by increasing the in-molded thickness of the web in areas adjacent to or surrounding the tie-down openings. |
| US11611201B2 |
Fluid injection system with smart injection and receiver tanks
A tank including a fluid reservoir, a communication module, a controller, and at least one sensor. The fluid reservoir is configured to be in fluid communication with a cable segment. The communication module is configured to communicate with an external device. The sensor is configured to detect an injection parameter value, encode the injection parameter value in a sensor signal, and send the sensor signal to the controller. The controller is configured to automatically instruct the communication module to transmit information to the external device based on the injection parameter value. |
| US11611197B2 |
Addressable vertical cavity surface emitting laser array for generating structured light patterns
An addressable vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) array may generate structured light in dot patterns. The VCSEL array includes a plurality of traces that control different groups of VCSELs, such that each group of VCSELs may be individually controlled. The VCSEL groups are arranged such that they emit a dot pattern, and by modulating which groups of VCSELs are active a density of the dot pattern may be adjusted. The VCSEL array may be part of a depth projector that projects the dot pattern into a local area. A projection assembly may replicate the dot pattern in multiple tiles. |
| US11611194B2 |
Generation of high-power spatially-restructurable spectrally-tunable beams in a multi-arm-cavity VECSEL-based laser system
A collinear T-cavity VECSEL system generating intracavity Hermite-Gaussian modes at multiple wavelengths, configured to vary each of these wavelengths individually and independently. A mode converter element and/or an astigmatic mode converter is/are aligned intracavity to reversibly convert the Gaussian modes to HG modes to Laguerre-Gaussian modes, the latter forming the system output having any of the wavelengths provided by the spectrum resulting from nonlinear frequency-mixing intracavity (including generation of UV, visible, mid-IR light). The laser system delivers Watt-level output power in tunable high-order transverse mode distribution. |
| US11611190B2 |
Technique for optimizing coupling to optical fibers
A method of optimizing the coupling to an optical fiber, including: generating a femtosecond laser pulse; directing a focus of the laser pulse to a longitudinal depth in the region beneath the endface of the optical fiber to generate microvoids; adjusting the intensity of the laser pulse at different depths, such that a refractive index profile is created in the region beneath the endface of the optical fiber. |
| US11611183B2 |
Lamp socket, lamp base, lighting device and lighting system
A lamp socket for a lamp base, in particular a pin-based lamp base, is provided. The lamp socket comprises an electrically insulating housing having a cavity that is entirely framed by the housing in lateral directions, wherein the cavity is adapted for receiving a connector casing of the lamp base, wherein a bottom of the cavity comprises a receptacle for receiving a connector pin of the lamp base, and wherein a height of the cavity corresponds to at least a length of the connector pin. |
| US11611181B2 |
Uninterruptable tap
A coaxial tap in a hybrid fiber coaxial cable distribution system serves subscribers with an RF signal. |
| US11611171B2 |
Electrical connection box
An electrical connection box is provided with a connector-attached board and a shield case that internally houses the connector-attached board. The connector-attached board is provided with a circuit board, a connector that is fixed to the circuit board and that engages with a mating connector, and an attachment that is attached to the connector. The shield case surrounds the circuit board and is provided with an upper short wall portion and a lower short wall portion that include a connector opening for facing the connector outside. The attachment is provided with a waterproof portion that covers the periphery of an engagement surface of the connector that faces the mating connector, and the waterproof portion is provided with a waterproof wall that covers the periphery of the connector and the mating connector. |
| US11611169B2 |
Board-to-board electrical connector with reinforced end portions
A connector includes a plurality of contacts made of metal material and arranged in an arrangement direction orthogonal to a fitting direction, an insulator made of insulating resin material and holding the plurality of contacts, and a reinforcement terminal made of metal material and attached to an end portion of the insulator in the arrangement direction, the insulator including a fitting portion extending along the arrangement direction and projecting in the fitting direction for fitting to a portion to be fitted of the counter connector, the reinforcement terminal including a terminal accommodating portion of recess shape for accommodating a reinforcement terminal of the counter connector, and a wall portion facing an end portion of the fitting portion in the arrangement direction across the terminal accommodating portion, the reinforcement terminal including a resin material flow passage penetrating the wall portion and reaching the end portion of the fitting portion. |
| US11611163B2 |
Configurable safety ground terminals for industrial applications
A safety ground terminal apparatus can include a ground terminal operable to switch between a common ground connection or a isolated ground connection, wherein the ground terminal comprises a hinge point that is connectable to a base of a housing via a rail in an arrangement that allows for a disconnection from the common ground connection when the isolated ground connection is required and without compromising electrical contact. The ground terminal can provide a watertight ground connection irrespective of the type of ground connection requirement. The common ground connection or the isolated ground connection can be achieved without any additional parts assembled. |
| US11611162B1 |
Apparatus, system, and method for reducing chassis depths in connection with power supply units
An apparatus may include (1) a terminal connector configured to be electrically coupled to a power interface of a computing device, (2) an inline terminal block assembly that is independent of the terminal connector, (3) at least one terminal-side power cable configured to be electrically coupled between the terminal connector and the inline terminal block assembly, and (4) at least one distribution-side power cable configured to be electrically coupled between the inline terminal block assembly and a power distribution system. |
| US11611160B2 |
Robust, high frequency-suitable electrical terminal
An electrical terminal includes a contacting section and a crimping section arranged to a rear of the contacting section in an axial direction of the terminal. A first material layer of the crimping section is crimped directly onto a second material layer of the terminal or of the crimping section in a crimped state, forming a double material layer region. |
| US11611157B2 |
Flexible electrically conductive pastes and devices made therewith
This invention provides a polymer thick film electrically conductive paste composition, comprising conductive metal powder, a resin blend of polyol and phenoxy resin, blocked aliphatic polyisocyanate and one or more polar, aprotic solvents. In one embodiment the paste composition is used to form electrically conductive adhesive. In another embodiment the paste composition is used to form an electrically conductive polymer thick film. |
| US11611153B2 |
Antenna for suppressing the gain of side lobes
An antenna for suppressing the gain of side lobes includes a substrate, tandem antenna units arranged on the substrate and each including a first feed line and radiating elements, and the width of the radiating elements decreasing gradually from the middle of the first feed line to the two ends; and a power divider disposed on the substrate and including a feeding port, a second feed line with middle connected to the feeding port, and transmission lines, connected to the second feed line respectively. The output powers of the transmission lines decrease gradually from the middle of the second feed line to the two ends, and the transmission lines are respectively connected to the first feed lines. Thereby, the present invention can effectively suppress the gain of the side lobe both in YZ plane and the XZ plane, and improve target detection. |
| US11611148B2 |
Open-aperture waveguide fed slot antenna
The present invention provides an open-aperture waveguide fed slot antenna including a feeding section on a substrate integrated waveguide, an H-shaped slot, a matched end, and a bottom metal layer. One end of the feeding section is open and connected to the slot, providing energy feeding to the slot. A long side of the center section of the slot is connected to a top metal part of the feeding section. Another side is connected to the matching end. The matching end includes metal which is connected to the slot, the metallic via wall and the bottom metal of the feeding section which is connected to the metallic via wall. The antenna has high gain, wide gain bandwidth, a simple structure, and low processing cost and can be applied to millimeter-wave frequency bands as well as other frequency bands. |
| US11611136B2 |
Power divider/combiner
A power divider/combiner includes a first transmission line that includes a first part and a second part, and a second transmission line and a third transmission line that are electromagnetically coupled with the first transmission line. The first part, the second part, the second transmission line and the third transmission line are each of a particular length. The first part, the second transmission line and the third transmission line are respectively connected to a first port, a second port and a third port for inputting/outputting signals having a target wavelength equal to four times the particular length. |
| US11611133B2 |
Manual service disconnect for a battery system
An interconnect is disclosed that opens a battery circuit when an access cover is removed. The interconnect includes a single installed position, and does not include any throw positions to avoid ambiguity. The interconnect includes a conductive element that closes the battery circuit when the interconnect is installed. The access cover cannot be removed when the interconnect is installed, because the interconnect includes at least one mechanical feature that prevents removal of the access cover. In some instances, the interconnect is integrated into the access cover, such that when the cover is removed, the circuit is opened necessarily during removal. The interconnect interface may include blades, pins, or other electrically conducting elements. The interconnect is arranged in the battery system away from power electronics and other components that may interface to an electrical load, thus providing an added measure of safety when the access cover is off. |
| US11611132B2 |
Battery cap with cut-out sections
Various embodiments described herein relate to a battery that includes a battery cap with one or more cut-out sections. The battery cap may be used to at least partially cover a circuit board that is proximate an end of a battery cell. In various examples, the cut-out sections may be configured to accommodate one or more cell tabs of the battery that protrude above the circuit board. |
| US11611131B2 |
Porous layer having nonuniform internal structure, battery laminated separator and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including the same
The present invention provides a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery porous layer which improves a long-term battery characteristic of a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery. In the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery porous layer in accordance with an aspect of the present invention, a standard deviation of whiteness index defined in E313 of the American Standards Test Methods is 0.06 or more and 0.91 or less. |
| US11611126B2 |
Containment apparatus for battery cells
The present invention relates to a battery unit comprising one or more pairs of oppositely disposed receptacles, each said pair of receptacles defining a respective chamber for accommodating one or more cylindrical battery cells, each cylindrical battery cell having a first end adjacent a first end wall of a first one of said receptacles and a second end adjacent a second end wall of a second one of the pair of said receptacles. The invention further relates to a battery module comprising one or more battery units and to a battery system comprising a plurality of battery modules. |
| US11611115B2 |
Long life sealed alkaline secondary batteries
In an aspect, provided is an alkaline rechargeable battery comprising: i) a battery container sealed against the release of gas up to at least a threshold gas pressure, ii) a volume of an aqueous alkaline electrolyte at least partially filling the container to an electrolyte level; iii) a positive electrode containing positive active material and at least partially submerged in the electrolyte; iv) an iron negative electrode at least partially submerged in the electrolyte, the iron negative electrode comprising iron active material; v) a separator at least partially submerged in the electrolyte provided between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; vi) an auxiliary oxygen gas recombination electrode electrically connected to the iron negative electrode by a first electronic component, ionically connected to the electrolyte by a first ionic pathway, and exposed to a gas headspace above the electrolyte level by a first gas pathway. |
| US11611112B2 |
Electrochemical energy storage devices
Provided herein are energy storage devices. In some cases, the energy storage devices are capable of being transported on a vehicle and storing a large amount of energy. An energy storage device is provided comprising at least one liquid metal electrode, an energy storage capacity of at least about 1 MWh and a response time less than or equal to about 100 milliseconds (ms). |
| US11611111B2 |
Wound-type battery cell
A cell includes a flat electrode assembly formed by superposing and winding respective first ends of a first electrode sheet, a first separator, a second electrode sheet, and a second separator. A first electrode tab is connected to the first electrode sheet, and a second electrode tab is connected to the second electrode sheet. The second electrode sheet includes a second current collector, a second outer membrane arranged on a surface facing away from a center of the cell, and a second inner membrane arranged on a surface facing the center of the cell. Respective starting ends of the second outer membrane and the second inner membrane are located on the second current collector between the first end of the second electrode sheet and a second bend. The second inner membrane is provided with an inner uncoated region at least at the second bend. |
| US11611107B2 |
Lithium ion secondary battery
A purpose of the present invention is to provide a lithium ion secondary battery which has further improved life characteristics. The lithium ion secondary battery of the present invention is characterized by comprising a positive electrode comprising a positive electrode active material that operates at 4.5 V or more with respect to lithium, and an electrolyte solution comprising an electrolyte solvent comprising a fluorinated ether, a cyclic sulfonic acid ester and LiN(FSO2)2. |
| US11611106B2 |
Electrolytic solution, electrochemical device, lithium ion secondary battery, and module
The invention provides an electrolyte solution capable of providing an electrochemical device having low resistance and excellent high-temperature storage characteristics and cycle characteristics. The electrolyte solution contains lithium fluorosulfonate and a solvent containing a compound (1) represented by the following formula (1): CF2HCOOCH3. |
| US11611100B2 |
Coiled cell
A cell (1) includes a flat electrode assembly formed by superposing and winding respective starting ends of a first electrode sheet (10), a first separator (30), a second electrode sheet (20), and a second separator (40). A first electrode tab (50) and a second electrode tab (60) are both located in grooves of the membranes. Respective starting ends of a second outer membrane (202) and a second inner membrane (203) are both aligned with a starting end of the second current collector (201), and a starting end of a first outer membrane (102) is aligned with a starting end of the first current collector (101). A first head section (106) is provided on a surface of the first current collector (101) facing a center of the cell, and a starting end of the first head section (106) is aligned with the first current collector (101). |
| US11611099B1 |
Reverse electrodialysis cell and methods of use thereof
A method of generating electrical power or hydrogen from thermal energy is disclosed. The method includes separating, by a selectively permeable membrane, a first saline solution from a second saline solution, receiving, by the first saline solution and/or the second saline solution, thermal energy from a heat source, and mixing the first saline solution and the second saline solution in a controlled manner, capturing at least some salinity-gradient energy as electrical power as the salinity difference between the first saline solution and the second saline solution decreases. The method further includes transferring, by a heat pump, thermal energy from the first saline solution to the second saline solution, causing the salinity difference between the first saline solution and the second saline solution to increase. |
| US11611097B2 |
Method of making an electrochemical reactor via sintering inorganic dry particles
Herein disclosed is a method of making an electrochemical reactor comprising a) depositing a composition on a substrate to form a slice; b) drying the slice using a non-contact dryer; c) sintering the slice using electromagnetic radiation (EMR), wherein the electrochemical reactor comprises an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte between the anode and the cathode. In an embodiment, the electrochemical reactor comprises at least one unit, wherein the unit comprises the anode, the cathode, the electrolyte and an interconnect and wherein the unit has a thickness of no greater than 1 mm. In an embodiment, the anode is no greater than 50 microns in thickness, the cathode is no greater than 50 microns in thickness, and the electrolyte is no greater than 10 microns in thickness. |
| US11611092B2 |
Metal hydride hydrogen storage arrangement for use in a fuel cell utility vehicle and method of manufacturing the same
The invention relates to a metal hydride hydrogen storage and supply arrangement integrated for use in a fuel cell utility vehicle. The storage arrangement includes a plurality of metal hydride containers suitable to be filled with a metal hydride material, the containers being connectable in parallel to a gas manifold; heat transfer means located between the metal hydride containers; and a filler body located in a space between the metal hydride containers and the heat transfer means. |
| US11611090B2 |
Fuel cell humidifier with bypass tube
A fuel cell humidifier may completely or substantially completely prevent condensate water from entering a running fuel cell stack. The fuel cell humidifier includes a housing; a plurality of hollow fiber membranes arranged in the housing; a cap which is coupled to one end of the housing and has an air discharge port for supplying humidified air to the fuel cell stack; and a bypass tube for transferring condensate water generated from the humidified air to an interior space of the housing through which a discharge gas flows, wherein a first end of the bypass tube is disposed inside the air discharge port, and the bypass tube is in fluid communication with the interior space of the housing through a second end of the bypass tube. |
| US11611089B2 |
Thermal management system and method of positioning and adjusting coolant flow for stationary vehicle fuel cell applications
The present disclosure relates to a thermal management system and method of adjusting and/or reversing coolant flow of a fuel cell system during stationary applications. |
| US11611088B2 |
Electrode assembly and method for its preparation
The invention relates to a metal-air electrochemical cell comprising a frame (100) defining an electrolyte chamber having an anode side and a cathode side, wherein an air cathode assembly is provided in the cathode side, said air cathode assembly (20) comprising hydrophobic porous film having a first face and a second face, with current collector (21) and catalyst-containing active layer (26) provided on said first face, with the planar dimensions of the catalyst-containing active layer on said first face being smaller than that of said hydrophobic film and said current collector, such that the catalyst-containing active layer does not reach the edges of said hydrophobic film and said current collector, thereby creating a catalyst-free margin (27) on the hydrophobic film (31) and current collector which surrounds the catalyst-containing active layer, and wherein said first face of the hydrophobic film and said frame of the cell arm joined together by thermoplastic (101) applied onto the catalyst-free margin of the hydrophobic film. A method of assembling the metal/air cell is also described. |
| US11611086B2 |
Fuel cell stack unit and fuel cell stack including same
There may be provided a fuel cell stack unit comprising: a first gas separating plate; a first sealing gasket; a metal support, an end cell, and an air inlet being formed in the outer peripheral side of the center portion; a second sealing gasket; and a second gas separating plate stacked on the lower side of the second sealing gasket, wherein air introduced from the air inlet of the first gas separating plate successively passes through the air inlets formed in the first sealing gasket, the metal support, and the second sealing gasket, respectively, and flows from one side of the end cell to the other side thereof along a stacking boundary between the lower side of the end cell and the upper side of the second gas separating plate; and the second sealing gasket is recessed inward from an edge of the second sealing gasket. |
| US11611080B2 |
Silicon electrode binder
The present application relates to a binder. The present application can provide a binder which can be applied to production of silicon series negative electrodes to cope well with shrinkage and expansion by repeated charge and discharge, and has excellent binding force between active materials and adhesive force to a current collector, and an active material composition, an electrode and a secondary battery, comprising the same. |
| US11611079B2 |
Method of producing electrode, electrode, and all-solid-state battery
A slurry is prepared by mixing a solid electrolyte material, an electrode active material, and a dispersion medium. The eluted amount of a halogen element in the dispersion medium in the slurry is measured. When the eluted amount is within a reference range, the slurry is rated as a good slurry. An electrode is produced by applying the good slurry to a surface of a base material and drying. |
| US11611071B2 |
Decomposition of silicon-containing precursors on porous scaffold materials
Composites of silicon and various porous scaffold materials, such as carbon material comprising micro-, meso- and/or macropores, and methods for manufacturing the same are provided. The compositions find utility in various applications, including electrical energy storage electrodes and devices comprising the same. |
| US11611068B2 |
Cathode material and electrochemical device comprising the same
The present application relates to a cathode material and an electrochemical device comprising the same. In particular, the present application relates to a cathode material having a surface heterophasic structure, wherein the cathode material includes a lithium cobalt oxide and an oxide of cobalt, wherein a Raman spectrum of the cathode material has characteristic peaks in the range of about 470 cm−1 to about 530 cm−1, about 560 cm−1 to about 630 cm−1 and about 650 cm−1 to about 750 cm−1, and wherein the surface heterophasic structure of the cathode material includes the lithium cobalt oxide and the oxide of cobalt. The electrochemical device using the cathode material having a surface heterophasic structure of the present application can exhibit excellent cycle performance and thermal stability. |
| US11611065B2 |
Secondary alkaline electrochemical cells with zinc anode
The invention relates to the field of alkaline electrochemical cells and more specifically to that of batteries. More specifically, the invention pertains to a secondary electrochemical cell with a zinc electrode, which is differentiated in that it comprises: a) an electrolyte which is an alkaline aqueous solution whose molarity is between 4 M and 15 M hydroxyl anions, comprising soluble silicates whose concentration expressed as silica (SiO2) is between 0.15 g/l and 80 g/l; and b) a zinc electrode containing a conductive ceramic at least partly consisting of hafnium nitride and/or carbide and/or magnesium carbide and/or nitride and/or silicide and/or niobium carbide and/or nitride and/or titanium carbide and/or nitride and/or silicide and/or vanadium nitride acid/or of double carbides and/or nitrides of any two metals selected among hafnium, magnesium, niobium, titanium and vanadium. |
| US11611059B2 |
Display apparatus
The present disclosure provides a display apparatus including: a display module with a plurality of color filters and a black matrix with a plurality of first openings and a plurality of second openings, and the plurality of color filters are arranged in the plurality of first openings in a one-to-one correspondence; a fingerprint recognition circuit, on a side of the display module away from a display surface of the display module and including a plurality of fingerprint recognition elements; and a collimating structure, on an incident side of the fingerprint recognition circuit and including at least two light shading layers, wherein each of the light shading layers has a plurality of light transmitting holes, and one of the light shading layers is multiplexed as the black matrix. |
| US11611056B2 |
Display apparatus and method for manufacturing the same
A display apparatus and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The display apparatus includes a substrate, and a plurality of display devices, an encapsulation layer, a microlens array and a protective layer which are sequentially provided on the substrate, and the microlens array includes a plurality of microlenses corresponding to the plurality of display devices, and each microlens in the microlens array comprises a multi-step structure including a plurality of steps. |
| US11611055B2 |
Organic light emitting display device with conductive protection layers that are spaced apart from each other and method of manufacturing the same
An organic light emitting display device has a plurality of first electrodes, intermediate layers, and second electrodes that correspond to a plurality of pixel areas. The first electrodes are spaced from one another, the second electrodes are spaced from one another, and the intermediate layers are spaced from one another. A conductive protection layer is formed over the second electrodes, and a connection electrode layer is formed over the conductive protection layer and electrically connecting the second electrodes. |
| US11611054B2 |
Quantum dot device and electronic device
A quantum dot device including a first electrode and a second electrode each having a surface opposite the other, a quantum dot layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and an electron auxiliary layer disposed between the quantum dot layer and the second electrode, wherein the electron auxiliary layer includes inorganic nanoparticles including an alkaline-earth metal, and an alkali metal, an alkali metal compound, or a combination thereof, and an electronic device including the quantum dot device. |
| US11611050B2 |
Display device
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a display device includes: a substrate including a through-hole, a peripheral area surrounding the through-hole, a wiring area surrounding the peripheral area, and a display area surrounding the wiring area; a gate insulating layer disposed on the substrate; a gate wire disposed in the wiring area and on the gate insulating layer; an interlayer insulating layer disposed on the gate wire; a data wire disposed in the wiring area and on the interlayer insulating layer; a middle insulating layer disposed on the data wire; and a first main insulating dam disposed in the wiring area and on the middle insulating layer, wherein the first main insulating dam includes an organic material, and wherein a width of a lower surface of the first main insulating dam is narrower than a width of an upper surface of the first main insulating dam. |
| US11611046B2 |
Organic electroluminescent device
The present invention relates to organic electroluminescent devices, the emitting layer thereof containing a blend of a luminescent material having a narrow singlet-triplet gap and a fluorescent emission material having high steric shielding. |
| US11611042B2 |
Organic electroluminescent materials and devices
A composition formed of a mixture of two compounds having similar thermal evaporation properties that are pre-mixed into an evaporation source that can be used to co-evaporate the two compounds into an emission layer in OLEDs via vacuum thermal evaporation process is disclosed. |
| US11611034B2 |
Piezoelectric element and liquid droplet ejection head
There is provided a piezoelectric element including: a substrate; a first electrode formed at a first substrate surface of the substrate in a first direction; a first piezoelectric layer that is formed at the first electrode and that includes a flat surface portion along the first substrate surface and an inclined surface portion inclined with respect to the flat surface portion; a second piezoelectric layer that is formed at the inclined surface portion 170a and whose thickness is smaller than a thickness of the flat surface portion of the first piezoelectric layer; and a second electrode formed at at least the flat surface portion. |
| US11611029B2 |
Methods to harvest thermal energy during subsurface high power laser transmission
An optical fiber has an optical fiber core for high-power laser transmission, an optical cladding surrounding the optical fiber core, and at least one harvesting cell disposed around the optical cladding, where the harvesting cell includes an anode, a thermoelectric layer disposed adjacent to and electrically connected to the anode, and a cathode disposed adjacent to and electrically connected to the thermoelectric layer, and where the thermoelectric layer includes a polymer-based thermoelectric material. |
| US11611026B1 |
Method for manufacturing a spacer for self-aligned mesa
Described are light emitting apparatus with self-aligned elements and techniques for manufacturing such light emitting apparatus. In certain embodiments, a method for manufacturing a light emitting apparatus involves forming a plurality of semiconductor layers including a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and a light emission layer between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer. The method further involves forming an electrical contact and a spacer. The electrical contact is formed on a surface of the first semiconductor layer. The spacer is formed on the surface of the first semiconductor layer, around the electrical contact. After forming the spacer, the plurality of semiconductor layers is etched to form a mesa with sidewalls that extend from an outer edge of the spacer. The spacer operates as an etch mask that causes the electrical contact to be substantially centered between opposing sidewalls of the mesa. |
| US11611021B2 |
Light emitting device and display apparatus including the same
A light emitting device including a first light emitting cell, a second light emitting cell, and a third light emitting cell each including a first conductivity type semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second conductivity type semiconductor layer, pads electrically connected to the first, second, and third light emitting cells, a first wavelength converter configured to convert a wavelength of light emitted from the first light emitting cell into a first wavelength, and a second wavelength converter configured to convert a wavelength of light emitted from the second light emitting cell into a second wavelength longer than the first wavelength, in which the first light emitting cell has a larger area than the third light emitting cell, and the second light emitting cell has a larger area than the first light emitting cell. |
| US11611018B2 |
Indium gallium nitride red light emitting diode and method of making thereof
A red-light emitting diode includes an n-doped portion, a p-doped portion, and a light emitting region located between the n-doped portion and a p-doped portion. The light emitting region includes a light-emitting indium gallium nitride layer emitting light at a peak wavelength between 600 and 750 nm under electrical bias thereacross, an aluminum gallium nitride layer located on the light-emitting indium gallium nitride layer. and a GaN barrier layer located on the aluminum gallium nitride layer. |
| US11611012B2 |
Method for manufacturing lighting device
A lighting device and method for manufacturing the lighting device are provided. A substrate contains at least a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface. Light-sensitive material is provided on the first surface and/or the second surface. The light-sensitive material is exposed to light by applying the light from a light source onto a mask having a periodic pattern of light-attenuating features with interspaced light-permeable features. The light forms a periodic distribution of high intensity regions with interspaced low intensity regions at the first surface and/or the second surface. A periodic structure is formed based on the exposed light-sensitive material and includes light-attenuating features and light-permeable features corresponding to the light-attenuating features and light-permeable features of the mask. |
| US11611011B2 |
Heterostructure including a semiconductor layer with graded composition
An improved heterostructure for an optoelectronic device is provided. The heterostructure includes an active region, an electron blocking layer, and a p-type contact layer. The heterostructure can include a p-type interlayer located between the electron blocking layer and the p-type contact layer. In an embodiment, the electron blocking layer can have a region of graded transition. The p-type interlayer can also include a region of graded transition. |
| US11611004B2 |
Opto-electronic integrated circuit and computing apparatus
A circuit board (100) has a first surface (102). A semiconductor chip (200) (first semiconductor chip) is located at the first surface side (102) of the circuit board (100). An insulating layer (300) covers the first surface (102) of the circuit board (100) and the semiconductor chip (200). A conductive path (310) (first conductive path) is electrically connected to the semiconductor chip (200) and extends in the insulating layer (300). A waveguide (320) is optically coupled to the semiconductor chip (200) and extends in the insulating layer (300). |
| US11611001B2 |
Localized strain fields in epitaxial layer over cREO
A layered structure (100) for transmission of an acoustic wave, the layered structure (100) comprising: a substrate layer (102); and a second layer (104) over the substrate layer (102), wherein the second layer (104) comprises a plurality of discrete portions (105) adjacent to each other, each discrete portion (105) of the plurality of discrete portions (105) comprising a first subregion (104A) and a second subregion (104B). Also an epitaxial layer (108), grown over the second layer (104), for transmission of the acoustic wave in a major plane of the epitaxial layer (108), wherein a periodicity (λ) of a wavelength of the acoustic wave to be transmitted through the epitaxial layer (108) is approximately equal to a sum of a width (dA) of the first subregion (104A) and a width (dB) of the second subregion (104B). |
| US11610997B2 |
Semiconductor material and semiconductor device having a metal element and nitrogen
A semiconductor material is an oxide including a metal element and nitrogen, in which the metal element is indium (In), an element M (M is aluminum (Al), gallium (Ga), yttrium (Y), or tin (Sn)), and zinc (Zn) and nitrogen is taken into an oxygen vacancy or bonded to an atom of the metal element. |
| US11610993B2 |
3D semiconductor apparatus manufactured with a plurality of substrates and method of manufacture thereof
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method of forming a semiconductor apparatus including a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is formed on a first substrate and includes at least one first semiconductor device. The second portion is formed on a second substrate including a bulk substrate material and includes at least one second semiconductor device. A carrier substrate is attached to the second portion. The bulk substrate material is removed from the second substrate. The first portion and the second portion are bonded to form the semiconductor apparatus where the at least one second semiconductor device is stacked above the at least one first semiconductor device along a Z direction substantially perpendicular to a substrate plane of the first substrate. The at least one first semiconductor device and the at least one second semiconductor device are positioned between the carrier substrate and the first substrate. |
| US11610989B2 |
High electron mobility transistor
The present disclosure provides a high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) including a substrate; a buffer layer over the substrate; a GaN layer over the buffer layer; a first AlGaN layer over the GaN layer; a first AlN layer over the first AlGaN layer; a p-type GaN layer over the first AlN layer; and a second AlN layer on the p-type GaN layer. |
| US11610988B2 |
Thyristor, triac and transient-voltage-suppression diode manufacturing
A device includes a semiconductor substrate. A step is formed at a periphery of the semiconductor substrate. A first layer, made of polysilicon doped in oxygen, is deposited on top of and in contact with a first surface of the substrate. This first layer extends at least on a wall and bottom of the step. A second layer, made of glass, is deposited on top of the first layer and the edges of the first layer. The second layer forms a boss between the step and a central area of the device. |
| US11610987B2 |
NPNP layered MOS-gated trench device having lowered operating voltage
An npnp layered switch is modified to have a composite anode structure. Instead of the continuous p-type bottom anode layer of a typical npnp IGTO device, thyristor, or IGBT, the composite anode is formed of a segmented p-type layer with gaps containing n-type semiconductor material. The n-type material forms a majority carrier path between the bottom anode electrode and the n-type collector of the vertical npn bipolar transistor. When a trenched gate is biased high, the majority carrier path is created between the bottom anode electrode and the top cathode electrode. Such a current path operates at very low operating voltages, starting at slightly above 0 volts. Above operating voltages of about 1.0 volts, the npnp layered switch operates normally and uses regenerative bipolar transistor action to conduct a vast majority of the current. The two current paths conduct in parallel. |
| US11610984B2 |
Spin to photon transducer
Methods, devices, and systems are described for storing and transferring quantum information. An example device may comprise at least one semiconducting layer, one or more conducting layers configured to define at least two quantum states in the at least one semiconducting layer and confine an electron in or more of the at least two quantum states, and a magnetic field source configured to generate an inhomogeneous magnetic field. The inhomogeneous magnetic field may cause a first coupling of an electric charge state of the electron and a spin state of the electron. The device may comprise a resonator configured to confine a photon. An electric-dipole interaction may cause a second coupling of an electric charge state of the electron to an electric field of the photon. |
| US11610980B2 |
Method for processing a FinFET device
A method for processing a forksheet device includes providing a substrate and forming a trench in the substrate, extending along a first direction, in the substrate. The formation of the trench includes forming a grating structure on the substrate that includes a pair of maskings, arranged at a distance from each other, and etching the trench into the substrate in a region between the pair of maskings. The method also includes filling the trench with a filling material and partially recessing the substrate to form a fin structure. This fin structure includes the filled trench, a first section of the substrate at a first side of the filled trench and a second section of the substrate at a second side of the filled trench, and forming a gate structure on and around the fin structure. The method additionally includes forming a gate structure on and around the fin structure. |
| US11610977B2 |
Methods of forming nano-sheet-based devices having inner spacer structures with different widths
A device includes a first channel layer over a semiconductor substrate, a second channel layer over the first channel layer, and a third channel layer over the second channel layer. The channel layers each connects a first and a second source/drain along a first direction. The device also includes a first gate portion between the first and second channel layers; a second gate portion between the second and third channel layers; a first inner spacer between the first and second channel layers and between the first gate portion and the first source/drain; and a second inner spacer between the second and third channel layers and between the second gate portion and the first source/drain. The first and second gate portions have substantially the same gate lengths along the first direction. The first inner spacer has a width along the first direction that is greater than the second inner spacer has. |
| US11610974B2 |
Metal contacts to group IV semiconductors by inserting interfacial atomic monolayers
Techniques for reducing the specific contact resistance of metal-semiconductor (group IV) junctions by interposing a monolayer of group V or group III atoms at the interface between the metal and the semiconductor, or interposing a bi-layer made of one monolayer of each, or interposing multiple such bi-layers. The resulting low specific resistance metal-group IV semiconductor junctions find application as a low resistance electrode in semiconductor devices including electronic devices (e.g., transistors, diodes, etc.) and optoelectronic devices (e.g., lasers, solar cells, photodetectors, etc.) and/or as a metal source and/or drain region (or a portion thereof) in a field effect transistor (FET). The monolayers of group III and group V atoms are predominantly ordered layers of atoms formed on the surface of the group IV semiconductor and chemically bonded to the surface atoms of the group IV semiconductor. |
| US11610973B2 |
High voltage transistor structure and method of fabricating the same
A high voltage transistor structure includes a substrate. A metal gate is disposed on the substrate. At least one insulating material structure penetrates the metal gate. A metal compound layer is disposed between the metal gate and the substrate, between the insulating material structure and the substrate. The metal compound layer is a continuous structure. A gate dielectric layer is disposed under the metal compound layer and contacts the substrate. |
| US11610971B2 |
Cap layer on a polarization layer to preserve channel sheet resistance
An integrated circuit structure comprises a base layer that includes a channel region, wherein the base layer and the channel region include group III-V semiconductor material. A polarization layer stack is over the base layer, wherein the polarization layer stack comprises a buffer stack, an interlayer over the buffer stack, a polarization layer over the interlayer. A cap layer stack is over the polarization layer to reduce transistor access resistance. |
| US11610970B2 |
Semiconductor device having a junction portion contacting a Schottky metal
A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a first conductive-type SiC semiconductor layer, and a Schottky metal, comprising molybdenum and having a thickness of 10 nm to 150 nm, that contacts the surface of the SiC semiconductor layer. The junction of the SiC semiconductor layer to the Schottky metal has a planar structure, or a structure with recesses and protrusions of equal to or less than 5 nm. |
| US11610969B2 |
Insulated-gate semiconductor device
An insulated-gate semiconductor device, which has trenches arranged in a chip structure, the trenches defining both sidewalls in a first and second sidewall surface facing each other, includes: a first unit cell including a main-electrode region in contact with a first sidewall surface of a first trench, a base region in contact with a bottom surface of the main-electrode region and the first sidewall surface, a drift layer in contact with a bottom surface of the base region and the first sidewall surface, and a gate protection-region in contact with the second sidewall surface and a bottom surface of the first trench; and a second unit cell including an operation suppression region in contact with a first sidewall surface and a second sidewall surface of a second trench, wherein the second unit cell includes the second trench located at one end of an array of the trenches. |
| US11610968B2 |
LDMOS transistor and method of forming the LDMOS transistor with improved Rds*Cgd
The Rds*Cgd figure of merit (FOM) of a laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) transistor is improved by forming the drain drift region with a number of dopant implants at a number of depths, and forming a step-shaped back gate region with a number of dopant implants at a number of depths to adjoin the drain drift region. |
| US11610967B2 |
Vertical compound semiconductor structure and method for producing the same
The invention relates to a vertical compound semiconductor structure having a substrate with a first main surface and an opposite second main surface, a vertical channel opening extending completely through the substrate between the first main surface and the second main surface and a layer stack arranged within the vertical channel opening. The layer stack includes an electrically conductive layer arranged within the vertical channel opening and a compound semiconductor layer arranged within the vertical channel opening. The compound semiconductor layer includes a compound semiconductor layer arranged on the electrically conductive layer and connected galvanically to the electrically conductive layer. Further, the invention relates to a method for producing such a vertical compound semiconductor structure. |
| US11610965B2 |
Gate cut isolation including air gap, integrated circuit including same and related method
A gate cut isolation including an air gap and an IC including the same are disclosed. A method of forming the gate cut isolation may include forming an opening in a dummy gate that extends over a plurality of spaced active regions, the opening positioned between and spaced from a pair of active regions. The opening is filled with a fill material, and the dummy gate is removed. A metal gate is formed in a space vacated by the dummy gate on each side of the fill material, and the fill material is removed to form a preliminary gate cut opening. A liner is deposited in the preliminary gate cut opening, creating a gate cut isolation opening, which is then sealed by depositing a sealing layer. The sealing layer closes an upper end of the gate cut isolation opening and forms the gate cut isolation including an air gap. |
| US11610961B2 |
Display device having a flat plate-shaped pixel electrode for improving contrast and method of manufacturing display device
A display device includes a transistor disposed on a substrate and including a gate electrode, a channel region, a source region, and a drain region; a first insulating layer disposed on the transistor; a drain electrode that electrically contacts the drain region through an opening formed in the first insulating layer; a connection electrode disposed on the drain electrode and electrically contacting the drain electrode; a second insulating layer disposed on the first insulating layer, an upper surface of the second insulating layer and an upper surface of the connection electrode forming a flat surface that is parallel to the substrate; a pixel electrode disposed on the flat surface and electrically contacting an upper surface of the connection electrode; an emission layer disposed on the pixel electrode; and a common electrode disposed on the emission layer. |
| US11610960B2 |
Organic light emitting diode display device
An organic light emitting diode display device includes a substrate, a pixel structure, a first circuit transistor, a first lower electrode, a first upper electrode, and a planarization layer. The substrate has a display area and a peripheral area including a first circuit area, a second circuit area, and a blocking area positioned between the first and second circuit areas. The pixel structure is in the display area on the substrate. The first circuit transistor is in the first circuit area on the substrate. The first lower electrode is in the blocking area on the substrate. The first upper electrode is on the first lower electrode, and the first upper electrode and the first lower electrode constitute a first capacitor. The planarization layer is on the substrate, and has a first opening that overlaps the first capacitor in the blocking area. |
| US11610959B2 |
Sensor package module and organic light-emitting display device having same
An organic light-emitting display device comprises a display panel having a transmission area through which external light passes, and a non-transmission area having transmittance lower than that of the transmission area; a data driver supplying a data signal to the display panel; a gate driver supplying a gate signal to the display panel; a timing controller controlling the data driver and the gate driver; and a sensor package module disposed on a rear surface of the display panel and disposed to correspond to the transmission area, wherein the number of conductive films stacked in the transmission area is smaller than that of conductive films stacked in the non-transmission area. |
| US11610958B2 |
Display apparatus
A display apparatus includes: a substrate including a first area, a second area surrounding the first area and spaced apart from the first area, and a third area between the first area and the second area; a plurality of pixel circuits on the substrate at the second area, each of the plurality of pixel circuits including one or more thin-film transistors, and a storage capacitor; a plurality of lines on the substrate at the third area, and electrically connected to the pixel circuits, respectively; an encapsulation member covering the pixel circuits; an input sensing section on the encapsulation member to overlap with the second area, and including sensing electrodes, and trace lines electrically connected to the sensing electrodes; and a plurality of shielding portions on the encapsulation member to overlap with at least one of the plurality of lines, the plurality of shielding portions being spaced apart from each other. |
| US11610955B2 |
Display device with protection and encapsulation layers to seal display unit
A display device includes a substrate, a display unit disposed over the substrate, and an encapsulation layer sealing the display unit. The display unit includes a thin film transistor, a display element electrically connected to the thin film transistor, a protection layer, and a planarization layer. The protection layer and the planarization layer are disposed between the thin film transistor and the display element. The display unit includes a display area and a non-display area outside the display area. The non-display area includes a voltage line. The planarization layer includes a dividing region dividing the planarization layer into a center portion and an outer portion. The dividing region surrounds the display area. The voltage line is partially disposed in the dividing region. The protection layer at least covers the sides of the voltage line disposed in the dividing region. |
| US11610954B1 |
OLED panel with advanced sub-pixel overhangs
Embodiments described herein relate to a device including a substrate, a plurality of adjacent pixel-defining layer (PDL) structures disposed over the substrate, and a plurality of sub-pixels. Each sub-pixel includes adjacent first overhangs, adjacent second overhangs, an anode, a hole injection layer (HIL) material, an additional organic light emitting diode (OLED) material, and a cathode. Each first overhang is defined by a body structure disposed over and extending laterally past a base structure disposed over the PDL structure. Each second overhang is defined by a top structure disposed over and extending laterally past the body structure. The HIL material is disposed over and in contact with the anode and disposed under the adjacent first overhangs. The additional OLED material is disposed over the HIL material and extends under the first overhang. |
| US11610953B2 |
OLED with subpixels having non-emitting filling part
Disclosed are a display substrate, an organic light-emitting diode display panel and a display device. The display substrate includes a base substrate and a pixel defining layer located on a side of the base substrate, wherein the pixel defining layer is provided with a plurality of sub-pixel openings, outer contour shapes and sizes of all the sub-pixel openings are the same, filling parts are arranged in at least parts of the sub-pixel openings, and for different sub-pixel openings, area ratios of the filling parts to the sub-pixel openings are different. |
| US11610943B2 |
Display panel with pixel islands and microlens layer and manufacturing method thereof
The present application relates to the field of display technology, and in particular, to a display panel, method for manufacturing a display panel and display device. The display panel includes: a base substrate; a pixel layer, provided on the base substrate and comprising a plurality of pixel islands; and a microlens layer, provided on a surface of the pixel layer facing away from the base substrate. Each of pixel islands includes a plurality of sub-pixels that emit light of a same color and are seamlessly coupled to each other, and the light emitted by the plurality of sub-pixels in each of the pixel islands is refracted by the microlens layer to be dispersed to different pixel areas. |
| US11610942B2 |
Crossbar array circuit with parallel grounding lines
Technologies relating to crossbar array circuits with parallel grounding lines are disclosed. An example crossbar array circuit includes: a word line; a bit line; a first selector line, a grounding line; a first transistor including a first source terminal, a first drain terminal, a first gate terminal, and a first body terminal; and an RRAM device connected in series with the first transistor. The grounding line is connected to the first body terminal and is grounded and the grounding line parallel to the bit line. The first selector line is connected to the first gate terminal. In some implementations, the RRAM device is connected between the first transistor via the first drain terminal and the word line, and the first source terminal is connected to the bit line. |
| US11610941B2 |
Integrated non volatile memory electrode thin film resistor cap and etch stop
A non-volatile memory cell includes a thin film resistor (TFR) in series and between a top state influencing electrode and a top wire. The TFR limits or generally reduces the electrical current at the top state influencing electrode from the top wire. As such, non-volatile memory cell endurance may be improved and adverse impacts to component(s) that neighbor the non-volatile memory cell may be limited. The TFR is additionally utilized as an etch stop when forming a top wire trench associated with the fabrication of the top wire. In some non-volatile memory cells where cell symmetry is desired, an additional TFR may be formed between a bottom wire and a bottom state influencing electrode. |
| US11610940B2 |
Magnetic memory devices having a first magnetic pattern and multiple second magnetic patterns thereon
Disclosed is a magnetic memory device including a first magnetic pattern that extends in a first direction and has a magnetization direction fixed in one direction, and a plurality of second magnetic patterns that extend across the first magnetic pattern. The second magnetic patterns extend in a second direction intersecting the first direction and are spaced apart from each other in the first direction. Each of the second magnetic patterns includes a plurality of magnetic domains that are spaced apart from each other in the second direction. |
| US11610939B2 |
Light emitting diode (LED) stack for a display
A light emitting diode (LED) pixel for a display including a first LED stack, a second LED stack disposed on a partial region of the first LED stack, a third LED stack disposed on a partial region of the second LED stack, a first ohmic electrode disposed on the first LED stack and forming ohmic contact with the first LED stack, a second transparent electrode disposed between the second LED stack and the third LED stack and in ohmic contact with an upper surface of the second LED stack, and a third transparent electrode in ohmic contact with an upper surface of the third LED stack, in which the first ohmic electrode is laterally spaced apart from the second LED stack. |
| US11610933B2 |
Back-side illuminated image sensor
Image sensors and methods of manufacturing image sensors are provided herein. In an embodiment, a method of manufacturing an image sensor includes forming a structure having a front side and a back side. The structure includes a semiconductor layer extending between the front side and the back side of the structure, and a capacitive insulation wall extending through the semiconductor layer between the front side and the back side of the structure. The capacitive insulation wall includes first and second insulating walls separated by a region of a conductive or semiconductor material. The method further includes selectively etching, from the back side of the structure, portions of the semiconductor layer and the region of conductive or semiconductor material, while retaining adjacent portions of the first and second insulating walls. |
| US11610929B2 |
Semiconductor element, manufacturing method of semiconductor element, and electronic apparatus
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor element, a manufacturing method of a semiconductor element, and an electronic apparatus, which enable suppression of crack occurrences and leaks. The present technology has a laminated structure including an insulating film having a CTE value between those of metal and Si and disposed under a metal wiring, and P—SiO (1 μm) having good coverage and disposed as a via inner insulating film in a TSV side wall portion. As the insulating film having a CTE that is in the middle between those of metal and Si, for example, SiOC is used with a thickness of 0.1 μm and 2 μm respectively in the via inner insulating film and a field top insulating film continuous to the via inner insulating film. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a solid-state imaging element used in an imaging device. |
| US11610928B2 |
Image sensor structure
An example image sensor structure includes an image layer. The image layer includes an array of light detectors disposed therein. A device stack is disposed over the image layer. An array of light guides is disposed in the device stack. Each light guide is associated with at least one light detector of the array of light detectors. A passivation stack is disposed over the device stack. The passivation stack includes a bottom surface in direct contact with a top surface of the light guides. An array of nanowells is disposed in a top layer of the passivation stack. Each nanowell is associated with a light guide of the array of light guides. A crosstalk blocking metal structure is disposed in the passivation stack. The crosstalk blocking metal structure reduces crosstalk within the passivation stack. |
| US11610923B2 |
Ferroelectric-oxide hybrid-gate transistor block for semiconductor imaging sensors
A hybrid ferroelectric-metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (Fe-MOSFET) device is described, such as for incorporation into in-pixel circuitry of an imaging pixel array to provide both reset and dual conversion gain features. The Fe-MOSFET includes source and drain regions implanted in a semiconductor substrate and separated by a channel region. The source region can be the floating diffusion region of a photosensor. A gate structure is deposited on the substrate directly above at least the channel region and an isolating layer is formed on the surface of the substrate to electrically isolate the gate structure from at least the channel region. The isolating layer is split into a Fe segment of ferroelectric material that can be written to different polarization states for conversion gain control, and a dielectric segment that can be used for current channel formation in the channel region. |
| US11610922B2 |
Array substrate and display panel design improving aperture ratio
An array substrate, a display panel, and a method of fabricating an array substrate are provided. The array substrate includes a display region and a non-display region. The array substrate further includes a substrate, a first transparent layer disposed on the substrate corresponding to the display region, an interlayer insulating layer disposed on the substrate, and a second transparent layer disposed on the interlayer insulating layer. |
| US11610921B2 |
Chip having a flexible substrate
A chip is provided. The chip includes a flexible substrate, a plurality of thin-film transistors, a redistribution layer, a first power rail layer, and a second power rail layer. The plurality of thin-film transistors are disposed on the flexible substrate. The redistribution layer is disposed above the plurality of thin-film transistors. The first power rail layer is disposed above the redistribution layer. The first power rail layer provides a first voltage to the plurality of thin-film transistors. The second power rail layer is disposed above the first power rail layer. The second power rail layer provides a second voltage to the plurality of thin-film transistors, wherein the second power rail layer is disposed in a grid shape. |
| US11610919B2 |
Display device and method of manufacturing the same
A display device may include a substrate, a buffer layer on the substrate, a first active pattern on the buffer layer, the first active pattern having a first thickness, a second active pattern on the buffer layer spaced from the first active pattern and having a second thickness smaller than the first thickness, a first gate insulating layer on the first active pattern and the second active pattern, a first gate electrode on the first gate insulating layer, the first gate electrode overlapping the first active pattern, and a second gate electrode on the first gate insulating layer, the second gate electrode overlapping the second active pattern. |
| US11610917B2 |
High voltage three-dimensional devices having dielectric liners
High voltage three-dimensional devices having dielectric liners and methods of forming high voltage three-dimensional devices having dielectric liners are described. For example, a semiconductor structure includes a first fin active region and a second fin active region disposed above a substrate. A first gate structure is disposed above a top surface of, and along sidewalls of, the first fin active region. The first gate structure includes a first gate dielectric, a first gate electrode, and first spacers. The first gate dielectric is composed of a first dielectric layer disposed on the first fin active region and along sidewalls of the first spacers, and a second, different, dielectric layer disposed on the first dielectric layer and along sidewalls of the first spacers. The semiconductor structure also includes a second gate structure disposed above a top surface of, and along sidewalls of, the second fin active region. The second gate structure includes a second gate dielectric, a second gate electrode, and second spacers. The second gate dielectric is composed of the second dielectric layer disposed on the second fin active region and along sidewalls of the second spacers. |
| US11610915B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of the semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes: a first stack structure; a second stack structure adjacent to the first stack structure in a first direction; a first insulating layer including protrusion parts protruding in a second direction intersecting the first direction and including a concave part defined between the protrusion parts; and a second insulating layer located between the first stack structure and the second stack structure, the second insulating layer inserted into the concave part and the second insulating layer in contact with at least one protrusion part among the protrusion parts. |
| US11610914B2 |
Vertical thin-film transistor and application as bit-line connector for 3-dimensional memory arrays
A memory circuit includes: (i) a semiconductor substrate having a planar surface, the semiconductor substrate having formed therein circuitry for memory operations; (ii) a memory array formed above the planar surface, the memory array having one or more electrodes to memory circuits in the memory array, the conductors each extending along a direction substantially parallel to the planar surface; and (iii) one or more transistors each formed above, alongside or below a corresponding one of the electrodes but above the planar surface of the semiconductor substrate, each transistor (a) having first and second drain/source region and a gate region each formed out of a semiconductor material, wherein the first drain/source region, the second drain/source region or the gate region has formed thereon a metal silicide layer; and (b) selectively connecting the corresponding electrode to the circuitry for memory operations. |
| US11610913B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a stacked structure including a first region in which conductive layers and the insulating layers are stacked alternately with each other, and a second region in which sacrificial layers and the insulating layers are stacked alternately with each other, a first slit structure located at a boundary between the first region and the second region and including a first through portion passing through the stacked structure and first protrusions extending from a sidewall of the first through portion, a second slit structure located at the boundary and including a second through portion passing through the stacked structure and second protrusions extending from a sidewall of the second through portion and coupled to the first protrusions, a circuit located under the stacked structure, and a contact plug passing through the second region of the stacked structure and electrically connected to the circuit. |
| US11610911B2 |
Semiconductor assemblies including combination memory and methods of manufacturing the same
Semiconductor devices including vertically-stacked combination memory devices and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. The vertically-stacked combination memory devices include at least one volatile memory die and at least one non-volatile memory die stacked on top of each other. The corresponding stack may be attached to a controller die that is configured to provide interface for the attached volatile and non-volatile memory dies. |
| US11610909B2 |
Processes for forming 3-dimensional horizontal NOR memory arrays
A process forms thin-film storage transistors (e.g., HNOR devices) with improved channel regions by conformally depositing a thin channel layer in a cavity bordering a source region and a drain region, such that a portion of the channel material abuts by junction contact the source region and another portion of the channel layer abut by junction contact the drain region. The cavity is also bordered by a storage layer. In one form of the process, the channel region is formed before the storage layer is formed. In another form of the storage layer is formed before the channel region is formed. |
| US11610908B2 |
Vertical memory devices
A vertical memory device including: a substrate including a first and second regions; gate electrodes spaced apart from each other in a first direction, each of the gate electrodes extending in a second direction on the first and second regions, and the gate electrode are stacked on the second region; a channel extending in the first direction on the first region, the channel extending through the gate electrodes; a first conductive structure on an end portion of a first gate electrode, the end portion on the second region, the first gate electrode being disposed at a lowermost level; and a second conductive structure spaced apart from the first conductive structure in the second direction on the second region, the second conductive structure not overlapping the first gate electrode in the first direction and being disposed at a height different from that of the first conductive structure. |
| US11610901B2 |
Semiconductor device having a butted contact, method of forming and method of using
A semiconductor structure includes a first transistor comprising a first gate structure over a first active region in a substrate. The semiconductor structure further includes a second active region in the substrate. The semiconductor structure further includes a first butted contact. The butted contact includes a first portion extending in a first direction and overlapping the second active region, and a second portion extending from the first portion in a second direction, different from the first direction, wherein the second portion directly contacts the first gate structure. |
| US11610900B2 |
Semiconductor memory device
The invention provides a semiconductor storage device including a substrate, a plurality of active areas which are arranged along an oblique direction, a dummy active area pattern, and the dummy active area pattern comprises a first edge principal axis pattern and a plurality of first long branches and a plurality of short branches connecting edge principal axis patterns, and a plurality of storage nodes are in contact with each other. According to the invention, a part of the storage node contacts are arranged on the dummy active area pattern, so that the difficulty of the manufacturing process can be reduced, and the surrounding storage node contacts can serve as protection structures to protect components and prevent the components from being physically or electrically affected. |
| US11610894B2 |
Capacitor separations in dielectric layers
Embodiments herein describe techniques for a semiconductor device including a substrate, a first inter-level dielectric (ILD) layer above the substrate, and a second ILD layer above the first ILD layer. A first capacitor and a second capacitor are formed within the first ILD layer and the second ILD layer. A first top plate of the first capacitor and a second top plate of the second capacitor are formed at a boundary between the first ILD layer and the second ILD layer. The first capacitor and the second capacitor are separated by a dielectric area in the first ILD layer. The dielectric area includes a first dielectric area that is coplanar with the first top plate or the second top plate, and a second dielectric area above the first dielectric area and to separate the first top plate and the second top plate. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. |
| US11610893B2 |
Method for fabricating semiconductor memory device with buried capacitor and fin-like electrodes
A method for forming a semiconductor device is disclosed. A substrate having a semiconductor substrate, an insulator layer on the semiconductor substrate, and a silicon device layer on the insulator layer is provided. At least one capacitor cavity with corrugated sidewall surface is formed within the insulator layer between the semiconductor substrate and the silicon device layer. At least one buried capacitor is formed in the at least one capacitor cavity. The at least one buried capacitor comprises inner and outer electrodes with a capacitor dielectric layer therebetween. At least one transistor is formed on the substrate. The at least one transistor comprises a source region, a drain region, a channel region between the source region and the drain region, and a gate over the channel region. The source region is electrically connected to the inner electrode of the at least one buried capacitor. |
| US11610892B2 |
Buried word line structure and manufacturing method thereof
A buried word line structure, including a first isolation structure, a buried word line, a first barrier layer, a second barrier layer, a channel layer, and a second isolation structure, is provided. The first isolation structure is disposed in the substrate and has a trench. The buried word line is disposed on a bottom surface of the trench. The first barrier layer is disposed between the buried word line and a sidewall and the bottom surface of the trench. The second barrier layer covers a top surface of the buried word line and includes a main portion and an extension portion. The main portion is located on the buried word line, and the extension portion extends upward from periphery of the main portion. The channel layer is disposed on the first barrier layer and the second barrier layer. The second isolation structure is disposed on the channel layer. |
| US11610891B2 |
Semiconductor device including storage node electrode including step and method of manufacturing the semiconductor device
A semiconductor device may include a bottom sub-electrode on a substrate, a top sub-electrode on the bottom sub-electrode, a dielectric layer covering the bottom and top sub-electrodes, and a plate electrode on the dielectric layer. The top sub-electrode may include a step extending from a side surface thereof, which is adjacent to the bottom sub-electrode, to an inner portion of the top sub-electrode. The top sub-electrode may include a lower portion at a level that is lower than the step and an upper portion at a level which is higher than the step. A maximum width of the lower portion may be narrower than a minimum width of the upper portion. The maximum width of the lower portion may be narrower than a width of a top end of the bottom sub-electrode. The bottom sub-electrode may include a recess in a region adjacent to the top sub-electrode. |
| US11610889B2 |
Arsenic-doped epitaxial, source/drain regions for NMOS
Techniques are disclosed for providing an integrated circuit structure having NMOS transistors including an arsenic-doped interface layer between epitaxially grown source/drain regions and a channel region. The arsenic-doped interface layer may include, for example, arsenic-doped silicon (Si:As) having arsenic concentrations in a range of about 1E20 atoms per cm3 to about 5E21 atoms per cm3. The interface layer may have a relatively uniform thickness in a range of about 0.5 nm to full fill where the entire source/drain region is composed of the Si:As. In cases where the arsenic-doped interface layer only partially fills the source/drain regions, another n-type doped semiconductor material can fill remainder (e.g., phosphorus-doped III-V compound or silicon). The use of a layer having a high arsenic concentration can provide improved NMOS performance in the form of abrupt junctions in the source/drain regions and highly conductive source/drain regions with negligible diffusion of arsenic into the channel region. |
| US11610887B2 |
Side-by-side integration of III-n transistors and thin-film transistors
Disclosed herein are IC structures, packages, and devices that include thin-film transistors (TFTs) integrated on the same substrate/die/chip as III-N transistors. An example IC structure includes an III-N semiconductor material provided over a support structure, a III-N transistor provided over a first portion of the III-N material, and a TFT provided over a second portion of the III-N material. Because the III-N transistor and the TFT are both provided over a single support structure, they may be referred to as “integrated” transistors. Because the III-N transistor and the TFT are provided over different portions of the III-N semiconductor material, and, therefore, over different portion of the support structure, their integration may be referred to as “side-by-side” integration. Integrating TFTs with III-N transistors may reduce costs and improve performance, e.g., by reducing losses incurred when power is routed off chip in a multi-chip package. |
| US11610884B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes: an FET structure that is formed next to a looped trench on a semiconductor substrate and that has an n+ emitter region and an n− drain region facing each other in the depth direction of the looped trench across a p-type base region; a p-type floating region formed on the side of the looped trench opposite to the FET structure; and an emitter connecting part that is electrically connected to the n+ emitter region and a trench gate provided in the same trench, the emitter connecting part and the trench gate being insulated from each other by the looped trench. The trench gate faces the FET structure, and the emitter connecting part faces the p-type floating region, across an insulating film. |
| US11610882B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate in which a first region having a freewheeling diode arranged therein, second regions having an IGBT arranged therein, and a withstand-voltage retention region surrounding the first region and the second regions in plan view are defined. The semiconductor substrate has a first main surface and a second main surface. The semiconductor substrate includes an anode layer having a first conductivity type, which is arranged in the first main surface of the first region, and a diffusion layer having the first conductivity type, which is arranged in the first main surface of the withstand-voltage retention region adjacently to the anode layer. A first trench is arranged in the first main surface on a side of the anode layer with respect to a boundary between the anode layer and the diffusion layer. |
| US11610881B2 |
Detection device
A detection device comprises a substrate, a terminal part provided on the substrate and having a plurality of terminals, a first protection circuit unit provided on the substrate and having a plurality of first protection circuits, a selector unit provided on the substrate and having a plurality of selectors, a second protection circuit unit provided on the substrate and having a plurality of second protection circuits and a sensor unit provided on the substrate and having a plurality of sensors. The first protection circuit unit is provided between the terminal unit and the selector unit, and the second protection circuit unit is provided between selector unit and the sensor unit. |
| US11610876B2 |
Light conversion device
A light conversion device includes a light-emitting unit, a photoelectric conversion unit, and an electroconductive bonding layer. Each of the light-emitting unit and the photoelectric conversion unit includes a first-type region and a second-type region opposite to the first-type region. The electroconductive bonding layer is disposed between the light-emitting unit and the photoelectric conversion unit for connecting the photoelectric conversion unit with the light-emitting unit. When the light conversion device is operated to receive a bias and an external light, the light-emitting unit generates a modulated light having a frequency different from that of the external light. |
| US11610874B2 |
Micro light-emitting diode displays having hybrid inorganic-organic pixel structures
Micro light-emitting diode displays having hybrid inorganic-organic pixel structures and methods of fabricating micro light-emitting diode displays having hybrid inorganic-organic pixel structures are described. In an example, a micro light emitting diode pixel structure includes a plurality of inorganic micro light emitting diode devices in a dielectric layer. An organic light emitting diode device is in the dielectric layer and laterally adjacent to the plurality of inorganic micro light emitting diode devices. A transparent conducting oxide layer is above the dielectric layer and can act as a common cathode electrode for the inorganic and organic light emitting diodes. |
| US11610871B2 |
Package-on-package (POP) type semiconductor packages
Provided are package-on-package (POP)-type semiconductor packages including a lower package having a first size and including a lower package substrate in which a lower semiconductor chip is, an upper redistribution structure on the lower package substrate and the lower semiconductor chip, and alignment marks. The packages may also include an upper package having a second size smaller than the first size and including an upper package substrate and an upper semiconductor chip. The upper package substrate may be mounted on the upper redistribution structure of the lower package and electrically connected to the lower package, and the upper semiconductor chip may be on the upper package substrate. The alignment marks may be used for identifying the upper package, and the alignment marks may be below and near outer boundaries of the upper package on the lower package. |
| US11610869B2 |
Display device and tiled display device having the same
A display device includes a substrate including a display unit including a plurality of pixels and a protrusion protruding from an edge of the display unit, the plurality of pixels including a first pixel on an outermost region of the display unit and a second pixel adjacent to the first pixel; a driver on the protrusion; and a fan-out line to electrically connect the first pixel and the driver, wherein at least a portion of the fan-out line is on the display unit between the first pixel and the second pixel in a plan view. |
| US11610868B2 |
μ-LED, μ-LED device, display and method for the same
The invention relates to various aspects of a μ-LED or a μ-LED array for augmented reality or lighting applications, in particular in the automotive field. The μ-LED is characterized by particularly small dimensions in the range of a few μm. |
| US11610867B2 |
Method of growing plants using LED light and LED light system employing same
A Light-Emitting Diode (LED) system for facilitating the growth of a plant includes at least one LED array having one or more LEDs for emitting colored light spectra absorbable by a plant, a light detector for detecting light reflected from the plant, and a LED light driver electrically coupled to the at least one LED array and the light detector. The LED light driver receives electrical power from a power source and drives the at least one LED array using the received electrical power; receives from the light detector a signal indicative of the reflected light spectra, and controls the at least one LED array to adjust at least one of the intensities and the spectra of the light emitted from the at least one LED array, based on the received signal. |
| US11610861B2 |
Diffusion soldering with contaminant protection
A method of soldering elements together includes providing a substrate having a metal die attach surface, providing a semiconductor die that is configured as a power semiconductor device and having a semiconductor body, a rear side metallization, and a front side layer stack, the front side layer stack having a front side metallization and a contaminant protection layer, arranging the semiconductor die on the substrate with a region of solder material between the die attach surface and the rear side metallization, and performing a soldering process that reflows the region of solder material to form a soldered joint between the metal die attach surface and the rear side metallization, wherein the soldering process comprises applying mechanical pressure to the front side metallization. |
| US11610855B2 |
Chip packaging method and package structure
The present disclosure provides a chip packaging method and a package structure. The chip packaging method comprises: forming a wafer conductive layer on a wafer active surface of a wafer; forming a protective layer having certain material properties on the wafer conductive layer, the protective layer encapsulating the wafer conductive layer and exposing a front surface of the wafer conductive layer; separating (such as cutting) the wafer formed with the wafer conductive layer and the protective layer to form a die; attaching (such as adhering) the die onto a carrier; forming a molding layer having certain material properties on a die back surface of the die on the carrier; removing (such as stripping off) the carrier; forming a panel-level conductive layer electrically connected with the wafer conductive layer; and forming a dielectric layer. The package structure has a series of structural and material properties, so as to reduce warpage in the packaging process, lower a requirement on an accuracy of aligning the die, reduce a difficulty in the packaging process, and make the packaged chip more durable, and thus the present disclosure is especially suitable for large panel-level package and package of a thin chip with a large electric flux. |
| US11610848B2 |
Semiconductor package, semiconductor device and shielding housing of semiconductor package
A semiconductor package, a semiconductor device and a shielding housing for a semiconductor package are provided. The semiconductor package includes a semiconductor chip having a first region and a second region beside the first region; and a shielding housing encasing the semiconductor chip, made of a magnetic permeable material, and including a first shielding plate, a second shielding plate opposite to the first shielding plate and a shielding wall extending between the first shielding plate and the second shielding plate. The first shielding plate has an opening exposing the first region and includes a raised portion surrounding the opening and a flat portion beside the raised portion and shielding the second region. A first distance from a level of the semiconductor chip to an outer surface of the raised portion is greater than a second distance from the level to an outer surface of the flat portion. |
| US11610847B2 |
Laser-based redistribution and multi-stacked packages
A semiconductor device has a first package layer. A first shielding layer is formed over the first package layer. The first shielding layer is patterned to form a redistribution layer. An electrical component is disposed over the redistribution layer. An encapsulant is deposited over the electrical component. A second shielding layer is formed over the encapsulant. The second shielding layer is patterned. The patterning of the first shielding layer and second shielding layer can be done with a laser. The second shielding layer can be patterned to form an antenna. |
| US11610846B2 |
Protective elements for bonded structures including an obstructive element
A bonded structure is disclosed. The bonded structure can include a semiconductor element comprising active circuitry and a first bonding layer. The bonded structure can include a protective element directly bonded to the semiconductor element without an adhesive along a bonding interface. The protective element can include an obstructive material disposed over the active circuitry and a second bonding layer on the obstructive material. The second bonding layer can be directly bonded to the first bonding layer without an adhesive. The obstructive material can be configured to obstruct external access to the active circuitry. |
| US11610845B2 |
Semiconductor package and a method of fabricating the same
A semiconductor package including: a first package; a second package on the first package, the second package including a second package substrate, first and second semiconductor chips on the second package substrate, and a second molding part on the second package substrate and covering the first and second semiconductor chips; and a fill part between the first package and the second package, a first through hole that penetrates the second package substrate, the first through hole being between the first and second semiconductor chips, a second through hole that penetrates the second molding part, the second through hole being connected to the first through hole, and wherein the fill part has an extension disposed in the first through hole and the second through hole. |
| US11610844B2 |
High performance module for SiP
High performance modules for use in System-in-Package (SIP) devices, and methods of manufacture for such modules and SIPs. The modules employ one or more interposer substrates on which high performance components and/or devices are operatively mounted and interconnected. |
| US11610838B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, an active pattern on the first surface, the active pattern including a source/drain region, a power rail electrically connected to the source/drain region, and a power delivery network on the second surface, the power delivery network electrically connected to the power rail. The semiconductor layer includes an etch stop dopant, and the etch stop dopant has a maximum concentration at the second surface. |
| US11610835B2 |
Organic interposer including intra-die structural reinforcement structures and methods of forming the same
An organic interposer includes dielectric material layers embedding redistribution interconnect structures, package-side bump structures located on a first side of the dielectric material layers, and die-side bump structures located on a second side of the dielectric material layers. A gap region is present between a first area including first die-side bump structures and a second area including second die-side bump structures. Stress-relief line structures are located on, or within, the dielectric material layers within an area of the gap region in the plan view. Each stress-relief line structures may include straight line segments that laterally extend along a respective horizontal direction and is not electrically connected to the redistribution interconnect structures. The stress-relief line structures may include the same material as, or may include a different material from, a metallic material of the redistribution interconnect structures or bump structures that are located at a same level. |
| US11610833B2 |
Conductive feature with non-uniform critical dimension and method of manufacturing the same
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device, a semiconductor assembly and method of manufacturing the semiconductor assembly. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a conductive feature in the substrate, an isolation liner between the substrate and the conductive feature, and a main component in the substrate. The conductive feature includes first to third blocks. The first block has a uniform first critical dimension, wherein the main component is disposed around the first block. The second block has a uniform second critical dimension greater than the first critical dimension. The third block is interposed between the first block and the second block and has varying third critical dimensions. |
| US11610831B2 |
Methods for establishing thermal joints between heat spreaders or lids and heat sources
According to various aspects, exemplary embodiments are disclosed of thermal interface materials, electronic devices, and methods for establishing thermal joints between heat spreaders or lids and heat sources. In exemplary embodiments, a method of establishing a thermal joint for conducting heat between a heat spreader and a heat source of an electronic device generally includes positioning a thermal interface material (TIM1) between the heat spreader and the heat source. |
| US11610829B2 |
Heat-conductive sheet
A heat-conducting sheet comprising a first heat-conducting layer, a second heat-conducting layer, an interface, a polymer matrix, an anisotropic filler and a non-anisotropic filler, wherein: the first and second heat-conducting layers each comprise the polymer matrix, the anisotropic filler and the non-anisotropic filler, the anisotropic filler oriented in a thickness direction, the first and second heat-conducting layers are laminated via the interface, the interface comprises the polymer matrix and the non-anisotropic filler, a filling ratio of the anisotropic filler in the interface is lower than that in the first and second heat-conducting layers, and a filling ratio of the non-anisotropic filler in the interface is higher than that in the first and second heat-conducting layers; and a method of producing the heat-conducting sheet. |
| US11610828B2 |
Semiconductor package and method of manufacture
A method of manufacture for a semiconductor package includes; forming a molding member on side surfaces of the semiconductor chips, using an adhesive to attach a carrier substrate to upper surfaces of the molding member and the semiconductor chips, using a first blade having a first blade-width to cut away selected portions of the carrier substrate and portions of the adhesive underlying the selected portions of the carrier substrate, and using the first blade to partially cut into an upper surface of the molding member to form a first cutting groove, wherein the selected portions of the carrier substrate are dispose above portions of the molding member between adjacent ones of semiconductor chips, using a second blade having a second blade-width narrower than the first blade-width to cut through a lower surface of the molding member to form a second cutting groove, wherein a combination of the first cutting groove and the second cutting groove separate a package structure including a semiconductor chip supported by a cut portion of the carrier substrate and bonding the package structure to an upper surface of a package substrate. |
| US11610823B2 |
Method for forming semiconductor device and resulting device
A semiconductor device includes: at least one gate structure comprising a gate electrode over a substrate, the gate electrode comprising a conductive material; and a first dielectric layer disposed along one or more side wall of the at least one gate structure, the first dielectric layer comprising fluorine doped silicon oxycarbonitride or fluorine doped silicon oxycarbide. |
| US11610812B2 |
Multi-wafer capping layer for metal arcing protection
The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to a method of forming an integrated chip structure. The method may be performed by forming a plurality of interconnect layers within a first interconnect structure disposed over an upper surface of a first semiconductor substrate. An edge trimming process is performed to remove parts of the first interconnect structure and the first semiconductor substrate along a perimeter of the first semiconductor substrate. The edge trimming process results in the first semiconductor substrate having a recessed surface coupled to the upper surface by way of an interior sidewall disposed directly over the first semiconductor substrate. A dielectric capping structure is formed onto a sidewall of the first interconnect structure after performing the edge trimming process. |
| US11610810B2 |
Maskless air gap enabled by a single damascene process
A method for fabricating an integrated circuit comprises forming one or more conductive features supported by pillars of a first insulating layer in a first metal layer. One or more vias are formed in a via layer, the one or more vias over and on the first metal layer and in electrical connection with ones of the one or more conductive features. Subsequent to via formation, air gaps are between adjacent ones of the one or more conductive features in the first metal layer to separate the one or more conductive features. A second insulating layer is formed over the one or more conductive features and over the one or more vias, such that the second insulating layer covers the first metal layer and the via layer while bridging over the air gaps, wherein tops the air gaps are substantially coplanar with tops of the one or more conductive features. |
| US11610809B2 |
Amorphous metal thin film nonlinear resistor
Amorphous multi-component metallic films can be used to improve the performance of electronic components such as resistors, diodes, and thin film transistors. Interfacial properties of AMMFs are superior to those of crystalline metal films, and therefore electric fields at the interface of an AMMF and an oxide film are more uniform. An AMMF resistor (AMNR) can be constructed as a three-layer structure including an amorphous metal, a tunneling insulator, and a crystalline metal layer. By modifying the order of the materials, the patterns of the electrodes, and the size and number of overlap areas, the I-V performance characteristics of the AMNR are adjusted. A non-coplanar AMNR has a five-layer structure that includes three metal layers separated by metal oxide tunneling insulator layers, wherein an amorphous metal thin film material is used to fabricate the middle electrodes. |
| US11610804B2 |
Semiconductor manufacturing device
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor manufacturing device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a chamber; and a stage, wherein the stage comprises: a holding member arranged in the chamber, the holding member having a plurality of convex parts on a surface for mounting a substrate; and a plurality of pins moving up and down in a vertical direction with respect to the holding member, the plurality of lift pins rotating around a rotating shaft parallel to the vertical direction, wherein the plurality of lift pins rotates the substrate around the rotating shaft. |
| US11610803B2 |
Mounting fixture of bearing ring for wafer
The present disclosure provides a mounting fixture of a bearing ring for a wafer. The bearing ring includes a circular ring portion, screw elements, and multiple permanent seats, wherein the circular ring portion includes a ring body and multiple lugs provided with light holes, each of the permanent seats is provided with a threaded hole, and one of the screw elements can be in threaded connection with the threaded hole after passing through a light hole. The mounting fixture includes a first clamp body and a second clamp body, where the first clamp body is provided with a first circular hole portion and first groove portions; a diameter of the first circular hole portion is greater than or equal to an external diameter of the ring body; the second clamp body is provided with second groove portions penetrating through the second clamp body. |
| US11610802B2 |
Method for producing a 3D semiconductor device and structure with single crystal transistors and metal gate electrodes
A method for producing a 3D semiconductor device including: providing a first level including a first single crystal layer; forming peripheral circuitry in and/or on the first level, and includes first single crystal transistors; forming a first metal layer on top of the first level; forming a second metal layer on top of the first metal layer; forming second level disposed on top of the second metal layer; performing a first lithography step; forming a third level on top of the second level; performing a second lithography step; processing steps to form first memory cells within the second level and second memory cells within the third level, where the plurality of first memory cells include at least one second transistor, and the plurality of second memory cells include at least one third transistor; and deposit a gate electrode for second and third transistors simultaneously. |
| US11610798B2 |
Electrostatic chuck assembly, electrostatic chuck, and focus ring
An electrostatic chuck assembly includes a ceramic body having a wafer placement surface that is a circular surface, and an F/R placement surface that is formed around the wafer placement surface and is positioned at a lower level than the wafer placement surface, a wafer attraction electrode embedded inside the ceramic body and positioned in a facing relation to the wafer placement surface, an F/R attraction electrode embedded inside the ceramic body and positioned in a facing relation to the F/R placement surface, a concave-convex region formed in the F/R placement surface to hold gas, a focus ring placed on the F/R placement surface, and a pair of elastic annular sealing members arranged between the F/R placement surface and the focus ring on the inner peripheral side and the outer peripheral side of the F/R placement surface, and surrounding the concave-convex region in a sandwiching relation. |
| US11610794B2 |
Side storage pods, equipment front end modules, and methods for operating the same
Electronic device processing assemblies including an equipment front end module (EFEM) with at least one side storage pod attached thereto are described. The side storage pod has a side storage container. In some embodiments, an exhaust conduit extends between the chamber and a pod plenum that can contain a chemical filter proximate thereto. A supplemental fan may draw purge gas from the pod plenum through the chemical filter and route the gas through a return duct to an upper plenum of the EFEM. Methods and side storage pods in accordance with these and other embodiments are also disclosed. |
| US11610789B2 |
Semiconductor manufacturing apparatus and method of manufacturing semiconductor device
In one embodiment, a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a container configured to contain a substrate, and a pipe configured to supply the container with liquid to treat the substrate. The apparatus further includes an ejector including a first passage where the liquid introduced from the pipe and the liquid introduced from the container are joined and pass through, and a first opening configured to eject the liquid that has passed through the first passage. Furthermore, the first passage has an area where a sectional area of the first passage becomes large as advancing downstream in the liquid. |
| US11610786B2 |
Semiconductor package and method of manufacturing semiconductor package
A semiconductor package includes a package substrate, at least one semiconductor chip mounted on the package substrate, a molding member on the package substrate to cover at least a portion of the semiconductor chip, and a mechanical reinforcing member provided around the semiconductor chip within the molding member and extending in at least one direction. |
| US11610784B2 |
Method for introducing at least one cutout or aperture into a sheetlike workpiece
A method for introducing at least one cutout, in particular in the form of an aperture, into a sheetlike workpiece having a thickness of less than 3 mm, involving detecting a laser beam onto the surface of the workpiece, selecting the exposure time of the laser beam to be extremely short so that only a modification of the workpiece concentrically around a beam axis of the laser beam occurs, such a modified region having defects resulting in a chain of blisters, and, as a result of the action of a corrosive medium, anisotropically removing material by successive etching in those regions of the workpiece that are formed by the defects and have previously been modified by the laser beam, resulting, along the cylindrical zone of action, in producing a cutout as an aperture in the workpiece. |
| US11610782B2 |
Electro-oxidative metal removal in through mask interconnect fabrication
In one implementation a cathode for electrochemical metal removal has a generally disc-shaped body and a plurality of channels in the generally disc-shaped body, where the channels are configured for passing electrolyte through the body of the cathode. The channels may be fitted with non-conductive (e.g., plastic) tubes that in some embodiments extend above the body of the cathode to a height of at least 1 cm. The cathode may also include a plurality of indentations at the edge to facilitate electrolyte flow at the edge of the cathode. In some embodiments the cathode includes a plurality of non-conductive fixation elements on a conductive surface of the cathode, where the fixation elements are attachable to one or more handles for removing the cathode from the electrochemical metal removal apparatus. |
| US11610778B2 |
Self aligned litho etch process patterning method
A method of defining a pattern includes forming a plurality of cut shapes and a first plurality of openings within a first layer of a multi-layer hard mask to expose first portions of the second layer. A plurality of etch stops is formed by implanting an etch rate modifying species in a portion of the plurality of cut shapes. The first layer is directionally etched at the plurality of cut shapes such that the plurality of etch stops remain. A spacer layer is formed on the first layer and the first portions. A second plurality of openings is formed within the spacer layer to expose second portions of the second layer. The spacer layer is directionally etched to remove the spacer layer from sidewalls of the plurality of etch stops. Portions of the second layer exposed through the first plurality of openings and the second plurality of openings are etched. |
| US11610776B2 |
Method of linearized film oxidation growth
Methods of forming an oxide layer over a semiconductor substrate are provided. The method includes forming a first oxide containing portion of the oxide layer over a semiconductor substrate at a first growth rate by exposing the substrate to a first gas mixture having a first oxygen percentage at a first temperature. A second oxide containing portion is formed over the substrate at a second growth rate by exposing the substrate to a second gas mixture having a second oxygen percentage at a second temperature. A third oxide containing portion is formed over the substrate at a third growth rate by exposing the substrate to a third gas mixture having a third oxygen percentage at a third temperature. The first growth rate is slower than each subsequent growth rate and each growth rate subsequent to the second growth rate is within 50% of each other. |
| US11610772B2 |
Substrate cleaning method and substrate cleaning apparatus
A valve is closed while a cleaning liquid is fed into a tubular body of a cleaning nozzle, and a piezoelectric element applies vibrations to the cleaning liquid. This causes droplets of the cleaning liquid to be produced and discharged from a plurality of discharge holes. The droplet diameter of the discharged droplets is in the range from 15 to 200 μm, and the distribution of the droplet diameter is such that the value of where a value of 3σ does not exceed 10% of the average droplet diameter. The droplet speed is in the range from 20 to 100 meters per second, and the distribution of the droplet speed is such that the value of where a value of 3σ does not exceed 10% of the average droplet speed. The droplet flow rate is not less than 10 milliliters per minute. Discharging the droplets of the cleaning liquid from the cleaning nozzle toward a substrate while satisfying these discharge conditions improves cleaning efficiency without damages to the substrate. |
| US11610765B1 |
Atmospheric-pressure plasma processing apparatus and method using argon plasma gas
An atmospheric pressure plasma processing apparatus and method employing argon as a plasma gas in the absence of helium, including nanosecond pulse-powered electrodes having planar surfaces, and grounded electrodes having planar surfaces parallel to the surfaces of the powered electrodes and spaced-apart a chosen distance therefrom, forming plasma regions, are described. The absence of helium from the plasma discharge has been found not to affect the quality of the resulting plasma-polymerized coatings of the processed substrates. |
| US11610762B2 |
Plasma processing apparatus and power supply method
A plasma processing apparatus includes a process chamber; a mounting stage; first and second electrodes; first and second high frequency power sources, wherein the first power source supplies a waveform of one of a first pulse wave having high and low levels of first high frequency power or a continuous wave in the first period, supplies a waveform of the other in the second period, and stepwise or continuously changes the low level of the first pulse wave in the transition period, wherein the second power source supplies a waveform of one of a second pulse wave having high and low levels of second high frequency power or a continuous wave in the first period, supplies a waveform of the other in the second period, and stepwise or continuously changes the low level of the second pulse wave in the transition period. |
| US11610761B2 |
Synchronization between an excitation source and a substrate bias supply
Systems and methods for plasma processing are disclosed. A method includes applying pulsed power to a plasma processing chamber with an excitation source during a first processing step with a first duty cycle and applying, during the first processing step, an asymmetric periodic voltage waveform to a substrate support to produce a first plasma sheath voltage between a substrate and a plasma. Pulsed power is applied to the plasma processing chamber with the excitation source during a second processing step with a second duty cycle and during the second processing step, a different asymmetric periodic voltage waveform is applied to the substrate support to produce a different plasma sheath voltage between the substrate and the plasma. |
| US11610758B2 |
Charged particle beam lithography system
A collimated electron beam is illuminated to a grounded metal mask such that patterns on the mask can be transferred to a substrate identically. In a preferred embodiment, a linear electron source can be provided for enhancing lithographic throughput. The metal mask is adjacent to the substrate, but does not contact with substrate. |
| US11610757B2 |
Sensor module for scanning electron microscopy applications
A scanning electron microscopy (SEM) system is disclosed. The SEM system includes an electron source configured to generate an electron beam and a set of electron optics configured to scan the electron beam across the sample and focus electrons scattered by the sample onto one or more imaging planes. The SEM system includes a first detector module positioned at the one or more imaging planes, wherein the first detector module includes a multipixel solid-state sensor configured to convert scattered particles, such as electrons and/or x-rays, from the sample into a set of equivalent signal charges. The multipixel solid-state sensor is connected to two or more Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) configured to process the set of signal charges from one or more pixels of the sensor. |
| US11610755B2 |
Method of automatically focusing a charged particle beam on a surface region of a sample, method of calculating a converging set of sharpness values of images of a charged particle beam device and charged particle beam device for imaging a sample
A method of automatically focusing a charged particle beam on a surface region of a sample is provided. The method includes acquiring a plurality of images for a corresponding plurality of focusing strength values; calculating a plurality of sharpness values based on the plurality of images, the plurality of sharpness values are calculated with a sharpness function provided as a sum in a frequency space based on the plurality of images; and determining subsequent focusing strength values of the plurality of focusing strength values with a golden ratio search algorithm based one the calculated sharpness values. |
| US11610754B2 |
Charged particle beam device
An object of the invention is to provide a charged particle beam device capable of specifying an irradiation position of light on a sample when there is no mechanism for forming an image of backscattered electrons. The charged particle beam device according to the invention determines whether an irradiation position of a primary charged particle beam and an irradiation position of light match based on a difference between a first observation image acquired when the sample is irradiated with only the primary charged particle beam and a second observation image acquired when sample is irradiated with the light in addition to the primary charged particle beam. It is determined whether the irradiation position of the primary charged particle beam and the irradiation position of the light match using the first observation image and a measurement result by a light amount measuring device. |
| US11610750B2 |
Electromechanical switch with stabilized engagement between contacts
An electromechanical switch includes first and second stationary contacts and a movable contact. Each of the first and second stationary contacts has a respective protrusion at a mating end thereof. The movable contact defines a first depression and a second depression along a mating side thereof. The movable contact is reciprocally movable into and out of a closed position relative to the first and second stationary contacts. In the closed position, the mating side of the movable contact engages the mating ends of the first and second stationary contacts such that the protrusion of the first stationary contact projects into the first depression and the protrusion of the second stationary contact projects into the second depression. |
| US11610749B2 |
Programmable timer outlet
A switched power receptacle that can be programmed to provide power for a user-selected duration in a user-selected cycle. The invention can be plugged into a conventional receptacle, extension cord, or other source of power. One or more user inputs and displays are provided so that the user can program the cycle for switching on the power (once every 2 days, once every 7 days, etc.). One or more user inputs are provided so that the user can select the duration of activation for each cycle (1 hour, 3 hours, etc.). Status indicators are preferably provided so that the user can easily monitor the operation of the device. |
| US11610746B2 |
Compact switch
A compact switch mechanism operating a contactor array and having a lighted display. |
| US11610744B2 |
Switch having a position indicator
A switch for medium voltage applications is provided. The switch comprises a vacuum interrupter having a fixed contact, a movable contact movable in a first direction to and away from the fixed contact between a closed position and an open position, and a drive rod arranged to the movable contact for moving the contact between the closed position and the open position. The switch further comprises a changeover switch having a first terminal body, a second terminal body, an elongated pole body, and an operating rod. The elongate pole body is hinged with a first end to the first terminal body and rotatable between a connected position in which the second end of the pole body is in direct electrical contact with the second terminal body and a disconnected position in which the second end is disconnected from the second terminal body. |
| US11610743B2 |
Energy storage device
An energy storage device includes an electrode terminal including a plate-like terminal body and a shaft portion connected to the terminal body, and an upper insulating member disposed between the terminal body and the case, the upper insulating member having a through-hole through which the shaft portion penetrates. The upper insulating member has a sidewall portion disposed along an end surface of the terminal body. The sidewall portion is provided with a thin portion at a position on a side of a center point of the shaft portion in a direction orthogonal to an extending direction of the sidewall portion in a plan view. |
| US11610742B2 |
Enhanced cycle lifetime with gel electrolyte for MNO2 nanowire capacitors
A nanowire energy storage device such as a nanowire battery or a capacitor having a cathode comprising a plurality of nanowires and an anode comprising a plurality of nanowires interlaced with the plurality of nanowires of the cathode, and embedded in a PMMA gel electrolyte. |
| US11610738B2 |
Low profile passive components and devices and packages including the same
A passive component includes a body including a dummy portion and a device portion. The dummy portion and the device portion extend in a first direction and are arranged such that a longitudinal axis of the device portion is offset from a longitudinal axis of the body in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The passive component further includes first and second electrical contacts on at least one surface of the body. |
| US11610735B2 |
Manufacturing method of ceramic electronic device and metal conductive paste
A manufacturing method of a ceramic electronic device includes forming a multilayer structure by stacking a plurality of stack units, each of the stack units having a structure in which a pattern of metal conductive paste is provided on a dielectric green sheet including a dielectric material, the metal conductive paste including a metallic material of which a main component is Ni and a co-material of which a main component is barium titanate, the metal conductive paste of each of the stack units being alternately shifted, and firing the multilayer structure. FWHM of the metallic material)/(FWHM of the co-material) is 0.550 or less. The FWHM is of a (111) face evaluated by powder X-ray diffraction. An average particle diameter of the metallic material before the firing is 120 nm or less. |
| US11610734B2 |
Multilayer ceramic capacitor and method of manufacturing the same
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes: a ceramic body including dielectric layers and having first and second surfaces opposing each other, third and fourth surfaces connecting the first and second surfaces to each other, and fifth and sixth surfaces connected to the first to fourth surfaces and opposing each other; a plurality of internal electrodes disposed in the ceramic body, each exposed to the first and second surfaces and having one ends exposed to the third or fourth surface; and a first side margin portion and a second side margin portion disposed, respectively, on the first and second surfaces, in which a metal or a metal oxide is disposed in the dielectric layer, and a ratio of a diameter of the metal or the metal oxide to a thickness of the dielectric layer is 0.8 or less. |
| US11610731B2 |
Apparatus for assembling a non-directional free electron generating repelling magnet combination
An apparatus for assembling a repelling magnet combination, comprising a first and second magnet, a first and second holding magnet, a first holding base with a first holding base first end, and a second holding base with a second holding base first end. The first and second holding magnets are positioned at the first and second holding base first ends, and the first and second magnets are magnetically attached to the first and second holding magnets respectively, with outward faces exhibiting like magnetic polarities. The first and second magnets are brought into contact by moving the first and second holding base first ends into close proximity, whereby the first and second holding magnets exert holding forces on the first and second magnets which overcome a repelling force generated therebetween, allowing a repelling force countering means, such as an adhesive, to bond the magnets together into a repelling magnet combination. |
| US11610723B2 |
Transformer, power supply, and medical system
A transformer includes a primary winding and a secondary winding, which are flat, and a magnetic core that has a middle leg that passes through the primary and secondary windings, a first core that is connected to one end along the length direction of the middle leg, and a second core that is connected to the other end along the length direction. A first wall surface on the side of the first core where the middle leg is positioned and a second wall surface on the side of the second core which faces the first wall surface are formed so as to be parallel, the primary winding is fixed to the first wall surface, the secondary winding is fixed to the second wall surface, and the distance between the primary winding and the secondary winding is kept constant. |
| US11610720B2 |
Transformer inductor combination device
A combined transformer/inductor device includes a core having a central core leg and an outer core leg spaced apart from the central core leg, an inner bobbin disposed around the central core leg, an outer bobbin disposed around the inner bobbin and the central core leg and having an upper portion having a first oblong portion disposed around the outer core leg, a lower portion having a second oblong portion disposed around the outer core leg, and a central portion disposed around the inner bobbin and the central core leg, a first winding wound around the inner bobbin, and a second winding wound around the outer bobbin, the second winding having a first portion wound around the first oblong portion, a second portion wound around the central portion, and a third portion wound around the second oblong portion. |
| US11610717B2 |
Potting box and transformer
A potting box for assembling a transformer comprises an inner wall and an outer wall. The inner wall is sleeved in the outer wall. A bottom plate connected to a bottom portion of the inner wall and a bottom portion of the outer wall to form a potting space for accommodating a first winding and a second winding. An inner side of the outer wall comprises a first support portion for supporting the first winding and an outer side of the inner wall comprises a second support portion for supporting the second winding. An iron core of the transformer penetrates through an inner side of the inner wall. |
| US11610716B2 |
Transformer
A transformer comprises an iron core, a support module, a winding unit, a potting box. The potting box includes an inner wall, an outer wall and a bottom plate and the inner wall is sleeved in the outer wall. The bottom plate is connected to a bottom portion of the inner wall and a bottom portion of the outer wall and a potting space is defined by the outer wall, the inner wall and the bottom plate. The winding unit is disposed in the potting space and a magnetic pole of the iron core penetrates through an inner side of the inner wall of the potting box. The support module is disposed between at least one end surface of the potting box and a cover of the iron core to form an insulation clearance. The support module is close to the inner wall of the potting box. |
| US11610711B2 |
Inductor component
An inductor component comprising a laminated body having a magnetic layer containing a resin and a metal magnetic powder contained in the resin; an inductor wiring disposed in the laminated body; and an external terminal exposed from the laminated body. The external terminal includes a metal part and a resin part, and in a cross section of the external terminal, the resin part is enclosed in the metal part. |
| US11610710B2 |
Magnetic core, inductor and module including inductor
A module includes a circuit board and an inductor. The circuit board has a facing surface and a rear surface which are located at opposite sides to each other in an up-down direction. The inductor has a magnetic core and a coil. The magnetic core is made of a soft magnetic metal material. The magnetic core has a facing surface and a radiating surface which are located at opposite sides to each other in the up-down direction. The facing surface of the magnetic core is arranged to face the facing surface of the circuit board in the up-down direction. The radiating surface of the magnetic core is arranged to be radiatable heat outward. The coil has a coil portion and a connection end. The coil portion winds, at least in part, the magnetic core. The connection end is connected to the facing surface of the circuit board. |
| US11610704B2 |
Corona prevention in high power circulators
A method for preventing corona effects in an electronic circuit comprising applying a coating of a first material to a surface of the electronic circuit, and applying a second material having a dielectric constant that is lower than that of the first material on an exposed surface of the first material, wherein the second material comprises a solid dielectric. |
| US11610703B2 |
Diffusion barrier for implantable electrode leads
A process for producing an electrical conductor structure that involves embedding at least one metallic conductor track and at least one heating conductor in an electrically insulating substrate, and producing an electric current in the heating conductor so that a first layer of the substrate and a second layer of the substrate fuse in an area surrounding the heating conductor, to seal an interface between the two layers. A conductor structure is also disclosed, in particular in the form of an implantable electrode lead. |
| US11610702B2 |
Temporary holder for transferring end of wire between end effectors
Methods and apparatus for temporarily holding one end of a wire on a harness form board during automated transfer from one robot to another robot. The apparatus includes a wire holding device which is designed to facilitate the transfer of a wire end from a first end effector of a first robot to a second end effector of a second robot. The wire holding devices have different structures, but share the common feature that opening of the wire holding device (to enable wire insertion) involves applying a contact force which overcomes a spring force that urges the wire holding device to be closed. The end effectors are designed and their movements are controlled in a manner such that the moving end effector applies the contact force necessary to overcome the closure-inducing spring force being exerted. |
| US11610700B2 |
FFC cable assembly
A flat flexible cable (FFC) assembly, which includes a multi-FFC cable having a plurality of FFC films arranged in a layered form and an insulation tube for surrounding the plurality of FFC films, and a pair of high current terminals mounted to respective ends of the multi-FFC cable. |
| US11610698B2 |
Electric wire, cable, and manufacturing method of electric wire
An electrical wire includes a conductor and an insulating layer that covers the conductor and that is cross-linked. The insulating layer is a cross-linked product of a resin composition including (a) a base polymer containing polyolefin and a compatibilizer, (b) a photoradical generator of 0.5 parts by mass or more and 3 parts by mass or less relative to the 100 parts by mass of the base polymer, and (c) a reactive monomer of 1 part by mass or more and 5 parts by mass or less relative to the 100 parts by mass of the base polymer. A relative dielectric constant of the insulating layer is less than 2.5. |
| US11610697B2 |
Systems and methods employing interchangeable ion beam targets
Provided herein are systems and methods for generating a plurality of different monoenergetic neutron energies using a plurality of interchangeable ion beam targets. In certain embodiments, each of the plurality of ion beam targets is configured to generate a monoenergetic energy value that is at least 100 kiloelectron volts (keV) different from the other ion beam targets. In some embodiments, the ion beam targets are composed of LiF, TiD1.5-1.8, TiT1-2, ErD1.5, ErT, or Li. |
| US11610691B2 |
Systems and methods for implementing personalized health and wellness programs
A system configured to receive health data pertaining to a user; select a user health profile from a plurality of user health profiles based on the collected health data, each of the plurality of user health profiles being associated with a health and wellness program and a set of interventions; receive user activity data and updated health data pertaining to, or during the user's participation in the associated health and wellness program from health devices; select a new set of interventions based on the user activity data; and select a new user health profile from the plurality of user health profiles based on at least one of the user activity data and the updated health data. |
| US11610689B2 |
Method for adjusting treatment by using adjusted continuous variables and method and apparatus for adjusting treatment by analyzing correlations using the same
Provided are a method for adjusting a continuous variable, a method and an apparatus for analyzing a correlation using the same. A method for adjusting a continuous variable according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure is a method for adjusting a continuous variable by an apparatus including: determining at least one confounder from analysis data; classifying the analysis data into a plurality of subgroups having the same combination of confounders; and generating a new continuous variable for each subgroup based on a representative value of a continuous variable distribution. |
| US11610686B1 |
Systems and methods for rapid risk assessment of chest pain, reducing patient wait time and improving workflow in the emergency department
A rapid chest pain risk assessment system includes an assessor, a computed tomography (CT) scanner, an electrocardiogram device for providing electrocardiogram related data, and an enzyme analyzer for analyzing the patient's blood. A computer enabled risk calculator categorizes the patients into low, intermediate, and high risk categories. The computer enabled risk calculator, using data from electrocardiogram, blood analyzer and patient's age, other risk factors and history, automatically generates orders for patients in low and intermediate risk categories to undergo a CT scan. A CAC analyzer using the computer file for analyzing the CT scan results then provides a CAC score based on those CT scan results. A risk score based on electrocardiogram, blood analyzer and patient's age, other risk factors and history of symptoms plus the CAC score is generated. Patients that are automatically assessed as being very low risk based on the risk score are recommended for discharge from the emergency room thereby lowering the unnecessary prolonged ER stay time. |
| US11610685B2 |
Methods and systems for cognitive behavioral therapy
Methods and systems are provided for cognitive behavioral therapy. A first set of data and a second set of data related to a health attribute are received, over a first time period. The first and second sets of data are displayed in a first and a second graphical item. A graphical button is displayed on the first graphical item and configured to move it on a display. Using the graphical button, the first graphical item is, at least partially, overlaid upon the second graphical item. In response to the overlaying a third set of data is generated and displayed in a third graphical item. The third set of data is at least partially based on associating the first set of data with the second set of data using one or more sets of rules that establish the relationship between the first set of data and the second set of data. |
| US11610683B2 |
Methods and systems for generating a vibrant compatibility plan using artificial intelligence
A system for generating a vibrant compatibility plan using artificial intelligence. The system includes at least a server wherein the at least a server is designed and configured to receive at least a composition datum from a user client device wherein the at least a composition datum includes at least an element of user body data and at least an element of desired dietary state data. At least a server is configured to select at least a correlated dataset. At least a server is configured to create at least an unsupervised machine-learning model including at least a hierarchical clustering model to output at least a compatible food element. At least a server is configured to generate at least a vibrant compatibility plan wherein the at least a vibrant compatibility plan further comprises a plurality of compatible food elements each containing at least a food element compatibility index value score as a function of the at least a hierarchical clustering model. |
| US11610682B2 |
Systems, methods, and devices for non-human readable diagnostic tests
Systems and methods for ensuring medical diagnostic test integrity are disclosed. In particular, systems and methods herein can be used to ensure compliance with testing procedures. Some embodiments provide systems and methods for verifying test results. According to some embodiments, test results can be non-human-readable results that can be interpreted by a computing system. |
| US11610680B2 |
Medical treatment planning via sequential games
A method and system for identifying a treatment plan identifies a description of a sequential game. The game is associated with treatment of a medical condition by a course of treatment or drug design. The description may include one or more possible treatment actions that a treater can take to treat the medical condition, and one or more possible medical condition actions that the medical condition can take. The system will identify a model for the sequential game, wherein the model is a large game associated with a large state space. The system may solve the model to generate a treatment plan for the medical condition, wherein the treatment plan includes a set of possible treatment actions. To accommodate the large state space, the system may divide processing steps so that at least some of the model solving is done by a graphics processing unit, while performing other functions via a central processing unit. |
| US11610677B2 |
Patient health monitoring system
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for analyzing health information to generate medical assessments are described. Health information may include any type of information associated with the health or physical characteristics of a patient. Non-limiting examples of medical assessments include medical diagnoses, medical orders, and risk assessments. A health information analysis system may access health information associated with a patient and provide a medical assessment based on various analyses of the health information. The health information analysis system may receive feedback associated with the medical assessments, such as historical information and/or user input regarding the accuracy or completeness of the medical assessment. The feedback may be used by the health information analysis system to update the analyses of the health information. |
| US11610673B1 |
Rojer gathering biological index (ROGBIX) system and CyberGath device
The Rojer Gathering Biological Index (ROGBIX) System and CyberGath Device is a system and test kit combination that allows users an easy and convenient way to keep their current tested state of a disease condition such as Covid updated under their own control. It is a system and test kit combination that allows users an easy and convenient automated means to share a positive or negative test result of a tested disease condition that allows users to keep their disease condition test state current and automatically sharable with other users. |
| US11610672B2 |
System comprising a medical apparatus and a remote control device, method for pairing the remote control device and the medical apparatus, and method for operating the medical apparatus
In a system, a medical apparatus and a remote control device perform a pairing procedure, in which the remote control device sends an identifier of the remote control device, the medical apparatus sends a time-referenced information, the remote control device receives the time-referenced information and generates a first hash key based on the identifier and the time-referenced information, and the medical apparatus receives the identifier and generates a second hash key based on the identifier and the time-referenced information. The second hash key corresponds to the first hash key, wherein, when the pairing has been successfully completed, the remote control device sends an instruction controlling the medical apparatus based on the first hash key, and the medical apparatus accepts the instruction if the first hash key corresponds to the second hash key. |
| US11610668B2 |
Systems and methods for centralized buffering and interactive routing of electronic data messages over a computer network
An electronic prescription is obtained over a network. A synthetic prescription is generated from the electronic prescription and provided to an insurance switching system. Insurance information of a patient is received from the insurance switching system based on the synthetic prescription. An auto-reversal of the synthetic prescription with the insurance switching system is triggered. A patient payment amount associated with the particular pharmaceutical is determined based on the insurance information. One or more pharmacies to fulfill the electronic prescription are identified based on patient information. An interactive routing request data message is provided to the patient, the data message including the patient payment amount and a request for selection of a particular pharmacy of the one or more pharmacies. The selection of the particular pharmacy is received from a computing device associated with the patient. In response to receiving the selection, the electronic prescription is routed to the particular pharmacy. |
| US11610658B2 |
Variable dose dispensing system
A variable dose dispensing system may include a processor and memory. The processor may receive a request for a variable dose order of a medication, such as from a user. The processor may request an amount of the medication to be administered, and receive, in response to the request, an indication of the amount to be administered. The processor may verify that the amount to be administered is within a range of the variable dose order. The processor may determine an item in a local inventory that contains at least the amount of the medication to be administered, and may dispense the item. If an amount of the dispensed item exceeds the amount to be administered, such as by a waste amount, the processor may display an indication of the waste amount to the user, and may transmit a notification of the waste amount, such as to a management server. |
| US11610657B2 |
Automated pill dispenser
Disclosed is a cloud-based resource and information tracking system for medical patients and healthcare providers. The cloud-based software system integrates all or many sources of patient medical and health information, updates the information in near real-time, and makes the data available to member(s) of the patient's healthcare team securely. |
| US11610648B2 |
Methods for context based compression of genomic data for immuno-oncology biomarkers
The method includes compressing numbers of reads data for targeted genes of a gene expression assay performed on a test sample. The targeted genes are organized into categories. Each category represents a functional context associated with the targeted genes in that category. The numbers of reads corresponding to targeted genes each category is compressed to form a compressed value for the category. The compressed value is compared to a baseline value for the category to determine an enrichment or a loss of a signature corresponding to the functional context of the category. The method may include analyzing information from multiple assays performed on the test sample, assigning a score value to each assay result and predicting a response to immune-oncology treatment based on the assigned scores. |
| US11610645B2 |
Cross-variant polygenic predictive data analysis
There is a need for more effective and efficient predictive data analysis solutions for processing genetic sequencing data. This need can be addressed by, for example, techniques for performing predictive data analysis based on genetic sequences that utilize at least one of cross-variant polygenic risk modeling using genetic risk profiles, cross-variant polygenic risk modeling using functional genetic risk profiles, per-condition polygenic clustering operations, cross-condition polygenic predictive inferences, and cross-condition polygenic diagnoses. |
| US11610641B2 |
Wafer-yields and write-QoS in flash-based solid state drives
A non-volatile data storage device includes memory cells arranged in a plurality of blocks and a memory controller coupled to the memory cells for controlling operations of the memory cells. The memory controller is configured to determine if a given block is a bad m-bit multi-level block. In an m-bit multi-level block, each memory cell is an m-bit multi-level cell (MLC), m being an integer equal to or greater than 2. Upon determining that the given block is a good m-bit multi-level block, the memory controller assigns the given block to be an m-bit multi-level user block. Upon determining that the given block is a bad m-bit multi-level block, the memory controller determines if the given block is a good n-bit block. In an n-bit block, each memory cell is an n-bit cell, n being an integer less than m. Upon determining that the given block is a good n-bit block, the memory controller assigns the given block to be an n-bit user block or an n-bit write-buffer block. |
| US11610639B2 |
Non-volatile memory device, storage device having the same, and reading method thereof
A reading method for a non-volatile memory device, includes performing a normal read operation using a default read level in response to a first read command; and performing a read operation using a multiple on-chip valley search (OVS) sensing operation in response to a second read command, when read data read in the normal read operation are uncorrectable. |
| US11610635B2 |
Sensing in floating-source memory architecture
Algorithms for fast data retrieval, low power consumption in a 3D or planar non-volatile array of memory cells, connected between an accessible drain string and a floating, not directly accessible, source string, in a NOR-logic type of architecture, are presented. |
| US11610631B2 |
Methods of operating nonvolatile memory devices, methods of operating storage device and storage devices
A nonvolatile memory device includes multi-level cells in a memory cell array including a plurality of memory blocks, and each of the memory blocks includes a plurality of pages. A method of operating the nonvolatile memory device includes pre-programming multi-bit data in a pre-program block of the memory blocks, dividing the multi-level cells into a plurality of state groups based on state codes indicating states of the multi-level cells to generate digest data indicating state group codes corresponding to the state groups, and programming the digest data in a digest block of the memory blocks. |
| US11610630B2 |
Semiconductor memory device with memory cells each including a charge accumulation layer and a control gate
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell unit, word lines, a driver circuit, and first transistors. The word lines are connected to the control gates of 0-th to N-th memory cells. The (N+1) number of first transistors transfer the voltage to the word lines respectively. Above one of the first transistors which transfers the voltage to an i-th (i is a natural number in the range of 0 to N) word line, M (M |
| US11610628B2 |
Static random access memory
A static random access memory (SRAM) includes a bit cell including a p-type pass gate, a bit information path connected to the bit cell by the p-type pass gate, and a read multiplexer connected to the bit information path. The read multiplexer includes an n-type transistor configured to selectively couple the bit information path to a sense amplifier. |
| US11610625B2 |
Hetero-plane data storage structures for non-volatile memory
A flash memory die includes (i) a first subset of planes including blocks of flash memory cells connected to a first number of word line layers and a plurality of bit lines having a first length, (ii) a second subset of planes including blocks of flash memory cells connected to a second number of word line layers less than the first number of word line layers and a plurality of bit lines having a second length shorter than the first length, (iii) first peripheral circuitry implemented underneath the first subset of planes and including first sense amplifier circuitry and first peripheral control circuitry connected to the first subset of planes, and second peripheral control circuitry connected to the second subset of planes, and (iv) second peripheral circuitry implemented underneath the second subset of planes and including second sense amplifier circuitry connected to the second subset of planes. |
| US11610620B1 |
Pulsing scheme for a 1TNC ferroelectric memory bit-cell with plate-line parallel to bit-line to minimize read or write disturb effects
A memory is provided which comprises a capacitor including non-linear polar material. The capacitor may have a first terminal coupled to a node (e.g., a storage node) and a second terminal coupled to a plate-line. The capacitors can be a planar capacitor or non-planar capacitor (also known as pillar capacitor). The memory includes a transistor coupled to the node and a bit-line, wherein the transistor is controllable by a word-line, wherein the plate-line is parallel to the bit-line. The memory includes a refresh circuitry to refresh charge on the capacitor periodically or at a predetermined time. The refresh circuit can utilize one or more of the endurance mechanisms. When the plate-line is parallel to the bit-line, a specific read and write scheme may be used to reduce the disturb voltage for unselected bit-cells. A different scheme is used when the plate-line is parallel to the word-line. |
| US11610616B2 |
Locally timed sensing of memory device
The present invention is directed to a nonvolatile memory device including a plurality of memory cells arranged in rows and columns, a plurality of word lines with each connected to a respective row of the memory cells along a row direction, a plurality of bit lines with each connected to a respective column of the memory cells along a column direction; a column decoder connected to the bit lines; a plurality of sense amplifiers connected to the column decoder; and a plurality of sense amplifier control circuits. Each of the sense amplifiers is connected to a unique one of the sense amplifier control circuits. Each of the sense amplifier control circuits includes a current detector circuit for detecting a sensing current, a current booster circuit for boosting the sensing current, and a timer circuit for providing a delayed trigger for a respective one of the sense amplifiers connected thereto. |
| US11610615B2 |
Lookup table circuit comprising a programmable logic device having a selection circuit connected to a memory cell array and separated from a path of a read circuit
A lookup table circuit constituting a programmable logic device includes: a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells, each having a resistive memory element; a selection circuit connected to the memory cell array and configured to output, to the memory cell array, a single cell-select signal or two or more cell-select signals for selecting a single memory cell or two or more memory cells among the plurality of memory cells, based on input of a plurality of logic signals; and a read circuit connected to the memory cell array and configured to read data from the single memory cell or the two or more memory cells selected by the single cell-select signal or the two or more cell-select signals, among the plurality of memory cells. The selection circuit is separated from a path along which the read circuit is configured to read data from the memory cell array. |
| US11610612B2 |
High speed SRAM using enhance wordline/global buffer drive
A row decoder includes decoder logic generating an initial word line signal, and two inverters. The first inverter is formed by a first p-channel transistor having a source coupled to a supply voltage and a gate receiving the initial word line signal. The second inverter is formed by a first n-channel transistor having a drain coupled to a drain of the first p-channel transistor, a source coupled to a shared ground line, and a gate receiving the initial word line signal. An inverse word line signal is generated at the drain of the first n-channel transistor. A second inverter inverts the inverse word line signal to produce a word line signal. Negative bias generation circuitry generates a negative bias voltage on the shared ground line when the initial word line signal is logic high, and otherwise couples the shared ground line to ground. |
| US11610608B1 |
Film recording systems for personalized images
Systems and methods for recording personalized digital images on film are described. In some embodiments, a system may include a length of film, a film recorder, and a server. The system may be configured to record in a first frame of the length of film one or more digital images associated with a first user. The system may further be configured to record in a second frame of the length of film one or more digital images with a second user. As a result, the length of film may include a plurality of frames having respective sets of images, or renderings thereof, associated with respective users, and at least two frames of the length of film may include sets of images, or renderings thereof, associated with respective users that are different from one-another. |
| US11610601B2 |
Method and apparatus for determining speech presence probability and electronic device
A method and apparatus for determining a speech presence probability and an electronic device are provided. According to present disclosure, a metric parameter of a signal to noise ratio of a signal of a first channel and a metric parameter of a signal power level difference between the first channel and the second channel are introduced in determining the speech presence probability, the normalization and non-linear transformation processing is performed on the above-mentioned metric parameters, and the speech presence probability is obtained by fitting the product term and a first power term of a power exponent of the above-mentioned parameters. Therefore, the calculation amount of calculating the speech presence probability is reduced, the calculation result has good robustness to parameter fluctuations, and the disclosure can be widely applied to various application scenarios of dual-microphone speech enhancement systems. |
| US11610588B1 |
Generating contextually relevant text transcripts of voice recordings within a message thread
The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for generating contextually relevant transcripts of voice recordings based on social networking data. For instance, the disclosed systems receive a voice recording from a user corresponding to a message thread including the user and one or more co-users. The disclosed systems analyze acoustic features of the voice recording to generate transcription-text probabilities. The disclosed systems generate term weights for terms corresponding to objects associated with the user within a social networking system by analyzing user social networking data. Using the contextually aware term weights, the disclosed systems adjust the transcription-text probabilities. Based on the adjusted transcription-text probabilities, the disclosed systems generate a transcript of the voice recording for display within the message thread. |
| US11610587B2 |
Personalized sound management and method
A personalized sound management system for an acoustic space includes at least one transducer, a data communication system, one or more processors operatively coupled to the data communication system and the at least one transducer, and a medium coupled to the one or more processors. The processors access a database of sonic signatures and display a plurality of personalized sound management applications that perform at least one or more tasks among identifying a sonic signature, calculating a sound pressure level, storing metadata related to a sonic signature, monitoring sound pressure level dosage levels, switching to an ear canal microphone in a noisy environment, recording a user's voice, storing the user's voice in a memory of an earpiece device, or storing the user's voice in a memory of a server system, or converting received text received in texts or emails to voice using text to speech conversion. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US11610584B2 |
Methods and systems for determining characteristics of a dialog between a computer and a user
A computer-implemented method is disclosed for determining one or more characteristics of a dialog between a computer system and user. The method may comprise receiving a system utterance comprising one or more tokens defining one or more words generated by the computer system; receiving a user utterance comprising one or more tokens defining one or more words uttered by a user in response to the system utterance, the system utterance and the user utterance forming a dialog context; receiving one or more utterance candidates comprising one or more tokens; for each utterance candidate, generating an input sequence combining the one or more tokens of each of the system utterance, the user utterance, and the utterance candidate; and for each utterance candidate, evaluating the generated input sequence with a model to determine a probability that the utterance candidate is relevant to the dialog context. |
| US11610582B2 |
Systems and methods for formatting informal utterances
Methods and systems are presented for translating informal utterances into formal texts. Informal utterances may include words in abbreviation forms or typographical errors. The informal utterances may be processed by mapping each word in an utterance into a well-defined token. The mapping from the words to the tokens may be based on a context associated with the utterance derived by analyzing the utterance in a character-by-character basis. The token that is mapped for each word can be one of a vocabulary token that corresponds to a formal word in a pre-defined word corpus, an unknown token that corresponds to an unknown word, or a masked token. Formal text may then be generated based on the mapped tokens. Through the processing of informal utterances using the techniques disclosed herein, the informal utterances are both normalized and sanitized. |
| US11610581B2 |
Multi-step linear interpolation of language models
A computer-implemented method is provided for generating a language model for an application. The method includes estimating interpolation weights of each of a plurality of language models according to an Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm based on a first metric. The method further includes classifying the plurality of language models into two or more sets based on characteristics of the two or more sets. The method also includes estimating a hyper interpolation weight for the two or more sets based on a second metric specific to the application. The method additionally includes interpolating the plurality of language models using the interpolation weights and the hyper interpolation weight to generate a final language model. |
| US11610575B2 |
Ultrasonic endoscope acoustic lens and ultrasonic endoscope
An acoustic lens contains a base material composed of a diorganopolysiloxane or a silicone rubber compound utilizing a diorganopolysiloxane as a main component, and plate-like inorganic compound particles dispersed in the base material. |
| US11610573B2 |
Noise cancellation using segmented, frequency-dependent phase cancellation
Noise abatement within a signal stream containing unwanted signal referred to as noise is performed by acquiring a digitized noise signal and using a digital processor circuit to subdivide the acquired noise signal into different frequency band segments and thereby generate a plurality of segmented noise signals. Then individually for each segmented noise signal, the processor shifts in time the segmented noise signal by an amount dependent on a selected frequency of the segmented noise signal to produce a plurality of shifted segmented noise signals. The precise time shift applied to each noise segment considers the frequency content of the segment and the system processing time. Individually for each segmented noise signal, amplitude scaling is applied. The shifted and amplitude-scaled segmented noise signals are then combined to form a composite anti-noise signal which is output into the signal stream to abate the noise through destructive interference. |
| US11610572B2 |
Enhanced inflatable sound attenuation system
Disclosed is a compressible sound attenuation core, having one or more flexible, inflatable chambers, having one or more internal sound baffles. The chamber(s) can have at least one sound attenuation material affixed to a first predominant surface of the inflatable chamber(s). The sound attenuation core can be further framed by a novel extruded frame system that provides, inter-connectivity, support and integrity to form portable, modular sound attenuation panels that can be used to construct a variety of soundproofing devices, including but not limited to, partitions, walls, enclosures, structures, offices, aircraft hangars, and booths. |
| US11610570B2 |
Electronic percussion instrument and sound production control method thereof
An electronic percussion instrument and sound production control method thereof are provided. In an electronic cymbal, the output of a musical sound is controlled in accordance with the results of detection from a strike sensor when the strike sensor detects a strike on a striking surface. While the musical sound is output, if a user touches the striking surface, an electrostatic capacitance sensor outputs an output value in accordance with the contact condition so that the musical sound is attenuated in accordance with the output value while being output. Therefore, the user can attenuate the musical sound being output in accordance with the contact conditions on the striking surface, thereby silencing the musical sound by way of the action similar to that of the acoustic cymbal choke that is the action of touching the striking surface. |
| US11610569B2 |
Methods, systems, devices and computer program products for adapting external content to a video stream
This disclosure falls into the field of adapting external content to a video stream, and more specifically it is related to analyzing the video stream to define a suitable narrative model, and adapting the external content based on this narrative model. |
| US11610565B2 |
Tremolo device for electric guitars
A tremolo device for electric guitars including: a) a tremolo mount resiliently mountable on a guitar body adjacent at least one string and the tremolo mount selectively moveable relative to the guitar body; b) a string mount mounted on the tremolo mount in order to receive an end of at least one string of a guitar and the string mount having separate limited movement to the selective movement of the tremolo mount and allow the at least one string to be tunably tensioned; wherein the resilient mounting of the tremolo mount is at least partially decoupled from the tensioned string held by the string mount. |
| US11610563B2 |
Location-based display of pixel history
A screen is presented on a display of a user device, which includes an element occupying less than an entirety of the screen. A second screen is then presented on the display, which includes a second element occupying less than an entirety of the second screen. The user device receives an input that requests that a previously presented element be presented within the second screen next to enable comparison of the previously presented element with the second element. The user device presents, on the display of the user device and responsive to receiving the input, a contemporaneous view of the element next to the second element within the second screen. |
| US11610562B2 |
Display apparatus and method for controlling the same
Disclosed is a display apparatus, capable of adjusting an image based on a location and a type of ambient light source. The display apparatus includes: a display; a housing supporting the display; a sensor disposed in the housing and configured to detect a quantity of entering light; and a processor configured to: based on an arrangement angle of the sensor and the detected quantity of the entering light, identify a location of a light source; and in response to the identified location of the light source, adjust a quality of an image displayed on the display. |
| US11610554B2 |
Light emitting display apparatus
A light emitting display apparatus, which turns on a first transistor included in a pixel driving unit and connected to a data line during a data period where a data voltage is supplied from a data driver to the data line, is provided. The light emitting display apparatus includes a light emitting display panel including a pixel including a first transistor connected to a gate line and a data line, a gate driver supplying a gate signal to the first transistor, a data driver supplying a data voltage to the data line, and a switching driver connecting the data line to the data driver or connecting a sensing line to the data driver, wherein the gate driver turns on and then turns off the first transistor during a data period where a data voltage is supplied from the data driver to the data line through the switching driver. |
| US11610552B2 |
Display device
A display device of the present invention includes a pixel unit including a plurality of pixels connected to data lines and scan lines; a data driver disposed on one side of the pixel unit to drive the data lines; a scan driver disposed on the one side of the pixel unit together with the data driver to drive the scan lines; and a controller which controls an output timing of a data signal in units of pixel columns and units of pixel rows based on a load of a scan signal supplied to the scan lines and a load of the data signal supplied to the data lines. |
| US11610551B2 |
Display device and method of sensing a threshold voltage
A display device includes a display panel, a scan driver, a data driver, a sensing circuit, and a controller configured to select a pixel row from a plurality of pixel rows in a vertical blank period of each frame period. The vertical blank period includes a sensing time in which the sensing circuit performs a sensing operation for the selected pixel row. The sensing circuit measures a first source voltage of a driving transistor of each pixel in the selected pixel row at a first time point of the sensing time, and measures a second source voltage of the driving transistor at a second time point of the sensing time. The controller predicts a current saturated source voltage of the driving transistor based on the first and second source voltages, and determines a threshold voltage change amount of the driving transistor based on a difference between a previous saturated source voltage and the current saturated source voltage. |
| US11610547B2 |
Method of driving pixel of display apparatus that includes dividing data voltage using first and second capacitors connected in series to apply divided voltage to control electrode of transistor
A display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels. A pixel includes a first capacitor connected between a first voltage line receiving a first driving signal and a first node, a first transistor comprising a control electrode connected to the first node, a first electrode connected to a second voltage line receiving a first power source signal and a second electrode connected to a second node, an organic light emitting diode comprising an anode electrode connected to the second node and a cathode electrode receiving a second power source signal, a second capacitor connected between an m-th data line and the second node (wherein, ‘m’ is a natural number) and a second transistor comprising a control electrode connected to an n-th scan line (wherein, ‘n’ is a natural number), a first electrode connected to the first node and a second electrode connected to the second node. |
| US11610544B2 |
Touch panel system, electronic device, and semiconductor device having a neural network
An electronic device capable of efficiently recognizing a handwritten character is provided.The electronic device includes a first circuit, a display portion, and a touch sensor. The first circuit includes a neural network. The display portion includes a flexible display. The touch sensor has the function of outputting an input handwritten character as image information to the first circuit. The first circuit has the function of analyzing the image information and converting the image information into character information, and a function of displaying an image including the character information on the display portion. The analysis is performed by inference through the use of the neural network. |
| US11610540B2 |
Data driver, multi-channel sensing circuit and sensing method thereof
A data driver, a multi-channel sensing circuit and a sensing method thereof are provided. A multi-channel sensing circuit, where a configuration of a sample/hold circuit part is simplified to decrease a circuit area, and a sensing method of the multi-channel sensing circuit are provided. The multi-channel sensing circuit may include a first sample/hold circuit sampling and outputting a first sensing voltage, a second sample/hold circuit sampling and outputting a second sensing voltage, a share sample/hold circuit sampling and outputting a reference voltage, and an amplification part differential-amplifying the first sensing voltage output from the first sample/hold circuit and the reference voltage output from the share sample/hold circuit and differential-amplifying the second sensing voltage output from the second sample/hold circuit and the reference voltage output from the share sample/hold circuit. |
| US11610535B2 |
Display optimization techniques for micro-LED devices and arrays
Systems and methods to achieve desired color accuracy, power consumption, and gamma correction in an array of pixels of a micro-LED display. The method and system provides an array of pixels, wherein each pixel comprising a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a matrix and a driving circuitry configured to provide an individual emission control signal to each sub-pixel of each pixel in the array of pixels to independently control an emission time and a duty cycle of each sub-pixel. |
| US11610534B2 |
Display having sub-pixel structure with a plurality of light emitting elements
A sub-pixel array and a display are provided. The sub-pixel structure includes a driving module, a first selection module, a second selection module, a switch module, a first light-emitting element, and a second light-emitting element. The first selection module is configured to control conduction between the driving module and an anode of the first light-emitting element or conduction between the driving module and an anode of the second light-emitting element through a first control signal. The second selection module is configured to control grounding of a cathode of the first light-emitting element or grounding of a cathode of the second light-emitting element through a second control signal. |
| US11610532B2 |
Display panel and display device
The present invention provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel comprises a first substrate, a driving circuit layer, a first common electrode layer, and at least one scanning signal transmission line located between two adjacent data lines and arranged in parallel with the data lines. The scanning signal transmission line and the driving circuit layer are arranged in a same layer. The present invention reduces widths of frames and increases display aperture ratio by directing the scanning signal transmission line to a bottom edge of the display panel and setting the scanning signal transmission line in pixel units. |
| US11610531B2 |
Display device
The present invention provides a display device having a display panel. The display panel has a display surface and a plurality of pixels. At least some of the pixels include: an illumination unit and a display unit. The illumination unit has at least one illumination sub-pixel and at least one light orientation element respectively and correspondingly disposed on the at least one illumination sub-pixel, and illumination light from the illumination sub-pixel is directly or indirectly emitted from the display surface through the light orientation element. The display unit has at least one display sub-pixel, and display light from the display sub-pixel is directly or indirectly emitted from the display surface. |
| US11610530B2 |
Gate driving circuit and electroluminescence display apparatus including the same
An electroluminescence display apparatus includes a display panel including a display area including a plurality of pixel lines and a non-display area including a gate driving circuit supplying a gate signal to the plurality of pixel lines, and each of the plurality of pixel lines includes a plurality of pixels, each of the plurality of pixels includes a pixel driving circuit and a light emitting device, each of the pixel driving circuit and the gate driving circuit is implemented with a p-type transistor and an n-type transistor, and the gate driving circuit supplies a gate signal to the n-type transistor of the pixel driving circuit, so that a stably output can be provided, and the non-display area of the display panel can be reduced. |
| US11610524B2 |
Shift register unit and driving method thereof, gate drive circuit and display device
A shift register unit and a driving method thereof, a gate drive circuit and a display device. The shift register unit includes a first input circuit, an output circuit and a first output pull-down circuit. The first input circuit is configured to charge a pull-up node in response to a first clock signal and reset the pull-up node in response to the first clock signal; the output circuit is configured to output a second clock signal to an output terminal under a control of a level of the pull-up node; the first output pull-down circuit is configured to denoise the output in response to a third clock signal. |
| US11610519B2 |
Flexible substrate and manufacturing method thereof, and display device
A flexible substrate and a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are provided. The flexible substrate has a bending region. The flexible substrate includes a base substrate, and a first organic layer and a second organic layer which are sequentially laminated on the base substrate, and a surface where the first organic layer contacts the second organic layer in the bending region includes a concave-convex structure. |
| US11610518B1 |
Sign cover
A sign cover includes a first portion fixed at a top side thereof with a top side of a second portion. Peripheral edges of the portions extend past a peripheral edge of a sign by a margin area when the portions are positioned over a front side and a rear side of the sign in a deployed configuration. The margin area of the portions each include a plurality of two-part mechanical fasteners. As such, in use, with the first portion and the second portion draped over the sign, the two-part mechanical fasteners hold the cover onto the sign. The first portion may include one or more transparent pockets for displaying one of several alternate signs. |
| US11610517B2 |
Marking devices and methods of displaying indicia in a marking device
A marking device for displaying indicia and a method of displaying indicia in a marking device are disclosed. The method includes a substantially rectangular marking device frame comprising first and second edges parallel to a first axes and a third and fourth edges parallel to a second axis, wherein the first and second axes are orthogonal. A first set of tiles and a second set of tiles are secured to the marking device frame. The first set of tiles and the second set of tiles are disposed adjacent to one another along the first axis. A first tile of the first set of tiles is exposed to display a first portion of the indicia printed thereon and a second tile of the second set of tiles is exposed to display a second portion of the indicia printed thereon. |
| US11610512B2 |
Expiratory breathing simulator device and method
An Expiratory breathing simulator device is provided and configured to simulate a real patient's End Tidal CO2 (ETCO2). The device is configured to be used with a vital signs simulator to simulate a patient's behaviour on a medical monitoring apparatus, for example for training medical professionals. |
| US11610510B2 |
Metered dose inhaler training device
In an embodiment, a metered dose inhaler (MDI) training device is provided herein. The MDI training device may include a housing having an inhalation port, an opening for receiving ambient air, the inhalation port and the opening are fluidly connected to provide an air flow channel, and a valve associated with the air flow channel, the valve having an opened state and a closed state, and an actuation member, wherein the valve is not allowed to enter the opened state if the actuation member is actuated prior to inhalation through the inhalation port. |
| US11610509B2 |
Fabrication of micromodels for carbonate reservoirs
A carbonate microfluidic model with controllable nanoscale porosity and methods are described. The method for fabricating a carbonate nanofluidic micromodel with controllable nanoscale porosity for studying fluid behaviors in an underground oil-reservoir environment includes: disposing a plurality of polymer spheres into a transparent flow cell; initiating crystallization of the plurality of polymer spheres to form a template with an opal structure; filling the transparent flow cell with a calcium-based solution and a carbonate-based solution to form nanocrystals in voids of the opal structure; and removing the template formed by crystallization of the plurality of polymer spheres from the transparent flow cell leaving an inverse opal structure with a plurality of nanoscale pores and a carbonate surface. The model includes: a transparent flow cell including a first end defining an inlet and a second end defining an outlet; and an inverse opal structure of carbonate inside the transparent flow cell. |
| US11610507B2 |
Guided operation of a language-learning device based on learned user memory characteristics
A personal electronic device is adapted to construct data tables from user input received over time relating to translations of translatable items from a first language to a second language. Entries in a data table for a user are dynamic and may indicate likelihoods of the user correctly translating translatable items as a function of time. Each translatable item may have a different time-dependent likelihood of a correct translation. Operation of the personal electronic device for a user may be based in part on the acquired, time-dependent likelihoods for that user, so that information may be presented to the user in a more efficient manner. |
| US11610506B2 |
Method and apparatus for providing guide information associated with exercise intensity on basis of user activity information
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for providing personal coach for user's exercise in an electronic device. According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, an electronic device may include sensor circuitry and a processor, wherein the processor may be configured to determine at least one activity information which satisfies a designated condition among one or more activity information previously obtained in relation to a user motion, to determine a first exercise intensity for the user, based at least on variation of the at least one activity information over time, to determine a second exercise intensity by adjusting the first exercise intensity, based at least on a previous target of exercise of the user, and to provide guide information associated with the second exercise intensity. Various embodiments are feasible. |
| US11610503B2 |
Actuator and tripod structure comprising actuator
An actuator includes a cylinder sandwiched between a fixing plate fixed to the other end surface of a supporting plate together with a servomotor and a bearing housing, a ball screw shaft having one end protruding into the cylinder through through holes of the fixing plate, a slide block screwed with one end of the ball screw shaft in the cylinder, a cylindrical-shaped piston coupled to an end of the slide block and reciprocatably located in the cylinder, linear motion bearing units located inside the bearing housing to movably support the piston, and linear motion bearing units located in the cylinder to movably support the slide block. |
| US11610493B1 |
Unmanned aerial vehicles utilized to collect updated travel related data for deliveries
An automated system is provided that receives and utilizes travel related data from unmanned aerial vehicles (“UAVs”) for optimizing the scheduling and routing of deliveries by UAVs. Travel routes through delivery areas are planned and when it is determined that a first UAV has deviated from a planned travel route to avoid a location in an area, a second UAV (e.g., which may have additional sensors and/or recording capabilities) may be sent to collect updated travel related data regarding the location. The updated travel related data (e.g., which may indicate that there is a new obstacle, a source of magnetic interference, a wind, etc. at the location) may be utilized for planning future travel routes for deliveries. |
| US11610491B2 |
Data transmission method and apparatus, and unmanned aerial vehicle
A data transmission method includes: determining link quality of a first link between an unmanned aerial vehicle and an unmanned aerial vehicle controller, link quality of a second link between the unmanned aerial vehicle and a base station, and link quality of a third link between the base station and the unmanned aerial vehicle controller; and determining one or more data transmission links for data to be transmitted, based on the link quality of the first link, the link quality of the second link, and the link quality of the third link. |
| US11610488B2 |
Notification device and vehicle control device
A notification device includes a recognition unit configured to recognize a plurality of surrounding vehicles, a notification unit configured to provide information as a notification toward an outside of a vehicle, a determination unit configured to determine whether or not at least one of the plurality of surrounding vehicles recognized by the recognition unit is an entering vehicle going to pass in front of the vehicle, and a notification control unit configured to cause the notification unit to notify the entering vehicle of a recognition result of the recognition unit when the determination unit determines that at least one of the plurality of surrounding vehicles is the entering vehicle. |
| US11610481B2 |
Infringement detection method, device and system
A method for detecting an infringement by vehicle operator is described. The method comprises detecting a vehicle; receiving one or more image of at least a part of the vehicle operator; automatically analysing with a neural network the one or more captured received image to detect an infringing act; and providing the one or more captured received images comprising the detected infringing act to thereby detect the infringement. Also described are a system, a device, a computer system and a computer program product all for detecting an infringement by a vehicle operator. The device may comprise one or more flash for illuminating the vehicle or a part thereof with light at a narrow band and one or more camera comprising a narrow band filter that lets through only the wavelengths of light produced by the one or more flash. |
| US11610480B2 |
Road element sensors and identifiers
Systems and techniques are described for identifying, monitoring, and sharing vehicle information amongst sensors. In some implementations, a system includes a central server and a plurality of sensors. The plurality of sensors are positioned in a fixed location relative to a roadway. Each sensor in the plurality of sensors is configured to: detect vehicles in a first field of view on the roadway. For each detected vehicle, each sensor is configured to identify features of the detected vehicle and perform operations for each feature. The operations include generating feature data representing the feature, generating a unique identification of the detected vehicle from the detected vehicles by concatenating the feature data representing the identified features of the detected vehicle, and adding the unique identification to a list. |
| US11610475B2 |
Battery pack and electronic appliance having such a battery pack
The invention refers to a battery pack (30) comprising a battery pack housing (32) and a battery cell (34) accommodated inside the battery housing (32) and a plurality of battery pack contacts (36) accessible from outside the battery housing (32) and electrically connected to the battery cell (34). The battery pack (30) is adapted to be electrically connected with its battery pack contacts (36) to respective electric appliance contacts (38) of an electronic appliance (2; 100) and to provide electric energy to the electronic appliance (2; 100) after connection thereto. It is suggested that the battery pack (30) comprises a card slot (40) in the battery pack housing (32) with a plurality of electric slot contacts (42) in electric contact with the battery pack contacts (36), and that the battery pack (30) comprises an electronics card (44) for releasable insertion into the card slot (40), the electronics card (44) comprising a wireless communication device (46). |
| US11610472B1 |
Aspirating smoke detector device operational analysis
Methods, devices, and systems for an aspirating smoke detector device operational analysis are described herein. One device includes a memory, and a processor to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to receive operational information associated with an aspirating smoke detector device and generate, using the received operational information, an aspirating smoke detector device operational analysis including a real-time operational parameter associated with the aspirating smoke detector device, and a user interface configured to display the aspirating smoke detector device operational analysis. |
| US11610471B2 |
Walk test for fire alarm systems using a mobile device
Methods and systems for performing a walk test for fire alarm systems using a mobile device are described herein. One fire alarm system, includes a system control panel fixedly positioned within a building for controlling a plurality of fire alarm system devices connected to the panel and positioned within the building, a mobile device wirelessly connected to the control panel, and a fire alarm system control application on the mobile device, wherein the fire alarm control system application gains access to the control panel and, therethrough, the plurality of fire alarm system devices and wherein the fire alarm control system application issues a command to a particular fire alarm system device of the plurality of fire alarm system devices to perform a particular test or maintenance function and the control panel relays the command to the particular fire alarm system device. |
| US11610468B2 |
Moisture sensing roofing systems and methods thereof
In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides an exemplary system that includes radio frequency (RF) tags; positioned at locations throughout a roof; a tag reader configured to: generate reader RF signals at one or more frequencies to read the plurality of RF tags, and detect return RF signals from the plurality of RF tags; where the RF signals carry tag data comprising impedance values and tag identifiers; a processor of a computing device, programmed to receive the tag data; determine corresponding locations of the plurality of RF tags; and determine a wet state or dry state of the roof at one or more corresponding locations, and output an indicator of the wet state or the dry state of the roof at the one or more corresponding locations. |
| US11610463B2 |
Sensor arrangement
Disclosures relate to a sensor system and arrangements having different sized removable spacers. The spacers may be mixed and matched as needed or desired to compensate for misalignment conditions. Further, different spacer combinations and adjustments may be guided by a security management computing device. Variations in configurations of mounting surfaces, such as door and window assemblies, may be accommodated. Alignment of a transmitter or a receiving device, e.g., a magnetic device, with respect to a transmitter or receiving device despite misalignment of the components due to, for example, uneven surfaces of a door or a window, or a respective frame may be achieved. |
| US11610458B1 |
Systems and methods to provide a portable alert device
Systems and methods to provide a portable alert device are disclosed herein. The system may include a key component that includes a connector extending from a first side and a base component. The key component is shaped with a first indent and a second indent on opposite sides. The base component includes: a back piece shaped with a first ledge and a second ledge opposite the first ledge that extend out of an interior of the back piece; a front piece that joins with the back piece to enclose a portion of the key component so that the first ledge is positioned within the first indent and the second ledge is positioned with the second indent, the first ledge within the first indent and the second ledge within the second indent prevent the key component from entirely disengaging with the base component; a transceiver; and alert components. |
| US11610454B2 |
Gaming systems and methods for providing reel-spin game enhancement features
The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for providing reel-spin game enhancement features. A player enrolled with a subscription service server is presented with an opportunity to enhance game features associated with a gaming device after a result of a game played on the gaming device is determined. The gaming device determines that only when the result of the game played corresponds to a predetermined outcome, a respin option becomes available for the player. This option is rendered as an offer for the player to activate a game enhancement feature for a respin during a subsequent play of the reel-spin game. The game enhancement features include holding or locking a symbol in the reels of the reel-spin game, adding a score multiplier, or adding a modified symbol to a particular position or reel, during the respin of the subsequent play of the reel-spin game. |
| US11610447B2 |
Encoder multiplexer for digital key integration
A system including a device operable to intercept a PMS request from the PMS to the encoder to obtain card data from the encoder, then send the card data to a credential service to provision a mobile phone with a virtual key. A method of provisioning credentials for a mobile device, the method including generating a request from a Property Management Systems (PMS); sending the request to an encoder through a device; determining if the request is for a virtual card at the device; and using an encoder 0 feature to check-in a guest from the encoder in response to a request for a virtual card. |
| US11610446B2 |
Access control system and method for operating an access control system
A system for controlling access to an access-restricted zone in a building includes a transmitting device transmitting a first radio signal, a receiving device for radio signals, a control device and a signal processing device communicatively connected to the receiving and control devices. The signal processing device determines a first channel impulse response based on the first radio signal received by the receiving device and a second channel impulse response based on a second radio signal received by the receiving device. The second radio signal is transmitted from a first mobile electronic device of a first user. The signal processing device determines a degree of similarity by evaluating the first and second channel impulse responses. The degree of similarity indicates how similar the first and second channel impulse responses are to one another. The control device initiates a building action if the degree of similarity meets a specified rule. |
| US11610443B2 |
Vehicle, and controlling method thereof
An embodiment vehicle includes a UWB (ultra-wideband) module configured to receive a UWB signal transmitted from a smart key, and a controller configured to determine a location of the smart key based on the UWB signal received through the UWB module, control the UWB module to stop UWB communication after a first reference time has elapsed from a point of time at which the UWB module starts communication, and control the UWB module to restart the UWB communication after a second reference time has elapsed from a point of time at which the UWB module stops communication. |
| US11610439B2 |
Interactive augmented reality function
An apparatus is provided including a processor, a memory, and a vehicle tracking portal. The vehicle tracking portal is configured to obtain vehicle identification information regarding a vehicle. Then diagnostic information regarding the vehicle can be obtained. Then, based on the vehicle identification and the diagnostic information, a recommended service for the vehicle can be determined. A user can then be alerted to the recommended service. |
| US11610438B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium
An information processing apparatus includes: an information management unit that registers boarding information on users regarding boarding and biometrics information on the users acquired by a check-in procedure of the users in association with each other; and a comparison unit that compares target biometrics information, which is biometrics information acquired in a procedure up to the boarding for one of the users, with registered biometrics information, which is the biometrics information registered by the information management unit, and the comparison unit selects the registered biometrics information to be compared with the target biometrics information based on status regarding the procedure up to the boarding of the user corresponding to the registered biometrics information. |
| US11610431B2 |
Fingerprint authentication device, display device including the same, and method of authenticating fingerprint
A display device includes a display panel and a fingerprint authentication device disposed under the display panel. The fingerprint authentication device includes a sensor device and an optical filter. The sensor device includes a first area and a second area in a plan view and sensing light passing through the display panel. The optical filter is disposed between the display panel and the sensor device, overlaps the first area and does not overlap the second area in the plan view, and blocks the light of a certain wavelength range. |
| US11610428B2 |
Method for acquiring fingerprints
Method for acquiring a fingerprint, performed by a device comprising an active thermal sensor when it is electrically supplied at a distance by a terminal, said sensor comprising a plurality of pixels, each pixel comprising a pyroelectric capacitor which, when it is subjected to a variation in temperature, generates electrical charges, each pixel being associated with a heating element adapted for heating said pixel and being connected to a reading circuit able to measure the electrical charges generated by said capacitor. The method relies on a taking into account of the heating element received by each pixel of said sensor (33, 34) in order to determine when said pixel is able to provide (36) a signal that can be used for generating information representing a part of a fingerprint. |
| US11610423B2 |
Spatio-temporal-interactive networks
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing point cloud data using spatio-temporal-interactive networks. |
| US11610422B2 |
Image processing method, apparatus, and storage medium for object detection
An image processing apparatus sets a maximum size of an object that is to be included in a detection result of detection processing to detect the object from an image captured by an imaging unit, and sets a second region based on a position of a first region, designated by a user, in the image and the set maximum size. The second region, larger than the first region, includes the first region, and is subjected to the detection processing. |
| US11610420B2 |
Human detection in scenes
Systems and methods for human detection are provided. The system aligns image level features between a source domain and a target domain based on an adversarial learning process while training a domain discriminator. The target domain includes humans in one or more different scenes. The system selects, using the domain discriminator, unlabeled samples from the target domain that are far away from existing annotated samples from the target domain. The system selects, based on a prediction score of each of the unlabeled samples, samples with lower prediction scores. The system annotates the samples with the lower prediction scores. |
| US11610418B2 |
Identifying versions of a form
Disclosed are a method and apparatus for identifying versions of a form. In an example, clients of a medical company fill out many forms, and many of these forms have multiple versions. The medical company operates in 10 states, and each state has a different version of a client intake form, as well as of an insurance identification form. In order to automatically extract information from a particular filled out form, it may be helpful to identify a particular form template, as well as the version of the form template, of which the filled out form is an instance. A computer system evaluates images of filled out forms, and identifies various form templates and versions of form templates based on the images. |
| US11610416B2 |
Device for image-based cell classification, method therefor and use thereof
A classifying device for classifying cells in real-time, comprising: as alignment unit configured to align a cell to be classified along the cell's major axis; and a classifying unit configured to classify the aligned cell using a multilayer perceptron, MLP; wherein the MLP classifies the aligned cell based on one or more images of the aligned cell. By executing the classifying device, an improved and efficient cell classification in real-time based on cell images can be provided, while labelling of the cells to be classified can be avoided. |
| US11610411B2 |
Driver assistance system and method for displaying traffic information
A system for providing traffic information to a driver of an ego vehicle includes at least one sensor that provides image data of detected objects, including other vehicles, in a surrounding area of the ego vehicle; a position detection device that detects a position of the ego vehicle; a display unit that renders visual information relating to an environmental model of the surrounding area of the ego vehicle, the position, and corresponding digital map data; and an image analysis unit configured to determine a vehicle characteristic of at least one other vehicle in the surrounding area of the ego vehicle from a vehicle image of the at least one other vehicle generated based on the image data from the at least one sensor and to display information on the display unit based on the determined vehicle characteristic. |
| US11610410B2 |
Vehicular vision system with object detection
A vehicular vision system includes a camera disposed at an in-cabin side of a windshield of a vehicle and viewing forward of the vehicle. The vehicular vision system, responsive at least in part to image processing of multiple frames of captured image data, detects an object present exterior of the vehicle that is moving relative to the vehicle. The system, when the vehicle is moving, and based at least in part to received vehicle motion data indicative of motion of the vehicle when the vehicle is moving and image processing of multiple frames of captured image data, (i) estimates object trajectory of the detected object based at least in part on corresponding object features present in multiple frames of image data captured by the camera and (ii) determines motion of the detected object relative to the moving vehicle based on the estimated object trajectory. |
| US11610407B2 |
Vehicles, systems, and methods for determining an entry of an occupancy map of a vicinity of a vehicle
A computer implemented method for determining an entry of an occupancy map of a vicinity of a vehicle comprises the following steps carried out by computer hardware components: acquiring first sensor data of a first sensor of the vicinity of the vehicle; acquiring second sensor data of a second sensor of the vicinity of the vehicle; determining a first sensor data portion of the first sensor data which corresponds to a potential object in the vicinity of the vehicle; based on the first sensor data portion, determining a second sensor data portion of the second sensor data which corresponds to a location of the potential object; and determining an entry of the occupancy map based on the first sensor data portion and the second sensor data portion. |
| US11610406B2 |
System and method for lateral vehicle detection
A system and method for lateral vehicle detection is disclosed. A particular embodiment can be configured to: receive lateral image data from at least one laterally-facing camera associated with an autonomous vehicle; warp the lateral image data based on a line parallel to a side of the autonomous vehicle; perform object extraction on the warped lateral image data to identify extracted objects in the warped lateral image data; and apply bounding boxes around the extracted objects. |
| US11610404B2 |
Methods and systems for tracking the location of a petri-dish
Methods and systems for managing a petri-dish. Embodiments herein disclose a RFID tag affixed on the petri-dish, wherein the RFID tag has a thin formfactor, so as not to interfere in the use and operation of the petri-dish and a sufficiently large readability range. Embodiments herein disclose methods and systems for RFID based asset tracking of petri-dishes in a laboratory/pharmaceutical/manufacturing environment, wherein the movement of the petri-dishes are tracked automatically with minimal manual intervention. |
| US11610400B2 |
Systems and methods for improved operations of ski lifts
Systems and methods for improved operations of ski lifts increase skier safety at on-boarding and off-boarding locations by providing an always-on, always-alert system that “watches” these locations, identifies developing problem situations, and initiates mitigation actions. One or more video cameras feed live video to a video processing module. The video processing module feeds resulting sequences of images to an artificial intelligence (AI) engine. The AI engine makes an inference regarding existence of a potential problem situation based on the sequence of images. This inference is fed to an inference processing module, which determines if the inference processing module should send an alert or interact with the lift motor controller to slow or stop the lift. |
| US11610394B2 |
Neural network model training method and apparatus, living body detecting method and apparatus, device and storage medium
The present disclosure provides a neural network model training method and apparatus, a living body detecting method and apparatus, a device and a storage medium. It is feasible to, with respect to different scenarios, respectively obtain picture samples under the scenarios, each picture sample having a tag, the tag including a living body or a non-living body and a corresponding scenario; and according to obtained picture samples, train to obtain a neural network model whose output is a feature vector which is discriminative for different scenarios. As such, when the living body detection is performed, it is possible to determine the feature vector of the to-be-detected picture according to the neural network model, then determine a picture sample matched with the to-be-detected picture, and regard the tag of the matched picture sample as the tag of the to-be-detected picture, thereby obtaining the detection result of the to-be-detected picture. |
| US11610392B1 |
Methods, devices, and systems for identifying the composition of materials
Computer-implemented methods for determining the material composition of an object are disclosed. The method may include obtaining a target image of the object; determining a material cross-sectional image corresponding to a material to be detected and included in the target image; determining a most similar candidate image to the target image and corresponding candidate material composition information, where the most similar candidate image is selected from a target database; generating a material composition area image set comprising a plurality of material composition area images associated with the material cross-sectional image and the most similar candidate image; determining a set of material composition information corresponding to each of the plurality of material composition area images in the material composition area image set; and obtaining a material composition information set from the set of material composition information. This method improves the recognition accuracy and recognition efficiency of the material composition. |
| US11610391B2 |
Cross-domain image comparison method and system using semantic segmentation
A cross-domain image comparison method and a cross-domain image comparison system are provided. The cross-domain image comparison method includes the following steps. Two videos in cross-domain are obtained. The videos are generated by different types of devices. A plurality of semantic segmentation areas are obtained from one frame of each of the videos. A region of interest pair (ROI pair) is obtained according to moving paths of the semantic segmentation areas in the videos. Two bounding boxes and two central points of the ROI pair are obtained. A similarity between the frames is obtained according to the bounding boxes and the central points. |
| US11610389B2 |
Method and apparatus for positioning key point, device, and storage medium
A method and apparatus for positioning a key point, a device, and a storage medium are provided. The method may include: extracting a first feature map and a second feature map of a to-be-positioned image, the first feature map and the second feature map being different feature maps; determining, based on the first feature map, an initial position of a key point in the to-be-positioned image; determining, based on the second feature map, an offset of the key point; and adding the initial position of the key point with the offset of the key point to obtain a final position of the key point. |
| US11610387B2 |
Systems and methods for automated object recognition
A method for recognizing an object in a video stream may include receiving a video stream from a video source, the video stream comprising a plurality of video frames. The method may also include selecting at least one video frame from the video frames according to a frame selection rate. The method may also include partitioning the selected video frame into a first plurality of image blocks. The method may also include recognizing, out of the first plurality of image blocks, a second plurality of image blocks which comprise an image of an object, the recognition being based on an image recognition parameter determined by a machine-learning algorithm. The method may also include determining that at least one of the second plurality of image blocks corresponds to the object based on a likelihood metric, the likelihood metric being determined by the processor based on at least the frame selection rate. The method may further include displaying, on a display, information identifying the object. A system and non-transitory computer-readable medium may also be provided. |
| US11610386B2 |
Electronic device for identifying and tracking at least one target, associated electronic system, method and computer program
An electronic device for identifying and tracking at least one target, including: a receiver module configured to receive images from a network of image sensors; a determination module configured to determine visual signatures of a respective target from the received images, each visual signature being determined from a respective image including a representation of the target, each visual signature being in the form of a vector in multi-dimensional space; a first filtering module configured to filter the visual signatures; a computation module configured to compute a reference visual signature, in multi-dimensional space; a detection module configured to detect an appearance of the target, and a second filtering module. |
| US11610385B2 |
Information processing apparatus, control method, and non-transitory storage medium
An information processing apparatus (2000) detects one or more candidate regions (22) from a captured image (20) based on an image feature of a target object. Each candidate region (22) is an image region that is estimated to represent the target object. The information processing apparatus (2000) detects a person region (26) from the captured image (20) and detects an estimation position (24) based on the detected person region (26). The person region (26) is a region that is estimated to represent a person. The estimation position (24) is a position in the captured image (20) where the target object is estimated to be present. Then, the information processing apparatus (2000) determines an object region (30), which is an image region representing the target object, based on each candidate region (22) and the estimation position (24). |
| US11610381B2 |
Information processing apparatus, system, and method for detecting collision between a physical and virtual object
An information processing apparatus creates a first virtual object expressing a physical object that is detected from physical object information obtained from a physical object information acquisition unit. The information processing apparatus determines a display state of the first virtual object in accordance with a result of detecting collision between the first virtual object and a second virtual object. The information processing apparatus creates, on the basis of a virtual space including the first virtual object and the second virtual object, position-orientation of an HMD, the determined display state, and a physical space image obtained from the HMD, a mixed reality image in combination of an image of the virtual space and the physical space image, and displays the created mixed reality image on the HMD. |
| US11610379B2 |
Rendering depth-based three-dimensional model with integrated image frames
A system aligns a 3D model of an environment with image frames of the environment and generates a visualization interface that displays a portion of the 3D model and a corresponding image frame. The system receives LIDAR data collected in the environment and generates a 3D model based on the LIDAR data. For each image frame, the system aligns the image frame with the 3D model. After aligning the image frames with the 3D model, when the system presents a portion of the 3D model in an interface, it also presents an image frame that corresponds to the portion of the 3D model. |
| US11610378B1 |
System and method for location determination using a mixed reality device and multiple imaging cameras
A system and method for determining a location for a surgical jig in a surgical procedure includes providing a mixed reality headset, a 3D spatial mapping camera, an infrared or stereotactic camera, and a computer system configured to transfer data to and from the mixed reality headset and the 3D spatial mapping camera. The system and method also include attaching a jig to a bone, mapping the bone and jig using the 3D spatial mapping camera, and then identifying a location for the surgical procedure using the computer system. Then the system and method use the mixed reality headset to provide a visualization of the location for the surgical procedure. |
| US11610373B2 |
Method of generating three-dimensional model data of object
The method of generating three-dimensional model data of an object includes estimating pose data of the object based on the first view data of the camera and first relative pose data of the object, and estimating second relative pose data of the object based on the pose data of the object and the second view data of the camera. |
| US11610372B2 |
Methods and apparatus for multiple lens distortion correction
The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for display or graphics processing. Aspects of the present disclosure can calculate first location information based on a first image mesh. Further, aspects of the present disclosure can determine a first UV image based on the calculated first location information. Additionally, aspects of the present disclosure can calculate second location information based on a second image mesh and the determined first UV image. Aspects of the present disclosure can also determine a second UV image based on the calculated second location information. Aspects of the present disclosure can also generate a third image mesh based on the determined second UV image. Also, aspects of the present disclosure can calculate third location information based on the third image mesh and a camera image. Aspects of the present disclosure can also determine a display image based on the calculated third location information. |
| US11610369B2 |
Automatic EEG sensor registration
A method (10) that encodes electrode locations to a mean scalp mesh for adaptation to subsequent image scans. |
| US11610368B2 |
Tessellation of patches of surfaces in a tile based rendering system
A method and apparatus are provided for tessellating patches of surfaces in a tile based three dimensional computer graphics rendering system. For each tile in an image a per tile list of primitive indices is derived for tessellated primitives which make up a patch. Hidden surface removal is then performed on the patch and any domain points which remain after hidden surface removal are derived. The primitives are then shaded for display. |
| US11610364B2 |
Method, device, and storage medium for applying lighting to a rendered object in a scene
The disclosure relates to a method for processing an image. The method includes: obtaining a colorized image of a light-receiving object in a current scene; obtaining a target position of the light-receiving object in a camera coordinate system based on a current position of the light-receiving object in an image coordinate system of the current scene; obtaining a lighting-color map of the imaging device; and obtaining a lighting image of the light-receiving object by processing the colorized image based on the target position and the lighting-color map of the imaging device. |
| US11610362B2 |
Data volume sculptor for deep learning acceleration
A device include on-board memory, an applications processor, a digital signal processor (DSP) cluster, a configurable accelerator framework (CAF), and at least one communication bus architecture. The communication bus communicatively couples the applications processor, the DSP cluster, and the CAF to the on-board memory. The CAF includes a reconfigurable stream switch and data volume sculpting circuitry, which has an input and an output coupled to the reconfigurable stream switch. The data volume sculpting circuitry receives a series of frames, each frame formed as a two dimensional (2D) data structure, and determines a first dimension and a second dimension of each frame of the series of frames. Based on the first and second dimensions, the data volume sculpting circuitry determines for each frame a position and a size of a region-of-interest to be extracted from the respective frame, and extracts from each frame, data in the frame that is within the region-of-interest. |
| US11610339B2 |
Imaging processing apparatus and method extracting a second RGB ToF feature points having a correlation between the first RGB and TOF feature points
An image processing apparatus and method of extracting a second RGB feature point and a second ToF feature point such that a correlation between the first RGB feature point and the first ToF feature point is equal to or greater than a predetermined value; calculating an error value between the second RGB feature point and the second ToF feature point; updating pre-stored calibration data when the error value is greater than a threshold value, and calibrating the RGB image and the ToF image by using the updated calibration data; and synthesizing the calibrated RGB and ToF images. |
| US11610332B2 |
Method and apparatus for detecting a start location and end location of a bridge
A method, apparatus and computer program product for detecting a start location and an end location of a bridge are described herein. In the context of a method, one or more sequences of images, at least one sequence of images corresponding with a side barrier portion of the bridge, may be identified from image data corresponding with a probable location of the bridge. Each side barrier portion may comprise a plurality of side barrier segments. The method may identify one or more characteristics of the plurality of side barrier segments. The method may determine the start location and the end location of the bridge based at least in part by identifying characteristic differences of the plurality of side barrier segments. The method may cause transmission of information corresponding with the start location and the end location of the bridge for updating a mapping or navigation system. |
| US11610331B2 |
Method and apparatus for generating data for estimating three-dimensional (3D) pose of object included in input image, and prediction model for estimating 3D pose of object
Provided is a method of generating data for estimating a three-dimensional (3D) pose of an object included in an input image, the method including acquiring the input image including at least one moving object, estimating location information about each joint of a plurality of joints of the object included in the input image using a prediction model pretrained to estimate the location information about each joint of the plurality of joints of the object, and generating animation data that represents a movement of the object based on the estimated location information. |
| US11610325B2 |
Multi-color flash with image post-processing
Multi-color flash with image post-processing that uses a camera device with a multi-color flash and implements post-processing to generate images is described. In one aspect, the multi-color flash with image post-processing may be implemented by a controller configured to control a camera and flashes of at least two different colors. The controller may be configured to cause the camera to acquire a first image of a scene while the scene is being illuminated with the first flash but not the second flash, then cause the camera to acquire a second image of the scene while the scene is being illuminated with the second flash but not the first flash, and generate a final image of the scene in post-processing based on a combination of the first image and the second image. |
| US11610324B2 |
Three-dimensional shape measuring method and three-dimensional shape measuring device
A three-dimensional shape measuring method includes: projecting a first grid pattern based on a first light and a second grid pattern based on a second light onto a target object in such a way that the first grid pattern and the second grid pattern intersect each other, the first light and the second light being lights of two colors included in three primary colors of light; picking up, by a three-color camera, an image of the first grid pattern and the second grid pattern projected on the target object, and acquiring a first picked-up image based on the first light and a second picked-up image based on the second light; and performing a phase analysis of a grid image with respect to at least one of the first picked-up image and the second picked-up image and calculating height information of the target object. |
| US11610322B2 |
Computer vision systems and methods for unsupervised learning for progressively aligning noisy contours
Computer vision systems and methods for noisy contour alignment are provided. The system generates a loss function and trains a convolutional neural network with the loss function and a plurality of images of a dataset to learn to align contours with progressively increasing complex forward and backward transforms over increasing scales. The system can align an attribute of an image of the dataset by the trained neural network. |